JANESVILLE — Kiersten Hansen looked for the beauty inside of others rather than how they looked, her mother says.
“She was just a really sweet person,” Kay Hansen told The Gazette this week. “She was friends with the people that most ignored, she did not deserve to go like this.”
Hansen’s ex-boyfriend and the father of her 1-year-old son has been charged in her shooting death along Peace Trail in Janesville. According to a criminal complaint, Logan Barclay, 23, is accused of fatally shooting Hansen, 22, of Janesville, after she told him she might be pregnant again. Barclay faces a charge of first-degree intentional homicide, modified as domestic violence.
Hansen’s mother says she will be remembered by her family and friends as a music lover, a good friend and sister with a big heart.
In an an interview with The Gazette, Kay, Jay and Andrew Hansen — Kiersten Hansen’s mother, twin brother and father — said she was taken too soon.
Hansen was born July 25, 2001, in Madison, grew up in Edgerton and graduated from Edgerton High School. She worked at Dominoes and previously worked at MOD pizza.
She loved pizza which is probably why she worked at so many pizza places, Kay Hansen said. Her father said she loved chicken fingers and they were planning to check out Layne’s Chicken Fingers when it opened in Janesville.
Her parents also said she liked to go shopping for deals and to go to resale shops, loved the holiday light shows at Rotary Garden, going to Skelly’s Farm in the autumn to get pumpkins and getting ice cream cones in the summertime.
She also loved music and rock bands. Her favorite bands were Wayland, a Midwest Rock band, Bobaflex and Greenday.
“She was a huge Bobaflex fan and never missed a concert,” Kay Hansen said. “She loved concerts and going to see live music.”
She said her daughter was looking forward to going to music festivals this summer.
Andrew Hansen said his favorite memory was riding their bikes to a candy shop when they lived in Indianford.
“There was a bait shop and we always had our little bit of money that we would put together and get ourselves candy and just be kids,” Andrew said.
She is survived by her parents, her twin brother, her other brother Trevor and her son, Jason.
Hansen’s funeral was held at the Albrecht Funeral Home in Edgerton on April 30. Her family has started a GoFundMe page, hoping to raise $10,000 to cover her funeral expenses.
“Kiersten was a note in this music we call life. With her passing this song will never be the same again,” the last line of her obituary said.
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