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Submitted: 1/9/14 • Approved: 1/15/14 • Last Updated: 4/23/18 • R29927-G29926-S3
Born: March 1, 1915 @ Edna, Kansas; Died: December 28, 1999 @ Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Zora is the daughter of James Arthur Hobson and Elsie Ada (McKee) Hobson Nace.
Excerpt taken from The Edna Sun, Thursday, January 6, 2000:
Mrs. Zoa LaVerne Hoff Grace, age 84, formerly of Edna, died Tuesday, Dec. 28, 1999 at a hospital in Oklahoma City, Okla.
She was born March 17, 1915, in Edna. She and twin sister, Lora Ethel, were the daughters of James Arthur and Elsie Ada (McKee) Hobson.
She and Orville Mac Walton of Coffeyville were married Sept. 5, 1927. They later divorced. Orville died March 7, 1942.
She and Richard Maurice Hoff were married on November 19, 1941. They owned and operated the Dick Hoff Formal Wear Shop in Oklahoma City, Okla., for 30 years. He preceded her in death on December 4, 1983.
She and George Albert Grace were married on July 23, 1986. He preceded her in death on September 26, 1997.
Also preceding her in death was a sister, Lora, who died November 27, 1981 in San Leon, Galveston City, Tex.
Survivors include two sons, Lawrence Roland Walton and wife, Mary Ann of Columbus, Ill, and Richard M. Hoff, Jr. and wife Marian of Dallas, Tex; three daughters, Mary Michael Wade and husband Donald and Patricia Lynn Lisenbarth and husband Charles, all of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Debra Jan Shockey and husband Ronald of Grand Rapids, Mich.; 15 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren; and first cousin, Leona Mae (McKee) Cary of Edna.
Services were held Friday, Dec. 31, 1999 at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church with interment following at Resurrection Memorial Cemetery in Oklahoma City.
Contributed on 1/9/14 by megskye
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