Dora was born to Daniel & Louisa Bolch Hoover on Sept. 14, 1873 in the Fairgrove community of Catawba County, North Carolina. She was the sixteenth child of Daniel and the eighth of nine children born to Louisa. As a young woman, she taught school for several years in and around the area where she grew up.
Dora's desire was to become a missionary. She attended Rutherford College and applied for work as a foreign missionary in the Methodist church; she was rejected because of a heart condition. After being turned down for foreign work, she was accepted as a deaconess in the Methodist church home missions and served for around forty years in the south and midwest.
After she retired, she made her home in Monte Ne, Arkansas. She died there on July 10, 1952 and is interred at Rogers Cemetery, in Rogers, Arkansas.
At the time of her death, she was survived by two siblings: brother, Daniel was living in Montague, Texas, and her youngest sister, Laura, resided in Maiden, North Carolina.
Although she never married and had no direct descendants, she had an abundance of nieces and nephews as well as one foster son, Claude Frady, to carry on her memory. Most assuredly you could say she had a selfless life that was well-lived.
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Dora's desire was to become a missionary. She attended Rutherford College and applied for work as a foreign missionary in the Methodist church; she was rejected because of a heart condition. After being turned down for foreign work, she was accepted as a deaconess in the Methodist church home missions and served for around forty years in the south and midwest.
After she retired, she made her home in Monte Ne, Arkansas. She died there on July 10, 1952 and is interred at Rogers Cemetery, in Rogers, Arkansas.
At the time of her death, she was survived by two siblings: brother, Daniel was living in Montague, Texas, and her youngest sister, Laura, resided in Maiden, North Carolina.
Although she never married and had no direct descendants, she had an abundance of nieces and nephews as well as one foster son, Claude Frady, to carry on her memory. Most assuredly you could say she had a selfless life that was well-lived.
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Dora was born to Daniel & Louisa Bolch Hoover on Sept. 14, 1873 in the Fairgrove community of Catawba County, North Carolina. She was the sixteenth child of Daniel and the eighth of nine children born to Louisa. As a young woman, she taught school for several years in and around the area where she grew up.
Dora's desire was to become a missionary. She attended Rutherford College and applied for work as a foreign missionary in the Methodist church; she was rejected because of a heart condition. After being turned down for foreign work, she was accepted as a deaconess in the Methodist church home missions and served for around forty years in the south and midwest.
After she retired, she made her home in Monte Ne, Arkansas. She died there on July 10, 1952 and is interred at Rogers Cemetery, in Rogers, Arkansas.
At the time of her death, she was survived by two siblings: brother, Daniel was living in Montague, Texas, and her youngest sister, Laura, resided in Maiden, North Carolina.
Although she never married and had no direct descendants, she had an abundance of nieces and nephews as well as one foster son, Claude Frady, to carry on her memory. Most assuredly you could say she had a selfless life that was well-lived.
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Dora's desire was to become a missionary. She attended Rutherford College and applied for work as a foreign missionary in the Methodist church; she was rejected because of a heart condition. After being turned down for foreign work, she was accepted as a deaconess in the Methodist church home missions and served for around forty years in the south and midwest.
After she retired, she made her home in Monte Ne, Arkansas. She died there on July 10, 1952 and is interred at Rogers Cemetery, in Rogers, Arkansas.
At the time of her death, she was survived by two siblings: brother, Daniel was living in Montague, Texas, and her youngest sister, Laura, resided in Maiden, North Carolina.
Although she never married and had no direct descendants, she had an abundance of nieces and nephews as well as one foster son, Claude Frady, to carry on her memory. Most assuredly you could say she had a selfless life that was well-lived.
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