On December 19, 2017, Mona Marie Keppner Jensen, 99, left this life to join her eternal companion. Mona was born May 15, 1918, in Hibbard, Idaho to Lehi and Mary Ella Statham Keppner. She attended school in Hibbard and graduated from Madison High School.

She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and served a mission in the Central States Mission. After her mission, she married Loy M. Jensen on February 9, 1942, in the Logan LDS Temple. After spending their first year together in Los Angeles, the couple returned to Rexburg to help on the Jensen family farm and for Loy to graduate from Ricks College. They moved to Logan, where Loy and Mona opened a boarding house, which then became the first Delta Phi fraternity house.

Returning once again to Rexburg, Loy started working for the Soil Conservation Service. This work later took the family to Driggs and then to Weiser, Idaho, where Loy passed away from a malignant brain tumor in 1962. Mona soon moved the family home to Rexburg for the last time, where she has lived since. She valiantly carried on, raising six children and supporting them through college, missions, weddings, and their various interests and activities.

Mona worked at Ricks College for almost 20 years, mostly in the Accounting Office. She took time out to serve in the Kentucky Louisville Mission, then went back to work at Ricks until she retired. She also served in the Idaho Falls Temple for 16 years. Mona loved to travel, and took several temple and Church history tours, as well as taking her family to visit many points of interest across the country. She also visited Mexico City, Hawaii, Israel, and Chile, among others.

Mona is survived by her children; sons, Kim L (Patsy) Jensen, Layne K (Rosalie) Jensen, daughters, Kerry (Wayne) Erickson, Mala (Kevin) Anderson, Kathleen (Bob) Briggs; a sister, Jean (Lee) Cook; a son-in-law, Dale Baxter; 31 grandchildren and 95 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her husband, Loy; a daughter, Julie Kay Baxter; parents; and seven siblings, Dorla England, Lucille Johnson, Genevieve Smith, Karl Keppner, Billee Thompson, Mary Dawn Benson, and Coralyn Murphy.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Saturday, December 23, at the Rexburg Center Stake Chapel, 590 Summerwood Drive, with Bishop Kory Lofthouse officiating. The family will receive friends Friday evening from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Flamm Funeral Home in Rexburg, and Saturday from 9:30 to 10:15 a.m. at the stake center prior to services. Interment will be in the Burton Cemetery.