Malcolm R. Hanson

TO THOSE I LOVE

by Isla Paschal Richardson

If I should ever leave you,
Whom I love
To go along the silent way. . .
Grieve not.
Nor speak of me with tears.
But laugh and talk of me
As if I were beside you there.
(I'd come. . .I'd come,
Could I but find a way!
But would not tears
And grief be barriers?)
And when you hear a song
Or see a bird I loved,
Please do not let the...

I never met Mr. Hanson, but if his daughter Deborah is the person she is because of his influence, he must have been a great man.

I loved sending goodies over to Mal via my dad Art Robertson, because I was always rewarded by a poem from Mal. Mal called himself 'the old moocher'..the 'old geezer' and my dad was the 'young man from Meals on Wheels'. Here are some of the cute poems Mal wrote:

Though this message be simple and straight
And rather typically late;
I'd like to say
In the sincerest way,
Both you and your pizza are great!

Thank you from the old moocher...

Our loss is Heaven's gain.
God Loves you and so do we.

I am signing this Guest Book today, not because I knew Malcolm Hanson, but because I know and greatly respect his daughter Deborah, and I know that she loved her father very much. I am happy that she was able to live with him again and care for him before he passed away.

-Kristan Chase

My deepest symphathy on the lost of your father.
May he be kept in piece.

Happy,
You will be with us always, you are just gone from our sight. We shall miss you and love you forever. We thank you for being in our lives.

One of the nicest people you could ever hope to meet. He and his wife were such good friends with my folks that they became our "Aunt and Uncle." Because of their great attitudes they were referred to as Happy and Candy. May they both be together again...

Hap was remarkable -- versatile, intelligent, a true friend, one who would go out of his way to help others. He was a wonderful husband and father, a gifted writer and musician, with a sense of humor and wit guaranteed to keep you laughing. He was his own person, yet always there when you needed him. He was an individual like no other -- wonderful, caring, and completely unique in the nicest possible way. He will be sadly missed by our family and by his friends, yet we know he anticipated...