Lee Funeral Home, Inc.
Maudell Orsborn Hoover
(February 16, 1924 - January 10, 2012)
Funeral services for Maudell Orsborn Hoover of Winona will be at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday,
January 12, at First Presbyterian Church in Winona, with burial in the Winona Garden of
Memory. Rev. Grover Gunn will officiate the services.
Visitation will be Thursday, January 12, from 12:30 p.m. until 2:00 p.m., at First
Presbyterian Church.
Mrs. Hoover died at Country Meadows Assisted Living near Greenwood on Tuesday,
January 10. She was 87 years old.
Mrs. Hoover was the daughter of the late Jessie and Birdie Tilghman Orsborn, and the
widow of the late Reuben J. Hoover. She was a homemaker and a member of First
Presbyterian Church in Winona since 1952. In addition to her parents and husband, she
was preceded in death by a son, Reuben Lamar Hoover; and two brothers, William
Harris Orsborn and Herman Orsborn.
Survivors include two daughters, Betty Boyd and her husband, Marion, of Winona; Tracey
Millsaps and her husband, Paul, of Starkville; one son, Jerry Hoover and his wife, Mary
Glenda, of Winona; one brother, Marion Binford Orsborn of Atlanta, GA; four
grandchildren, Jena Hoover, Baxter Billingsley, Mary Margaret Pittman, and Hardy Pittman
(Jamie); and one great-grandchild, Mackenzie Pittman.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Palmer Home for Children, 912 Eleventh
Avenue South, Columbus, MS 39701 (www.palmerhome.org).
