Services were Monday, October 9 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church for Esther A. Christensen, 97, who died at the Indian Hills Care Center October 6, 1995 after a brief illness. Rev. Krishen A. Persuad officiated. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Esther A. Christensen was born April 26, 1898 in Menahga, Minnesota to Neils and Augusta Rasmussen Hansen. She grew up near Sioux City and attended Sioux City schools. She attended Dana Junior College in Blair for a year.

She married Louis C. Christensen (he attended Hewitt School, District 17, in Washington County) October 24, 1923 in Sioux City. They farmed in Plymouth County, Iowa until moving to Merrill, Iowa in 1971.

She joined Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in 1907 and was a charter member. She was a Sunday School teacher and sang in the church choir. She was also a member of the Dorcas Society of the church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, February 28, 1978 in Akron, Ohio; three brothers, Harold, Viggo and Einar; a sister Florence Peterson and two great-grandchildren.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Leon and Cathy of Albuquerque, New Mexico; two daughters and sons-in-law, Darlene and Allyn Holtz and Juanita and Clayton McLagan, all of Sioux City; 12 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; four great-great-grandchildren, three step-great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Minnie Hansen of Hinton, Iowa, and many nieces and nephews.