The Wichita Eagle Mary Ann Rodriguez met Johnny Hahn on a blind date during her senior year at Florence High School.
Family members say the two became inseparable.
Such was the case, even in death as in life. Johnny Hahn came to Kansas in an unlikely capacity, a Navy man stationed in Hutchinson, far from the ocean. Music became his favored vessel of expression. As a saxophone player, he fell in love with Mexican music and began playing in various bands. He so embraced the Mexican culture, when I was growing up as a kid, for the longest time I didn't even know he was German, until I was old enough to realize that Hahn is not a Mexican name.