Robert E. Hoover (1925-2006)

HOOVER, CHILDERS, DICK

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 9/12/2006 at 22:05:54

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Tuesday, September 12, 2006.

Robert E. Hoover
Sept. 12, 1925-Sept. 8, 2006
Robert E. Hoover, 80, of Ames, died Friday, Sept. 8, at Israel Family Hospice House in Ames. No services are planned. The body was cremated.

Robert E. Hoover was born Sept. 12, 1925, in Johnston City, Ill., to Albert C. and Lillie (Childers) Hoover. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Illinois-Champaign, and pursued further graduate studies at the University of Kansas. He was an assistant professor at Iowa State University for 30 years. He also had served in the U.S. Navy.

He was first and last a teacher, and also an accomplished artist.

He is survived by one sister, Barbara J. Dick, of Marion, Ill.; and three brothers, Donald G. Hoover, of Marion, Ill., A. Graydon Hoover, of Paris, Tenn., and David W. Hoover, of Woodstock, Va.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Memorials may be directed to Israel Family Hospice House.

Adams Funeral Home in Ames is in charge of arrangements.

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