Tomina Andersen
10 March 1861 - 30 July 1950
Vitals
Birth
10 March 1861
Hjørring
Death
30 July 1950
Salt Lake City
Burial
1950
Centerfield
Alternate Names
Given Name
Tomina
Given Name Alternate Spellings
Thomena, Tamaena
Last Name
Andersen
Maiden Name Alternate Spellings
Anderson, Andersson
Married Names
Jensen
Family
Marriage
Children
No Given Name:
3 May 1904 -
Centerfield
Biography
Born in Tolne, Denmark, Tomina married Peter Christian Jensen in 1887. Her husband emigrated to America not long after their marriage; six months later, Tomina and her young daughter Carrie crossed the ocean to join him in New York, and, a year after that, the family relocated to central Utah. The family worked hard to raise a farm, run a confectionery store, and manage the Centerfield Opera House, before the confectionery and opera house were both destroyed in a fire in 1927. Seven years earlier, in 1920, the Jensen family home burned completely to the ground; however, all members of the family survived both events unscathed. After a full life raising a family and participating in the local church, Tomina died of chronic myotonia in 1950.