Ashley Dawn Hansen

Ashley Dawn Hansen
Ashley Dawn Hansen was swept from us way too soon as she was called to her heavenly home on November 25, 2007. She was born on May 8, 1985 in Provo, Utah to Jon & Shellie Hansen. At the age of four she moved with her parents to Mountlake Terrace, Washington. There, her family expanded with the births of her twin sisters, Aubrey and Amber and her brother Alex. She graduated from Maplewood PCEP and Mountlake Terrace High School where she sang with the Accent Choir and was the producer for the high school television station HBN. She is a senior at Brigham Young University where she was studying secondary education with plans to become a middle school teacher. She loved teaching and helping children. She found great joy in teaching at Renaissance Academy in Lehi. Ashley was a great leader and had a wonderful talent in working with and encouraging others to be better. She was a marvelous example of kindness to her family and friends and had a tender and sincere heart. She was, more than anything, the greatest example of a true friend to all who knew her. Her beautiful smile would light the room as she spread the warmth of sunshine and true happiness and joy to all she came in contact with. She loved and knew her Savior Jesus Christ and was Christ-like in all she did. She loved to share her testimony with others and always found ways to share the light of the gospel with others through her example, her words and her actions. Family, friends and church were her priorities above all else. She loved her family and friends. She loved her students and rejoiced in the opportunity to be with them every day, whether at school or their many extra curricular activities. She went to their games, plays, dance and music recitals or whatever activity she could because she loved to see them and encouraged them to succeed and do their best. She lived the last three years, while attending BYU in the home of her second family Uncle Shawn and Aunt Rischelle Mikkelson and her nieces, Victoria, Annika and Hadley. She loved being in their home. She had the amazing support of her grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, wonderful extended family and many, many friends and coworkers that love and miss her. We will all cherish the twenty-two short years we had with her on this earth and look forward longingly for the day we get to see and embrace her again, for we know that families are forever.
Funeral services will be held Friday, November 30, 2007 at the Traverse Mountain Stake Center, 2030 W. Chapel Ridge Road, Lehi, Utah at 1:00 pm. Family and friends may call from 11:30 to 12:30 prior to the services. Interment will follow at the Orem City Cemetery. A memorial will also be held at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 22015 48th Ave W., Mountlake Terrace, Washington on Saturday, December 8, 2007 at 10:00 am. In lieu of flowers or gifts, donations may be made to the Ashley Hansen Memorial Fund at any Utah Community Credit Union. Funeral Directors Walker Sanderson Funeral Home, Orem, Utah.