Individual Details

Marriage

Paul Hanssen Weds Alice Irene Williams
Mrs. Jesse McClelland Williams of Casa Grande, Arizona, is announcing the marriage of her daughter, Alice Irene, to Paul Arthur Hanssen. The marriage occurred at Casa Grande, September 2. Mr. and Mrs. Hanssen will make their home at Casa Grande where the former is employed in the office of county surveyor.
Mr. Hanssen is a son of Art Hanssen of Monticello. After graduating from the Monticello high school he saw service with the Seabees in World War II.

Death

HANSSEN, PAUL Paul Arthur Hanssen, 93, a civil engineer with the County of San Diego, Calif., died on November 10, 2009, at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in San Diego, from complications of a heart condition. Interment will be at Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, on Thursday, December 3, 2009, at 2 p.m.
Survivors include a sister, Mary Hanssen Jones of Washington, Iowa; and a brother, George L. Hanssen of Washington, D.C.
Paul Hanssen was born on June 13, 1916, on a farm near Monticello, Iowa.
He was a graduate of Monticello Public Schools and attended the University of Iowa. He permanently moved to San Diego, Calif., in 1939 and was employed by Convair Aircraft Co. and then by the County of San Diego as a civil engineer. He entered the Navy (Sea-bees) in 1942, serving in Hawaii, Midway Island, the Philippines, and Guam. He engaged in Army and Marine airfield and building construction.
After the war, he returned to his position with the County of San Diego as civil engineer. He married Alice Irene Williams in 1952. She died in October 1964. He subsequently married Margaret Smathers, who also was employed by the County of San Diego. She died October 24, 2009.