Christa Eliza Bastian
Christa Eliza Bastian was born on March
26, 1886 in Washington City, Washington County, Utah, just north of
St. George in the southwest corner of the state. She was the
youngest of twelve children of Jacob and Christina Bastian. She was
also the 31st of Jacob's 33 children from his three wives.
Christa's father was a farmer in Washington City. She was baptized
into the L.D.S. Church as an 8 year old on April 4, 1894. On
September 12, 1911, when she was 25 years old, she married Elmer
Carling in the St. George, Utah L.D.S. Temple. Christa and Elmer
made their home in Fillmore, Utah, where she was a homemaker and
Elmer was a police officer with the Utah Highway Patrol. Christa
lived the remaining 43 years of her life in Fillmore and died on
March 21, 1954. According to her death certificate, she suffered
from squamous cell carcinoma of the uterus for the last two years of
her life, and died from carcinomatosis, which she had for about six
months leading to her death.
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