30 Mar., 1944 Enterprise

ROBERT A. HOOKS BURIED SUNDAY

Robert A. Hooks, one of the early settlers of the county, died of a stroke last Friday morning. He apparently had suffered a stroke some time Thursday morning but the neighbors had not known of it until Friday as he lived alone in a house near the Roscoe Cook home.

Deceased was born in Illinois and at his death was past 77 years of age. He and his widowed mother came to this county in 1872 and the mother purchased a 160-acre farm where the family grew up.

On April 8, 1891, he was married to Miss Eva Sutherland and to them, three children were born-one son, John, passing away some years ago, and two daughters, Mrs. Peter Hagge and Mrs. Hjalmer Quist, both of this county.

After his marriage he took over the home place and here his family was reared. He was a good farmer, and a good neighbor, noted for his honesty, he made a host of friends.

He gave up farming twenty years ago and moved to Blair where he bought a home and it was here the wife passed on and later where he died.

Besides the immediate family, he leaves one sister, Mrs. Robert Wilson of Blair, and one brother, Frank of St. Helena, California.

Funeral services were held Sunday at 4:00 P.M. from the Bendorf Funeral Home with Rev. H C. Jorgensen officiating and interment was made in the Blair cemetery.

(There were very few identifying dates in this article; however, the website Find-A-Grave listed 3/24/1944 as his date of death.)

See website Find-A-Grave, Memorial 72492390