Posted on: Rio Grande Co. Co Obituaries Reply Here: http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Co/RioGrandeObits/10 Surname: JENSEN, MILLIS, OHRT, NEHRING, ALLEN, BALLARD, GOHR, PAYNE, OLSEN, MCLEAN ------------------------- The Center Post-Dispatch Feb 16, 2000 Ruth Eileen Jensen, 93, passed away on Feb. 9, 2000 at Mountain Meadows Nursing Home. She was born July 13, 1906 in Chama, NM. Funeral services were to be held Monday Feb. 14 at St. Peters Luthern Church in Monte Vista with the Rev. Bryan Carey officiating. Burial was to follow graveside services at the Monte Vista Cemetery. Pallbearers were to be Alan and Gary Nehring, Jeff Allen, Tracy Ballard and Lawrence Gohr. Mrs. Jensen graduated from Hooper (Colo.) High School in 1925. She was confirmed in the St. Peters Lutheran Church in Monte Vista in 1926, where she remained an active member throughout her life. She was mainly a housewife and gardener, but also helped as a cook in her sister's restaurant. Mrs. Jensen was preceded in death by two husbands, William F. Ohrt and Carl Jensen; two sisters Violet Payne and Fern Olsen; one brother Eben Millis and son-in-law Harvey Nehring. She is survived by siblings Roberta Millis of Monte Vista and Galen (Dorothy) Millis of Helper, Utah; children Evelyn Nehring of Farmington, NM; Charles W. (Annette) Jensen of Overland Park, Kan; five grandchildren Kendra (Jeff) Allen of Houston, Tex; Julie (Paul) McLean of Denver; Alan Nehring of Phoenix, Ariz; Gary Nehring of Farmington; and Ruth (Tracy) Ballard, also of Farmington. She also is survived by two great-grandchildren, Levi Nehring and Rhiannon Ballard of Farmington.