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Edna Zitting

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In the record

1899–1991

Edna Zitting

Edna Aleen Christensen Zitting, the widow of Charles F. Zitting, spoke at a general meeting at the Fischer home in Salt Lake City on 20 March 1960.

Social Security records give her name as Edna C. Zitting and Edna Christensen Zitting, born on 8 May 1899 in Elwood, Utah, the daughter of Hyrum C. Christensen and Eva L. Hunsaker.1 Elwood is in Box Elder County.

A compiled memorial for Charles Fredrick Zitting records that he married Edna Aleen Christensen on 13 August 1928 in Centerville, Utah, and that the marriage was performed by John W. Woolley.2 Charles Frederick Zitting died on 14 July 1954 in Salt Lake County, Utah.3 In the 1960 talk she speaks of the husband she had had, and of being with him after this life, which fits a widow speaking after that death.4

Public records of two of their sons name her as the mother: the 1957 Utah death certificate of Allen Christensen Zitting, and the 2023 obituary of Joseph Christensen Zitting, which says he was preceded in death by his parents, Charles Frederick Zitting and Edna Christensen Zitting.5

She died in December 1991. The Social Security Death Master File and a NUMIDENT death record dated 10 January 1992 give the death month as December 1991, with a last residence in ZIP code 84784, Hildale, Utah.1 An obituary ran in the Deseret News of Salt Lake City on 21 December 1991 under the names Edna Aleen Christensen and Aunt Edna Zitting.6

This page is about the 1960 Salt Lake speaker, identified as Charles Zitting’s widow. Some family compilations also list a daughter named Edna; the speaker in this recording talks as a widow about her late husband, and is not treated here as that daughter.

Appearances

1960

  1. TalkFischer home, Salt Lake CityFull meeting: General meeting, Salt Lake City · 2:18:056:12

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security NUMIDENT and Death Master File, entries for Edna C. Zitting, also recorded as Edna Christensen Zitting, Social Security number 528-72-0345 (Utah): born 8 May 1899 in Elwood; daughter of Hyrum C. Christensen (also recorded as Hurum C. Christensen) and Eva L. Hunsaker; died December 1991; last residence ZIP code 84784 (Hildale, Washington County, Utah); NUMIDENT death record dated 10 January 1992. Compiled listing at sortedbyname.com/letter_z/zitting/index_2.html.
  2. Find a Grave memorial 28287911, Charles Fredrick Zitting (30 March 1894–14 July 1954), Elysian Burial Gardens, Millcreek, Salt Lake County, Utah: married Edna Aleen Christensen on 13 August 1928 in Centerville, Utah, by John W. Woolley. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28287911/charles-fredrick-zitting.
  3. Utah death certificate 5402332, Charles Frederick Zitting, 14 July 1954, Sandy, Salt Lake County, Utah; series 81448, Utah State Archives. Indexed at FamilySearch, “Utah Death Certificates, 1904–1965.” See also the same Find a Grave memorial.
  4. Archive recording 1960-03-20-Edna Zitting-SLC-Fischer Home-General Meeting, catalog 16a04b310e81, 6:12. 20 March talk. A second copy is catalog e0faf2d45826. The text on the talk page is an automatic, unreviewed transcript; the recording is the source.
  5. Utah death certificate, Allen Christensen Zitting, 12 December 1957, Salt Lake City, naming father Charles F. Zitting; indexed at FamilySearch, “Utah Death Certificates, 1904–1965.” “Joseph Christensen Zitting,” Find a Grave memorial 262769482: born 11 June 1938, Salt Lake City, to Charles Frederick Zitting and Edna Christensen Zitting; died 16 December 2023, Cedar County, Missouri; preceded in death by his parents. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/262769482/joseph_christensen-zitting.
  6. “United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980–2014,” FamilySearch, entries citing the Deseret News (Salt Lake City), 21 December 1991, for Edna Aleen Christensen, also called Aunt Edna Zitting, and naming Charles Fredrick Zitting. Indexed from GenealogyBank. The newspaper date is the obituary date, not itself a death date; the Social Security record places the death in December 1991.