May 14, 1919-Sept. 13, 2012
TYLER - Services for Ralph Sandager Hansen, 93, of Tyler are at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Danebod Lutheran Church in Tyler. Visitation is from 5-7 p.m. Tuesday with a prayer service at 6:30 p.m. at Hartquist Funeral Home, Utoft-Johansen Chapel in Tyler. Burial will be at a later date at Danebod Lutheran Cemetery.
He died Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012, at Sunrise Manor Nursing Home in Tyler.
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Ralph Hansen
He was born May 14, 1919, in Luck, Wis., to Thorvald and Bodil (Sandager) Hansen.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth; his daughters, Elizabeth Baxter of Phoenix, Ariz., Karma Dingman of Littleton, Color., Ruthann Dorn of West Bend, Wis., and Gail Newell of Tyler; 10 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandson; and brothers, Alfred of Chicago and Ejvind of King of Prussia, Pa.

