Viola P. Jensen

VIOLA JENSEN Funeral Service will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home, 1931 Houser Street. Visitation will be from 4-6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 26, 2005, at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. MUSCATINE, Iowa - Viola P. Jensen, 89, of Muscatine, died Saturday, July 23, 2005, at Unity Hospital, Muscatine. Reverend Paul Ostrem of the Zion Lutheran Church will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Casketbearers will be Bob Barkema, Bob Trevarthen, Gene Harkness, Walter Naber, Mike Paul and Bill Mark. Honorary Bearer will be John Trevarthen. Memorials may be made to the Zion Lutheran Church. Online condolences for the Jensen family may be left at www.wittichfuneralhome.com. Viola was born on October 5, 1916, in Sweetland Center, the daughter of Herman R. and Elaina Martz Schafer. She married W.G. "Mike" Jensen on December 24, 1937, in Davenport, Iowa. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran Church, the Women of the Moose, and the Muscatine General Hospital Auxiliary. She worked as a secretary for Grain Processing Corporat...[more]

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and Kent Feeds for 11 years and also worked as a secretary for their family businesses, Mike's DX and Mike's Electrical Service. She did beautiful work with counted cross stitch. She was an avid bowler and golfer and played well into her 80's. Survivors include her husband, W.G. "Mike" Jensen, of Muscatine. She was preceded in death by her parents, and one sister Florence Metcalf.