Mable Viola (Reed) CHRISTENSEN

MCSPADEN, STEERE, JOHNSON, RIDLEY, YENDER, CHRISTENSEN, PUHL, HOBERT, REED, HELT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/1/2007 at 00:49:31

August 16, 2005

Mable V. Christensen, 94, died on Friday, August 12, at the Westview Care Center in Britt. Funeral services were held on Tuesday, August 16, at the Bethel Baptist Church in Britt with burial in the Belmond Cemetery. Mable Viola, the daughter of James and Anna (Helt) Reed, was born on July 8, 1911 at Aredale. She attended school in Franklin County. She married George Melvin Christensen in 1931. They farmed west of Belmond until 1954 when they moved west of Klemme. She lived the past six months at the care center.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband in 1983; daughter, Shirley; sons, Lloyd and Richard; brothers, John, Orville, Don and Merlin Reed; and sisters, Velma McSpaden, LaVon Steere and Bernadine Johnson. Survivors include her children, Marlys (Larry) Ridley and Velma (Louis) Yender of Arkansas and George Robert (Carolyn) Christensen and Raymond Christensen of Britt; sister-in-law, Alice Christensen of Michigan; sisters, Vera Puhl and Arlene Puhl of Charles City and Ruby (Lowell) Hobert of Greene.

©Belmond Independent 2005