Walk of Fame: Featured individuals from this website's first year, 2014/2015
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• Joseph Bassen - German immigrant who found success in Hannibal.
• Dora Betts - Served in the Army Nurse Corps.
• Bibb Twins - Dedicated members of Fifth Street Baptist Church.
• Georgia Braxton - Her tombstone symbolizes Ralls County’s colorful history.
• Phillip Brown - a Hannibal moving company legacy.
• Joshua Burton - Hannibal undertaker; lived at Hannibal Masonic Home.
• Mary Carter - In Her Own Words, Courier-Post files.
• Elder E.B. Challenner - Christian Church minister.
• Walt Chandler - Played the piano since the age of 4.
• Stanley Clark - Soulful accordian music.
• James W. Cox - Buried at Old Baptist Cemetery.
• Charles W. Curts - Noted Hannibal riverman.
• John W. Dickson - Landowner and free man of color.
• Homer Draper - World War II veteran.
• Joe and Betty Farrell - Rail, mail, fire and newspaper memories.
• Jim Featherstone - Learned lesson in self defense as a boy in Hannibal.
• P.W. Fletcher, P.W. - Transportation visionary.
• Rev. Wesley Foster - Eighth and Center Streets Missionary Baptist Church.
• Evans Fritz - A funeral pioneer.
• Dan Griffen - Hannibal florist, who shares memories of the 1940s.
• Sue Hart - A lifetime of living on West Ely Road.
• Albert Haug - Noted Hannibal musician.
• Bobby Heiser - Fifth generation Hannibal jeweler.
• Louis and Lena Lackner Heiser - German Turner Society.
• Holland, Stephen T. - Former journalist, retraces steps as a Hannibal reporter.
• Otis Howell – Winner of top MPA photography awards in 1961.
• William Hunt - A story of financial largess and loss.
• Dora Hunter - Early Hannibal businesswoman.
• Lu Jaworksy - Life-long local newspaper supporter.
• Livy Job - Lost to friendly fire at Hannibal during Civil War
• John Keefe - ‘America’s greatest yodeler’
• George Michael Kilian - Early Hannibal butcher.
• Klotz, Jack - Privy digger.
• Milton P. Knighton - Owner of White Star Laundry
• Jack Kretzer - Remembers when funeral homes operated ambulance services.
• Peter Lange - Operated a boat livery business at the foot of Bird Street.
• Harry Lieberman and Doc Greene, checkers champs.
• Ruth Linear - Shares memories of “Old Hannibal.”
• Rev. Lena Mason - Hannibal native, turned famous evangelist.
• Hiram McVeigh - Failed at business, but left a lasting legacy.
• William Scott Meyer - Son of Hannibal, prominent businessman
• Len Moss - Chronicler life with pencil and watercolors.
• Betty Curtis Mudd - Remembers neighborhood of her youth.
• W.A. Munger - Former Hannibal mayor.
• J. Palmer Forrest - Established St. Mary’s Pharmacy.
• Babu Patel - Veteran hotel man, modern day immigrant.
• Fannie Peake - Noted soprano.
• Richard and Martha Poole – Restoring legacy house at South Fifth & Church.
• John B. Powell - Journalist Paid a high price for outspoken views.
• John Pratt - Hannibal Courthouse’s first janitor.
• Dr. O.C. Queen - Prominent Hannibal physician of color.
• Martha R. Ray - Long-time Hannibal educator.
• Leolia Reynolds - Respected Hannibal educator
• Essie Turner Robinson - Left as a legacy, notes of Bear Creek Church’s founding.
• R.B.D. Simonson - Hannibal school superintendent
• Pink Snyder - Operated a grocery store in the Chestnut Street neighborhood.
• Donna Toalson - A real tomboy.
• Richard Treat - Lost his life during Korean Conflict.
• Mary Ellen Hulse and Richard Webster Trower - Married during World War II.
• Oscar Tucker - A lifelong shoemaker.
• Brad Tutor - Continuing family’s milling legacy.
• Lynne McGee Tutor - Cemetery researcher.
• Kathy Herring Walley - Grew up in a photo studio.
• Dixie Ward – The force behind the Hull (Ill.) History Museum
• Lute F. West - Left behind a journal from the 1880s.
• Brad Willet - Repurposed old Hatch Farm lumber into his own home.
• Bob Yount – Grew up on the Hatch farm.
