Evelyn Irene Hansen, who worked as a bookkeeper here for decades, died at home in Springs on Jan. 6. She was 77 and had heart and vascular disease.
Mrs. Hansen was a fan of cruise travel and had visited a number of destinations in the Caribbean, usually with her sisters. She enjoyed gambling and traveled to both Las Vegas and the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut to do so. And she took great pleasure in “watching her grandson, Tyler, play baseball,” her son, Christopher Hansen, wrote. She followed his career from Little League to travel ball to East Hampton High School. “It’s unfortunate she won’t be able to watch Tyler play in college.”
She was born Evelyn Irene Dermody in the Bronx on Sept. 3, 1947, to Thomas Dermody and the former Rita Carmody, growing up there and in Manhattan. She attended public schools in the city.
In the early 1970s, she worked for one of the Big Eight accounting firms in Manhattan.
She and George Hansen were married on Nov. 23, 1974. In September 1977, they moved to a house he had built in Springs, where they raised their son. Mrs. Hansen worked as a bookkeeper for local businesses, including the accounting firm Van Dyke and Hand and the gourmet food store Dean and DeLuca. In the late 1980s, she became the bookkeeper for Rick McMaster’s Springs irrigation company, R.A.M. Enterprises, a job she held for 30 years, until her retirement in 2018.
Mrs. Hansen came from a large family — she had four sisters and a brother — and she had a lively social life. “Those that knew her best knew she always enjoyed a good time and a good drink,” wrote her son, a retired East Hampton Village police detective.
In addition to her son and to her grandson, who lives in Springs, Mrs. Hansen is survived by her husband, her daughter-in-law, Rebecca Hansen, a step-granddaughter, Emma McGrory, her sister Cathy Dermody of Pennsylvania, and many nieces and nephews. Her siblings Lily Hewitt, Carol Wiesinger, Rita Morgan, and Thomas Dermody died before her. She was also predeceased by a niece with whom she was very close, Tracy A. Wiesinger Herrlin, who was murdered in East Hampton in 1985.
Mrs. Hansen was cremated. A private family burial will take place at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in East Hampton at a later date.
Her family has suggested memorial contributions to the Springs Fire Department, 179 Fort Pond Boulevard, East Hampton 11937, the East Hampton Town Policemen’s Benevolent Association, 131 Wainscott Northwest Road, Wainscott 11975, or the East Hampton Dispatchers Association, 1 Cedar Street, East Hampton.
