HANSON, Robert Edmondson
Source: "Obituaries - Year - 1950 Volume B" from the Covington Public Library. 31 July 1959
Robert Edmondson Hanson, 73, of Attica, died Friday of a heart ailment at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Lafayette.
Born August 23, 1885, in Greenhill, Indiana, he was the son of Samual C. and Nancy Edmondson Hanson. He was married in 1917 to Bernice Schenerhorn; who survives.
He was a 1910 graduate of the Engineering School at Purdue and was first associated with the Charmichael Engineering Co. of Williamsport. He later was associated with Watson & Co. of Terre Haute and then entered into his own construction business.
Mr. Hanson was a member of the Attica First Presbyterian Church, Rotary International, Masonic Lodge and the Scottish Rite of Indianapolis.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Leigh C. Fisher of San Francisco, and Mrs. Bertrum Z. Lee of Chicago; three brothers, Wayne of Ft. Wayne, Lorenz of Winter Park, Fla., and Samual C. of Evansville; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Webb of New York City, and six grandchildren.
Services were held Monday with burial in Riverside Cemetery. - jz