Christensen, Dr. Floyd D.

CHRISTENSEN, MAXWELL, PARRIOTT, GILBERT, CARLSON

Posted By: Linda Mohning (email)
Date: 6/7/2011 at 14:15:22

Christensen, Dr. Floyd D. 1923-1968
Dr. Chris rites are held Friday at Remsen church

Dr. Floyd D. Christensen, 45, died Tuesday night at his home at 3635 Court St., Sioux City, where he had lived for the last two years.

Dr. Christensen was a Remsen physician and surgeon from 1949 to 1966. He moved to Sioux City in 1966 to be near artificial kidney facilities at St. Vincent hospital, which he visited twice a week for kidney dialysis.

The doctor had visited briefly in Remsen Tuesday morning. “Doc Chris” as he was affectionately known by his many friends, came to Remsen in May of 1950. He graduated from the liberal arts college of the University of South Dakota in Vermillion in 1945 and spent the following year doing research work there in physiology and pharmacology.

Born May 12, 1923, Dr. Christensen married Jean Maxwell Feb 8, 1946, in Sioux City.
In 1946 he entered the university’s school of medicine where he took the basic science section of his medical course and also instructed in pharmacology.

In 1947 he entered the University of Nebraska college of medicine and received his M.D. degree there in 1949. He worked one year as house doctor at St. Joseph Mercy hospital, Sioux City.

Funeral services were 1 p.m. Friday at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran church in Remsen. Rev. Paul Wuebben officiated. Burial was in the Remsen city cemetery under direction of the Moeller funeral home.

Survivors are his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Philip Parriott (Mary) of Omaha, and Kathleen, a student at the University of Iowa; a granddaughter; his mother, Mrs. Jennie Christensen of Hurley, S.D.; a brother Allen of Richland, ‘Wash.; and two sisters, Mrs. Donald Gilbert of Sioux City, and Mrs. Ray Carlson of Alexandria, S.D. – Le Mars Daily Sentinel, Nov. 29, 1968, page 1