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DELOS DANIEL HOOKER
D.D. HOOKER DIED ON FRIDAY LAST
Held Mayor’s Chair of Town of Welland for Two Years.
[The Welland Tribune and Telegraph, 22 August 1922]
An old and prominent citizen of the city was removed by the death on Friday, August 18th, of D.D. Hooker.
He had served two terms in the mayor’s chair of the Town of Welland; which he also represented in the county council, as reeve, and he had a number of terms in the town council to the credit of his public service.
He was a member of the Masonic fraternity and a Past Master of Merritt Lodge.
Born October 7th, 1853, near Middleport, Niagara County, the son of the late Thaddeus W. and Susan Seaman Hooker, he came to Welland as a young child with his parents.
At that time his father, who was a brick manufacturer at Middleport, had secured the contract for the bricks for the new court house and jail to be erected here for Welland County, and he came to Welland and established a brickyard to produce the material. The father was so well satisfied with the town that he located here permanently, continuing the brickyard business, to which the son succeeded in course of time and from which he retired in 1912. Mr. Hooker had not been engaged in any business since that time.
In 1914 he underwent an operation from the effects of which he never fully recovered and which was the ultimate cause of his decease.
He is survived by his wife, who was Miss Anna T. Waldron, and by one son, Edward D. Hooker, of this city, and three daughters, Mrs. S.H.J. Reid of Brantford, Mrs. William Fletcher of Worcester, Mass., and Miss Laura Hooker of Honolulu, Sandwich Islands.
A brother also survives, Frank W. Hooker of Selkirk, Man., and three sisters, Mrs. Walter Puttick of Hamilton, Mrs. Charles Snyder and Miss Ella Hooker of Welland.
A private funeral was held from the family home, 41 Maple avenue, Sunday afternoon. In the absence from the city of Rev. J.D. Cunningham of the Presbyterian church, of which body Mr. Hooker was a member, the services were conducted by Rev. J.H. Wells of the Welland Methodist Church.
The bearers were David Ross, John H. Crow, C.H. Reilly, Charles Snyder, Daniel Konkle and S.H.J. Reid.
Interment was at Fonthill Cemetery.
*Note: Tombstone and death registration both say he died 19 August 1922.
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