Alma Faye Gabel Christiansen

Alma Faye Burkhart Christiansen
BIRTH
22 Nov 1938
Kentucky, USA
DEATH
1 Aug 2004 (aged 65)
Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio, USA
BURIAL
Cremated
MEMORIAL ID
231793569 · View Source
MEMORIAL
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Sandusky, Ohio -- Alma Faye Burkhart Christiansen, 65, Sandusky, died Sunday, Aug. 1, 2004, at her home with her family by her side. She was born Nov. 22, 1938, in Kentucky.

She received a General Educational Development certificate in 1976 while living in Topeka. She was a homemaker and a caregiver to many. She enjoyed the arts, particularly antiques and collectibles. She loved quilting, crocheting, fishing and playing cards; but most of all, spending time with her family. She took pride in living in the former Memorial Hospital, and hearing the history and stories that surrounded it.

She is survived by her daughter, Rose Cole, Sandusky; four sons, Danny Gabel, and his wife, Tammy, Mayetta, Kan., Tommy Gabel, and his wife, Kelli, Topeka, and Michael and Jeff Christiansen, both of Sandusky; a stepson, Greg Christiansen, Kansas City, Kan.; 17 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; four sisters, Carolyn Osburn, and her husband, Ray, Monroeville, Ohio, and Patricia Cesa, Mary Sorrell, and her husband, Steven, and Rachel Jane Harmon, and her husband, Derrick, all of Sandusky; two brothers, Charles Burkhart, and his wife, Hazel, Toledo, Ohio, and Danny Burkhart, and his wife, Pat, Crystal Rock, Ohio; and numerous nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Roger D. Christiansen, on Jan. 15, 2002; a daughter, Mary Lou, in infancy; her parents, John C. and Minnie Gregory Burkhart; two grandsons, Timothy Gabel, in 2001, and Briar Gabel in infancy; two sisters, Sandra Burkhart and Edith Shellhammer; and a son-in-law, Jim Cole.

Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. today at Groff Funeral Home, 1607 E. Perkins Ave., Sandusky, with the Rev. B. R. Hatfield of Venice Road Baptist Church officiating. Memorial contributions, if desired, may be made to Stein Hospice Service Inc., or to the American Diabetes Association.

Topeka Capital-Journal, Aug. 4, 2004

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1st-Married: Edwin Gabel, about 1956
Family Members
Parents
John C. Burkhart
1915–1956

Minnie Gregory Burkhart
1912–2001

Spouse

Edwin Paul "Red" Gabel
1933–2006 (m. 1956)

Siblings

Charles Junior Burkhart
1933–2009

Edith Mae "Edie" Burkhart Shellhammer
1935–2004

Children

Thomas Edward Gabel
1961–2012

Mary Lou Gabel
1963–1963

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