Glenn Christian Jensen

Our beloved Glenn Christian Jensen, 71, of San Francisco, CA passed away peacefully in the care of hospice on October 2, 2024 in Pensacola, FL after a long 3-year battle with prostate cancer. Glenn was born to Rolf and Grace Jensen (nee) Parisi on July 3, 1953, in the Sunset District of San Francisco, where he attended Saint Anne’s Grammar School and Abraham Lincoln High School. 

After graduating high school, Glenn worked as a career messenger at various law firms throughout the San Francisco Financial District. Working outside and being surrounded by the hustle and bustle of the City, Glenn was unequivocally in his element which afforded him both comfort and excitement.

 By no means was being a messenger Glenn’s only passion, though. Glenn had an insatiable appetite for music, particularly rock and roll and rhythm and blues, and anything obscure, nonconventional, and transcendental. Playing guitar was his main pastime/hobby, and he was very accomplished at it. Glenn and some of his closest childhood friends formed local bands and played in small clubs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, and later in Pensacola, FL and surrounding areas in the Florida Panhandle, where he was referred to as “Papa G”. In addition to music, Glenn was enthusiastic about old horror films, poetry, and anything 60’s. In fact, in his 20’s, he authored a beautiful, fluid, and abstract poem titled “What the Hell” which was never published but probably should have been. 

In the 1990’s in San Francisco, Glenn met and married a wonderful woman named Tiffany (Lori) Di Matteo. They did not have any children. In the early 2000s, Lori passed away suddenly and unexpectedly. In the latter part of first decade of the 2000s, Glenn met a terrific woman named Karen Sue Carey (nee) Garrett and moved to Pensacola, FL in 2012, where Karen was currently residing, for a change of pace and a new perspective on life. 

Glenn will always be known, cherished, and remembered for his extremely kind and warm heart and for his easy-going, laissez-faire attitude toward life. He brought so much joy and peace to those with whom he came into contact. Being in his presence was always a blessing. He is loved and will be missed by many. 

Glenn was predeceased by his parents Rolf and Grace Jensen, his older brother Robert Jensen, his wife Lori Di Matteo, and his girlfriend Karen Sue Carey. Glenn is survived by his older sister Janet Minahan, and her husband Timothy Minahan, his four nephews and their wives, his five great-nieces and three great-nephews, his girlfriend’s sweet daughter Teresa Barragan Cano, who graciously took care of Glenn in his last days in Florida, and Teresa’s family.