OBIT: Samuel L. HOOVER, 1967, Altoona, Blair County, PA

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SAMUEL L. HOOVER

Of 118 Willow Ave., died unexpectedly at 12:55 a.m. today in the 
Altoona Hospital, where he was admitted shortly before. He was born at 
Hannah Furnace Sept. 17, 1894, a son of Philip and Mary (Beckwith) 
Hoover, and married Lucy Smith in Port Matilda Dec. 31, 1914. Surviving 
are his wife, three children, Mrs. Robert Rodgers of Hyattsville, Md., 
Leonard of Clearfield and Bernard of Altoona; seven grandchildren, two 
great-grandchildren, three brothers and a sister, Clarence, Merrill and 
Mrs. Chester Thompson of the city and Miles of Port Matilda. Mr. Hoover 
was a member and trustee of the Grace Methodist Church, member of the 
Willing Workers Bible Class and Methodist Laymen, the Port Matilda Odd 
Fellows and retired as a car builder for the P.R.R. in 1959. Friends 
will be received in the Axe Funeral Home from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. 
Saturday and Sunday.

Altoona Mirror, Altoona, Pa., Thursday, March 16, 1967