Marjorie Hans

June 12, 1916 - January 03, 2012

Marjorie E. Hans, longtime resident of Palo Alto passed peacefully January 3, 2012.

Born in Salt Lake City, June 1916, she lost her mother and infant brother in the great flu epidemic of 1918.

She met Wendel J. Hans at the University of Utah and they married in 1939.  They moved to Portland, Oregon in 1941 where Wendel worked installing electrical systems in landing craft.  They returned to Salt Lake City in 1943. 

They had four children, Lessel, Wendel Jr., Douglas and Elizabeth (Janie).

The family moved to Palo Alto in 1952.

Marjorie was active in the PTA’s, Cub Scouts and Bluebirds in Barron Park area schools.  After the children left she joined Eastern Star and the Palo Alto Republican Women’s Club.  The Hans family was also very active in the First Christian Church of Palo Alto.

Wendel Sr. passed away in 1997.  Marjorie is survived by children: Lessel Hans Mansour, Berkeley CA; Wendel Jr., Santa Barbara CA; Douglas, Tukwila WA; and Janie Thoreson, Lynchburg, VA.

Grandchildren: Tarik and Tamir Mansour, Brian Hans, Tamara Thoreson Orozco, Tye Thoreson and Tiffany Thoreson Wallace.

Great grandchildren:  Gabriel Orozco, Jayden and Jacob Wallace.

Memorial Service:  28 January 2012, 2 pm at First Christian Church, 2890 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA.

Service Details

Date: January 28, 2012
Time: 3:00pm
Location: First Christian Church
Address: 2890 Middlefield Road Palo Alto, CA 94306
Directions: First Christian Church