He was facing a life-threatening diagnosis of lung cancer, but David Hanneman was more worried about giving something back to the hospital that provided his care. So he wheeled himself from his room at St. Mary’s Hospital down to the office of vice president Barbara Miller to offer a donation of two 1850s-era stained glass windows. For much of the 20th century, the windows were part of the ornate chapel at the hospital. They were removed during a renovation in the late 1960s.
He’d stored the windows in the basement of his home for more than 35 years. Now he wanted them to “come home to St. Mary’s.” And so they would. When the hospital’s new wing opened, four sections of the now-restored windows were built into public waiting areas.
