OBITUARY INFORMATION FROM JOHN'S NEPHEW, JOHN HANCOCK:

John Robert Hancock is my uncle and he died September 28, 2007, at age 93 or 94.  He graduated from Hobart High in 1931.

The picture is from the 1931 HHS Aurora yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at:
https://archive.org/details/HOHS1931Images/.