Thomas Frederick Jensen was born on February 28th,1949 to Shirlee and Gordon Jensen of Marshfield, Wisconsin. He passed away on March 24th 2026. He married Elizabeth Kozarek on January 4th,1969. Tom had two brothers: Jay(deceased) and David of Green Bay, Wisconsin. He had two sons: Chris(Tina) of Fremont, California and Andy(Monica)of Aurora, Colorado.  Tom received an engineering degree from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1971.

Most of Tom’s career was spent in managerial positions in the petroleum  industry. He ran an oil  drilling company and was the manager for various departments in Santa Fe Pipelines and Kinder Morgan Energy. His last position was Vice President of West Coast Operations for Kinder Morgan.  While his sons were growing up Tom was busy coaching their soccer, baseball and basketball teams.. After retiring Tom played as much golf  as possible.

A celebration of his life will be held on Wednesday May 27th at 1pm at the Murrieta Valley Funeral Home in Murrieta, California
He will be deeply missed.