The Recorder January 29, 1976
John Seybert Hansel , a retired Highland County attorney who lived on Spruce Street in Monterey, died at the age of 85 at the Staunton Manor Nursing Home early Wednesday. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at press time. Mr. Hansel was born at McDowell July 17, 1890, a son of Benjamin Hiner and Susan Alexander Hansel. He earned a Bachelor of Law from Washington and Lee University in 1917. He was admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1917 and the bar of the District of Columbia in 1919. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court in 1921. He worked in the state Adjuctant General's office from 1917 to 1921, and was legal council to the Veterans Bureau from 1921 to 1923. He had conducted a private law practice in Highland County since 1923. The late Mr. Hansel was mayor of Monterey from 1933 to 1935, moderator of the Lexington Presbytery in 1950, agent of the National Surety Corporation and the Maryland Casualty Company, the founder, director and secretary of the Highland County Democratic Committee, president of PTA, county chairman of War Finance and president of the Highland County Bar Association. He was a past master and past district deputy grand master of the Masons and a Kazim Temple Shriner. He also acted as commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and in 1954 at Montreat. In 1930, he was married to the late Mrs. Elzie Marie Gochenour Hansel, and the couple had three children, John Seybert, Virginia Lee and Benjamin Hiner
John Seybert Hansel , a retired Highland County attorney who lived on Spruce Street in Monterey, died at the age of 85 at the Staunton Manor Nursing Home early Wednesday. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at press time. Mr. Hansel was born at McDowell July 17, 1890, a son of Benjamin Hiner and Susan Alexander Hansel. He earned a Bachelor of Law from Washington and Lee University in 1917. He was admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1917 and the bar of the District of Columbia in 1919. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court in 1921. He worked in the state Adjuctant General's office from 1917 to 1921, and was legal council to the Veterans Bureau from 1921 to 1923. He had conducted a private law practice in Highland County since 1923. The late Mr. Hansel was mayor of Monterey from 1933 to 1935, moderator of the Lexington Presbytery in 1950, agent of the National Surety Corporation and the Maryland Casualty Company, the founder, director and secretary of the Highland County Democratic Committee, president of PTA, county chairman of War Finance and president of the Highland County Bar Association. He was a past master and past district deputy grand master of the Masons and a Kazim Temple Shriner. He also acted as commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and in 1954 at Montreat. In 1930, he was married to the late Mrs. Elzie Marie Gochenour Hansel, and the couple had three children, John Seybert, Virginia Lee and Benjamin Hiner
The Recorder January 29, 1976
John Seybert Hansel , a retired Highland County attorney who lived on Spruce Street in Monterey, died at the age of 85 at the Staunton Manor Nursing Home early Wednesday. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at press time. Mr. Hansel was born at McDowell July 17, 1890, a son of Benjamin Hiner and Susan Alexander Hansel. He earned a Bachelor of Law from Washington and Lee University in 1917. He was admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1917 and the bar of the District of Columbia in 1919. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court in 1921. He worked in the state Adjuctant General's office from 1917 to 1921, and was legal council to the Veterans Bureau from 1921 to 1923. He had conducted a private law practice in Highland County since 1923. The late Mr. Hansel was mayor of Monterey from 1933 to 1935, moderator of the Lexington Presbytery in 1950, agent of the National Surety Corporation and the Maryland Casualty Company, the founder, director and secretary of the Highland County Democratic Committee, president of PTA, county chairman of War Finance and president of the Highland County Bar Association. He was a past master and past district deputy grand master of the Masons and a Kazim Temple Shriner. He also acted as commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and in 1954 at Montreat. In 1930, he was married to the late Mrs. Elzie Marie Gochenour Hansel, and the couple had three children, John Seybert, Virginia Lee and Benjamin Hiner
John Seybert Hansel , a retired Highland County attorney who lived on Spruce Street in Monterey, died at the age of 85 at the Staunton Manor Nursing Home early Wednesday. Funeral arrangements were incomplete at press time. Mr. Hansel was born at McDowell July 17, 1890, a son of Benjamin Hiner and Susan Alexander Hansel. He earned a Bachelor of Law from Washington and Lee University in 1917. He was admitted to the bar of Virginia in 1917 and the bar of the District of Columbia in 1919. He was admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. District Court in 1921. He worked in the state Adjuctant General's office from 1917 to 1921, and was legal council to the Veterans Bureau from 1921 to 1923. He had conducted a private law practice in Highland County since 1923. The late Mr. Hansel was mayor of Monterey from 1933 to 1935, moderator of the Lexington Presbytery in 1950, agent of the National Surety Corporation and the Maryland Casualty Company, the founder, director and secretary of the Highland County Democratic Committee, president of PTA, county chairman of War Finance and president of the Highland County Bar Association. He was a past master and past district deputy grand master of the Masons and a Kazim Temple Shriner. He also acted as commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States, and in 1954 at Montreat. In 1930, he was married to the late Mrs. Elzie Marie Gochenour Hansel, and the couple had three children, John Seybert, Virginia Lee and Benjamin Hiner
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