Patricia Ann Hanson (1928-2008)

HANSON, PETERSON, STINSON, BLYTHE, MERCER, CARON, RICHARDSON, GRATTAN, MCFALL, CROSSON, BRUMMETT

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 1/11/2008 at 07:07:34

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, January 10, 2008.

Sept. 28, 1928-Jan. 8, 2008

Patricia Ann Hanson, 79, of Roland, died Tuesday, Jan. 8, at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Jan. 11, at Bergen Lutheran Church. Burial will be in Danish Lutheran Cemetery in Cloud County, Kan., followed by a memorial service Saturday, Jan. 12, at Ada Lutheran Church of Peace Lutheran Parish.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 tonight at Bergen Lutheran Church in Roland.

Patricia Ann Peterson was born Sept. 28, 1928, in Concordia, Kan., the third child of Frank Ashley and Eunice Julia (Stinson) Peterson. She was baptized Jan. 9, 1938, at the Baptist church in Concordia, Kan. She was a longtime member of Danish Lutheran Church in Cloud County, Kan., and Ada Lutheran Church of Peace Lutheran Parish. Upon moving to Iowa, she and Don became active members of Bergen Lutheran Church.

She married Donald Hanson Sept. 4, 1949, in Concordia, Kan. They farmed near Jamestown from 1949 to 2001.

She completed a bachelor's degree with honors at Ottawa University in 1949, and later earned a master's degree in education from Kansas State University. She became a teacher at Concordia, Kan., schools, where she taught history and social sciences for 31 years. She also served as a leader in charitable organizations, including P.E.O., A.A.U.W., the F. B. Mission and Eastern Star, for which she served as chaplain and as worthy grand matron for the state of Kansas.

She is survived by her husband, Donald, and their four children, eight grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. They are son, Dr. Louis Hanson and Julie Tate, of Durham, Maine, granddaughter, Elizabeth Blythe, great-grandchildren, Lucy and Tuck Mercer, grandsons, Andrew Hanson and Michael Caron; daughter, Dr. Rebecca Hanson Richardson and Harry Richardson, of Shrewsbury, Mass., grandchildren, Nathan Richardson and Elizabeth Grattan-Richardson; daughter, the Rev. Rachael Hanson and Dennis McFall, of Roland, granddaughters, Katherine Patricia McFall, Christina Julia McFall and Anna Sarah McFall; and daughter, Sr. Aemilianie of the Holy Monastery of the Twelve Apostles in Karditsa, Greece.

She is also survived by two sisters, Frances Crosson, of Minneapolis, Kan., and Martha Brummett and husband, Richard, of Leawood, Kan.

She was preceded in death by one granddaughter, Amy Leigh Richardson; one brother, Frank Ashley Peterson Jr.; and her mother and father.

Memorials may be designated for Danish Lutheran Cemetery or Bergen Lutheran Church.

Soderstrum Funeral Home in Roland is in charge of arrangements.

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