HOOTMAN, Hovey

HOVEY, POWELSON, OGDEN

Posted By: Volunteer: Sherri
Date: 12/2/2013 at 13:26:13

Hovey Hootman's Funeral Is Friday
**Handwritten: 48

Funeral services for Hovey Hootman, 76, life-long resident of Van Buren county, will be held at the Mt. Zion Presbyterian church Friday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with the Rev. Howard C. Irvine of Birmingham in charge.

It is undecided where burial will be made, but the Douds American Legion Post will have charge of interment.

**Handwritten: Feb 24

Mr. Hootman died at 10:30 p.m. Tuesday at his home in Birmingham after a lingering illness of several weeks. He had lived on a farm northeast of Douds until recently when he moved to Birmingham because of ill health.

He had lived in this vicinity for 65 years, although a number of his years were spent away in school work. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.

Mr. Hootman was always interested in agriculture and music, and had been a member of the Mt. Zion Presbyterian church all of his life.

Besides his wife, he is survived by one daughter, Janet, a student at Parsons College in Fairfield; a brother, Jud Hootman of Cantril; and two sisters, Mrs. J.A. Powelson of Santa Ana, Calif., and Mrs. Orpha Ogden of Birmingham.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book c, Page 360, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA