Hanna, Lori A. (1957-2018)

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Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 5/25/2018 at 13:00:20

Lori A. Hanna
January 18, 1957 - March 22, 2018

Lori A. Hanna, 61, of Suquamish, Washington, formerly of Woden, Iowa, died on Thursday, March 22, 2018, at the Harrison Medical Center in Bremerton, Washington, after a valiant battle with cancer. We said goodbye with great sadness.

Lori was born January 18, 1957, in Britt, Iowa, to Bruce and Doryce Hanna. A member of St. John's Lutheran Church in Woden, she graduated from Woden - Crystal Lake High School in 1975. After getting her degree as a medical technician, she worked in Ames, Iowa, but felt the tug of the ocean and ventured off to Hawaii to live for several years. She loved the outdoors and felt she needed only two things in life - the ocean and the mountains.

Caring, compassionate, and extremely fun to be around, she had wonderful adoptive families wherever she went. In Hawaii, her family included the doctor she worked for, a very special co-worker whom she named Tu (short for grandma in Hawaiian) and Tu's husband and daughters. Tu was like a second mom to Lori. Lori loved them all dearly and they loved her back. She continued to be close to them for the rest of her life.

For the next leg of her journey, she ventured back to the mainland. During the next few years, she traveled back and forth between Hawaii and the mainland in search of her perfect place. In 2000, she, finally, found her ocean and mountains again in Washington State. She worked as the office manager at the Island Family Eyecare in Bainbridge Island. To no one’s surprise, she adopted another wonderful family at her workplace. Her family there included a dear lady, Walli, who became her third mom, Walli's husband, the doctors she worked for and many special co-workers. Lori was loved by them all along with the patients she worked with - she touched so many people. She was a very dedicated worker and a very dedicated friend - once a friend, always a friend. Several years ago, she was lucky enough to have found "her place" in Cannon Beach, Oregon, where she spent long weekends, making many wonderful sister trips. Blessed, she had a few trips that included her mom - memories that we will always treasure.

She will be remembered forever by her sisters, Tammy (Scott) Johnson, of Britt, and Lisa (Doug) Swingen, of Woden; her niece and nephews, Megan (Corben) Schueler, Matthew Swingen, and his fiancée, Meaghan Schmidt, and Ryan (Katie) and Justin (Mary) Johnson; five great nieces with one more on the way; and her nephews; as well as by several aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends who will, also, greatly miss and fondly remember her. She was preceded in death by her parents and an infant sister, Tresa. A hui hou kakou - until we meet again.

Memorial services will be held at 11:00 A.M., Saturday, April 7, 2018, at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Woden with Rev. S. Kim Peterson officiating. Inurnment will follow at a later date in Grant Township Cemetery [Winnebago County] near Woden. Visitation will be held from 9:30 A.M. until the service time on April 7, 2018, at the church. The Cataldo Funeral Home of Woden is in charge of the arrangements.

Cataldo Schott Funeral Home, Woden, Iowa, 2017.

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