Robert "Stan" Hanson

Robert "Stan" Hanson, 90, of Coulter, lowa, formerly of Kansas City, Kansas, went to his Heavenly Home on October 9, 2023, at the Hampton Rehabilitation Center. Woodley Funeral Home of Hampton is handling the local arrangements. Funeral services will be held October 21, 2023, at Our Savior Lutheran Church, 4153 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, Kansas. Visitation will be at 9:30 a.m., service at 10:30 a.m., with a luncheon to follow. Interment will be at Hope Cemetery at Hiawatha, Kansas. Robert Stanley Hanson was born May 2, 1933, to Selmer and Alice (Honer) Hanson, the second of three children. He grew up on the family farm south of Leona, Kansas. He graduated from Leona High School in 1952 and attended one year business school in St. Joseph, Missouri. He met his wife Evelyn at an event at the Leona school. They were married November 27, 1952, and celebrated sixty three years of marriage before Evelyn passed away in 2015. Stan and Evelyn lived in Denton, Kansas, for several years before moving to Kansas City, Missori, where Stan began working in retail at the Jones Store and Evelyn was a hairdresser. In 1963, they moved to Kansas City, Kansas, where they raised their three daughters: Katherine, Margaret and Elizabeth. They became members of Our Savior Lutheran Church where Stan found many ways to serve God in his church in many positions; he was an Elder, supporting his Pastor, he sang in the church choir, served on the board of education for the church school, attending many Bible studies. Stan loved to hunt, but his real love was fishing from the time he was taught to fish by his Dad with a stick cane pole. He went on several fishing trips to Wisconsin and Canada with his family and friends. Continuing a family fishing trip to Minnesota which started with his dad, Selmer, shortly after World War I with some Army buddies. The fishing trips still continue with several generations. Stan is survived by daughters: Katherine (Jim) Warwick, Margaret(Jerry) Watkins; grandchildren Nate (Malinda Warwick), Danielle (Joel McDonough) Robert and Ryan Watkins and Liam Howey; seven great-grandchildren and his sister Marilyn Suman. Stan was preceded in death by his wife Evelyn, his sister Rosemary and brother-in-law Bill Barrand, his parents Selmer and Alice Hanson and his daughter Elizabeth Howey Hanson. The family would like to thank the staff at the Rehabilitation Center of Hampton for their excellent care and the friends he made. Stan will be remembered by his fishing tales, loving to visit with anyone he met, a person who was strong in his faith; he will be missed by many.

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Robert "Stan" Hanson

May 2, 1933 - October 9, 2023