Roy Donald Hansen

Roy Donald Hansen

VERDEN ~ Services for Roy Donald Hansen, 85, of Verden will be at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church of Verden with the Rev. Roy Lind, pastor of the Lexington First Baptist Church, officiating, and the Rev. Edward Whitley of Cyril assisting.

Hansen, son of the late T D., and Mattie Ellen [Pressler] Hansen, was born Oct. 5, 1904 on a farm northeast of Verden and died Thursday at Grady Memorial Hospital in Chickasha.

In 1907, he and his family moved to Verden where his father owned and operated a furniture and undertaking business until becoming ill. Hansen graduated from Verden High School and began operating Hansen's Furniture and Undertaking November 22, 1922. He attended Worsham's Mortuary School in Chicago, Ill, and received his embalmer's license in 1929. He continued to operate the furniture and undertaking business until March 1933, when the furniture store closed Hansen's Funeral Home was started.

After his father's death in 1934, Hansen continued to manage the funeral home. He also operated an ambulance. Hanson sold the funeral home to Eddie and Abby Binyon July 7, 1977.

He was a long-time member of the First Christian Church of Verden, where he had been a Sunday school superintendent, Sunday School teacher and elder. He was a former Lions Club president, Red Cross director and first aid instructor.

He also served as blood mobile chairman during World War II.

In addition to his parents, he was also prececed in death by three brothers.

Survivors include one daughter and her husband, Janet H., and Alton Williams of Yukon; one son and his wife, Joe D., and Bonnie S. Hansen of Edmond; four grandsons, Curtis Dickens and Jay Dee Hansen, both of Edmond, Mark A. Williams of Oklahoma City and John S. Williams of Yukon, and one great grandson, Justin S. Williams of Yukon.

Burial will be in the Verden Cemetery under direction of the Hansen-Binyon Chapel of the Brown-Binyon Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation.

5 October 1904 ~ 22 March 1990