Services for Arnold Hansen will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, April 25, 2002, at Zion Lutheran Church in Hardwick. Visitation will be for one hour prior to services at the church on Thursday. Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery, Luverne.
Arnold K. Hansen, 83, Luverne, died Monday, April 22, 2002, in Luverne Community Hospital.
Arnold Hansen was born to Thomas and Alma (Dahl) Hansen on March 19, 1919, in Sycamore, Ill. As a boy he moved with his family to Crookston. He graduated from Crookston High School and then attended two years of agricultural college. In the early 1940s he moved to the Luverne-Hardwick area to help his parents on their farm.
He married Mardella Swenson on Feb. 14 1943, in Luverne. He continued to help on his parents' farm. In 1953 he bought the farm from his parents. He retired from farming in 1984. After his retirement he still enjoyed mowing the grass at the farm and spent many hours tinkering and tuning his mowers.
Mr. Hansen was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Hardwick. He served on the Creamery Board and the Mound Township Board.
Survivors include his wife, Mardella Hansen, Luverne; two sons, Dave (Mary) Hansen, Luverne, and Dan (Darcie) Hansen, Jasper; two daughters, Diane Vanden Hoek, Luverne, and Darla (Brian) Steeneck, Alcester, S.D.; 10 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Ruth Broman, Willmar, and Florence (Ted) Brouwer, Annandale; several nieces, nephews, cousins and other relatives and friends.
Mr. Hansen was preceded in death by his parents and an infant son.
Engebretson Funeral Home, Luverne, is in charge of arrangements.