Obit of Dora (Doolittle) Hanson, Jefferson Co., Wi Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives May, 2004 Palo Alto Reporter Emmetsburg, Palo Alto, Iowa Friday, August 5, 1898 Mrs. J.W. Hanson At Ruthven, Iowa, on Saturday, July 30, 1898, Dora Doolittle, wife of Jno. W. Hanson, aged 32 years, 9 months and 16 days. The deceased was born at Lake Mills, Wisconsin, and spent most of her early life there and at Fennimore until she came to Ruthven about eleven years ago. She was married to John W. Hanson at the latter place on October 12th, 1892. During the four years that Mr. Hanson was sheriff they made their home in Emmetsburg, and Mrs. Hanson' great good nature made a friend for her in each person who formed her acquaintance. They returned to Ruthven in the early spring and had either commenced, or had in contemplation the building of a handsome new home. But the plans are abruptly changed and she has gone to the house not built with hands. Her funeral was held on Monday, the services being conducted jointly by Rev. Mr. Bryon, the M.E. pastor at Ruthven, and Rev. Robt. Bagnell, of LeMars, who was her pastor during her stay in Emmetsburg. The floral offerings that decked her casket and her bier were profuse and tastily arranged and some of them were made of favorite flowers that had grown in the nooks and dales where she had loved to wander when a child. Perhaps she saw them. Who knows? Her mother had reached her bedside the day before her death and had the melancholy though heart-breaking satisfaction of bidding her a last good-bye.