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- 3dl LESTER WELHAVEN HANSEN, b. February 19, 1886, Hendricks, Minn, (wf) Lillian Minerva Larson, b. April 30, 1882, Freeport, Iowa. Married June 2, 1909, at Goodhue, Minn. Lester taught rural district school two terms, and in 1906 was appointed a railway mail clerk under the Post Office Department, and assigned to the Chicago North Western Railway line in southern Minnesota. After his marriage to Lillian, who was a daughter of Rev. Louis A. Larson, a Norwegian Methodist minister of St. Paul and Chicago, he obtained a transfer to a run out of St. Paul, on the Winnipeg Flyer, and they established their home in St. Paul, where the following children were born,-Eunice (3dla), Margaret (3dlb), Florence (3dlc), Jean (3dld). In 1921 he was transferred to the office of the superintendent of railway mail service as assistant examiner, and in 1924 he transferred to the Chicago and Minneapolis run on the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railway, where he worked until retiring in 1945. In the meantime he was also interested in real estate and rental properties. Since retiring he and Lillian have travelled extensively thruout the United States. They spent a winter in Mexico City and Cuernavaca and one summer in Europe. He is a member of the Masonic lodge and Osman temple, Mystic Shrine. He served as chairman of rhe board of trustees of St. John's Methodist Church in St. Paul, and was a member of the board of trustees of the Elim Old Folks Home before its merger into the Walker Methodist Home in Minneapolis. In the fall of 1952 they moved to Florida where they now reside at 6345 Burlington Avenue north, St. Petersburg 2, Fla. [1]
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