Tilda Christena Christenson Wasden

Tilda Christena Christenson Wasden

GRAVE LOCATION - Block C Lot 4 Grave 6

on the same stone as James Brooks Wasden
STONE SAYS married 9 Mar 1898


Tilda Christensen Wasden
Born 21 Jan 1871, Gunnison, Sanpete, Utah
Daughter of John Christensen & Christena Aakeson

Md James Brooks Wasden, 9 Mar 1898, Manti, Sanpete, Utah
Died 3 Jul 1962, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming
Buried 5 Jul, Thursday

Wasden Funeral Held in Lovell

Funeral services for Tilda C. Wasden, early day pioneer of the Big Horn Basin, were held Thursday, July 5, at 10 a.m. in the LDS Stake House with Bishop Scott M. Welch officiating.

Ford and Arthur Welch sang "One Fleeting Hour" and the invocation was offered by Bishop Ernest Jensen of Byron. Mrs. Scott M. Welch read the obituary and Mrs. Phil Reasch sang "The King of Love My Shepherd Is," Bishop Rupert Kocherhans gave the sermon and the Third Ward Singing Mothers sang "I Know That My Redeemer Lives," the benediction was given by Floyd Allred.

Six grandsons were the pallbearers, Grant Wasden, Calvin Johnson, Stephen Blood, Verne House, Philip Wasden and Julian Sorensen.

Interment was in the Penrose cemetery under the direction of Haskell Funeral Home.

Tilda C. Christenson Wasden was born Jan. 21, 1871 in Gunnison, Sanpete County, Utah, the daughter of John and Christena Adeson Christenson. She came to Wyoming in 1904.

She first attended school at the age of four years. Eventually she attended Snow College, Ephriam, Utah and taught one year. She also worked as piece worker in an overall factory and as cook and house keeper in Salt Lake City to help support her brother who was on a LDS mission.

Mrs. Wasden was a member of the LDS church and she participated actively in the church, even in her later years. She worked in all the church auxiliary organizations in many capacities, and she filled a mission call to the Manti temple, Manti, Utah from 1896 to 1898.

Tilda Christenson and James B. Wasden were married in Manti Mar. 9, 1898. In December, 1904 the family moved to the Big Horn Basin to make their home, first to Byron and six months later to a new agricultural development later named Penrose, where they homesteaded on new uncultivated land. As post office, church and school came to the little farming community, the Wasdens were foremost in actively supporting these projects. Mrs. Wasden helped with the sick and assisted at over fifty births in the community since doctors were almost unknown in that locality.

Except for two years, 1931-1932 spent in Utah, the family lived in Penrose until 1955 when Mr. and Mrs. Wasden moved to Lovell.

She passed away Tuesday, July 3 at the age of 91 years, five months and 12 days.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, David of Cody and Brooks of Medford, Ore.; four daughters, Mrs. Alvin Johnson of Lpvell, Mrs. Russell Blood of Garland, Mrs. Jospeh Lohoff of Sheridan and Mrs. Norman Sorensen of Lovell; 35 grandchildren; 70 great grandchilden and one great grandchild. One son, James Orvil, preceded her in death.

James Brooks and Tilda Christina Monument Penrose Cemetery



Penrose Cemetery Penrose , Big Horn, Wyoming

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James Brooks Wasden

James Brooks Wasden

GRAVE LOCATION - Block C Lot 4 Grave 5


on the same stone as Tilda Christina Wasden
STONE SAYS married 9 Mar 1898

James Brooks Wasden
Born 16 July 1870, Scipio, Millard, Utah
Son of John Brooks Wasden & Sophia Olsen
Md Tilda Christensen, 9 Mar 1898, Manti, Sanpete, Utah
Died 25 Feb 1966, Lovell, Big Horn, Wyoming (Lovell Nurseing Home)
Buried 1 Mar 1966

James B. Wasden Services Held

Funeral services were held Tuesday morning for James Brooks Wasden, 95, retired Penrose farmer, in the Gold Chapel of the Big Horn Stake Center. Bishop Scott Welch conducted the program which opened with a vocal solo "O Divine Redeemer" sung by Mrs. Phil Reasch and accompanied by Carma Allred. Arthur Asay gave the invocation and Dwight Blood, a grandson, gave the obiturary. Josephine Sorenson played an organ solo which was followed by the sermon given by Ernest Jensen of Byron.

The Closing song was sung by Art, Ford, Klaes and Scott Welch. Their selection was "Jesus, My Savior True." The benediction was pronounced by Orin Jones. Interment was held in the Lovell Cemetery under the direction of Haskell Funeral Home. Max Lowe of Ten Sleep decidcated the grave. Mr. Wasden died Friday in the nursing wing of North Big Horn hospital. Where he had been a patient for three and a half years. Although he farmed for many years in Penrose and served as Bishop of the Penrose Ward for 13 years, he moved to Lovell in 1955.

Mr. Wasden served as a teamster and later construction foreman on some of the first roads that were built in Yellowstone Park. An early pioneer in the area, he first heard of the Big Horn Basin from Buffalo Billl Cody whom he met while he was working on the railroad in Sheridan.

Col. Cody described the opportunities to Mr. Wasden, drawing him a map of this country and telling him of the two routes to the Yellowstone Park, over "Dead Indian hill into Cooke City and up the North Fork of the Stinking Water."

Hightlights of Mr. Wasden's work in the Park were the dedication of the arch at the Gardiner entrance when he was privileged to meet and shake hands with President Theodore Roosevelt, and construction of the Chittenden bridge in 1903.

Mr. Wasden was an active member of the LDS church and had filled a mission in his youth. He was married to Tilda Christensen in the Manti LDS temple Mar. 9, 1898. His parents were Mr. and Mrs John Brooks Wasden of Scipio, Utah.

Survivors include two sons, David of Cody and Brooks of Medford, Ore.; four daughters Mrs. Alvin Johnson of Lovell, Mrs. Russell Blood of Garland, Mrs. Elna House of Cody and Mrs. Norman Sorensen of Lovell; 35 grandchildren, 92 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren.

James Brooks Wasden, age 95, died Friday in the nursing wing of the North Big Horn hospital, where he had been a resident for three and a half years. He was a former resident of Penrose.

Mr. Wasden was born July 6, 1870, at Scipio, Utah, the son of Mr. and Mrs. John Brooks Wasden. His earlier years were spent in Gunnison, Colo. On Mar. 9, 1898, he married Tilda Christensen in Manti, Utah.

Interment was in the Penrose Cemetery.


James Brooks and Tilda Christina Wasden Monument



Penrose Cemetery Penrose, Big Horn, Wyoming

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Source:
http://personal.tctwest.net/~gonefishin/penrose/pafn01.htm#105