OBIT: Edmund S. HOOKER, 1940, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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EDMUND S. HOOKER

  Edmund S. Hooker, of Nokesville, Va., who owned and operated a diary farm at 
that place and who for years was a prominent and highly esteemed citizen of that 
community, had a fatal fall in his barn, Tuesday, July 2nd, 1940, while changing 
a pulley near the roof.  He landed on the barn floor with such force as to 
render him unconscious.
  He had been a veteran of the World War, which came to a close in 1920, and 
soon after his fatal fall, he was rushed to a soldier's hospital in Washington, 
D.C., 40 miles distant.  There it was found that his skull was fractured and he 
died at 5:00 p.m., same day.  His wife, who before her marriage was Miss Olive 
Maust, and was born and reared in Salisbury, Pa., is a daughter of Mrs. Ada B. 
Maust, and the late Frank A. Maust.  Mr. Hooker was in his 45th year when he 
died, and was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Hooker of Nokesville, who survive 
him.  Surviving also are his wife, and four children, namely, Bernice May, 
Ernest M., Anna Clare, and Mary Ada, ranging in age from 8 to 13 years.  Mr. 
Hooker is also survived by a brother and a sister - Walter Hooker, of Florida, 
and Mrs. Mary Miller of Hartford, Conn.
  The funeral service was held at the family home at 2:30 p.m., last Saturday, 
and was conducted by Mr. Hooker's pastor, Rev. A. K. Graybill, of Nokesville 
Church of the Brethren.  Interment was in the church cemetery, about 2 miles 
from Nokesville.
  The funeral was attended by a very large concourse of people, and the floral 
tributes were among the most beautiful and extensive ever seen in the Nokesville 
community.  Among the many in attendance at the funeral were Mrs. A. D. B. 
Maust, mother of Mrs. Hooker, of Salisbury.
  Mr. and Mrs. Hooker learned to know each other while students at Blue Ridge 
College, Md., of which college both are graduates.  They were united in wedlock 
fifteen years ago and the writer of these lines knows of no couple held in 
higher esteem by all who have ever known them.  They were much devoted to each 
other, and no children ever had finer parents than theirs.  Both have been 
prominent and popular in the social and church circles of their community, where 
Mr. Hooker will be sadly missed for a long time.
  Mrs. Hooker before leaving her home community in Salisbury, was a valued 
member of the Salisbury School Board, and one of the ablest and most popular 
school directors Salisbury ever had.  Many hearts in Salisbury and vicinity are 
saddened by the news of her irreparable loss.  But -
  "Leaves have their time to fall,
  And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath;
  But thou hast all seasons for thine own.
  Thou mightiest of the earth, O Death!"

Meyersdale Republican, July 11, 1940