Porter and Ethel
Hansen-Hall
Re-built 21
Dec 2008
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Porter and Ethel pre 1970 |
Ethel,
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Sisters:
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Ethel was born on a
farm west of Orient to Anna Hansen. She joined the Kuper family when Joe Kuper
married Anna Hansen on 11 November 1913. She grew to her teens on the family
farms, graduating from Faulkton High School. After graduation, she worked
several jobs in the area, going to Deadwood for awhile, then returning to
Faulkton where she married Porter Hall ( b.
1 July 1889) in September of 1936. They went off to the Worlds Fair in New York
for their honeymoon.
Porter operated a garage in Harrold before they sold out and moved to
Pierre. There he worked as a filling station attendant and later as a motel
clerk until retiring. Ethel worked for the phone company in
Pierre for 25 years before retiring and enjoyed her retirement to the
fullest, always gadding about with her friend, Rufus, spending time at the
senior citizen's center, working in her garden, watching the birds from her
kitchen window and counting her money) before moving into an apartment in
Miller (to be near her sister Edna) and then into the
Good Samaritan Nursing Home where she passed away in 2005. She and Porter had no
children.
Porter passed away 3 May 1970 and is buried at Orient. Always the prim and
proper lady, Ethel could always be found with her hair and makeup just right.
Just wouldn't do to be seen "not ready for the day".
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Siblings: Edna Lewis, Clarence, Josephine, Harold, Alfred, Alice
More on Ethel on John Eschenbaum's site http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~christhansenfamily/Anna/Ethel/ethel.htm
