Alfred Leonard Jensen and Ethel Jacobson Jensen

Alfred Leonard Jensen was the 11th child of John Henry Jensen and Ane Christine Jensen. He was born 9 July 1898. Leonard Jensen married Ethel Jacobson 7 July 1924.

It was a bright sunny afternoon at a very dull ballgame on the Western Ball diamond when Alfred and Ethel came over to John's car. He very sheepishly said, John, we would like to tell you first that we went to Malad Idaho and were married. They said that Harold and Ila Kelson had gone with them and were witnesses to the marriage. Alfred later admits that when they got home after buying a license, hotel and meals, that he and Harold had to dimes. But then most marriages start from zero.

Alf and Ethel moved to the ranch to live with grandmother and the boys. Later they moved to Weston and Alfred started to operate the Utah Oil Service Station in Weston.

They lived in a two room log house in the north east part of town. One night Alf went up to town to get the election returns. When he came home Ethel had a long log through the kitchen window and the end of the log in the cook stove. As the log would burn Ethel would put more log in the stove. But the next time Alf went out he left plenty of wood in the wood box.

When Alf and Ethel went to town they went by our house and when we went to the farm we went by their place. The two families became very close. One morning Alf came up to John all excited, Ethel had taken the model T Ford to go out to Han's place. After she left Alf went out to where the car stood and their lying on the ground was the lock nut that held the front wheel on. We hurried out to catch Ethel before the wheel came off. Alford and the rest of the family attended school at the Lincoln school, located 2 miles north of grandmother's farm. Alford was given the job of going early to school to start fires in the potbellied stove that heated the schoolhouse. One morning Alfred in a hurry to get the fire started poured coal oil, used for the lights, on the fire. The stove exploded burning Alf's clothing and also giving him a short haircut.

While Alf and Ethel lived in the house on the north east side of Weston one of their children, a boy named Keith became ill and died. Later another boy was born to Alf and Ethel. My father John told them that he guessed that he would have to pick a name for him. They agreed but kept asking him what the name would be and John would just smile and say when you get ready to name him I will tell you. The day they went to the church house to have the baby blessed and named they stopped by the house to see what the name was, and dad told them it was Perry. They went to the church house and had the baby boy named Perry.

Later Alf and Ethel build an apartment in the back of the garage and service station and lived there. It was in this new apartment that Carol was born. After Carol was born Ethel became ill with an ailment in her back. Carol became a traveling baby and was taken from neighbor to neighbor to tend her. Emery and Minnie Guy who lived next door took charge of taking care of Carol. Alf and Ethel later moved to Twin Falls Idaho where Alf was engaged in building homes and businesses and church buildings. Alf and his boys Reed and Perry have become one of the leading contractors in Twin Falls and have built some of the finest buildings in the area. Ethel's health was very poor the last few years of her life. Ethel died 5 November 1964.

Alf and Ethel had the following children;

Alfred Reed Jensen born to March 1925

married Verla Radford 7 March 1947

Dale Deline Jensen born 7 February 1929

married Marilyn Call 3 March 1948

Keith Leonard Jensen born 19 August 1931 died in childhood

Perry John Jensen born 19 January 1935

Patrice Emily Tverdy 29 December 1960

Carol May Jensen born 3 December 1938

married Jerry Andrew Strickland 3 December 1960.