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I love my family greatly and couldn't possibly have asked for a better family then what God has given me. We mean a lot to one another and are very close and get along great. I'm the third born child among my brothers and sisters, there is plenty of info here about the rest of my family so please read on.

My oldest brother is Rick, his actual name is Richard Jr. named after my Dad. He's 33 years old and has a family. He's married with three kids, his wife's name is Denise. Their oldest child is Lindsey, she's 8, and their second child is a boy. His actual name is Richard III, carried on from Rick and my Dad, but they call him RJ, he's 5 years old. Then their youngest is a baby girl, she was born on Christmas Day 1996, and her name is Hope. They live in Florida, they moved down there in 1992 :-( They used to live on Long Island. Rick has his own business, he does brick and cement work and puts up fences.

My second brother, Scott, is 32 years old. He also has a family (Scott's family homepage: check it out). They live here on Long Island, they actually live in the same town as me. Scott is a Suffolk County Cop here on Long Island, he went on the Police force in 1995, I worked with him in construction for almost a year before he went on. Scott is married to Amy, they have four kids. They have all girls, their first is Ashley, and she's 8. Their second is Rachel, she's 6. Their third is Emily, she's 4. They had their kids around the same time as my brother Rick, it almost seems like a little competition there :o)
Then there is their last born child as of now, Daniel, he's 1. After three girls they finally have a little boy, he was born when I was vacationing in Paris in Aug. of 1999.

My sister Brooke is 14, she is also home schooled. She takes lessons for horseback riding lessons, and also works there at the stables. She plays with her nieces, Ashley, Rachel, and Emily, when my brother's family and ours get together. She also helps out with our newest family member, Samantha. She helps my Mom take care of her, feeds her, and holds her. Brooke is very good with little kids, she really loves little kids and handles them well.

This is Samantha Nicole, also known as, Sam or Sammy. She's our newest addition to our family, my parents adopted her October of 1998. After 32 years of raising children, my parents got to have another baby, in a matter of speaking, now have a new cute little one to raise up again. I made a page about here with more pictures, take a look at the page I made about her. It's plain right now, I have to add more to it and write more to the paragraphs there. I mainly have it up for now to show the pictures I have of her.
(Her site needs an update so it's not up to date right now. I'm hoping to update it soon after I'm done with the major stuff on my site.)

My Dad, Richard Jensen, used to be a Suffolk County Police officer here on Long Island, he went on the police force in 1966. He's now retired from the police department and has now been retired since 1986, he retired after 20 years of being in the police department. He was a Homicide Detective when he retired, which is cool because that's who some of the main characters are in Law and Order, they remind me of what my Dad used to do. He started out as a foot petrol man and then worked his way up to patrolling in a marked police car. He was on the narcotics squad for a while and an undercover cop, sometime in the early 70s is when he went into the Homicide squad and remained a homicide detective till he retired. After he retired from the police department he started a construction business with a friend from the police department, he was involved in construction till 1992. My Dad worked on many cases, he was one of the first detectives called to the scene of that Amityville house murder here on Long Island. A few years ago, May of 1997, The Suffolk County Police headquarters made him a Police chaplain. The Suffolk County Police has several pastors and rabbis as Police Chaplains there, and my Dad is one of them. He received his Police chaplain badge from the Suffolk County Police Commissioner John Gallagher. There is photo proof of this below.

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My Dad is now a pastor of our church, we just started our own church in 1996. He was our assistant and youth pastor and leader of the church we used to go to before we started our own. He went into pastor work in 1992, before that he was one of the deacons (elders) of the church. We used to go to Calvary Baptist Church in Port Jefferson Station here on Long Island. The church we go to now is in Farmingville here on Long Island, its called Hope Reformed Baptist Church. If you are wondering what religion Reformed Baptist is, you can find out all about it at reformed.org.
Right now our church is in a store front, we plan to have our own building in the future but right now we don't have the money to do that and we haven't found a place for it yet.

My Mom, Ginger Jensen, is a full time mother and works here at home. She used to have some jobs in the past but gave that up a few times though the years and gave it up permanently a few years ago to become a full time mother. She's busy home schooling my sister and now taking care of a baby, Samantha. She used to be busy home schooling me also when I was still doing school. Back in the seventies before I was born when Rick and Scott were little, she got a job as a nurse's aid. She worked different jobs as a nurse's aid in hospitals and nursing homes. Of coarse she gave up working for a while when I was born. She worked in a doctor's office when I was little for a while to do typing work and then quit after a few years so she could home school me. After a few years, later after my sister was born she started working nights as a nurse's aid again in a nursing home. She left that sometime later and worked in a hospital again as a nurse's aid. When she left that job a year later or so she decided to stay home and continue as a full time mother.

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My grandparents, up till March of 2001 I had all four of my grandparents. On March 27, 2001 my grandmother from my Dad's side, Judith known to her grandchildren and great grandchildren as Gammy, passed on at age 88. She passed away from old age, she had been getting weaker for the last month and was in the hospital for a month. She lived a great life and of course we miss her. See Gammy's memorial page we had printed at her memorial service, it's bio all about her life with a few pictures, get to know a little bit about her and who she was.
Two weeks later my other grandmother from my Mom's side, Virginia DeOstiguy known to her grandchildren as Nana (great grandchildren called her great nana), passed on at age 80. She had been in the hospital at the same time as my other grandmother, Gammy, for heart sugary. After several weeks and continuing complications she went into a coma, and then passed away a week later. See Nana's memorial page we used for her memorial service to get to know about her life, she also lived a great life and is missed greatly by everyone who knew her.

My grand parents from my Mom's side, George & Virginia DeOstiguy known to their grandkids as Nana and Grandpa, lived in Centereach here on Long Island. My grandfather can no longer live by himself, so my we're going to put on an apartment on my house for him. We plan to have that done by summer of 2001.
My grand parents from my Dad's side, Judith & Stanley Jensen known to their grandkids as Gammy and Gampy, used to live on Long Island but that was before I was born. They moved away from Long Island and moved upstate New York, they lived there till 1988 and then moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee. They moved down there because a few of some other family members had moved down there, too. They moved back up to Long Island again in September of 1999, most of the other family members from down there moved around the country and my grandparents were in need of some assistance so we moved them close to us. We built an apartment onto my uncle Paul's house for them in summer of 2000. Now that my grandfather is now alone there, he still has his son and his family right there next to him in the main part of the house to keep him company.

We used to go down there to Tennessee occasionally to visit. I have a lot of cousins and second cousins from my Dad's side and they're all cool to hang out with together. A few of them are around my age and my sister's age. There are a lot of family members from my Dad's side, we had a family reunion in 1998 and most of us got together. Rick and his family were the only ones who couldn't make it there. I've got a group photo shot of all of us from the reunion, my cousin Bobby mooned the camera over to the left. I blocked it out with my Paint Shop Pro program so it's safe to look at it :o)

Unfortunately, I have never met any of my great grandparents. They died before I was born, except one. My Dad's father's mother, she was alive till I was 4 but I still never had the chance to meet her :o(
Rick and Scott had a chance to see her and some other great grandparents since they were around a little longer then me of coarse. Yeah, I still get that frustrating feeling when I hear my family talking about them and how great they were to visit during family gatherings. At least I can still hear the great stories.

Well, that's about all I have to say about my family for now. I'll continue to add to this page if I need to make any corrections or if I find or remember more information. Thank you for taking the time to read about my family and me. Please visit the other pages on my site and be sure to sign my guestbook :o)