In Memory of Synova S. Hanson
Synova S. Hanson, age 89, of East Bethel passed away March 8, 2008 at Birchwood Health Care Center in Forest Lake. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Saturday, March 15th at Our Saviours Lutheran Church in East Bethel with Pastor Brian Fragodt officiating. A visitation will be held 1 hour prior to the service at the church. Interment will be in Fort Snelling National Cemetery.
Synova S. Hanson was born February 25, 1919 at Dawson, Minnesota to Oscar and Ida (Lamberg) Sather. She was raised and attended school in Clouquet, graduating as Class of 1935 Valedictorian at Clouquet High School. Synova continued her education at St. Olaf, graduating in 1939. After college she married Reuben Anderson and one daughter, Lisa, was born to this union. Synova later went back to school and earned her masters degree. She worked as a librarian at the Windom school district and later for the Roseville schools. Synova was a librarian for 43 years, retiring in 1983. On June 28, 1979 she married Gene Hanson and they made their home in East Bethel. Synova was a member of Our Saviours Lutheran Church. She enjoyed music, sewing, knitting and especially reading.
Synova is survived by her loving husband, Gene; daughter, Lisa Ohlgren of Littleton, Colorado; step-son, Thomas (Janet) Hanson of Blaine; step-daughter, Carol (Ed) Sheely of Florida; sister, Jenalda (Roy) Ranum of Silver Bay; brother-in-law, John Dimarchi of New Jersey; by 5 grandchildren, other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents and by one sister, Ramona Dimarchi.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Chris & Billye
Dear Gene,
May you find peace remembering the happy times together.
Our prayers are with you.
Craig, Cora, Christa, and Collin
Dear Lisa,
Your mother was very special to the students who attended the Windom School while she was librarian. I can still remember her reading to us on “Library Day” as a very young person. My sister Betty worked in the school office back in those days. Betty visited a couple of weeks ago and you and your mother were in our conversations.
No matter their age or their health, we hate to have them leave us. You have our condolences and sympathy on your mother’s passing. She was insturmental in the shaping of many people’s lives.
Pete Byam
Synova will long be remembered by the hundreds and hundreds of students at the Windom Public Schools. She was such a breath of fresh air when she took over her library duties with the Board of Education – and we continued ‘breathing in’ that fresh air for many years. Synova told me her greatest and most wonderous achievement in her life was the day she gave birth to Lisa. Lisa became the adoring daughter of a truly loving woman – a love so enormous she had enough to spare with her colleagues and students.
I am glad she ‘walked this earth’ and left so many good memories to all who came to know her. Betty