Monona County IA Archives Obituaries.....Hanson, Martin June 24, 1962
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Martin Hanson 
Rites Held Saturday                  (From the collection of Vivian Norby 
Andersen)

	Martin Hanson, 52, a resident of the Soldier community ever since he 
came to America from Norway at the age of one, died unexpectedly  on Wednesday 
afternoon, June 24.  He suffered a stroke on Monday morning and was taken to 
the Onawa hospital.
	Funeral services were held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 27 at the 
Soldier Lutheran Church.  Pastor Harry C. Sorensen officiated.  Russell Mann 
of Cherokee sang “Just As I Am” and “Beyond The Sunset”, accompanied at the 
organ by Miss Margaret Evenson.
	Interment was in Soldier Valley Cemetery.  Member of Soldier Valley 
Post 462 of the American Legion attended the service in a group and conducted 
military rites at the cemetery under the direction of Gale Lee, Commander.  
Arrangements were by Pearson Funeral Home of Soldier.
	Martin Hanson was born January 17, 1912 at Vikesund, Norway, a son of 
Chris and Inga Hanson, and died at the Burgess Memorial Hospital in Onawa on 
Wednesday, June 24, 1964 at the age of 52 years, 5 months and 7 days.  Death 
came unexpectedly as he had been in good health until entering the hospital on 
Tuesday of that week.
	Martin came to America with his parents when he was one year of age 
and had lived in the Soldier community since that time.  He was single.
	He was an employee of the Monona County Engineers Department.  Mr. 
Hanson was a veteran of world War 2 where he served in the U. S. Army from 
November 1942 until November 1945.  He was a member of the Soldier Valley 
Legion Post No. 462 of Soldier and was also a member of Soldier Lutheran 
Church.
	Survivors include three brothers, Koore, of Salem, Oregon; Elvin of 
Castana, and Norman H. of Moorhead; four sisters, Mrs. Charles Anderson 
(Edith) of Omaha, Nebr., Mrs. Dale Percy (Lillian) of Sioux City, Mrs. Carl 
Wagner (Doris) of Turin, and Mrs. Charles Kerr (Bernice) of Lexington Park, 
Maryland; and other relatives and a host of friends.  He was preceded in death 
by his parents and two brothers, Hans and Harold.


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