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Show Funeral Held For Chris Christensen , Funeral services were held at the City Cemetery Saturday at 2 p. m. for Christian J. Christensen, who died Friday of typhoid. Bishop A. L. Peterson was in charge. Music was furnished by a double mixed quartet; Arthur O. Neilson was the speaker. C. L. Stewart offered the opening prayer and Bishop William L. Shelley dedicated the grave. Mr. Christensen was the son of Jacob Ja-cob and Anna Marberg Christensen, Stalwart pioneers of the community, and was born in this city Febrauary !ll, 1874. While working in the Gorden Creek mine in Carbon counly he contracted typhoid. He came home but was unable un-able to resist the ravages of the dis-Icase. dis-Icase. Surviving are his aged mother and the following brothers and sisters: Hyrum Christensen. Mt. Pleasant; Henry Christensen. Fountain Green; Mrs. Thomas Thompson, Mt. Pleasant, Mrs. Perry Brady. Rigby, Idaho; also the following half brothers and sisters: Jens C. Christensen, Thos. M. Christensen. Chris-tensen. Mrs. Ernest McArthur, Mrs. William Shelley, Mt. Pleasant; Mrs. Charles Averctt, Ogden; Mrs. Albert Norman. Fairview; Mrs. Byron Whee-lock, Whee-lock, Mammoth, Utah. |