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Hansen, Evelyn J.
Evelyn J. Hansen, 93, of Wyoming, Iowa, died Sunday, March 14, 2010, at Jackson County Regional Health Center, Maquoketa. Services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Wyoming United Methodist Church, Wyoming. Family and friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Lahey Funeral Home, Wyoming. Burial will be in the Wyoming Cemetery.
She is survived by five children, Darlene (Russell) Annear of Clinton, Richard (Betty) Hansen of Massillon, Donald (Martha) Hansen of Hartland, Mich., Patricia (John) Burroughs of Davenport, and Dianne (Charles) Tew of Martelle; 16 grandchildren; many great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren; and one brother, Howard (Norma) Johnson of Maquoketa.
She was preceded in death by her husband, one daughter, one granddaughter, her parents, two brothers and eight sisters.
Evelyn Jane Johnson was born August 16, 1916, in Monmouth, Iowa, to Harry and Angeline (Edwards) Johnson. She married Henry Marvin Hansen in 1937 in Maquoketa. She worked at Midland School, Brandt Nursing Home in Wyoming and at the Wyoming Telephone Office for 37 years.
She was a member of the Wyoming United Methodist Church and taught Sunday school for 27 years.
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