Harley C. HANSON

HANSON, LARSON, ANDERSON, LISANTI, DOMINA

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/12/2007 at 12:35:06

Portland Press Herald, Maine
July 30, 1998

HARLEY C. HANSON RETIRED NAVY CHIEF WARRANT OFFICER

Harley C. Hanson, 85, of Governor's Way, a retired Navy chief warrant officer, died Monday at the Veterans Administration hospital at Togus. He was born in Kanawha, Iowa, a son of Ole and Mabel Larson Hanson, attended schools there and worked on local farms in his youth. For 30 years, Mr. Hanson served in the Navy, earning the rank of chief warrant officer before his retirement in 1966. He was one of the surviving members of the cruiser Indianapolis, which was torpedoed and sunk in the Pacific with great loss of life during the final days of World War II.

On Jan. 23, 1944, he married Diana Anderson. After his retirement from the Navy, Mr. Hanson worked at the Quincy, Mass., shipyard and at Bath Iron Works as a buyer, beginning in 1968. He retired in 1975. Mr. Hanson and his wife lived in Brunswick and South Paris before moving here in 1995. He enjoyed woodworking and working with leather. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and a member of the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.

Surviving are his wife of Topsham; a son, Duane of Jackman; three daughters, Donna Lisanti of Hallowell, Karen Domina of East Dover, Vt., and Thalia Hanson of Stuttgart, Germany; a brother, Lester of Goldfield, Iowa; and five grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Maine Street, Brunswick. The Rev. Paul Scherzer will officiate. Burial will be in Arlington (Va.) National Cemetery. Arrangements are by Stetson's Funeral Home, Brunswick.