June (Walrod) HANSEN

WALROD, BOHNING, HANSEN, MICKELSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/22/2006 at 12:56:32

June Rose Hansen, 85, long time resident of the Belmond and Alexander areas, died Thursday, November 8, 2001, at the Belmond Medical Center. Funeral services were held Monday, November 12, at the United Methodist Church in Alexander with Pastor Tony Hershey officiating. Music was by Carol Richards, organist; Marvin Draper, soloist. Usher was Marvin Draper. Casket bearers were Jason Walrod, Steve Walrod, Dallas Card, Dennis Vanness, Lawrence Hansen, Gary Jessen and Bob Pals. Interment was at the Alexander Cemetery.

June Walrod was born June 3, 1916, in Stratford, the daughter of William Owen and Janet "Jenny" Isabel Mickelson Walrod. She moved with her family at age five to Belmond, where she graduated from Belmond High school in 1934. She then did housekeeping for the Richards family in Mason City. June married Wilbert Hansen on August 24, 1935, in Galena, Illinois. The couple returned to operate the family farm in rural Alexander. The Hansens spent many summers caring for June's siblings, William, Douglas, and Dale who helped out with the farming duties. June was active in the Methodist Church in Alexander where she was involved in the ladies aid. June and Wilbert moved to Belmond after retiring from farming in 1992.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Wilbert, in 1994; two sisters, Helen and Lois; four brothers, Clayton, Charles, Gerald, and Lawrence and one brother, Randall Todd Walrod in infancy. Survivors are her daughter and son-in-law, Val Jean and Wayne Bohning of Beach Park, Illinois; three brothers and two sisters-in-law, William and Jean Walrod, Dale and Nadine Walrod, and Douglas Walrod, all of Belmond; her grandchildren, Kenneth and Mary Bohning and their children, Kenny, Jackie and Kelly Bohning of Pleasant Prairie, Wisconsin, Kristy and Joseph Bragg and their children, Sarah and Ryan of Gurnee, Illinois, and Rick and Wendy Bohning of Des Plaines, Illinois.

November 13, 2001
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