RugNotes: Friday, September 24, 2004: "heraldsun.com: Jim Hanna, Oriental rug dealer, dies at 73
heraldsun.com: Jim Hanna, Oriental rug dealer, die...: "Jim Hanna, Oriental rug dealer, dies at 73
By Jim Wise : The Herald-Sun
jwise@heraldsun.com
Sep 23, 2004 : 8:34 pm ET
DURHAM -- Customers found the doors closed Thursday at the Fargo-Hanna Oriental Rug Gallery and signs that said the venerable business was closed due to a death in the family.
The store's owner, James H. Hanna Jr., died Wednesday night at his home in northern Durham. He was 73.
"He was a quiet, unassuming man who had an extraordinary wealth of knowledge," said Susan Copeland, president of the North Durham Rotary Club, of which Mr. Hanna was a member.
Since 1970, Mr. Hanna had run the Oriental Rug Gallery, taking over a business founded in 1919 by his father, James H. Hanna Sr., and another man, Abraham Joseph Fargo. It was the first and, for many years, the only firm in Durham dealing in Oriental rugs.
"I never considered doing anything else," Mr. Hanna told The Herald-Sun in 2000. "It was ingrained in me."
Mr. Hanna also passed on the family tradition, with his children Michael and Barbara becoming part of the Hanna rug business, which has branches in Raleigh and Blowing Rock, as well as the store on Chapel Hill Boulevard in Durham.
Mr. Hanna was born in Charlotte and grew up in Sarasota, Fla. He attended N.C. State University and earned a bachelor's degree in textile engineering from the University of Florida at Gainesville. He also served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War. In addition to the Rotary Club, he was a member of the Masons, the Shriners and the Sales and Marketing Executives of Durham.
"Jim Hanna was a wonderful man," Ms. Copeland said. "He will be sorely missed by the North Durham Rotary Club, as well as everyone else who knew him."
Surviving are his wife, Layla Tappouni Hanna; son, Michael James Hanna and his wife, Dena, of Durham; daughter, Barbara Ammons of Durham; mother, Jane K. Hanna, of Sarasota, Fla.; brother, Dr. John E. Hanna, of Sarasota, Fla.; sisters, Margaret H. Lanigan and Rosalie H. Shmalo, both of Sarasota, Fla.; and five grandchildren.
A brother, George Hanna, preceded Mr. Hanna in death.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church. Interment will follow in Maplewood Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to Immaculate Conception Catholic Church or to the charity of the donor's choice.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 9 Friday evening at Howerton & Bryan Funeral Home, 1005 W. Main St., Durham." "
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