Lorraine (Kittleson) Hoover

Lorraine (Kittleson) Hoover

 

 

Lorraine (Kittleson) Hoover Star Valley Ranch, Wyo., formerly of Clermont, died early on the morning of Oct. 12, 2017. 

She was cremated, and her ashes will be buried in the Thayne, Wyo., cemetery on June 30, 2018.

Lorraine Alice Hoover was born June 30, 1932 in her family’s farmhouse in Clermont, Iowa. Her family included four siblings and parents Clifford and Alice Kittleson. 

Lorraine was a force to be reckoned with at her little high school in Clermont. A talented basketball player and straight A student, she was beautiful and popular. 

After she graduated from Clermont High School in 1949, she attended Luther College in Decorah, where she got her teaching degree. 

Never one to be afraid of hard work, Lorraine spent her summers working jobs that ranged from running the exchange in the telephone office to pulling burrs out of peas on a conveyor belt in a cannery.  

In 1954 Lorraine went West to California to teach at a religious school in North Hollywood. That is where she met and married Donald Hoover in 1955. Eventually they settled in Santa Paula, Calif., where they raised their family.  

Lorraine taught at Isbell Junior High School for 20 years and retired to Star Valley Ranch, Wyo., in 1988.  She enjoyed her time in Star Valley very much, golfing with friends, bird watching and in general rejoicing in life.  

When Don become ill she cared for him until his death in 1996.  

Lorraine was preceded in death by her parents, Clifford and Alice Kittleson; her husband, Don; and her brothers Dean and Howard.  

She is survived by one brother, Gerald Kittleson; and her sister; Carolyn Ellinghysen; her children, John, Karin, James, and Kristin; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.  44u44

 

 

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