Ruth 'Sooky' Ann Hanson

Ruth Ann 'Sooky' Hanson ALEDO, Ill. #45;- Ruth Ann 'Sooky' Hanson, 72, Aledo, died Monday, March 10, 2003, at Trinity Medical Center, Rock Island, Ill., after an extended illness. Memorial services are 3 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Aledo. The Rev. Daren Dietmeier will officiate. According to her wishes, her body was cremated. A private burial will be held at Candor Cemetery. Friends may meet with the family after services on Sunday. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association or the family. Mrs. Hanson was born on Dec. 6, 1930, in Rock Island, the daughter of Aaron A. and Mayme Page Eskew. She married Max C. Hanson on Dec. 21, 1957, in Rock Island. She attended Rock Island and Kansas City, Mo. schools, graduating from Rock Island High School in 1949. She was employed by Farmall in Rock Island, Petersen Harned Von Maur in Davenport, Maid Rite in Aledo and the Black Hawk Area Education Center in East Moline, Ill. She worked on several political campaigns. She loved to follow her sons' athletic events and band performances. She also took pleasure in horse shows, rodeos, walking, horseback riding and most of all visiting her grandch...[more]

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ren. Survivors include her husband; two sons, James Hanson and his wife, Amanda, and Karl Hanson and his wife, Patty, all of Aledo; five grandchildren, Carli, Jesse and Noah Hanson and Carly and Gage DeShane, all of Aledo; three sisters, Geneva Drennen of Tigard, Ore., Genitee Moore of Moline, Ill. and Gwendolyn Sajak of Rock Island; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant brother, Ray; an infant granddaughter, Barrie Sue Hanson; sisters, Pearl Hunter, Opal Eskew, Billie Eggers; and a nephew, David Sajak.