CHRISTIANS, Loretta L. 1910-1999

CHRISTIANS

Posted By: Jeannine Peterson (email)
Date: 4/5/2012 at 13:20:53

Loretta L. Christians, 89, of Mason City, died Thursday, July 8, 1999, at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.

A private family funeral service was held Monday at the Bride Colonial Chapel, Many, with the Rev. Dennis Cahill of Holy Family Catholic Church, Mason City, officiating. Burial was in the Grafton Cemetery.

Loretta was born June 22, 1910, in Manly, the daughter of Edward C. and Laura (Cobeen) Reindl. She attended and received her education in the Manly schools and graduated from high school in the class of 1927. She attended State Teachers' College in Cedar Falls and taught in the rural Worth County Elementary schools for several years. She worked in organizing the State Employment Office in Cerro Gordo, Franklin and Worth Counties in the early 1930's.

She was united in marriage to Roy Christians of Grafton on June 21, 1936. For several years after his death in 1981, she was a resident of the Manor in Mason City.

Loretta will be remembered for her kindness to others and her humor.

Living family members include two sisters, Loretta's twin, DeEtta Peterson, Mason City, and Genevieve (Charles) Sizenbach, Tomball, TX; and nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; one sister, Mary V. Smith; and one niece, Judy Kane.

Mason City Globe Gazette July, 1999