Stella Alice Hans was born on May 9, 1927, the eighth of 14 children born to Harvey and Mary Carrie (Plessel) Sowers in Valley County near Ord, Nebraska and passed away on Friday, January 3, 2020, in Ashland, Nebraska at the age of 92 years, 7 months and 25 days.

Stella grew up in the Ord area where she attended school. She was united in marriage to Laurence Hans on May 11, 1957 in Papillion, Nebraska. The couple lived in Garland where Stella worked at the Lincoln Telephone Company as a PBX for 13 years. She later began working as a receptionist at Russell Stovers for another 13 years. Stella moved from Garland to Seward in 1977. She worked for a short time at the Seward Bowling Alley and was then employed by the Seward Memorial Hospital in the Dietary Department for six years before retiring in 1988.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Laurence (1972); six brothers, William Sowers, Levi Sowers, Eddie Sowers, Henry Sowers, Charles Sowers and Walter Sowers; five sisters, Dorothy Manchester-Keefe, Mary Barta, Letha Morrow, Betty Zentz, Elsie Malakowski.

Cherishing her memory are her two sons, Alan Hans, Seward and Jay and wife Carol Flaming, Yuma, CO; granddaughter, Heather and husband Greg Klein, Yuma, CO; two great grandsons, Logan and Noel Klein, Yuma, CO; brother, George and Tina Sowers, Lakewood, CA; sister, Grace Sowers, Grand Island, NE and numerous nieces and nephews. To this obituary we add our thoughts, prayers and memories of life shared with Stella.