Submitted by: Nadine Hardin

Name:  Hooten, Donald W.

Indiana South Bend Tribune, Obituaries, Monday, November 2, 1970.

"D. W. Hooten, Nominee For Liberty Twp. JP, Dies"

Donald W. Hooton, 48, of 65493 Liberty Hwy., North Liberty, the Republican nominee for Liberty Twp. justice of the peace, was dead on arrival at 12:10 a.m. Sunday at Memorial Hospital after suffering a heart attack in his home.

Hooten, a North Liberty police officer, also served as a plant protection officer for the Bendix Corp., where he had been employed 21 years.

Hooton's name will remain on the ballot for Tuesday's election and if he receives the most votes, the Republican Party will choose the person to fill the office.

Funeral services have been scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday in the North Liberty Church of Christ with Rev. Toni Jones, pastor, officiating.  Burial will be in the Olive Chapel Cemetery, New Carlisle.  Friends may call at the A.M. Manuael Funeral Home, North Liberty, from 7 to 9 p.m. today and from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday.

Hooten served as a St. Joseph County deputy sheriff for several years just after World War II.

“New Carlisle Native”

Hooton was born Feb. 18, 1922, in New Carlisle and had lived in the North Liberty area 13 years.

On April 2, 1942, he married Marie Rynearson, who survives, along with three sons, Douglas L. and Dennis L., both at home, and Thomas A., serving the U.S. Navy on Okinawa; a daughter, Mrs. Jerry Mills, of South Bend; two grandsons; four brothers, Fay and John, both of New Carlisle, and William Robert of Macon, Mo., and Warren of Zionsville, Ind.; and four sisters, Mrs. Ralph Tuttle of South Bend, Mrs. John Belsaas of New Carlisle, Mrs. Harold Hansell of Centreville, Mich., and Mrs. Lawrence Anderson of Chicago.

Hooton was a veteran of World War II, a member of the Disabled American Veterans, the United Plant Guard Workers and the St. Joseph Valley Was Cutters Pistol Team.