Howard Gordon HANSON^[1]

1931 - 2010  (78 years)

• Name	Howard Gordon HANSON
  Birth	29 Dec 1931	Mitchell Co, TX   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	28 Jan 2010  [2]
  	Howard died on 28 January 2010. She was 78 years old at the time of her death. Her last residence was Clarkesville, Georgia.
  Person ID	I63041	mason
  Last Modified	22 Jul 2026

  
  

  Father	Rev. Alexander Barraud HANSON, Jr.,   b. 13 Dec 1899, Birmingham, Jefferson Co, AL d. 22 Jul 1995 (Age 95 years)
  Mother	Howard GORDON
  Marriage	8 Sep 1928  [3]
  	The couple was married on 8 September 1928.
  Family ID	F7217	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Dr. Howard G. Hanson of northern Georgia, USA, is the author of two royalty books of poetry, Ageless Maze and Future Coin or Climber. Her most recent volume, Under the Diamond Pulse, was published in December, 2009. A graduate of Vanderbilt University with a PhD in Comparative Literature, Howard is retired after a career in college teaching and as co-founder and registrar for the Dianne Mize Studio, a private art school originating in Clarkesville, GA, but becoming the Art Studio at Sautee Nacoochee Center. Biography Dr. Howard Gordon Hanson was born in Colorado, Texas, in late 1931, the first child of an Episcopal minister; but because of a sick younger brother she was raised mainly by her artist grandmother. She was taught to read at age three, and by four was allowed to paint in oils; by ten she was writing in blank verse, trying to catch up with her father, who was also a poet. At five she began piano lessons at her mother's insistence. So she got an early start in the arts and in reading. In time she earned a BA in Science and a PhD in Comparative Literature from Vanderbilt University, and began her teaching career. But this direction lasted only ten years because of post-polio syndrome. Subsequently, with her partner, Dianne Mize, she founded an art school for adults teaching Art History and Renaissance Portraiture, from which she retired in 2007. Throughout all these years she wrote poetry. And so her most recent book, Under the Diamond Pulse, taken along with her two earlier royalty book publications, Ageless Maze and Future Coin or Climber, represents a life perceiving and recording her world as it unfolded. Although this is a personal record, she hopes it will stimulate others into larger notice and enhancement of our inner growth.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1875] Texas Birth Index, 1903 - 1997. Howard Gordon Hanson birth. [S2936] Howard Gordon Hanson. SSDI. Ancestry.com. [S2933] Alexander Barraud Hanson, SAR membership no. 79648-923, U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889 - 1970.