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- January 1952 Obit - New Mexico
Funeral services for Horace Hooker, pioneer resident of the Gila area, who died Sunday at Las Vegas, N.M., were held Wednesday afternoon at the Mesa Cemetery at Gila. The Rev. Rhea Kuykendall officiated. Cox Mortuary was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Hooker, 84 years of age at the time of death, was born at Red Bluff, Calif., June 1, 1867. He came to Grant County with his parents at the age of nine, arriving in Silver City Jan. 1, 1887, As a young man, he entered the cattle businessand was an active member of the HW Cattle Co., Inc. in which the late John L. and Eben Burnside and the Hooker family were the stockholders. In 1936, he retired to his home on the Gila and hissons carried on the cattle business. His residence in the Gila area was for a period of 75 years. In 1892, Mr. Hooker married Cassie A. Cooley whose death occurred in 1914. There were eight children born to the union. In 1930, he was married to Mrs. LeotaCole of Gila. Survivors are his widow; five sons, Frank and Joe of Gila, Denton of Santa Rita and Jack and Bob of Silver City; onedaughter, Mrs. Margaret Kirkland, San Antonio, Tex., and one stepdaughter, Mrs. Alice Lobstein of Silver City. Also two sisters, Mrs. Harry Burgess of Silver City and Mrs. T. J. Shelley of Cliff. Seventeen grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren alsosurvive.
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1867 - 1952 (84 years)
