Wilbur Hansen

WILBUR HANSEN

Anamosa

Wilbur Hansen, 89, died Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016, at the Anamosa Care Center following an extended illness.

Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 12, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Anamosa, with interment in Wyoming Cemetery. The Rev. Eugene Schipper will officiate at the services. Friends may call from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at Goettsch Funeral Home, Anamosa.

Thoughts, memories and condolences may be left at www.goettschonline.com.

Surviving are two children, Carol Hansen of Anamosa and Alan (Simone) Hansen of Olin; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Helen, in 2011; and 11 siblings, Alice Hughes, Helen Macek, Mabel Duncalf, Evelyn Fike, Harold, Alfred, Raymond, Johnny, Willie, LeRoy and Edwin.

Wilbur D. Hansen was born Nov. 27, 1926, in Keystone, Iowa, the son of Nicholas and Caroline Selken Hansen. Wilbur graduated from Keystone High School in 1945. Wilbur married Helen Hansen on April 20, 1958, at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in Cedar Rapids. Wilbur worked for Allis Chalmers at the proving grounds in Marion testing heavy equipment and then was a heavy equipment operator doing road construction. Wilbur also was a crane operator during the building of the Duane Arnold Nuclear Plant. He retired as a press assembler for Rockwell Goss. Wilbur and Helen operated the Newport Mills Campground for many years along the Wapsipinicon River.

Wilbur enjoyed coin collecting, watching the Hawkeyes, going to the Great Jones County Fair and traveling with Helen. He was an avid bowler in his younger days.