- TWO TRUCKS COLLIDE.
Damage topped $2,500 but there were no injuries in a two-truck smash on icy U.S. 93 (?) 28 miles east of West Glacier at 12:30 p.m. Friday. [Jan. 23, 1970]
Investigating highway patrolmen said an eastbound semi-truck-trailer driven by Harvey Raymond Armstrong, 50, 13 Meadowlark Drive, Kalispell, was struck by a loaded truck-tanker after Armstrong slid into the westbound lane.
Driver of the westbound tanker, Bernard Hanson, 64, Columbia Falls, was unable to stop because of ice. He hit the Armstrong truck which had slid against a snowbank.
Neither man was injured and no citations were issued (Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Montana, Sun. Jan. 25, 1970, p.2).
SERVICE SET FOR BERNARD HANSON.
COLUMBIA FALLS --- Bernard Hanson, 64, was electrocuted Thursday following a traffic accident 14 miles west of Cut Bank.
A resident of Columbia Falls since 1956 Hanson was employed by Valley Oil and Service Co., Kalispell, as an over-the-road tanker driver.
In 1931 he was married to Alice Skrogstad at Crookston, Minn., who survived him at his family home in Columbia Falls.
He is also survived by two daughters, Mrs. Elaine Jensen, Spokane, and Mrs,. Marilyn Hurtt, Hoople, N.D.; six grandchildren, his mother, Mrs. Ragna Hanson, Milton, N.D.; five brothers, Edwin, Coram; Arnold, Seattle; and Marvin, Sidney and Harlan, all of Milton, N.D.; and two sisters, Mrs. Arlene Sunderland, Milton, N.D., and Mrs. Thelma Rud, Warren, Minn.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Our Saviour's Lutheran Church with Rev. Douglas Thorkelson officiating and internment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery. Services are under the direction of the Van Leuven Funeral Home (Daily Inter Lake, Kalispell, Montana, Sun. Feb. 1, 1970, p. 10).
SERVICES FOR BERNARD HANSON.
Funeral services for Bernard Hanson, 64, Aluminum City, Columbia Falls, were conducted in Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Tuesday afternoon. Pastor Douglas Thorkelson officiated.
Mrs. Ted Smith was organist with Mrs. Roger Elliott, soloist. Interment was in Woodlawn Cemetery with Tom Christiansen, William Einarson, James Gillespie, Raymond Olson, Leon Sloan and Lloyd Sondreson, pallbearers. Van Leuven Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Mr. Hanson died Jan. 29 following a highway accident near Browning. He was electrocuted when he walked into a dangling 12,700 volt transmission line. Hanson was driving a truck-trailer tanker unit which came off a long hill, rounded a curve, then gradually veered off a straight section of U.S. Highway 2 during an intense ground blizzard. The unit crashed through a power pole, tearing down the lines.
He was born Jan. 22, 1906, in Milton (Cavalier Co.), N. Dak., and grew up there. Alice Skrogstad and Bernard Hanson were married at Crookston (Polk Co.), Minn., Feb. 27, 1931.
They moved to Columbia Falls in 1956 and he was truck driver for Lloyd Sondreson, Polebridge. For the past three years he has been employed as a truck driver by Valley Oil and Service Co., Kalispell. He loved Montana and the out-of-doors.
Survivors are his widow; two daughters, Mrs. James (Elaine) Jensen, Spokane; and Mrs. Hamilton (Marilyn) Hurtt, Hoople, N. Dak.; six grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. Ragna Hanson, Milton; five brothers, Edwin, Coram; Arnold, Seattle; Marvin, Sidney and Harlan, all of Milton; two sisters, Mrs. Arlene Sunderland, Milton; and Mrs. Thelma Rud, Warren, Minn.
The obituary for his widow, ALICE A. HANSON, gives their marriage as Feb. 26, 1931 in Milton, N.D. (Hungry Horse News, Columbia Falls, Montana
Fri. Feb. 6, 1970, p.9).
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