Sara Hansen- Walters

October 15, 1930 - December 3, 2015

Sara A. Hansen- Walter, 85 of Blair, Nebraska, graduated into glory on Thursday, December, 3, 2015 at Memorial Community Hospital in hospice care. A Celebration of Sara’s Life will be held January 3, 2016 at 12 noon at First Christian Church in Blair, NE. Sara was born on October 15, 1930 in Kenmare, ND to Reverend L.C. Hansen of Denmark and Agatha (Mengers) Hansen. She grew up in Dannebrog, NE and moved to Blair, NE in 1947. She was the youngest of five children, three brothers, David, Ethan and Charles, and a sister Ellen. She graduated from Blair High School and then attended college at Lutheran Deaconess in Chicago, Illinois where she became an RN and also met her first husband, Harold Houser, they settled in Bloomington, Indiana and she remained there until 1982 when she moved back to Blair, NE. She married again here in Blair to Neal Walter. She loved being an RN and retired from Good Shephard Lutheran Community in 1994. She was a dedicated volunteer at the Danish American Archives in Blair. She enjoyed watching Indiana University football and basketball as well as horseracing on television. She loved hearing her great granddaughter, Hailie, singing the songs she learned at church. She loved Hailie’s cats Jack and Max, and also one of Hailie’s rabbits named “Digger”. She is survived by her daughter, Laura Houser of Blair, NE; Grandchildren: Tosha Scroggins of Gosport, IN, Joshua (Misty) Scroggins of Bloomington, IN, Bobby (Anna) Scroggins of Blair, NE, and Sarah (Danny) Smith of Bloomington, IN; 9 Great Grandchildren: Hailie, Coty, Isabella, Brooke, Breanna, Luther, Kaylie, Cheyenne and Mavis and one on the way. As well as many loving Nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her first husband Harold Houser, and second husband, Neal Walter; three brothers: David, Ethan and Charles Hansen; one sister: Ellen Schooley. Memorials may be directed to the family, and they would also like to extends a Thank You to Gentiva Home Healthcare and the MCH Hospice team. “For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever should believe in him, will not parish, and have everlasting life.” John 3:16