William Joseph Hannaher is born to Marguerite Amanda Hill Hannaher and Thomas O’Connor Hannaher in Cass County, North Dakota. The signature of A. A. Whittemore, M.D. appears on the Notification of Birth Registration, he was Special Agent, Bureau of the Census, Department of Commerce, for the state. [source: certificate]
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hannaher of 609 Fourth av. S., Moorhead at St. John’s Hospital (a hospital in Fargo since 1900). The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune would have the news in the morning edition the next day.
President of Hannaher & O’Neil Wholesale Grocery in Moorhead, Minnesota, Thomas had started the firm with William H. O’Neil in 1923 by taking over Pederson Mercantile Co. and married a Fargo girl the subsequent year. They told different newspapers different stories regarding when and where they got married, presumably because by the weekend of September 22-23, 1924, their first child was already on the way. Thomas Patrick Hannaher was born April 23, 1925, so by the time of William’s birth, he was 6, and his father was 49, and his mother was 43. The house at 609 Fourth Avenue South had been built in 1928, the second on the south side of the avenue in that block, and occupied by Christmas. [sources: obituaries, City of Moorhead Property Information, The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune]
Winter
Mrs. T.O. Hannaher writes “Winter 1931 / Bill 0 / T.P. 6” but does not identify herself or the driveway (west) side of 609 Fourth Avenue South. Bill could be at most 6 months old if it was still his birth year. T.P. is wearing leggings under short pants. The stamp of The Oyloe Studio of Moorhead, Minnesota promises any size film developed and printed for 25¢. Gerhardt E. Oyloe had bought a studio on Center Avenue in 1930.
1932
June 14
The two Forum newspapers report that Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Hannaher and children spent the weekend at Lake Melissa.
July 3
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports that Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Hannaher and sons, Thomas and Billy, and Mrs. Hannaher’s mother and sister, Mrs. H. W. Hill and Miss Teresa Hill, are spending a week at Pelican Lake.
1933
The people are identified on the back in ink as Marguerite HILL HANNAHER and Wm J HANNAHER, I’m guessing Billy is two.
December
His mother wrote “Billy Jo / 2½ yrs” (which would literally be Christmas time) and he’s standing in the front yard late in the day.
1934
February 11
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports a “Billy Joe Hannaher” as one of eight guests at the Saturday birthday party for Arthur Hellander, now 8, with details of the activities, birthday cake, and “Valentine”-themed appointments.
His mother wrote “T.P. Bill + / Bill Jansen / about 1933 or 34” but the canine’s identity goes unremarked.
This might be a skinny 10 year-old William James Jansen from Montana who would grow up in Moorhead and marry Mary Margaret Hannaher in 1947 and die in 2002.
An adult Liam writes “with T.P., ca. 1934”, the stamp of The Oyloe Studio is present. Billy is wearing a cap and looks at the camera, while his older brother is turned away from the sun. Thomas is wearing a wide-collared shirt under a V-neck sweater and well-bloused knickers over argyle knee socks and lace-up shoes.
The participants are labeled as THOMAS P HANNAHER and WM J HANNAHER of MOORHEAD MN. 609 4th AVE So, the stamp of The Oyloe Studio is present. Billy may be bothered by the sun, his older brother is congenial but also looking away from the sun. The photographer has moved between frames.
An adult hand writes “Back doorstep in Moorhead, ca. 1934” about the boy in a naval blouse, dark shorts, ankle socks, and T-strap shoes.
An adult Liam writes “ca. 1934,” THE OYLOE STUDIO stamp is present.
1935
There is an Oyloe Studio stamp, his mother wrote “Ray + William J.” to which an adult Liam added “ca. 1935.”
June 8
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hannaher and son, Thomas, jr. have returned from a visit in Rochester. (Thomas Patrick was not a junior to Thomas O’Connor, Billy can be presumed to have stayed with aunt Hill.)
The participants are labeled as WM J HANNAHER and THOMAS P. (ditto mark) of MOORHEAD MN, no stamp is present. Thomas is still favoring the well-bloused knickers over patterned knee socks, now with cap, but Billy is more modern with a jacket over his sweater and long pants.
July 18
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hannaher and children of Moorhead spent Sunday with Mrs. H. W. Hill at the Peterson cottage (on Bowery Beach at Pelican Lake).
His mother wrote “Taken / Fall 1935” (and then a different hand wrote “WM J HAnnaheR / MOORHEAD, MN. 609 4th AVE SO”) he would have been four. Those are likely the garages of people with addresses along Seventh Street, to the southeast.
1936
His mother wrote “T.P. / W.J. + Jerry doll” (and then a different hand wrote “WM J HAnnaheR / MOORHEAD, MN. 609 4th AVE SO”). The brothers are in full winter gear from caps to boots, Thomas plays a bugle, while Billy indeed carries a doll. The view is west to 603 4th Avenue South, built in 1875.
William J. Hannaher, 5 years old, wearing overalls and a necktie, standing behind a folding chair presumably in the backyard.
Grandma (Ellen Edney) Hannaher and William J. about 1936.
1937
April 5
A grandmother, Ellen Hannaher, dies at 83. The front page of the evening edition The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports her death just after midnight after a heart attack while at home at 1101 Fifth Street N, she’d been resident in the community for 57 years. The two-story, single-family home at the corner with 11th Avenue N had been built in 1910 and had been (and would be) home to members of the Hannaher, Hellander, Nagle, and Shulstad families.
May 19
William’s father alerted the police to a planned theft of 5,000 cigarets from his business by an employee, The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports under a “Gunfire Ends Police Chase” headline. When the grocer T. O. Hannaher refused to make a complaint, a week later it’s reported that the county attorney signed a warrant against the confessed thief.
July
Wm J. Hannaher (6) stands in the grass by a cottage on Lake Pelican, July of 1937.
The only notation is a penciled “1937” with Billy presumably in the backyard in Moorhead.
“Little Red School House / 1937 / T.O. + W.J.”
September 1
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Hannaher and son, Pat, and Miss Martha Hannaher had returned from a north shore trip, no room for Billy.
September
William Hannaher starts the first grade at 6 years of age in the St. Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
September 13
The Fargo Forum Daily Republican and Moorhead News reports under a “Hannaher Family Has Reunion At Cottage” headline that a family gathering was held Sunday at the Hannaher cottage on Pelican Lake, the first time this year the entire family was together there. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Huff of Minneapolis; Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Hannaher and family, 609 Fourth av S, Moorhead, and Mmes. A. O. Hellander and family and Misses Mary and Martha and Ray Hannaher, 1101 Fifth st N, and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hannaher and family, 1117 Fourth st N.
October 10
William’s name appears with St. Joseph’s School in a list of all new students in town on page 8 of The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune.
November 4
William Hannaher is among eleven students on the honor roll at St. Joseph’s. [source: The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune]
Sometime this year, a single-story house at 611 4th Ave. S. is completed, on the east side of the Hannaher household.
1938
An adult Liam writes “with Grandma Hill, ca. 1938.” The distinctive mid-ridge chimney of 407 Seventh Street South is to the east of the backyard, built 1934.
The notation in pen is “T.O; Tresa / Granma / Bill” to which an adult Liam has added “ca. 1937” also in pen. Martha Bell (Alsworth) Hill stands as if she’s using her cane, but no mobility aid is visible.
“Billy 1938 - ?” Looking west again. Is it a bocce ball?
“William Hannaher / 1st grade” would place this photograph at the Saint Josephs door (based on later years) in June of 1938. The future Liam is, I would say, fifth from the left in the first row wearing overalls.
William Hannaher is promoted to the second grade. [source: report card]
September
William Hannaher starts the second grade at 7 years of age in the St. Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
1939
April 16
Thos. P. Hannaher 14 yrs / Wm. J. (ditto) 8 yrs 4/16/1939 (a week after Easter). Hats in the front yard.
April 16 - 1939 (a week after Easter). Wm J. Hannaher 8 / Thos. P. (ditto) 14 / Thos. O. (ditto) 57. No hats in this capture.
late May
William Hannaher ended second grade at the St. Joseph School of Moorhead, Minnesota with significant improvement across multiple subjects, he was promoted to third grade.
William Hannaher is promoted to the third grade. [source: report card]
September
William Hannaher starts the third grade at 8 years of age in the St. Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
October
William Hannaher started the third grade at the St. Joseph School of Moorhead, Minnesota with poorer grades, the blank columns are because Billy was promoted to the fourth grade.
William Hannaher is promoted to the fourth grade after his first six weeks in the third. [source: report card]
1940
February
February 1940, “Bill” is identified in the margin.
March 16
William Hannaher is listed in the “B” group of the St. Joseph’s honor roll. [source: The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican]
These are adjacent in the photo album but 8 weeks separate the captures: on the left, the only notation is “Easter 1940” which was March 24th that year, the younger brother is wearing a baseball mitt; on the right, the identification is “May 19 — 1940/Wm. J. Hannaher 9/Thos. P. (ditto) 15/Thos. O. (ditto) 58” and the different day can be confirmed by the older brother’s different tie.
May 30
William Hannaher improved after promotion to the fourth grade at St. Joseph’s School of Moorhead, Minnesota, his promotion to fifth grade is decided as British forces continue to evacuate from Dunkirk.
William Hannaher is promoted to the fifth grade. [source: report card]
August 29
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports that Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hannaher and sons, William and Thomas, have returned from a trip to Chicago, Milwaukee and Minneapolis.
September
William Hannaher starts the fifth grade at 9 years of age in the St. Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
1941
April 13
Easter 1941 / W. J. Hannaher 10 / Thos. P. ditto 16 / Thos. O. ditto 59. William was still 9, though, despite what his mother wrote. Is Thomas wearing a raincoat? What kind of shoes is he wearing? While the United States was not yet at war, the bombardment of Belgrade had started a week earlier.
May 29
William Hannaher slipped in Conduct and Effort with his first tardy in the fifth grade at the St. Joseph School of Moorhead, Minnesota, his promotion to sixth grade is decided at a time of unlimited national emergency.
William Hannaher is promoted to the sixth grade. [source: report card]
June
June 1941 / 5 Grade / St. Josephs School / Moorhead Minn. William (with a determined set to his lips and wearing a plaid shirt and high-waisted trousers in front) had been promoted to the sixth grade on May 29th.
September
William Hannaher starts the sixth grade at 10 years of age in the St. Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
April 26, 1942 / Wm J. 10 / Thos. P. 17 / Thos. O. 60. They’re wearing the same suits in the photo with the Lincoln, William’s would survive another year.
William Hannaher stands with his father Thomas O. and brother Thomas P. next to a MY1941 Lincoln-Zephyr V-12 Sedan in the driveway of their home in Moorhead, Minnesota. License plates were embossed red on cream for 1942.
May 29
Time for a parent to consult the teacher about William Hannaher’s unsatisfactory work in Geography, his first “D”! The sixth grade at the St. Joseph School of Moorhead, Minnesota ends better, the promotion to seventh grade is decided as war in Europe continues.
William Hannaher is promoted to the seventh grade. [source: report card]
June
Brother Thomas P. graduated from Moorhead High School. [source: newspaper reporting]
Mrs. T. O. Hannaher wrote “Billy + Trix / 1942” and that’s definitely a puppy. The neighboring house to the east at 611 4th Ave. S. with a furnished attic is behind them.
September
William Hannaher starts the seventh grade at 11 years of age in the St. Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
“Fall 1942 / Trixie / Pat Hannaher / Billy (ditto)” Brothers playing with a football in the backyard.
1943
April 18
“Palm Sunday / 1943 / April 18th—W J Hannaher / Trixy age One” Standing in front of their house with (the quarter-century older) 323 7th St S in back of them, the other house further back was torn down later. The City of Moorhead’s online property records don’t go back far enough to say when, the lot has been combined all the way to Eighth Street S where a Taco Bell now operates.
Palm Sunday, time to walk Trixy. The dog is one year old. [source: photograph]
April 25
Easter, April 25, 1943: “TPH, WJH, TOH, TTH” on the first, “ditto” on the second. Thomas P. had just turned 18, William was finishing seventh grade.
Easter Sunday, time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
April
An adult Liam writes “ca. 1942” when his mother plainly wrote April 194?— but someone has cut off the borders, too. This could easily be 1943 judging by the unidentified canine’s size.
June 2
The St. Joseph School of Moorhead, Minnesota tracked Weekday Masses Attended and Other Services Attended in the seventh grade, William Hannaher maintained an “A” in Religion. Attendance numbers like these must have required doing so nearly every day. Sister M. Marguerite has taken the last column to mean Sum rather than the labeled “Average” for absences and tardies. The promotion to eighth grade is decided as Allied countermeasures have turned the Battle of the Atlantic to their favor, with four German submarines sunk that day.
William Hannaher is promoted to the eighth grade. [source: report card]
An adult Liam writes ca. 1942 on both photographs, but identifies Pelican Lake on only one, they’re the same two trees. William wears the same clothing in both photographs, but his hair is different (and the weather on the lake has changed, too). Arthur O. Hellander at 16 would have another two years before enlisting in the Navy (or maybe just one if this is 1943 based on the canine’s size). Tresa Hill was William’s aunt. Trixie goes unidentified.
September
William’s brother has transferred to the University of Minnesota. [source: surmise]
William Hannaher starts the eighth grade at 12 years of age in the St. Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
1944
January 11
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports that William’s brother, “who has been attending the University of Minnesota, leaves Friday for San Diego, Calif. for training in the United States Marine corps.” The Moorhead Note would be repeated in the next day’s The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune.
March 12
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports that William’s brother “has completed boot training with the marines at San Diego and is now stationed with the field artillery at Camp Pendleton, Ocean Side, Calif.”
April 9
Different hands but the same text, writing in pencil: Easter 1944. Thomas P. is away after joining the Marines.
Easter Sunday, time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
May 23
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports “School Patrol Boys Honored” on page 9, William Hannaher had served one year at St. Joseph’s school.
May 28
St. Joseph’s School of Moorhead, Minnesota, issues a Diploma or Testimonial as a Certificate of Graduation. [source: diploma]
June 1
William Hannaher’s conduct in the eighth grade at the St. Joseph School of Moorhead, Minnesota was worse than before. The promotion to ninth grade is decided as Allied troops advance on Rome.
William Hannaher is promoted to the ninth grade. [source: report card]
July
The care with which the identities of the teens was hand-printed on the back of the print from “CRYSTAL PHOTO SERVICE” of Rushford, Minnesota and dated JUL 1944 is thwarted by someone cutting it down to fit a photo album. The purpose of the photograph is not explained, but the presence of Sister M. Clare, OSB (Principal) and Father Elmer Eisenschenk at the back and the timing suggest the eighth grade at Saint Joseph’s. Bill Hannaher is fourth in the third row. The one boy in front without a tie did ok for himself later in life, and of the other names, most were older than Bill, more than one went on to Moorhead High School (graduating the same year as Bill), and many stayed Catholic.
William starts the ninth grade at 13 years of age at Moorhead High School. [source: surmise]
October 22
Pvt. Thomas P. Hannaher appears in The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune for his story of reuniting with school buddy Glenn Akin, Jr., also a private in the Fourth Marines, on an “island” in the Pacific theater.
1945
February 18
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports that Pvt. Thomas (Pat) Hannaher was able to meet his Radioman, 3rd class cousin Arthur Hellander on Guadalcanal. The allied campaign at the island had been successfully resolved two years earlier.
March 17
William Hannaher is among the ninth graders on the Moorhead junior high school honor roll for the last six weeks. [source: The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican]
May 6
Billy, Dad and Trixie Sun. May 6, 1945: with the assault on Okinawa having started on April first, older brother Thomas is still away. A skinny Bill is now as tall as his father, Thomas O. Hannaher. The photographer has moved between frames.
A Sunday (a month after Easter), time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
June 22
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reported that Admiral Nimitz had announced on this day that organized resistance in Okinawa was at an end after 82 days of bitter fighting.
June 24
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports on the attendance of William Hannaher as a server for the mass at the wedding of Margaret Hellander to Duane W. Nagle.
Autumn
William starts the tenth grade at 14 years of age at Moorhead High School. [source: surmise]
December 1
William Hannaher is among the sophomores on the Moorhead high school honor roll after the second six weeks. [source: The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican]
1946
March 11
William Hannaher is listed among sophomores on the Moorhead senior high school honor roll in The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican.
An adult Liam writes “ca. 1946” and “ca. 1946 with dog” on the back. The war had ended and Thomas P. was back, all three wear single-breasted suits. Bill at 15¾ was finishing ninth grade and now the tallest of the three. Again the photographer has moved between frames.
May 14
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune lists William Hannaher among students recommended for a speech award by Miss Myrtle Moen, principal and speech coach at Moorhead High School.
June
No report card from ninth grade survives. William J. Hannaher’s time in the tenth grade in the secular, slogan-happy Moorhead Public Schools, Senior High School Division with the war ended by nuclear bombs was not untroubled. Tardies, average and below average grades in Biology, and his first “F” (in Phy. Ed.) are notable. He did Ok in English, Latin II, World History, and Band. A teacher assessed his apparent traits as “Could do better” and “Inclined to mischief” in the fifth six weeks.
June 7
The Beatrice Daily Sun of Nebraska reports in the “Personals” on page 5 of its evening edition on this day that “Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Hannaher and sons, Thomas Patrick and Billy, of Morehead, Minn., arrived here Thursday to visit at the home of Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Trauernicht. Mrs. Hannaher is the former Marguerite Hill, sister of Mrs. Trauernicht.”
June 16
William’s father planned to have his whole staff at Hannaher & O’Neil on vacation starting July 4, the headline in The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune says it‘ll be for a week.
July 20
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports that the Moorhead wholesale grocery Hannaher and O’Neil has been sold to a firm in South Dakota. With the sale of the business (involving about $125,000), William’s father would retire and continue residing in the house at 609 Fourth Avenue S with his wife and two sons. The building at 5-7-9 Fourth Street in Moorhead (built in 1905) would remain Hannaher’s for a while and house a number of businesses before its demolition in 1973.
William’s mother wrote “Sold out 1947” on the back. The car at the door might be a decade-old 4-door touring sedan with built-in trunk of any number of makes at the time, and to its right, an even older rumble seat coupe.
An adult Liam wrote “Hannaher & O’Neil truck, ca. late 1930’s” but International started building the K series trucks in mid-1940, this box truck advertising Del Haven Food Products (a nationally known brand of canned goods sold only by independent retail grocers) could be any one of a number of models in the K Line manufactured until 1947, when the KB series was launched.
Autumn
William starts the eleventh grade at 15 years of age at Moorhead High School. [source: surmise]
1947
January 14
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican announces a Moorhead high school little symphony orchestra and band concert the next day, William Hannaher among the musicians. A blinding snow storm had hit the region, the Northern Pacific’s North Coast Limited had crashed in Perham, Minnesota.
January 20
The “It’s This Way” column by Brice Worthington in today’s Moorhead Daily News in discussing the Moorhead Spuds borrows “some figures from Red Hannaher, the team’s master statistician.”
June
William J. Hannaher’s time in the eleventh grade in the Moorhead Public Schools, Senior High School Division was no less troubled than in the tenth. Tardies and his second “F” (in English II) are notable. He did Ok in American History, Journalism, Chemistry, Band, and Orchestra. His apparent traits this year are “Discourteous,” “Hinders Others,” “Wastes Time,” “Annoys Others,” “Could do better,” and “Inclined to mischief.”
Autumn
William starts the twelfth grade at 16 years of age at Moorhead High School. [source: surmise]
William Hannaher poses for his senior (high school) yearbook photo. He would keep his mouth closed for (most of his) future portraits.
1948
January 24
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports on page 6 the participation of William Hannaher in a trombone quartet performance as part of a concert from the Moorhead senior high school band, The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune did so on page 4.
January 25
Patricia Olness succeeds William Hannaher as the editor of the semi-monthly publication of the Moorhead High School Spud. [source: The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune]
April 18
The announcement of the engagement of Mary Augusta Niebels (at 20) to Thomas Patrick Hannaher (William’s brother) in The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune Sunday Edition has them both attending NDAC. Miss Niebels had graduated from the high school in Fergus Falls, Minnesota.
May 15
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican lists William Hannaher among the seniors on the honor roll at the Moorhead high school.
May 19
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune announces a Moorhead high school band concert tonight, William Hannaher among the musicians.
May 21
William J. (Bill) Hannaher receives the Cho-Kio for the concluded school year. [source: yearbook]
June
William J. Hannaher somehow settled down (it’s never Mr. Thos. O. Hannaher that signed his report cards) in the twelfth grade in the Moorhead Public Schools, Senior High School Division with just some tardies and an apparent trait of “Could do better” once from his English teacher. He did well in English, Social, Geometry, Band, and Orchestra.
William graduates from Moorhead High School. [source: surmise]
June 12
William J. Hannaher is a groomsman, with Arthur Hellander, at the wedding of his brother to Mary A. Niebels. [source: the Forum newspapers of June 6 and June 13]
September 15
The student newspaper Western MiSTiC publishes a special issue for incoming first-year students this Wednesday, William joins 300 other students to start his freshman year at “Western Minnesota State Teachers College” and presumably he can walk from home. Registration for classes is Saturday. As William is 17, registration for the draft is not necessary (yet). Regular publication of the student newspaper resumes on Tuesday. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
December 6
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports on page 7 that William Hannaher will be managing editor of The MiSTiC. He’d been credited as assistant managing editor of the weekly newspaper of the “Moorhead State Teachers College Serving Western Minnesota” since the issue of November 23. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
December 7
A smiling Bill Hannaher as the new managing editor is front-page news in the Western MiSTiC. Freshman Lorraine Peterson, named as news editor, had also worked with Bill on the Spud. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
1949
January 18
The school newspaper reports William Hannaher among those invited to join the Alpha Epsilon fraternity. On an inside page is news that the Language club has named Bill Hannaher as a committee co-chairman for food. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
January 25
The school newspaper reports Bill Hannaher among those to “face the ordeal” of ΑΕ initiation, he gets a byline in a story about basketball player Jim McDonald who’d transferred to Hamline. (Kenneth Pitchford’s byline appears much more often.) [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
March 29
A nephew is born.
April 12
The school newspaper reports on the three-day Band Tour scheduled for later in the month that would take them around the state. Bill Hannaher appears in the third row of the page-spanning photograph of the band on the first page, they are in uniform. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
April 17
April 17, 1949: another week, and Thomas P. would be 24, he’d married and had a child already. William J. was finishing up his first year at a local college. Bill and T.P. wear up-to-date double-breasted wide-lapeled suits, while Thomas O. (who’d been retired since selling his business in 1946) does not.
Easter Sunday, time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
May 17
The school newspaper announces that Bill Hannaher is the new editor-in-chief with the headline “Hannaher Commands New MiSTiC Staff” on the front page. Bob Berg caricatures “the MiSTiC staff 50,” the fellow with a pencil behind his ear might be Hannaher. On an inside page, the artist refers to it as a “mystery cartoon” and names “Willie Hannaher” as one of the profiles illustrated. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
May 18
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune morning edition reports on page 7 that William Hannaher has been named editor-in-chief of The MiSTiC effective immediately, the evening edition has the same report on page 8.
May 19
The Dragon yearbook for 1949 was scheduled to be distributed yesterday but arrived today, Bill did not make it into the staff photo for the college’s weekly newspaper, instead he shows up in photos on the “Dragon Staff,” “Band,” and “Language Club” pages. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
June 3
In the final issue of the school newspaper before commencement on the tenth and the start of the summer session on the fifteenth, Bill Hannaher is among those contributing copy to a special section commemorating Caswell Aden Ballard. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
June 6
William’s brother is part of the largest graduating class ever at NDAC, with 440 candidates across multiple terms. [source: The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune of May 28th]
June 18
William’s brother advertises in the classifieds of the local newspaper: “College graduate, wife, child, need apartment. Thomas Hannaher. Dial 2-4927.” Nine days later the ad would read “Couple with infant needs apartment. References. Thomas Hannaher. Dial 2-4927.”
September 19
William starts his sophomore year at the State Teachers College in Moorhead, Minnesota, classes would begin on the 26th. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
September 27
The school newspaper reports Bill Hannaher was elected president of the sophomore class. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections] The news had been in The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican on the twenty-second.
October 11
The school newspaper reports the Dragon Band would first play later in the month with Bill Hannaher as one of four on the trombone. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
October 27
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports William Hannaher among ten students set to receive a “certificate of merit” at MSTC today.
November 27
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports on the planned issue to commemorate an anniversary for the local college’s student newspaper, identifying Bill Hannaher’s role in two out of three photographs.
December 15
Kenneth Pitchford in the school newspaper reports “editor Hannaher has already been caught chuckling over the evil things that will happen this April Fool’s Day” in a column explaining previous staff parodies. The captions for the photographs of the newspaper’s production do not identify who is at the helm of the horseshoe desk in MacLean Hall handing out assignments to the staff, the guy with a pencil behind his ear directing the staff at the composing stone, or the guy supervising the operation of the press (two of the photographs had been taken by the local newspaper and appeared therein the previous month). The newspaper was in transition and there is much hand lettering in this edition. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
1950
March 26
The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune reports on page 28 that William Hannaher was replaced by Kenneth Pitchford as editor of The MiSTiC with the issue of March 21st.
April 1
The publication of The Worsest MiSTaKe as an April Fool’s Supplement. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
April 18
The student newspaper lists William Hannaher among the “B” honor roll students. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
May 21
May 21, 1950: W.J., T.P., and T.O. endure the sun, then an intruder appears (grandchild “Michael hide behind paper”). No new suits this year. Bill at a month away from being 19 had finished his second year of college in Moorhead. Again the photographer has moved between frames.
A Sunday (well after Easter), time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
Spring
The Dragon yearbook for 1950 lists William Hannaher among the “degree sophomores” (distinct from the “graduate sophomores”) and identifies Bill Hannaher and Phyllis Evenstad as editors of the Dragon and MiSTiC. (Evenstad would later teach at John Marshall High School and marry Norman Howard Kragseth, he died in 2022.) Bill appears as a trombone player in one photograph for the “concert band,” as editor in one photograph for the “mistic,” and as a ready-to-party at a business meeting guy in one photograph for the “alpha epsilon fraternity” (the fraternity’s presentation of “Ah’s Black and Ah’s Tired” and other numbers in blackface at their songfest in February had won them a trip to Minneapolis where they appeared on KSTP-TV’s “Campus Stars”). [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
June 9
The program for the commencement ceremony in Weld Hall does not list any Hannaher, in view of the yearbook listing, perhaps he obtained an associate degree. [source: Minnesota State University Repository of Digital Collections]
Fall Quarter classes at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis begin, William is a junior. The Fall Orientation Registration Program had begun August 7th, while New Students’ Week started September 25th. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
October 3
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican publishes an obituary for Raymond Patrick Hannaher, who’d died in Minneapolis after two decades of residence there, and identifies five survivors, there is no mention of a wife. Raymond had married Miss Edna Mae Kelly in Grand Forks, North Dakota, back in 1913. (The family genealogy brother Thomas worked on lists Raymond as divorced but puts his death in 1955 and doesn’t acknowledge any other partner. In preparing an album of photographs from his childhood on, Liam also put Raymond’s death in 1955.)
October 10
Bill Hannaher is listed as assistant night editor in today’s edition of The Minnesota Daily. The Official Newspaper of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minnesota, claimed to have the World’s Largest College Circulation. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
November 2
Bill Hannaher is listed as a reporter in today’s edition of The Minnesota Daily. The masthead would change every week. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
December 23
The Fall Quarter classes come to a close. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
1951
January 8
The Winter Quarter classes begin. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
February 21
Bill Hannaher is on the front page of today’s edition of The Minnesota Daily with “West Europe has ‘Inferiority Complex’” reporting on a presentation by Paul Reynaud. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
March 24
The Winter Quarter classes come to a close. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
April 2
The Spring Quarter classes begin. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
Spring
William’s name does not appear in the index for The Gopher of 1951. [source: University of Minnesota Libraries UMedia]
June 7
Bill Hannaher is on the front page of today’s edition of The Minnesota Daily with “Congress Approves Budget of $10,154” reporting on university decisions. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
June 16
The Spring Quarter classes come to a close. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
William Hannaher (20) stands in the third row, second from right, with classmates in Russian in the summer session of 1951 at the University of Minnesota (newspaper bylines place him in both the first session of June 20-July 28 and the second of July 31-September 1). Prof. Thomas F. Magner ( 1918-2004 ) is second from right in the front row, he would publish Introduction to the Serbo-Croatian Language while still at the University in 1956, and revise it in 1991 (with a paperback released in 1995 ) as Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages at Penn State University.
September 1
The second term of the Summer Quarter classes ends. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
October 1
The Fall Quarter classes begin. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
William is a senior at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. William takes the fall 1951 session of The Writing of Fiction. [source: surmise, short stories]
October 17
Bill Hannaher continues as Wire Editor in today’s edition of The Minnesota Daily, the newspaper used “United Press Reports.” [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
October 31
A nephew, the second, is born. The Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune will report the birth at St. John’s Hospital on the second.
November 22
This year Thanksgiving and the following Friday and Saturday are school holidays. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
December 22
The Fall Quarter classes come to a close. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
1952
January 7
The Winter Quarter classes begin. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
March 22
The Winter Quarter classes come to a close. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
March 31
The Spring Quarter classes begin. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
William takes the spring 1952 session of The Writing of Fiction. [source: short stories]
Spring
The Gopher for 1952 lists “HANNAHER, WILLIAM J., B.A. Journalism; Moorhead; Sigma Delta Chi, Kappa Tau Alpha, pres. U Bands, Daily” among the Seniors. The page for Sigma Delta Chi doesn’t name him, he’s not in the photograph from the fall initiation dinner, either. ΚΤΑ doesn’t appear in the index. A photograph of the University Concert Band shows them in uniform, it might be William standing at the back. [source: University of Minnesota Libraries UMedia]
April 22
In the last issue of The Minnesota Daily retrieved by a search on his surname, Bill Hannaher reports on “Soviet Magazine Blasts Piece in Michigan Daily” on the reaction to the student newspaper at the University of Michigan featuring in its January 15th issue a purportedly Russian article imagining how “I killed the President.” [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
June 14
The Spring Quarter classes come to a close, Commencement was at 8 p.m. [source: University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
The Regents of the University of Minnesota on Recommendation of the Faculty Have Conferred Upon William Joseph Hannaher the Degree of Bachelor of Arts Magna Cum Laude With All Its Privileges and Obligations Given in Minneapolis in the State of Minnesota the Fourteenth Day of June Nineteen Hundred Fifty-Two. The university’s eighth President, James Lewis Morrill, had started in 1945. He was overseeing a significant expansion in enrollment and would remain in the post until 1960.
B.A. magna cum laude degree conferred on William Joseph Hannaher by The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. [source: diploma]
June 16
William starts the summer 1952 session of The Writing of Fiction, which extended through July 26th (the course was also offered in the second term of July 28-August 30). [source: short stories, University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy]
June 30
Bill Hannaher advertises in the “Personals” of the Monday evening The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican: “Russian speaking person wanted by student for conversational practice.”
September 7
Bill Hannaher advertises in the “Personals” of The Sunday Fargo Forum and Daily Tribune: “Ride wanted. Student must arrive New York by September 22.”
September 23
William has moved to New York City and started graduate studies at Columbia University as classes in the Winter Session begin. [source: surmise, Columbia University Archives]
1953
January 29
The Winter Session ends. [source: Columbia University Archives]
February 4
The Spring Session begins. [source: Columbia University Archives]
May 26
A nephew, the third, is born. The Forum newspapers will report the birth at St. John’s Hospital the next day and the day after that.
May 28
The Spring Session ends. [source: Columbia University Archives]
September 24
William continues graduate studies at Columbia University in New York City as classes in the Winter Session begin. [source: surmise, Columbia University Archives]
1954
January 28
The Winter Session ends. [source: Columbia University Archives]
February 3
The Spring Session begins. [source: Columbia University Archives]
May 20
The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican reports in the “Personals” that “Mr. and Mrs. Thos. O. Hannaher, 609 4th Ave. S., Moorhead, will leave today on a trip to the East. Going by car, they will visit Washington, D.C., and Philadelphia before going on to New York where they will attend the bicentennial commencement exercises at Columbia University on June 1.”
May 27
The Spring Session ends. [source: Columbia University Archives]
William Hannaher poses for a head shot at HENRY VERBY/PHOTOGRAPHY/2884 Broadway/New York 25, N.Y., probably while he was pursuing a master’s degree at Columbia University. The Moorhead Daily News would use this in its front-page article in 1957.
June 1
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York To All Persons To Whom These Presents May Come Greeting Be It Known That William Joseph Hannaher Having Completed the Studies and Satisfied the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts Has Accordingly Been Admitted to That Degree With all the Rights Privileges and Immunities Thereunto Appertaining In Witness Whereof We Have Caused This Diploma to be Signed by the President of the University and by the Dean of the Faculties of Political Science Philosophy and Pure Science and Our Corporate Seal to be Hereto Affixed in the City of New York on the First Day of June in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-Four. The Dean, Edgar Grim Miller, would be dead in 13 months. The President, Grayson L. Kirk, had taken on the role the previous year and would experience sequential headaches before leaving in 1968.
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York To All Persons To Whom These Presents May Come Greeting Be It Known That William Joseph Hannaher Having Satisfied the Requirements of the Two-Year Graduate Course Prescribed by the Russian Institute with a Major Concentration in Literature Has Accordingly Been Granted The Certificate of the Russian Institute In Witness Whereof We Have Caused This Certificate to be Signed by the Director of the Russian Institute and Our Corporate Seal to be Hereto Affixed in the City of New York on the First Day of June in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-Four. The Director of the Russian Institute of Columbia University, Philip E. Mosely, was “The Cold War’s Organization Man” having founded the institute in 1946. The Russian Institute became the W. Averell Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union in 1982 and the Harriman Institute in 1992 (source).
A.M. degree and The Certificate of the Russian Institute conferred on William Joseph Hannaher by Columbia University in the City of New York. [source: graduate school records, diplomas]
July 17
July 17, 1954, an extended array of Hannahers poses on the front steps of the house in Moorhead.
July 20
HANNAHER WILLIAM JOSEPH is inducted into the U.S. Army at Fargo, N. Dak. [source: DD Form 214]
July 27
The National Defense Service Medal was established by Executive Order in 1953 to recognize all service members who served during the national emergency now known as the Korean War. Awarded to anyone who had served on active duty in the United States Armed Forces from June 27, 1950 (the fall of Seoul to the invaders) to this day, this medal had no requirements for length of service, overseas service, or combat service. William’s one week of basic training a year after the signing of the armistice was enough. [source: DD Form 214]
November
525th Military Intelligence Group, Ford Bragg, North Carolina [source: DD Form 214]
William Hannaher (23) stands third from the left at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, about April, 1955. The rifle he and his compatriots in basic training (possibly as part of the 525th Military Intelligence Group) are carrying is probably the M1 Garand . The installation was renamed Fort Liberty in 2023, and named Fort Bragg again in 2025.
June
532nd Military Intelligence Battalion, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany [source: DD Form 214]
1956
February 17
William Joseph Hannaher receives a passport valid for 2 months, he’ll use it for travel to Greece, Turkey, and Yugoslavia before returning to Germany and Army life. Was it Official Government business or official leave?
The Consul General in Stuttgart, Germany, Theodore J. Hadraba issues a passport to William Joseph Hannaher, member of the United States Armed Forces, valid only for travel on official Government business or official leave. Valid for two months, and additionally restricted for travel to Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey, necessary countries enroute and return to the Federal Republic of Germany. (Stamps show he went from Brindisi in Italy to Greece to Edirne Vilâyeti and Uzunköprü in Turkey, the Federal National Republic of Yugoslavia for a week, and back to the Bundesrepublik Deutschland on April 8th.) [source: passport]
HANNAHER WILLIAM JOSEPH is released from active military service at the Patch Barracks in Stuttgart, Germany, and transferred to Army Reserve to complete 8 years service under the Universal Military Training & Service Act. He supplies an address in Heidelberg-Kirchheim for mailing purposes after separation, where he would study a couple of months at the Interpreters Institute, University of Heidelberg. [source: DD Form 214]
May
23 Bürgerstraße, Heidelberg-Kirchheim, Germany
May 3
William Hannaher is enrolled in the Universität Heidelberg and receives a student identification card, the sole stamp is for the Summer Semester.
William Hannaher enrolls in the Universität Heidelberg and receives a student ID card.
June
Another identity card for Herr William Hannaher valid through February 28, 1957 (the issue date in Heidelberg in 1956 is less legible) entitled him to take advantage of discounts afforded to students of the University by the city’s municipal transit (Heidelberger Straßen- und Bergbahn AG).
September
21 Meriden Court, Chelsea Manor Street, London S.W. 3, England
November
William Hannaher (25) aboard the French ship Liberté (since 1950, previously the German-built SS Europa ) in the Atlantic, November 1956. William identifies passengers Betty Thompson and Louise Parsons (with braids and no socks) but not the photographer. They are traveling westbound from Le Havre, headed for New York. William’s beret seen in one photograph but not the other was blown overboard. The stairs, flagpole, and curved railing places the action on the aft-most part of deck A with the photographer moving from the port quarter to more inboard.
1914 G Street [quadrant omitted], Apt. 22, Washington, D.C.
November 24
The President of the United States of America To William J. Hannaher, of Minnesota, a Foreign Service Officer of the United States of America, Greeting: Reposing special trust and confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability, I do appoint you a Secretary in the Diplomatic Service of the United States of America and do authorize and empower you to have and to hold the said office and to exercise and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities thereunto appertaining during the pleasure of the President of the United States and until the end of the next session of the Senate of the United States and no longer. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-fourth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-six, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. By the President: Dwight D. Eisenhower. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State. One of three proclamations issued this day, the others were for Vice consul of career and Foreign Service Officer of Class 8. Eisenhower had just been re-elected on the sixth, and Dulles would stay on until 1959. If we take the next session of the Senate to be the 85th, that term ended January 3, 1959.
Three proclamations appointing William J. Hannaher, of Minnesota, to various positions: vice consul, Foreign Service Officer of Class 8, and Secretary in the Diplomatic Service. [source: proclamations]
December
William starts the 6 months of training at the Foreign Service Institute in D.C. [source: backdating from newspaper report]
William J. Hannaher receives an International Certificates of Vaccination as approved by The World Health Organization card, which includes sections for smallpox, yellow fever, cholera, and other. The first immunization on January 4, 1957 is for Polio. He will get another shot for Polio and shots for Typhoid and Typhus in the months ahead. The last shot is for Smallpox which he gets aboard the S.S. Liberté on his return to the United States after his marriage.
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Polio in the Medical Branch, Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
January 24
William J. Hannaher completes a draft of his tax return for 1956 using the instructions for the card form of Form 1040A. This was his oldest surviving record of tax preparation.
William J. Hannaher prepares a draft of his tax return for 1956 in ink on the instructions for the CARD form of the Form 1040. He writes his parents’ address in Moorhead, Minnesota (which wasn’t urban enough to have a postal Zone). He identifies income of $549.50 from (four months with) the U.S. Army in Germany and $456.58 from (one month with) the Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. The total income for the year is well below the $5,000 limit for using the card form. The tax table on the first page of instructions shows he owes $62, which is significantly less than what was withheld over the year, he was due a refund of $58.10. [source: tax return]
January 29
The President of the United States of America To William J. Hannaher, of Minnesota, a Foreign Service Officer of the United States of America, Greeting: Reposing special trust and confidence in your Integrity, Prudence and Ability, I do appoint you a Foreign Service Officer of Class 8 of the United States of America and do authorize and empower you to have and to hold the said office and to exercise and enjoy all the rights, privileges and immunities thereunto appertaining during the pleasure of the President of the United States. In testimony whereof, I have caused the Seal of the United States to be hereunto affixed. Done at the City of Washington this twenty-ninth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the one hundred and eighty-first. By the President: Dwight D. Eisenhower. John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State. One of three proclamations made that day, to the same positions as in November but removing the limit based on Senate terms.
Three proclamations affirm the appointment of William J. Hannaher, of Minnesota, to the same positions identified in November and remove the limit of the end of the next Senate term. [source: proclamations]
February 1
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Polio in the Medical Branch, Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
March 18
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Tr.typhoid and a revaccination for Smallpox in the Medical Branch, Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
March 25
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Typhus in the Medical Branch, Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
June
Having completed his training and assigned as a biographic officer, William sees his parents in New York and travels to Belgrade. [source: newspaper reports]
June 20
The Moorhead Daily News published “Hannaher Gets Post in Belgrade” below the fold on its front page on June 20, 1957. William Hannaher wouldn’t be 26 for another three days! (The Fargo Forum and Daily Republican had a similar article the previous day on page 2.)
June
Hotel Moskva, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
July 3
A niece is born.
July 31
In “Report From Abroad” the two Forum newspapers convey the writing of W. J. Hannaher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Hannaher, 609 4th Ave. S., Moorhead that “American popular music is ‘very much the style’ in Belgrade, Yugoslavia.” “Hannaher writes that all the Yugoslav people he has met are ‘extraordinarily hospitable.’” He’d enclosed a clipping from Borba in Belgrade reporting on the Fargo tornado of June 20th.
August
ul Ivana Milutinovića br 58 Belgrade Yugoslavia
September 17
The Fargo Forum Daily Republican and Moorhead Daily News reports the death of Miss Martha E. Hannaher about noon today at 72 in a hospital, but her residence was the house at 1101 Fifth St. N. She was the second woman of this name, the first Martha Edney Hannaher had been born in 1856 and had died in 1920.
1958
January
Bulevar Vojvode Putnika br 20 Belgrade Yugoslavia
W J Hannaher poses for a photograph in a jacket and tie, it would be used for his Yugoslavian drivers license issued March 15, 1958.
March 15
Yugoslavia and Serbia issue William Hannaher a drivers license on March 15, 1958 valid through the end of the subsequent year. What utility having his father’s name (Томас) on the license, or what Serbs would make of a birthplace of Фарго, isn’t apparent.
March 28
Yugoslavia issues William Hannaher an international drivers license on March 28, 1958, valid for one year. The languages inside include Serbo-Croatian (in Latin alphabet), French, (UK) English, German, Italian, and Russian. The stamps applied in Belgrade on the last panel lack specificity, it’s likely William of Fargo was only entitled to drive vehicles of category B.
June
His mother wrote “June 1958/Yugoslavia” on the back, perhaps William Hannaher did not mention his pre-1959 Mercedes-Benz 180 (with the narrow grille lacking a star) or the two women accompanying him (or the photographer). That’s a MY1957 Chevrolet Suburban and a MY1951 Chevrolet parked along the curb behind him. Maybe the first two letters on the license plate are “CD” for a diplomatic plate.
William J. Hannaher receives vaccination for Tr.typhoid and for Polio from the same doctor in the Medical Branch, Foreign Service Office. [source: vaccination card]
July 3
William and Svetlana resume their tours of monasteries in Serbia. [source: photograph]
William Hannaher (28) poses for a photograph which he will use for the passport issued to him on August 27, 1959.
August 27
Andor Klay (1912-1996), American Consul in the embassy in Belgrade issues a passport to William Joseph Hannaher, whose occupation is listed as “writer.” [source: passport]
William Hannaher poses for a photograph at a ¾ face angle.
September 3
William Hannaher and Svetlana Gođevac (26) on September 3, 1959, their wedding day. Svetlana’s copy of this photograph has William’s hand identifying the location as the Studenica Monastery.
William Joseph Hannaher marries Svetlana Godjevac at the Studenica Monastery. [source: wedding documents, photographs] William’s employment as vice consul at the American embassy in Belgrade is listed on the marriage certificate, but he had already been let go. The witnesses were Marko Malovrazić and Cveta A. Jovanović. [source: marriage certificate]
November 13
William has sold his Mercedes-Benz 180 and leaves Belgrade by train with Svetlana to buy a new one in Stuttgart. [source: Svetlana memoir]
The variety of passenger cars in the production program at Daimler-Benz Aktiengesellschaft Untertürkheim Plant (Stuttgart, West Germany) in 1959, with subsequent pages in the booklet offering Trucks, Buses, and Municipal and fire fighting vehicles. The 180 William bought was obviously the bottom of the range, while at the top, the newly fuel-injected Type 300d and the roadsters.
November 20
William Hannaher (28) stands next to his MY1959 Mercedes-Benz 180 somewhere on the road (“Sunny afternoon in the Black Forest, Nov. 1959”) 2½ months after his marriage. He’d bought it at the factory in Stuttgart and retained the West German oval-for-export license plate. The specific day in November (“20”) comes from Svetlana’s copy of the print, she also confirmed the location as Шварцвалд in southwest Germany.
After delivery of the new 180, Svetlana describes travel through France and Italy but a photograph shows William and his new car in the Black Forest. They were still relying on what remained of an inheritance. [Source: Svetlana’s memoir and photograph]
December 6
The Sunday Fargo Forum Daily Tribune and Moorhead News reports with a “Hannaher Weds In Yugoslavia” headline: “Mr. and Mrs. Thomas O. Hannaher, 609 4th Ave. S., Moorhead, have received announcement of the marriage of their son, William J., and Miss Svetlana Godjevac, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, recently.” The notice identifies his former position as vice consul at the American Embassy in Belgrade since June, 1957 and states the wedding date. The bride is identified as the daughter of a former Yugoslav diplomat. The two will be living in Italy, the paper states.
December
138 Piazza Vittorio [Emanuele II], Rome, Italy
1960
January 13
William J. Hannaher prepares a draft of his U.S. Individual Tax Return for 1959 on Form 1040A. He writes his address as “Piazza Vittorio 138/Rome Italy” and admits to $4,291.65 in income from the Department of State in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Because this income is less than $5000, he consults the Tax Table and looks across the row for his income to the column for two dependents and chooses the filing status of “Single or a married person filing separately” even after the checking the box “No” for the question “If married, is your wife (husband) filing separately?” (In the draft, he’s crossed out the word husband.) The refund could have been $12 more. The form continues to be a card. [source: tax return]
Birth of a son in Belgrade at the Traumatološke bolnice at 9:15 p.m.
November 10
William J. Hannaher receives a revaccination for smallpox aboard the S.S. Liberté. [source: vaccination card]
November 14
William’s passport is stamped for admission in New York. This is the last of many stamps in the preceding year. He’d left Le Havre on the eighth. [source: passport]
December
111-19 66th Avenue Forest Hills 75 New York
An image prepared in 2025 based on the floorplan of unit 2b at the address in “The Gardens of Forest Hills” (the Hannahers lived in unit 3b) and photographs of the time. All dimensions approximate.
The building had been built about a decade earlier as part of a post-war garden apartment development in the blocks north of the high school, apartment 3B was on the top level, its corner of the floor afforded slightly over 600 ft² with one bedroom, one bath. [source: apartments.com]
December 22
Having flown Air France (so the story goes, the latest of multiple strikes that year had yet to end) William’s wife Svetlana and son Constantine arrive in New York City (they’d left Belgrade by plane on the 21st and endured an extended stay in the Paris airport). William found her telegram inadequate to be waiting for them and waited for a call. [source: Svetlana’s memoir]
1961
Winter
Working with a print made in August of 1963, William writes “With Constantine, 66th Ave., winter 1960-1” on the back. Snow had hit the area December 12th, January 19-20, and February 3-4.
January 13
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare a draft of a joint U.S. Individual Income Tax Return for 1960 on Form 1040A (a card again, instructions). He crosses out the word “husband” again. Reporting income of $214.40 from the Department of State, American Embassy, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, they owe nothing in tax and ask for the withheld $34.10 to be refunded. A dependent child is listed on line 14. [source: tax return]
January
Started as a translator for Spectrum Translations
March 16
The Fargo Forum Daily Republican and Moorhead Daily News reports on page 30 on the brothers Thomas P. (of 316 11th St. S., working for Ridley‘s Office Equipment Co.) and William (“working in New York”) in a retrospective by their father on how the town had changed over decades.
May 2
A nephew, the fourth, is born. The Fargo Forum Daily Republican and Moorhead Daily News reports the birth at St. John’s Hospital today, and again tomorrow in The Fargo Forum Daily Tribune and Moorhead News.
Undated, but no winter apparel is evident. Svetlana Hannaher, William Hannaher, and their son are in a camera store. They can’t afford to buy a camera, so they will use coupons from soup can labels to get a Kodak Hawkeye Flashfun.
August
The print says September, the trip to Moorhead started in August. Svetlana, William, and their son are here to visit his parents. It’s impossible to see whether the MY1959 Mercedes-Benz 180 retains its star or turn signal. William’s income this year is below average for the nation, and about half of the average for families headed by college graduates.
Mr. Thomas O. Hannaher holds a grandson while his wife, his daughter-in-law Svetlana, and his younger son William stand alongside, it’s probably Lake Sallie.
The fifth child for skilled and respected businessman Thomas P. and his wife Mary had arrived in May. Svetlana saved money by never visiting a hairdresser (and cutting everyone’s hair at home).
Working with a print made in August of 1963, William writes “Front yard in Moorhead, fall of 1961” but doesn’t identify his father, his mother, his aunt, or his child.
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: photographs]
September 10
The Sunday Fargo Forum Daily Tribune and Moorhead News reports on page 21 about the departure Friday of Mr. and Mrs. William J. Hannaher and son, Connie, of Forest Hills, Long Island, after a two-week visit with relatives. William was already planning on obtaining a doctorate.
November
Started free-lance translation from Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, and Russian for government agencies and private employers under piecework contracts, with the bulk appearing in the Joint Publications Research Service series. William would continue this until he took a salaried job. [source: resume]
1962
January 10
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare a draft of a joint U.S. Individual Income Tax Return for 1961 on Form 1040A (a card still). They report income of $4052.38 from Spectrum Translation & Research, Inc. of New York City and $14.78 in interest, with three dependents they owe $374 in tax and ask for $90.80 to be refunded. [source: tax return]
January 18
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare a draft of a joint Short Form IT-200 New York State Income Tax Resident Return and ask for a refund of $19.40 (almost half the total withheld by the state). [source: tax return]
William writes “with Constantine [on the sandy] beach on/of Roslyn Harbor, early 1962” although it’s far more likely the beach was to the north, for example, what is now the North Hempstead Beach Park. There would have been no admission fee at this time of year.
September
Svetlana and Constantine Hannaher sail on the S.S. Groote Beer for France when she is homesick, they were to take trains to Italy and Belgrade. [source: passport]
A postcard from Velco International of Rotterdam rates the s. s. Groote Beer at 9126 Gross Reg. Tons. Svetlana has written „Константин и Светлана пловиле од Америке до Европе овом лађом Септембра 1962.“ on the back.
November 22
Svetlana and Constantine Hannaher return to New York City after leaving the FPRY 10 days earlier and passing through Italy, Switzerland, and France. [source: passport]
1963
April 10
The tax situation for William J. and Svetlana Hannaher got complicated for the free-lance translator and housewife, requiring use of Form 1040 for 1962. He reported Schedule B interest income of $16.42 (from the Sterling National Bank and Trust Company on Queens Boulevard) and Schedule C business income of $3997.31 (after subtracting the cost of typewriter ribbons and erasers and two 3-way light bulbs and deducting for depreciation on a Smith-Corona portable typewriter, a Telefunken tape recorder with microphone, a desk, and a desk lamp, rent, repairs to his tape recorder and desk, and other business expenses of telephone and transportation), paid additional self-employment tax on Schedule C-3, and applied for an investment credit of $13.45 on Form 3468. The total tax came to $539.42. They owed New York State $19.37 on IT-201. [source: tax returns]
April 13
The family experiences a collision in Queens when a man drives an old Plymouth into the right side of the Mercedes-Benz 180.
April 14
Constantine is posed in front of the Forest Hills High School, Easter 1963 (a bunny figure is visible in the pose with Svetlana). Perhaps William thought his son would go to this school some day (at 67-01 110th Street it was barely a block away from their apartment on 66th Avenue).
Svetlana and William pose Constantine in front of the Forest Hills High School, they move between frames. [source: photographs]
April 15
Spencer Auto Body Service estimates $700 to repair the foreign car.
April 16
William writes a letter to Government Employees Insurance Company regarding the collision.
Summer
The family travels by car to Washington, D.C. [source: photographs]
September
Three generations of Hannaher, September 1963. The sun is just as bad as at Easter.
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota, Clinton, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois before returning home to Queens. [source: photographs]
1964
January 29
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare a draft joint U.S. Individual Income Tax Return for 1963 for mailing the next day. Svetlana has a Social Security Number now. In addition to $21.77 from Sterling, $34.20 in Schedule B interest income is reported from Whitestone Savings and Loan Association, New York, N.Y. With the other schedules and forms similar to the previous year, the additional federal tax due is $371.08 after $267 in estimated tax and they owed $26.55 to New York State. [source: tax returns]
March 17
It was Tuesday, March 17th but William only writes “St. Patrick’s Day, 86th St., 1964[.]” They were standing (Svetlana would have been several months pregnant) on the north side of the street at the end of the parade route.
The three Hannahers attend the Saint Patrick’s Day parade in Manhattan at E. 86th Street, which was the northern end of the route that year: “5 With Green Paint Seized on 5th Ave.” [source: photographs]
The second son is baptized at the St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Cathedral (at 15 West 25th Street in Manhattan) by the Very Rev. Basil Veinovich, pastor. [source: excerpt from the parish record of births and baptisms]
November 1
89-02 70th Road, Forest Hills, New York 11375 [source for addresses 1954-1964: personal history statement prepared January 2, 1970; New York State Income Tax Resident Return for 1970]
An image prepared in 2025 based on guesswork from the floorplan of the first floor of 89-04 and photographs of the time. All dimensions approximate.
This was a newer building (built in 1960) on the corner, the apartment was again on the third floor and likely less than 900 ft² with two bedrooms, one bath. [source: Compass, Zillow]
December
No one looks particularly happy visiting her relatives in Manhattan, William is 33½. Svetlana’s father Slobodan, visiting from Yugoslavia at 67, holds a second grandson born in July. We called the (here unseen) relative tetka Anka but the “aunt” relationship would have been in Slobodan’s generation. Anka Gođevac-Subbotić (1890-1983) was known for pioneering activities as a woman in international law.
1965
January
New son, new apartment, no prospects (but he has an Olivetti typewriter): William wrote “With Constantine and Stephen, Jan., 1965” while his mother wrote “August 1965 / Leaving Moorhead” (both families had started using color film the previous year).
January
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher didn’t date their draft Form 1040, he had paid more than half of the amount due as estimated tax already. Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association was their second financial institution after Sterling. He’d also paid estimated tax to New York State. The returns bore their new address. There were now four exemptions, but the children didn’t need to be listed. [source: tax returns]
April 22
A visit to the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows.
August
Birthday cakes on the table at the lake cottage, William was 34 in June and Svetlana turned 32 on the sixteenth in August. There’s also toys on the table, so where is the younger son? The older son would be 5 in September.
The family watches the premiere episode of Batman on ABC.
March 4
Svetlana Hannaher is issued a United States Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service Permit To Reenter the United States. The permit allowed an alien previously lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence to reenter the United States as a nonquota immigrant. The restriction on using this permit to return to the United States from certain countries was waived for Yugoslavia only.
March 23
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1965. The form now asks for the first names of dependent children that lived with the taxpayers. He’d paid all but $7.86 of the federal tax due as estimated tax payments, he’d overpaid the state by $62.10. The second financial institution supplying Schedule B interest income was Columbia Savings and Loan Association (too many institutions with this name to be sure which one it was). [source: tax returns]
March 24
Svetlana, Constantine, and Stephen take the S.S. United States to France on trip #370, expected to arrive on the 29th. They would then take trains to Belgrade, arriving on the 30th. [sources: sailing schedule for 1966, passport]
July 4
With his wife and two children away for months on another continent, William (35) travels—with no hint of what camera was used or the photographer’s identity. The original building of the Albright–Knox Art Gallery (as it was known in 1966) dated back to 1905. The other location is identified only as “Milwaukee” but could be overlooking one of the parks in that city.
William poses for a photograph along the colonnade at the original building of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. [source: photograph]
July
A temporary appointment as Preceptor in Serbo-Croatian, School of General Studies, Columbia University lasted until June of 1968. [source: resume]
September 11
William poses for a photograph at a railing overlooking a park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [source: photograph]
October 20
Svetlana, Constantine, and Stephen land in New York City from the S.S. United States. They’d left Le Havre on the 15th on trip #1632. The passport that Constantine Hannaher and Stephen were using to travel was issued June 10th by the embassy in Belgrade. Charles S. Kennedy, Jr., was the Consul. The Passenger List and Shipboard Information for Tourist Class notes the presence of Mrs. Sevetlane Hannaher, Master Constantine Hannaher, and Master Stephen Hannaher. The ocean liner would cease transatlantic passenger operations after its arrival in New York three years later. [sources: permit, passport, booklet]
November 24
November 24th: “With Constantine and Stephen in Forest Park, Thanksgiving Day, 1966” (the wooded area created by displacing homeowners seventy years earlier was south of their neighborhood).
1967
February 21
Svetlana Hannaher is issued a Certificate of Naturalization. [source: certificate]
March 15
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1966, they report ordinary income from Columbia University on line 5. The estimated tax payments were short by $490.83. New York City demanded $10.52. [source: tax returns]
April 4
William pays his federal tax balance due and an additional $200 in estimated tax payment by a cashier’s check from Sterling National Bank & Trust Company. William paid the $65.91 due to New York State and the $10.52 due to New York City by money orders from Astoria Federal Savings and Loan Association. [source: tax returns]
July 26
“Farewell to old car” as the Mercedes-Benz 180 is traded in on a Mercedes-Benz 200 Diesel.
This copyright 1965 catalog from Mercedes-Benz about four of its new U.S. offerings takes 4½ pages to explain the diesel (to be fair the six-cylinder models got 6 pages each).
August
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
1968
January 22
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In premieres tonight on NBC.
April 5
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1967 and calculate a refund of $1.53. His typewriter was one line off. They owed New York State $62.71 and the city $27.85. [source: tax returns]
August
William (37) writes “T.P.’s boat, Lake Melissa, August, 1968” and that is his brother is at the wheel, proud to show off his unsinkable fiberglass boat to visiting relatives (although it looks like his youngest is also aboard).
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
September 9
The first day of elementary school is canceled when the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) calls a strike, the first of several this season.
November 9
Teachers return to school after the third strike this season is ended. Schools remained unlocked and some teachers ran classes in what they called “interim” school about which William and Svetlana claimed to know nothing.
December 8
In preparing a form for the Office of University Placement and Career Planning at Columbia University in the City of New York, William J. Hannaher states he can read easily Serbo-Croatian, Bulgarian, Russian, German, Italian, French, and speak readily Serbo-Croatian. In describing travel abroad, he lists Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Yugoslavia, Holland, England, Ireland, and Rumania. [source: Columbia U. form]
1969
February 9
This Sunday, fifteen inches of snow (the most since the blizzard of 1961) caught the city unprepared. For three days, as additional snow fell, the city was in a state of near paralysis. The city had to wait until Wednesday for its schools to reopen.
March 27
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1968 and calculate a balance due of $176.85. They report Schedule B interest income from Moorhead State Bank in Minnesota. They owe the state $63.20 and the city $46.75. [source: tax returns]
April 10
William pays the federal, state, and city taxes due with money orders from Maspeth Federal Savings & Loan Association. [source: tax returns]
July 28
The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York To All Persons To Whom These Presents May Come Greeting Be It Known That William Joseph Hannaher Having Completed the Studies and Satisfied the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy Has Accordingly Been Admitted to That Degree With all the Rights Privileges and Immunities Thereunto Appertaining In Witness Whereof We Have Caused This Diploma to be Signed by the President of the University and by the Dean of the Faculties of Political Science Philosophy and Pure Science and Our Corporate Seal to be Hereto Affixed in the City of New York on the Twenty-Eighth Day of July in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Sixty-Nine. The dean, George K. Fraenkel, had joined the faculty in chemistry in 1949, he became dean in 1965 and would remain as such until 1983, retire in 1991, and die in 2009. The Acting President, Andrew W. Cordier, was not so lucky. He would obtain the permanent title later in the year, achieve “moderate success” in dealing with the student unrest that had led Kirk to leave, and die in 1975.
Ph.D. degree conferred on William Joseph Hannaher by Columbia University in the City of New York. [source: diploma]
August
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota, William’s route this year takes them through Canada.
September 21
The family travels by car to New Hampshire, where William drives his diesel passenger car up Mount Washington.
1970
March 4
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1969 and calculate a balance due of $35.76. There was no Form 1040A for this year. Schedule B interest income from Maspeth Federal Savings & Loan Association in Rego Park, United National Bank of Long Island in New York in Forest Hills, and Moorhead State Bank in Moorhead, Minnesota is reported. A Schedule T (“Tax Computation”) was needed. A refund of $53.09 was expected from the state, and $30.38 was owed the city. [source: tax returns]
March 16
William pays the federal and city taxes due with money orders from Maspeth Federal Savings & Loan Association. [source: tax returns]
May 4
The family sight-sees in Washington, D.C. on this Monday (of the Ohio National Guard shooting at Kent State University killing four) and days(s) following. [source: photographs]
July 15
Svetlana and the children fly Pan Am Flight 78 from New York, headed for Shannon/Dusseldorf/Belgrade. [sources: Pan Am schedule effective July 1-August 31, 1970; Svetlana's passport]
August 28
Svetlana and the children return to New York having flown Pan Am Flight 79 leaving Belgrade and stopping at Dusseldorf and Shannon along the way. [sources: Pan Am schedule effective July 1-August 31, 1970; Svetlana's passport]
November 2
William reports to CIA headquarters near McLean.
November 25
Bekins picks up furniture in Queens. The family heads for the Travel Lodge at 421 Broad Street in Falls Church, Virginia.
November 30
6374 Wingate Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22312
An image prepared in 2025 based on floorplans for “Arbor Park” townhouses modified to eliminate modern features like an open kitchen, built-in washer/dryer stack, and a second bath upstairs. All dimensions approximate.
The family establishes a new address at a two-story rental townhouse in Orleans Village in Fairfax County, Virginia. [source: tax returns]
When Orleans Village opened in 1965, it was advertised as “an exciting new concept in apartment living that smoothly blends the beautiful architecture and rich colors of old New Orleans with space and luxury” with a mix of three-story apartment buildings and two-story townhouses over single-story apartments. [source: advertising in the Northern Virginia Sun] The 3 bedroom, 1½ bath townhome with 1380 ft² was at the northern end of the complex facing woods. [source: Arbor Park of Alexandria]
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1970 and calculate a refund due of $136.60. The expense of $1097.38 to move to Orleans Village (including the payment to Bekins, travel, meals, and lodging to move, and temporary living expenses in the new location) adjusts the total income. A new source of Schedule B interest income, the Arlington-Fairfax Savings and Loan Association. He deducted $3 business expense for his subscription to Naša reč (a Serbian-language periodical published since 1948 in Paris, then since 1958 in London, by democratically-oriented Yugoslav emigrants). [source: tax returns]
March 2
The Commonwealth of Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles issues to William Joseph Hannaher a two-part operators license in a vinyl sleeve. Part A is an embossed card (similar in size and shape to a credit card) which showed he was ineligible to operate vehicles of the three classes set forth, also he had a restriction X requiring the wearing of corrective lenses. Part B had the photograph of the operator with a dour expression wearing framed eyeglasses. No licenses from his decade in The Empire State survive.
March 27
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form IT-201 New York State Income Tax Resident Return and calculate a balance due of $28.50, he hadn’t paid estimated tax. [source: tax return]
April 3
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 201 NYC Resident Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $10.88, he hadn’t paid estimated tax. [source: tax return]
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia State Resident Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $16.88 for the one month of salaried employment in the state. [source: tax return]
William (40) didn’t include this frame in any album, it was taken sometime in August of 1971 while the family was in Minnesota. Ban-Lon was a synthetic material created in 1954 which was losing its fashion cachet.
October
After continued difficulties with the diesel Mercedes-Benz, William trades it in with Mount Vernon Dodge at 5900 Richmond Highway just south of the border with Alexandria, Virginia, on a MY1972 Dodge Dart 4-door sedan, nicely equipped with extras he didn’t care for even as the salesman argued for resale value: deluxe wheel covers, vinyl body-side molding, and AM radio! Less visible were the optional 225 cu. in. 6-cylinder 1-carburetor (regular leaded) gasoline engine and Torqueflite 3-speed automatic transmission.
This catalog for 1972 from Dodge had two pages for every model. The Eggshell White color was available on all cars. You can’t say we weren’t warned about the trunk space, even Dodge couldn’t make the grocery bags stand up!
1972
March 26
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1971 and calculate a balance due of $191.73, about a tenth of what he’d already paid as estimated tax. A new source of Schedule B interest income, the Moorhead Federal Savings and Loan Association. [source: tax return]
April 11
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia State Resident Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $56.70. [source: tax return]
May 13
William’s father dies at 90 at a local hospital.
May 15
William Hannaher was 40 when his father died. “Thomas Hannaher Funeral Set Tuesday” ran in The Forum on (Monday) May 15th, 1972, a death notice had been placed in Sunday’s paper. The second son’s family had been living in northern Virginia nearly a year and a half, stating for accuracy’s sake “Alexandria, Va.” would not have taken any more column inches. The A.M. final edition adds that Thomas was born “in a house on a farm” in rural Fargo.
A prayer service is held at the Wright Funeral Home in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: newspaper clipping]
May 16
A funeral is held at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: newspaper clipping] Thomas O’Connor Hannaher would be interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
October
William (41) writes “At home, October, 1972” after posing with his aunt and his mother.
William’s mother and aunt travel from Minnesota to visit.
1973
February 17
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1972 and calculate a balance due of $54.94. A new source of Schedule B interest income, Dominion National Bank. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Short Form 760S Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $21.35. [source: tax returns]
William (42) writes “June, 1973, Daniel’s photo” as the Hannahers have gathered at one of four examples of a bronze statue of an Irish man by an Irish sculptor. William’s nephews were in D.C. to hear John Dean testify before Sam Ervin’s Senate Committee, which started on the 25th. The print also has “a Classic Print® by Kota-Kraft” on the back with a logo appropriating an abstract indigenous profile. Kota-Kraft was the photofinishing division of Artz Studio and Camera Supply in Fargo, North Dakota, and Aberdeen, South Dakota, at the time, the business succumbed to digital imaging in 2012 .
June 25
John Dean begins his testimony before Sam Ervin’s Senate Committee, William’s nephews are in D.C. to witness.
Summer
William writes “Above Potomac with David Hills, summer, 1973” even though no such person is included in the frame. These may have been some of the Iowa Hills, possibly David W. Hill (1938-1996) and his mother Mildred R. Hill (1916-2004).
August
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
Svetlana photographs William and their two sons at his father’s building in Moorhead, Minnesota. His brother Thomas P. Hannaher as president had moved Hannaher’s Inc. (formerly Ridley’s Office Equipment Co.) to a newly-constructed building on the east side of Moorhead in July. The building still bearing a PEDERSON MERCANTILE COMPANY sign at the top was expected to be demolished for urban renewal soon. The Forum was inconsistent on how long the neighboring business had been at that location, but in 1960 the newspaper reported the wholesale auto parts distributor headquartered in Wahpeton had moved from Center Avenue after a remodeling of the former Hannaher Building (which was now owned by Bert Kvamme, of the local construction company). By 2025 Sturdevant’s Auto Parts was operating across five states. After two more moves, Hannaher’s became Connect Interiors in 2020 with three locations in the region.
1974
February 24
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1973 and calculate a balance due of $363.71, again about a tenth of what he’d already paid as estimated tax. Svetlana’s occupation is now identified as Teacher. William used Schedule G Income Averaging to take advantage of his low taxable income in 1969 and 1970. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Short Form 760S Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $90.77. [source: tax returns]
July 18
Svetlana and the two children fly Pan American Flight 66 departing from Washington Dulles in the evening, they would reach Belgrade the next day. [sources: Constantine’s “Jr. Clipper® Crew Flight Log,” online timetable, passport]
August 23
Svetlana and the two children return on Pan American Flight 107 to Washington Dulles early in the afternoon. They’d left Belgrade on the previous day. [sources: online timetable, passport]
November 10
Liam’s oldest nephew was married Saturday in the home of the bride in Hilton, New York, reports The Sunday Forum.
1975
March 18
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1974 and calculate a balance due of $826.09, almost a fifth of what was due. A new source of Schedule B interest income, Metropolitan Federal Savings and Loan Association. Schedule G is used again. [source: tax return]
William Hannaher poses for a photograph which does not match any extant passport or identity card, but aside from the longer sideburns it is very similar to that in his Official Passport issued in 1975.
April 4
William Joseph Hannaher is issued an Official Passport with a maroon cover, there is no evidence he was able to use it before expiration 5 years later.
April 8
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Short Form 760S Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $209.47, also a fifth of what was owed, the withholding at their employers was inadequate.
August
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
November 7
The Ashville Citizen-Times of North Carolina lists the translation of Garden, Ashes under a “Three Book Translations To Consider” headline, one of many newspapers to take note of the new release.
1976
March 10
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1975 and calculate a balance due of $2281.67, more than a third of what was due. Business income of $1387.48 for “Translations” was identified, and Schedule SE Computation of Social Security Self-Employment Tax was needed again. Schedule G is still helpful to offset the double income with years when Svetlana wasn’t employed. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $219.85, nearly a fifth of what was owed. Virginia asks for his Phone number and William supplies it without Area Code, an inadequacy since 804 had been split from 703 in 1973. [source: tax returns]
April 30
William Joseph Hannaher is issued a bicentennial passport, it uses the same photograph as in his Official Passport the previous year.
August
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
1977
March 3
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1976 and calculate an overpayment of $14.42 to be applied to the 1977 estimated tax, William had succeeded in using estimated tax payments to supplement the withholding. No Schedule G this year. [source: tax return]
March 12
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $87.97, less than a tenth of what was owed, no estimated tax payments. [source: tax return]
July 29
An aunt, Beatrice Hellander, dies at 89. She, too, had lived at the house at 1101 Fifth St. N.
August 13
The family has traveled by car to Moorhead, Minnesota and attends the wedding of Mary Patricia Hannaher and David A. Nelson.
October
The family travels by car to visit Ivy League colleges.
November
The family travels by car to visit Philadelphia and the University of Virginia (again).
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1977, the signature block has moved to the second page. William was less successful using estimated tax payments to supplement the withholding, they calculate a balance due of $1154.97, about 15% of what was owed. Schedule G is back this year, Schedule TC Tax Computation Schedule is needed. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $156.04, a tenth of what was owed with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
June 10
William’s older son graduates from high school.
June 18
William attends The Irish American Club of Washington’s Third Annual Feis held this weekend at the Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, Maryland. He recites “Mise Raifteirí an File,” a poem by Antoine Ó Raifteirí (1779-1835). [source: photograph]
July 30
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
August 14
William (47) is caught by his sister-in-law while in the dining room at 609 Fourth Avenue, his youngest nephew shares the merriment. No print of this frame made it into the family album.
August 27
Constantine begins college in Charlottesville.
1979
February 18
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $220.36, more than a tenth of what was owed, still with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax return]
February 19
A snowstorm hits the area. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1978 and calculate a balance due of $709.89, less than a tenth of what was owed. Schedules G and TC Tax Computation Schedule are used again. [source: tax return]
September
Svetlana concludes her use of the Kodak Instamatic S-10 with photographs of her husband, sister, and younger son at the Baltimore City Fair in Maryland. William had become very selective of what photographs he would display in an album, and none from this last roll made it into one.
1980
February 21
William J. Hannaher receives a revaccination for Smallpox and five other shots in the Med. Division Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
March 1
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1979 and calculate a balance due of $764.47, less than a tenth of what was owed. The amount paid as estimated tax was almost as much as that withheld. Schedule TC Tax Computation Schedule is included. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $233.63, a tenth of what was owed, still with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
June
Svetlana starts using a Nikon EM at an Irish festival in Baltimore, Maryland.
August
William, Svetlana, and Stephen visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
September
William and Svetlana visit Hatteras Island and Okracoke in North Carolina.
1981
January 27
Svetlana attends the Ceremony for Freed American Hostages on the South Lawn of The White House, William will label her two photographs as “celebration downtown, early 1981.”
February
William serves as treasurer of the Gaelic League of Washington. [source: resume]
March 7
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1980 and calculate a balance due of $2880.57, nearly a fifth of what was owed. The amount paid as estimated tax was almost as much as that withheld. Schedule G Income Averaging was used again, as was Schedule TC Tax Computation Schedule. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $531.81, a fifth of what was owed, still with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
April 3
William Joseph Hannaher is issued a passport, it uses the same photograph as in his Official Passport back in 1975. This passport bears multiple stamps, including a visa for Yugoslavia valid for the summer of 1982, a stamp on July 2, 1982, stamps for the DDR, a JFK entry on April 4, 1985, permission to enter Ireland for three months granted in July 4, 1984, a visa for Czechoslovakia in 1985, and stamps for Hungary in 1985.
May 31
William and Svetlana fly on Pan American Airlines Boeing 727-35 “Clipper Roman” N4619 from Washington National Airport headed to Germany. They will over the course of the next two weeks accompany the Washington Bach Consort, J. Reilly Lewis conducting, to places in the BRD and DDR.
June 4
William Hannaher’s 1981 passport is stamped by the DDR.
June 6
William Hannaher’s 1981 passport is stamped by the DDR.
June 14
William and Svetlana return to the United States.
June
Svetlana and Stephen fly to Munich and take the train to Yugoslavia.
July 1
Constantine is diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. William must forgo his planned trip to Ireland.
The IRS proposes that William J. and Svetlana Hannaher omitted $1353 in Schedule B interest income on their return for 1979. They had seven accounts at Arlington-Fairfax Savings and Loan Association. Because William only retained completed draft returns, there are no Forms 1099-INT to check. [source: IRS letter]
October 21
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher sign consent to the $689 tax increase proposed. [source: IRS letter]
November
William, Svetlana, and Stephen visit colleges in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
December 20
The family visits colleges in Blacksburg and Lexington in Virginia.
1982
March 18
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1981 and calculate a balance due of $2221.87, just over a tenth of what was owed. The amount paid as estimated tax was almost as much as that withheld. New source of Schedule B interest income: 1st American Bank of Virginia. Schedule G Income Averaging was used again, but not Schedule TC. William J. and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $662.76, just over a fifth of what was owed, still with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
May
Constantine graduates from college, Stephen graduates from high school.
June
William and Svetlana travel to Germany, Switzerland, Venice, Opatija in Yugoslavia, Austria, and Germany again.
July
Svetlana visits Belgrade in Yugoslavia.
July ?
The Moorhead High School Class of 1948 shares a reunion on the occasion of the 35th for the Class of 1947. The ’482 Cho-Kio includes nearly a page for William Hannaher’s contribution. [source: booklet]
WILLIAM HANNAHER
Liam Hannaher, 6374 Wingate St., Alexandria, VA 22312
EDITORS NOTE: This isn’t going to be easy. Liam’s wife is Svetlana. Their children are Constantine 21, and Stephen 17. No grandchildren. Occupation, Translator, Central Intelligence Agency. Now to explain: William Hannaher, having learned the Gaelic versions of his forename and cognomen, now signs himself Liam Hannaher, or more correctly, O’hAnnachair. B.A. in journalism, University of Minnesota, 1952; A.M. in Russian literature, Columbia University, 1954; Ph.D. in Yugoslav literature, Columbia University, 1969. Other study: German, Heidelberg University, summer of 1956; Old Irish linguistics and manuscripts, American University, Washington D.C., 1979-1981, continuing on tutorial basis; modern Irish language, privately with faculty member at George Mason University, Fairfax, Va., 1977-date. Draftee, 1954-1956, including year in Germany near Stuttgart and at Heidelberg; foreign service officer, Department of State, vice consul at Belgrade, 1956-1959; roaming in southern Europe, 1959-1960; free-lance translator from Slavic languages, operating out of New York City, 1961-1970; preceptor in Serbo-Croatian language, Columbia University, 1966-1968. Otherwise: member of executive committee, Conradh na Gaeilge/Washington (Gaelic League of Washington); published translation from Serbo-Croatian of novel by Danilo Kis, Garden, Ashes (Harcourt Brace-Jovanovich, 1975); accompanied instrumentalists and singers of Washington Bach Consort on tour of both Germanys in June, 1981, including in German Democratic Republic performance in Bach’s Thomaskirche in Leipzig and day in Dresden, as well as five concerts on Federal Republic; participated in marathon reading of entirety of Joyce’s Ulysses at American University, Washington, D.C., in February and on June 16th of this year to commemorate 100th anniversary of author’s birth. Married Svetlana Godjevac in Belgrade in 1959; Svetlana has been teaching her native language, Serbo-Croatian, at Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, since 1973. Son Constantine graduated in physics at University of Virginia, Charlotteville, this year. Son Stephen will be entering Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, this fall.
August
Stephen begins college in Blacksburg.
October 27
Liam and Svetlana see for the first time the house they will buy: “not bad — overlooks woods and creek — unattractive shed, bushes in front — medium blue shutters — tricky step at bottom of stairs to recreation room — .3 mile to bus stop on Braddock Road” [source: copy of listing supplied by Shirlye Jacobs of Shannon & Luchs] The five bedroom, 3 bathroom property with 1653 ft² lacked a garage.
November 13
Liam and Svetlana look at the house on Tunlaw Court again and think it still looks good.
November 15
No doubt prompted by information supplied by the Internal Revenue Service the previous year, the state Department of Taxation writes to Mr. and Mrs. Hannaher that they owe $107.17 for the additional income in 1979. The telephone number at the bottom of the letter properly includes the (804) Area Code for the department in Richmond. [source: state letter]
December 17
Clark Home Inspections makes its report on 6626 Tunlaw Court. In retrospect, it’s easy to see that their form had no place the assess the state of the telephone wiring, and also omits the area code. [source: report]
December 28
Colonial Mortgage Service Company reports to Shannon & Luchs that a principal balance of $109,032.79 remained on the Emmons’ mortgage, they were paying 10.75% interest on a conventional loan.
1983
January 24
A Modification and Assumption Agreement is drawn up between the Emmons, Hannahers, and Old Colony Cooperative Bank of Rhode Island for assumption of $108,972.80 of unpaid principal in debt at 12.50% interest. The mortgage term was to conclude September 1, 2009. (Bobby B. Emmons and Elinor K. Emmons had bought in 1979 for $125,500. Victor A. DeFiori and Dorothy G. DeFiori had bought in 1974 for $60,000. Joseph T. Kaye and Lois A. Kaye had bought in 1964 for $29,300. Wright Properties, Inc. had bought from William A. McClintock, Jr. and Marjorie E. McClintock in 1961.) [sources: agreement and Liam’s notes on county property records]
William (this is the year he dropped the “J.” when completing the forms) and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1982 and calculate a refund of $1055.75 to be applied to the 1983 estimated tax. The amount paid as estimated tax in 1982 was more than that withheld. New source of Schedule B interest income: Continental Federal Savings and Loan Association. Schedule W Deduction for a Married Couple When Both Work was new. [source: tax return]
April 5
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $576.57, nearly a fifth of what was owed, still with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax return]
June 6
Constantine starts his employment at the Patent and Trademark Office in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia.
1984
March 7
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1983 and calculate a refund due of $2248.24. The older son was no longer a dependent. They itemized deductions for the first time to take advantage of the sections of Schedule A for taxes, interest expense, and cash contributions. He’d paid too much in estimated tax. Schedule W is used again. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $317.51, no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
March 27
Svetlana’s father dies in Belgrade at 86.
November
William and Svetlana visit New York City by car.
1985
March 1
A Czechoslovak visa issued in Washington, D.C. in William’s 1981 passport is valid through the 30th.
March 4
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1984 and calculate a refund due of $535.19. They itemized deductions again. He’d paid twice as much estimated tax as needed. Schedule W is used again. New this year is Form 5695 Residential Energy Credit for insulation and storm (or thermal) windows or doors. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $282.58, no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
March
William and Svetlana visit Germany (again), Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary. Svetlana visits Belgrade.
March 21
William Hannaher’s 1981 passport is stamped by the DDR.
March 27
William Hannaher’s 1981 passport is stamped by Czechoslovakia.
March 31
William Hannaher’s 1981 passport is stamped by Hungary.
April 3
William Hannaher’s 1981 passport is stamped by Hungary.
April 4
William Hannaher’s 1981 passport is stamped for entry at JFK airport.
July 4
William’s mother dies at 97.
July 6
A funeral is held at Wright Funeral Home in Moorhead, Minnesota and Marguerite Hannaher is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
September
William and Svetlana visit at least Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa by car.
November
Constantine moves out of the house at Tunlaw Court.
1986
March 21
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1985 and calculate a balance due of $981.60, less than 9% of what was owed. They itemized deductions again. He’d paid no estimated tax. New sources of Schedule B interest income: Meritor Savings Bank and the Estate of Marguerite A. Hannaher, deceased. Schedule W is used again. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $444.65, no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
May
Stephen graduates from college.
July 23
William Hannaher is issued a passport, in which he appears bearded.
August
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California and Seattle, Washington.
October
William and Svetlana visit New York City, Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
October 19
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped by U.S. immigration.
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1986 and calculate a balance due of $3,003.89, nearly a fifth of what was owed. They itemized deductions again. He’d paid no estimated tax. Schedule W is used again. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $229.01, no estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
June 27
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped at Shannon Airport with permission to land in Ireland for three months.
July 1
The Social Security Office of Central Records Operations in Baltimore, Maryland responds to the inquiry of William Hannaher. The letter includes a chart of earnings:
Earnings on Social Security records
YEAR
EARNINGS
1937-50
$545.33
1951
NONE
1952
NONE
1953
$522.68
1954
$216.34
1955
NONE
1956
NONE
1957
NONE
1958
NONE
1959
NONE
1960
NONE
1961
$4052.38
1962
$3997.31
1963
$4223.66
1964
$4800.00
1965
$4800.00
1966
$6600.00
1967
$6600.00
1968
$7800.98
1969
$7494.00
1970
$5193.00
1971
NONE
1972
NONE
1973
NONE
1974
NONE
1975
$1388.00
1976
NONE
1977
NONE
1978
NONE
1979
NONE
1980
NONE
1981
NONE
1982
NONE
1983
NONE
1984
NONE
1985
NONE
1986
NONE
William did meet the requirement for 40 quarters of coverage to obtain Social Security retirement benefits.
July
William and Svetlana visit Ireland.
July 27
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped by U.S. immigration.
August 11
GMAC Mortgage Corporation writes to William Hannaher to enclose a Certificate of Satisfaction for the loan that Bobby & Elinor Emmons had taken out. [source: letter] Liam had used inherited money to pay off the mortgage 22 years early.
September
William and Svetlana head to Minnesota by car, passing through at least Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
December
William pays $9800 to be a charter subscriber for the publication of a Fine Art Facsimile Edition of The Book of Kells by a publisher in Switzerland. [source: documents from Faksimile-Verlag Luzern of Switzerland]
William and Svetlana visit New York City for a performance of the 9-hour stage play The Mahabharata at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Majestic Theater.
1988
March 22
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1987 and calculate a balance due of $1632.24, nearly a tenth of what was owed. The estimated tax paid was nearly half of that withheld. New source of Schedule B interest income: Estate of Tresa Hill, deceased. No Schedule W this year. [source: tax return]
April 2
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $661.96, nearly a fifth of what was owed, still with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax return]
June 22
William J. Hannaher obtains A Record of Retirement Benefits and Entitlements, it has been filled out based on a retirement date of a year later, to show 21 years, 5 months, 21 days of civilian service, and 1 year, 9 months, and 11 days of military service. His high-three average salary was $43,173 (about the same as his older son that year). [source: pamphlet]
June 30
William Hannaher makes a belated election to become a participant in the Federal Employees Retirements System under the “late election authority” in 5 CFR 846.204(a). He also completes a Thrift Savings Plan Election Form TSP-1 to invest 10% of his basic pay per pay period in the G fund. [sources: certification, form]
July 3
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped at Nice Cote d’Azur.
July 16
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport has a visa from the Republique Français.
July
William and Svetlana visit France (starting with Cannes) and Spain.
July 24
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped by U.S. immigration.
1989
January 6
William Hannaher cancels his WAEPA life insurance coverage. [source: letter]
February 25
William J. Hannaher receives a personal statement of benefits with the seal of the CIA on its cover. His service computation date is March 29, 1966. Base pay is now at $46,605. TSP balance is $4,250. [source: folder]
March 22
William J. (the IRS label thwarts his name simplification project) and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1988 and calculate a refund of $169.56 to be applied to the 1989 estimated tax. The younger son was no longer a dependent. The estimated tax paid was close to what was needed. This is the first year for which Forms W-2 were retained, they show a split in William’s pay from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service between Medicare Qualified Federal Employment and some other kind. [source: tax return, forms W-2]
April 2
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $843.34, a fifth of what was owed, still with no estimated tax payments. [source: tax return]
May 26
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport gets a visa for Yugoslavia.
June 22
Retirement Day: William (at 58 minus one day) receives a SENSITIVE COMPARTMENTED INFORMATION NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENT (this is blank), a SECRECY AGREEMENT (which he notes that he signed), and other papers. He elects to receive his retirement contributions as a lump sum in two payments, this will decrease his monthly annuity. [source: agreements]
July
William and Svetlana visit Belgrade, Hungary, and Austria.
July 18
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped by U.S. immigration.
July 25
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped at Subotica in Yugoslavia.
September
William and Svetlana visit Norfolk, Virginia on the way to Hatteras Island in North Carolina. (The General Mitchell Motel on NC-12 was destroyed by Isabel in 2003.)
October
William and Svetlana visit Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and New Haven, Connecticut.
December
Stephen moves out of the house at Tunlaw Court.
1990
March 21
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1989 and calculate a balance due of $75.65, less than 1% of what was owed. Pension income appears for the first time, as William identifies his occupation as retired. They itemized deductions again. He’d paid estimated tax of almost half of what was withheld. New sources of Schedule B interest income: Trustbank Federal Savings Bank and Ameribanc Savings Bank. Schedule C Profit or Loss From Business (Sole Proprietorship) is used to account for $515.52 of gross receipts from translating, requiring Schedule SE Social Security Self-Employment Tax again. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $26.84, he did make estimated tax payments. Schedule VA-R Virginia Retirement Income Subtraction allowed subtraction of qualified retirement income for those 55 and over. [source: tax returns]
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped by the Italian border police at the airport in Rome.
July
William and Svetlana visit Sicily and Naples, Firenze, Vicenze, Milan in Italy, and Venice (again).
September
William and Svetlana visit Manteo and Ocracoke and Hatteras in North Carolina.
1991
February 13
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1990 and calculate a balance due of $2117.82, 16% of what was owed. He’d paid estimated tax of almost half of what was withheld. New source of Schedule B interest income: U.S. Government lump-sum payment. Schedule C Profit or Loss From Business (Sole Proprietorship) is used to account for $312.44 of gross receipts from translating, no Schedule SE included. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $212.48, he did make estimated tax payments. [source: tax returns]
July
William and Svetlana visit Paris in France, her Nikon EM experiences a major failure and is replaced by an Olympus Trip Junior. They visit Switzerland, Venice (again), Verona in Italy, more places in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands.
August 9
William Hannaher’s 1986 passport is stamped by a French authority at the CDG airport outside Paris.
September
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (again).
October
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (again) and southwestern Pennsylvania. They visit Norfolk, Virginia again.
1992
February
William and Svetlana fly Continental Airlines to Houston, Texas for opera.
March 10
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1991 and calculate a refund of $811.26 to be applied to their 1992 estimated tax. He’d paid estimated tax of well over half of what was withheld. New sources of Schedule B interest income: Chevy Chase Bank and Columbia First Bank. Schedule C Profit or Loss From Business (Sole Proprietorship) is used to account for $397.50 of gross receipts from translating, no Schedule SE included. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund of $246.10 to be applied to 1992 estimated tax, the estimated tax payments were nearly as much as withheld. [source: tax returns]
June
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (AGAIN).
August
William and Svetlana visit Charlottesville, Virginia, the Biltmore mansion and gardens in Asheville, North Carolina, and places in Tennessee.
October
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November
William and Svetlana visit Virginia Beach and Portsmouth in Virginia.
1993
January
William and Svetlana host multiple visitors from Minnesota in town for the inauguration.
February 27
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1992 and calculate a refund of $1671.79 and ask for $1000 to be applied to their 1993 estimated tax. He’d paid estimated tax of nearly as much as what was withheld. New sources of Schedule B interest income: First Virginia Bank and Household Bank. Schedule C-EZ Net Profit From Business (Sole Proprietorship) is used to account for $905.60 of gross receipts from translating, Schedule SE Self-Employment Tax is back (the Form 1099-MISC is too faded to be sure of what business at 1010 N Glebe Road, Suite 600 in Arlington was paying for translations). William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund of $629.32 with $300 to be applied to 1993 estimated tax, the estimated tax payments were more than what was withheld. [source: tax returns]
November
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (yes, again).
1994
February 14
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1993 and calculate a refund due of $1895.43. The estimated tax paid was half of what was withheld. New sources of Schedule B interest Income: Crestar Bank and First Union National Bank of Virginia. Schedule C-EZ shows gross receipts of $639.36 from translating, Schedule SE is included. This is the first year William Hannaher receives Form SSA-1099 Social Security Benefit Statement. [source: tax return]
February 15
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund of $232.97, estimated tax payments were 70% of what was withheld. [source: tax return]
April
William and Svetlana visit State College, Pennsylvania.
William buys a red Plymouth Reliant.
June
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (once again) and more of the central coast.
October
William and Svetlana visit Winchester, Virginia on the way to Columbus, Ohio (again).
1995
March 20
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1994 and calculate a balance due of $258.62, 3% of what was owed. He’d paid estimated tax more than what was withheld as Svetlana had retired and William did not arrange withholding from their annuities. Only the Standard Deduction was claimed this year. Schedule C-EZ Net Profit From Business (Sole Proprietorship) is used to account for $25.00 of gross receipts from translating, no Schedule SE Self-Employment Tax is found. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund of $248.83 to be applied to 1993 estimated tax, the estimated tax payments were more than double what was withheld. [source: tax returns]
May
William and Svetlana visit Lucca, Voltera, Arezzo, Ferrara, Vicenza, Venice (yes, again), Mantova, Modena, Parma, Colorno, Cremona, Brescia, Bergamo, Crema, Pavia, Asti in Italy.
June
William and Svetlana continue their visit into Nice and Paris in France before returning to the United States on the 19th.
July 31
William and Svetlana visit the Montpelier estate in Orange, Virginia.
October
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
November
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (yet again).
1996
March 5
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1995 and calculate a refund of $19.38. New sources of Schedule B interest income: Citizens Bank of Virginia, George Mason Bank, and NationsBank. Schedule C-EZ Net Profit From Business (Sole Proprietorship) is used by Svetlana to account for $1250.00 of gross receipts from language testing, Schedule SE Self-Employment Tax is included. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund of $80.00 to be applied to 1994 estimated tax, only estimated tax payments this year. [source: tax returns]
April
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (yes, again).
April 22
The IRS writes to inform William & Svetlana Hannaher that their return for 1995 has been changed and their tax has been increased by $100, they owe $80.74.
September
William and Svetlana visit Monterey and other spots along the coast in California, and San Francisco (yes, again).
1997
January
The stolen Plymouth Acclaim has been recovered and returned.
February 4
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1996 and calculate a balance due of $193.60, 4% of what was owed. New source of Schedule B interest income: First Bank (without the Form 1099-INT, there’s no way to determine which bank this is, Liam didn’t retain them). Schedule C-EZ Net Profit From Business (Sole Proprietorship) is used by Svetlana to account for $1625.00 of gross receipts from language testing, Schedule SE Self-Employment Tax is included. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $347.00. [source: tax returns]
February
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (yet again).
April 14
The IRS writes to inform William & Svetlana Hannaher that their return for 1996 has been changed and their actual estimated tax payments require a refund of $60.00.
April 30
William Hannaher is issued a passport.
June
William and Svetlana visit Harrisonburg, Virginia.
October
William and Svetlana visit Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota.
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco and environs in California (again!).
1998
February 10
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1997 and calculate a balance due of $239.00, 5% of what was owed. New sources of Schedule B interest income: Acacia Bank, Burke & Herbert, Central Fidelity, Community First (with 54 characters of space available with his Olivetti typewriter, Liam always chose to be parsimonious with typing a bank’s name and without the Form 1099-INT it took a while to determine which bank this was), and State Bank of Fargo. No business activities this year. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $88.00, 15% of what was owed. [source: tax returns]
March
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
April
William and Svetlana visit Hood College in Frederick, Maryland on the way to State College, Pennsylvania.
June
William and Svetlana visit Harrisonburg, Virginia (again).
July 7
The Director of Central Intelligence (George J. Tenet) writes to annuitants to alleviate concerns about his recent decision to transfer administrative oversight of Agency annuity pay to the Office of Personnel Management. [source: letter]
July 30
The Moorhead High School Class of ’48 starts its 50th reunion. [source: booklet]
1999
March 9
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1998 and calculate a balance due of $471.00, 9.6% of what was owed. New sources of Schedule B interest income: Greater Atlantic, United Bank, and Wachovia. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $10.00, 2.2% of what was owed. [source: tax returns]
October 19
The Office of Personnel Management Retirement Operations Center in Boyers, Pennsylvania welcomes the transferred annuitant William J. Hannaher. [source: letter]
2000
March 13
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040 for 1999 and calculate a balance due of $524.00, 10.6% of what was owed. No new sources of Schedule B interest income. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $64.00, 13.8% of what was owed. [source: tax returns]
December
Svetlana concludes her use of the Olympus Trip Jr.
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2000 and calculate a balance due of $998.00, 18% of what was owed. New source of Schedule 1 interest Income: Treasury Bank. [source: tax return]
March 6
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $222.00, 33.5% of what was owed. [source: tax return]
William and Svetlana visit Harrisonburg, Virginia and pass through West Virginia and Kentucky on the way to St. Louis, Missouri. They pass through Cincinnati and Columbus in Ohio on the way back.
July 16
The IRS letter which begins with “We are proposing changes to your 1999 income tax return” would have increased their tax by $3880. William will respond multiple times over the course of the month, prompt communication from OPM, and in September the IRS would concede the entire affair was their mistake.
2002
February 23
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2001 and calculate a refund of $134.00 to be applied to 2002 estimated tax. No new sources of Schedule 1 interest income. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate an overpayment of $81.00 to be applied to next year’s estimated tax. [source: tax returns]
April
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (again).
June
William and Svetlana visit St. Louis, Missouri (again). They pass through Columbus, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio on the way back.
August 15
William and Svetlana visit the Maymont Mansion in Richmond, Virginia.
December
William bids farewell to the red Plymouth Reliant and welcomes a blue Chrysler Sebring.
2003
February 3
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2002 and calculate a refund due of $1016.00. No new sources of Schedule 1 interest Income. [source: tax return]
February 17
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $319.00. [source: tax return]
July
William and Svetlana visit Newport, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio.
August
William and Svetlana visit the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia.
September
William and Svetlana travel to Belgrade (in what was then Serbia and Montenegro).
September 29
William Hannaher’s 1997 passport is stamped at the Surčin airport outside Belgrade.
September 30
William Hannaher’s 1997 passport is stamped by U.S. immigration.
2004
January 28
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2003 and calculate a refund of $6.00 to be applied to 2004 estimated tax. New sources of Schedule 1 interest income: Independence (parsimony and no Form 1099-INT strike again) and Riggs. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $46.00, all they owed after the standard deduction and four exemptions (for age) cut down the Virginia Taxable Income. [source: tax returns]
June
William and Svetlana visit Gallipolis, Ohio on the way to St. Louis, Missouri (yes, again). They stop in Covington, Kentucky on the way back.
2005
February 26
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2004 and calculate a balance due of $200.00, 9% of what was owed. New sources of Schedule 1 interest income: Bank of West (this isn’t even a plausible full name, c’mon) and Cardinal. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $68.00, 100% of what they owed after the spousal tax adjustment subtracted $4. [source: tax returns]
June
Svetlana concluded her use of the Minolta Maxxum 7000i and purchased a Nikon S.
November 2
Svetlana’s mother dies in Belgrade at 93.
2006
March 6
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2005 and calculate a balance due of $416.00, 12.5% of what was owed. New sources of Schedule 1 interest income: Northwestern, PNC, Ramsey National, State Bank of Hawley, Union State, Western State. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $201.00, 100% of what they owed after the spouse tax adjustment subtracted $152. [source: tax returns]
2007
February 23
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2006 and calculate a balance due of $216.00, 3% of what was owed. New sources of Schedule 1 interest Income: Bank of the West, Capital One, and SunTrust. [source: tax return]
March 19
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 WEB Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $868.00. [source: tax return]
April 10
William poses for a photograph that he will use in his passport renewal application.
Liam Hannaher (75) poses for a photograph which he will use for the passport issued to him on July 13, 2007.
July 13
A passport is issued to William Hannaher, it would be his last.
2008
March 3
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 1040A for 2007 and calculate a balance due of $290.60, 4.3% of what was owed. No new sources of Schedule 1 interest income. With this return, William exhausts the employee contributions to his retirement pension. William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a balance due of $166.00, 13% of what they owed after the spouse tax adjustment subtracted $233. They’d started paying estimated tax again. [source: tax returns]
March
Svetlana is diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
April 1
The Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation announced adjustments and asked for additional money. William replied the next day that he’d calculated the spouse tax adjustment wrong and (actually) he owed less. [source: letter]
May 12
The Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation agrees that the spouse tax adjustment should have been $255 and the state owes them a refund of $22. [source: letter]
July 30
The Moorhead High School Class of 1948 starts its 60th Reunion. Liam Hannaher’s contribution is “I retired as a translator with a fragment of the Central Intelligence Agency. Svetlana taught her language at the Department of State. Both sons are federal employees., Since 1992, I have done volunteer work at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.” [source: booklet]
2009
March 3
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040A for 2008, filing separately for the first time. He calculates he owes $250, 9.4% of what he owes. [source: tax return]
March 4
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040 for Svetlana Hannaher because of the requirement to identify a financial account in a foreign country using Form TD F 90-22.1. He calculates a balance due of $149.60, 8.5% of what was owed. [source: tax return]
March 11
William Hannaher prepares his Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return using filing status (3) Married filing separate returns and calculates a balance due of $50, 12% of what was owed. William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 WEB Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates she owes nothing after payment of estimated taxes. [source: tax returns]
April 13
William and Svetlana Hannaher’s choice to make estimated tax payments jointly throughout 2008 but have the married pair file separately confuses the IRS. It’ll be another two months for the IRS to agree that William’s split of the estimated tax payments was valid. [source: letters]
August 14
William and Svetlana Hannaher’s choice to make estimated tax payments jointly throughout 2008 but have the married pair file separately confuses the Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation. It would take a month or more and multiple letters before the state agreed that all was well. [source: letters]
2010
March 22
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040 for 2009, filing separately again. He calculates a refund of $675.25 to be applied to his 2010 estimated tax. He itemizes deductions to take advantage of the Medical and Dental Expenses, Taxes You Paid, and Gifts to Charity sections of Schedule A. No new sources of Schedule B interest income. Form 5695 Residential Energy Credits is included for exterior door(s). [source: tax return]
March 25
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040 for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a refund of $198.25 to be applied to 2010 estimated tax. Schedule A and Form 5695 are included for the same reasons. [source: tax return]
March 24
William Hannaher prepares his Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return separately again and calculates a refund due of $160 because he made estimated tax payments but ended the year with a negative Virginia Taxable Income. [source: tax return]
March 25
William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a refund of $187 to be applied to 2010 estimated taxes. [source: tax return]
July 26
The Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation writes to adjust Svetlana’s return, William had left line 17 blank. [source: letter]
2011
March 1
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040 for 2010, filing separately. He calculates a balance due of $2.75, 0.1% of what was owed. He takes the standard deduction. No new sources of Schedule B interest income. William Hannaher prepares his Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return separately and calculates a balance owed of $7 to be applied to next year’s estimated tax. William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040A for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance of $66.75, 3% of what was owed. William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a refund of $266 to be applied to next year’s estimated taxes. [source: tax returns]
March 19
The Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation announced adjustments and determined that no tax was owed for 2010, and that a refund of $183 was due. [source: letter]
June 13
William Joseph Hannaher is issued a renewal driver’s license by Virginia.
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040A for 2011, filing separately. He calculates a refund of $41.00 to be applied to 2012 estimated tax. No new sources of Schedule B interest income. William Hannaher prepares his Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return separately and calculates a refund of $7. [source: tax returns]
February 24
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040A for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a refund of $226.00 to be applied to 2012 estimated tax. [source: tax return]
February 25
William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a refund of $93.00 to be applied to next year’s estimated taxes. [source: tax return]
2013
February 15
Moorhead High School alumni prepare a “Class of 48 Roster” and a list of Deceased Members (perhaps as part of, or in lieu of, a 65th reunion).
February 23
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040A for 2012, filing separately. He calculates a balance due of $18.00, 0.1% of what was owed. No new sources of Schedule B interest income, but State Bank of Fargo is now Bell State Bank & Trust. William Hannaher does not prepare a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return this year, his Virginia Taxable Income is too low. [source: tax return]
February 26
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040A for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a refund of $42.00 to be applied to 2013 estimated tax. She made three times the Schedule B interest income from CDARS as he was making from eight banks. [source: tax return]
March 1
William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $7.00, 2% of what was owed. [source: tax return]
2014
March 5
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040A for 2013, filing separately. He calculates a balance due of $90.00, 5.7% of what was owed. No new sources of Schedule B interest income. No Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return again this year. William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040A for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $166.00, 8.2% of what was owed. She made five times the Schedule B interest income from three financial institutions (including CiT Bank and GE Capital Bank) as he was making from eight. William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $54.00, 13% of what was owed. [source: tax returns]
December 20
Liam’s oldest nephew dies at 65 (he will complain that the obituary has at least three mistakes).
December 27
Liam flies to Fargo by himself. The memorial gathering will be on the 29th and a memorial service on the 30th.
2015
January 2
Liam flies back from Fargo.
February 25
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040A for 2014. He calculates a balance due of $125.00, 7.6% of what was owed. His interest income is too low to require Schedule B (State Bank of Hawley is now Valley Premier Bank). [source: tax return]
March 3
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040A for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $365.00, 10.8% of what was owed. Her interest income was thirteen times that of her husband’s. [source: tax return]
March 6
William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $97.00, 10.7% of what was owed. [source: tax return]
December 1
William Hannaher has enrolled at www.benefeds.com. [source: letter]
2016
March 5
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040A for 2015. He calculates a balance due of $115.00, 6.9% of what was owed. No Schedule B this year, either. [source: tax return]
March 22
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040A for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $428.00, 12.5% of what was owed. Her interest income was twelve times that of her husband’s. William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $85.00, 9.1% of what was owed. [source: tax returns]
2017
February 26
William Hannaher prepares his Form 1040 for 2016. He calculates a refund due of $1017.00. He uses Schedule A Itemized Deductions for Medical and Dental Expenses (including nearly $10k in dental expenses), Taxes You Paid, and Gifts to Charity. [source: tax return]
March 1
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040 for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $720.00, 18.4% of what was owed. He uses Schedule A Itemized Deductions for Medical and Dental Expenses (including nearly $3k in dental expenses), Taxes You Paid, and Gifts to Charity. Her interest income was fourteen times that of her husband’s (including First Internet Bank of Indiana and GE Capital is now Goldman Sachs Bank). William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a balance due of $85.00, 9.1% of what was owed. William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 WEB Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and calculates a refund of $71 to be applied to next year’s estimated tax. [source: tax returns]
2018
January 26
Svetlana Hannaher dies at Envoy of Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia at 84.
Liam is discharged from Behavioral Health at Inova Fairfax Hospital and moves into The Kensington at Falls Church on Broad Street.
March 14
Constantine Hannaher prepares a Form 1040 for 2017. William Hannaher files separately from his deceased wife and calculates a balance due of $108.00, 21.2% of what was owed. He uses Schedule A Itemized Deductions for Medical and Dental Expenses, Taxes You Paid, and Gifts to Charity. Constantine Hannaher prepares a Form 1040 for Svetlana Hannaher and William Hannaher calculates a balance due of $1158.00, 24.3% of what was owed. He uses Schedule A Itemized Deductions for Medical and Dental Expenses, Taxes You Paid, and Gifts to Charity. Her interest income was nearly nineteen times that of her husband’s (Constantine lists each Form 1099-INT received but not kept on a separate line). Constantine Hannaher prepares a Form 760 WEB Virginia Individual Income Tax Return for Svetlana Hannaher and William Hannaher calculates a balance due of $429.00, 34.9% of what was owed. [source: tax returns]
May 3
William Hannaher signs an Exclusive Right to Sell Listing Agreement with BHHS Home Services PenFed Realty to sell 6626 Tunlaw Court. [source: agreement]
May 11
Liam’s brother dies at 93.
May 18
Items of Values starts a two-day estate sale at Tunlaw Court, netting Mr. Hannaher $5,123 after commission.
Constantine delivers the Fine Art Facsimile Edition of The Book of Kells (paid for in 1987 and published in 1990) to the Minnesota State University Moorhead, Livingston Lord Library. Collection Development Librarian Larry Schwartz offers no receipt.
The Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation adjusts Svetlana’s return for 2017, the $71 carry-over from 2016 had been forgotten. [source: letter]
August 29
Items of Value pays Mr. Hannaher $1,902 for additional items sold over the summer.
William Hannaher prepares a Form 1040 for 2018 in ink, as he no longer has his typewriter. He files Married filing jointly and calculates a refund due of $1350, all they’d paid as estimated tax. William Hannaher prepares a Form 760 WEB Individual Income Tax Return to recover $271 in estimated tax, it would take more correspondence to accomplish that. [source: tax returns]
April 15
The IRS announces it has changed his 2018 Form 1040 and demands $1830. William Hannaher’s reply is inadequate. [source: letters]
May 20
The IRS now demands $1849.71. Constantine Hannaher prepares a letter in reply. [source: letters]
Liam moves to the Paul Spring Retirement Community on Fort Hunt Road south of Alexandria, Virginia, after signing papers on the ninth.
June 13
William Joseph Hannaher is issued a renewal driver’s license by Virginia, it would be his last. He consented to getting a “veteran” designation.
June 19
The IRS admits to a mistake in processing the (manually-prepared) tax return. [source: letter]
July 1
The IRS refunds $2299.71. [source: letter]
2020
March 10
Nearly two years later, Items of Value was able to sell the “Chinese kneehole desk” for $100. The total achieved by this company in selling these possessions barely covered a month in Liam’s new situation.
April 4
William Hannaher prepares Form 760 Individual Income Tax Return for 2019 and calculates a balance due of $493, 100% of what he owes. [source: tax return]
April 7
William Hannaher prepares Form 1040-SR U.S. Tax Return for Seniors for 2019 and calculates a balance due of $1915, 100% of what he owes. A new source of Schedule B interest income: Metro City Bank. [source: tax return]
December 16
Liam’s habit of stabbing at his iPad screen betrays him and leaves two files behind.
Liam Hannaher (89) inadvertently captures himself looking at his iPad.
2021
March 13
William Hannaher prepares Form 1040-SR U.S. Tax Return for Seniors for 2020 and calculates a refund of $974 to be applied to 2021 estimated tax. No new source of Schedule B interest income, but Capital One had switched him to a basic account that gave no interest. William Hannaher prepares Form 760 Individual Income Tax Return and calculates a balance due of $171, 36.3% of what he owes. [source: tax returns]
William Hannaher prepares Form 1040 U.S. Individual Tax Return for 2021 and calculates a refund of $832 to be applied to 2022 estimated tax. No new source of Schedule B interest income. William Hannaher prepares Form 760 WEB Individual Income Tax Return and calculates a refund due of $271. [source: tax returns]
2023
March 26
William Hannaher prepares Form 1040 U.S. Individual Tax Return for 2022 and calculates a balance due of $130, 8.3% of what was owed. No new source of Schedule B interest income, but Ramsey is now First United (Bank of Park River). William Hannaher prepares Form 760 WEB Individual Income Tax Return and calculates a balance due of $41, 29% of what was owed. [source: tax returns]
2024
February 28
Constantine Hannaher prepares Form 1040-SR U.S. Tax Return for Seniors for 2023 and has William Hannaher sign it the next day in his hospital bed. He’d calculated a balance due of $765, 24.7% of what was owed, which he paid using Form 1040-V. No new source of Schedule B interest income. Constantine Hannaher prepares Form 760 WEB Individual Income Tax Return and calculates a balance due of $282, 39% of what was owed. (These calculations were incorrect.) [source: tax returns]
March 4
William dies at Mount Vernon Hospital in Fairfax County, Virginia at 92.
