Moses Christensen (Birth – April 26, 1876)

A former Malad resident, Moses Christensen, age 93, died Sunday evening (12 October 1969) at Logan.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday and burial followed at the Newton, Utah cemetery.

Mr. Christensen was Idaho State Representative from Oneida County in 1941, served many years on the Oneida School Board and was bishop of the Malad LDS Second Ward. He served as county chairman of the influenza relief committee during the 1917-18 epidemic that claimed so many lives. In 1945 he and his wife moved to Logan where they have resided during the winters since then. Summer months were spent in the Bancroft-Soda Springs areas where Mr. Christensen had acquired one of the largest wheat and livestock operations in Idaho.

Born April 26, 1876 at Newton, he spent his early life there and attended Utah State University, Logan. He worked for the U. S. Indian Service as an agricultural agent at the Umatilla Indian Reservation near Pendleton, Oregon for three years and then was transferred to the U. S. Forest Service. He worked with this organization for 22 years, some of the time at Malad.

On Nov. 21, 1900, he married Mary Ann Cooley who survives him.

Also surviving are a son, M. Stanley Christensen, Salt Lake City; two daughters, Mrs. O. W. (Constance) Hyde, Logan; Mrs. John (Carol) Laudenberger, Westfield, N. J.; eight grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren. A daughter, Mariam, preceded him in death.