Hansen, Gary B.

Gary Barker Hansen was born in 1935 in Ogden, Utah to Clarence James Hansen and Lena Barker Hansen. When Hansen graduated from high school in 1953, he attended Utah State Agricultural College (now Utah State University), where he graduated with a BS in 1957 and received a commission as a 2nd Lieutenant in the United States Army Ordnance Corps. Lt. Hansen entered the U.S. Army in July 1957, serving at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and Tooele Army Ordnance Depot in Utah, and received an honorable discharge as a 1st Lieutenant in June 1959.

From September 1959 to September 1961 Hansen was a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Great Britain. He served in the British, North British and Scottish-Irish Missions, helping set up the latter two missions and serving as Mission Secretary in both of them.

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