Stanley Hanna

Stanley Sweet Hanna entered in to 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 placed on a ship and sent to this country for his education. He resided in the Fannie Doane Home for missionary children in Granville, Ohio, where he attended high school and Denison University. Stanley was awarded a Phi Beta Kappa his junior year and never earned less than a a grade of "A" in his seven years of school in Granville. Graduating from Denison in 1941 he entered graduate school at John Hopkins University where he earned a PhD. in physics in 1947, after one year in the U.S. 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 marring 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 passed away in 1992. Stanley is also survived by four grandchildren and one great grandchild, and his loving wife of 70 years. Stanley was a kind, honest, and gentleman. He was a loving father, grandfather and husband. His was a full and well lived life. Graveside services will be conducted 1 PM Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013 at Alta Mesa Memorial Park, 695 Arastradero Road in Palo Alto under the direction of Roller & Hapgood & Tinney Mortuary.