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Mary Lou Hansen
March 12, 1925 — June 29, 2015
Mary Lou (Lou) Scoggin Hansen
March 12, 1925 – June 29, 2015
Mary Lou (Lou) Scoggin Hansen, 90, formerly of Amarillo died on Monday, June 29, 2015. Graveside services will be at 10:00 am, Friday, July 3, 2015 at Llano Cemetery (34th Entrance) Arrangements are by LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Directors, 8310 S. Coulter.
Mary Lou (Lou) Scoggin Hansen, was one of the greatest of the Greatest Generation. She was a widow to two United States Marine Corps. officers, both of whom served with distinction during World War II.
Lou was born on March 12, 1925 in Floydada, Texas to Alvin Luther Scoggin and Georga Ann Dickey Scoggin. As a young girl, Lou moved to Lubbock where her father, along with Ray Dickey, established the Scoggin-Dickey Buick Co. in 1929, which has been a thriving automobile dealership over eight (8) decades and remains a landmark business in Lubbock today. Lou attended Lubbock High School and Abilene Christian College and was a member of the Broadway Church of Christ. At the age of nine (9) she began developing her superlative gift in becoming an artist.
During World War II Lou married Henry Neil Lawson, a United States Marine Corp. Aviator. While training for air combat, Lawson was killed in a flight training exercise at Camp Pendleton, California. After the end of World War II, Lou married Karl Jens Hansen Jr., a United States Marine Corp. Veteran of World War II and an Agriculture Economics graduate of Texas Tech University. After several years of farming in Hale Center Texas, Lou and Karl moved to Amarillo in 1958 with their two sons Karl Jens III and Luther Bartley. Karl became a home builder by establishing KAM Construction Company in southwest Amarillo with his partner Sam Jones. Two years later their third son Matthew Kristen Hansen was born. As a committed member of the Amarillo community, Lou was actively associated with the Republican Party and the YMCA baseball program. Lou was preceded in death by her husband Karl in 1971.
Finding herself a widow again in 1971, Lou began practicing her art profession through painting by commission and teaching art. Lou taught art for more than six (6) decades to the age of 89 to hundreds of students, many of whom have become accomplished artists. There was always a waiting list to enroll in one of her classes. Lou's magnificent artwork of oil and pastels hang in churches, many private and corporate collections across the High Plains of Texas, Oklahoma Panhandle, and in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus. Her many paintings and works of art are cherished by her family, friends, students and art collectors. Lou's internal and external beauty is manifested in her many works of art that brighten people's lives and represent her unfailing love for all humanity and God's creation. Lou Hansen never met a stranger or a person who did not become her friend. She is painfully missed.
Survivors: Sister: Charlotte Scoggin Nahigan and Husband Edward Nahigan; Sons: Karl Jens Hansen III and wife Janie Hansen, Luther Bartley Hansen and wife Tannah Lynn Hansen, and Matthew Kristen Hansen and wife Lori P. Hansen; Grandchildren: Ashley Wooten, John Hansen and wife Kate Hansen, Kristopher Bartley Hansen and wife Margarett Hansen, Kristen Hansen and Jordan Hansen; Great Grandchildren: Cade Wooten; Nieces and Nephews and scores of friends too many to count.
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March 12, 1925 – June 29, 2015
Mary Lou (Lou) Scoggin Hansen, 90, formerly of Amarillo died on Monday, June 29, 2015. Graveside services will be at 10:00 am, Friday, July 3, 2015 at Llano Cemetery (34th Entrance) Arrangements are by LaGrone Blackburn Shaw Funeral Directors, 8310 S. Coulter.
Mary Lou (Lou) Scoggin Hansen, was one of the greatest of the Greatest Generation. She was a widow to two United States Marine Corps. officers, both of whom served with distinction during World War II.
Lou was born on March 12, 1925 in Floydada, Texas to Alvin Luther Scoggin and Georga Ann Dickey Scoggin. As a young girl, Lou moved to Lubbock where her father, along with Ray Dickey, established the Scoggin-Dickey Buick Co. in 1929, which has been a thriving automobile dealership over eight (8) decades and remains a landmark business in Lubbock today. Lou attended Lubbock High School and Abilene Christian College and was a member of the Broadway Church of Christ. At the age of nine (9) she began developing her superlative gift in becoming an artist.
During World War II Lou married Henry Neil Lawson, a United States Marine Corp. Aviator. While training for air combat, Lawson was killed in a flight training exercise at Camp Pendleton, California. After the end of World War II, Lou married Karl Jens Hansen Jr., a United States Marine Corp. Veteran of World War II and an Agriculture Economics graduate of Texas Tech University. After several years of farming in Hale Center Texas, Lou and Karl moved to Amarillo in 1958 with their two sons Karl Jens III and Luther Bartley. Karl became a home builder by establishing KAM Construction Company in southwest Amarillo with his partner Sam Jones. Two years later their third son Matthew Kristen Hansen was born. As a committed member of the Amarillo community, Lou was actively associated with the Republican Party and the YMCA baseball program. Lou was preceded in death by her husband Karl in 1971.
Finding herself a widow again in 1971, Lou began practicing her art profession through painting by commission and teaching art. Lou taught art for more than six (6) decades to the age of 89 to hundreds of students, many of whom have become accomplished artists. There was always a waiting list to enroll in one of her classes. Lou's magnificent artwork of oil and pastels hang in churches, many private and corporate collections across the High Plains of Texas, Oklahoma Panhandle, and in the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus. Her many paintings and works of art are cherished by her family, friends, students and art collectors. Lou's internal and external beauty is manifested in her many works of art that brighten people's lives and represent her unfailing love for all humanity and God's creation. Lou Hansen never met a stranger or a person who did not become her friend. She is painfully missed.
Survivors: Sister: Charlotte Scoggin Nahigan and Husband Edward Nahigan; Sons: Karl Jens Hansen III and wife Janie Hansen, Luther Bartley Hansen and wife Tannah Lynn Hansen, and Matthew Kristen Hansen and wife Lori P. Hansen; Grandchildren: Ashley Wooten, John Hansen and wife Kate Hansen, Kristopher Bartley Hansen and wife Margarett Hansen, Kristen Hansen and Jordan Hansen; Great Grandchildren: Cade Wooten; Nieces and Nephews and scores of friends too many to count.
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