HANNE, Neil

The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ June 19, 1969, p. 15 NEAL HANNE RITES TO BE FRIDAY Funeral services will probably be held at 9 a.m. Friday at St. Anthony’s Church for Neal Hanne, widely known resident of Wickenburg since 1938 who died Tuesday afternoon in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Phoenix. He was 61 years of age and a native of Kansas. He is survived by his wife, Mildred and seven brothers and sisters. The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ June 26, 1969, p. 11 NEIL HANNE A MAN WITH MANY FRIENDS We doubt if very many Wickenburg people have had more friends than Neil Hanne. He had a cheerful, happy, joking and jesting way about him that made friends. And in more than 30 years affiliation with one of the most important of all basic needs – food – he came in contact regularly with just about everyone in town. Neil knew us all and we all knew and liked Neil. He always had a smile, frequently a joke, quite often a helpful suggestion for groceries over the years at the two downtown stores where he worked. Neil died the afternoon of June 17 in St. Joseph’s Hospital in Phoenix where he had been taken several days before, a gravely ill man, after a period of hospitalization in our Community Hospital. Rosary was recited at 8 p.m. June 19 in the Wickenburg Funeral Home and the Funeral Mass was said by Father O’Sullivan at 9 o’clock the next morning, with burial following in the Wickenburg Cemetery. Born in Pratt, Kansas, March 14, 1908, Neil and his brother Hugh came to Wickenburg in 1928. A year later they returned to Kansas and in a double wedding ceremony the two brothers married their long time sweethearts, Neil’s bride was Mildred Morehead’ Hugh married June Redfield. Both girls lived in Bucklin, Kansas. The two couples came to Wickenburg and Neil started working in the grocery department of the Brayton Commercial Co. on what was then known at Front Street, today known as Frontier Street. Thirteen years later, after W. S. Thurber had acquired the pioneer Brayton concern and discontinued the grocery department. Neil went with the food store on Tegner Street known at that time as Pete’s Market. Today it’s called Frontier Market and until becoming ill, Neil headed the produce department and had a hand in many other store operations. His wife Mildred survives. He had seven brothers and sisters; Bill in Kansas City, Kan.; Hugh now living in Bucklin; Warren in China Lake, Calif., and Pete in Bagdad, Arizona. The sisters are Mrs Glenn Harris of Bucklin; Mrs Walter Koeppen of Wichita, Kan., and Mrs Vernon Reazin of Silver Spring, Maryland.