Hazel Edith Hansen
March 24, 1910 - April 13, 2011
Obituary
Hazel Edith Meier Hansen Danielson
Hazel, age 101, passed away April 13, 2011, at 2 pm. She was born March 24, 1910, in Lincoln Nebraska, to Albert Allen and Pansy Edith Close Meier. She received her BA in Business Education at the University of Nebraska and her Fifth Year in Librarianship at the University of Washington. She taught high school at Pleasanton High School in Pleasanton, NE, and Superior High School in Superior, NE, from 1936 to 1938. She again taught two years in Nampa High School in Nampa, Idaho. She began substitute teaching at Clover Park High School and Highline High School in south King County. She worked at Boeing Airplane Company and at the University of Washington Oceanography Department. In 1960 she began full time teaching at Queen Anne High School in Seattle, WA, and retired in 1975. She loved teaching and her contact with young people.
She joined the Lincoln, NE, Congregational Church at age 16 and transferred to the Methodist Church after marriage and move to Idaho. She was especially active in Burley, Boise, Nampa, Idaho and Tibbetts and Ronald churches in Seattle, Washington. She looked forward to uniting in heaven with her Lord, Albert, Mama and Daddy.
She married Albert P. Hansen in 1937, who preceded her in death in 1981. She then married her high school sweetheart, J. Arthur Danielson, in 1989, who lived for four additional months.
In February, 1984, she moved with her mother to Cristwood Retirement Community where she lived until her death. At Crista she helped establish the Crista Library and worked there until 2003, most years as chairman of the volunteer library. She also was active on the Crista Council and was active in the life of the retirement community. For the first ten years of living at Crista, her mother was with her. Her mother, Pansy, lived to age 105.
During her college years, she joined Sigma Eta Chi, Congregational Sorority and Alpha Delta Pi Sorority. She was also a lifetime member of Daughters of the American Revolution and Order of the Eastern Star.
She is survived by her sister, Doris Meier Smalley Grundy of West Seattle, her daughter and son-in-law, Allan and Karen Edith Hansen MacKay of Bellingham, WA and her son, Wayne Allen Hansen of Boynton Beach, FL, four grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
She celebrated her life with family and friends at her 100th birthday celebration. A memorial will be held with her family this coming summer, date is pending.
Memorials can be made to Cristwood Retirement Community: www.cristaseniors.com
We give thanks to God for the long and wonderfully full life Hazel had, and we rejoice that we will see her again in heaven! She was a diligent and tireless worker and always ready to be of help. Now, after 101 years, she can be at rest in the glory of His Kingdom!
Al and Hazel let my family Jimmie and Bette Brown, Mark and Kim live in their basement in Seattle for several days when our lease expired and the landlord wouldn’t let us stay for several days before moving to Alabama. They were such wonderful friends. Will never forget their thoughtfulness.
I am so glad to have had Hazel in my life. She possessed a loving and encouraging spirit, and welcomed me into her home when I returned to Seattle in my times of grief. Love, cousin Martha