Doris Alma (Schaefer) Hansen

Doris Alma Hansen, of Kanawha passed away Friday, September 8, 2000 at Hancock County Memorial Hospital in Britt.

Doris Alma Schaefer, the daughter of Christian and Emelia (Lembgen) Schaefer was born on Thanksgiving Day, November 28, 1907 near Klemme, Iowa.  She was raised on a farm near Klemme and attended country school at Liberty #8.  Doris stayed home from school to help care for her mother during her prolonged illness.  Following her mother's death, she continued to care for the family home. After a two-year delay in finishing her education she attended Klemme High School one year and graduated one year and graduated from Marble Rock High School.  She worked out as a hired girl until her marriage.

Doris was united in marriage with Robert E. Hansen on February 8, 1933 in Marble Rock.  After marriage she was busy with her family, gardening, and sewing.  She helped with chores during the busy farm seasons and canned all the vegetables, fruits, pickles, and jams the family consumed which were mostly raised in the large garden.  As the grandchildren arrived she has helped lighten the load of each of her children's households for one or two weeks.

She was baptized and confirmed in the Methodist Church where she was an active member.  Doris enjoyed traveling to visit her children who have at times been very widely scattered across this nation and Japan.

Does is survived by five children: Dwayne Hansen and his wife, Darlene of Kanawha, Norman Hansen and his wife, Helena of Orange, California, Joy Taylor and her husband, John of Culver City, California, Harlan Hansen and his wife, Virginia of Rutland, and Ronald Hansen and his wife, Marjorie of Kanawha; 14 grandchildren: Deborah Smith and her husband, Dan, Daniel Hansen and his wife, Diane, Kenneth Hansen, Norene Gill, and her husband, Gregg, Michael Hansen, Christelle Docter and her husband, David, Charles Thorburn and his wife, Susan, Douglas Taylor, Rozanne Gross and her husband, Jeffrey, Renee Jackson and her husband, Scott, Rebecca Leavitt and her husband, Tom, Nedra Horstman and her husband, Michael, Brenda Smith and her husband, Michael, and Melinda Clark and her husband, Christopher; 25 great-grandchildren; 2 step-great-grandchildren; one sister Frances Swant of Mason City; one brother-in-law Floyd Wilson of Rockwell and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Robert in 1966, two brothers: Emery Schaefer and Alvin Schaefer, one sister Hilda Wilson, and son-in-law Charles Thorburn.