Kareleen Nmn (Southwick) Christensen (1949 - 2012)

Kareleen's immediate relatives including parents, siblings, partnerships and children in the Christensen family tree.

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Kareleen's Family

Dale C Southwick

Aethea (Johnson) Southwick

LuDale Nmn (Southwick) Rose Kareleen Nmn (Southwick) Christensen

Teela Nmn (Southwick) Sorensen Jess William Southwick

Parents:

Dale C Southwick

Apr 20, 1925 - Jul 15, 2013

Aethea (Johnson) Southwick

May 10, 1929 - Unknown

Siblings:

Teela Nmn (Southwick) Sorensen

May 12, 1954 - Unknown

LuDale Nmn (Southwick) Rose

Mar 24, 1948 - Unknown

Jess William Southwick

Apr 24, 1958 - Unknown

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In 1949, in the year that Kareleen Nmn (Southwick) Christensen was born, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon."

In 1960, when she was merely 11 years old, on May 1st, an American CIA U-2 spy plane, piloted by Francis Gary Powers, was shot down by a surface-to-air missile over the Soviet Union. Powers ejected and survived but was captured. The U.S. claimed that the U-2 was a "weather plane" but Powers was convicted in the Soviet Union of espionage. He was released in 1962 after 1 year, 9 months and 10 days in prison.

In 1979, when she was 30 years old, on November 4th, Iranian militant students seized the US embassy in Teheran and held 52 American citizens and diplomats hostage for 444 days. They were released at the end of the inauguration speech of the newly elected Ronald Reagan.

In 1981, by the time she was 32 years old, on January 20th, Ronald Reagan became the 40th President of the United States. He ran against the incumbent, Jimmy Carter, and won 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0%.

In 1992, Kareleen was 43 years old when in April, Bosnia-Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia. The newly created Bosnian Serb army then began a campaign against Muslim Bosniaks and Bosnian Croats - killing, raping, torturing, beating and robbing - and resulting in the deaths of over 100,000.