OBIT: Shawnee County, KS; HOVATTER, Charles O., 1927
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Subject :[KS-FOOT] Obit: HOVATTER; November 3, 1927; Shawnee/Atchison 
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The Topeka Daily Capital
Thursday
November 3, 1927

C.O. Hovatter Is Dead.
Veteran Topeka Lintotype Operator A Victim of Heart Disease.

Charles O. HOVATTER, 65, veteran Topeka printer and linotype operator, died at
his home, 1008 Morris avenue, about noon yesterday from heart disease. He was
stricken while working in the composing room of the Topeka State Journal about
10:30 o'clock and was taken home, where he died. He had operated one linotype
machine on the State Journal for the past 27 years.
Mr. HOVATTER was born in Phillppi, W. Va., December 29, 1861, and came to Kansas
in 1886, settling at Atchison. he married Lavenia E. KNISLEY in Atchison the
same year. They moved to Topeka in 1900. She died in 1910. Two years afterward
he married Mrs. Laura E. GRAHAM, who survives him.
Mr. HOVATTER was prominent in Masonic circles, being a member of Topeka lodge
No. 17, A.F. & A.M., the Scottish Rite and the Abdallah shrine. He served on
numerous committees of the Topeka Typographical union and at one time
represented the union at the international convention. He also was a member of
the First Baptist church and the Shawnee Camp. No. 2800, Modern Woodmen. Every
person he knew became a friend.
He is survived by his wife, a daughter, mrs. Mabel WILSON, Houston, Tex., a
sister, Miss Mildred HOVATER, Phillpi, W.Va.; two step-sons, Russell M. GRAHAM,
Des Moines, Ia., and Walter S. GRAHAM, Alamosa, Calif.; a brother-in-law, O.D.
KNISELY, St. Joseph, Mo.; a sister-in-law, Mrs. J. W. DIJON, Atchison, and five
grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements have not been completed. 

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