David Hanson, class of 1968

David Hanson, a year ahead of us in school, passed away recently.  He was in the first class to graduate from the new high school.  He was a rather fine catcher on our Little League team, the Dodgers, in 1963.  Other than that, I really did not know him very well. 

Sometime in my teaching career, perhaps in the early 80's, Shawn Eidsness was a student of mine.  In David's obituary, Shawn Eidsness is listed as one of David's sons.  At the time, I made no connection between the two.  In retrospect, though, there was some physical resemblance between them.  It could have been possible, then, that David's son was in my class and I was not even aware of it.

His sister is married to a Richard Brandsma.  I believe there used to be a family by that name that lived in Brokings, also in the 80's.  I also remember a girl named Brandsma that was a student of mine; maybe it was Heidi.  I will look the next time I am in Brookings.  Again, I was clueless at the relationship between the Brandsmas and the Hansons.
 
Our prayers and condolences go out to the family.  If anyone has any more information to add, feel free to do so.  The complete obituary can be found at http://www.brookingsregister.com/v2_news_articles.php?heading=0&story_id=14763&page=80