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Sharon K. Jensen
Sharon K. Jensen
August 10, 1950 - November 22, 2009
Mechanicscille, Iowa

Visitation: 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday November 25, 2009 at Lahey Funeral Home, Olin, Iowa
Funeral Service: 2:00 p.m. Friday, November 27, 2009 at Lahey Funeral Home, Olin, Iowa
Interment: Friday, November 27, 2009 at Stanwood Cemetery, Stanwood, Iowa

Sharon K. Simmons was born August 10, 1950, in Davenport, Iowa, to Delbert M. and Mae (Barnes) Simmons. She attended beautician school. She married William Jensen on July 11, 1970, in Olin, Iowa. She worked at Sheller-Globe in Iowa City as a mold injector operator and at Mechanicsville Nursing Home for a year in housekeeping. She liked to garden, bake and cook, make crafts and watch old movies. She especially loved spending time with her grandkids and cat, Sassy.

Sharon is survived by her husband, William Jensen of Mechanicsville; one daughter, Angela (Daniel) Entwisle of Olin; a son-in-law, Ron Hasselbusch of Clarence; 6 grandchildren; her cat, Sassy; two sisters, Karen (Larry) Goss of Marion and Rosemary (Cliff) Mardorf of Monticello; one brother, Michael (Jeannie) Simmons of Marion; step-brothers, Jim (Evelyn) Heinsius of Cedar Bluffs and Chuck (Kathy) Heinsius of Marion, and a sister-in-law, Pat Simmons of Nine Mile Falls, Washington. She was preceded in death by her parents, her grandparents, a daughter, Tracy Hasselbusch on March 15, 2000, a brother, Richard on April 3, 1997, and a step-brother, Tom in 1959.

Sharon K. Jensen, 59, of Mechanicsville, Iowa, died Sunday, November 22, 2009, at Mercy Hospital in Iowa City, Iowa.

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