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1987 --1989

Caleb's Mom had his two oldest siblings Brian was born 8-17-1987    Heather was born 6-10-1989    

 
1990
Before Caleb was born Mom had his brother Brian and two sister Heather and Marie. In August of 1990 Mom was close to eight months pregnant with big sis, and I had made a big decision to move from where I was. One day while moving I met the man that would be Caleb's Father, Joel Jensen. Joel got us involved in the United Pentecostal Church. We started going there in August of 1990. Mom was actually pregnant with his big sister Marie. She was living close to down town. She moved to Midvale to be close to the church she started attending, Midvale UPC. Mom was baptized in the name of Jesus while very big and pregnant with big sis Marie. Mom had Marie 9-27-1990. Then December of 1990 Mom and Dad (Wayne Joel Jensen) married. By January Mom was pregnant with Caleb. .   Top picture first is Caleb's grandpa & Grandma Straus then Caleb's Dad Joel holding big sis Marie, Mom is next holding big sis Heather, in front of Mom is Caleb's big brother Brian, next to Mom is Mom's Mom & step Dad the Reese’s. 


                                        
 
1991 -- 1994

Mom found out she was pregnant in January of 1991 in about March of 1991 Mom & Dad decided to make a move to Washington. Mom had lived there before, and amazingly enough Dads lived there before also. Both had lived in Vancouver and did not know each other at the time. So both moved to Utah from Vancouver now we would go back together. In Vancouver on September 11th 1991 little baby Caleb was born
He was 7lbs 1 1/2 oz and 20 inches long. What a cutie. His big brother and sisters were so happy to finally meet him.
Shortly after Caleb was born Dad deciced to move to Arizona where he felt there would be more work.
There’s little Caleb in Mommies arms. Toward the end of 1994 Mom had irreconcilable differences with Dad and she moved you and your brother and sisters back to Washington.

 
1994 -- 2004
In 1994 we where in Longview Washington. Mom took us all back to UPC church the Longview UPC. We rooted our selves there. Mom started to better our lives and give some stability. Mom stated babysitting for a man in our Church. His name was Charles Edward Boyd. He had at that time custody of Cari and soon after he got custody of Candice. He had a teenager Jason who took care of his self. Also a Son Chad who still lived with his Mom, Chuck's ex-wife Angela. Mom finalized her devoice 1996. At that time Mom and Church started to date. Church was a great Dad and a great Man. SO July 12 1996 Mom and Chuck were married. Now we had eight of us children. There was Jason who was 15 Brian was 8 Chad was 7 Heather was six, Cari & Marie were 5 and little CAndice and Caleb were 4. Soon after we bought our house in Kelso. It had a huge yard and a small Mother in law house out back. We had lots of fun times there. We had apple trees pear trees grape vines goose berry bush. Oh my fruit galore. Mom made all kinds of pies and preserves.

     IN 1998 Cari, Candice, & Chad's little brother was 18 months old his name was Kaden. He drowned by their Mothers house in a crick. I just felt so horrible for her, I told her over and over I just don't know what to say to you. I am just so sorry for this loss. I thought to myself many times how would I of handled this. I think I would go crazy. It was so hard for every one. But Angela just couldn't cope there for a while so we took custody of Chad. Jason was out on his own now and I was pretty much caring for the children on my own. As The kids became older the issues became harder and then in 2004 to hard to bear any more. Mom had to do the unthinkable separate her children. One of the hardest things she ever did.

 
2004 -- 2007

First we moved to Idaho and tried to make a go of it there. That just wasn't going to cut it. So Mom moved back to Utah. There we hit some real hard times. We lost of vehicle we were homeless, and the children went wild. To go wild in down town salt lake was real scary for Mom. She tried in so many ways to get us back to the good children she knew we all could be. It just wasn't going her way. Mom had a moment in her life and she back slid. Mom met a Man named Eddie in 2004 and in 2005 they feel in love Caleb was in programs and we were doing what we could to keep a home for him to come back to. Things weren’t turning out the way Mom wanted. She was missing Caleb so bad. But now he was in a program and he was showing he was pulling it together. We were looking forward to him coming home. He was supposed to be back in salt lake and working towards coming home by May 28th.
Then May 2 2007 Mom is eating dinner. The phone rings Mom picks it up the man says this is Jim from AYA Caleb has been life flitted out of the program. Caleb is dead. OH MY GOD those where the worst words in the universe. My heart broke that moment. I didn’t find out until three days later that Caleb died from an untreated staff infection. That he was very sick and did not get help. Here are a few more sites about Caleb and the family.                                                                                                      http://caica.org/CALEB_JENSEN_DEATH_WILDERNESS_PROGRAM.htm http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=134588677            

 
1991-2007

Caleb was born in Vancouver, Washington in September eleventh of 1991. Shortly after the family moved to Mesa, Arizona, they lived there for four years.



After that time the family moved back to Washington in the Kelso, Longview area. They attended the Longview United Pentecostal Church. This is where. at the age of seven, Caleb gave his life to Jesus and received Gods spirit.

Caleb had many fun days there, being raised with seven other siblings. There were his natural siblings Brian Burgess, Heather Burgess, Marie Burgess. There was his step Brothers and sisters, Jason Boyd, Chad Boyd, Cari Boyd, and Candice Boyd.

All of the children were inseparable in there young ages. Particularly Caleb and Candice. They were like Tweedledee and Tweedledum, or as his mother would say "peanut butter and jelly".

Caleb has always been such a clown he loved to hit people’s nerves. He would sing, “It’s the song that never ends it goes on and on and on”. He would sing it over and over again.

He loved veggie tales he would sing songs from it like "where is my hair brush". Caleb loved to draw he was learning to draw cartoons and he was real good at it.

Caleb was involved in many different church activities and plays. Caleb was quite the character he loved to dress up and play the part. Each week he was a different character. One day he may be a pirate, the next a star wars character, an army man or bible character.

In June 2004, the family made another move to Salt Lake City, Utah and that is where they currently reside. Caleb went away for a time from his beliefs in the lord, with all my heart I know he called on Him at the end. I also know he was going to be an awsome Man of God one day. Caleb will be greatly missed and always loved by many.


 
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