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Mary Rockwell Hook

Original Name: Rockwell
Birth: 8 Sep 1877
Junction City, Geary County, Kansas, USA
Death: 8 Sep 1978 (aged 101)
Siesta Key, Sarasota County, Florida, USA
Burial: Mount Washington Cemetery

Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA Show Map GPS-Latitude: 39.1005098, Longitude: -94.4735875
Memorial ID: 6870908 View Source

Born Mary Rockwell, she married Inghram Hook in 1921. A Wellesley graduate, she also studied at the Chicago Art Institute's department of architecture, and in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts. She worked with the architectural firm of Howe, Hoit and Culter. They designed distinctive stone and brick mansions from Sunset Hill area to Raytown, in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Rockwell Lane is named for her family. It is a short curvy and hilly street running west and north from Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri. Nearby lies her landmark complex of three homes off a circle at 50th and Summit Streets. She died on her 101st birthday.

Born Mary Rockwell, she married Inghram Hook in 1921. A Wellesley graduate, she also studied at the Chicago Art Institute's department of architecture, and in Paris at Ecole des Beaux Arts. She worked with the architectural firm of Howe, Hoit and Culter. They designed distinctive stone and brick mansions from Sunset Hill area to Raytown, in the Kansas City, Missouri area. Rockwell Lane is named for her family. It is a short curvy and hilly street running west and north from Loose Park in Kansas City, Missouri. Nearby lies her landmark complex of three homes off a circle at 50th and Summit Streets. She died on her 101st birthday.

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Inghram Dickson Hook

1883–1973

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Eugene Rockwell Hook

1915–1985

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Created by: Bill Walker
Added: Oct 23, 2002
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Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6870908/mary-hook: accessed ), memorial page for Mary Rockwell Hook (8 Sep 1877–8 Sep 1978), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6870908, citing Mount Washington Cemetery, Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, USA; Maintained by Bill Walker (contributor 656).

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