Obit: Hoover, Mary W. (1925 - 2012)

Contact: Robert Lipprandt

Email: bob@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: Hoover, Leid, Martin, Sauder, Weaver, Zimmerman

----Source: The Tribune - Phonograph (Abbotsford, WI) 4/4/2012

Hoover, Mary W. (Leid) (2 SEP 1925 - 28 MAR 2012)

Mary W. Hoover, age 86, of Curtiss, passed away Wednesday, March 28, 2012, at her residence in the Town of Hoard.

Mary was born September 2, 1925, in Pennsylvania to Aaron G. and Mary M. (Weaver) Leid.

She attended a one room school in Lancaster County, PA. Mary married Martin N. Hoover on November 13, 1947.

Together they farmed in Lancaster County for 32 years before moving and buying a farm in the town of Hoard in 1980. They sold the farm in 1985 but continued to work and live there.

Mary is survived by her husband, Martin; children, Noah (Alice) Zimmerman, Harvey (Anna Mary) Hoover, Aaron (Mary) Zimmerman, J. Elmer (Anna) Sauder, Aaron (Edna) Hoover, Martin L. (Mabel) Hoover, Alvin (Anna) Hoover and Norman (Ina) Hoover; 65 grandchildren; 100 great-grandchildren; a brother Weaver (Lizzie) Leid; and a sister, Alice Hoover.

Services were held Monday, April 2, 2012, at Sunny Ridge Mennonite Church in the Town of Hoard, rural Curtiss. Bishop Alvin Martin presided. Burial was at the Sunny Ridge Mennonite Cemetery Town of Hoard. Pallbearers were Ivan Hoover, Samuel Hoover, James Hoover, Stephen Hoover, Benjamin Hoover, and Nelson Sauder.

The Maurina Schilling Funeral Home assisted the family with arrangements.