United States High School Yearbooks by County
HOCKING
Laurel Ann "Lorre" Hocking
Laurel "Lorre" Ann Hocking of Sacramento died at Lake Tahoe on Sunday, Dec. 4, 2005 at age 45.
Mrs. Hocking was born July 19, 1960 in Long Beach. She had been a Yolo County resident for 10 years. She graduated from Jordan High School in Los Angeles and was a homemaker.
Survivors include Mrs. Hocking husband of five years, Steven Hocking of Sacramento; her daughter, Kiley Baker of Woodland; her son, Ryan Smith of Sacramento; her grandchildren, Kayden Smith, Justin Baker and Tristen Baker; and her sisters, Theresa Mc Gillbery of Sacramento and Virginia Marquez of Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wilbert and Phyllis Hildebrand.
The family requests memorials in Mrs. Hocking name be directed to The American Cancer Society, 1765 Challenge Way, Suite 115, Sacramento, 95815.
Services: A memorial service is scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 13 at North Sacramento Funeral Home, 725 El Camino Ave., Sacramento. A reception will follow the service at Metro Marina in Sacramento. Cremains will be returned to the family. North Sacramento Funeral Home is assisting the family with arrangements.
HODGE
Argie Bell Sparks Hodge
Argie Bell Sparks Hodge died Saturday, Jan. 26, 2002, at age 92.
Born May 23, 1909, in Newton County, Arkansas, Mrs. Hodge was the ninth of 10 children of the late Mary Elizabeth and Hiram Sparks. She married Abel Hodge in 1928 and had six children. The Hodge family moved to Knights Landing in spring of 1937, where she attended the Knights Landing Community Church. The family then made the shorter trip to Woodland in 1951 where she was a member in the Calvary Baptist Church. According to her family members, “she will be fondly remembered by her six children; 14 grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; 13 great-great-grandchildren; and their spouses for the care and affection she provided for them whenever they were in her presence. She had a sense of humor, and everyone felt welcome in her home. She loved cooking, especially baking biscuits and cookies for her family and friends and having in for coffee and cookies. She also loved working in her vegetable and flower gardens.”
Mrs. Hodge is survived by her daughters, Josephine Storm and husband Norman of Dillon Beach, Ardith Disney and husband Bob of Woodland, Imogene Schmidt and husband Paul of Grant Pass, Ore., and Dianna Lopes of Woodland; sons, Joe Hodge and wife Lilah of Brookings, Ore., and Vernon Hodge and wife Matilda of Woodland; and niece, Imogene Austin and husband Dwight of Woodland; and numerous other nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Abel Hodge on Dec. 12, 1946.
Visitation is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. today, Tuesday, Jan. 29, at McNary's Chapel, Woodland.
A funeral service is scheduled at 1:30 p.m., Wednesday, Jan. 30, at the Calvary Baptist Church, with interment to follow at Woodland Cemetery.
McNary's Chapel of Woodland is assisting the family with arrangements.
HODGSON
Marilyn H. Hodgson
Marilyn H. Hodgson died Wednesday, March 2, 2005 in Sacramento at age 77.
Mrs. Hodgson was born Jan. 10, 1928 in New Orleans. She had been a Yolo County resident for 53 years. She was a registered nurse and worked at Woodland Clinic for 21 years until she retired in 1993 and later worked as a nurse for Dr. Michael Pirruccelo for several years.
Survivors include Mrs. Hodgson's daughters, Karen Hodgson and Kathleen Montz both of Sacramento; her sons, Tim Hodgson of Sacramento and Skott Hodgson of Norco; her grandchildren, Allison Montz, Saxon Elkins, Teagan Elkins and Kira Elkins all of Sacramento; her sisters, Millie Rummel of Woodland and Elaine Fisher of San Jose and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas E. Hodgson and her parents, Mildred and Alfred Schaub.
Services: A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 10 at Holy Rosary Catholic Church, 301 Walnut St., Woodland. Interment will be at St. Joseph's Cemetery. McNary's Chapel is assisting the family with arrangements.
HOECKER
Charles Henry Hoecker
Charles Henry Hoecker died Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002, at age 87 from natural causes.
Mr. Hoecker was born Jan. 21, 1915, in Galveston, Texas, to Charles L. and Louise (Moore) Hoecker and moved to California in 1916, eventually setting in Woodland in 1920.
Mr. Hoecker ran his own business, Signs by Heck, for more than 35 years. He started his sign career at age 12, making posters and price cards for The Fashion department store on Main Street. Odd sign-painting jobs for various retail stores and service clubs kept him busy until he graduated from Woodland High School in 1933.
After graduation, he found full-time employment at the Granada Theatre at Main and Elm streets, painting posters advertising the movies as well as large portraits of each movie star.
He met Margaret Arnett while working at the theater and they were later married in 1939. During World War II, Mr. Hoecker served as an Army Air Corps radioman stationed in the South Pacific.
Returning to Woodland after the war, he opened up his own sign shop called Charles Hoecker Signs, later to be known as Signs by Heck. He and his wife ran the sign shop as a team until they sold the business in 1985 to All Action Awards where signs, now computer generated, are still produced under the logo of Signs by Heck.
Mr. Hoecker had a long-time association with the Boy Scouts of America, first as a young scout growing up, reaching the esteemed rank of Eagle Scout, and later as a troop leader despite the fact that he had no sons, being the father of two daughters.
Mr. Hoecker was an active member of the Woodland United Methodist Church for almost 50 years. During the mid-1960s, Mr. Hoecker and his wife served as advisers for the Methodist Youth Fellowship and were known to many young people as "mom" and "pop."
He was a long-time member of the Woodland Kiwanis Club, served on the board of directors of Leisureville Community Association and was involved with the Senior Center as a Care Car driver and computer class teacher.
His artistic contribution to the community is still evident in many signs around town. In the Boy Scout cabin is the 12 points of the scout law he painted in 1934 and repainted in the 1990s. He also designed Woody, the original Woodland Wolves mascot he designed while in high school.
Mr. Hoecker was preceded in death in 1995 by his first wife of 56 years, Margaret Arnett Hoecker.
He is survived by his wife, Jewell Rooney Hoecker; daughters, Mary Wegener of Paradise and Kay Barklow of Woodland; eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild.
He is also survived by sisters, Ellen O'Kane and Clare Childers, both of Woodland.
A memorial service is scheduled for 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 8, at Woodland United Methodist Church, 212 Second St., Woodland, with Pastor Doug Johnson officiating.
The family requests memorials be directed to Yolo Hospice, P.O. Box 1014, Davis, Calif., 95617.
Kraft Bros. Funeral Directors is assisting the family with arrangements.
HOERNLEIN
Lyle William Hoernlein
Lyle William Hoernlein died at his home in Woodland Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005 at age 99.
Mr. Hoernlein was born in California April 8, 1906. He had been a Yolo County resident for 45 years. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. He is preceded in death by his siblings and one nephew.
Services: Inurnment was at San Joaquin National Cemetery. North Sacramento Funeral Home is assisted with arrangements.
HOERMANN
Roland W. Hoermann
Roland William Hoermann died on Jan. 6, 1999, in his Davis home, where he lived with his wife, Barbara, and family since 1956. Born on Sept. 12, 1923, in Highland Park, Ill., to German immigrant parents, he was 76.
He retired in 1993 from UC Davis, where he was a professor of German and comparative literature and for 11 years was an associate dean in the College of Letters and Science.
He felt fortunate to have played a leading role in the founding of the comparative literature program at UCD, as well as in the establishment of the Kappa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at UCD.
He rounded out his active UC service as director of the Study Abroad Center in Gottingen, Germany, from 1984-1986, and then with a short stint as chairman of the department of German and Russian from 1990-1992. His teaching was recognized by the College of Letters and Science with the Distinguished Teaching Award in 1960.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara Hoermann of Davis; two daughters, Kristin Lister of Oak Park, Ill., and her husband, Christopher Lister, and daughter, Emma, and Ingrid Hoermann of El Cerrito; brother, Siegfried Hoermann of Alexandria, Va., and his wife, Evelina; niece, Hillary Sundell of Plainfield, N.H.; nephew, Siegfried A. Hoermann II of Saugatuck, Mich.; cousin, Erna Breimesser of Babenhausen, Germany; and an adopted sister, Maria T. Hoermann of Babenhausen, Germany.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Friends Service Committee, care of Friends Meeting of Davis, 345 L St., Davis, CA, 95616.
HOFFMAN
Dianna Z. Hoffman
Dianna Zbarsky Hoffman, one of the first female trial attorneys in Sacramento County, died June 30, 2000, of ovarian cancer. She was 61.
A first-generation American, she was a native of the Strawberry Mansion neighborhood of Philadelphia. She attended the University of Pennsylvania on a full scholarship, graduating with a degree in literature in 1960.
She and her first husband, Michael Hoffman, relocated to Davis in 1967 with their two children. She was an early member of the Jewish Fellowship of Davis, and editor of the Chancellor's Newsletter in the UC Davis Office of Public Affairs. In 1970, she entered King Hall School of Law at UC Davis, graduating in 1973.
She practiced law in Sacramento for more than 20 years, founding her own firm in the early 1980s with Robert H. Johnson. She was admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1978.
In addition to the practice of law, she sat as judge pro tem for the Sacramento Superior Court and taught as a visiting professor at King Hall, instructing students in elective courses on women in the law and trial practice, including Moot Court competitions.
Her last professional position was as a senior partner with the firm of Greve Clifford Diepenbrock & Paras in the early 1990s. She retired from the practice of law in 1993.
Upon her retirement, she and her husband, James Faulkner, traveled extensively, eventually settling for a number of years in Eugene, Ore., where they were both active skiers and tennis players. While in Eugene, she volunteered with the traveling Anne Frank Exhibit and relearned her love of fabrics and textiles, learning to quilt. She belonged to a quilting society that made quilts for disadvantaged children.
She and her husband returned to Davis in 1997, where she immediately started a book and quilting club and joined the Valley Oak Chapter of the Embroiderer's Guild of America.
She is survived by her husband, James Faulkner of Davis; her sister, Paula Kaufman, also of Davis; four children: Cynthia Hoffman of Berkeley, Matthew Hoffman of Colorado and Jean and Marie Christine Faulkner of Sacramento; and two grandchildren, Daniel and Cameron Cava.
A funeral will be held Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Davis Funeral Chapel, 116 D St.
Donations in lieu of flowers may be made in her name to the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance, 1627 K St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006.
