Death info on Zelma T Jensen Miner

Zelma Helen Taylor Jensen Miner was Vera's eldest sister.

Photo from the personal albums of Clayton Huber.

According to these documents the following dates apply:

BIRTH: 2 December 1895- Levan, Juab, Utah

DEATH: 7 March 1988- Bremerton, Kitsap, Washington
She was 92 years old when she died.

Death notice:

SOURCE: Bremerton Sun 1988, Mar 8, p.A6
Courtesy of Kitsap Regional Library, WA

Obituary:

SOURCE: Bremerton Sun 1988, Mar 9, p.B3
Courtesy of Kitsap Regional Library, WA

Obituary transcribed:

Zelma Miner

Zelma H. Taylor Jensen Miner, 92, of Bremerton died yesterday at the home of her son, Kenneth Jensen, in Bremerton, following an extended illness.

She was born Dec. 2, 1895, in Levan, Utah, the eldest of 12 children.

She married Clarence Jensen Oct. 31, 1917 in Salt Lake City.  During World War I, they moved to Seattle where Mr. Jensen worked at Todd Shipyard.

After the war, they returned to Utah and owned and operated the Little Water Coal Mine at LaPoint, Utah.  In 1942, they returned to Washington and both worked at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard until retirement.

Mr. Jensen died in 1968.  She married Henry Miner on Nov. 1, 1969.  He died in March of 1985.

Mrs. Miner was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  She had many hobbies, including cooking and sewing.

A son, Forrest Jensen, preceded her in death.

Survivors include two sons, Kenneth Jensen of Bremerton, and Clarence Jensen of Santa Clara, Calif.' a daughter, Althea Gray of Salt Lake City; a stepson, Dan Miner of Winlock, Okanogan County; three sisters, Della Nyberg and Vera Huber, both of LaPoint, Utah, and Doris Ross of Vernal, Utah; a brother, Sherman Taylor of Clinton, Colo.; 13 grandchildren; five stepgrandchildren and four step-great-grandchildren.

Services will be Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Bremerton Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Perry Avenue.  Interment will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery under direction of Lewis Funeral Chapel.

Funeral program:

From the personal albums of Althea Gray.

Written transcription of events surrounding Zelma's passing:

From the personal albums of (and assumed written hand of) Della Nyberg.

Photos are from the personal album of Althea Gray.

Photo from the personal albums of Thea Gray