Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Harriett J. Hoover

Sept. 25, 1917 - Dec. 24, 1996

 

South Bend Tribune 12/27/1996

Harriett J. Hoover, 79, of Magician Lake, Dowagiac, died in her home, Tuesday, Dec. 24. Mrs. Hoover was born Sept. 25, 1917, in South Bend and had lived in Dowagiac for 49 years.

 

On July 16, 1938, in South Bend, as Harriett J. Kazmierzak, she married Waldo Hoover, who survives. Also surviving are two brothers, Mitchell Kazmierzak of South Bend and Clem Kazmierzak of Ukiah, Calif.; and a brother-in-law, George Hoover of South Bend.

 

Mrs. Hoover was a licensed beautician in both Indiana and Michigan and the owner of the former Charm Beauty Salon in South Bend. She was also a member of several bowling leagues.

 

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Kaniewski Funeral Home Chapel, 3545 N. Bendix Drive, South Bend. Entombment will follow in Riverview Cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today in the Kaniewski Funeral Home, where a rosary will be said at 4 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the Visiting Nurse Association of Southwest Michigan Hospice Program, 348 N. Burdick St., Kalamazoo, MI 49007.