Hoover, Herbert C. (1874-1964)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 Oct 22 p. 3

Birth date: 1874 Aug 10

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Hoover To be Buried At Birthplace in Iowa

Herbert C. Hoover, 31st president of the United States, who died in New York Oct. 20 at the age of 90, will be buried on the site of a small cottage where he was born in West Branch, Iowa, in 1874.

En route to Iowa, the body was to be taken to Washington for a service in the rotunda of the Capitol, where the late John F. Kennedy received funeral honors only 11 months ago.

Hoover, who was called by President Johnson ”a humanitarian citizen of all mankind,” had been in ill health for over a year. With him when he died were his two sons, Herbert Jr. and Allan Henry. He had been a Quaker by birth but in later years joined the Protestant Episcopal Church.

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Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1964 Oct 29 p. 1

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Ex-President Hoover Buried At Birthplace in Iowa

An estimated 75,000 to 80,000 persons turned out to give a last farewell to Ex-president Herbert C. Hoover as he was laid to his final earthly resting place Sunday in the country town of West Branch, Iowa.

The burial site was on a hilltop overlooking the two-room cabin where he was born 90 years ago.

Dr. Elton Trueblood, prominent leader in the Quaker church, of which Hoover was a member, conducted the funeral service.

The body had been brought from Washington, D. C., where it lay in state under the Capitol dome through Friday and Saturday. Among the dignitaries paying tribute to him there were both presidential candidates, Lyndon B. Johnson and Barry Goldwater.

Hoover, 31st president of the United States, was chief executive during a time when thee nation experienced the greatest depression in its history. Bitterly assailed and criticized then, he lived long enough to become the country's most beloved and esteemed elder statesman.