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Hanna Temesgen

Funeral services were held on December 15, 2021 at Ethiopian C.V. with the burial following at Mt. Hope Cemetery. Final arrangements were entrusted to Anderson-Ragsdale Mortuary. Hanna Temesgen was born to her father, Ato Haile Temesgen and her mother, Woiezero Tibletse Gidey on June 12, 1996 at Sharp Mary Birch Hospital in the city of […]

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