Acree/Sachse/Hoover/Ogden/Skipworth/Nelson/TenEyck/Williamson
& Associated Families


PHOTO PHOTO 
Charles L. Acree, Sr.                    Jacqueline M. Hoover
Taken c1940 at age 27                    Taken c1940 at age 27

Photos from Jacqueline (Hoover) Acree
Charles Louis Acree, Sr.,
known as Chuck, was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1913 to James and Minnie Acree. Shortly thereafter, the family moved to McAlester, Oklahoma, where he and his four siblings grew up. Being both smart and ambitious, he managed to get himself out of the impoverished Oklahoma of the 1930s and into a college in Indiana. From there, he began a career in radio, then in its heyday, eventually becoming a noted radio personage in Chicago - hosting and producing the popular 'Something to Talk About', 'Man on the Farm', 'Hint Hunt' and other programs in the late 1930s - early 1950s. He married Jacqueline Mahrea Hoover in 1935 and they had one son, named after him. The marriage did not last and after a brief second one to Georgene O'Donnell, he married Patricia Cromley Logue in 1955. He spent his final three decades enthusiastically following a variety of ventures - some successful and some not, while seriously pursuing family history research. Always, his wife, Patti, remained gamely by his side. He died in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1991.

Jacqueline Mahrea Hoover,
known as Jackie, was born in Pittsburg, Kansas, in 1913 to Guy and Myrtle Hoover. The following year, her family moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she and her five siblings grew up, as her father developed a successful music bureau. She attended college in Indiana, Illinois and Idaho - meeting her future husband, Charles Louis Acree, at DePauw University. They eloped in 1935, producing one child, a son. Their marriage was never a happy one but survived fourteen years. Earning a master's degree and teaching credentials in the midst of them, Jackie became a well-regarded kindergarden teacher in the Chicago area and persevered in that profession for many years. After her son was grown, she endured a brief second marriage and, a quarter-century later, died in West Palm Beach, Florida, in 1989.
Above vignettes by S. Acree

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