HOOPINGARNER, Joe C.
Source: Unknown newspaper – from a collection of Claudine
Sowers Yerkes passed along to me (kbz) by Betty Dotson – thanks girls !
Rockville – Joe C. Hoopingarner, 50, postmaster here died
Tuesday afternoon in Union Hospital, Terre Haute where he was taken following a
stroke Thursday. Mr. Hoopingarner was appointed postmaster under President
Franklin Roosevelt to succeed Frank B. Harding. He was a veteran of WWI. Surviving are the widow; two daughters, Jean
and Lyndall; three brothers, Stanley and Ray Hoopingarner, Rockville and Perry Hoopingarner
of near Brazil and a sister, Mrs. Ora Alexander, Judson.