[1] Marrying Dr. Arthur King Bennett in 1911, they relocated to Busrah, Arabia where the couple continued missionary work at the Lansing Memorial Hospital.

Additionally, when World War I limited her travel, Iverson began using the hospital specifically to treat wounded soldiers.

In 1893, at the age of 12, she immigrated to the United States with her family,[2] settling in South Dakota near a Sioux Indian Reservation.

[5] After setting out to Bahrein, to work at the Mason Memorial Hospital with the intention of providing care to women, Dr. Iverson connected with Arthur King Bennett, an individual she knew from the University of Michigan.

[7] After her marriage to Arthur King Bennett in 1911, Iverson and her husband went to Busrah, Arabia to conduct missionary work at the Lansing Memorial Hospital.

[3] While at Lansing, Iverson focused primarily on the medical treatment of women, however, she did not hesitate to collaborate with her husband on difficult cases.

[3] Due to the isolated nature of the hospital Iverson would often use her afternoons to conduct home visits but stopped doing so at the beginning of World War I.

In 1916, a group of Turkish soldiers, sick with malaria, were sent from a prisoner's camp to the hospital where Dr. Christine Iverson Bennett had worked.