Jack Hoover, a Cushing resident, passed away on Monday, June 28, 2010 after a courageous battle with cancer in the Cancer Treatment Center in Tulsa, OK at the age of 77 years.
Funeral services have been entrusted to the Palmer Marler Funeral Home, Cushing, OK and will be held at 2:00 p.m., Friday, July 2, 2010 in the First Baptist Church, Drumright, OK. Burial will follow in the Davenport Cemetery, Davenport, OK.
The son of the late Walter O. Hoover and Nona Lee (Campbell) Hoover, Jack was born on November 1, 1932 in Stroud, OK. He was reared and educated in Drumright attending Drumright High School.
Jack was united in marriage to Carolyn J. Conn on July 21, 1951 in the First Baptist Church in Drumright and to this union five children, Donnie, Mike, Linda K., John Scott, and Joe Matt, were born. In 1949 Jack began working part time for Mid-Continent Oil Co and shortly thereafter went to full time. Mid-Continent was later known as Sun Ray DX and eventually known as Sun Oil Company. Jack had worked for these companies for a total of 31 years, retiring in 1981. In 1961 while working for Sun Oil Company, Jack moved his family to Perkins, OK and began working on the Ramsey Lease. This is the same lease that his father started and his oldest brother worked on. Jack spent most of his work days doing business in and around Cushing. He and his wife Carolyn were very proud to raise all 5 of their children in Perkins and to have them graduate from Perkins High School.
Jack and Carolyn eventually moved to Ruidoso, NM where they ran an Exxon Service Station from 1988 until December 1991. They then moved to Idaho where Jack was a member of Plumbers & Pipefitters U.A. Local 648, Pocatello, Idaho. In 2000 Jack and Carolyn moved to Flint Ridge, OK before moving to Cushing in 2007.
Survivors include his wife Carolyn of nearly 59 years; five children, Donnie Hoover and his wife Pam of Cushing, Mike Hoover and his wife Carol of Blackfoot, Idaho, Linda K. Brower and her husband Paul of Tahlequah, OK, John Scott Hoover and his wife Gayle of Blackfoot, Idaho, and Joe matt Hoover and his wife Jeanne of Blackfoot, Idaho; one brother, Walter Hoover, Jr. and his wife Erma J. of Drumright, OK; one sister, June Wilson of Harrah, OK, one brother-in-law, Herman Robbins of Mid West City, OK; 18 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives and friends.
In addition to his parents, Jack was preceded in death by one sister, Betty Lee Robbins and two brothers, Charlie Hoover and John Hoover.
The Hoover family requests that in lieu of flowers that memorial contributions be made to the Cancer Treatment Centers of America, 10109 East 79th Street, Tulsa, OK 74133, in Jack’s name.
Condolences and an online guestbook are available at www.palmermarlerfh.com.
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