Hansen, Ina (1909-2016)
HANSEN, HADENFELDT, JOHNSTON, NEWTON, DICKERSON
Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 1/23/2017 at 13:43:42
Ina Hansen
February 25, 1909 - December 5, 2016Ina Hansen, age 107, of North Glenn, Colorado, formerly of Storm Lake, Iowa, died on Monday, December 5, 2016, in North Glenn.
Ina Hansen, née Nichols, was born on February 25, 1909, to A.Y. and Bessie Nichols in Iowa. She earned a Teaching Certificate from Buena Vista College in 1928 and taught at a rural school near Lake Park, Iowa.
Ina married Leonard G. Hadenfeldt in August, 1930, and had one daughter, Beverly Ann, born in October of 1931. After she and Leonard divorced in 1938, she raised her daughter as a single mother from that time on, not a common practice in those days. While raising Beverly, she, also, attended the University of Iowa at Ames [sic] and graduated from there with a B.S. in Home Management in December, 1941. Next, she moved to Missouri to take a job with the adult education extension service at the University of Missouri. She traveled the state teaching housewives cooking and sewing.
While working in Missouri, she met and married Ray Johnston, but then, she had to leave her job with the state because Missouri did not want a married woman in that position. She moved onto a farm near Altamont, Missouri, with her new husband and took a part-time job teaching Home Economics in Gallatin, Missouri. After Ray passed in 1963, she continued working as a teacher at Gallatin and Eldon in Southern Missouri until she retired.
Then, she moved back to Storm Lake, Iowa, to help her parents as they grew older: her dad lived to 101 and her Mom to 105. In Storm Lake, she met and married Herbert A. Hansen in the early 1980s. After Herb’s passing in 1990, she moved into the house her father had built and her parents had lived in. She stayed there until she moved into a brand new assisted living facility, Lake Pointe Villa, in Storm Lake. In the late 1990s, however, she moved to Colorado to be near her daughter and family. She lived the remainder of her life there at the Sunny Acres assisted living facility.
Near the end of her long life, she was featured on the Channel 9 News of Denver, Colorado, as the oldest voter in Colorado for the 2016 election. A charming interview, it illustrates just how her sharp mind had remained. An outgoing woman, she had made many friends during her lifetime, most of whom she outlived. Indeed, she continued to charm people right up to her last moments.
She is survived by her daughter Beverly Newton; three grandsons: Robert, Stephen, and Richard Dickerson; and two great grandsons, Samuel and Elias Dickerson.
Funeral services will be held on Thursday, December 15, 2016, at 1:30 p.m. at the Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake. Burial will follow in the Buena Vista Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be for one hour before the service at the funeral home. The Fratzke & Jensen Funeral Home in Storm Lake is overseeing the arrangements.
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