Memorial services for Louise Jenkins, 84, of Durango, CO and Hettinger, ND will be Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at 2:00 p.m. at the Hettinger Lutheran Church in Hettinger. Rev. Kathleen Dettmann will officiate. Louise's ashes will be interred in Crestview Cemetery, Durango, Colorado next to her husband Marion in June 2010.

Louise M. (Bartelt) Jenkins was born on February 17, 1925 in Wausau, Wisconsin the youngest daughter of Fred and Louise Bartelt. Louise had nine brothers and sisters.

Louise met, Marion E. Jenkins in Wausau, Wisconsin at the Mint Café one Sunday morning while on leave during wartime training and they continued to see each other until Marion was shipped over seas. They wrote to each other during the war and Marion returned to Wausau to marry Louise on November 3, 1945 in Wausau. They went to Durango, Colorado where they lived on their small farm/ranch overlooking Durango for fifty-six years until Marion's death on April 29,2001 Louise was a proud member of the VFW and held numerous officer positions over the years.

Louise went to live with her daughter, Lyn L. Hendry in Hettinger, North Dakota and her family in May of 2002 after she broke her knee cap and lived with them until May 2007 when she moved to Western Horizons Care Center.

Louise M. Jenkins passed away on Tuesday, January 5, 2010 at West River Regional Hospital in Hettinger, North Dakota after breaking her hip and struggling with numerous health issues.

Louise's is survived by her son, Kenneth who lives in Durango, Colorado with his wife Danette and three children Mark, Kevin, and Jennifer. Her daughter, Lyn Hendry, in Hettinger, North Dakota and her husband Mark and their daughter, Heidi. Louise had nine brothers and sisters with Helen Kardack being the only surviving sibling and still residing in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Memorials are preferred to Dakota Prairie Helping Hands or the West River Regional Medical Center in Hettinger, ND.