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In Memory

James Hoyt - Class Of 1934

James Thomson Hoyt

BIRTH

McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA

DEATH
8 Mar 1990 (aged 73)

North Platte, Lincoln County, Nebraska, USA

BURIAL

Culbertson, Hitchcock County, Nebraska
 
 
James Thomson Hoyt was born December 9, 1916, at
McCook, Nebraska, the son of John Franklin and Hazel Mae
(Thomson) Hoyt.
Jim grew up on a farm southwest of McCook moving to
McCook in 1925. He graduated from McCook High School
in 1934 and was a graduate of McCook College and the
University of Nebraska College of Agriculture.
He was united in marriage on May 27, 1941, to Wyona
Keim at Davenport, Nebraska. He entered the United States
Army Air Corp on April 11,1943, serving during World War
II. He returned to Culbertson in February of 1946, where he
continued farming Southwest of McCook moving to Culbertson
in 1954. He was preceded in death by his mother and an infant
son. He was a member of the Culbertson Methodist Church,
The Gideons International, The American Legion,
Toastmasters, and the N.R.D. He served as mayor of Culbertson
from 1974 to 1980 and was a member of the Nebraska Wheat
Growers Association and was a director of the Farmer's Co-op.
Surviving is his wife Wyona and two sons, Ronald Hoyt
and his wife Alana, Dennis Hoyt and his wife Jan, all of
Culbertson and one daughter, Janice and her husband Lloyd
Nellor of Beemer, Nebraska; Grandchildren, Barbara, James
and Dale Nellor, Paul, Anna, and Tammy Hoyt, Nathan,
Andre, and Jeremy Hoyt; his father, Frank Hoyt, one brother,
Cloyd Hoyt, and one sister, Mrs. Carol Miller.