LARUE S. HOYT - Obituary

LaRue S. Hoyt Obituary

Contributed by Bonnie Ryan

The Review

CHESTER – LaRue S. Hoyt, 92, of Chester, passed away at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, 2007, at the Fox Nursing Home, following a lengthy illness.

Born in Steubenville, on June 9, 1915, she was the daughter of the late Norman F. Snowden and Iona Clever Snowden. She had lived in the area all her life.

A 1931 graduate of Wells High School, she was also a graduate of the Ohio Valley Business College.

She worked at Homer Laughlin China for seven years, quitting to raise her family, and then spent nine years at Ross TV as a secretary.

She was a member of the Westminister Presbyterian Church in Chester where she was active in their C.O.L.T. S. organization. She was also a member of the Beaver Local Homemakers Club and the Hancock County C.E.O.S., where she was the oldest living member in West Virginia with 75 years of membership.

Survivors in clued three daughters, Sarah Jane Watson and her husband Gary of Tulsa, Okla., Norma Landis and her husband Warren of Baltimore, Ohio, and Pauline LaScola and her husband James, of Chester.

There are five granddaughters, two grandsons, and seven great-grandchildren that also survive.
She was preceded in death by her husband Dale E. Sr.,; one son, Dale E. Jr.; and two sisters, Norma Siegle and Vesta Treskey.

Friends may call at the Dawson Funeral Home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Sunday. Services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 1, 2007, at the funeral home with Rev. Katrina Lewis of the Westminister Presbyterian Church officiating. Burial will follow at Locust Hill Cemetery.