~ IN MEMORY ~
Military veteran, DL Capt. Jon Dee
Hansen
May 8, 1936 ~ February 15, 2019
Notification with the passing of retired Delta pilot Captain
Jon Dee Hansen, age 82. Captain Hansen joined Delta Air
Lines 12-17-1962. Widowed in July of 2018, Captain Hansen is survived by his
children and grandchildren plus many other family members.
To view the obituary online and offer condolences, please
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Visitation: Saturday, Mar. 9, 2019 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM ,
Sanctuary Church , Kennesaw, GA
Celebration of Life: Saturday, Mar. 9, 2019 at 1:00 PM ,
Sanctuary Church , Kennesaw, GA
Thank you,
~ Carol for the PCN
Obituary.................HANSEN, Jon Dee
Jon Dee Hansen of Marietta, Georgia passed away on 15 February
2019. He was preceded in death by his wife Deanna Lee Hansen. He is survived by
his sons and daughters-in-law, Mitch and Barbara Hansen, Mike and Karen Hansen,
and Mark and Lynn Hansen, his grandchildren and their spouses, Chris Hansen,
Ryan Hansen, Alex Hansen and Teri Parker, Baily Tripp, Tori Hansen, Morgan
Hansen, Haley and Nick Casey, Savannah and Sam Best, and Guy Hansen, and his
great-grandchildren Brailyn Hansen, Emma Tripp, Levi Casey, and Lucas Casey. He
is also survived by his brother and sister-in law, Ron and Marilyn Hansen, and
his sisters Sandy and Jim (deceased) Cook, and Barbara and Drake Hawkins. He
will be missed by all his family including his cousins, nieces, and nephews. Jon
was discharged from the Navy in 1962 after serving as a pilot and logging over
250 carrier landings. He retired from Delta Air Lines in 1996 as a L-1011
captain. As a pioneer in the light sport and sport pilot initiative he formed
Hansen Air Group to supply light sport aircraft and provide sport pilot
training. He was an early supporter of Able Flight (an organization that
provides sport pilot training scholarships to people with disabilities). He was
a long-time vice president of the Dixie Classic Chevy Club. He participated in
aerial surveys to help save the North Atlantic right whale. He was also heavily
involved in Greyt Friends, a greyhound rescue organization, founded by his wife
Dee. A Celebration of Life will be held Saturday, 9 March at 1:00 pm at
Sanctuary Church in Kennesaw with a reception to follow. Visitation will be from
noon to 1:00 pm. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly asks that you consider a
donation to Able Flight or Greyhound Health Initiative.
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Wife Deanna’s obituary...............
Deanna Lee Hansen of Marietta, Georgia passed away on July 26,
2018. She was born in 1941 to J. Brooke Adam and Virginia (Ginny) Adam. She was
dearly loved by Jon, her husband of 58 years, her children and daughters-in-law,
Mitch and Barbara Hansen, Mike and Karen Hansen, and Mark and Lynn Hansen, her
grandchildren and their spouses, Chris Hansen, Ryan Hansen, Alex Hansen and Teri
Parker, Tori Hansen, Baily Tripp, Morgan Hansen, Guy Hansen, Haley and Nic
Casey, Savannah and Sam Best, and her great-grandchildren Brailyn Hansen, Emma
Tripp, Levi Casey, and Lucas Casey. She was also dearly loved by her sisters and
brothers-in-law, Karen and Charlie Ferguson, and Kay and Warren Tesch. She will
be missed by all her family including her cousins, nieces, and nephews. She will
be mourned by all the lives she has touched over the years, including many
greyhound friends.
She attended San Diego State University where she studied
accounting, but her focus was her family and her greyhounds. She started a
non-profit rescue group called Greyt Friends, where she was able to rescue and
place hundreds of greyhounds in loving homes. She loved to travel, go on
cruises, read, spend time at the cabin on Lake Burton, and the Atlanta
Braves......................
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