VAN DORN HOOKER

The following bio was taken from page 245 of the book entitled "Rusk County History" compiled and edited and used with permission of the Rusk County Historical Commission.

Transcribed by Shirley Koym

Submitted by Gloria Briley Mayfield, Cemeteries of Texas

Anne Purcell Wylie was the only daughter of Williem E. Wylie and his second wife, Margaret McKay. She was born on April 5, 1892, only nine years before her father died. After an education in the Henderson Public Schools she began teaching elementary school in Nacona, Texas when she was fourteen years old. She attended West Texas and Sam Houston State Colleges and taught in Memphis, and Carthage, Texas. When World War I began she returned home and worked for Kangerga Brothers to help her family while her brothers, Hugh and Ralph, were in service.

Anne Wylie married Van Dorn Hooker, a pharmacist, from Carthage on June 2, 1919, and made her home there until 1942. She was active in the civic and social life of the community, heading at various times the Panola County Red Cross Chapter, the P.T.A., and the Book Club.

After the death of her husband, Anne moved to Austin, where she assisted Dr. Walter Prescott Webb in the preparation of The Handbook of Texas. During World War II she was a social director in a woman’s dormitory at the University of Texas. From 1945 until she died she was with the Internal Revenue Service.

Ann Wylie had one son, Van Dorn Hooker, Jr., who is now the University Architect and Professor of Architecture at the University of New Mexico. She had three grandchildren – Ann Meade, Van Dorn, III, and John Hardy Hooker.

Ann Wylie died on March 9, 1955, in Santa Fe, N.M. and is buried in Carthage, Texas.

Submitted by Van Dorn Hooker