Biography

Elise Ann Fellows, known as Ann, was born on October 5, 1936 in Alice, Texas to Frances and Kenneth Fellows. After graduating from San Jacinto High School in Houston, Texas in 1954, she went to the State University of Iowa. She was a member of Alpha Delta Pi and graduated in 1958 with a degree in Political Science. She moved to New York City soon after and worked as a typist and copy desk clerk. In 1960, she participated in Operation Crossroads Africa in Sierra Leone improving roads. After that summer Fellows moved to Indiana to work as a journalist and public relations coordinator at the Lake County Public Library. And in 1968 she chose to spend two years in Australia. In 1969 she married John Christenson with her sister Carol officiating. They lived in Rockledge, Florida where John worked as a librarian for the Brevard County Federated Library System. Nathaniel Odin Christenson was born in 1970 to the couple followed two years later by Kate Christenson. In 1974 the family moved to Good Thunder, Minnesota. Ann Fellows Christenson continued to work as a free-lance writer while her husband worked as a librarian and as the town mayor. In 2005 the retired couple moved to Iowa City, Iowa to be closer to their adult children. There they participated in social movements such as the Rally to Restore Sanity in 2010. Ann Fellows joined 100 Grannies, a non-profit organization that works towards green energy and sustainability.

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