HANNA, Alva
ALVA HANNA
Source: The obituary is from a collection by Fauniel Hershberger, saved the 1950's, 60's and 70's. She was a life long resident of Fountain County Indiana. The collection is now housed at Crawfordsville District Public Library.
Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Pape Memorial Home for Alva Hanna, 93, formerly of 1414 N. Bowman. He died 1:50 p.m. Saturday (Aug. 4, 1979) at the Vermilion Manor nursing home where he had been a resident since Nov. 16, 1977. Pastor Jack Wagoner will officiate with burial in Atherton cemetery. Visitation will be 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Hanna once owned a dairy farm where Holiday Hills is now located. He told The Commercial-News on his 90th birthday, that money was very tight during the depression. "But I had a chance to buy this piece of property -- 34 acres with a house and all for $5,600." Part of that property, he said, he later sold for $80,000. Hanna also had a wrecking business. He attended the United Brethren Church of Brewer Road. Hanna was born in Martin, a community in Lewis County, Ky., April 4, 1886, the son of David and Elizabeth Doyle Hanna. They were descended from old Scot and Irish pioneer families who settled in Kentucky between the 1790s and 1800s. He attended Vanceburg, Ky., area schools. He married Luzetta Hill in 1933 in Chicago. She survives. Also surviving are two sons, Woodrow Wilson Hanna of Hyattsville, Md., and Howard Alva Hanna of Crete, Ill.; a brother, Cleve Hanna of Covington, Ind.; 10 grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. A son, three daughters, three brothers and four sisters preceded him in death. -- typed by Walt W