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D155286-1R
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- 1969-01-07 (Creation)
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11-year-old Lynn Hansen was photographed on January 7, 1969 wearing a modern, miniature hearing aid, which is being held by Mary Ann Truitt, executive director of Senior Centers, Inc. . Senior citizen A.T. (Skipper) Dellplain, at far right, who was also hearing impaired, got the Senior Center located at 923 North 13th Street to sponsor the hearing aid for Lynn. He then invited Lynn and her mother, Mrs. Karl N. Hansen, to lunch at the senior center were Lynn received her hearing aid. Left to right are Mrs. Hansen, Lynn, a kneeling Mary Ann Truitt, and Mr. Dellplain. The Senior Center was in a building which had previously been a fire station. Photograph ordered by the Tacoma-Pierce County Opportunity & Development, Inc. (TNT 2-2-69, D-4-article & alternate photograph)
Hansen, Lynn; Hearing aids; Hansen, Karl N.--Family; Truitt, Mary Ann; Dellplain, A.T.; Senior Centers, Inc. (Tacoma);