Adeline Georgiana (Lee) Christenson

Adeline Christenson, of Montevideo, died on Saturday, May 8, 2004 at her home in Homefront in Montevideo at the age of 77.

Funeral services will be conducted on Saturday, May 15, 2004 at 11:00 AM at Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Montevideo with Rev. Donald McKee officiating.  Interment will be in the Sunset Memorial Cemetery.

Visitation will be Friday afternoon and evening and with the family from 6:30 - 8:00 PM at the Anderson Funeral Home in Montevideo.

Adeline Georgiana (Lee) Christenson was born on February 22, 1927 in Normania Township of Yellow Medicine County, MN to Alfred and Emma (Holm) Lee.  She was baptized and confirmed at the Clarkfield Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church.  She attended school in Clarkfield, MN and spent her senior year and graduated from Montevideo High School in 1945. On October 5, 1947 she was united in marriage to Archie Christenson at the Big Bend Lutheran Parsonage.  They lived in Montevideo where she worked part-time at Sears before retiring.  She was a long-time member of Our Savior’s Lutheran Church and was active in its women’s groups and helped assemble Sentinels for a number of years.  She enjoyed quilting, old hymns, gardening, square dancing, camping, animals, and kidding around with her grandchildren.  She spent 4 years living at Brookside Manor and has been a resident of Homefront 1 for the past two years.

She is survived by two daughters: Diane Kepner and her husband Larry of Appleton, MN and Laurie Rigge and her husband Robert of Wood Lake, MN; seven grandchildren: Valerie Kepner and her husband David Ehrensperger, Christopher Kepner and his wife Carrie, Kyle Kepner and his wife Heather, Veronica Kepner, Nathan Rigge, Kristin Mead and her husband Chad, and Miranda Rigge; four great-grandchildren: Emily, Connor, Caleb, and Makenna; two brothers: L. Robert Lee and his wife Millie and Merald Lee and his wife Evonne, both of Montevideo, MN; one brother-in-law, Warren Meyers of St. Louis Park, MN; as well as by a number of nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; by her husband, Archie in 1984; and one sister, Evelyn “Toots” Meyers.