Elaine Jensen, 76, of Carroll, died Tuesday, April 2, 2024, at Kinship Pointe in Wayne.
Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 5 at the United Methodist Church in Carroll. There is no visitation. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery at Carroll.
Memorials may be directed to the Jensen family for later designation.
Arrangements are with Hasemann Funeral Home of Wayne.
Mary “Elaine” (Lukens) Jensen was born Jan. 23, 1948 in Bloomfield to Charles Enos “Charlie” Lukens and Mary Elizabeth (McDonald) Lukens. She grew up on a farm near Lindy, Nebraska and attended country school in Knox County. Elaine married Lyle George Jensen on May 22, 1965 at Christ Lutheran Church in Bazile Mills. The couple started dairy farming near Creighton and later, near Plainview. Then they moved to a farm a few miles east of Carroll before moving to a farm a few miles northwest of Carroll. They operated their dairy farm for the next 49 years. Elaine enjoyed her family, reading, fishing and hunting.
Survivors include her sons, Kenneth (Deanna) of Winside and James (Danetta) of Lincoln; six granddaughters, Nicole (Andrew) Sok, Page (Cory) Frahm, Brianna (Jeff) Pautz, Natasha Lux, Morgan (Chase) Magwire and Alyssa Jensen; four great-granddaughters; four great-grandsons; with one on the way; three sisters, Evelyn Beckmann of Bloomfield, Edna Thurston of Omaha, and Viva Langmack of Emerson; and two brothers Loran (Arlene) Lukens of Bloomfield, and Dennis Lukens of Paonia, Colorado; two sisters-in-law Janet Lukens of Story City, Iowa and Ela May Lukens of Colorado Springs, Colorad; many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lyle Jensen, on April 13, 2023; her parents, Charles and Mary Lukens; grand-son-in-law, Peter Lux; siblings, Phylis (Buck) Butler, Dorthy (Max) Groves, Nellie (Alfred) Beckman, Donald (Hazel) Lukens, Lyle Lukens, Virlyn (Marvel) Lukens, Lee Lukens and Leland Lukens; brothers-in-law Harold Langmack, Ernest Beckman and Duane Thurstan; sister-in-law Sharon Lukens.
