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Ross W. Hansen, 77, of
Caldwell, died Monday, December 27, 1993, at a Boise hospital.
Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday,
December 31, 1993, at the LDS Stake Center, Highway 30,
Caldwell. Bishop James W. Radford will officiate. Burial
will follow at the Middleton Cemetery, under the direction of
Flahiff Funeral Chapel, Caldwell.
Mr. Hansen was born December 14, 1916, at Woodland,
(Lakeside), Arizona, the fourth of twelve children born to
Augustus and Lydia Whipple Hansen. He was reared and educated
in Lakeside and was an active member of the FFA. He went to
Kansas City with a cattle judging team where he took the
individual award for judging beef cattle. There he earned a
scholarship to Arizona State and was given a job offer from
Swift Meat Company. He served a mission in 1937 in the Texas
Louisiana Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints. He married Hazel Ferrell, who was to be his life
companion for over 54 years, in the Salt Lake Temple on
October 2, 1939, and the couple made their first home in
Lakeside, Arizona, where Ross farmed with his father and
brothers. During WWII he supplied milk for Southwest Lumber
Mills and the White River and Apache Indian Reservations. He
was given a clergy deferment from the Army because he served
as a second councilor in the Bishopric. Upon selling the
dairy he went to work for Southwest Lumber Mills as a sawyer
and then as a woodstimeskeeper. In January of 1948, Ross and
Hazel moved to Middleton. Four of Ross' children were born in
Lakeside and a fifth child was born in Caldwell. In 1956 they
moved to the Black Canyon Project north of Caldwell where they
have since resided.
Ross was very active in the LDS Church. During his
activity, he served as a Bishop's Counselor, High Counselman,
three Stake missions, Scouting, numerous teaching positions
and was a lifelong home teacher. His present calling in the
Church was as a worker at the Boise Idaho Temple.
Dad dedicated his life to the service of his God, his
family and neighbors around him.
He is survived by his wife, Hazel; a son and
daughter-in-law, Merlin K. and Marlene Hansen of Eagle; three
daughters and sons-in-law, Elaine and James Atkinson of
Middleton, Cheryl and Glen Forsberg of Middleton and Mary Beth
and Larry Armstrong of Arimo, Idaho; 22 grandchildren; 10
great-grandchildren; 2 sisters and brothers-in-law, Dona and
Jo Ison of Caldwell, Loma and Grayson Jones of Hyrum, Utah;
two brothers and sisters-in-law, Bruce and Barbara Hansen and
Boyd DeRae Hansen, all of Littleton, Colorado; two
sisters-in-law, Nonda Hansen of Wilcox, Arizona, and Chloe
Hansen of Littleton, Colorado; and numerous nieces and
nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two sisters, five
brothers, a son, Ross Ferrell Hansen, and a grandson, David
Brent Hansen.
The family will receive their friends at the Flahiff
Funeral Chapel, Caldwell, Thursday from 6 until 8 p.m. and at
the Relief Society Room at the Stake Center on Friday from 10
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