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Collection Summary
Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 22408
Title: Lucy M. Hanson
Date: 12/24/1922-7/12/2016
Inscription/Marks: 12/24/1922
Summary: Lucy May Hanson, 93, of rural Williston, ND, passed away July 12, 2016, at Trinity Hospital in Minot, ND. Her funeral was celebrated July 16, 2016, at First Lutheran Church, Williston. Rev. Martin Mock officiated and burial followed in Hillside Memory Gardens Cemetery, Williston. Lucy May King was born December 24, 1922, in Williston, to Robert Wesley and Laura (French) King. She attended Howe Grade School and Epping High School where she graduated in 1939. She married Selvin Arthur Hanson on June 13, 1943 in Sidney, MT. They established their home on his farm east of Williston where Lucy resided until her passing. Lucy worked as a secretary for multiple businesses, including the unemployment office, a local construction company, and Gaffaney’s. She retired from Gaffaney’s in 1983. Lucy was a member of Our Saviors Lutheran Church, where she was an active member and became the secretary for Prairie Valley Parish. She was also involved in Ladies Aide, Homemakers, and also loved to quilt and sew. She also had a love for bowling and was inducted into the Bowling Hall of Fame in 2010. Lucy is survived by two sons, Richard and his children Kevin (Carla), KayRine, andKristy (Jamie); and Darryl and his children Les (Renae), Kenneth (Julie), Darla (Alabama), and Pam (Tim), all of Williston; 15 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren with two more expected at the end of the year; and numerous nieces and nephews. Lucy was preceded in death by her husband, Selvin; her mother and father; an infant son, Lester Andrew; sister, Elsie Stevens; grandson, Gerome Hanson; inlaws, Andrew and Gena (Stokke) Hanson; and sisters-in-law, Selma Hanson, Agnes Baustad, and Ida Stadum.
Red ID: FND_I_73081

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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