Franklin Grey Hanna
30 Mar 1898 - 1983
bornTempe, Arizona, USA
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BiographyConstruction foreman; federal lands superintendent.He was enrolled at the Tempe Normal School, but his studies were interrupted with his serving in the armed forces during World War I. He was an ambulance driver during the Spanish Influenza
epidemic of 1918.
When Coolidge Dam was under construction in the late 1920s, he was among the few workers who understood the newly developed gunnite method for spraying concrete on the superstructure.
From March 1933 to July 1942, he was a foreman for the Civilian Conservation Corps. He then worked for the federal government in both the National Park and Forest services, c1942-1945. In 1945 he became superintendent of grounds for Greenwood Memorial Park.
Member of the Masonic lodge since 1943.
Lived on McAllister Avenue in 1910.
OSB 52
OSB 87
BIO-Hanna
Federal census (Tempe), 1910
Painter Scrapbook, p. 47
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