Bob Hansen Killed by Falling Tree

Accident Happened Last Sunday Near His Farm Home

WAS A KENNARD HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR

Death came suddenly, last Sunday, to Robert G. Hansen, son of Mrs. Verda Wright of Kennard. The accident occurred when cutting a tree on the farm southeast of Kennard. The tree caught the young man as it fell and crushed the life out of him.

Robert was a young man not yet seventeen years of age, and showed promising ability. He was a senior in the Kennard High School and would have graduated next spring. He had a pleasing personality and was a general favorite among his schoolmates. He was born at Ashland, Nebraska, on June 5, 1928.

He was a member of the High School basketball team and of the Kennard Methodist Sunday School and a member of the choir.

He leaves to mourn his death, his mother, one brother, his stepfather, and also his grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. M. R. Weaver of Ashland, Nebraska, and C. W. Hansen of Omaha, besides a large circle of friends.

Funeral services were held on Wednesday of this week from the Methodist church at Kennard with Rev. A. W. Clarke officiating with interment in the Kennard cemetery.

The pallbearers were his classmates, Neil Rosenbaum, William Homer Ward, Jr., Donald Wulf, Donald Kuehl, Junior Nielsen and Gordon Reeh.

Music was furnished by Pat Kelly and Arlene Jensen who sang with Mrs. Merle Wardell at the piano.

#2 Newspaper article printed in a Dec. 31, 1944 Blair, Nebraska newspaper in the scrapbook of Norma S. Klotz

Kennard Boy Killed Sun.

Robert Hansen, 16, Was A Senior In The Kennard High School A Sunday-afternoon lumber cutting project ended in tragedy when a tree fell upon Robert Hansen, 16, of Kennard and injured him fatally. Young Hansen was to have graduated from the Kennard high school next spring.

Funeral services were held at the Kennard Methodist church Wednesday afternoon , with the Rev. A. W. Clarke of Arlington officiating. Burial was in Kennard cemetery.

Born at Ashland, Nebr., on June 5, 1928, Bob was the eldest son of Mrs. Verda Wright, Kennard. A fine upstanding boy and a credit to the community, he was a member of the Methodist Sunday school and youth fellowship, and a singer in the choir.

Left to mourn the youth are his mother; a brother, Junior; his stepfather, A. E. Wright; and grandparents, Mr. And Mrs. W. R. Weaver of Ashland, Nebr.; and Mrs. C. W. Hansen of Omaha.

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

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