OBITUARY: Robert S. Hanson 1910-2002, Worth County, Iowa

[Northwood Anchor online - www.northwoodanchor.com - Posted October 22, 2002]



                           Robert S. Hanson

Robert S. Hanson, 92, of Edina, MN, died Sept. 26, 2002. A memorial
observance at the family residence was held.

Robert was born June 17, 1910 in Northwood. Following the untimely death
of his father in 1922, the family moved to Minneapolis, where Robert
attended Central High School and the University of Minnesota. He received
his B.A. degree in Economics at the end of his third year at the University,
graduating in June 1930 with honors and a Phi Beta Kappa key. He played on
the University tennis team and was a member of the "M" Club. His business
life spanned 45 years, primarily with the American Hardware Mutual Insurance
Company in Minneapolis. He was president of the company for 16 years from
1959 until his age-65 retirement in 1975. He served as President of American
Mutual Insurance Alliance, Chicago, IL, a national organization of mutual
property and casualty insurance companies. He was on the Executive Committee
of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, Washington, D.C. 

In 1942, he joined the Army Air Corps as an administrative officer. He was
stationed at Napier Field in Alabama, a flying school for American and
British cadets. He was a major at war's end and retired from the armed
services in 1946. 

He was preceded in death by Margaret, his wife of 59 years, and by parents,
T. Sophus and Rose (Savre) Hanson of Northwood, IA.

Survivors include his sons, Thomas R. Hanson and Douglas W. Hanson, both of
Edina; also by special friends, Lorna Bjorkman and Jing Mei Mo.




Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject of this obituary.)

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