The falling asleep of Gary Dennis Jensen
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Gary Dennis Jensen October 11, 1944 – October 14, 2026 It is with great sadness, but with hope in the Resurrection, that we announce the falling asleep of our brother in the Lord, Gary Dennis Jensen. May his memory be eternal. Gary Dennis Jensen, a resident of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, passed away on October 14, 2026, at the age of 82, following a courageous two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer. Born in McMinnville, Oregon, on October 11, 1944, Gary was the son of Donald H. and Wilma June Towle Jensen. He grew up in Yamhill and Warrenton, Oregon, graduating from Warrenton High School in 1962. In 1961, he met his wife, Aphrodite (Afroula) Tsekoura, when she arrived from Corfu, Greece, as an American Field Service exchange student. Although she soon returned to Greece to earn her bachelor’s degree, the two stayed close through an eight-year correspondence while she completed her studies and later returned to the U.S. as a Fulbright Scholar to obtain her master’s degree in lin...
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