Hansen, Sophia Christine died 1992

HANSEN, CHRISTIANSEN

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/23/2010 at 22:52:46

Sophia Christine Hansen, 85, of Hendricks, Minn., a Plymouth County native and former Westfield resident, died Thursday, Feb. 6, at a nursing home in Hendricks.

Services were Monday at Christ Lutheran church in Hendricks. Burial was in the city cemetery, under direction of the Burk Funeral Home, in Hendricks.

Sophia C. Hansen was born in Westfield, Iowa, the daughter of George E. and Hansena (Christiansen) Hansen. She was raised and attended the Westfield public school. She worked in Sioux City, Iowa at a young age. She married Henning Hansen June 16, 1926 at Brookings, S.D. They farmed near Brookings until 1965 when they retired and moved to Hendricks.

Survivors include nine children, Henning Hanser Flkton,- S.D.. Richard of Romeo, Mich., Dale Hansen, Fargo, N.D., Bonnie Gackstetter, Lake Benton, Dorothy Even, Windom, Minn., Pearl Curry of South Sioux City, Neb., Sena Mathison, Sioux Falls, S.D., Patty Buseth, Hendricks, Minn., Diane Bradley, Woodbury, Minn.; a brother,
William Hummel, Lincoln, Neb.; four sisters, Esther Carlson, Sioux City, Anne Schultz, Kalispell, Mont., Edith Secor, of Chico, Calif., Helen Eislie, Rosland, Neb.; 32 grand-children; 46 great-grandchildren; and nine great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; a sister; a brother, Clarence Hummel; two grandsons; and a great-grandson. Attending the funeral were Lucille and Jerry Bertrand, of Akron.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, February 13, 1992
Akron, Iowa