{"id":40,"date":"2025-12-13T21:53:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T21:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/?page_id=40"},"modified":"2026-04-19T01:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T01:40:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gabe moved to Norfolk in 2003,\u00a0 I think, after finishing up at the College of St. Rose.<\/h2>\n

For the next 20 years he grew and sank deep roots in Norfolk, hatching a career with Pat Moore and raising two beautiful children, Anthony and Rosalie, with Kathleen, the love of his life.<\/p>\n

\"Gabe,

Gabe, Kathleen and Anthony 2014<\/p><\/div>\n

For those 20 years, from 500 miles away we knew, in only general terms, he enjoyed a level of\u00a0 success, work-wise. We knew he was active in the community in civic organizations like Kiwanis<\/a> , the Ghent Business Association<\/a> and the Ghent District Foundation<\/a>.\u00a0 We learned (only later – after he passed) to what extent or how active he actually was.<\/p>\n

When he came home to our place to visit with us and with our extended family he was always happy to be here -and his success in Norfolk was not something he spoke of very much.<\/p>\n

When he passed, we were floored <\/em>at the outpouring of love and respect coming from all corners. We became aware of the large number of people that expressed connection to him.<\/p>\n

It was a bit overwhelming to us -in a good way.\u00a0 We didn’t realize -from 500 miles away.<\/p>\n

Gabe truly touched a lot of people.<\/em><\/p>\n

The purpose in launching this website is to give those people somewhere to submit content that will help keep Gabe’s memory alive.<\/p>\n

We said above that Gabe touched a lot of people.\u00a0 The love of his life, Kathleen (Moore) Christensen, his wife of 10 years obviously played a big part in his life.<\/p>\n

There’s another person who played a big part in his life that we’d like to acknowledge.\u00a0 Patrick Moore of Norfolk, Va. was separately and at once Gabriel’s friend, confidant, business partner, mentor, and father-in-law.\u00a0 We shaped Gabe’s formative` years.\u00a0 It was Pat who built upon that foundation and helped shape the professional side of him -almost since his arrival in Norfolk in 2003.<\/em><\/p>\n

-JoAnne, Dave and Justin Christensen<\/p>\n

Updated January 19, 2026<\/p>\n

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Gabe moved to Norfolk in 2003,\u00a0 I think, after finishing up at the College of St. Rose. For the next 20 years he grew and sank deep roots in Norfolk, hatching a career with Pat Moore and raising two beautiful children, Anthony and Rosalie, with Kathleen, the love of his life. For those 20 years, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-40","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/40\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gabrielchristensen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}