Emery Family - Person Sheet
NameAnna Adelia “Addie” Emery 
Birth8 Nov 1903
Death29 Oct 1986
EducationWellesley College (1926)
FatherWilliam Harrison Emery Jr (1876-1938)
MotherMarjorie Wilder (1882-1967)
Misc. Notes
Chicago Tribune
Anna Hanson, 82
Dedicated To Aid For Disabled
November 01, 1986|By Kenan Heise.
Anna Emery Hanson, 82, a former social worker and a philanthropist, was the founder of the concept of a fine arts center for the handicapped. The Anna Emery Hanson Center in Burr Ridge, which carries out this idea, is named for her.
Services for Mrs. Hanson, a resident of Elmhurst, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in First Congregational Church, 235 S. Kenilworth Ave., Elmhurst. She died Wednesday at home.
“Anna Emery Hanson was an incredible visionary woman who felt that she had to do everything she could for other people,” according to Jim DeOre, executive director of the Foundation for the Handicapped. “She didn`t just give time and resources, she gave part of her spirit, and the more she gave, the more she had to give.”
Mrs. Hanson was a descendent of two prominent Chicago pioneer families. On her mother`s side, the Wilders arrived in Chicago in 1847, when the population was less than 20,000. The Emerys, her father`s ancestors, in 1878 founded Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co., the largest leather goods and tanning company in America.
She attended the Girls Latin School and graduated in 1926 from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She did postgraduate studies in social work at the University of Chicago.
During the Depression, she did social work through United Charities in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. A monthly allowance from her parents in Elmhurst exceeded the family allotment given to her clients. She regularly contributed the difference between the two figures to those in need.
She married Norman R. Hanson in 1932.
In World War II, she was a volunteer social worker in the American Red Cross.
Her major involvement over the years has been with foundations for the handicapped, where she worked to develop programs and facilities for the physically and developmentally disabled. She sought to help them achieve independent living and to be able to express themselves through active participation in cultural programs.
Her goals were achieved in the Anna Emery Hanson Center in Burr Ridge, which has life-enrichment programs in music, dance, drama, art, horticulture, domestic arts, horseback riding and physical education. She was chairman of the board, and the center was named after her in 1983.
Other civic and charitable institutions with which she worked included the Foundation for the Handicapped, Lyric Opera, the Library of International Relations, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, United Charities and the National Epilepsy Foundation.
Among the awards Mrs. Hanson received were the Charles H. Wacker Award in 1983 by United Charities, the 1986 Woman of the Year by Illinois YWCA and the Distinguished Citizen’s Award by the Boy Scouts of America, presented by former President Gerald Ford in 1984.
Survivors include three daughters, Marjorie Hanson Greenfield, Mary Anna Hanson MacLean and Doris Jane Hanson.
Anna Hanson, 82
Dedicated To Aid For Disabled
November 01, 1986|By Kenan Heise.
Anna Emery Hanson, 82, a former social worker and a philanthropist, was the founder of the concept of a fine arts center for the handicapped. The Anna Emery Hanson Center in Burr Ridge, which carries out this idea, is named for her.
Services for Mrs. Hanson, a resident of Elmhurst, will be held at 11 a.m. Monday in First Congregational Church, 235 S. Kenilworth Ave., Elmhurst. She died Wednesday at home.
“Anna Emery Hanson was an incredible visionary woman who felt that she had to do everything she could for other people,” according to Jim DeOre, executive director of the Foundation for the Handicapped. “She didn`t just give time and resources, she gave part of her spirit, and the more she gave, the more she had to give.”
Mrs. Hanson was a descendent of two prominent Chicago pioneer families. On her mother`s side, the Wilders arrived in Chicago in 1847, when the population was less than 20,000. The Emerys, her father`s ancestors, in 1878 founded Chicago Rawhide Manufacturing Co., the largest leather goods and tanning company in America.
She attended the Girls Latin School and graduated in 1926 from Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She did postgraduate studies in social work at the University of Chicago.
During the Depression, she did social work through United Charities in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. A monthly allowance from her parents in Elmhurst exceeded the family allotment given to her clients. She regularly contributed the difference between the two figures to those in need.
She married Norman R. Hanson in 1932.
In World War II, she was a volunteer social worker in the American Red Cross.
Her major involvement over the years has been with foundations for the handicapped, where she worked to develop programs and facilities for the physically and developmentally disabled. She sought to help them achieve independent living and to be able to express themselves through active participation in cultural programs.
Her goals were achieved in the Anna Emery Hanson Center in Burr Ridge, which has life-enrichment programs in music, dance, drama, art, horticulture, domestic arts, horseback riding and physical education. She was chairman of the board, and the center was named after her in 1983.
Other civic and charitable institutions with which she worked included the Foundation for the Handicapped, Lyric Opera, the Library of International Relations, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, United Charities and the National Epilepsy Foundation.
Among the awards Mrs. Hanson received were the Charles H. Wacker Award in 1983 by United Charities, the 1986 Woman of the Year by Illinois YWCA and the Distinguished Citizen’s Award by the Boy Scouts of America, presented by former President Gerald Ford in 1984.
Survivors include three daughters, Marjorie Hanson Greenfield, Mary Anna Hanson MacLean and Doris Jane Hanson.
Spouses
Marriage1932