Eugene Wilson Hooker

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CENSUS RECORDS

1920 United States Federal Census
Name: Eugene Hooker
Age: 5
Birth Year: abt 1915
Birthplace: Virginia
Home in 1920: New Garden, Russell, Virginia
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital Status: Single
Father's Name: Albert Hooker
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's name: Isabell Hooker
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia

1930 United States Federal Census
Name: Eugene Hooker
Gender: Male
Birth Year: abt 1915
Birthplace: West Virginia
Race: White
Home in 1930: Barkers Ridge, Wyoming, West Virginia
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Son
Father's Name: Albert L Hooker
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's name: Isabell Hooker
Mother's Birthplace: Virginia

1940 United States Federal Census
Name: E Wilson Hooker
Age: 25
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1915
Gender: Male
Race: White
Birthplace: West Virginia
Marital Status: Married
Relation to Head of House: Head
Home in 1940: Slab Fork, Raleigh, West Virginia
Street: Mc Alpin
Farm: No
Inferred Residence in 1935: Slab Fork, Raleigh, West Virginia
Residence in 1935: Same Place
Household Members:
E Wilson Hooker 25
Irene D Hooker 22
E W Hooker 2

OBITUARY

The Register-Herald, Beckley, West Virginia
October 26, 2008

COLCORD ? Eugene ?Gene? Wilson Hooker, 93, of Colcord, passed away Thursday, Oct. 24, 2008, at home.

Born on May 2, 1915, at McCalpen, he was the son of the late Albert Hooker and Isabell Hooker Brooks.

Gene was a member of Colcord Presbyterian Church. He served in the U.S. Army in Japan in the occupational Army after World War II and was honorably discharged in 1946. He was retired from the Pittson Coal Company of Kentucky where he was store manager. He enjoyed hunting and fishing.

Besides his parents, he was preceded in death by his first wife, Irene Deck Hooker, and a brother, Kyle Hooker.

Those left to cherish his memory include his wife of 23 years, Lillian Lowe Hooker of Colcord; two sons, Lee Hooker of Florida and Eugene ?Bill? Hooker and Darlene of the state of Washington; a sister, Mae Cross of Florida; a granddaughter, Elizabeth Dunn and husband, Randy, of California; a grandson, Brian Hooker and wife, Marsha, of the state of Washington; a great-grandson, Steven Hooker of the state of Washington; nephew, Wayne Mann and wife, Marilyn, of Florida, and their children, Jeff and Cami; nephew, Mark Hooker and wife, Trish, of Birch River, and their son, Mark; four nieces, Kaline, Pamela, Gail, and Hollie; stepson, Jerry Lowe and wife, Dreama, and stepgranddaughter, Bellamee of Mount Hope; stepgreat-grandson, Michael Lowe and wife, Nancy, and family of Mount Hope; stepdaughter, Nancy Bryant and husband, John Richard, of Mount Hope; stepgranddaughters, Stephanie Phillips and husband, Charles ?Doobie? Phillips, and family of Beaver, Debbie and Daniel Franklin and family of Fayetteville, and Kristie and Mike Fox and family of Oak Hill; and a stepsister, Thelma ?Shay? Pettry and husband, Okey ?Roochie,? and family.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008, at Blue Ridge Funeral Home, Beckley, with David Pettry C.L.P. officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley. Military rites to be conducted by the Oak Hill VFW Post 3110.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.blueridgefuneralhome.com.

Arrangements by Blue Ridge Funeral Home, 5251 Robert C. Byrd Drive, Beckley.

Died:
Social Security Death Index
Name: Eugene W. Hooker
Last Residence: 25048 Colcord, Raleigh, West Virginia
Born: 2 May 1915
Last Benefit: 25048 Colcord, Raleigh, West Virginia
Died: 24 Oct 2008
State (Year) SSN issued: West Virginia (Before 1951)

Eugene married Irene Deck. [Group Sheet]

Eugene married Lillian Lowe. [Group Sheet]