Born, 4th child, in Valentine, Nebraska to Clara and Martin Frederick Christensen, Genevieve attended the local schools and in fall of 1917, she started working in Lincoln Nebraska Supreme Court for Chief Justice Andrew Morrissey who knew her as a child. She attended the Fremont Business College and was working for the Katz Construction Co. in Omaha at time of her marriage to Grant Gilfry in December 27, 1918. (Narrative of Gilfry family provided by Guen Gilfry States, 1994). She met Grant on a double date, Grant (home on sick leave from Camp Cody) was dating her sister Marie. Grant called her the next day for a date. It was a whirlwind affair and they essentially eloped. They were married by a justice of the peace, to their parent's surprise, and perhaps their own. Grant returned to Camp Cody, Deming N.M., and she later joined him there, working for the Camp adjutant as a secretary. In late fall, she returned to the family home in Valentine where she had their first and only child, Guenevere Alese, January 7, 1919. Grant visited her (he was no longer in the service) in May 1920 at a time when she was deathly ill. The Catholic priest refused to let him see her as he was administering last rites. Grant was very upset at the Catholic church and when she recovered he left her and later they divorced (reasons purportedly being his inability to accept family obligations). Abandoned at the age of 23 with an 18 month old child, she sought work, leaving the baby with others, even considering at one time giving her up to an orphanage for adoption. On further reflection she decided to leave Guen with the Denning family who had three children, Anna , Alice, and Walter. When that arrangement became untenable, she found a housekeeper job with the Beadle family on a ranch one mile south of Wahoo, NE. Mr. Beadle was a widower with two teenagers, Ruth and George. He proposed marriage to her, a marriage of convenience as she saw it, so she left in the spring of 1923, taking a course in Cosmetology in Omaha, and leaving Guen with her long-time friend, "grandmother" Escovits of Crawford NE. She set up a beauty shop in Wahoo NE. For 1 1/2 years she operated with shop, during which time, Grant had contacted her and convinced her to remarry him. (both the divorce and marriage records need to be checked). They were reunited in the Fall of 1924, in Horton, Kansas where Grant had a job as foreman of the carpenters shop for the Rhode Island Railroad. They later bought a house next to the railroad where Grant raised chickens. For several years Genevieve served head of the Women's auxillary of the American Legion Post of which Grant was commander. The Great Depression hit in 1929, and in April 1930 Grant lost his job. He found work in Sheridan, WY through Genevieve's half- Aunt, Ester White Penoiter. They moved the chickens, a pig, and all belongings in a boxcar to Sheridan, where they purchased a chicken farm on the city outskirts. They named the farm, "The Mountain View Poultry Farm". Genevieve had some fancy family dinnerware and silverware, so she started a restaurant in their home, cooking meals of chicken. Grant worked on some engineering projects for the city, developing the water delivery system. They took an opportunity to prove up on an abandoned homestead above Story, WY and purchase a very small ranch near Buffalo in 1932. It was difficult to make a living on the ranch so she got an appartment in Buffalo and took a job with the WPA as a social worker. Grant applied for a job as civil engineer in Cheyenne which he got in 1940, and Genevieve was employed as a civilian stenographer-clerk until June 25, 1946, for reasons of impaired eyesight. They spent the next 15 years there living at 822 West 2nd Ave. She worked for a time in the statehouse as a secretary. She attended summer writing workshop courses at the Univ. of Wyomin. and published her first novel, The Big Storm, in 1952. She took up landscape painting in the summer of 1951 and was a member of the Cheyenne Artists Guild. She won a blue ribbon for a mountain landscape in the State Fair. She published her second novel in 1977, Nothing to Fear.