Leah (Hoover) McDorman
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Title
Leah (Hoover) McDorman
Subject
McDorman, Leah Thelma Hoover (1920-1958)
Description
Two separate portrait photographs of Leah (Hoover) McDorman with short, curled hair and wearing a polka-dotted dress.
Leah was the daughter of Charles Monroe and Mary Belle (Richard) Hoover.
She lived in Strasburg when she married Kenneth Austin Shillingburg in 1939. That marriage did not last.
Leah's second husband was a younger man, Stephen Charles White, born in 1928 in Rover, Missouri. She still lived in Strasburg but married him in Winchester in 1953. At the time, she was a beautician and he was a truck driver. That marriage also did not last.
Leah's third husband was Charles H. McDorman, originally from Hinton, Virginia. The couple applied for a marriage license in February 1956 in Anchorage, Alaska, according to a notice in the Anchorage Daily News.
Two years later, in February 1958, Leah was in a car driven by her husband when it hit a guard rail at the M.P. Post of Fort Richardson, (which, at the time, was a U.S. Army base adjacent to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage), and overturned, killing her instantly.
Leah was the daughter of Charles Monroe and Mary Belle (Richard) Hoover.
She lived in Strasburg when she married Kenneth Austin Shillingburg in 1939. That marriage did not last.
Leah's second husband was a younger man, Stephen Charles White, born in 1928 in Rover, Missouri. She still lived in Strasburg but married him in Winchester in 1953. At the time, she was a beautician and he was a truck driver. That marriage also did not last.
Leah's third husband was Charles H. McDorman, originally from Hinton, Virginia. The couple applied for a marriage license in February 1956 in Anchorage, Alaska, according to a notice in the Anchorage Daily News.
Two years later, in February 1958, Leah was in a car driven by her husband when it hit a guard rail at the M.P. Post of Fort Richardson, (which, at the time, was a U.S. Army base adjacent to Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage), and overturned, killing her instantly.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Labelled "Oct 1939" on box of plates.
Contributor
Identified in 2006 by Eva Mae Pifer, who remembered she was killed in Anchorage, Alaska.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Identifier
011654
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “Leah (Hoover) McDorman,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed April 3, 2025, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/39096.
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