In partnership with Gov. Rounds and various state agencies, Sheila Hansen expanded the WWII Fallen Sons project to include South Dakota’s fallen sons of Korea to coincide with the unveiling of a Korean War monument in Pierre.

Visit http://spearfish.k12.sd.us/sms/Libary II/homepage.html to learn more about the project. Hansen, daughter of Marlin and Marilyn Groft, is a fifth-generation South Dakotan, raised on a family farm near Redfield. She graduated from Redfield High School and from the University of South Dakota in Vermillion, as did her three brothers: Gordon, Travis, and Derek. She has taught in the Spearfish School District since 1989, first as a middle school English teacher and now as the middle school librarian and information literacy teacher. Sheila and her husband, David, a farm boy from Cresbard, have two children, Slade and Justice. Click here to learn more about Sheila Hansen.