VIRGINIA L. HOOVER

VIRGINIA L. HOOVER

LIBERAL-Services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Hannon Free Will Baptist Church in Liberal for Virginia L. (Rice) Hoover, 91, Liberal, who died Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2016. Robert Nutting will officiate, with Wes Ryder as co-celebrant. Burial will be in Barton City Cemetery.

Visitation will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, at the church.

Arrangements are under the direction of Konantz Warden Funeral Home, Lamar.

Condolences may be made online at www.konantzwarden.com.

Survivors include her husband, Clifford Hoover; three children, Linda Rae Rose, Lansing, Mich., Elaine Kay McAdams, Lamar and Edward Leon Neuenschwander, Diamond; two grandchildren, Juli Anna Tanner and husband Glenn, Millmont, PA and Joshua Isaac McAdams and Megan Clements, Fort Worth, Texas and four great-grandchildren, Aurora and Dominick Tanner and James and Abrianna McAdams.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Eugene and Clyde Rose; a sister, June Harkey; her husband, Eugene Neuenschwander and a daughter, Anna Marie Bowerman and husband Dale.

Mrs. Hoover was born Oct. 16, 1924, in Ontario, Calif., to Edward and Jessie (Peterson) Rose. During World War II she worked as a welder in a Portland, Ore. shipyard. After the war ended she met Eugene “Gene” Leon Neuenschwander, who was working as a logger in the northwest woods, after being discharged from the Navy. They married on Dec. 8, 1949, and soon after moved to his home state of Missouri. He died in 1971. She then married Clifford Hoover on Dec. 30, 1972.

She loved to nurture growing, living things and had a special interest in birds, animals and gardening. She worked with the women's group at Hannon Free Will Baptist Church and helped raise funds for missionaries and sending children to church camp. She also participated actively in the Shiloh Club, a women's social group for neighbors in the Shiloh School area. Activities with her grandchildren were a special source of joy for her.