This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/0k.2ADE/3145 Message Board Post: Violet Jean (Christensen) Bothwell April 29, 1927 - Aug. 30, 2006 posted with permission from: Logan Herald-Observer, Logan, IA 51546 Woodbine Twiner, Woodbine, IA 51579 09/06/2006 Violet Jean (Christensen) Bothwell, 79, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 30, 2006 at Burgess Health Center in Onawa. Funeral services were held Saturday, Sept. 2 at 10 a.m. at the Community of Christ Church in Pisgah. Violet was born April 29, 1927 to Marion and Velma (Coates) Christensen in Moorhead. She attended country school between Moorhead and Pisgah and graduated from Pisgah High School. While in school, Violet worked at the Miller Store in Pisgah. She attended a business school in Omaha following graduation. Violet married Thomas Eugene Bothwell Nov. 15, 1946. The couple farmed near Moorhead and then moved to a farm near Pisgah. Violet was a supervisor at Westmont Care Center in Logan for 17 years. Her husband Gene died January 9, 2002. Violet enjoyed spoiling her grandchildren and great grandchildren, cooking, gardening, and shopping. Besides her husband, Violet was preceded in death by a brother Maynard Christensen. Survivors include her three children, Tom Bothwell and his wife Peggy of Moorhead, Darla Ronk of Omaha, Neb., and Vicki and he husband Lonnie McHugh of Pisgah; seven grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; brother Vernon Christensen and his wife Phyllis of Moorhead; special friend Opal Pape of Moorhead and many other relatives and friends.