Entered into rest in Palo Alto on December 27, 2012. Stanley Hanna was born in Burma, May 17, 1920, the third child of missionary parents.
At the age of fourteen he was put on a ship and sent to this country for his education. He lived at the Fannie Doane Home for missionary children in Granville, Ohio, where he attended high school and Denison University. Stanley Hanna was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa his junior year and never earned less than a grade of "A" in his seven years of school in Granville. He graduated from Denison in 1941 and entered graduate school at Johns Hopkins University where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1947, after one year in the army at Los Alamos during World War II.
For several years he was an instructor at John Hopkins and later a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. From 1963 until his retirement he was a Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
During his freshman year at Denison, Stanley met Jane Martin at an evening astronomy class. They became college sweethearts and married five years later, on December 27, 1942. Stanley and Jane had three children, two of whom survive, a son David and a daughter Susan; a son Peter died in 1992. Stanley is also survived by four grandchildren and one great grandchild, and his loving wife of 70 years.
Stanley Hanna was a kind, honest, and gentle man. He was a loving father, grandfather, and husband. His was a life well lived.
Service Details
Date: January 02, 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Address: 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Source: Roller & Hapgood & Tinney
At the age of fourteen he was put on a ship and sent to this country for his education. He lived at the Fannie Doane Home for missionary children in Granville, Ohio, where he attended high school and Denison University. Stanley Hanna was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa his junior year and never earned less than a grade of "A" in his seven years of school in Granville. He graduated from Denison in 1941 and entered graduate school at Johns Hopkins University where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1947, after one year in the army at Los Alamos during World War II.
For several years he was an instructor at John Hopkins and later a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. From 1963 until his retirement he was a Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
During his freshman year at Denison, Stanley met Jane Martin at an evening astronomy class. They became college sweethearts and married five years later, on December 27, 1942. Stanley and Jane had three children, two of whom survive, a son David and a daughter Susan; a son Peter died in 1992. Stanley is also survived by four grandchildren and one great grandchild, and his loving wife of 70 years.
Stanley Hanna was a kind, honest, and gentle man. He was a loving father, grandfather, and husband. His was a life well lived.
Service Details
Date: January 02, 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Address: 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Source: Roller & Hapgood & Tinney
Entered into rest in Palo Alto on December 27, 2012. Stanley Hanna was born in Burma, May 17, 1920, the third child of missionary parents.
At the age of fourteen he was put on a ship and sent to this country for his education. He lived at the Fannie Doane Home for missionary children in Granville, Ohio, where he attended high school and Denison University. Stanley Hanna was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa his junior year and never earned less than a grade of "A" in his seven years of school in Granville. He graduated from Denison in 1941 and entered graduate school at Johns Hopkins University where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1947, after one year in the army at Los Alamos during World War II.
For several years he was an instructor at John Hopkins and later a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. From 1963 until his retirement he was a Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
During his freshman year at Denison, Stanley met Jane Martin at an evening astronomy class. They became college sweethearts and married five years later, on December 27, 1942. Stanley and Jane had three children, two of whom survive, a son David and a daughter Susan; a son Peter died in 1992. Stanley is also survived by four grandchildren and one great grandchild, and his loving wife of 70 years.
Stanley Hanna was a kind, honest, and gentle man. He was a loving father, grandfather, and husband. His was a life well lived.
Service Details
Date: January 02, 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Address: 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Source: Roller & Hapgood & Tinney
At the age of fourteen he was put on a ship and sent to this country for his education. He lived at the Fannie Doane Home for missionary children in Granville, Ohio, where he attended high school and Denison University. Stanley Hanna was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa his junior year and never earned less than a grade of "A" in his seven years of school in Granville. He graduated from Denison in 1941 and entered graduate school at Johns Hopkins University where he earned a Ph.D. in Physics in 1947, after one year in the army at Los Alamos during World War II.
For several years he was an instructor at John Hopkins and later a researcher at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago. From 1963 until his retirement he was a Professor of Physics at Stanford University.
During his freshman year at Denison, Stanley met Jane Martin at an evening astronomy class. They became college sweethearts and married five years later, on December 27, 1942. Stanley and Jane had three children, two of whom survive, a son David and a daughter Susan; a son Peter died in 1992. Stanley is also survived by four grandchildren and one great grandchild, and his loving wife of 70 years.
Stanley Hanna was a kind, honest, and gentle man. He was a loving father, grandfather, and husband. His was a life well lived.
Service Details
Date: January 02, 2013
Time: 1:00pm
Location: Alta Mesa Memorial Park
Address: 695 Arastradero Road, Palo Alto, CA 94306
Source: Roller & Hapgood & Tinney
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