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Ida Mae Hanks

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Ida Mae Hanks

Birth
Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah, USA
Death
24 Apr 1999 (aged 96)
Nampa, Canyon County, Idaho, USA
Burial
Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah, USA Add to Map
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Daughter of David Capener Hanks and Mary Elizabeth Baum

The Ida Mae Hanks Papers (1930s-1987) contain correspondence, memorabilia, notebooks, news clippings, and research files for Immortal Romance: The Doughboy and the French, an unpublished manuscript about the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Ida Mae Hanks (1902-1999) was born in Heber City, Utah to David Capener Hanks and Mary Elizabeth Baum Hanks. The family moved to Nampa, Idaho, where Hanks attended school. She received her B.A. from the University of Utah and a M.A. from the University of Idaho. She taught English, French, and Journalism in junior and senior high schools in the Nampa area for over forty years. An interest in the experiences of her brother, Harvard David Hanks, during World War I led her to research that war and write the manuscript included in this collection. A lifelong supporter of public education, Miss Hanks contacted the University of Utah and requested that the university set up a scholarship fund with the money she had set aside in her will. At her death in April 1999, it was discovered that the estate she bequeathed to the University of Utah was valued at 1.3 million dollars. The Hanks endowment is the basis for nine scholarships named after Hanks family members.
Daughter of David Capener Hanks and Mary Elizabeth Baum

The Ida Mae Hanks Papers (1930s-1987) contain correspondence, memorabilia, notebooks, news clippings, and research files for Immortal Romance: The Doughboy and the French, an unpublished manuscript about the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. Ida Mae Hanks (1902-1999) was born in Heber City, Utah to David Capener Hanks and Mary Elizabeth Baum Hanks. The family moved to Nampa, Idaho, where Hanks attended school. She received her B.A. from the University of Utah and a M.A. from the University of Idaho. She taught English, French, and Journalism in junior and senior high schools in the Nampa area for over forty years. An interest in the experiences of her brother, Harvard David Hanks, during World War I led her to research that war and write the manuscript included in this collection. A lifelong supporter of public education, Miss Hanks contacted the University of Utah and requested that the university set up a scholarship fund with the money she had set aside in her will. At her death in April 1999, it was discovered that the estate she bequeathed to the University of Utah was valued at 1.3 million dollars. The Hanks endowment is the basis for nine scholarships named after Hanks family members.


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  • Maintained by: SMS
  • Originally Created by: Keith
  • Added: Oct 18, 2006
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/16235658/ida_mae-hanks: accessed ), memorial page for Ida Mae Hanks (13 Jul 1902–24 Apr 1999), Find a Grave Memorial ID 16235658, citing Heber City Cemetery, Heber City, Wasatch County, Utah, USA; Maintained by SMS (contributor 46491005).