Avis Marguerite Burgeson Christiansen (also known by the pen names of Avis Burgesson, Christian B. Anson and Constance B. Reid) (October 11, 1895 – January 14, 1985) was an American Christian hymnwriter.
She wrote the lyrics to "Blessed Redeemer" with Harry Dixon Loes writing the music.
[1] Avis Marguerite Burgeson was born in 1895 in Chicago, Illinois to a Christian family and wrote poems as a child.
She attended a secretarial school and then the evening school at the Moody Bible Institute where her husband, Ernest O. Christiansen, worked for almost forty years, eventually serving as vice president.
[2] Avis and Ernest Christiansen married in 1917 and had two daughters.