Adeline (Addie) J. Hansen

Addie Hansen was born on March 16, 1921 as Adeline Johana Krieger to Gottlieb George Krieger and Lydia Kossik Krieger in Glidden, Wisconsin. She died at the age of 94 years and two months on May 13, 2015. She was the third of six children born to George and Lydia. She later changed her name to Adeline Joanne Krieger on her 18th birthday.

Addie spent her childhood on a modest farm near Glidden and loved riding her horse Nancy and fishing in the creek near home. She endured the chores including rounding up the family cows and milking them. She walked two miles every day to a one room school house, except in the snow when her father hooked up Nancy to the sleigh and took his flock to school. Her high school was 4 miles from home so she and her younger sister Edie moved in with their grandmother who lived in town close to the school. She graduated Valedictorian from her high school.

Addie was very ambitious and bright, as her school grades reflected, and felt the little farm was not the place to spend her life. She left for Chicago with Edith and landed a job with Stuart and Warner as an inspector of aviation gauges under government contract for the war effort. She later moved to Minneapolis where her older sister Cecelia had married

Al Nelson.

Her oldest sister Clara and husband Sander Johnson had moved to Seattle to become youth ministers at Bethany Baptist Church in Ballard. Clara wrote that there was a very eligible bachelor in the church named Dick Hansen with a snazzy black Buick convertible that she should meet. She headed to Seattle for a visit with her mom along as support, and they never went back. Her dad sold the farm, loaded up the old car, and headed to Seattle shortly thereafter.

Addie found a job and new friends at the Seattle School District and lived with her friend Margaret Garness where they plotted strategy how to land her new attraction, Dick Hansen. He was a boat builder and fisherman from Ballard. Their plans took time and patience, with lots of special meals and treats, but Dick and Addie were finally married on September 14, 1945. They moved into their new home near Shilshole Bay soon after marriage.. Randy was born in 1948 and Rick was born in 1953.

They bought a new home on Lake Washington in 1953, demolished it in 1955, and built their dream house. The Lake House, as it became known, became "Party Central" to friends and family since it boasted a huge kitchen, BBQ, balcony, beach, dock, speedboat and waterskis. It was a great place to raise her family, and Addie was more than up to running the household and raising her two boys since Dick was often gone for long stretches commercial fishing.

That life lasted only so long, and Addie, ever ambitious, talked Dick into letting her cook on his fish boat as he headed for Alaska in 1966. There she learned to cook for 8 people, run the hydraulics on deck that pulled the nets in, and try to hold her stomach in check during rough weather. One trip was especially rough, and her queasy stomach was severely tested when the refer door flew open and she was on her hands and knees chasing pickles and mustard on the rolling floor Randy and Rick were on the boat also, and she always looked back on those times with fondness.

Some years later Addie and Dick purchased a small commercial fishing boat that just the two of them could fish for salmon. It was named "DOLLY," Dick's favorite nickname for Addie. They spent many happy summers commercial fishing out of MacKaye Harbor on Lopez Island. Even later, in retirement, they had several cruisers to sport fish from and a motorhome to go fishing in eastern Washington. Addie loved to go fishing, anytime, anywhere.

When the boys got older, Addie took several jobs to make ends meet and also to keep herself active. She worked for a while back at the Seattle School District, and then as office manager for Molvik Construction. Later, she was bookkeeper for Hansen Boat Company until she retired. She prided herself in knowing where every penny went, whether it was household or company finances.

Addie and Dick moved to Marysville, Washington, then Hansen Boat Company moved to Everett in 1971. They later built another beach house on Camano Island, and even later when both were in their 70's, built a house on Harbour Pointe Golf Course in Mukilteo, Washington. They moved to the Crista Senior Community in 2008 and later both received wonderful care at the Anderson House in Shoreline until their deaths. They were married 64 years.

Addie and Dick attended Bethany Baptist Church when first married then became members of Fremont and Westminster Assembly of God, Bethany Assembly in Everett, and Shoreline Community Church. They were both strong Christians in their faith in God, and raised their family in a godly atmosphere. Addie was a scholar of the Bible and could recite endless passages of verses that were important to her Christian faith. Even though her mind was severely clouded near the end, her last intelligent words were, "Everybody here ought to know Jesus."

Addie's two oldest sisters, Clara Krieger Johnson and Cecelia Nelson, preceded her in death. Her husband Dick died in 2009 at age 92. She is survived by her son Randy and his wife Evie, and son Rick and his wife Val. She has three granddaughters: Lindsey Pell and her husband Tim, Ryna Hansen and her fiancé' Eric DeMarse, and Mickey Hansen. She has two great grandsons, Luke and Jack Pell. She is also survived by sisters Edith Linder and Gracie Finnegan, and brother, Dick Krieger.

Addie can be remembered for her beauty inside and out, her ambition to continually improve herself, her ability to chart her own course, her love for Dick and her boys and extended family, and her unwavering faith in God. She will be extremely missed by her family and friends.