Yvonne C. Hanson

Yvonne C. Hanson, 87, died Friday, November 24, 2017 at Mt. Carmel Home and Rehabilitation Center. Funeral services will be 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church with Mother Stephanie Swinnea officiating. Burial will follow at Kearney Cemetery. Visitation with the family greeting friends will be from 5:00 to 7:00 pm Tuesday, November 28, 2017 at Horner Lieske McBride & Kuhl Funeral and Cremation Services. At 6:30 pm the family would like to share memories of Yvonne with friends. In lieu of flowers memorials are suggested to the family to be designated later. Yvonne was born on January 15, 1930, in Hastings, NE to J. Dee and Mildred (Weesner) Walker. Yvonne grew up in Kearney, NE. She graduated from Kearney High School in 1947 and briefly attended Kearney State Teachers College. On August 18, 1948, Yvonne married the love of her life, Roger H. Hanson, in Kearney, NE. They were happily married for 65 years until Roger’s death on April 18, 2014. During their marriage, Yvonne and Roger lived in Belvidere, Lebanon, Gretna, Hebron, Lincoln, Broken Bow, Roseland, and Kearney, Nebraska; Sheridan and Cheyenne, Wyoming; and, Aberdeen, South Dakota working as a supportive wife and homemaker while Roger worked as Superintendent of Schools and for the Nebraska and Wyoming Departments of Education and as a Professor at Kearney State College from 1979-1986. Yvonne was a long-time member of P.E.O. Chapter EG, Daughters of the American Revolution, and volunteered for many years on various church committees, community organizations and County Election Board. She attended church at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church. Family was very important to Yvonne. She took much pride in her family and loved cooking and baking for them. She shared her love of cooking in articles she wrote for various local newspapers. She enjoyed spending summers at their cabin at Johnson Lake. Yvonne also enjoyed playing bridge, reading, and singing to the grandchildren. Yvonne is survived by her daughters, Patricia Nicholson and husband Gary of Beatrice, NE, Carol Furniss and husband Robert of Kearney, NE, Cynthia Murphy and husband Scott of Kearney, NE; sons, R. Andrew Hanson and wife Vicki of Kearney, NE, Daniel Hanson and wife Barbara of Broken Bow, NE; 15 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and 5 great-great-grandchildren; brothers J. Harold Walker and wife Lou of Mesa, AZ, Jerry Walker and wife Pat of Atlanta, GA; sister-in-law Darlene Hanson of Bertrand, NE; and many nieces, nephews and other relatives. Yvonne was preceded in death by her husband, Roger; her parents, her sister Delores Dobberstein, and 2 great-grandchildren.

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Yvonne C. Hanson

January 15, 1930 - November 24, 2017