Edward Hanson

Edward Ferdinand Hanson aka Ed resident of Lincoln City, Oregon died of kidney failure and heart disease at the age of 81 on Sunday 29 October 2017 at while receiving hospice care in Depoe,Oregon. Edward was born to Walter Thomas Hanson and Helen Rosso Foss at Madison Wisconsin on 18 August 1936. He was preceded by Ronald Hanson, Clarence Stanley Hanson, and Joyce Gallinger and is survived by Walter (Wally) Hanson. Ed's first marriage to Sandra Jeanne Montgomery (deceased) resulted in six children; Cindy and Harry Brown of Starks, Maine, Candy Daley of Clarendon, New Brunswick, Sally and Greg Hendershot of Pomona, Kansas, Jonathan Taylor or Brewer, Maine, Carl Taylor of North Dakota, and Kristin and Daryl Densmore of Newport, Maine , 20 grandchildren and 18 great grandchildren who survive him at this time. His second marriage to Patricia (deceased) did not produce any additional offspring. They spent the remainder of her days together. He was a member of the 511th Airborne Infantry and received a parachutists badge; marksman bade with rifle bar, and a National Defense service medal. Ed completed 115 jumps as a member of the Parachute Club of America (aka US Parachute Association). He would be a member of the international association of bridge, structural and ornamental, Ironworkers Local 29 for 55 years. He raced jalopies in the Oregon Automobile Racing Association from 1958-1975. Ed was a skilled artist and writer, made detailed WW1 model airplanes, and loved the music of Hank Williams Sr. After retirement, he spent his time fishing and crabbing in Silitz Bay and Devil's lake. A family viewing will be held Friday November 3, 2017 at 11:00 a.m. with a military honors ceremony graveside to follow at 1:00 p.m. located at Pacific View Memorial Gardens in Lincoln City, Oregon. "In life there is a ritual or a song. If you attend and bear to mind your presence is felt one and all, but if tragedy befalls and you wish yourself to be alone, only you can come and call. For no one else is near. Life's spirit is but a loan when you're alone to body, peace, mind and souls. When in life your spirit can come and go, but when you're born is the awakening to purify what sins you have. In death to life is the last will and testament to your truths of knowing how you belong - alone or attendant - When in death I do part, play me as I request music sad or sweet or be it festive or gay, for I have nothing left to give except life's body, mind, peace. But not my soul. - Tombstone Epithet" - Edward Hanson 2017

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Edward Hanson

August 18, 1936 - October 29, 2017