He's All Ears

IN MEMORY OF CARL JENSEN
BORN JULY 7, 1932
PASSED AWAY NOV. 14, 2006

WE ARE SADDENED BY THE LOSS OF CARL JENSEN WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THE ALHS WRESTLING TEAM AND GRADUATED IN 1952. CARL PASSED AWAY AFTER HAVING A LENGTHY BATTLE WITH MULTIPLE MEDICAL PROBLEMS.

CARL AND HIS WIFE JONE HAVE LIVED IN THE SUN CITY, ARIZONA AREA

FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS SINCE HIS RETIREMENT. THE FAMILY HAD A SERVICE IN THE AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH IN SUN CITY WEST ON NOV. 14 AND THEY HAD A GRAVE SIDE SERVICE AT THE GRACELAND CEMETERY IN ALBLERT LEA ON NOV. 27. THIS IS THE CEMETERY WHERE THE JENSEN FAMILY HAVE THEIR GRAVE SITES.

AFTER THE SERVICE, OVER 45 FORMER CLASSMATES AND FRIENDS GATHERED AT THE FIRST LUTHERN CHURCH FOR REFRESHMENTS. KEITH FLIGGE AND HIS WIFE DELORIS HELPED OUT WITH ARRANGEMENTS IN ALBERT LEA. KEITH IS A FORMER CLASSMATE AND HAS BEEN A VERY CLOSE FRIEND FOR MANY YEARS. CARL WAS WELL KNOWN AND A POPULAR MEMBER OF HIS CLASS. HE ALWAYS HAD A GREAT SENSE OF HUMOR.

AS CARL"S FORMER TEACHER AND WRESTLING COACH, I WAS SUPRISED TO SEE SO MANY OF HIS CLASSMATES IN ATTENDANCE AND I HAD MOST OF THEM IN CLASS MANY YEARS AGO. THEY LOOKED SO OLD, I HAD A LITTLE PROBLEM WITH IT. AS I WALKED AROUND THESE FELLOWS SOME HAD LONG BEARDS, SOME WERE BALD , SOME HAD CANES AND I THOUGHT , WHAT AM I DOING HERE WITH ALL OF THESE OLD GUYS, THEY WERE KIDS WHEN I HAD THEM IN SCHOOL. I THEN REALIZED THAT THESE KIDS ARE NOW IN THEIR 70"S AND I AM 89 SO THERE IS A GENERATION GAP HERE.

CARL AND I WERE CLOSE FRIENDS FOR THESE MANY YEARS. WHEN I RETIRED IN JUNE 1980, MY WIFE HAD A RETIREMENT PARTY FOR ME AND CARL WAS THE M C. CARL IS GONE FROM OUR SIGHT BUT NEVER FROM OUR MEMORY.

COACH - ROY MAAS