Paul Vincent “P.V.” Hansen, Jr., 67, of Kenosha, Wis., a former Blair resident, died Sunday, Oct. 11, 1998, in Albuquerque, N. M., after a short illness of lung cancer.

Services were Friday, Oct. 16, at St. Mary’s Lutheran Church in Kenosha. Burial was in Green Ridge Cemetery in Kenosha.

Paul Vincent “P.V.” Hansen, Jr., was born May 18, 1931, in Salt Lake City, to Paul V., Sr., and Ethel Matilda (Tollander) Hansen.

He was baptized in 1932 in Oklahoma City and later moved to Blair.

He was a 1948 graduate of Blair High School. In 1952, he graduated from Dana College with a bachelor of arts degree in chemistry.

He received his master of science degree in chemistry from Northwestern University in 1954.

On April 2, 1955, he married Greta Dahlberg at Nebo Lutheran Church in Chicago.

From 1954 to 1956, he had worked at Swift & Company in Chicago as a research chemist. As an assistant professor of chemistry, he taught at Dana College from 1956 to 1960.

In 1962, he went to Carthage College and taught chemistry for 32 years and retired in 1994 as department chairman. He was a Professor Emeritus of Carthage College and a member of the American Chemical Society. He had earned his Ph.D in physical chemistry from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1965,

He was a member of St. Mary’s Lutheran Church where he had served on the facility planning committee, the stewardship and the call committees, the church council and the worship, music and arts committees. He was a member of the church’s Liturgical Choir and St. Mary’s Bells.

He was a member of the committee for Boy Scout Troop 533. He also volunteered at the Shalom Center Soup Kitchen and was an advocate for recycling and environment.

He enjoyed spending time with his family, reading, fishing, music, bicycling, model railroading, tropical fish, woodworking and gardening. He was a fan of the “Prairie Home Companion” and Nebraska Cornhusker football.

He is survived by his wife, Greta, of Kenosha; two sons, Philip Christian of Temecula, Calif., and Peter August of Indianapolis; one daughter, Karen Astrid Hansen of Kokomo, Ind.; and four grandchildren.

Memorials are suggested to St. Mary’s Lutheran Church or Dana College in Blair.

Piasecki-Althaus-Thullin Funeral Home in Kenosha was in charge of arrangements.

~~~Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.

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