Estate donation makes a big difference at Telemiracle 41

A large estate donation from a former Southwest farmer had a big impact during Telemiracle 41.

A $463,000 donation from the estate of Harald Bernard Hanson was presented during the final hours of the 20-hour telethon in support of the Kinsmen Kinettes Telemiracle Foundation. This year’s telethon eclipsed the $5 million mark by raising $5,000,274.

Harald Hanson was born on the home farm Section 9, Township 6, Range 20 W3rd in the Brownville District, Saskatchewan on April 8, 1921, the second youngest of eight children to Lars Peder and Antonettie Hanson. He was in Grade 1 when Brownville School was first started in 1927. He went to Grade 8 before going to work with his father on the farm and helping other farmers in the community. He stayed at home looking after his mother till her passing. He continued farming until he retired in 2000 and moved into an apartment in Eastend.

Hanson was a member of the White Valley Lutheran Church. He celebrated his 95th birthday surrounded by a number of his nephews and nieces, passing away five days later on April 13th. He lived through the hard times in 1920s and 30s learning to repair and keep things in good shape. In later years was very inventive and utilized odd bits of machinery to build windmills, garden wagons, and numerous other projects, made bird houses out of a variety of objects but the most inventive was one out of a worn out dust buster hand vacuum. He repaired and fixed his clothing throughout the years on a hand operated sewing machine, when shirt buttons became too hard to do up; he cut the buttons off sewed them on front of his shirts and inserted a long zipper underneath which was easy to do up.

He was a kind, gentle man well loved by his 17 nieces and nephews from the time they were

Olittle, he always made time to help them with anything, a project were doing, to play all kinds of games, go fishing, or skiing with them. They are so proud of this kind, generous man for leaving his estate to Telemiracle to help others.

Gail Stevenson and Ken Wills were on the Telemiracle 41 stage with Beverley Mahood on March 5 during the unveiling of a $463,000 donation from their Uncle Harold Hanson’s estate.

SOUTHWEST BOOSTER PHOTO Former Swift Current Kinsmen Club President Scott Sundquist recently accepted a $1,150 Telemiracle donation from the staff and students from Fairview School. Students raised the funds through a series of fund-raisers, including a duct tape challenge....