Allan Hancock

Allan Sibley Hancock was born in Chicago on March 8, 1917. After an acting career in New York and Chicago, he served time in the U.S. Army during World War II, traveling with General Patton through North Africa and Italy, eventually liberating prisoners from a concentration camp in Germany as the war ended. He was married to Floy Hills, with whom he had four daughters: Dawna, Penelope, Victoria and Lorelei. His wife died in 1983; and he remarried, to Dorethy Hancock in 1984. In the 1960s he changed his career, from being Vice President of the Hills Pet Food Company, to the Episcopal priesthood. He remained a priest until his retirement in 1987, in Topeka, KS. He died in Topeka on March 29, 1999 at age 82.