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purchased ''The Ouachita Citizen.''<ref name=obit/> Hanna said that one of his more significant​

purchased ''The Ouachita Citizen.''<ref name=obit/> Hanna said that one of his more significant​

stories concerned the failure of the Delta Security Bank in Ferriday, which had ties to​

stories concerned the failure of the Delta Security Bank in Ferriday, which had ties to​

[[organized crime]] boss Carlos Marcello.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jimbrownla.com/Jim_Blog/?m=200601|title=Archive for January 2006|publisher=jimbrownla.com|accessdate=December 29, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref> Another Delta Bank still operates in Ferriday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deltabk.com/|title=Delta Bank|publisher=deltabk.com|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> Hanna was a director of the Concordia Bank & Trust Company in Vidalia, the largest independently owned bank in Louisiana, which has branches in Ferriday and other locations. He was twice president of the Ferriday [[Chamber of Commerce]] and a former president of Rotary International in Ferriday. He served on the founding board of directors of the private, Huntington High School in Ferriday.<ref name=obit/>​

[[organized crime]] boss Carlos Marcello.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jimbrownla.com/Jim_Blog/?m=200601|title=Archive for January 2006|publisher=jimbrownla.com|accessdate=December 29, 2009; no longer on-line}}</ref> Another Delta Bank still operates in Ferriday.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.deltabk.com/|title=Delta Bank|publisher=deltabk.com|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref> Hanna was a director of the Concordia Bank & Trust Company in Vidalia, the largest independently owned bank in Louisiana, which has branches in Ferriday and other locations. He was twice president of the Ferriday [[Chamber of Commerce]] and a former president of Rotary International in Ferriday. He served on the founding board of directors of the private, Huntington High School in Ferriday.<ref name=obit/>

 

==Death and legacy==​

==Death and legacy==

 

Hanna died at St. Francis Hospital in Monroe at the age of seventy-two from [[emphysema]]. He and his wife, Mary Sue Hanna (born July 22, 1937) of Ferriday, also had two daughters, Mary Linda Rocconi (born 1961) and husband, August Todd Rocconi (born 1966), of Monroe and Lesley Hanna Capdepon (born 1963) and husband, Charles Keith Capdepon (born 1958), of Newellton, the parish engineerfor Tensas Parish. He had three grandchildren and a daughter-in-law, the former Gena Crawford, the wife of son Sam Hanna, Jr. Though Hanna was a member of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Ferriday, his services were held in the larger sanctuary of the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Ferriday. Interment was at Old Winnsboro Cemetery in Winnsboro.<ref name=obit/>​

Hanna died at St. Francis Hospital in Monroe at the age of seventy-two from [[emphysema]]. He and his wife, Mary Sue Hanna (born July 22, 1937) of Ferriday, also had two daughters, Mary Linda Rocconi (born 1961) and husband, August Todd Rocconi (born 1966), of Monroe and Lesley Hanna Capdepon (born 1963) and husband, Charles Keith Capdepon (born 1958), of Newellton, the parish engineerfor Tensas Parish. He had three grandchildren and a daughter-in-law, the former Gena Crawford, the wife of son Sam Hanna, Jr. Though Hanna was a member of the First [[Presbyterian]] Church of Ferriday, his services were held in the larger sanctuary of the First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church of Ferriday. Interment was at Old Winnsboro Cemetery in Winnsboro.<ref name=obit/>​

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Upon his death, Kathy Spurlock, then the executive editor of ''The News-Star,'' called Hanna "the dean of the state’s newspaper publishers, the most knowledgeable about state politics, certainly the one with the most institutional knowledge."<ref name=eandp>{{cite web|url= http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001844351|title=Sam Hanna, Political Columnist and Publisher, Dies at 72|publisher=Editorandpublisher.com|date=January 16, 2006}}</ref>​

Upon his death, Kathy Spurlock, then the executive editor of ''The News-Star,'' called Hanna "the dean of the state’s newspaper publishers, the most knowledgeable about state politics, certainly the one with the most institutional knowledge."<ref name=eandp>{{cite web|url= http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001844351|title=Sam Hanna, Political Columnist and Publisher, Dies at 72|publisher=Editorandpublisher.com|date=January 16, 2006}}</ref>​

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[[Al Ater]], a Ferriday farmer who was a former state representative and the acting Louisiana secretary of state at the time of Hanna's death, was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral, along with former [[U.S. Representative]] John Cooksey of Monroe, a [[Republican Party|Republican]] and former state Representative [[Bryant Hammett]], a Democrat from Ferriday. Ater said that few individuals had "their finger on the pulse of politics in Louisiana more than he did. He had a sixth sense of the happenings of the political situation in this state -- police jury to governor, your source for information was Sam Hanna."<ref name=eandp/>​

[[Al Ater]], a Ferriday farmer who was a former state representative and the acting Louisiana secretary of state at the time of Hanna's death, was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral, along with former [[U.S. Representative]] John Cooksey of Monroe, a [[Republican Party|Republican]], and former state Representative [[Bryant Hammett]], a Democrat from Ferriday. Ater said that few individuals had "their finger on the pulse of politics in Louisiana more than he did. He had a sixth sense of the happenings of the political situation in this state -- police jury to governor, your source for information was Sam Hanna."<ref name=eandp/>​

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One of Hanna’s columns, "A Christmas Quail Hunt," which reflects his love of quail hunting, was published annually in his papers. His son still runs the column each December in the three Hanna papers in his father's memory.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.concordiasentinel.com/news.php?id=4567|title=A Christmas Quail Hunt|publisher=concordiasentinel.com|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref>​

One of Hanna’s columns, "A Christmas Quail Hunt," which reflects his love of quail hunting, was published annually in his papers. His son still runs the column each December in the three Hanna papers in his father's memory.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.concordiasentinel.com/news.php?id=4567|title=A Christmas Quail Hunt|publisher=concordiasentinel.com|accessdate=December 29, 2009}}</ref>​