Paul M. Hann, Dr. (1990)

HANN, LANE, KUNTZ, JORDAN, GREENFIELD, MCBRIDE

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/16/2006 at 10:49:27

DR. PAUL M. HANN, Winterset

Winterset Madisonian
February 28, 1990

Services for Dr. Paul M. Hann, 81, Winterset, who died February 23, 1990 at the Iowa Methodist Medical Center, were held Mon. Feb. 26, at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Clarence Lautt, the Rev. Lynn A. Ryon and the Rev. Donald Jones officiating. Burial was at the Winterset Cemetery.

Born in Peru on January 28, 1909, he was the son of George and Myrtle Lane Hann. He was a retired minister for the United Methodist Church and Iowa United Methodist Conference. He lived in Winterset for the past 18 years, coming from Des Moines. He was married to the former Eunice Kuntz on June 25, 1932 in Winterset.

He was a World War II Navy chaplain for the 97th Seabee battalion in the European Theater and served Iowa churches at Lone Tree, Wellman, Fort Madison, Knoxville, Ottumwa and at the First United Methodist Church in Des Moines.

He graduated from Winterset High School in 1927, and from Simpson College in 1931. He earned a theology degree from Boston School of Theology, and honorary doctorate degrees from Simpson College and Iowa Wesleyan College. Dr. Hann was the subject of a feature story in the Madisonian a few years ago about his church career.

Other positions he held with the Methodist Church were chairman of the Conference Relations Committee, chairman of the Board of Hospitals, Homes and Education, trustee of Simpson College, Iowa Methodist Hospital and the Southern Iowa Methodist Homes, a member of the General Board of Publication, a delegate to the World Methodist Conference in London, church district superintendent in southeast Iowa, and a delegate to six jurisdictional and five general conferences of the Methodist church.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Bruce F. Hann of Urbandale; a daughter, Martha Jordan of Winterset; a sister, Norma Greenfield of Norwalk; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his step-mother, Lillian McBride, parents, a brother and two sisters.