Annie Margit Jensen

My mom was the best mom, i think she did a real good job looking after the children, food was hard to find during the war, often made from what she could find out from the garden, potatoes from the field, perhaps a couple of eggs from the chicken house, or at special times even a chicken, mom was a super cook, she could make a meal out of nothing, but wood was hard to get, i remember she would try to build a fire in the kitchen cook stove with green wood, wood dad had just axed down from the big hedge that grew by our house, when she had kerosene she would use a primus or Coleman stove to help, but i don't remember ever starving, often when dad was working somewhere, mom would do chores like milking a cow, thinning beats in the field, she would park the baby carriage somewhere where she could keep a eye on it, i remember one time during the war she went shopping to Langaa, ca. 3 km.with me along, pushing the baby carriage, going home there is big hill, and there happen to bee a bunch of German soldiers walking the road, i think she was worried, but one of them came forward and pushed the carriage for her, during the war the Germans also came to our little farm at times begging for food, but they could see we had nothing to spare, so they left us alone. Mom was born in Attrup Djursland, and Baptisted in Koed Church, a beautiful old church, she stayed there with her parents til she was about 5, then the family moved to Skjod for maybe 2-3 years and then to the little farm at Lojstrup Mark, which eventually would become the home for all of us. Her first job was at Bogtrups Maskinfabrik in Randers, and she soon learned to be a good cook, I think from here it was on to Lasagergaard where she met our dad, in 1930 they had a baby boy born at Moms sister Olgas place in Langaa, the baby was Baptized Villy in Langaa Church, within the next couple of years Mom and Dad would move in with Moms parents Mikkel and Mette on Lojstrup Mark where they would have 5 more children, they would live here til they moved to Canada in 1957. Mom and Dad was married in 1934 in Orum church by Pastor Mikalsen. In 1957 she moved with Dad and the rest of the family to Canada, i think the first couple of years in Canada was though on her, but once they moved to Winnipeg and got their own house things went better, she could go on building the home she had been dreaming about, she toke on work as well to make extra money for things she wanted, and the first couple of years all 6 of us lived in the house as well, I moved to West Hawk Lake in 1960, i think Villy moved out when he got married to Shirley. I think Mom was happy here, during the 60is and to she died in 1976, her and Dad made many happy trips to West Hawk Lake, she passed away to early in 1976 at 65, never really got to see the grandchildren, I remember the last time I saw her was in the hallway at Concordia Hospital, on our way home to West hawk Lake, and she died alone in the hallway with no one around her, when we got home we got the phone call saying our Mom had died, that was a tough one, I miss them both very much. Notes by Ib November 18, 2009