Hazel Genese Garrett [42432]

  General Notes:

Birth: Apr. 27, 1907
Worth County, Missouri, USA
Death: Jan. 31, 2000
Holdrege, Phelps County, Nebraska, USA

Daughter of Lafe & Ida (Barber) Garrett.

Obituary: Grand Island Independent (NE)- Thursday, February 3, 2000

HOLDREGE - Hazel Genese Christensen, 92, of Holdrege, formerly of Grand Island, died Monday, Jan. 31, 2000, at her home in Holdrege.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at the Grand Island City Cemetery. The Rev. Jim Keyser will officiate.

There will be no visitation.

The Nelson-Harris Funeral Home of Holdrege is in charge of arrangements.

She married Thomas Jefferson Bennet in St. Joseph, Mo. on May 12, 1928. They lived in southeastern Nebraska. In 1947, they moved to Grand Island. Mr. Bennet died in 1962.

On Jun 1, 1964, she married Carl Christensen in Grand Island. They lived on a farm near Boelus until Mr. Christensen's retirement in 1966. At this time they
moved to Grand Island. Mrs. Christensen moved to Holdrege in 1992, where she lived until her death.

She was a member of Trinity United Methodist Church in Grand Island and the O.E.S., receiving her 50-year pin last year. She also was a past member of the American Legion Auxiliary of Boelus.

Survivors include her daughter, Genese Munn of Grand Island, and two grandsons, and seven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husbands, one sister, Maudie Mobley, and five brothers, Charlie, Cecil, Ralph, Claude, and Emmett Garrett.

Hazel married Carl Christensen [42427] [MRIN: 15263], son of Niels Christensen [41807] and Maren Petersen [41808], on 1 Jun 1964 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska, United States. (Carl Christensen [42427] was born on 26 Oct 1906 in Boelus, Howard County, Nebraska, United States, died on 28 Jan 1989 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska, United States and was buried in 1989 in Grand Island, Hall County, Nebraska, United States.)