Charles Edward Hoyt

BIRTH

3 Jun 1900

DEATH

22 Nov 1972 (aged 72)

McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska, USA

BURIAL

Memorial Park Cemetery

McCook, Red Willow County, Nebraska

Charles Edward Hoyt
June 3,1900-Nov 22,1972

C. Edward Hoyt, farmer, teacher, merchant, legislator, state agriculture director and an official of the Bureau of Land Management, is dead at the age of 72. Funeral services will be at the United Methodist Church in McCook. Mr. Hoyt died Wednesday night at a McCook hospital. Mr. Hoyt and his wife, Helen, returned to McCook after his retirement July 1 from the Bureau of Land Management at Denver. He promptly assumed management of his 1720-acre farm near McCook. Mr. Hoyt was injured in a fall from a horse about a month ago while herding cattle. He said a loose strap caused his saddle to slip. He suffered a cracked rib at the time. After attending the University of Nebraska, Mr. Hoyt worked his farm until he was offered a job as a coach and teacher at McCook High School. He became a partner in a hardware business and also managed to find time for 18 years on the McCook School Board, as president of the Chamber of Commerce, president of Rotary, and exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge. His legislative career spanned eight years,1943 to 1951, two of which were spent as speaker of the legislature. He has called those years among the most rewarding of his career. His role in recodifying the state's school laws for the 1949 legislature was called his most important work as a senator. In 1952, he resigned as senator to accept an appointment of Gov. Robert Crosby as assistant agriculture director, moving to the top spot in agriculture a few years later. Mr. Hoyt went to Washington in 1959 to become assistant to Ed Woozley, then director of the Bureau of Land Management. He described those years as another high point of his career. From Washington, Mr. Hoyt moved to Denver to become in 1965 property management specialist with the BLM office. He served in that post until his retirement last July 1. Survivors include his wife, Helen; a son, John, Woodland Hills, Calif.; a daughter, Mrs. Joan Gilliam of Ravenna; two brothers, Frank and Dean Hoyt both of McCook, and a sister, Mrs. George Wallen of McCook.

Lincoln Journal Star, November 24, 1972