Mary Ellen (Steinhauer) Christensen (1921 - 2019)

Died 14 Nov 2019 at age 98 in Johnson Creek, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States

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Biography

Mary Ellen (Steinhauer) Christensen was born July 4, 1921 and died November 14, 2019.

Known for her ability to organize and get things done, she served in many positions with quite a number of organizations including American Association of University Women, Saturday Club, Euterpe club, Wisconsin Federation of Music Clubs, Watertown Community Concerts, Watertown Women’s Golf league and the Watertown Historical Society. She assisted with the AARP Tax-Aide program, and volunteered for years at the Watertown Memorial Hospital in several capacities including being a board member for ten years.

Girl Scouts is an organization that benefited from her love of life and the willingness to share that joy through scouting. While in East Dubuque when her husband The Reverend Andrew Stanley Christensen was studying to become a Lutheran minister, she taught school and organized a Girl Scout troop raising funds to buy thirty Girl Scout uniforms. Her troop in Reedsburg, Wisconsin was led by Mary Ellen from fourth grade through twelfth grade. And, her Watertown troop co-led by Mrs. Maureen Ayers, was led from second grade through twelfth grade. With this last GS troop, she toured with seven scouts through Europe in 1967 including a visit to the Girl Scout Chalet in Adelboden, Switzerland. She then met her husband and children in Rome and went on to visit Israel for a month.

With her husband, Stan, and by herself she visited numerous countries in Europe as well as a visit to Tunisia, Casablanca, Mexico, one visit to India without her husband, a trip down the Amazon River, multiple trips to Costa Rica, a trip to New Zealand to reunite with Girl Guides met in Switzerland and to hike the Milford Sound Trek, and one to Nicaragua with her daughter Jan Rae Goecke. With her boys and husband, she caravanned in their Yellowstone Trailer and visited almost all fifty states.

Sources

• FAG # 209211091