Uldene MUELLER CHRISTENBERRY

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Richmond, Indiana.---

Uldene Christenberry, age 77, of Richmond, died Sunday, July 24, 2005, at Friends Fellowship Community.

• Uldene was a blessing and true friend to many. She will be sadly missed by her family and friends.

• She was born feb. 19, 1928, In Indianapolis, Ind, To Raymond D. and Leona Schlangen Christenberry ("error: she was the biological daughter of Albert J Mueller and Leona Schlangen Mueller, and later had been adopted"). She came to Richmond from Brownstown in 1955.

• Uldene graduated from Ben Davies High School in 1946; earned a B.S. degree from Butler University in 1950; a master's degree from Indiana University in 1955 and a counseling degree from Ball State University in 1960. She retired from Teaching in 1988 with 38 years in education. She taught at Liberty, Brownstown and Richmond Community Schools with 20 years as a middle school counselor.

• Uldene was a charter member of Central Christian Church; a member of Altrusa and at one time was Atrusa Woman of the Year; A.A.U.W; Order of Eastern Star Chapter 513 (Bridgeport, Ind); and National Education Association. She was the first camp director of Kiwanis Camp fpr Special Children (served in this position for 13 years); served as a volunteer for the Heart Association and the Cancer Society and served as a Gray Lady at Reid Hospital.

• Survivors include several cousins, including Thelma Frayley of Ocala, Fla.

• Funeral Service for Uldene R. Christenberry will be at 10.00 am Wednesday, July 27, 2005, at Doan & Mills Funeral Home, 790 National Road W, Richmond, Ind. Rev. Gene Dulin will officiate. Burial will be in Lincoln Memorial Gardens in Lebanon, Ind, with a graveside service at 2 p.m.. Friends may call Tuesday, 26, 2005, at Doan & Mills Funeral Home from 4-8 p.m.

• Memorial contributions may be made to Altrusa Scholarship Fund, c/o Gayle Claywell, 493 Hampton Drive, Richmond, IN 47374.

Shortly before her death I called her by phone from Germany. I asked her about my Muellers, especially about Albert J Mueller, a cousin of my father Sebastian. She told me that she did not know nothing about him and that her surname always had been Christenberry. So I thought that she was not my second cousin of first degree, but she is. The knowledge about that I got only in june 2013. I am sad that we did not know about the relationship when she was still alive. She must have been a very interesting woman.

Rose Mueller Schiller

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