HANSON, Everett E.

HANSON, HELM, ANDERSON, CARVER, LOLLIS

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/4/2013 at 10:34:04

Everett E. Hanson, 91, died Saturday, April 16, 2011 at Good Shepherd Health
Center, Mason City, Iowa. A funeral service will be held Wednesday, April 20,
1:30 p.m., at Zion Lutheran Church, 112 N. 4th St., Clear Lake, with the Rev.
Dean Hess officiating. Interment will be at the Clear Lake Cemetery. Military
Honors will be provided by the Clear Lake V.F.W. Memorials may be given to the
Everett E. Hanson Memorial Fund.

Everett was born Oct. 22, 1919 in Mason City, the son of Ole Christian and
Hattie Myrtle (Helm) Hansen. He graduated from Mason City High School in 1938.
He worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1938 – 1939. He enlisted in
the U.S. Army in 1942 and fought in the Battle of the Bulge. He was taken
prisoner of war for four months. He was liberated on April 12, 1945. He was
honorably discharged November 1945.

Everett married Lois Maxine Anderson on June 11, 1944 at Zion Lutheran Church,
Clear Lake. Following his military service they lived in Garner, Iowa where he
worked for the lumber yard. For a year, he lived in Thule, Greenland where he
worked construction at the U.S. Army base. In 1955 they moved back to Clear
Lake to be closer to family. He worked as a route salesman for Highland Potato
Chips Co. until his retirement in 1980. He managed a storage warehouse at
Orlando, Fla. and later moved back to the Mason City area.

Everett was an avid supporter of the D.A.V., lifetime Clear Lake V.F.W. member,
former member of the Elks Lodge and Moose Lodge in Mason City. He loved
golfing, fishing, collecting baseball caps, and while in the nursing home, he
especially loved spending time with his family and visiting with the staff. He
was a member of Zion Lutheran Church.

Everett is survived by three children, Douglas Hanson and his wife, Linda, Mason
City, Pam Craver and her husband, Marv, Robins, Iowa and LuAnn Lollis and her
husband, Pat, Mesa, Az; eight grandchildren, Jana (Joe) Graf, Leslie (Tony)
Kach, Jaci (Lance) Sullivan, Joe Siems, Jill (Jason) Kreimeyer, Tyler Lollis,
Lindsey Lollis and Toby Schooley; and eight great-grandchildren, AJ and Lauren
Kach, Mallory and Hayden Sullivan, Addison and Aubree Kreimeyer, and Tod and
Tori Schooley.

Everett is preceded in death by his parents; wife, Lois; sister, Ora Daly;
brother, Leonard Hanson and infant brother, Roy Roger Hanson.