Jeannie,
If my lips could stretch 3000 miles I'd give you a big kiss ;)
Thank you for that obituary and such a quick response.
As far as Uncle Hans is concerned, I was under the impression that he was Karen Marie's brother, not her son. The obituary set me straight on that. We were not positive about Karen Marie being married prior to her marriage to Soren but suspected she may have been.
I have a picture of Hans Nielsen's headstone which I am going to upload to ancestry today with possibly a few others.
I don't know which site you visited, but if you send me an e-mail address I will invite you to my ancestry.com tree.

Thanks again for such a quick response with such good results.

Jack Jensen
et109@rcn.com
JMJPhilly@gmail.com

Just got back from looking at the headstone pic. It says that Hans Nielsen was born in 1887, after my great grandmother arrived in Fresno. My cousin, who is working with me on this research knew Hans as a child and they called him Uncle Hans. I'm back to believing he was Karen Marie's brother, not her son. What do you make of it?

Back again. I don't want to overdo it here, so please tell me if I'm posting too much.
It has occurred to me that for Hans to be Karen Marie's brother, their mother's minimum age would have to have been around 59 when he was born. Karen Marie was born in 1840, so she would have been 47, how old could their mother have been?
If he was Karen Marie's son born in 1887 he would have the surname Jensen, not Nielsen.
Yet the obit says he is Marius' half-brother.
It's getting curiouser and curiouser :)