Charley CHRISTENSEN

CHRISTENSEN, JACOBSEN, HOUSEL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/1/2011 at 11:46:58

December 31, 1901 -- November 6, 1944

Charley Christensen was born to Mads and Marie (Jacobsen) Christensen in Rutland Iowa. He was educated in the Humboldt city schools. At age 13 he won a trip to the Panama Exposition for his high yield on his plot of his father's farm land. He married M. Delphine Housel of Humboldt in 1931. He farmed land north of Dakota City where he and Delphine became parents of five children.

Charley was gifted very young with a green thumb. He farmed his father's farm north of Dakota City from a young age until his death. It was his deep belief in the power of a proper education combined with hard work that brought him to the side of his wife. So strong was his belief in a good education, that even concern for his own health on that morning could not stay him from making good on his final morning task; delivering his sons to school. It was his doctor who found him in his car a few blocks from the school where he had made his final stop in the morning round of school deliveries. And it was in the doctor's care that Charley passed to the great beyond.