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Show LOIS CHRISTENSEN BOWEN Elected to 1947 1949 Lois Christensen was an interested spectator at both the Senate and the House while her husband Sherman Christensen was pursuing his legal education in Washington D.C. She listened to and watched the national prominent utah: from personalities Reed Senators Representatives Don Colton B. as well as the representatives H. William and King Frederick Loofborough. Smoot and and was born to William Jones and Dena Bjarnason Bowen at Spanish in there interested She grew up Fork, Utah on August 10 1905. athletics, dramatic art and dancing. In 1924 she graduated from Spanish Fork High School and that fall started training at Brigham Young University to be a teacher. Lois was pretty and charming with a bubbly, happy personality. In the spring of 1925 she was elected Lois r the by studentbody the campus. At for grammar the end as of one that of year the three most p opu l she had her teaching ar girls on certificate grades. During her third year she was asked to take a part in the school play. She was to learn the tango, and her partner was a young man from Manti, A. Sherman Christensen. Friendship became love and they were married on April 4, 1927 at Brigham City, Utah. That fall they moved to Washington D.C. where their first sone was born, Albert Kent. They remained there for five years until Sherm received his law degree and then they returned to Provo where they went into practice with his father. Lois first became active in politics. Sherm ran for Lois Attorney on the Republican ticket. put her baby in a and out Sherms literature door to door. daughter buggy passed In Provo, county She was a district worker, but soon was going to county and state conventions. She joined the Women's Republican Club and became its president for 1938 and 1939, at the same time serving on the Republican State Central Committee. 1940 and in Lois' for Sherm ran Congress political activity increased. They went through two runoff primaries and the election. He lost, but they gained many friends and a lot of experience but found themselves $2000 in debt. Sherm went to the Naval Air ten born third child was reunited Ra ti oning president In for 1'20 Service days in 1944 and settled in in worked and Board of the YWMIA, and then 1946 Lois twelve during World War II, and their left. The family was Provo, where Lois served on the the Soon she LDS church. was the 8th Ward Relief Society. after he filed for the House of Representatives. She had worked in the Republican Party, and she approached the years |
