I am looking for obituaries of this couple of Defuniak
Springs.
Floyd Chester
Hansen, b. 8 JAN 1894 in Holland,
Ottawa,
Michigan, d. 8 FEB 1988 in
Walton,
Florida, resided 1932 in Dayton,
Montgomery, Ohio, resided 1945 in
Dade,
Florida, resided 1963 in Pontiac
Springs,
Florida.
He married Glenna Pauline
Riffle, married 11 SEP 1919 in Grand
Haven,
Michigan, b. 2 DEC 1896 in
Indiana, (daughter of Jason M
Riffle and
Alda Mary Potter) d. 7 NOV 1986 in Defuniak
Springs,
Walton,
Florida, census 1900 - 1910 in Richland, Fountain,
Indiana.
Floyds parents and siblings:
Christian Martinius
Hansen, b. 1 OCT 1863 in Kragerø, Telemark, Norway (son of Nils
Hansen and Johanna Olson) and d. 24 JUL 1937 in Holland,
Ottawa,
Michigan, census 1870 - 1930 in Holland,
Ottawa,
Michigan, buried 28 JUL 1937 in Pilgrim Home Cemetery.
He married Mary Florence
Mcneese, married 26 SEP 1889 in Holland,
Ottawa,
Michigan, b. 7 MAY 1867 in
Mosheim, Greene,
Tennessee, (daughter of James Mckendry
Mcneese and Sara Elizabeth
Ellis) d. 13 MAY 1935 in Muskegon,
Michigan, resided 1900 - 1930 in Holland,
Ottawa,
Michigan. Children : Oliver Emond, Niles McKendra, Floyd Chester, Harvey Johan, Carol Christen, Hilda Marie (Curtis)
I found this bio:
Floyd Chester
Hansen was born in Holland in 1894, and attended Maple Street School through eighth grade. Possessed of an adventurous spirit, he left Holland in 1914 and went to sea as a cook aboard the USS Justin, and later, on the M/S Kronprince Gustav Adolf, one of the first ships to travel through the newly built Panama
Canal. After his time at sea, Floyd traveled through the Midwest working as a cook until the outbreak of the war. He enlisted in June 1917 and became a cook with the 354th Ambulance Company at
Fort Riley,
Kan. He rose to the rank of mess sergeant for the entire company, but transferred to the 314th Sanitation Train as a stretcher-bearer to get to France. Sanitation Trains were the medics of the American Expeditionary Forces, gathering the wounded and stabilizing them at the front before they were sent to the rear. Attached to the 89th Division, the 314th Sanitation Train participated in the major United States battles on the Western Front.
Floyd's letters home describe life stateside and on the western front, reflecting the desire shared by many in the U.S. Army to get "over there" and participate in winning the war, as well as the tempered attitude they acquired as they experienced the war they had wanted to be a part of. Disembarking in France in early July, Floyd and the rest of the 314th Sanitary Train began additional training to prepare for moving up to the front, which began on Aug. 5 when the division occupied trenches north of Toul, a position on the St. Mihiel salient. Acclimation to trench warfare was swift as the German army sought to test the quality of these new troops.
"The Boches come over to pay us a visit three or four times a day," Floyd wrote on Aug. 12, "and during the night he sticks around just about all the time, but we are getting used to it and when he gets too close we hike for our dugout but for myself I'd rather be in an air raid any day than a gas attackā¦" "Like many soldiers writing home, Floyd is understating here."
Children:
i. James
Riffle Hansen, b. 12 APR 1926 in Holland,
Ottawa,
Michigan,( d. 14 JUN 1967 in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, Canada. Uncertain data. )
ii. Patricia K
Hansen, b. 1932 in
Indiana, resided 1945 in
Dade,
Florida.
Thank You in advance.