Vera Mae (Hyde) HANSON

HANSON, HYDE, JASPERSON, MAITLAND, ARTHUR, MARSH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/19/2008 at 19:37:13

Vera Mae Hanson, 77, of Clear Lake, Iowa, died Saturday, Aug. 8, 1998, at her home. Funeral services will be held today (Wednesday), Aug. 12, at 10:30 a.m. at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 North 4th St., Clear Lake, with Hospice Chaplin John Ayers officiating. Burial will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Hwy. 18 West, Mason City, Iowa. The family of Vera Mae Hanson has requested that memorial contributions be made to Hospice of North Iowa in her memory.

Vera Mae Hanson was born on Aug. 22, 1920, in Garner, Iowa, the daughter of John and Rosina Della Mae (Maitland) Hyde. She attended and received her education in the Ventura Schools, graduating from Ventura High School in 1938. She also attended and graduated from LaJames Beauty College in Mason City. She was united in marriage to Allan Dale Hanson on Jan. 8, 1942, in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. He preceded her in death on Dec. 18, 1989. Vera owned and operated her own beauty shop in Meservey, Iowa, for a few years and also worked for Fatland Bakery in Clear Lake and sewed cap and gowns in her home for over 10 years for P.T. Castle Cap and Gowns. She enjoyed gardening, knitting, flowers, and playing Bingo, but her great love and enjoyment was her family. She was a member of the VFW Auxiliary in Clear Lake and was a former member of the Moose Lodge.

She is survived by her four children, Thomas L. Hanson and his wife, Judy, of Lake Crystal, Minn., Michael A. Hanson and his wife, Joice, of Ventura, Iowa, Caroline M. Arthur, and her husband, David, of Austin, Texas, Richard D. Hanson and his wife, Loreen, of Todville; eight grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one sister, Betty Marsh and her husband, Albert, of Clear Lake; as well as other relatives and friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, Allan; her parents; two sisters, Mildred Hyde and Velma Jasperson; two brothers, Russell Hyde and Kenneth Hyde, Sr.

Clear Lake Mirror Reporter
ca. August 1998