From SoCal email:

Aase Hansen died at her Burbank home on September 16th  at the age of 89.
Aase was a "rock" of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society's Los Angeles Branch and of the entire Southern California SCD community.
 Aase Hansen née Carlsen was born on December 21, 1935, in Kastrup, a Copenhagen suburb along the east coast of small island Amager.  Later in childhood she moved south on that same island's coast to the fishing village Dragør and into a home that her father had built.  After high school and an apprenticeship she went to work as a clerk at the local Amager Bank and also for a year at a bank in Switzerland.  But being of such adventurous spirit, she secured a position as an au pair with a family in Encino and set out for California in October of 1959.
In 1961 Aase married Alvin Hansen, the American son of Danish immigrants.  They had a son Christian and daughter Lisbeth, and by 1968 she had become an American citizen.  Interestingly it was Alvin's love for bagpipe music that circuitously led Aase to Scottish country dancing, and it was the welcoming SCDers who then became her best friends and virtually her American extended family.
Aase also developed a lasting and meaningful involvement with the Danish Sisterhood of America, in time becoming the president of the Los Angeles lodge and a member of the national board.  And for this group she loved to oft host monthly gatherings at her own home.
In the realm of Scottish country dancing Aase truly became a "fixture" of the RSCDS Los Angeles Branch, serving as chairman on the management committee for several years, also eventually becoming an SCD teacher and for many years teaching her own weekly class in the San Fernando Valley.  That strong love which her dancers have long had for her has indeed not vanished with her passing.