OBITUARY: Mary Justina (Nelson) Christianson, 1881-1964, Mitchell Co., Iowa




                  Mary Justina Nelson Christianson        
            
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Christianson, 82, were held Monday at
Rock Creek Lutheran church.  Mrs. Christianson died at Mitchell county
Memorial hospital last Thursday after being a patient there two weeks.
Her illness was caused by pneumonia and later a stroke.  Her death was
due to a heart attack.

The Rev. Donald Berg, pastor at Rock Creek Lutheran, was in charge of
the services.  C.R. Champion and Sons made the arrangements and burial
was in the church cemetery.

Mary Justina Nelson was born in Rock Township, Mitchell County on
November 30, 1881, the daughter of Erik and Inger Syverud Nelson.  She
was baptized and confirmed at Rock Creek Lutheran, where she remained
a lifelong member.  She attended the rural school in Rock Township
and remained all her life in that area with the exception of two years
spent in North Dakota as a hotel cook.

She was united in marriage to Theodore Christianson on April 27, 1921.
The couple farmed in Cedar and Rock townships, continuing to live on
the farm following retirement.

Surviving are two daughters, Inez of Osage; Arlene (Mrs. Delmer) Rudolph
of Janesville, Minnesota; two grandchildren, Darold and Colleen Rudolph;
and one brother, Theodore Nelson of Rockford.

Her husband, Ted, who died January 18, 1964; her parents; two sisters
and one brother preceded her in death: Clara (Mrs. O.) Leverson, Emma
(Mrs. George) Krogstad, Carl Nelson of the Rock Creek community.



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