IN MEMORIAM: Jeanette Hansen, 93;
First Drum Majorette At Oneonta High
COOPERSTOWN – Oneonta native Jeanette Baldwin Hansen, 93, passed away Thursday in Cooperstown, where she had resided at the Clara Welch Thanksgiving Home.
She was born Feb. 24, 1922, in Oneonta , the daughter of Edna and Paul Baldwin. Jeanette grew up on East Street and graduated from Oneonta High School in 1940. She was a member of the National Honor Society, voted most popular in her class and was Oneonta High's first drum majorette.
In 1941 Jeanette graduated from business school in Binghamton and became a secretary at A. O. Dailey & Sons in the Southern Tier, where she met and married her first husband, Harry G. Lampman, Jr. They lived in Albany and Rensselaer before moving to Modesto, Calif. When he passed away suddenly in 1950 Jeanette moved back to Oneonta.
Jeanette married Wilbur L. Hansen in 1952 and raised their children on Irving Place, spending summers at their camp on Arnold's Lake. In 1969, Jeanette and Bill moved to Cooperstown, purchasing the Greenough house, now known as the 1819 House.
