OBITUARY
Margaret Jensen
Margaret Wells Jensen passed away peacefully at her home on Wednesday July 9, 2008 at the age of 95. She was born on December 12, 1912 in St. Thomas, Nevada to Samuel H. and Mary Louisa Wooley Wells. She grew up in Logandale, Nevada.
Her young life was filled with happy family activities and many hours of doing chores and singing with her sisters. After she graduated from Moapa Valley High School, she attended Cosmetology School in Salt Lake City. Upon her graduation, she returned to Logandale, where she met a fine young man, Kenneth R. Hensen, who had been a former missionary companion of her older brother Robert Wells. They were married in the St. George Temple on June 25, 1935. Life on the farm in that desert community was filled with good, hard work, but real joy in her life came from her family, church callings, and from both acting in and directing church dramas. She was an avid reader and inspired her children to read and to appreciate good literature.
With her family nearly grown, Margaret and Kenneth were called to lead the Moapa Indian Branch, and they felt that this was their most rewarding calling. They loved the Indian people and took the branch to new heights of success by increasing attendance, building a chapel that was like the chapels of the rest of the church, sending youth on missions for the first time, and seeing the first temple marriages among the Indian people in that branch.
Margaret and Kenneth retired to St. George in 1973, and Kenneth passed away December 17, 1978. She filled her lonely hours with her hobbies, embroidery, crocheting, sewing and she even took Tole painting classes and became a very good painter. She spent 10 years doing extraction work for the church until she could no longer see the words – she was declared legally blind. However, the blindness hardly slowed her down.
She found new ways to serve others. She made quilt tops for all her family – including many of the babies. She had someone cut blocks for her, then she laid them in a pattern on her big table. By feeling the edges of the blocks, she sewed them together. She donated many, many lap quilt tops to the humanitarian effort of the church. In the last six months, with the aid of her wonderful care giver, Victoria, she completed aprons for all her children and their spouses.
She is survived by her sister, Mary Lou Schmutz, and six children: Russell (Valorie), Paul (Joyce), Ken (Joyce), Kristen (Ned) Ericksen, Connie (Ron) Dalley, and Nick (Victoria).
The funeral for this very elect lady was be held on Saturday, July 12, at 11:00 A.M. in St. George, Utah Internment was in the St. George Cemetery.
