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Unknown – March 26, 1962

Cecil Hansen

Personal Information

Birthplace: McLouth, Kansas

Service Information

Branch of Service: Marine Corps

Theater of Operation: Pacific

Honored By: Daughter, Mary Smith and Ruth Wilcox

Biography

Cecil Hansen served 30 years in the marines. He was stationed in Hawaii on December 7, 1941. He served with the Marines in the South Pacific the rest of the war and retired in 1950. He moved his family to Enterprise, Kansas, in 1951 and is laid to rest with other family members in the Mount Hope Cemetery south of Enterprise.

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