Utah Historical Quarterly, Volume 45, Number 2, 1977

Page 61

Marva

Christensen

on her graduation

day in

1931.

The Nurse: Marva Christeitsen Hanchett of Sevier County BY PATRICIA H . S O R E N S O N

T

Telia and Lelia, ran most of the way to school on the cold morning of December 3, 1908. They could hardly wait to tell the exciting news to their friends. They h a d become aunts during HE

C H R I S T E N S E N GIRLS,

Mrs. Sorenson, a resident of Annabella, Utah, is a daughter of Marva Christensen Hanchett. This article was awarded honorable mention in the 1976 Utah Bicentennial Biographies Contest, amateur class, jointly sponsored by the Utah State Historical Society, the Salt Lake Tribune, and the Utah American Revolution Bicentennial Commission. Most of the information for the article was obtained from an interview with Mrs. Hanchett.


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