OBIT: Lloyd HOOVER, 1930, of interest in Somerset County, PA

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LLOYD HOOVER

Accident, Maryland
Accident Boy Drowns in Ohio River

  ACCIDENT, July 30 - The Ohio River took a victim Wednesday night at Bellaire, 
Ohio when Lloyd Hoover lost his life.  The lad was swimming with scores of 
others.  No one saw him go down, and it was not until late in the evening when 
his clothing was found on the river shore, that it became known that a life had 
been lost.  He was reported missing early Thursday morning and in a little more 
than an hour his body was recovered.  Coroner Neal expressed the opinion that 
the boy was attacked with cramps.  His body was found 15 feet from the diving 
board.
  The victim of the drowning had been making his home with his uncle, W. M. 
Weyrick, in Bellaire.  He formerly made his home with his grandparents, Mr. and 
Mrs. James Speicher, at Accident, Md.  His mother resides at Lumberport, W.Va.  
The youth had been employed for the past two years as a truck driver for Henry 
Heil's Son's Store.
  Besides his mother he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Thelma Hester of 
Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Cleo Wilcox, of Clarksburg, W.Va., and his grandparents, 
Mr. and Mrs. James Speicher, of Accident, Md., a step-father, a half-sister, two 
half-brothers, five aunts, three uncles and a host of friends.
  His body was brought to the home of his grandparents here on Friday evening.
  Lloyd Cortes Hoover was born in 1912 and was aged 17 years and 10 months.  At 
the age of 12 years he was confirmed in the Lutheran Church at Bittinger by Rev. 
Campbell.  He attended the Accident High School and was graduated with the Class 
of 1928.  After that time he lived in Bellaire, Ohio.  The funeral service was 
held in the Accident Lutheran Church on Saturday afternoon, and was conducted by 
Rev. E. E. Campbell, of Bittinger, with interment in the Bittinger Cemetery.

Meyersdale Republican, July 31, 1930