Rexford Dewey Christensen, born in Blackfoot on June 3, 1924, died in Orofino on Dec. 29, 2012 of natural causes.
When he was almost a year old, his mother carried him a block down the street to visit her friend who had that day given birth to Edith Clark. Rex met her the day she was born, and would marry her 19 years later in 1944. They were married for 68 years.
At the end of World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a radio operator on a B-29. He worked for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for over 20 years and as a police chief for Amtrak in Los Angeles, CA for five, before retiring in 1982 to Blackfoot.
He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served with Edith in the New Jersey, Morristown Mission, and in the Idaho Falls Temple, and he served as Patriarch in the Blackfoot Idaho South Stake.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Rex was preceded in death by his parents, William Dewey and Elva Christensen; daughter, La Rae Call; grandson, Rick LeBaron, and great-grandson, Logan LeBaron.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Orofino Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with burial following at Riverside Cemetery in Orofino.
In lieu of flowers, you may send donations to a non-profit organization for Parkinson's disease research.
Clearwater Tribune August 15, 2013
When he was almost a year old, his mother carried him a block down the street to visit her friend who had that day given birth to Edith Clark. Rex met her the day she was born, and would marry her 19 years later in 1944. They were married for 68 years.
At the end of World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a radio operator on a B-29. He worked for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for over 20 years and as a police chief for Amtrak in Los Angeles, CA for five, before retiring in 1982 to Blackfoot.
He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served with Edith in the New Jersey, Morristown Mission, and in the Idaho Falls Temple, and he served as Patriarch in the Blackfoot Idaho South Stake.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Rex was preceded in death by his parents, William Dewey and Elva Christensen; daughter, La Rae Call; grandson, Rick LeBaron, and great-grandson, Logan LeBaron.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Orofino Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with burial following at Riverside Cemetery in Orofino.
In lieu of flowers, you may send donations to a non-profit organization for Parkinson's disease research.
Clearwater Tribune August 15, 2013
Rexford Dewey Christensen, born in Blackfoot on June 3, 1924, died in Orofino on Dec. 29, 2012 of natural causes.
When he was almost a year old, his mother carried him a block down the street to visit her friend who had that day given birth to Edith Clark. Rex met her the day she was born, and would marry her 19 years later in 1944. They were married for 68 years.
At the end of World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a radio operator on a B-29. He worked for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for over 20 years and as a police chief for Amtrak in Los Angeles, CA for five, before retiring in 1982 to Blackfoot.
He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served with Edith in the New Jersey, Morristown Mission, and in the Idaho Falls Temple, and he served as Patriarch in the Blackfoot Idaho South Stake.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Rex was preceded in death by his parents, William Dewey and Elva Christensen; daughter, La Rae Call; grandson, Rick LeBaron, and great-grandson, Logan LeBaron.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Orofino Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with burial following at Riverside Cemetery in Orofino.
In lieu of flowers, you may send donations to a non-profit organization for Parkinson's disease research.
Clearwater Tribune August 15, 2013
When he was almost a year old, his mother carried him a block down the street to visit her friend who had that day given birth to Edith Clark. Rex met her the day she was born, and would marry her 19 years later in 1944. They were married for 68 years.
At the end of World War II, he served in the Army Air Corps as a radio operator on a B-29. He worked for the U.S. Postal Inspection Service for over 20 years and as a police chief for Amtrak in Los Angeles, CA for five, before retiring in 1982 to Blackfoot.
He was an active member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He served with Edith in the New Jersey, Morristown Mission, and in the Idaho Falls Temple, and he served as Patriarch in the Blackfoot Idaho South Stake.
Survivors names omitted per findagrave policy.
Rex was preceded in death by his parents, William Dewey and Elva Christensen; daughter, La Rae Call; grandson, Rick LeBaron, and great-grandson, Logan LeBaron.
Funeral services were held Saturday at the Orofino Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with burial following at Riverside Cemetery in Orofino.
In lieu of flowers, you may send donations to a non-profit organization for Parkinson's disease research.
Clearwater Tribune August 15, 2013
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