Ronald V. Jensen,

Ronald V. Jensen, Jr., of Erie, Colorado, died Monday, January 28, 2008 at North Valley Hospital in Thornton, due to injuries sustained in an accident. He was 69.Born September 10, 1938 in Logan, Utah, to Ronald Victor Jensen, Sr. and Delores Schiess Jensen, Ron grew up in Hyrum, Utah. He served in the US Air Force from 1955 until his honorable discharge in 1959. After a visit to Colorado, he fell in love with the scenery and decided to make the Front Range his home in 1960. On January 25, 1965, he married Sheryl Wilson in Cheyenne, Wyoming. The couple made their home in Northglenn until moving to Erie in 1976. He made a career in sales and service managing relationships with clients in both sporting goods and fire systems fields.An avid outdoorsman, Ron enjoyed camping, hunting, fishing and shooting sports. He was a lifetime member of the NRA Whittington Center of Raton, New Mexico, and area gun clubs in Golden and Estes Park. He found his life's work sharing his vast knowledge of firearms with family and his many friends. He was a loving husband; father and proud grandfather who cherished time spent teaching his grandsons how to fish.He will be greatly missed by his wife, Sheryl; his sons, Ronald V. Jensen, III, of Dacono, and Ryan Jensen and his wife, Tiffany, of Broomfield; his daughter, Rhonda Meggers of Arvada; and three grandsons, Rhett, Riley, and Austin. He is survived by two brothers, Jon Jensen and his wife, Loretta, of Salt Lake City, Utah, and Jeffrey Jensen of Ogden, Utah; and three sisters, Joan Peterson and her husband, Wayne, of Salt Lake City; Rosemary White and her husband, Don, of Eden, Utah, and Maureen Anderson and her husband, Gary, of Providence, Utah.Mr. Jensen was preceded in death by his parents.Visitation will be held on Saturday, February 2, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Howe Mortuary in Longmont with the family present from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m. Funeral services will be Monday, February 4, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Stake Center, 1721 Red Cloud Road, Longmont. Interment will follow at Foothills Gardens of Memory.Flowers can be sent to the Howe Mortuary in Longmont, or donations can be made to The Denver Hospice, 501 South Cherry St., Denver, 80246.Please share thoughts, memories and condolences with his family at www.howemortuary.com.