Durwin Melford Hanson (1915-2008)
HANSON, KENNARD, HAGGE, WOODLEY, KETELSEN, PACE
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 3/9/2008 at 10:59:43
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Sunday, March 9, 2008.
Dec. 29, 1915-March 3, 2008
Durwin Melford Hanson, 92, passed on to eternal life March 3. He was a longtime resident of Sun City Center, Fla., Raleigh, N.C., and Ames. A memorial Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Tuesday, March 11, at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Sun City, Fla.
Durwin Melford Hanson was born Dec. 29, 1915, in Decorah. He attended grammar school and high school in Decorah. Durwin married Margorie Kennard in 1937 in Ames. He graduated from Iowa State College in 1939, and enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and served as an engineering officer with a combat aircraft unit in Guam during World WII. After the war, he returned to ISU to earn his master's and doctorate degrees. He was a professor at ISU from 1949 to1960, and then a professor at North Carolina State from 1960 until 1980, when he and his wife, Margorie, retired and moved to Sun City Center, Fla.
During his career, he received outstanding faculty awards and outstanding extension service awards and was instrumental in the establishment of technical vocational schools in the United States.
His hobby passion was bowling, and he was elected a Hall of Fame member in Raleigh and the Southeastern Bowling Conference. He was instrumental in the establishment of more than 50 college and technical school scholarships from various bowling organizations.
He is survived by his wife of 70 years, Margorie Hanson; and five nieces and nephews and their spouses, David and Ann Hagge, of Franklin, N.C., Nancy and Richard Woodley, of Dike, John and Judy Hagge, of Laporte, Minn., Mary and Randy Ketelsen, of Bemidji, Minn., and Tina and Steve Pace, of Cedar Rapids.
He was a kind and gentle man who will be missed by his family.
Memorials can be sent to any of the following: The Monsignor Supple Fund, c/o St. Thomas Aquinas Church, 2210 Lincoln Way, Ames, IA 50014; or the Scholarship Fund of the Capital Area USBC (Bowling) Association, c/o Terry Lochner, 4212 Pickwick Drive, Raleigh, N.C. 27613; or Sun City Center Hospice House, 3723 Upper Creek Drive, Ruskin, Fla. 33573; or your local hospice.
Sympathy cards can be sent to Marge Hanson, PO Box 5683, Sun City Center, Fla. 33571.
Sun City Center Funeral Home is handling arrangements.
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