Ronald Hansen Sr.

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RONALD E. HANSEN SR.

Funeral services were held for Ronald E. Hansen, 74,

Brayton, at 10 a.m. Monday, June 8, at the Brayton Lutheran Church in Brayton with the Rev. Steven Frock officiating. Interment with military rites was in the North Logan Cemetery in St. Paul, Neb. Mr. Hansen died June 5 at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Omaha. Mullen Funeral Home of Atlantic was in charge of the arrangements.

Pallbearers for Ronald were his grandsons: Sgt. Kenneth E. Hansen, Kevin P. Hilty, Bryan C. Hansen, Corbett P. Carrico, Robert P. Hansen and Brian L. Hilty. Honorary pallbearers were: Glee Christensen, Floyd Schwab, Delbert Anderson, Harvey Larsen, Otis Jensen and Leonard Jensen.

Music was provided by organist Sue Hoegh and vocalists Manard Hansen and Margaret Parmley.

The son of Thomas P. and Eva L. Christensen Hansen, he was born Nov. 26, 1917, near Cushing, Neb. He was baptized and confirmed in the Lutheran Church at North Logan in Howard County near Wolbach, Neb. He attended rural school and lived in Nebraska 45 years before moving to Iowa in 1962 in Audubon County.

He was united in marriage to Gladys V. I. Sonderup March 14, 1939.

During his lifetime, he was a mechanic and welder and had his own shop the last 25 years in Brayton. During World War II he was a mechanic on bomber planes at Glen L. Martin Plant in Omaha and served in the Army Air Corps.

Surviving are his wife, Gladys of Brayton; seven children; Ron Jr. and his wife, Margaret of Brayton, Maynard and his wife, Janet of Grant, Neb., Sylvia Schmidt and her husband, Alton of Kearney, Neb., Elwood and his wife Jeanie of Casey, Lorraine Leach and her husband, Richard of Kearney, Neb., Lloyd and his wife, Mary of Lincoln, Neb., and Elloise Carrico and her husband, Dennis of Grand Island, Neb.; 18 grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; four step-great-grandchildren; and a step-great-great-granddaughter.

Also surviving are two brothers, Rev. Carl T. Hansen and his wife, Ursula of Sun City, Ariz., and Lavern G. Hansen and his wife, Carol of Phoenix, Ariz.; sisters-in-law and brother-in-law, Agnetha Pennington of Temple City, Calif. And Rhoda and Ray Christensen of Grand Island, Neb.; nieces and nephews.

Proceeding him in death were his parents and a grandson, Chad E. Hansen.

Atlantic News Telegraph, Atlantic, Iowa June 8, 1992

23rd Avenue and Highway 281. Ten miles north of St. Paul, Nebraska

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