Sena Larsen, age 87, passed away at Harbor Care in Oak Harbor on Oct. 22, 2010. Sena was born Nov. 23, 1922 in Bratbjerg, Denmark to Peter and Anna Larsen. She immigrated at age 5 months through Ellis Island with her parents and after a one year stop in Humbolt, Iowa, came to live on Whidbey Island in Clover Valley where the family started a dairy farm.

Sena had many happy memories of helping her pop with the farm work. Times were hard and, when old enough, she found additional work where she could, including the co-op grocery store and Island Drug as a clerk. After graduation from Oak Harbor High School in 1941, Sena worked for the Oak Harbor Postal Service and later ran the office at Berg Fuel in Seattle. In 1974 Sena returned to Oak Harbor and worked civil service at Whidbey Island Naval Air Station, first as BEQ supply clerk and then as housing assignment clerk from which she retired in 1985.

Sena was a worldwide traveler but she particularly loved to visit Denmark and made many, many trips back to her homeland to visit family and friends. She was also very interested in her family history and genealogy and contributed to its written history in “The Ten.” Sena also loved her home and gardens that she built on Zylstra Road in 1977 and spent many happy hours tending her flower beds there until she moved to Regency on Whidbey in 2009.

Sena was preceded in death by her parents Peter and Anna Larsen; two brothers, Rudolph and Chris Larsen; and one sister, Agnes Larsen.

She is survived by one sister, Ellen Hanni and husband Jerry of Oak Harbor; one brother, Carl Larsen and wife Cindy of Oak Harbor; three nieces, Debbie Lyness (John) and children Christian and Christina, Christine Kingsbury (Jay), Karen Gibbons (Dale) and children Douglas and Donald; and one nephew, Peter Larsen (Sarah) and son Samuel.

A Memorial Service will be held Friday, Oct. 29 at 1 p.m. at Oak Harbor Lutheran Church after a private family burial at Maple Leaf Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Burley Funeral Chapel, Oak Harbor.