Rites Are Held For Mina Child
"Tonopah, April 7 - Funeral services were held in the Corner Church in Mina Wednesday for Gene Jensen of, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Jensen of Mina. The last rites were under the direction of the Reverend R. Dewitt Stanley of Syracuse, New York who is in Mina visiting his son.
The child died in the Nye County Hospital here Monday following an illness of several days.
Many friends of the Jensen family attended the last rites and numerous floral offerings were banked around the casket. Burial was in the Mina Cemetery with Elwin Perry, Howard Eckley, Nasho Leyva and Terrance Fortune as pallbearers."
(The above obituary was posted by Contributor Eileen and listed as Gene Jensen, as he is named in the article.)
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Nevada State Death Certificate #41-260:
Norman Gene Kitch
Male, White, Single
Age 3 yrs 2 mos 9 days
Father: Robert James Kitch, b. Nebraska
Mother: Jewell Good, b. Texas
Informant: Mrs. Jewell Jensen
Buried: Mina, Nevada, Apr. 2, 1941
Funeral Director: Wm. F. Logan, Tonopah, Nevada
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NOTE: The boy's mother was Jewell Good Kitch Jensen, the latter surname being that used in the newspaper. His birth name was Robert James Kitch and I have found no evidence he was legally adopted Mrs. Jensen's second husband.
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1938 Inyo County, California Voter Registration, Lone Pine Precinct No. 1:
Robert James Kitch, Lone Pine, Calif., Miner, Democrat
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Note: On listing dated 2011 compiled by Linda Kirtley, Mina, Nevada. Kirtley lists as "Normati G. Jensen."
Rites Are Held For Mina Child
"Tonopah, April 7 - Funeral services were held in the Corner Church in Mina Wednesday for Gene Jensen of, three year old son of Mr. and Mrs. John Jensen of Mina. The last rites were under the direction of the Reverend R. Dewitt Stanley of Syracuse, New York who is in Mina visiting his son.
The child died in the Nye County Hospital here Monday following an illness of several days.
Many friends of the Jensen family attended the last rites and numerous floral offerings were banked around the casket. Burial was in the Mina Cemetery with Elwin Perry, Howard Eckley, Nasho Leyva and Terrance Fortune as pallbearers."
(The above obituary was posted by Contributor Eileen and listed as Gene Jensen, as he is named in the article.)
*****
Nevada State Death Certificate #41-260:
Norman Gene Kitch
Male, White, Single
Age 3 yrs 2 mos 9 days
Father: Robert James Kitch, b. Nebraska
Mother: Jewell Good, b. Texas
Informant: Mrs. Jewell Jensen
Buried: Mina, Nevada, Apr. 2, 1941
Funeral Director: Wm. F. Logan, Tonopah, Nevada
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NOTE: The boy's mother was Jewell Good Kitch Jensen, the latter surname being that used in the newspaper. His birth name was Robert James Kitch and I have found no evidence he was legally adopted Mrs. Jensen's second husband.
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1938 Inyo County, California Voter Registration, Lone Pine Precinct No. 1:
Robert James Kitch, Lone Pine, Calif., Miner, Democrat
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Note: On listing dated 2011 compiled by Linda Kirtley, Mina, Nevada. Kirtley lists as "Normati G. Jensen."
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