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Show man V. Christensen, Salt Lake City; Margaret C. Jones and Calvin T. Christensen, Moses Lake, Wash., and Mrs. Adams of Pleasant Grove. They have 27 grandchildren and 8 greatgrandchildren. Friends and relatives are invited in-vited to attend an open house to be held at the Bonneville Ward Church Relief Society Room, 85 South 9th East, Pro-vo, Pro-vo, from 7 to 10 p.m. The family fam-ily requests no gifts. f. . ( : I v ;-v -Js Jit', ' j. MR. AND MRS. THOMAS CHRISTENSEN Provo Couple Plan Open House for 60th Wedding Anniversary June 1 Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Christensen Christen-sen of 647 East 4th South, Provo, Pro-vo, are celebrating their 60th Wedding Anniversary Tuesday, June 1. They are the parents of Mrs. Douglas (Mary) Adams of Pleasant Grove. The Christensens were married mar-ried in Gibbon, Nebraska, by an LDS Church missionary, Elder El-der W. W. Williams, of La-monia, La-monia, Idaho, and came to Utah as converts to the church. Mrs. Christensen was born in Gibbon, Nebr., Jan. 12, 1893 and is one of 15 children of Lawrence and Mary Vohland. She was educated in the schools there. Mr. Christensen was born Nov. 1, 1889 in Hays Kansas. One of nine children of Andrew and Margaret Christensen, he attended schools in Wiota and Hinton, Iowa. He attended Telegraph Tel-egraph School in Arkansas City Kansas in 1907 working his way through school. At the age of 19 he started working for the Union Pacific Railroad in Gibbon, Gib-bon, where the couple met. They came to Utah in 1917 & to Provo in 1925. They moved to Lynndyl and Cedar City and then returned to Provo, where Mr. Christensen worked at the Union Pacific office, and then at Geneva Steel Co., where he retired in 1960. He worked for Union Pacific for 52 years. They were married in the Salt Lake Temple in August, 1912, and have both been active ac-tive in the LDS Church thruout thru-out their lives. They are the parents of five children, Clifford E. Christensen Christen-sen of Phoenix, Arizona; Nor- |