Funeral live stream today (VIDEO)

Here's the link that can be shared, or you can share the link of this blog post, where I've got the video player embedded below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-IrFEBDstU

The video player will not be "live" until after 2:45 p.m.

Bundle up if you are traveling today!

**Update: the stream will best be viewed on a computer with speakers, or on a cell phone with earbuds or a head set. Our test run today was successful!!

*Update: we may not have enough battery to get through the funeral. We'll see! Unfortunately we also won't be able to record it, but YouTube Live will have a copy of it.

High-quality audio of the funeral is being recorded. That's the best we can guarantee for playback.

At any one time at least 400 were watching the funeral during the live stream.

**I'm happy to say that the live stream was pulled off without incident! In order to pull it off, I couldn't record it in high-def. We had to go "all in" on the live stream. I could have played with more settings and pulled off some more tricks, but that would've likely endangered the live stream.

It worked out. Thank you to everyone who helped share the link. It was a heart-warming funeral. Difficult, but at the same time, it has helped many find peace.

And let's all be thankful for Josey and Remi's family to allow the funeral to be shared online. That's a big deal. I am so grateful for the opportunity to share their stories. That takes a great deal of courage!

*Update: by the time the funeral was complete, it had over 1,500 views. Just shy of midnight on Sunday night, it surpassed 2,500 views. Amazing.

Gonna sneak these two videos out before the end of the night...

First, here's archive video from February 6, 2014. This was during Josey's junior season of wrestling and features one of his best friends and fellow classmate on the mats, Steven Mady. The Jaguars were taking it to Prairie Valley (Parkers Prairie/Eagle Valley co-op), and Mady's pin at 145 pounds put them ahead 33-3. It gets exciting right around the 45-second mark!

The Jaguars won that home dual by a 42-21 score.

And it took a little more digging, but here's a four minute video clip from one of Josey's matches at the Jaguar Invite on January 3, 2014. I will try looking up more details and updating this on Monday. He built a 5-0 lead, and the way it looks, he had a 7-2 lead before the third period started.

*Looked it up: Josey was wrestling at 120 pounds that day. He ultimately placed second and lost a 6-2 decision in the finals. In this match in this video from the semifinals, Josey ended up winning by a 10-5 decision over James Holen of Ottertail Central.

It cannot be overstated how much Josey loved wrestling and how much he loved his teammates.

Double funeral and obituary info

Josey Tensen standing with his coaches, BJ Friedrichs and Chuck Marks, at the Section 5A individual tournament in late February 2013 at LP-GE high school during his sophomore year. He had earned a trip to the state tournament earlier that day.

The double funeral for Josey and Remington will be live streamed via YouTube. The funeral will be on Sunday, February 7 at 3 p.m. in Willmar.

The details are being worked out today, and soon I will have a link that you can share with friends and family. 

*Update: here's the embedded video that will go "live" at 2:45 p.m. on Sunday, February 7.

Just some last-minute equipment details to work out, and we'll be good to go. You can share this blog post link so friends and family can watch if unable to attend.

• Click on the following short link, and you'll be re-directed to Josey's full obituary released by his family on Wednesday afternoon. I added a video clip featuring Sno-Daze coronation on February 17, 2015...you will want to watch that! Link = https://bit.ly/3cCbPcL.

I dug this up tonight while looking at archived video...this is from the beginning of the day of Section 5A individual wrestling action at Kimball Area high school. This was the last day that Josey Tensen competed in high school wrestling. He is on the far left side of this huddle around first-year head coach Jack Mueller.

Have you split some extra wood for the fireplace this weekend? It's gonna get cold!

FOUR wins tonight!

The B-B-E Jaguars boys' basketball team got back in the win column by defeating visiting Browerville tonight by a 79-39 score. They led 45-21 at halftime.

The B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team defeated Holdingford 43-22 in the first dual of a home triangular.

*Update: through the 195-pound weight, the Jaguars hold a 58-6 lead over Albany in the final dual of tonight's triangular at the B-B-E high school.

*Final score: B-B-E 67, Albany 6. Next is a home triangular on Thursday this week.

Also, at Eden Valley-Watkins, the No. 6 -ranked B-B-E Jaguars girls' basketball team remained undefeated on the season with a 64-32 conference win over the Eagles. They were led by 14 points from Allisa Knight and 11 points from fellow senior Jackie Lindsay.

That's all...time to get my February 4 newspaper out the door! 

Had to get this out...this was posted today...such a loss, I can't even describe.

• Here's the link to the funeral notice for B-B-E Class of 2015 graduate Josey Tensen: https://www.hafh.org/obituary/Josey-Tensen. Please continue praying for his family and the family of his girlfriend, Remington Harder.

Also! Please bring donations to the Belgrade Hardware Store during their regular business hours. 

Drop-off site for donations (VIDEOS)

Donations to the Tensen family can be dropped off in person during business hours at the Belgrade Hardware Store. They are open weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. in downtown Belgrade. The family is VERY appreciative of any support they can get, even just a card of sympathy! All donations will go towards getting Josey home and helping conduct a funeral service he deserves. The Tensens have given so much over the years to our community. Now it is our turn to step up and help them.

Below is a video from the final minute of Thursday night's win over Holdingford:

More to come later.

And I'm searching for more video, but here's a video clip recorded in the latter part of a timeout that was late in game three in the September 9, 2014 home volleyball border battle against New London-Spicer. The Jaguars and Wildcats were locked in a 19-19 tie. You can hear the NL-S student fans finishing their cheer. It appears that Josey Tensen wanted to start a cheer with our student section, but they ran out of time. NL-S won the third set by a 26-24 score and left the gym with a 3-0 sweep. They were in the early stage of a 25-6, Section 3AA runner-up season.

I am still numb over all of this.

In terms of the accident, I spoke with officials at the Nebraska State Patrol, and they don't have additional information to release beyond what was put out last Friday afternoon. The responding patrol officers have a 10-day window to complete their official reports, and in the cases involving more than one fatality, it's possible that more than 10 days are used.

*And! A little more digging and I uncovered this video...it's the last points scored of game three of that volleyball match against NL-S. Fast forward to the 3-minute mark and you'll see Josey leading the student section in a cheer.

The number 64 (VIDEOS added)

*Photo from Wednesday, November 27, 2013...this was during Josey Tensen's junior year at B-B-E high school.
Josey Tensen, a returning state entrant from last year, is shown during his 4-2 win by decision in the 120-pound Jaguar Invitational semifinals against Willmar's Juan Resendez. Tensen ultimately took second place at the Jaguar Invite, helping the Jaguars to third place as a team. This invitational kicked off the 2013-2014 wrestling season.

For me, I have a new appreciation for the number 64 after visiting with numerous locals tonight in Sedan and Brooten. In one conversation, I learned that Josey Tensen helped build 64 decks during a recent summer as a contractor for Heritage Exterior and Restoration. (I'll get better details on that before writing about it in next week's paper)

Sixty-four decks!

After leaving a memorable impression on B-B-E schools as a student and student-athlete, Josey continued that by leaving what will be a lasting impression on anyone he worked with or was friends with. He was a skilled craftsman and tradesman as a young adult. 

Jaguar Country will be heartbroken over his passing for a long, long time. We mourn the loss of Josey and his girlfriend, Remington Harder of Hutchinson. They are with the angels now looking over all of us.

Here's a Bonanza Valley Voice web article with more on Josey Tensen, including notes on Remington. They could have lived a full and amazing life before the fatal and tragic accident on Friday in Nebraska (short link) = https://bit.ly/3tjQ3Az.

I gotta re-post this video because it was just so much fun to be a part of. This was early in Josey's senior wrestling season, December of 2014. That night, his Jaguars earned just the second win ever for B-B-E against Paynesville Area. This video shows Joe Reller winning by pin at 220 pounds to make the score 45-28.

Josey Tensen was the first Jaguar to slap Reller's hand when he got back to the huddle. He had a huge part in the success of the B-B-E Jaguars wrestling team during the first half of the last decade. We will never forget him.

By the way, here's a link to read the full blog recap of the season-opening Jaguar Invitational on November 27, 2013: https://bit.ly/2MJPNdi.

And I finally got around to uncovering some football clips. This is from Josey's senior season of football. The date was Friday, September 12, 2014, with the B-B-E Jaguars playing at Kimball. The video is from the opening drive of the second half. The Cubs were trying to convert a third-and-five possession. Kimball's tall, brawny wide receiver Jarred Merchant caught a pass, but Josey was right there for a quick tackle! Boom! The Cubs were one yard short, and they proceeded to fail on the fourth-and-one conversion attempt.

The Jaguars won that game by a 14-6 score after trailing 6-0 at halftime. Every play mattered in that game.