Families at Fort Hancock

NPS/Gateway NRA

Col. Corley's son and friends at birthday party at Battery Gunnison, 1965.

Fort Hancock was more than an Army base. It was home to thousands of families over its nearly eighty years in service.

Spouses and children offer a different look at life at the Fort. Here are a few of their stories.

To see Fort Hancock through the eyes of a family's camera, click here and here.

 

Jeanette Woolley Bower, dependent, 1975 interview 

Jeanette Woolley Bower, dependent, 1976 interview 

Florence Burkhardt, Lighthouse keeper's daughter, 1930-38

Leo Contois, Jr., and Rita Contois Roman, pdf

Penny Corley, Officer's Wife, pdf

Bernard Duze, son of Post Tailor, pdf 

M. Susan Clapsaddle Faley, general's daughter, pdf

Al Germaine, interview, lived on Sgt's Row, pdf 

Albert Germaine, written recollections, 1930-1939, pdf

Juanita Gooch Giovenco, pdf 

Bill Gould, dependent, Western Union Telegraph Company 

Sally Hanson, dependent of Pumping Station engineer, 1902-08, pdf 

Ruth Weaver Halpern, pdf

Harry Hanna, lived on Officers' Row, pdf 

Eleanor Gould Henfly, dependent, Western Union Telegraph Company 

Daniel Huebner, dependent of post chaplain, pdf

Dorothy Johnson, pdf 

Marion Hand Marker, Daughter of Weather Bureau Meteorologist Clarence Hand, and husband Al Marker, 1930-40, pdf

Violet Murray Masciale, schoolteacher between World Wars I and II 

John Mulhern, child of water plant operator, 1908-1927 

Jean Rafy and children, Officer's family, 1947

Hank Sandlass, Sandlass Beach Club, pdf 

Judith Saxe Schneider, pdf

Arlie Seitz, pdf

Bertha Staninas Tuting, pdf

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