Obtained obituary on 29 April 2009 from Manning-Wheatly Funeral Home, Pocatello Idaho. It reads as follows:
Evan Elliot "Shorty" Hocking, 78, of 712 East Poplar, Pocatello, Idaho, passed away Monday afternoon, March 13, 1995, at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, following an extended illness.
He was born March 15, 1916 at Grays Lake, Idaho, the son of Richard Henry and Hattie Adelia Beauregard Hocking.
When Shorty was a young boy, his family moved to Pocatello where he attended schools and graduated from Pocatello High School.
On February 7, 1942 he married O'Dean Leatha Loveland in Pocatello.
During World War II, Shorty served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic in the Burma-China conflict.
Shorty was a mechanical engineer for the Bannock Hotel for over twenty years. He worked as a purchasing agent for Billmyers Automotive Store for about two years and then was a custodian at St. Anthony School for over twenty years, retiring in 1990.
He was a Christian and believed in doing good deeds for his fellowman. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
His favorite hobby was fishing and he enjoyed singing with a barber shop chorus. He liked all sports, especially football and baseball and he bowled for several years.
Survivors include his wife, O'Dean Hocking, Pocatello; two sons, Elliot Farrell Hocking, Pocatello; Kay Lynn Hocking, Orofino, Idaho; two daughters and their husbands: Leatha "Mickey" and Neil Madsen, Pocatello: Shirley and Daryl Sleight, Paris, Idaho; a brother, Richard Hocking, San Jacinto, California; three sisters, Ada Yowell Caskey, Mackay, Idaho; Bonnie Dudley, Seattle Washington, Ruby Clark, South Bend, Washington; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services were conducted at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, March 16, 1995, at Manning-Wheatly Funeral Chapel, 510 North Twelfth Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho. Bishop Hayden Lambson of the Alameda L.D.S. Fourth Ward officiating.
Interment was in Mountainview Cemetery in Pocatello with military graveside rites by the Combined Veteran Group of Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 735, American Legion Post 4 and Disabled American Veterans Chapter 3.
"Fisherman's Prayer"
God grant that I may live to fish
Until my dying day,
And when it comes to my last cast,
I then most humbly pray,
When in the Lord's safe landing net
I'm peacefully asleep,
That in His mercy I be judged
As big enough to keep.
Author unknown
Evan Elliot "Shorty" Hocking, 78, of 712 East Poplar, Pocatello, Idaho, passed away Monday afternoon, March 13, 1995, at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, following an extended illness.
He was born March 15, 1916 at Grays Lake, Idaho, the son of Richard Henry and Hattie Adelia Beauregard Hocking.
When Shorty was a young boy, his family moved to Pocatello where he attended schools and graduated from Pocatello High School.
On February 7, 1942 he married O'Dean Leatha Loveland in Pocatello.
During World War II, Shorty served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic in the Burma-China conflict.
Shorty was a mechanical engineer for the Bannock Hotel for over twenty years. He worked as a purchasing agent for Billmyers Automotive Store for about two years and then was a custodian at St. Anthony School for over twenty years, retiring in 1990.
He was a Christian and believed in doing good deeds for his fellowman. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
His favorite hobby was fishing and he enjoyed singing with a barber shop chorus. He liked all sports, especially football and baseball and he bowled for several years.
Survivors include his wife, O'Dean Hocking, Pocatello; two sons, Elliot Farrell Hocking, Pocatello; Kay Lynn Hocking, Orofino, Idaho; two daughters and their husbands: Leatha "Mickey" and Neil Madsen, Pocatello: Shirley and Daryl Sleight, Paris, Idaho; a brother, Richard Hocking, San Jacinto, California; three sisters, Ada Yowell Caskey, Mackay, Idaho; Bonnie Dudley, Seattle Washington, Ruby Clark, South Bend, Washington; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services were conducted at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, March 16, 1995, at Manning-Wheatly Funeral Chapel, 510 North Twelfth Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho. Bishop Hayden Lambson of the Alameda L.D.S. Fourth Ward officiating.
Interment was in Mountainview Cemetery in Pocatello with military graveside rites by the Combined Veteran Group of Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 735, American Legion Post 4 and Disabled American Veterans Chapter 3.
"Fisherman's Prayer"
God grant that I may live to fish
Until my dying day,
And when it comes to my last cast,
I then most humbly pray,
When in the Lord's safe landing net
I'm peacefully asleep,
That in His mercy I be judged
As big enough to keep.
Author unknown
Obtained obituary on 29 April 2009 from Manning-Wheatly Funeral Home, Pocatello Idaho. It reads as follows:
Evan Elliot "Shorty" Hocking, 78, of 712 East Poplar, Pocatello, Idaho, passed away Monday afternoon, March 13, 1995, at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, following an extended illness.
He was born March 15, 1916 at Grays Lake, Idaho, the son of Richard Henry and Hattie Adelia Beauregard Hocking.
When Shorty was a young boy, his family moved to Pocatello where he attended schools and graduated from Pocatello High School.
On February 7, 1942 he married O'Dean Leatha Loveland in Pocatello.
During World War II, Shorty served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic in the Burma-China conflict.
Shorty was a mechanical engineer for the Bannock Hotel for over twenty years. He worked as a purchasing agent for Billmyers Automotive Store for about two years and then was a custodian at St. Anthony School for over twenty years, retiring in 1990.
He was a Christian and believed in doing good deeds for his fellowman. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
His favorite hobby was fishing and he enjoyed singing with a barber shop chorus. He liked all sports, especially football and baseball and he bowled for several years.
Survivors include his wife, O'Dean Hocking, Pocatello; two sons, Elliot Farrell Hocking, Pocatello; Kay Lynn Hocking, Orofino, Idaho; two daughters and their husbands: Leatha "Mickey" and Neil Madsen, Pocatello: Shirley and Daryl Sleight, Paris, Idaho; a brother, Richard Hocking, San Jacinto, California; three sisters, Ada Yowell Caskey, Mackay, Idaho; Bonnie Dudley, Seattle Washington, Ruby Clark, South Bend, Washington; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services were conducted at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, March 16, 1995, at Manning-Wheatly Funeral Chapel, 510 North Twelfth Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho. Bishop Hayden Lambson of the Alameda L.D.S. Fourth Ward officiating.
Interment was in Mountainview Cemetery in Pocatello with military graveside rites by the Combined Veteran Group of Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 735, American Legion Post 4 and Disabled American Veterans Chapter 3.
"Fisherman's Prayer"
God grant that I may live to fish
Until my dying day,
And when it comes to my last cast,
I then most humbly pray,
When in the Lord's safe landing net
I'm peacefully asleep,
That in His mercy I be judged
As big enough to keep.
Author unknown
Evan Elliot "Shorty" Hocking, 78, of 712 East Poplar, Pocatello, Idaho, passed away Monday afternoon, March 13, 1995, at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, following an extended illness.
He was born March 15, 1916 at Grays Lake, Idaho, the son of Richard Henry and Hattie Adelia Beauregard Hocking.
When Shorty was a young boy, his family moved to Pocatello where he attended schools and graduated from Pocatello High School.
On February 7, 1942 he married O'Dean Leatha Loveland in Pocatello.
During World War II, Shorty served with the U.S. Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic in the Burma-China conflict.
Shorty was a mechanical engineer for the Bannock Hotel for over twenty years. He worked as a purchasing agent for Billmyers Automotive Store for about two years and then was a custodian at St. Anthony School for over twenty years, retiring in 1990.
He was a Christian and believed in doing good deeds for his fellowman. He was also a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
His favorite hobby was fishing and he enjoyed singing with a barber shop chorus. He liked all sports, especially football and baseball and he bowled for several years.
Survivors include his wife, O'Dean Hocking, Pocatello; two sons, Elliot Farrell Hocking, Pocatello; Kay Lynn Hocking, Orofino, Idaho; two daughters and their husbands: Leatha "Mickey" and Neil Madsen, Pocatello: Shirley and Daryl Sleight, Paris, Idaho; a brother, Richard Hocking, San Jacinto, California; three sisters, Ada Yowell Caskey, Mackay, Idaho; Bonnie Dudley, Seattle Washington, Ruby Clark, South Bend, Washington; nine grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and two sisters.
Funeral services were conducted at 1:00 p.m., Thursday, March 16, 1995, at Manning-Wheatly Funeral Chapel, 510 North Twelfth Avenue, Pocatello, Idaho. Bishop Hayden Lambson of the Alameda L.D.S. Fourth Ward officiating.
Interment was in Mountainview Cemetery in Pocatello with military graveside rites by the Combined Veteran Group of Veteran of Foreign Wars Post 735, American Legion Post 4 and Disabled American Veterans Chapter 3.
"Fisherman's Prayer"
God grant that I may live to fish
Until my dying day,
And when it comes to my last cast,
I then most humbly pray,
When in the Lord's safe landing net
I'm peacefully asleep,
That in His mercy I be judged
As big enough to keep.
Author unknown
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