South Bend Tribune
November 2, 1953
 
GAS FILLED HOTEL ROOM YIELDS BODIES
 
Jury Asks Autopsies On Orval, Maizie Hoover
 
 A coroner’s jury in Venice, Fla., today is investigating the week-end deaths of two South Bend residents, Orval Hoover, and his wife, Maizie, whose bodies were found Sunday night in a gas-filled cottage at the Tarpon Center Motel in Venice. They had been on vacation there for two weeks.
 When they were not seen Sunday, George Gibbs, the motel owner broke into the cottage and found the couple dead and the room filled with fumes from a space heater. It was estimated the two had been dead about 24 hours. Gibbs told authorities that Hoover had recently suffered a nerves breakdown and had taken the Florida vacation for his health.
 W.M. Smiley, state attorney, who investigated the deaths, declared them to be the result of accidental asphyxiation, but a coroner’s jury was not convinced they were accidental and asked an autopsy. Until noon today Smiley had not agreed to the autopsy.
 Studebaker Employe
 Mr. Hoover was employed here as assistant to the general store-keeper at the Studebaker Corp. He was born in Mt. Pleasant Mills, Pa., April 11, 1904, and came here in 1916. He married Miss Maizie Carlton in South Bend in 1926. Surviving are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don C Hoover, South Bend.
 Mrs. Hoover was born in South Bend Jan. 15, 1902, and had lived all her life here. She leaves four brothers, Clarence and Glen Carlton of South Bend, Earl Carlton, of Farmington, Mo., and Harry Carlton, of Akron, Ind. Mr. Hoover was a member of Portage Lodge 675, F. & A.M., and the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, Valley of South Bend. Mrs. Hoover was a member of the Studebaker Mary Ann club.
 The bodies will be taken to the Orvis Funeral Home, but funeral arrangements are incomplete, pending the outcome in Venice.
 
  *Note: Mazie is the daughter of Richard & Ella E Brown Carlton
 
 The South Bend Tribune-Undertaker's Memorandum
 Remains viewed after 4 pm Friday at Orivs Funeral Home
 Funeral-2 pm Saturday, Nov. 7, 1953
 Rev. P.E. Young
 Burial, Highland