Viola Pearl Hansen, 1915-1935

HANSEN

Posted By: Clay County IAGenWeb Coordinator (email)
Date: 10/17/2013 at 20:47:59

Viola Hansen, 19, Succumbs Saturday to Lengthy Illness

Miss Viola Pearl Hansen, 19, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Hansen, East Sixteenth street, died Saturday, March 2, 1935, following a lingering illness of pulmonary tuberculosis.

Miss Hansen was born at Dickens October 24, 1915, and lived there until three years ago when the family moved to Spencer. At Dickens she finished the first three years of high school. For two years she was not well enough to attend school, but, anxious to complete the high school course, she enrolled last fall with the senior class at the Spencer high school, and attended six weeks. She was obliged to relinquish her studies because of failing health.

Mourning her untimely death are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hansen, two sisters, Myrtle and Margaret, a brother, Harold, all of Spencer; a grandmother at Dickens, besides an uncle, aunts and other relatives and friends.

Miss Hansen served as president of the Riverton township 4-H club last year, and was much interested in the work of the organization. She joined the Grace M.E. church of Spencer in 1933.

Funeral services were held in the home Tuesday at 1:30 o'clock, followed by a service at the M.E. church at two o'clock. Dr. H.E. Hutchinson, pastor, delivered the funeral addres. Casket bearers were George Manning, Albert Pullen, Gail Piper, Wilfred Warburton, Orville Torbert and Norman Christensen. Interment was in the Dickens cemetery.

Source: Spencer News Herald, Spencer, Clay County, Iowa; March 8, 1935.