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DORIS MARTHA HANNA

MISS D. HANNA DIED IN QUEEN CITY HOSPITAL

WELLAND GIRL SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES SUSTAINED IN TORONTO, DEC. 12.

[The Welland-Port Colborne Evening Tribune, 21 December 1931]

The death of Miss Doris Hanna, aged 21, daughter of Mrs. Jessie Hanna, 25 Grove street, Welland, and the late Wm. Ellis Hanna, from spine and head injuries received on Saturday, December 12th while crossing Bleecker street, Toronto, occurred at ten o’clock this morning in the Wellesley hospital, where she had been a nurse in training.

Miss Hanna was struck by an automobile which in turn had been hit accordingly to police reports, by a car driven north along Bleecker street by Harold Ashton, 15 Roden Place.

Miss Hanna was fatally injured on the first anniversary of her father’s death which had occurred at the family home after a long illness.

Surviving relatives are deceased’s mother, and one sister and two brothers, Miss Isobel, Charles and Craig Hanna, all at home. Funeral arrangements are not yet completed.

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