Obituary - Robert (Bob) Jensen
The other day Shelly and I went to the funeral of a fellow Angus breeder, a very good cattleman, a very good farmer but most of all, a very good friend Robert (Bob) Jensen of Prosperity Stock Farm of Ferintosh, Alberta. Robert passed away quietly on January 12, 1013, three days following his 87th birthday. His wife Phyllis had predeceased him in 2008. For those of you who knew Bob, ge was a big man with a bigger heart for all. They (Bob & Phyllis) became the long time
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Life-long farmer and cattleman, Robert Walter Jensen, formerly of Ferintosh, died peacefully at his residence in Camrose on January 12, 2013. He was 87 years old. Robert, the youngest of four children, was born on the family farm January 9, 1926 to Marie and Andrew Jensen. He spent his formative years working on the farm with his family and within the community. Robert
met the love of his life and married Phyllis Irene Bottorff on New Year’s Eve 1946. Robert and Phyllis experienced life to the fullest, trying their hand at many different lines of work until they found their calling; breeding and showing registered Black Angus cattle.
President and Secretary of the Central Alberta Angus Club, a position they totally enjoyed. The Prosperity Angus herd was built to 130 - 140 mothers cows with show cattle from the herd of Adam Schierman of Bashaw. This very good and functional herd was built very successfully on the strength of two bulls; Ed Rene Blackman 15Z and Kenalta Olympus. It started in the early sixties, ending in the late eighties with selling totally to Peter Pocklington and Glen Sather of Edmonton Oiler fame, as a commercial group of cows. What a waste of a very, very valuable genetics. Because of high interest rates in the early eighties (25%), this was a hurried up deal before any of us could react! When Shelly and I first started Get-A-Long Stock Farm in 1978, Robert and Phyllis ley us have our pick of their entire group of heifer calves. What an opportunity! The two Blackman daughters selected lives and worked until they were both fourteen years of age, always with a calf a the front of the pen.When Robert retired in the mid
nineties, he travelled with me from Vancouver to Winnipeg every spring and fall for ten years, either to sales I attended, selecting cattle or delivering bulls. Definitely a highlight in his life was the travel, the cattle people he met and the hospitality of both Angus and livestock families. Robert, when he went to shows or sales had the world’s biggest tack box, painted orange. It did take three men and a boy to lift it and I would have sworn he actually had a bull in it. It was so big that he asked me one day if I wanted it, I said, I didn’t have room! For two or three years the entire Prosperity heifer calf crop sold to Richmond Hales of Texas and the Prosperity bull calves went to Colorado or Montana for years. A very good piece of business for everyone! Robert, you did live a full life, we miss the friendship of you and Phyllis. He was truly a big man with a big heart! Dennis & Shelly Ericson
Commercial Edition 2013