Ruth A. (Gordon) Jensen, a resident of Saugus for more than 90 years, died on Sunday evening, October 25, 2026 at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital. She was 96.
She was born in Boston and raised in Saugus, the daughter of the late Francis and Hazel (Monroe) Gordon. She worked for many years as a certified home health aide for local visiting nurse associations, cooked for her family and kept them close.
She leaves her children, Karen Ranahan of Swampscott, Debra Drago of North Hampton, N.H., Michael Jensen and his wife Anita of Bellingham, and Mary Jo Jensen of Saugus; 14 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren. Her sons Harold, James and Francis Jensen, her daughter Diane Jensen, her brothers Harold, Francis and Gene Gordon, her sister Julie Swartfiguer, her son-in-law Frank Drago and her grandson Kevin Ranahan died before her.
Visiting hours are Thursday from 9 to 10 a.m. at the Bisbee-Porcella Funeral Home, 549 Lincoln Avenue, Saugus, followed by a 10:30 funeral Mass at St. Margaret’s Church, 431 Lincoln Avenue, Saugus, and burial at Puritan Lawn Memorial Park, Peabody. The family suggests donations to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
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