Rev. Charles C. Hanna

Rev. Charles Calvin Hanna, 85, a retired Baptist minister for over 50 years passed away Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2016 at The Manor in Poplar Bluff.

Rev. Hanna, the son of the late Charles Lindall and LaVerne C. Turner Hanna, was born Feb. 15, 1931 in Centralia, Mo. He attended Hannibal-Lagrange College in Hannibal, Mo. where he received an Associate of Arts Degree. He later attended East Texas Baptist College in Marshall, Texas, where he sang in the college choir and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree. He also received many years of seminary extension training. Rev. Hanna served as pastor at Bloomfield First Baptist Church, Doniphan First Baptist Church, Calvary Baptist Church in Corning, Ark. and New Hope Baptist Church in Peace Valley, Mo. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge 209 in Poplar Bluff and had also served on the Missouri Baptist Children's Home board for six years. He enjoyed working on antique clocks and playing the harmonica but his greatest passion was preaching and singing.

On Dec. 21, 1952, he married Maurine Berry in Centralia, Mo. She survives of the home.

Other survivors include two daughters, Melanie Jackson Stoelting and her husband, Keith Stoelting of Puxico, Mo. and Lorri Shelton and her husband, Don Shelton of Branson Mo.; two grandchildren, Nathan (Malika) Jackson and Natalie (Ben) Woodbury; two great-grandchildren, Harper Jackson and Kellan Woodbury; and three step-grandchildren, Scott Stoelting, Christy Stoelting and Shane Stoelting.
A son-in-law, Keith Jackson also preceded Rev. Hanna in death.
Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. Friday at the First Baptist Church in Poplar Bluff with the funeral service following at 11 a.m. Dr. William Vail will officiate. The burial will take place at Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Memorial donations may be made to the First Baptist Church, 551 North Westwood Blvd., Poplar Bluff, MO 63901 or to The Gideon's International, P.O. Box 412, Poplar Bluff, MO 63902-0412.