Obit: Hansen, Viggo (1893 - 1958)

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Surnames: Hansen, Riesetter

----Source: OWEN ENTERPRISE (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 04/03/1958

Hansen, Viggo (4 OCT 1893 - 1 APR 1958)

This community mourns the death of V. A. "Viggo" Hansen, 62, prominent businessman and pioneer resident of the village of Withee (Clark Co., Wis.) .  Death came to him about 3:00 Tuesday afternoon when stricken with a heart attack at Colby.  He suffered the attack in his car after making an office call at the office of Joseph Mullen.  Colby elementary school Principal Hansen was the owner of the Withee Office Supply Co., which he founded more than 45 years ago.

Hansen’s car went out of control and backed into a tree in the schoolyard.  The incident was witnessed by Walter Mueller, school custodian, who was at work in the yard.  He found Hansen slumped in the car seat.  A physician was called and oxygen was administered by the Colby Fire Department, but he failed to respond to treatment.

Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 2:00 from the Nazareth Lutheran Church, Withee, of which parish he is a charter member.  The Rev. W. Clayton Nielsen will officiate and burial will be made in the parish cemetery.

The body will repose at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home, Owen, Friday afternoon and evening.

Mourning his sudden departure are his wife, a son, Roger, of Chippewa Falls, a brother, William Hansen, president of Wis. State College at Stevens Point, and a sister, Mrs. Emma Riesetter, Harriman, Tenn.