Dorothy C. Hansen, 94, of Blair, died Monday, March 3, 2003, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Blair.

Mass will be said at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 8, at St. Francis Borgia Catholic Church in Blair. Burial will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in the Wisner Cemetery. The rosary will be 7 p.m. at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home; visitation begins at 9 a.m. Friday.

Dorothy C. Hansen was born Oct. 6, 1908, in Omaha to Orla and May (Harshman) Rich.

When she was a small child, her parents moved to Wisner, where her father farmed. She graduated from Wisner High School in 1926. She taught in county schools for several years in Potter and near Pender.

She decided to go into nurses training and graduated from St. Joseph Hospital Nursing School in 1932. In 1939, she married Rolf P. Hansen.

During World War II, both Mr. and Mrs. Hansen worked at Martin Bomber Plant. After the war, Mrs. Hansen returned to nursing and after many years, retired from Douglas County Hospital.

The Hansens made their home in Nashville in 1943, and moved to Blair in 1982. Mr. Hansen died in 1983, and in 1996, Mrs. Hansen made her home with her sister, Mrs. Russell Coffee of Blair. Because of failing health, Mrs. Hansen entered Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in 2000.

She is survived by two sisters, Bernadine Coffee of Blair, and Catherine (Mrs. William) Wahler of Buffalo, N. Y.; a brother and sister-in-law, John and Cecilia Rich of Blair; many nieces and nephews.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by an infant brother, Robert, and two sisters, Mary Streigel and Margaret Wiese.

Campbell-Aman Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.