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Line 26: − + − Born in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], to William Hanna, Sr. (1903-1980), and the former Irma Belle Adams (1907-1980). The couple married in 1925 in an airplane traveling 75 miles per hour some 2,000 feet above the surface of the earth, a unique wedding for that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174152980/william-thomas-hanna|title=William Thomas "Bill" Hanna, Sr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 16, 2020}}</ref>Hanna's mother was the aunt of [[Owen D. Adams]], one of the first [[Republican Party|Republicans]] elected to the former Caddo Parish Police Jury and later for twelve years as the mayor of Greenwood in southwestern Caddo Parish. Line 48:
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==Background==
==Background==
Born in [[Kansas City]], [[Missouri]], to William Hanna, Sr. (1903-1980), and the former Irma Belle Adams (1907-1980). The couple married in 1925 in an airplane traveling 75 miles per hour some 2,000 feet above the surface of the earth, a unique wedding for that time.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/174152980/william-thomas-hanna|title=William Thomas "Bill" Hanna, Sr.|publisher=Findagrave.com|accessdate=May 16, 2020}}</ref>Hanna's mother was the aunt of [[Owen D. Adams]], one of the first [[Republican Party|Republicans]] elected to the former Caddo Parish Police Jury and later for twelve years as the mayor of Greenwood in southwestern Caddo Parish.
Hanna moved in infancy with his parents from Kansas City to Shreveport. In 1947, he graduated from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School and enrolled at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], He played on the LSU Tigers [[baseball]] team from 1949 to 1951, and was thereafter a shortstop for several minor league teams but soon returned to Shreveport to join his father in business.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2016/12/17/former-shreveport-mayor-bill-hanna-dies/95574356/|title=Former Shreveport Mayor Bill Hanna dies at 86|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''||author=Scott Ferrell|accessdate=December 18, 2016}}</ref>
Hanna moved in infancy with his parents from Kansas City to Shreveport. In 1947, he graduated from Clifton Ellis Byrd High School and enrolled at [[Louisiana State University]] in [[Baton Rouge]], He played on the LSU Tigers [[baseball]] team from 1949 to 1951, and was thereafter a shortstop for several minor league teams but soon returned to Shreveport to join his father in business.<ref name=obit>{{cite web|url=http://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/local/2016/12/17/former-shreveport-mayor-bill-hanna-dies/95574356/|title=Former Shreveport Mayor Bill Hanna dies at 86|publisher=''The Shreveport Times''||author=Scott Ferrell|accessdate=December 18, 2016}}</ref>
==Personal life==
==Personal life==
Hanna's only sibling, his brother, Kenneth George "Ken" Hanna (born 1939), also worked in the automobile business.
Hanna's only sibling, his brother, Kenneth George "Ken" Hanna (born 1939), also worked in the family automobile business and voiced most of the commercials for the company.
Upon his death at the age of eighty-six, Hanna was survived by his second wife, Marvelle Warren Hanna, four daughters from a previous marriage, and two stepsons from the second marriage.<ref name=obit/><ref name=fullobit/> He is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=
Upon his death at the age of eighty-six, Hanna was survived by his second wife, Marvelle Warren Hanna, four daughters from a previous marriage, and two stepsons from the second marriage.<ref name=obit/><ref name=fullobit/> He is interred at Forest Park East Cemetery.<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=