Ethel Grace (McCurry) HANSON

HANSON, CLAUSEN, MCCURRY, MONSON, GIVEN, SEVEY, BROWN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/23/2007 at 00:09:13

Mason City Globe Gazette
February 6, 2004

BRITT — Ethel Grace Hanson, 88, of Britt, passed away Saturday (Feb. 7, 2004) at the Westview Care Center in Britt, where she has been a resident since 1997. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, at First Lutheran Church in Britt with the Revs. Dr. John Meyer and Janelle Siffring, AiM, officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery near Britt. Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at the Ewing Dugger Funeral Home, 178 Center St. West, in Britt, Iowa. Visitation will continue one hour prior to services at the church on Tuesday.

Ethel, the daughter of Ellis and Lula Clausen McCurry was born April 19, 1915, at Renwick, Iowa. She received her education in the Renwick School system, graduating from high school in 1933. She was united in marriage with Don L. Hanson on November 9, 1933, in Clarion, Iowa. To this union two sons were born, Keith Don and Duane Robert. The couple lived in the Eagle Grove and Renwick areas before moving to Kanawha in 1940, and later to Britt in 1942. Ethel worked as a cook in the Tip Top Café in Britt for several years and then as a check-out clerk at the Britt Community Foods/Britt Super Valu for 30 years from 1956 to 1986, at which time she retired. The family joined the First Lutheran Church in 1945, where Ethel took an active part in Sunday school, Ladies Aid and Circle. Mrs. Hanson had many hobbies, which included gardening, knitting, crocheting and cooking. She was known as an excellent cook and baker. She loved her grandchildren and spent as much time as possible with them. She was fortunate to have all four of her grandchildren grow up in Britt, where she took an avid interest in their lives and in their activities. She also played an important role in the lives of several of her great-grandchildren.

Ethel is survived by her two sons, Keith and wife, Dianne, and Duane and wife, Brenda, all of Britt; four grandchildren, Leslie Monson and husband, Larry, of Britt, Kristine Given of Glencoe, Minn., Lynne Sevey of Kewaunee, Wis., Kent Hanson and wife, Peggy, of Osage; seven great-grandchildren; one sister, Edna Brown of Ames; several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Don, in 1979, her parents; one brother; and one great grandson.

Ewing Dugger Funeral Chapel, (641) 843-3839.