Earl Albert CHRISTENSON

CHRISTENSON, WENOS, JOHNSON, ANDERSON, SWEARINGEN, SEVLEY, WIRTJES, NYHUS, MORRIS

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/24/2006 at 00:10:15

Earl Albert Christenson, 84, of Forest City, formerly of the Belmond and Kanawha areas, died on Tuesday, May 14, 2002 at the Good Samaritan Center in Forest City. Funeral services were held on Saturday, May 18 at Trinity Lutheran Church in rural Kiester, Minnesota with Rev. Dani Jo Ninke-Greaver and Rev. Lee Laaveg officiating. Burial was at Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery, rural Kiester. The Peterson-Lund Funeral Home of Forest City was in charge of the arrangements.

Earl Albert Christenson, the son of Oluf and Anna (Wenos) Christenson, was born February 23, 1918 in Norway Township, Wright County, Iowa. He was baptized at the Congregational Church in Belmond and was confirmed at Trinity Lutheran Church in Belmond. He attended Norway Township rural school and worked as a farm hand. On September 14, 1941, he was united in marriage to Carol Johnson at the Congregational Church in Belmond. He started farming in 1942 in the Kanawha and Clarion area. In 1952, they moved to a farm near Bricelyn, Minnesota, where they farmed until he retired in 1983. In 1993, they moved to Forest City. Earl and Carol celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on September 14, 2001. Earl entered the Good Samaritan Center on January 4, 2002. Earl enjoyed fishing, golfing and playing cards and dancing. He also made wooden crosses, which have been sent all over the United States and overseas. Earl was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, serving on the council as church treasurer, and a member of Brotherhood. In 1995, he transferred his membership to Immanuel Lutheran Church in Forest City.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers; three sisters; one sister in infancy; one son-in-law, Gary Anderson; and one great-grandson, Zackery. Survivors include his wife, Carol of Forest City; son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Mary Christenson of Phoenix, Arizona; son, Keith Christenson of Belmond; daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Dan Swearingen of Thompson; daughter and son-in-law, Pat and Gordon Sevley of Kiester, Minnesota; daughter and son-in-law, Eloise and Lyle Wirtjes of Thompson; daughter and son-in-law, Deborah and Harlan Nyhus of Forest City; a brother and sister-in-law, Lloyd and Eunice Christenson of Belmond; a sister, Maxine Morris of Castro Valley, California, numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

May 21, 2002
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