OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:
Esther Ellen Hanson Smith
Birth 9 Mar 1922, Chicago, Cook County, Illinois, USA
Death 9 Aug 1966 (aged 44), Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana, USA
Burial Riverside Cemetery, Brook, Newton County, Indiana, USA
Plot Block 1, Lot 136, Grave 1
Memorial ID 137465226
Mrs. Ellen Smith, 44, of New York City, died at 10:50 a.m. Tuesday at Jasper County Hospital, Rensselaer, where she had been a patient a week. She had been ill several years.
Mrs. Smith was born in Chicago and in 1949 was married to Fred Smith in New York. She graduated from Indiana University and received her master's degree from Columbia University. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
Surviving are the husband; her mother, Mrs. Lela Hanson of Brook, and a sister, Mrs. Jean Clark of Warrensville, Ill.
Friends may call after 6 p.m. Wednesday at Hershman and Weston Funeral Home, Brook. Services there 10:30 a.m. Thursday, the Rev. William Peterson officiating; burial in Riverside Cemetery, Brook.
Journal & Courier (Lafayette, Indiana) Aug. 10, 1966, Page 9
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INFORMATION FROM FAMILY SEARCH WEBSITE:
Brief Life History of Esther Ellen
When Esther Ellen Hansen was born on 9 March 1922, in Chicago, Cook, Illinois, United States, her father, Paul Emil Hanson, was 34 and her mother, Leila Helen Foresman, was 31. She lived in Brook, Newton, Indiana, United States for about 5 years and Hobart Township, Lake, Indiana, United States in 1940. She died on 9 August 1966, in Rensselaer, Marion Township, Jasper, Indiana, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Brook, Newton, Indiana, United States.
This information was obtained from: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/about/L159-4FK.