Dolores Lorraine Hanson Stuart
Dolores Lorraine Hanson Stuart
Dolores
Lorraine Hanson Stuart died in Boise of natural causes May 11, 2014, at the age
of 92. She was born in northwestern Minnesota on December 28, 1921 to father Ivar
Lund Hanson and mother Hilda Marie Olson, both descended from long family lines
in Norway.
Dolores
grew up in Gary, Minnesota with sisters Irene and Esther, brothers Sydney and
Dennis, and later, loving stepmother Charlotte and new siblings Diane and
Michael. Life was simple and happy in a warm and loving home, with snowy, cold
winters and many activities in local schools and churches. Dolores, a bright
student, graduated as Valedictorian from Gary High School in 1939, and then
left home to attend nursing school at the University of Minnesota. She graduated
proudly as a Registered Nurse in 1942, and as the pace of World War II
increased, joined the U.S. Army Nurse Corps.
Assigned to
Camp
Carson
,
Colorado
,
she met Lieutenant T. Ralph Stuart Jr. They
married in 1943, and remained together until his death in 1995.
After
the war, Dolores raised her growing family in Pueblo and Denver, Colorado, and
then moved to Idaho in 1965. She lived
in Boise for almost 50 years, and returned to her nursing career. She said
recently, “I had a wonderful career as a nurse. After Army service, and when my
children were old enough, I worked for years in a Boise nursing home, retiring
at the age of 63 to travel with my husband and other family members. We traveled extensively – to England,
Scotland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, France, Switzerland, Greece, Italy, Egypt,
Israel – and several different times, to Norway. I visited the birthplaces of both my parents
in Norway.” In Idaho, she spent many wonderful summer days in the family cabin
on the Salmon River in Stanley.
Dolores
was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, many sisters and brothers,
and a beloved daughter, Patricia Kay. She
is survived by son Tom (Anne) Stuart of Boise and Stanley, daughter Laurie
(Lon) McCurdy of Boise, son Doug (Yan) Stuart of Bellevue, WA, and son-in-law
Pete Nolan of Pueblo, CO; grandchildren Anna,
Claire,
Lisa, Meghan, Evan, and Alyson; great granddaughters Annie and Ellie; and many
nieces, nephews, and extended family members in the Midwest. She often said, “I am a very lucky mother,
grandmother, and great-grandmother. My
family is very dear to me.”
Since
childhood, she enjoyed a favorite hobby, doll collecting, and attended many
special events, conventions, club meetings and parties with her “doll friends.”
Dolores was active for many years in her
Boise church, and has close friends in her Highlands neighborhood, at Willow
Park Assisted Living, in the Sons of Norway, and in Minnesota. The family extends special thanks to the Willow
Park staff, especially Elizabeth Klemer,
for loving care.
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