The News-Sentinel 1959 - Fulton County Public Library

Wednesday, June 24, 1959
Pearl V. Manning
Funeral rites will be Friday at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home for Mrs.
Pearl Vivian MANNING, 80, former Rochester resident, who died Tuesday at 7 a.m. in Buchanan,
Mich.
The Rev. C. A. UNDERWOOD will officiate at the rites and burial will be in the
I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends may call at the funeral home after 5 p.m. Thursday.
Mrs. Manning was born April 22, 1879, at Sidell, Ill., the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Charles MITCHELL. She was married in 1898 to Luther MANNING, who preceded her in death.
The Mannings formerly lived in the house south of the Methodist church which now is used as a
church annex.
Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. Harold HEETER, Buchanan, Mich.
Ralph L. Moonshower
Ralph L. MOONSHOWER, Huntington, brother-in-law of Mrs. Lou MOONSHOWER
of Rochester, died in the Huntington hospital Tuesday. He was a retired conductor for the Erie
Railroad.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday in the Robbins funeral home at Huntington and
burial will be in the Rochester I.O.O.F. cemetery.
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Thursday, June 25, 1959
Friday, June 26, 1959
John B. Hoover
John B. HOOVER, 74, retired Rochester restaurant owner, died this morning at 5 o’clock
in Woodlawn hospital, where he had been a patient since Thursday. He had been residing in
Mishawaka with his son, Harold HOOVER, since Nov. 1, 1958, and had been in ill health since
Aug. 15, 1958.
Born Mrch 6, 1885, near Mt. Zion, Mr. Hoover was the son of Frank P. and Elizabeth
OSTRANDER HOOVER. He had resided his entire life in this community. Mr. Hoover spent 42
years in the restaurant business, operating Hoover’s Cafe at 802 Main steet, where Seaborad
Finance now is located, and then Peoples Cafe at 707 Main street. He sold the latter and retired in
December, 1955.
He was a member of the Rochester I.O.O.F. lodge.
Surviving are two sons, Harold, Mishawaka, and Richard [HOOVER], Rochester; two
brothers, Don C. HOOVER, Rochester, and Ernest HOOVER, South Bend; one grandchild and
several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home with
the Rev. George R. CRANE officiating. Burial will be in the I.O.O.F. cemetery here. Friends
may call at the funeral home after 7 p.m. today.