Fonda Mae E. Jensen

May 9, 1939 - October 29, 2019

Fonda Mae E. Jensen, 80, formerly of Waterloo and Des Moines, passed away October 29, 2019 at the Lutheran Home for the Aged in Perry. Funeral services for Fonda Mae will be Friday, November 1, 2019 at the Bondurant Christian Church at 12:00 p.m. Family will receive friends prior to the service beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the church. A luncheon will be held immediately following the service at the church. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Fonda Mae’s family. Fonda Mae Emma Reisner Jensen was born in West Union, Iowa to George and Lourena Haller Reisner. She grew up in the West Union area and graduated from West Union High School in 1956. She then went to Gates College in Waterloo and graduated in 1959. All through her life she had a great desire to learn and continued her education at AIB in Waterloo. She was married to Woodrow Jensen on July 15, 1961 and the couple was blessed with two children: Phyllis and Lavon. The couple later divorced and she met Gary Vogt. They spent many enjoyable years together. Her first job was a paper route in West Union when she was around 12 years old. After college she began clerical work in Waterloo at NewKirk’s. She found her true calling in caring for people in Black Hawk County when she worked at the County Home. She truly enjoyed assisting others and was a great caregiver and listener to those in need. She absolutely loved her work with young children at many different Head Start and Pre-School Programs where she had lived. Fonda Mae enjoyed gardening and taking care of her flowers and plants, she definitely had a green thumb. She also liked doing all kinds of crafts including needlepoint, plastic canvas, and others. She liked to travel and took many train trips to see her brother and went all over the country to visit her grandson, David and his wife Michelle, as she liked to help them while he was in the service. Fonda Mae had a deep faith and loved to volunteer her time at the Bondurant Christian Church where she was a devoted member and belonged to the Christian Womens Fellowship. Her greatest joy was her family and she loved being a grandma. All the children that knew her called her “Grandma Jensen”. Fonda will be greatly missed by her daughters: Phyllis (Chuck) Thompson and Lavon (Buster) Rounds; grandchildren: David (Michelle) Thompson, Jesse (Shannon) Dox, Nicole (Tyler) Poling, Tyler Rounds, Josh (Jeanne) Rounds, and Sarah Rounds; 7 great grandchildren: Lunden (Dan) Barton, Sunie Thompson, Skyler Thompson, JC Thompson, Jasmine Rounds, Joshua Rounds Jr., and Tessa Poling; and great great grandson, Alex Thompson. Along with sister-in-law, Tommie Reisner; many relatives, friends, and her cats, Kent and Emma. Preceding her in death were her parents: George and Lourena Reisner; and siblings: Lorraine (Arnold) Kleppe, Delavina (Kenneth) Buenzow, and Richard Reisner.