Hazel Thomas Hagans

March 27, 1931-Nov. 11, 2026In the small south-central Alabama town of Greensboro, in the 1940s, there was a Five and Dime store on Main Street. Fourteen-year-old Hazel Hagans worked there when not in school. She remembers that when President Roosevelt came on the radio to talk about progress in the war everyone in the store would stop and gather around the radio to hear what he had to say. And then they got on with things. That is the world that Hazel came from. A world of sacrifice and obligation for a great and noble cause. She was part of the "Greatest Generation," the generation that survived the Great Depression, fought and won WWII and then built the most important republic the world has ever seen.Hazel was born on March 27, 1931, in Uniontown, Alabama, to Frank and Irma Rayfield Thomas. She is the last of 9 brothers and sisters. Hazel was pre-deceased by her husband, Rodney H. Hagans Sr. She is survived by her son Rodney H. Hagans Jr.

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