Hoyt Granter 1918 - 1996

GRANTER, HOYT, LONG

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Date: 6/14/2024 at 21:08:46

Sioux City Journal
15 November 1996

Hoyt Granter, 78, Mitchell, S.D., formerly of Sioux City, died Friday, Nov. 8, 1996, at Queen of Peace Hospital in Mitchell.

Services were Tuesday at the Bittner Funeral Chapel in Mitchell with the Rev. Hugo Norro officiating. Burial was in Graceland Cemetery at Mitchell.

Mr. Granter was born Sept. 22, 1918, at Danbury, Iowa, the son of Joseph and Alice (Hoyt) Granter. He attended Danbury schools, graduating in 1935. He was, graduated from Morningside College in Sioux City in 1939 with a bachelor of science degree. He married Virginia Long March 3, 1943, in Sioux City.

Mr. Granter served as personnel officer at the Sioux City Air Base prior to entering the U.S. Air Corps in 1943. Following his discharge in 1946, he worked as a counselor for the U.S. Employment Service until 1947. He then worked for the Credit Bureau of Sioux City.

From 1949 to 1953, Mr. Granter was assistant manager of the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce and from 1953 to 1967 he served as executive director of the Mitchell Chamber of Commerce. He then worked in private business until 1981 when he was appointed executive director of the Mitchell United Way, retiring in 1995.

Mr. Granter was a member of St. Mary's Episcopal Church, where he served as a lay reader for many years. He also belonged to Masonic bodies, including Sioux City Consistory, the Resurgam Lodge of Mitchell and the El Riad Shrine Temple. He was a charter member and past president of the Corn Palace Chiefs, past president of the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce Executives and longtime member of Wild Oaks Golf Club. In 1986, he received Community Service Award from the Mitchell Chamber of Commerce. In 1995, he was honored by the United Way Board for his dedicated service to the agency.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters and their husbands, Linda and Dennis Studer of Rapid City, S.D., and Lisa and Brian Lippert of Cedar Falls, Iowa; five grandchildren, Michael, Aaron and Katie Jo Studer, Carly Bessman and Brice J. Lippert; a sister and her husband, Kathleen and Richard Rubner of Arlington Heights, Ill.; a brother-in-law, Dr. Edward Koziol of Los Angeles, Calif., and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Dorothy Koziol.