Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Friday, March 8, 1940
John HANSON, aged 77, well known Fulton county farmer died at his home one mile east of this city on the Fort Wayne road at 6:15 o'clock Thursday evening. Death was due to heart trouble which started last Easter. He had been in serious condition for three months.
The deceased was born in Sweden and came to the United States when he was 17 years of age. Mr. Hanson had lived on a farm near Rochester since 1905 moving here from Pulaski county.
In a ceremony performed in Paxton Illinois, November 12, 1890 he was married to Christiana ANDERSON. Mr. Hanson was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
Survivors are the wife, two daughters, Mrs. Earl SMILEY and Mrs. Boyd PETERSON of Rochester; two sons Garfield HANSON of Rochester and Fred HANSON of Cummings, Cal.; 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Mr. Hanson was the last of a family of five boys and two girls.
The funeral services will be held from St. John's Lutheran church at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. William SCHROER officiating. Burial will be made in the Rochester Odd Fellows cemetery.
Due to the serious illness of Mrs. Hanson and a daughter, Mrs. Earl SMILEY, the body will be kept at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home until 1 p.m. Saturday when it will be taken to the church, where it will lie in state until the hour of the last rites. The family requests that no flowers be sent.
Those who wish to help establish a memorial wreath for Mrs. Hanson are asked to call Rev. Schroer pastor of St. John's Lutheran church. His phone number is 483-R.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1940
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Friday, March 8, 1940
John HANSON, aged 77, well known Fulton county farmer died at his home one mile east of this city on the Fort Wayne road at 6:15 o'clock Thursday evening. Death was due to heart trouble which started last Easter. He had been in serious condition for three months.
The deceased was born in Sweden and came to the United States when he was 17 years of age. Mr. Hanson had lived on a farm near Rochester since 1905 moving here from Pulaski county.
In a ceremony performed in Paxton Illinois, November 12, 1890 he was married to Christiana ANDERSON. Mr. Hanson was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
Survivors are the wife, two daughters, Mrs. Earl SMILEY and Mrs. Boyd PETERSON of Rochester; two sons Garfield HANSON of Rochester and Fred HANSON of Cummings, Cal.; 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Mr. Hanson was the last of a family of five boys and two girls.
The funeral services will be held from St. John's Lutheran church at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. William SCHROER officiating. Burial will be made in the Rochester Odd Fellows cemetery.
Due to the serious illness of Mrs. Hanson and a daughter, Mrs. Earl SMILEY, the body will be kept at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home until 1 p.m. Saturday when it will be taken to the church, where it will lie in state until the hour of the last rites. The family requests that no flowers be sent.
Those who wish to help establish a memorial wreath for Mrs. Hanson are asked to call Rev. Schroer pastor of St. John's Lutheran church. His phone number is 483-R.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1940
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Published in The Rochester News-Sentinel
Friday, March 8, 1940
John HANSON, aged 77, well known Fulton county farmer died at his home one mile east of this city on the Fort Wayne road at 6:15 o'clock Thursday evening. Death was due to heart trouble which started last Easter. He had been in serious condition for three months.
The deceased was born in Sweden and came to the United States when he was 17 years of age. Mr. Hanson had lived on a farm near Rochester since 1905 moving here from Pulaski county.
In a ceremony performed in Paxton Illinois, November 12, 1890 he was married to Christiana ANDERSON. Mr. Hanson was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
Survivors are the wife, two daughters, Mrs. Earl SMILEY and Mrs. Boyd PETERSON of Rochester; two sons Garfield HANSON of Rochester and Fred HANSON of Cummings, Cal.; 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Mr. Hanson was the last of a family of five boys and two girls.
The funeral services will be held from St. John's Lutheran church at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. William SCHROER officiating. Burial will be made in the Rochester Odd Fellows cemetery.
Due to the serious illness of Mrs. Hanson and a daughter, Mrs. Earl SMILEY, the body will be kept at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home until 1 p.m. Saturday when it will be taken to the church, where it will lie in state until the hour of the last rites. The family requests that no flowers be sent.
Those who wish to help establish a memorial wreath for Mrs. Hanson are asked to call Rev. Schroer pastor of St. John's Lutheran church. His phone number is 483-R.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1940
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
Friday, March 8, 1940
John HANSON, aged 77, well known Fulton county farmer died at his home one mile east of this city on the Fort Wayne road at 6:15 o'clock Thursday evening. Death was due to heart trouble which started last Easter. He had been in serious condition for three months.
The deceased was born in Sweden and came to the United States when he was 17 years of age. Mr. Hanson had lived on a farm near Rochester since 1905 moving here from Pulaski county.
In a ceremony performed in Paxton Illinois, November 12, 1890 he was married to Christiana ANDERSON. Mr. Hanson was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church.
Survivors are the wife, two daughters, Mrs. Earl SMILEY and Mrs. Boyd PETERSON of Rochester; two sons Garfield HANSON of Rochester and Fred HANSON of Cummings, Cal.; 11 grandchildren and a great-grandchild. Mr. Hanson was the last of a family of five boys and two girls.
The funeral services will be held from St. John's Lutheran church at 2 p.m. Saturday with Rev. William SCHROER officiating. Burial will be made in the Rochester Odd Fellows cemetery.
Due to the serious illness of Mrs. Hanson and a daughter, Mrs. Earl SMILEY, the body will be kept at the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home until 1 p.m. Saturday when it will be taken to the church, where it will lie in state until the hour of the last rites. The family requests that no flowers be sent.
Those who wish to help establish a memorial wreath for Mrs. Hanson are asked to call Rev. Schroer pastor of St. John's Lutheran church. His phone number is 483-R.
SOURCE:
Fulton County Indiana Obituaries - 1940
by Jean C. and Wendell C. Tombaugh
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