Floyd "Frog" Hoover
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Dublin Core
Title
Floyd "Frog" Hoover
Subject
Hoover, Floyd "Frog" (1926-1996)
Description
Portrait of Floyd "Frog" Hoover as a young man wearing a tie. He was a lifelong Shenandoah County resident from rural Woodstock.
Floyd was the youngest of four children born to Jacob Otis and Nellie Catherine (Miller) Hoover, a farming family from the Woodstock area. In the 1930 and 1940 censuses for the Stonewall District, Floyd and his family lived with his maternal grandparents on their farm.
When he registered for the WWII draft, he was described as being 5’7” tall and 136 pounds.
After his first year of high school, Floyd enlisted in the military as a Private and served from August 1944 to June 1946.
By 1950, Floyd’s grandparents were no longer living but his remaining family still lived at the farm. Floyd had a job as a shipping clerk in a coat factory.
He married Mary Alice “Snookie” (Wisman) (1927-2017) Hoover in 1951 in Woodstock. Her parents were Lester Lynn and Eltie (Richard) Wisman. She had attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia.
Over their many years together, the couple had a son, Gary H. Hoover, and a daughter, Marilyn (Hoover) Sollenberger. Both Floyd and his wife are buried in Woodstock.
Floyd was the youngest of four children born to Jacob Otis and Nellie Catherine (Miller) Hoover, a farming family from the Woodstock area. In the 1930 and 1940 censuses for the Stonewall District, Floyd and his family lived with his maternal grandparents on their farm.
When he registered for the WWII draft, he was described as being 5’7” tall and 136 pounds.
After his first year of high school, Floyd enlisted in the military as a Private and served from August 1944 to June 1946.
By 1950, Floyd’s grandparents were no longer living but his remaining family still lived at the farm. Floyd had a job as a shipping clerk in a coat factory.
He married Mary Alice “Snookie” (Wisman) (1927-2017) Hoover in 1951 in Woodstock. Her parents were Lester Lynn and Eltie (Richard) Wisman. She had attended high school in Alexandria, Virginia.
Over their many years together, the couple had a son, Gary H. Hoover, and a daughter, Marilyn (Hoover) Sollenberger. Both Floyd and his wife are buried in Woodstock.
Creator
Morrison Studio
Source
Morrison Studio Collection - Shenandoah County Historical Society
Publisher
Shenandoah County Library
Date
Labelled "Dec 1945" on box of plates.
Contributor
Identified by Phyllis Wright in 2005. Subject was her cousin.
Additional biographical information was compiled from public records.
Rights
IN COPYRIGHT - NON-COMMERCIAL USE PERMITTED
Identifier
011753
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
Glass Negative
Collection
Citation
Morrison Studio, “Floyd "Frog" Hoover,” Shenandoah County Library Archives, accessed November 21, 2024, https://archives.countylib.org/items/show/39426.
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