Randall A. 'Curly' Hansen, 68
Randall A. “Curly” Hansen joined the International Space Station on July 5, 2022; enjoy the ride.
Randall was born on June 11, 1954, in Anaconda.
He attended St. Joseph catholic grade school and graduated from Anaconda Central in 1972. As a young fun teenager he worked as a box boy and ran with his buddies who his mother Anne labeled “That Bunch.”
He worked for a short time at the Anaconda Smelter then went on to Montana State University where he realized he could not get a degree in skiing or the Haufbrau. Randy went on to Billings and attended
Eastern where he got his teaching degree. His first teaching job was in Pray, Montana, where he taught one year, then accepted a job at Warm Springs in the children’s unit and enjoyed working with James “Pork” McDonald whom he respected as a boss and, more importantly, a good friend.
In 1983 he took a teaching job in the Special Education Department at Flathead; he now was a “Brave”! In 2000 he joined the Social Studies Department where he was able to teach what he loved, history.
So many times after he retired he would run into past students and ask, “Don’t you owe me a paper?”
Summer of 1985 everything changed when he met Tammy Iverson; boy, did they have fun! They were married August 1986.
They would refer to each other as my first wife and last husband.
Randall enjoyed rafting, golfing, biking, fishing, hiking and all there is to do in this great state of Montana.
Randall is known for growing the best garlic in Montana.
Three enjoyable trips of a lifetime were floating the Grand Canyon, hiking in Nepal with his hiking buddy Cooley Vaughn of Anaconda, and floating the mighty Chilkoten River in Canada with the White family of Somers.
Randall was diagnosed with colon cancer on April 20, 2021, and suffered a stroke on April 20, 2022. He fought a good fight, but the cancer was more powerful than his body could take and he went peacefully at home in Somers.
Randall was preceded in death by his parents, Anne J. Francisco/Hansen and Frank Hansen; brothers, Richard and Jerry Hansen; Uncle Mick and Auntie Kate Laslovich, and many aunts and uncles; mother in-law and father in-law, Lois and Gene Iverson; and fur friends, Kooskia and Jack the dog.
He is survived by his first and only wife, Tammy; sister, Kathy (Joe) Sebena of Bozeman; brother; Don (Juliann) Hansen of Colorado Springs, Colorado;
sister, Debbie (Mead) Dana of Gilbert, Arizona; nephews, Nick and Jon Hansen and families of Denver, Corey Dunn and family of Englewood, Colorado, Eric Butts and family of Red Lodge, and JR Hansen and family of Butte; sister in-law; Shirley Matthews, of Bozeman; nieces, Vicki Ehrsman and family of Beaverton, Oregon, and Laura Gerona and family of San Francisco.
Thank you to all the friends and family who visited, sent cards, text messaged and provided food and whisky!
A big shout out to all the good guys at the “Snug” Slainte!
“Banter is Love. Namaste.”
A celebration of life for Randall will be Monday, Aug. 22, at 2 p.m. at Snowline Acres, Kalispell.