| Denis Turner Hannan |
| MEMORIAL |
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Denis T. Hannan, 90, who worked in floor-covering procurements for the General
Services Administration from the mid-1970s until retiring in 1992, died Feb. 5 at
Mary's House, an assisted-living center in Rockville. He had pneumonia.
He and a business partner, Lou Mullen, co-owned and operated Hannan & Mullen
Weaver-Laid Floors, a carpet and floor covering business in Washington from the
early 1950s to the mid-1970s
.
Denis Turner Hannan was a native Washingtonian and was a 1938 graduate of St.
John's College High School. He attended Catholic University before apprenticing
in his father's plumbing firm, P.F. Hannan & Sons.
He served in the Army in North Africa and Europe during World War II and for
decades attended his tank battalion's annual reunions.
He was a District resident before moving to Mary's House about two years ago. He
was a member of the Catholic Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Washington. His
hobbies included raising roses and carving and painting duck decoys.
His wife of 60 years, Margaret Borger Hannan, died in 2007.
Survivors include five children, John P. Hannan of Beallsville, Md., Stephen D.
Hannan of Columbia, Timothy W. Hannan of Rockville, Philip M. Hannan of Silver
Spring and Denis A. Hannan of Sterling; two brothers, the Most Rev. Philip M.
Hannan of New Orleans, the retired archbishop of that city, and Patrick J. "Jerry"
Hannan of Bethesda; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein
Denis T. Hannan, 90, who worked in floor-covering procurements for the General
Services Administration from the mid-1970s until retiring in 1992, died Feb. 5 at
Mary's House, an assisted-living center in Rockville. He had pneumonia.
He and a business partner, Lou Mullen, co-owned and operated Hannan & Mullen
Weaver-Laid Floors, a carpet and floor covering business in Washington from the
early 1950s to the mid-1970s
.
Denis Turner Hannan was a native Washingtonian and was a 1938 graduate of St.
John's College High School. He attended Catholic University before apprenticing
in his father's plumbing firm, P.F. Hannan & Sons.
He served in the Army in North Africa and Europe during World War II and for
decades attended his tank battalion's annual reunions.
He was a District resident before moving to Mary's House about two years ago. He
was a member of the Catholic Shrine of the Blessed Sacrament in Washington. His
hobbies included raising roses and carving and painting duck decoys.
His wife of 60 years, Margaret Borger Hannan, died in 2007.
Survivors include five children, John P. Hannan of Beallsville, Md., Stephen D.
Hannan of Columbia, Timothy W. Hannan of Rockville, Philip M. Hannan of Silver
Spring and Denis A. Hannan of Sterling; two brothers, the Most Rev. Philip M.
Hannan of New Orleans, the retired archbishop of that city, and Patrick J. "Jerry"
Hannan of Bethesda; six grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein