Hanson, Willa Dean Anderson (1915-2003)

HANSON, ANDERSON, HARDEN, LEVIS, JONES

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 2/17/2016 at 09:14:40

Daily Freeman Journal, Tuesday, October 28, 2003

Willa Dean Hanson, 88, Kamrar, died Saturday, Oct. 25, 2003 at Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the Community Church of Kamrar with Pastor Todd Jones to officiate. Burial will follow in the Homewood Cemetery at Ellsworth. Friends may call Wednesday evening from 6-8 p.m. at the Community Church of Kamrar. A memorial fund has been established for the Community Church Youth Ministries.

Willa Dean Anderson was born July 31, 1915 in Harris, Mo., to Carl and Edith Harden Anderson. She grew up in the Iowa Falls area, graduating from high school and Ellsworth Junior College in Iowa Falls. On Dec. 10, 1938, Willa married Curtis O. Hanson at the Lutheran parsonage in Brunswick, Mo. They farmed in Buckeye, Ellsworth and Blairsburg from 1944 to 1970 when they moved to Kamrar. Willa taught in rural schools, returning to school in 1966. She graduated cum laude from Drake University in 1970. Willa taught for many years in the Northeast Hamilton School District. She was a member of the Community Church of Kamrar, the Women's Fellowship and also taught Sunday School.

Willa is survived by three sons, Gary Curtis (Barbara) Hanson, Melbourne, Ark., Jerry Dean (Patricia) Hanson of Snohomish, Wash. and Brian Christian Hanson of Lonsdale, Minn.; seven grandchildren, Gary Curtis, Michael Scott, David Allen, Michael Christian, John Andrew, Kimberly Ann and Keeley Soo Lynn; and five great-grandchildren, Justin, Christopher, Michael, JC and Cody. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband in 1998, two sisters, Leola Levis and Lillian Jones, and four brothers, Fred, Clifford, Carl Jr., and Max Anderson.

Becker Funeral Home in Jewell was entrusted with arrangements.