Michael Hoar

1883 - 1940  (57 years)

• Name	Michael Hoar
  Born	1 Oct 1883	, Co Kerry, Ireland
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Oct 1940	Flushing Bay, Queens Co, New York, USA
  Person ID	I74328	A00 Hoar and Horr Families North America
  Last Modified	13 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Drowned while swimming in Flushing Bay. Obituary: Long Island City NY Star Journal 1940 - 4228.pdf The body of the man found floating In Flushing Bay Monday was Identified yesterday as that of Michael Joseph Hoar, 57, of 37-17 29th street, Astoria. Police at the same time said that Hoar apparently had gone swimming In the bay early Monday, his clothes being found on the shore not 200 feet from the spot where his body, clothed only In bathing trunks, came lo the surface. Death was pronounced due to drowning. The Identification was made yesterday at the morgue of Queens General Hospital by Mrs. Mamie McGrath, a lifelong friend, of 37-51 Old Ridge road, Astoria. Site told police that Hoar's only known relative was a nephew, John J. Hoar, of Springfield, Mass. Hoar, she said, was a veteran of Ihe World War and a widower.