1. | VAN EKELENBURG Jacoba Maria Magdelena was born 15 Mar 1899, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands (daughter of VAN EKELENBURG Adrianus and WOUD Sebilla Margaretha); died 22 May 1976, Salt Lake City, Utah; was buried , Elysian Burial Gardens, Salt Lake City, Utah. Notes:
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Jacoba Maria Magdelena van Ekelenburg Jansen worked as a office cleaner at the First Security Bank building. She died of a heart attack and stroke.
She took care of Jackie and Scott her grandchildren during the day wile Burt and rose worked. she was a loving grandmother whose life tragically ended to soon. She never liked the L. D. S. church but stayed with her husband and moved to the United States with him when he converted.
Jacoba married JANSEN Lambertus Christianus (1899) Oct 1922, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands. Lambertus (son of JANSEN Lambertus II (1871) and ENGLES Magdelena Berendina Cornelia (1875)) was born 14 Sept 1899, Arnhem, Gelderland, Netherlands; died 13 Oct 1962, Salt Lake City, UT; was buried , Elysian Burial Gardens, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United . [Group Sheet]
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Lambertus Christianus Jansen was a painter by trade. Before He and his wife came to the United States, he was a professional soccer player in Arnhem, Netherlands. When he first moved to the United States, he got a job hand woodgraining philco radios. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor he tried to inlist, but was told "Go home old man". He worked as a painter during the day when he could find work, and as a night watchman at the Remmington Arms ammunition plant in Salt Lake City. He painted the Elevator doors in the L.D.S. office building in 1960. He contracted lymph gland cancer and was one of the first Kemotheropy patients in the United States. Unfortunately the cancer had spread too far throughout his body and he died in 1962.
Lambertus Christianus Jansen fought the cancer and held death back until he and his wife Cobi celebrated their 40th aniversary. He died a few days later.
Lambertus Jansen was his only child.
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- JANSEN Lambertus (1934) was born 27 Oct 1934, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah; died 4 Sept 2008, Tooele, Tooele, Utah; was buried 09 Sep 2008, Elysian Burial Gardens, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah.
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