From Rick:

"The South Bend Tribune", Thursday Evening, June 10, 1954

Raymond Allen Hoover.

     Raymond Allen Hoover, a South Bend resident for about 30 years, died last Thursday in Portland, Ore., where he was employed as a Union-Pacific Railroad fireman.  He formerly worked for the old Northern Indiana Railway.  Mr. Hoover was born Nov. 1, 1896, in Greensburg, Ind.  He leaves his widow, the former Miss Lillian Pierson; two sons, Harry, Elkhart, Ind., and Eugene, of Edwardsburg, Mich.; four grandchildren; his mother, Mrs. Myrtie Fields Hoover; a brother, Theodore A., and a half-brother, Claude, both of Edwardsburg.  Mr. Hoover was a member of the South Bend Gospel Tabernacle.  Funeral services were held Monday in the Walley Funeral Home, Elkhart.  Burial was in Union Center Cemetery, Elkhart County.