Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was a son of the late Frank Ervine and Mrs. Agnes Leftwich Hankinson, Sr. He was a graduate of Emory University and was a professor at the University of South Carolina in business administration. He was a World War I, World War II and Korean conflict Army veteran, retiring after 31 years. He was a Mason, a Shriner and a member of Five Points Rotary Club and Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church.
He was preceded in death by his first wife and the mother of their two children, Nina Neely Hankinson, and by his only sibling, a brother, Jesse Leftwich Hankinson.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Kathleen Smith Hankinson of Tyler; a son, Frank Ervine Hankinson, III of Columbus, Mississippi, a daughter, Mrs. Neely Hankinson Laubendorfer of Dayton, Ohio; a step-son, Donald C. Smith of Van, Texas; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church, conducted by the Rev. Robert E. Long. Entombment with military rites, will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Memorials may be made to Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church.
The family will receive friends from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. today at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel.
Published in part In The State on Thursday, November 5, 1987
Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was a son of the late Frank Ervine and Mrs. Agnes Leftwich Hankinson, Sr. He was a graduate of Emory University and was a professor at the University of South Carolina in business administration. He was a World War I, World War II and Korean conflict Army veteran, retiring after 31 years. He was a Mason, a Shriner and a member of Five Points Rotary Club and Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church.
He was preceded in death by his first wife and the mother of their two children, Nina Neely Hankinson, and by his only sibling, a brother, Jesse Leftwich Hankinson.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Kathleen Smith Hankinson of Tyler; a son, Frank Ervine Hankinson, III of Columbus, Mississippi, a daughter, Mrs. Neely Hankinson Laubendorfer of Dayton, Ohio; a step-son, Donald C. Smith of Van, Texas; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Services will be held at 2 p. m. Friday at Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church, conducted by the Rev. Robert E. Long. Entombment with military rites, will be in Greenlawn Memorial Park Mausoleum.
Memorials may be made to Chapel of the Cross Episcopal Church.
The family will receive friends from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m. today at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel.
Published in part In The State on Thursday, November 5, 1987
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