The Journey Home: My Father’s Story of Cancer, Faith and Life-Changing Miracles

The Journey Home is the inspiring story of a father's battle with cancer, and the miraculous parting message he left for his family. Despite crippling symptoms from cancer, David Hanneman finished his life with renewed Catholic faith - and a resolve that shows us how each journey has an incredible destination.

Joseph M. Hanneman has been writing compelling human-interest stories for more than 25 years as a magazine editor, newspaper reporter and owner of a small communications business. He has interviewed and written about war heroes, pioneers, best-selling authors, cancer survivors, governors, priests and presidential hopefuls. The story of his father’s battle with terminal lung cancer proved his most personal - and most rewarding - writing endeavor. He is a Fourth Degree mem-ber of the Knights of Columbus. Like his father, he served as deputy grand knight and warden of his local Knights of Columbus council. He and his family belong to St. Rita Catholic Church. He holds bachelor’s degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He lives in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, with his wife Sue and their three children, Stevie, Samantha and Ruby.