Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries:  Elaine Dorothy Christenson

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Submitted by: <dhr1953@hotmail.com>  Don Raymond

The Stanberry Headlight, Thursday, December 12, 1963:
Final rites for Mrs. Lawrence Christenson, who died last Friday in Kansas  City,
were held at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon from the Church of God here. The service
was conducted by Elder Stanley Kauer,  assisted  by  Elder  Clifford  Tuttle  of
Kansas City.

Interment was in the High Ridge cemetery here under the direction of the Johnson
Funeral Home.

The following  obituary  has  been  furnished  this  newspaper:  Elaine  Dorothy
Langville was born at Winter, Wis., Apr. 28, 1913, and died at Kansas City, Mo.,
Dec. 6, 1963, having attained the age of 50 years, seven months and eight  days.
She was the daughter of Clarence and Martha Langville.

She married to Lawrence Christenson on June 10, 1934, at Bruce, Wis.  They  made
their home at Stanberry, where he was employed at the Church of  God  Publishing
House. A daughter, Helen, was born to them here on June 20, 1936.

The family moved to  Marion,  Ia.,  in  January,  1944,  and  Elder  Christenson
pastored the church there for six months before moving to Rice Lake, Wis. Sister
Christenson, with her husband and daughter, lived there for two years  while  he
was pastor of the Church of God at  Chetek,  Wis.  The  family  moved  to  Cedar
Rapids, Ia., in 1946 and Sister Christenson aided her husband  in  his  work  as
pastor of the Marion, Ia., Church of God.

Due to the illness of Elder Christenson in 1952, the family moved  to  Stanberry
to the home of his parents. There Sister Christenson stayed at his side, nursing
him back to health. Following his recovery, Elder and  Sister  Christenson  were
again employed for a time at the publishing house here.

The family moved to High Point in 1957 and then to Farmville, N.C., where he was
pastor of the Church of God.

Elder and Sister Christenson in 1961 accepted the call to pastor the  Church  of
God at Kansas City, MO., where they had since remained. Sister  Christenson  had
always been very active in assisting her husband in the work of the  church  and
in the women's activities of the church. In addition, she has served  as  editor
of the young people's paper of the  church,  then  called  the  Christian  Youth
Herald and Gospel Call. Also for a time she edited  the  children's  paper,  the
Sabbath School Missionary.

In addition to her husband and daughter, Helen, she is survived by  her  mother,
Mrs. Martha Langville, of Winter, Wis., four brothers, Earl, Glen and Walter, of
Winter, and Lester of Loretta, Wis., and by one  sister,  Mrs.  Morris  Moon  of
Viroqua, Wis.

Sister Christenson was a faithful and devoted wife, a dedicated mother and  dear
sister in the faith. Her untimely passing leaves us with a feeling of loss,  but
also with the consolation of the example of a beautiful life lived for Christ.