Sara L. Jansen

Sara L. Chamberlain Jansen, age 82, died on September 27, 2010, at Ventura Convalescent Hospital in Ventura, California. Sara was born November 27, 1927, to parents Chester and Ada Chamberlain, in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania. Her parents moved to Franklin, PA when she was a young girl.



Sara attended Nyack College in Nyack, NY and graduated from St. Paul Bible College in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1954. She married Dr. Thomas David Jansen, a student at Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia in 1954, and soon became a minister?s wife when they were called to a church in Tennessee. She went on to live in Los Angeles, Findley Lake, N.Y., Sydney, Australia, and back to California where she would live until her death. She was a devoted and loving mother and grandmother.



Sara is survived by her three children, Susanne Osborne of Auburn, California, and Thomas Jansen and Wayne Jansen, both of Ventura, California; two grandchildren, Tess Osborne Derkin and Tara Jansen Redondo, both of Los Angeles, California; one great grandchild, Gary Dean Redondo; and two sisters, Shirley Hammerlee of Erie, Pennsylvania and Audrey Cole of Titusville, Pennsylvania.



A memorial service will be held for Sara and her sister, Darlene, on Saturday, April 28, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. at Huff Chapel, 312 W. Park St with Rev. William Hazlett officiating.



Interment will follow in Graham Cemetery.