Funeral services for Ruby Eileen Jensen, 80, lifelong Bison, SD resident will be Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. at the American Lutheran Church in Bison, SD. Rev. Marjorie Hershey and Pastor Leroy Flagstad will officiate and burial will follow at the Bison Cemetery. Visitations will be from 1:00 to 9:00 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, with a gathering of family and friends at 7:00 p.m. at the Evanson Jensen Funeral Home in Lemmon and one hour prior to the service at the church in Bison on Wednesday afternoon.

Ruby E. Jensen was born August 28, 1927 at her family farm near Bison, SD as the youngest daughter of Peder and Tilda Buer. She died lovingly surrounded by her family in Rochester, MN on November 8, 2007.

Following her graduation from Bison High School in May, 1944, Ruby worked as a bank teller for the Bison Branch, Bank of Lemmon.

On June 12, 1949 she married Morris Ostergaard Jensen in the American Lutheran Church at Bison. They made their home near Bison, raising four daughters.

Ruby's community involvement centered on the American Lutheran Church. She was a lifetime member and served on the Church Council. She held positions of leadership at both the conference and district levels for the American Lutheran Church Women, South Dakota Synod and as a delegate to the synod assembly in Sioux Falls. Ruby was a member in good standing of the local Beta Sigma Phi sorority and a school board member for the Bison School District, serving as its chair in 1967. She founded the Grand River Robins 4-H Club and participated in both county and state fairs.

Ruby was a talented homemaker and loving mother. In 1968, she began working for the U. S. Postal Service in Bison until she took the position of business manager for the Bison School District, where she served for twenty years until her retirement in 1994.

In 1978, Ruby and Morris traveled to Norway and Denmark, fulfilling a life-long dream to visit family and friends. Her fondest memories are traveling with Morris to Colorado, Arizona, New York, Florida and Canada to visit friends and family or for work.

Grateful for having shared her life are her four daughters and sons-in-law; Jocelyn Hanson, Phoenix, AZ, Laurel Jensen-Wunder and husband, Gary, Sioux Falls, SD, Kristie Jensen-Machado and husband, Tito, Oshkosh, WI and Dawn Marshall and husband, Terry, Hitchcock, SD; six grandchildren, Nicholas Wunder, Katharine and Gabrielle Machado, Marissa, Taylor and Daniel Marshall and numerous nieces and nephews.

Ruby was preceded in death by her husband; Morris O. Jensen, parents; Peder and Tilda Buer of Bison, SD; two sisters, Myrtle Thompson, Belle Fourche, SD and Bertha Long, Lemmon, SD; three brothers, Julian Buer, Modesto, CA, Harold Buer, Meadow, SD and Lloyd Buer, Shadehill, SD.

Casketbearers will include Lynn, Lance, Pete, Corey, Todd, Tracy and John Buer, William, Jan and Steve Busse, with Jack Loughlin, and all of Ruby's friends and family considered honorary bearers. Special music will be provided by Taylor and Marissa Marshall.