Kenneth Raymond Hanson
Ken was born August 15, 1947 in Shell Lake, Wisconsin to Raymond and Frances (Thurber) Hanson. Shortly after graduating high school in 1965, he enlisted in the U.S. Air Force, and served four years, including a deployment to Vietnam as an air traffic controller in 1968. He married Pamela Leckel December 9, 1967 in Spooner, Wisconsin. After his time in the military, he worked various jobs and finally settled on a 34-year career with the U.S. Postal Service. He first worked as a contract mail hauler and then moved to Superior in 1981, where he worked assorted positions at the main Post Office in Duluth. He retired from there in 2012 and enjoyed several years of retirement before passing away on Christmas Eve, 2020.