ELMER ROY HANSON

Funeral Services will be held at 11:00 AM on Monday, February 1, 2010 at Chisholm Baptist Church with Rev. Dan Erickson officiating. Visitation will be held from 4:00 TO 6:00 pm on Sunday at the Rupp Funeral Home & Cremation Service Chapel and continue for one hour prior to the service at the church on Monday. Interment will follow in Chisholm Cemetery.

Elmer Roy Hanson, age 85, of Chisholm, died Thursday, January 28, 2010 at St. Luke’s Hospital in Duluth, MN. He was born October 4, 1924 in Togo, Minnesota to John and Maria (Tarkkanen) Hanson. He grew up in Togo and resided there until moving to Chisholm in 1950.

Elmer was united in marriage on June 21, 1947 in Hibbing to Myrle L. Stephenson. After moving to Chisholm, Elmer went to work in the underground mine in Albany and also worked part time at the Goodyear Tire Store in Hibbing. From 1958 until 1965 he worked for Erie Mining Co. in Hoyt Lakes and in 1965 he went to work for Eveleth Mines until his retirement in 1983. He was a member of Chisholm Baptist Church and also the Minnesota Deer Hunters Assn. Since his retirement he and his wife Myrle spent 23 winters snow-birding, mostly in Mission, TX.

Survivors include his wife – Myrle; children- Dennis (Virginia) of Drain OR; Patty (David) Tervonen of Balkan; Diana (Michael) Schweickhardt of St. Louis, MO; David (Raquel) of Balkan; 14 grandchildren; 9 great-grandchildren; daughter-in-law- Suzanne Hanson of Red Wing, MN; numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, son – Ronald, daughter – Julie Hanson and also by brothers Vernie and Ray and sisters – Sigrid, Isla, Mabel, Ethel, Myrtle, Dorothy and Lorraine.