Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Hazel Young 1944-2024

Hazel Irene Young, 79, of Hopkins, Missouri, passed away on Monday, June 10, 2024, at the Maryville Living Center, Maryville, Missouri.

Hazel was born in Maryville on November 12, 1944, to Delbert Reed and Anna Marie (Lattin) Morton.  She grew up in Hopkins and the family had lived in Southwest Iowa for several years and moved back to the Hopkins area in 1972.

She graduated from Hopkins High School in 1962.  She delivered newspapers in the 1970’s, the St. Joe, the Maryville Daily Forum and on Sunday, the Des Moines Register.  She was also a clerk for Maurice Riley, at Wilson’s Grocery.  Later she was a cook for many years at the Beverly Healthcare Center, now Maryville Living, in Maryville.  

She married Arthur Dean Hansen, Sr., and he passed away in 1977, later she married Jack M. Young, and he passed in 2014.  She was also preceded in death by her parents, her son, Thomas R. Hansen, her 3 sisters, Mary Welther, Martha Morton, and Genevieve Wiltrout, and her 3 brothers, William, Sam and Delbert Morton.  

She was a member and attended the First Baptist Church, Hopkins, Missouri, and also a member of the Hopkins Community Betterment Committee. She enjoyed mowing the yard, watching westerns on TV, NASCAR, and the Dallas Cowboys.  

She leaves behind her children, Arthur Dean (Rhonda) Hansen, Jr., Hopkins, Cary (Barb) Hansen, Nevada, Iowa, Carmen Allen, Ames, Iowa, and her adopted daughter, Lorrie Schatz, Hopkins.  And her brother, Kenneth Morton, Granite City, Illinois, and her sister-in-law, Annabelle Morton, Maryville, Missouri, 8 grandchildren, Justin Hansen, Sebina Hansen, Kalen Mosley, Dominic Mosley, Jeremy Hansen, Monica Koch, Trevor Hansen, and Brett Allen, 2 great grandchildren, Jacoby Davis, Coralynn Hansen, and many nieces and nephews.  

Funeral services will be at 1:00 PM, on Friday, June 14, 2024, at the First Baptist Church, Hopkins, Missouri.  The burial will follow in the Hopkins Cemetery, Hopkins, Missouri.  

The family will receive friends for one hour prior to the service at the Church.  

Services are under the direction of the Bram Funeral Home, Maryville, Missouri.

In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to the First Baptist Church, 401 S. 3rd St., Hopkins, Missouri 64461.


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