Christensen, Junior 1927-2015

CHRISTENSEN, MERRILL, REYNOLDS, JOHNSON, HAWKINS, SCHILLING, BEYER, LAIRD

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Date: 1/19/2015 at 14:01:26

Junior Christensen
Sully, IA
Dec 8, 1927 - Jan 8, 2015

Visitation Service At the funeral home
Monday, January 12th, 2015 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Funeral Service At the funeral home
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015 10:30am

Burial Service St. Andrew's Cemetery
Tuesday, January 13th, 2015

Junior Christensen, 87, of rural Sully, died on Thursday, January 8, 2015, at his home. A funeral service will be held at 10:30 a.m., Tuesday, January 13, 2015, at the Wallace Family Funeral Home and Crematory. A visitation will be held from 5-7 p.m., Monday, January 12, at the funeral home. Memorials to the Killduff United Methodist Church or the American Parkinson’s Disease Association may be left at the funeral home.

Junior, the son of Alfred and Marie (Merrill) Christensen, was born on December 8, 1927 in rural Pella. His family moved to a farm near Kellogg in 1936 and then to a farm near Tracy in 1942. Junior graduated from Attica High School in 1948 and was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1950.

Junior was united in marriage with Joyce Reynolds on June 8, 1952 in Alabama. After being discharged, they returned to Iowa and farmed near Attica until moving to rural Sully in 1954. Junior was a lifelong farmer. He was a member of the Killduff United Methodist Church. Junior and Joyce enjoyed traveling and vacationing and had wintered in Arizona for 22 winters.

Those left to honor Junior’s memory are his wife, Joyce Christensen of rural Sully; children, Gary (Lynnette) Christensen of rural, Sully; Greg (Denise) Christensen of Chandler, Arizona, Melissa (Dan) Johnson of Madrid, and Mary Ann (Dale) Hawkins of Dinwiddie, Virginia; 8 grandchildren; 6 great-grandchildren; his sister, Christina Schilling of Knoxville; brother, Marinus (Laverne) Christensen of Loveland, Colorado; and his many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; grandson, T.J. Christensen; and two sisters, Leora Beyer and Anna Laird. ~ The Wallace Family Funeral Home, Newton, Iowa 8 Jan 2015.