William Joseph Hannaher is born to Marguerite Amanda Hill Hannaher and Thomas O’Connor Hannaher in Cass County, North Dakota (that is, Fargo). 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 reports the birth at St. John’s Hospital that day and the next.
William Hannaher starts the first grade at 6 years of age in Saint Joseph School in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: conjecture based on report card]
William’s name appears on page 8 of The Forum in a list for St. Joseph’s School.
William Hannaher is promoted to the second grade. [source: report card]
William Hannaher is promoted to the third grade. [source: report card]
William Hannaher is promoted to the fourth grade after his first six weeks in the third. [source: report card]
William Hannaher is promoted to the fifth grade. [source: report card]
William Hannaher is promoted to the sixth grade. [source: report card]
William Hannaher is promoted to the seventh grade. [source: report card]
Palm Sunday, time to walk Trixy. The dog is one year old. [source: photograph]
Easter Sunday, time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
William Hannaher is promoted to the eighth grade. [source: report card]
Easter Sunday, time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
Saint Joseph’s School of Moorhead, Minnesota, issues a Diploma or Testimonial as a Certificate of Graduation. [source: diploma]
William Hannaher is promoted to the ninth grade. [source: report card]
A Sunday (a month after Easter), time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
The Forum reports on the attendance of William Hannaher as a server for the mass at the wedding of Margaret Hellander to Duane W. Nagle.
The Forum reports on page 6 the participation of William Hannaher in a trombone quartet performance.
Patricia Olness succeeds William Hannaher as the editor of the semi-monthly publication of the Moorhead High School Spud.
William J. (Bill) Hannaher receives the Cho-Kio for the concluded school year. [source: yearbook]
William J. Hannaher is a groomsman, with Arthur Hellander, at the wedding of his brother to Mary A. Niebels. [source: The Forum of June 6 on page 19 and June 13 on page 20.]
The Forum reports on page 7 that William Hannaher will be managing editor of The MiSTiC, the weekly newspaper of the Moorhead State Teachers College.
Easter Sunday, time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
The Forum reports on page 7 that William Hannaher has been named editor-in-chief of The MiSTiC effective immediately.
The Forum reports on page 28 that William Hannaher was replaced by Kenneth Pitchford as editor of The MiSTiC with the issue of March 21st.
A Sunday (well after Easter), time for photographs in the back yard. [source: photographs]
Bill Hannaher’s byline appears twice on the front page of today’s issue (via) of The Minnesota Daily, official newspaper of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. He was serving as Wire Editor while attending both summer sessions.
B.A. magna cum laude degree conferred on William Joseph Hannaher by The University of Minnesota in Minneapolis. [source: diploma]
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]
HANNAHER WILLIAM JOSEPH is inducted into the U.S. Army at Fargo, N. Dak. [source: DD Form 214]
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.
525th Military Intelligence Group, Ford Bragg, North Carolina
532nd Military Intelligence Battalion, Stuttgart-Vaihingen, Germany
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]
23 Bürgerstraße, Heidelberg-Kirchheim, Germany
William Hannaher enrolls in the Universität Heidelberg and receives a student ID card.
21 Meriden Court, Chelsea Manor Street, London S.W. 3, England
1914 G Street [quadrant omitted], Apt. 22, Washington, D.C.
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]
William starts the 6 months of training at the Foreign Service Institute in D.C. [source: backdating from newspaper report]
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Polio in the Medical Branch, Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
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]
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]
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Polio in the Medical Branch, Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
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]
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Typhus in the Medical Branch, Dept. of State in Washington, D.C. [source: vaccination card]
Having completed his training and assigned as a biographic officer, William sees his parents in New York and travels to Belgrade. [source: newspaper reports]
Hotel Moskva, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
ul Ivana Milutinovića br 58 Belgrade Yugoslavia
Bulevar Vojvode Putnika br 20 Belgrade Yugoslavia
An excursion to Aranželovac with Milan Radovich and Milena Vasić in his pre-1959 Mercedes-Benz 180. [source: photographs]
William J. Hannaher receives a vaccination for Typhus from a doctor in the Medical Branch, Foreign Service Office. [source: vaccination card]
A busy day visiting the Manasija Monastery and visiting the Ravanica Monastery with Svetlana, her father Slobodan, and others. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana visit Zadar on the Adriatic coast in Croatia. [source: photograph]
William and Svetlana visit Trogir on the Adriatic coast and visit Solin on the Adriatic coast in Croatia. Her father Slobodan is with them. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana visit Dubrovnik on the Adriatic coast. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana visit Budva on the Montenegrin coast. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana visit Kolašin and visit Čakor in the Montenegrin mountains. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana visit Peć, Dečani, and Prizren in Kosovo. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana visit sites in Macedonia. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana remained in Macedonia with a visit to the Church of St. George, Staro Nagoričane. [source: photographs]
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]
William and Svetlana resume their tours of monasteries in Serbia. [source: photograph]
William and Svetlana visit the Mileševa Monastery and others in the Novi Pazar area. [source: photographs]
William and Svetlana visit the Maglič in Kosovo but misidentify the resulting photograph (the Zvečan Fortress looks different). [source: photographs]
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 Joseph Hannaher marries Svetlana Godjevac at the Studenica Monastery. [source: wedding documents, photographs] William had lost his employment as vice consul at the American embassy in Belgrade.
William has sold his Mercedes-Benz 180 and leaves Belgrade by train with Svetlana to buy a new one in Stuttgart. [source: Svetlana memoir]
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]
138 Piazza Vittorio [Emanuele II], Rome, Italy
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]
Svetlana is photographed along the Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II at the Via Carlo Alberto. She had been pregnant about a month and wanted to give birth in Belgrade. [source: photograph, Svetlana’s memoir]
Svetlana is photographed in Koper in Slovenia. [source: photograph]
Svetlana is photographed in Venice. They also visit Trieste. [source: photographs]
ul Vasilije Gaćeše br 7 Belgrade, Yugoslavia
The wedding of Svetlana’s sister is held in the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul, Topčider in Belgrade. [source: photograph]
Birth of a son in Belgrade.
William J. Hannaher receives a revaccination for smallpox aboard the S.S. Liberté. [source: vaccination card]
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]
111-19 66th Avenue Forest Hills 75 New York
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]
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]
Started as a translator for Spectrum Translations
The Forum 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”).
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: photographs]
Sunday, The Forum 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.
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]
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]
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]
Svetlana and Constantine Hannaher sail for France, Italy, and Belgrade when she is homesick.
Svetlana and Constantine Hannaher return to New York City after leaving the FPRY 10 days earlier and passing through Italy, Switzerland, and France.
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]
The family experiences a collision in Queens when a man drives an old Plymouth into the right side of the Mercedes-Benz 180.
Svetlana and William pose Constantine in front of the Forest Hills High School, they move between frames. [source: photographs]
Spencer Auto Body Service estimates $700 to repair the foreign car.
William writes a letter to Government Employees Insurance Company regarding the collision.
The family travels by car to Washington, D.C. [source: photographs]
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota, Clinton, Iowa, and Chicago, Illinois before returning home to Queens. [source: photographs]
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]
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]
Birth of another son, in Queens.
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
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]
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]
A visit to the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows.
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
Translations of three Yugoslav philosophers included in Erich Fromm, ed., Socialist Humanism from Doubleday.
A blackout hits New York City and Stephen walks for the first time at 15+ months.
The family watches the premiere episode of Batman on ABC.
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]
Svetlana, Constantine, and Stephen take the S.S. United States to France, and trains to Belgrade.
William poses for a photograph along the colonnade at the original building of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York. [source: photograph]
A temporary appointment as Preceptor in Serbo-Croatian, School of General Studies, Columbia University lasted until June of 1968. [source: resume]
William poses for a photograph at a railing overlooking a park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [source: photograph]
Svetlana, Constantine, and Stephen land in New York City from the S.S. United States. The ocean liner would cease transatlantic passenger operations after its arrival in New York in November of 1969.
Svetlana Hannaher is issued a Certificate of Naturalization. [source: certificate]
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]
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]
“Farewell to old car” as the Mercedes-Benz 180 is traded in on a Mercedes-Benz 200 Diesel.
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In premieres tonight on NBC.
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]
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
The first day of elementary school is canceled when the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) calls a strike, the first of several this season.
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.
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]
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.
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]
William pays the federal, state, and city taxes due with money orders from Maspeth Federal Savings & Loan Association. [source: tax returns]
Ph.D. degree conferred on William Joseph Hannaher by Columbia University in the City of New York. [source: diploma]
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota, William’s route this year takes them through Canada.
The family travels by car to New Hampshire, where William drives his diesel passenger car up Mount Washington.
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]
William pays the federal and city taxes due with money orders from Maspeth Federal Savings & Loan Association. [source: tax returns]
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]
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]
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]
William reports to CIA headquarters near McLean.
Bekins picks up furniture in Queens. The family heads for the Travel Lodge at 421 Broad Street in Falls Church, Virginia.
The family establishes a new address at a two-story rental townhouse in Orleans Village in Fairfax County, Virginia. [source: tax returns]
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]
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]
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 Hannaher pays the New York state tax using a check written on a Northern Virginia Savings and Loan Association account. [source: tax return]
William Hannaher pays the New York city tax using a check written on a Northern Virginia Savings and Loan Association account. [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 Hannaher pays the Virginia tax using a check written on a Northern Virginia Savings and Loan Association account. [source: tax return]
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
After continued difficulties with the diesel Mercedes-Benz, William trades it in 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!
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]
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]
William’s father dies at 90 at a local hospital.
A prayer service is held at the Wright Funeral Home in Moorhead, Minnesota. [source: newspaper clipping]
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.
William’s mother and aunt travel from Minnesota to visit.
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]
John Dean begins his testimony before Sam Ervin’s Senate Committee, William’s nephews are in D.C. to witness.
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]
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 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.
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
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]
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
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]
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]
The family has traveled by car to Moorhead, Minnesota and attends the wedding of Mary Patricia Hannaher and David A. Nelson.
The family travels by car to visit Ivy League colleges.
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]
William’s older son graduates from high school.
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]
The family travels by car to Moorhead, Minnesota.
Constantine begins college in Charlottesville.
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
Svetlana starts using a Nikon EM at an Irish festival in Baltimore, Maryland.
William, Svetlana, and Stephen visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
William and Svetlana visit Hatteras Island and Okracoke in North Carolina.
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.”
William serves as treasurer of the Gaelic League of Washington. [source: resume]
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]
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.
William and Svetlana return to the United States.
Svetlana and Stephen fly to Munich and take the train to Yugoslavia.
Constantine is diagnosed with Guillain-Barré Syndrome. William must forgo his planned trip to Ireland.
Svetlana and Stephen return to the United States.
Constantine is discharged from Fairfax Hospital.
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]
William J. and Svetlana Hannaher sign consent to the $689 tax increase proposed. [source: IRS letter]
William, Svetlana, and Stephen visit colleges in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Jersey.
The family visits colleges in Blacksburg and Lexington in Virginia.
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]
Constantine graduates from college, Stephen graduates from high school.
William and Svetlana travel to Germany, Switzerland, Venice, Opatija in Yugoslavia, Austria, and Germany again.
Svetlana visits Belgrade in Yugoslavia.
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 Gaelige/Washington (Gaelic Leave 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.
Stephen begins college in Blacksburg.
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]
Liam and Svetlana look at the house on Tunlaw Court again and think it still looks good.
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]
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]
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.
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]
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]
Constantine starts his employment at the Patent and Trademark Office in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia.
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]
Svetlana’s father dies in Belgrade at 86.
William and Svetlana visit New York City by car.
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]
William and Svetlana visit Germany (again), Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary. Svetlana visits Belgrade.
William’s mother dies at 97.
A funeral is held at Wright Funeral Home in Moorhead, Minnesota and Marguerite Hannaher is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
William and Svetlana visit at least Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa by car.
Constantine moves out of the house at Tunlaw Court.
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]
Stephen graduates from college.
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California and Seattle, Washington.
William and Svetlana visit New York City, Richmond, Virginia, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
William’s aunt dies at 94. Tresa Hill will be interred at Riverside Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
William and Svetlana visit New York City (again).
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]
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:
| 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.
William and Svetlana visit Ireland.
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.
William and Svetlana head to Minnesota by car, passing through at least Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
William and Svetlana visit France (starting with Cannes) and Spain.
William Hannaher cancels his WAEPA life insurance coverage. [source: letter]
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]
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]
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]
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]
William and Svetlana visit Belgrade, Hungary, and Austria.
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.)
William and Svetlana visit Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and New Haven, Connecticut.
Stephen moves out of the house at Tunlaw Court.
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 and Svetlana visit San Francisco (again).
William and Svetlana visit Sicily and Naples, Firenze, Vicenze, Milan in Italy, and Venice (again).
William and Svetlana visit Manteo and Ocracoke and Hatteras in North Carolina.
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]
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.
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (again).
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (again) and southwestern Pennsylvania. They visit Norfolk, Virginia again.
William and Svetlana fly Continental Airlines to Houston, Texas for opera.
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]
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (AGAIN).
William and Svetlana visit Charlottesville, Virginia, the Biltmore mansion and gardens in Asheville, North Carolina, and places in Tennessee.
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
William and Svetlana visit Virginia Beach and Portsmouth in Virginia.
William and Svetlana host multiple visitors from Minnesota in town for the inauguration.
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]
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (yes, again).
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]
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]
William and Svetlana visit State College, Pennsylvania.
William buys a red Plymouth Reliant.
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco, California (once again) and more of the central coast.
William and Svetlana visit Winchester, Virginia on the way to Columbus, Ohio (again).
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]
William and Svetlana visit Lucca, Voltera, Arezzo, Ferrara, Vicenza, Venice (yes, again), Mantova, Modena, Parma, Colorno, Cremona, Brescia, Bergamo, Crema, Pavia, Asti in Italy.
William and Svetlana continue their visit into Nice and Paris in France before returning to the United States on the 19th.
William and Svetlana visit the Montpelier estate in Orange, Virginia.
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (yet again).
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]
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (yes, again).
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.
William and Svetlana visit Monterey and other spots along the coast in California, and San Francisco (yes, again).
The stolen Plymouth Acclaim has been recovered and returned.
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]
William and Svetlana visit Columbus, Ohio (yet again).
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.
William and Svetlana visit Harrisonburg, Virginia.
William and Svetlana visit Minnesota and Fargo, North Dakota.
William and Svetlana visit San Francisco and environs in California (again!).
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]
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
William and Svetlana visit Hood College in Frederick, Maryland on the way to State College, Pennsylvania.
William and Svetlana visit Harrisonburg, Virginia (again).
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]
The Moorhead High School Class of ’48 starts its 50th reunion. [source: booklet]
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]
The Office of Personnel Management Retirement Operations Center in Boyers, Pennsylvania welcomes the transferred annuitant William J. Hannaher. [source: letter]
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]
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]
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]
Svetlana borrows Constantine’s Minolta Maxxum 7000i.
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.
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.
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]
William and Svetlana visit Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (again).
William and Svetlana visit St. Louis, Missouri (again). They pass through Columbus, Indiana and Columbus, Ohio on the way back.
William and Svetlana visit the Maymont Mansion in Richmond, Virginia.
William bids farewell to the red Plymouth Reliant and welcomes a blue Chrysler Sebring.
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]
William and Svetlana Hannaher prepare their Form 760 Virginia Individual Income Tax Return and calculate a refund due of $319.00. [source: tax return]
William and Svetlana visit Newport, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio.
William and Svetlana visit the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden in Richmond, Virginia.
William and Svetlana travel to Belgrade (in what was then Serbia and Montenegro).
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]
William and Svetlana visit Gallipolis, Ohio on the way to St. Louis, Missouri (yes, again). They stop in Covington, Kentucky on the way back.
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]
Svetlana concluded her use of the Minolta Maxxum 7000i and purchased a Nikon S.
Svetlana’s mother dies in Belgrade at 93.
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]
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]
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]
William poses for a photograph that he will use in his passport renewal application.
A passport is issued to William Hannaher, it would be his last.
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]
Svetlana is diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
The Commonwealth of Virginia Department of Taxation writes to adjust Svetlana’s return, William had left line 17 blank. [source: letter]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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).
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]
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]
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]
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]
Liam’s oldest nephew dies at 65 (he will complain that the obituary has at least three mistakes).
Liam flies to Fargo by himself. The memorial gathering will be on the 29th and a memorial service on the 30th.
Liam flies back from Fargo.
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]
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]
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]
William Hannaher has enrolled at www.benefeds.com. [source: letter]
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]
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]
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]
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]
Svetlana Hannaher dies at Envoy of Alexandria in Alexandria, Virginia at 84.
Svetlana is interred at Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead, Minnesota.
Liam is discharged from Behavioral Health at Inova Fairfax Hospital and moves into The Kensington at Falls Church on Broad Street.
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]
William Hannaher signs an Exclusive Right to Sell Listing Agreement with BHHS Home Services PenFed Realty to sell 6626 Tunlaw Court. [source: agreement]
Liam’s brother dies at 93.
Items of Values starts a two-day estate sale at Tunlaw Court, netting Mr. Hannaher $5,123 after commission.
Thomas Patrick Hannaher is interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
Gregory Caudill of Home Review Inspection Services, LLC visits 6626 Tunlaw Court, his lengthy property inspection report details the sorry condition of the property. [source: report]
The house at 6626 Tunlaw Court is sold.
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]
Items of Value pays Mr. Hannaher $1,902 for additional items sold over the summer.
Items of Value pays Mr. Hannaher a net of $150 for a bureau, Baroque style, drop-front writing board, drawers.
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]
The IRS announces it has changed his 2018 Form 1040 and demands $1830. William Hannaher’s reply is inadequate. [source: letters]
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.
The IRS admits to a mistake in processing the (manually-prepared) tax return. [source: letter]
The IRS refunds $2299.71. [source: letter]
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.
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]
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]
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]
Liam’s sister-in-law Mary dies at 92, she will be interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Fargo, North Dakota.
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]
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]
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]
William dies at Mount Vernon Hospital in Fairfax County, Virginia at 92.
William is interred at Prairie Home Cemetery in Moorhead, Minnesota.