Obituary of Marjorie Hansen

Marjorie Hansen, age 98 of Yankton, SD passed away Wednesday, March 25, 2015 at the Park View Haven Nursing Home, Coleridge, NE. Funeral services will be 10:30 AM, Monday, March 30, 2015 at the United Church of Christ (Congregational), Yankton, SD with Rev. Molly Carlson officiating. Burial will be in the Yankton Cemetery. Visitations will be one hour prior to the service at the church. The Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home and Crematory, Yankton, is assisting with the service details. Marjorie S. Hansen was born January 6, 1917 to Albert W. and Iola M. (Bush) Shepard in Lyons, NE. She received her education there and graduated with the class of 1934. She was baptized by the Rev. Charles Troy in the Methodist Church in Lyons. In 1935, she was employed by Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in Lyons where she worked approximately ten years. On April 30, 1942, Marjorie married Donald A. (Pat) Hansen of Bancroft, NE in the Pearl Street Methodist Church in Omaha, NE. They spent some time in Baltimore, MD during World War II and then returned to Bancroft where they cared for both their fathers for several years. In 1956 Marjorie went to Lincoln, NE where she attended the Lincoln School of Commerce, taking an advanced course in office procedure and secretarial courses. Thereafter, she held secretarial positions in Norfolk, NE, Jamestown, ND and Yankton, SD. She retired in 1981 after 19 ½ years as an administrative secretary to the registrar at the South Dakota Human Services Center. Marjorie was a member of the United Church of Christ (Congregational) and a 62 year plus member of the Order of Eastern Star where she held various offices. Marjorie is survived by many nieces and nephews and one special great-niece, Betty Jo and James Leapley of Coleridge, NE who were her source of strength the past years and the daughter she never had. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1990, parents, brothers: Willis Nelson, Ashton, Albert, LaRue, and Melbourne Shepard, and sisters, Ima Hebbert and Bernice Koski. The family requests that memorials be directed to United Church of Christ (Congregational), 218 West 5th Street, Yankton, SD 57078.