Shirley Hansen

Shirley Ione Hansen, age 94 of New Hampton, IA, died Saturday, October 8, 2022, at New Hampton Nursing & Rehabilitation Center. Funeral service will be held 11:30 a.m. Saturday, October 15, 2022 at Hugeback-Johnson Funeral Home & Crematory in New Hampton with Rev. Dong Hun Shin presiding and a lunch to follow. Private family interment will be at a later date. Friends may greet the family an hour prior to the service on Saturday at the funeral home. 641-394-4334. Shirley Ione Hermann was born March 17, 1928 in Walker, IA. While growing up her family moved to several towns and finally settled in Charles City, IA where Shirley graduated high school. She met Charles Andrew Hansen while he attended college and they married on December 22, 1947. They moved to New Hampton in 1957 and purchased what would become Hansen’s Furniture. It is here that they raised their three children. Shirley was a loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother above all else. But her gifts did not stop there. She was an artist, and shared her talent through oil painting, watercolors, cake decorating, macramé, created Ridiculous Day costumes and church banners, pottery, ceramics, designing retail storefronts, and crafts in general. Every Christmas she’d create a handmade ornament for sale at the church bazaar. She was a leader, taking her turn heading the local PEO chapter, church women’s organization and girl scouts as well as sitting on the Board of the Little House of Bargains. When not in a leadership role she was an active participant in the Loafers organization and Rag Pickers. She loved music; played piano and violin, sang in the church choir, and attended many concerts from symphony orchestras to operas and hometown band concerts. With a great love of travel, Shirley planned all the family road trips and enjoyed many adventures from Hawaii to the Grand Canyon. She continued to travel with her sister Mardella after Charles’ passing in 1988. She was generous with her time and talent, had a strong faith in God, and possessed an unquenchable positive outlook on life. Shirley is survived by daughter Mary (Jerry) Johnson, son William (Deb), and daughter Barb (John) Goin, granddaughter Sarah (Drew) Beals, grandson Andrew (Lindsay) Johnson, and her precious great grandkids, Sydney and Tyler; Silvia Cogo, her special Brazilian “daughter”, who remained in close touch since her visit in 1974 She was preceded in death by husband Charles Hansen, sister Mardella Hermann, parents Norval and Myrtle Hermann. . In lieu of flowers, memorials should be directed to First United Methodist Church of New Hampton IA.