Howard W. Hoover

April 9, 1926 - May 26, 1983

Word has been received of the death of Howard W. Hoover, 57, Monticello, May 26, at White County Memorial Hospital. He had been in ill health for the past six months, and a patient at the

 hospital for one week.

Born April 9, 1926, in Nappanee, he was the son of John and Cora (Weaver) Hoover, who both survive. He married Edith L. (Dee) Palmer on June 13, 1948, and she also survives.

Mr. Hoover was a member of the First Presbyterian Church at Monticello, where he served as a deacon, elder and long-time Sunday School teacher. He was a member of the Nappanee Masonic Lodge 566, American Legion, and was a former Jaycee and Kiwanian at Monticello, where he had resided since 1955, moving there from Nappanee. He was a graduate of Nappanee High School and Ball State University, and served in the U.S. Air Corps during WWII, and with the U.S. Marines during the Korean Conflict.

He had also served as an American Red Cross Blood Bank chairman, and later Blood Bank coordinator for 22 years. He worked for Nappanee Milling Company for several years, and started an insurance company in Monticello in 1956, at which time he also began traveling for Equitable Life Insurance Company. In 1969, he became a counselor for Indiana State Vocational Rehabilitation Services of the Lafayette District, and in 1973 he became Lafayette Area Supervisor.

Mr. Hoover served as Justice of the Peace in Union Township, White County, from 1963-1969. He also served a term as a school board member for the White Twin Lakes School System. He was interested in minor league baseball and little league baseball, and was manager of a minor league team in 1965.

Surviving with his parents and Mrs. Hoover are a daughter, Mrs. Stephen (Shireen) Davis, Syracuse; two sons: Randall S. Hoover, Burnettsville; a granddaughter, Amy Kendall; two brothers: Willard (Bill)  Hover, Winter haven, Florida, and Ned Hoover, Etna Green; two sisters: Mrs. Dorothy Greene, Nappanee, and Mrs. Anita Sheets, Bourbon, and several nieces and nephews. Another brother, preceded him in death.

Services were conducted by Rev. William Weckerly and Rev. Wallace McDonald, at the First Presbyterian Church, Monticello, Saturday, May 28, and burial was at Bremen Cemetery. Masonic rites were also conducted.

Memorials may be donated to a favorite charity in his name.