Obituary Record

Anna. "Veola" (Schjodt) Hansen
Died on 5/10/2010
Buried in Blair Cemetery

A. Veola Hansen, 90
Veola Hansen, 90, of Blair, died Monday, May 10, 2010, at Good Shepherd Lutheran Home in Blair.

Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 13, at First Lutheran Church in Blair. Interment will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at noon on Wednesday, May 12, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home with the family receiving friends from 6 to 8 p.m.

Anna Veola Schjodt was born May 13, 1919, on a farm near Orum to Albert Martin Jensen and Andrea Marie (Hansen) Schjodt.

She was baptized on June 8, 1919, and confirmed on March 25, 1934, at First Lutheran Church where she was a lifelong member.

She attended the Gardner, McCarthy and Sutherland grade schools in Washington County and graduated from Blair High School in 1937. She worked as a bookkeeper and accountant at Lutheran Publishing House and Nebraska-Iowa Supply in Blair prior to her marriage.

On Sept. 8, 1946, she married Clifford K. Hansen. The couple lived on the family farm until 2000 at which time they moved to Johansen Manor and then to Good Shepherd in 2004.

She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Mrs. Hansen is survived by her daughters and sons-in-law, Annette and James Brown, Mishicot, Wis., Joanne Hansen, St. Paul, Minn., and Janet and James Simonitch of Omaha; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; sister and brother-in-law, Eulella and Hubert Petersen of Fremont; sisters-in-law, Rhoda Schjodt of Blair and Ruth Peterson of Portland, Ore.; Brother-in-law, Vern Hundtofte of Council Bluffs, Iowa; many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded by her husband, Clifford; brother, Harald Schjodt; sisters, Rose DeLaCastro, Carol Hundtofte, an infant sister, Margaret Marie Schjodt; brothers-in-law, John DeLaCastro and Paul Peterson; and nephew, Brian Peterson.

Memorials are suggested to First Lutheran Church or Good Shepherd Lutheran Home.

Note: There was another obituary printed in the Wednesday, May 12, 2010 Omaha World-Herald p. 13 that had a photo, and was listed under Veola Hansen

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

FindaGrave # 115000835

Printed in the Washington County Pilot-Tribune on 5/10/2010


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