Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, February 11, 1992 TAG: 9202110031
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: GLOUCESTER LENGTH: Medium
OBIT HANES, J.
HANES, JAMES C. COL.Colonel James Carter Hanes, age 88, died in Walter Reed Hospital, Gloucester, Va. on February 10, 1992. He was born in the Ancestral Home Humanity Hall, Buckingham County, Va. on August 24, 1903 the son of John Blackwell and Ada Carter Hanes and attended the Va. Military Institute, graduating as fourth distinguished in his class of 1925 with a B.S. in Civil Engineering and began his career teaching for one year at V.M.I. and then entered the field of construction. He taught at V.M.I. from 1931 to 1944 and in 1937 he was awarded an M.S. in Sanitary Engineering from V.P.I. He was employed in Mexico, Chile and El Salvador from 1944 to 1950. He married Janie Maclin Potter on June 30, 1928. In 1950 Colonel Hanes returned to the United States and to Rutgers University where he was chairman of the Civil Engineering Department and director of the Joint Highway Research project of the Bureau of Public Roads in New Jersey. In 1953 the couple returned to V.M.I. where Col. Hanes was employed as business executive until his retirement in 1969. The couple remained in Lexington where Col. Hanes did consulting on various local projects until they moved to Gloucester in 1978. Mrs. Hanes died there on January 18, 1988. Col. Hanes is survived by two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Edith J. Hanes and Edna H. Hanes; three nieces, Mrs. Mary Temple Boitnott, Mrs. George Schmidt and Elizabeth Blackwell Main; one nephew, Commander Sam Houston Hanes, U.S.N. Col. Hanes was a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers, a member of the Kappa Alpha Order, a social fraternity, two scientific and honor societies, the Phi Kappa Phi and the Tau Beta Pi and the American Water Works Association and a member of the Lexington Rotary Club for many years. Both Col. and Mrs. Hanes were members of the Ware Episcopal Church in Gloucester. Funeral services will be conducted Thursday at 11:00 a.m. from the R. E. Lee Memorial Episcopal Church with Rev. R. David Cox and Rev. D. Holmes Irving officiating. Burial will follow in Stonewall Jackson Memorial Cemetery. The family suggests expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the V.M.I. Alumni Association, P.O. Box 932, Lexington, Va. 24450. The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Harrison Funeral Home, Lexington.