“ Roy Hahnenkratt, a pioneer in the Arizona transportation business, and his wife celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at a dinner this week in their home, 1541 West Garfield street, for their children, grandchildren and a great-granddaughter. In celebration of the couple's 50th anniversary their family gave them not something gold as is traditional, but a pair of heavy rocking chairs. The Hahnenkratts were married December 22, 1897, at Florence, Colorado, and came to Phoenix in 1919 to take up farming and dairying before going into the transportation business two years later. ”

“ In 1926 he delivered laborers to Lake Pleasant dam and the following year pioneered a stage line over the White Spar highway to Prescott and Flagstaff via Wickenburg. The Black Canyon and White Spar lines were consolidated in 1928 to form the Arizona Transportation Lines. ”