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Alice Dorothea Jensen Willey

Birth	:	26 Jan 1875
Death	:	20 Mar 1918
Burial	:	Old Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Midland, Midland County, USA
Coordinate	:	43.6300011, -84.2442017
Inscription	:	AT REST
Description	:	Alice Dorothea Jensen Willey was born in 1875. We haven't found an exact birth date yet. If you know it, please, send a message. She was born to Elizabeth Miller Smith and Otto Wilhelm Sophus Jensen. She attended Catholic School with her siblings: Emma who died at the age of seven, John Theodore and James Carl Otto. Shortly after her family moved to Stromsburg, Nebraska---dubbed the Swede Capital because so many Swedes moved there. They still have festivals and heritage museums today. Within ten months of moving there, she met and married Loren Willey. In 1903, Alice and Loren, along... Read More	Alice Dorothea Jensen Willey was born in 1875. We haven't found an exact birth date yet. If you know it, please, send a message. She was born to Elizabeth Miller Smith and Otto Wilhelm Sophus Jensen. She attended Catholic School with her siblings: Emma who died at the age of seven, John Theodore and James Carl Otto. Shortly after her family moved to Stromsburg, Nebraska---dubbed the Swede Capital because so many Swedes moved there. They still have festivals and heritage museums today. Within ten months of moving there, she met and married Loren Willey. In 1903, Alice and Loren, along with Alice's brother James and his wife Hattie, moved to Fairfax, South Dakota. At first, the two couples lived in one house, and Alice served meals to the public. About a year after they moved, Loren's parents moved to be near them, and his parents along with Alice's parents built a hotel together, The European Hotel, in Burke in 1905. Alice and Loren operated the hotel. Alice's parents took a 160-acre homestead, which was called Coon Creek Claim, it was fourteen miles northeast of Burke. Upon their death, they left the land, the farm on it, and the hotel to Alice and Loren and her brother Theodore and his wife Emma. Theodore and Emma sold their own claim, bought 160 acres of land at Dupree, South Dakota. They, then bought out Alice's share in the Coon Creek Claim and lived there for about two years. Alice passed away in 1918 of cancer, and their daughter, Sereta, went to live with the Jensens who soon contracted the 1918 flu. So, Loren brought his daughter back home. After Alice's death, Loren tried to run the hotel on his own, but it was necessary for Emma to step in and help him for awhile. Alice was laid to rest in the Burke Cemetery in Burke, South Dakota.

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Where is Alice Dorothea Jensen Willey's memorial?
Alice Dorothea Jensen Willey's memorial is located at: Old Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Midland, Midland County, USA.
When did Alice Dorothea Jensen Willey death?
Alice Dorothea Jensen Willey death on 20 Mar 1918 in
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Latitude: 43.6300011
Longitude: -84.2442017

Family Members:

Parent

Otto Wilhelm Sophus Jensen

(1843 - 1916)

Elizabeth Miller Smith Jensen

(1854 - 1912)

Spouse

Loren Harry Willey

(1872 - 1939)

Children

Evelyn “Infant” Willey

(1907 - 1907)

Sereta Bethene “Bill” Willey Hunsaker

(1909 - 1987)

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