Evert Hoeven Enlists In Naval Reserve
RECEIVES RATING OF 2ND CLASS AVIATION MACHINIST MATE
Evert Hoeven, who recently graduated from the Elgin Jewelers School, left Monday morning to assume his duties at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Evert enlisted in the navy last week and after passing the professional examination received a special rating as Reserve Aviation Machinist mate 2nd class. He will receive a preliminary course at the Great Lakes station and then will go to the Naval Aircraft factory at Philadelphia for further instruction.
Mr. Hoeven is qualified to work on aeronautical instruments as a jeweler who has learned how to build and repair extra fine precision machinery. He will be a regular member of the naval air corps and after his training course will be assigned to active duty at some large naval air base.
Evert has been at home for about three weeks before leaving on Monday for duty in the naval air corps. Mrs. Hoeven (nee Glenna Tyler) will continue teaching for the balance of this school year.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 2, 1942, p 1
Evert Hoeven At Great Lakes
Evert Hoeven, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. Hoeven of Sioux Center, is now located at the U. S. Naval Training Station at the Great Lakes, Ill.
His address is: Evert A. Hoeven A.M.M. C.2, Co. No. 225, U.S. Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 9, 1942, p 8
Evert Hoeven, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ike Hoeven called home on Friday nite to inform his parents that he had been transferred to Philadelphia. He arrived in Philadelphia on Sunday night where he will enter a Naval Aircraft factory school.
Source: Sioux Center News May 14, 1942, p 8
Evert Hoeven sent home a new address to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Hoeven of Sioux Center. You may address his mail: Evert A. Hoeven AMM 2/c, Naval Aircraft Factory, Instrument School, Philadelphia, Penn.
….. Letters received by friends revealed that Evert Hoeven, who is stationed in Philadelphia, Penn. with the U. S. Navy visited with Tommy Wierda, Bert Van Maanen and Thomas De Jong. They all come from homes in the Sioux Center vicinity.
Source: Sioux Center News May 21, 1942, p 9
Mrs. I. Hoeven of Sioux Center was pleasantly surprised when her son, Evert, who is with the U. S. Navy stationed at Philadelphia, called his mother on Saturday night in honor of her birthday.
Evert has been informed that he will leave Philadelphia on July 31st for another point. Mrs. Evert Hoeven will leave on Friday after spending two months with her husband at Philadelphia and will return to Sioux City and Sioux Center for a visit with relatives. She will teach at Dunlap, Iowa this coming year.
Evert writes to his parents that he likes the navy fine, learning many new things, having good time and the food is good. We hope to publish Evert’s new address a little later.
Source: Sioux Center News July 23, 1942, p 10
Evert Hoeven Leaves Saturday For New York
Evert A. Hoeven, who recently graduated from the Naval Aircraft Instrument school at Philadelphia navy yard was one of the 28 men chosen to enroll in the Sperry Gyroscope school at Brooklyn, N. Y. for an advance course in the study of the overhaul and maintenance of the automatic pilot.
Of a class of 105 Evert was among the highest 14. Twenty-eight men were chosen for the Sperry course. The highest ranking 14 will leave Aug. 1st for Brooklyn. The next 14 will leave later on in August. The cost of the Sperry Course to civilians is $1200.
Mrs. Evert Hoeven is visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. Hoeven in Sioux Center and will leave on a trip to Casper, Wyoming to visit with an uncle. She will teach at Dunlap, Iowa this coming school term.
Evert writes his parents that the navy is a great place for anyone who wants to learn a useful trade.
Source: Sioux Center News July 30, 1942, p 8
Evert Hoeven In New York
Evert Hoeven sent a telegram to his parents to notify them that he has arrived in New York where he is stationed with the navy. His address is: Evert A. Hoeven, 167 Sands St., Navy Y.M.C.A., Brooklyn, New York.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 6, 1942, p 2
Evert Hoeven who is getting some schooling in the U. S. Navy located in New York sends his address: E. A. Hoeven AMM 2/c, 47 South Portland Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y.
Source: Sioux Center News Aug. 13, 1942, p 6
U.S. Navy At Brooklyn (photo) EVERT A. HOEVEN
Evert A. Hoeven, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hoeven of Sioux Center, is in the U.S.S. Navy stationed at Brooklyn, New York where he attends the Sperry Gyroscope Co. school. He enlisted in the Navy and left here March 30th for 6 weeks training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station. Later he went to Philadelphia where for a period of 8 weeks he attended the Naval Aircraft Instrument School and finally was sent to Brooklyn for some more schooling while in the Navy.
Evert says he likes it fine and is getting a wonderful education. His address is Evert A. Hoeven A.M.M. 2-c, 47 South Portland Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 10, 1942, p 1
Letter from New York August 24, 1942
Dearest folks: Yesterday was a big day for me. I’ll try to tell you about everything I saw and did in the order as they came.
To start with Mac Mahan, one of the fellows I run around with at school, and I decided to go to church. He is a Scotchman and a strong methodist but we both decided that we would like to visit St. Patrick’s Cathedral which is the largest and most expensive Catholic Church in the United States.
Somehow we got on the wrong subway and by the time we got to the church it was too late to go in so we decided to go somewhere else. Everything being very strange and new to us we did not know exactly where we would find another church which finally wound up by not attending any service at all. We both had the best intentions but it seems as if we weren’t supposed to go yesterday.
As we walked down the street we heard a fellow ‘barking’ about sight-seiing tours of New York City and after finding out how much they were, we decided to go. The regular price was three dollars but men in uniform went for a dollar and a half. The trip guaranteed to last three hours.
We started out by travelling South by bus on Broadway, went through Union Park where all the Communists and Left Wing Party men have their annual conventions. There were several “soap-box” orators giving speeches, all of which centered around “what’s wrong with the government”.
We passed Macy’s department store (where the women got 98c bargains for $1.10), passed the Chrysler buildings, RCA building, Singer building, Woolworth building, 57 Wall St. home of the stock exchange, Standard Oil building, which has the famed teapot dome, and finally wound up at No. 1 Broadway which is now a federal building but at one time was an old dutch fort built to protect New York Harbor.
Washington used this as his headquarters when the English invaded America. From this place you can see most of New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty, Staten Island and Governor’s Island. Just across the street from here is a block of buildings that belong to two blind sisters and are the oldest buildings in New York City. They are over three hundred years old. They really are an “eye-sore” and New York City has been trying to buy them but the sisters won’t sell under any conditions.
We then took and elevated train and headed into Greenwich Village which is made up of Jews and Italians. We walked down the fish market street in the slums of the city where Alfred E. Smith played as a boy. Incidentally, it sounds like a fairy story to believe a person from this neighborhood elevated himself to governor of the state of New York, Presidential Nominee and owner of the tallest building in the world – the Empire State Building.
We then went over to Chinatown. The first place we stopped in was Tom Noonan’s Rescue Mission. I had seen a short picture in a theatre concerning this a few years ago and remember it quite well. Tom Noonan is dead now but his work still goes on. His work consisted of trying to rehabilitate the forgotten man, and God alone knows how many of them there are here. He gives them clean clothing, a place to sleep, something to eat, tries to find a job for him and preaches the gospel of Christ along with this.
To go on with the story the building this mission is located in was formerly a Chinese theatre and one night there was a Chinese Gang War which took place in here. When it was all over there were 17 dead Chinese in the benches. The police took over and cleaned it all up. The basement was the center of a network of tunnels. Some of them run as far as four and six blocks away. All the entrances were hidden and very hard to find.
Also in this basement were several bunks where the opium smokers used to lie down and sleep off the effects of the drug they had been smoking. The place gave me the creeps but the guide said you are now as safe in Chinatown as you would be in your own home. They are scared to death of a white person. One thing I noticed in particular is that you do not see any Chinese women on the street, only men. If you ask a Chinaman how many children he has, and he has one boy and three girls, he will tell you one – it must be a disgrace to raise or own the female sex around here.
We then walked across the street where Irving Berlin worked as a singing waiter and wrote School Days and Alexanders Rag Time Band. He now is famous. He wrote the songs “Over There”, God Bless America” and numerous others.
We visited the Chinese Joss House (temple) and received the blessing from the high priest. Their belief centers mostly around the ancient philosopher Confucius. According to them Christ was a follower of the teachings of Confucious. Confucious lived at a time long before the birth of Christ.
After visiting Chinatown we went through the Bowery. Here is where the poorest of poor men come in New York. I saw more signs advertising beds 15c and beds 20c. These are truly the forgotten men. When they get tired they sleep wherever they happen to be. Men were sleeping on the sidewalks, in the street gutters, in doorways. It is a very pathetic sight. I never realized that humanity reached as low as a spot as one finds here. You people in Iowa do not realize how lucky you are to be living in a “heaven” such as you are.
We then visited the jewelry center of New York which naturally interested me very much. The guide said that every piece of merchandise which is “hot” eventually finds its way down here.
Also walked past a tattooing place and you know me, Mac just had to hang on to me to keep from going in and getting some fancy design put on. I can’t understand why people want to mark up their skin when I’ve talked to negroes who would give everything they have to have a white skin.
We then took a street-car and visited the New York Daily News building. It has a large globe in one of the rooms which revolves similar to the earth and all the walls are covered with maps showing the progress of the war. Another room has the walls with pictures of the main news events of the past five years. Another room contains nothing but pictures which were taken the previous day which makes up the present newspaper.
We then went back to the place where we had started and the sight-seeing tour was over. I enjoyed it very much and I’d say it is worth every bit of the money it cost us.
Mac and I then walked up Broadway and over to Fifth Avenue. We passed several of the world’s leading jewelry stores. The one that interested me most was Tiffany and Co. Seven floors of nothing but jewelry store. I’ll bet a half-carat diamond is something that is unheard of in there.
We then walked through the south end of Central Park and found a zoo which we visited. Brookfield Zoo in Chicago still has anything beat as far as I’ve seen. After visiting the zoo, we went back to our subway station and came back home in Brooklyn. It’s about a fifteen minute ride.
By the time I got here I was all tired out, had a headache and was ready to go to bed. All in all I don’t care for city life. Give me the peace and quiet of a small country town.
Harry James and his orchestra are playing at the Astor Hotel. He is that great trumpet player. I would like to hear him but I don’t believe the Astor is quite the place for me. The Astor is the place where “people go for a change and rest”. I keep thinking “the bell boys get the change and the hotel gets the rest”.
Oh yes, I also found out yesterday that the Empire State building which I had described to you has six floors underneath the street level as well as the 106 above.
I noticed in the August 24th issue of Life Magazine, carried a picture of the Christ Church in Philadelphia. Maybe Glenna has told you about our visiting this place. We too sat in the pew which had been occupied by Geo. Washington. Those white spots on the floor mark the graves of bishops or something who have had charge of the church at one time or another. I believe this is the oldest church in the U.S.
I certainly wish Glenna could be with me here now. I am sure she would more than enjoy New York. It’s everything it’s cracked up to be but let me tell you I wouldn’t care to live there. Did you get my pictures? They aren’t very good are they. I should have known better than to have them taken where I did. It was a small dumpy looking place but it was so handy to where I was when I was all dressed. I’ll try to have some better ones taken later on.
I am feeling fine and work is getting along O.K. The weather has been swell here. Last night it actually got cold and this morning might pass for a typical fall morning in Iowa, bright sunshine and a little cool.
Be sure to write often and I’ll keep trying to answer your letters as time allows.
Until later – All my love, Evert E. A. Hoeven AMM 2c 47 So. Portland Ave. Brooklyn, New York
Evert is the son of Mr. and Mrs. I. Hoeven of Sioux Center and is in the U. S. Navy. He is attending a Navy school in New York.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 24, 1942, p 8
Evert A. Hoeven, who is in service at New York, arrived home on account of the serious illness of his father, Postmaster Ike Hoeven.
Source: Alton Democrat Nov. 13, 1942, p 7
Mrs. Evert Hoeven has resigned from her teaching position and will go to Florida to join her husband who is stationed at Sanford, Florida. His new address is published elsewhere in the soldier news.
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 24, 1942, p 7
Evert Hoeven has the following address change: E. A. Hoeven A.M.M. 2-c Sq. V B-2 (1) Naval Air Station, Sanford, Florida
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 31, 1942, p 7
Evert Hoeven arrived at the parental Ike Hoeven home Sunday morning for a furlough. He is with the Naval Air Station at Sanford, Florida.
Source: Sioux County Index March 4, 1943, p 7
Home On Leave (photo)
EVERT HOEVEN AMM 1/c
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 14, 1944, p 10
Evert Hoeven AMM 1/c, who has been stationed at Beaufort, North Carolina arrived at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ike Hoeven on Monday to spend a short leave with them. His wife is living at Sioux City and is also visiting here. Evert leaves again on Thursday.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 14, 1944, p 8
Mr. and Mrs. I. Hoeven and daughter Wilma took AMM 1/c Evert Hoeven to Sioux City on Saturday from where he left by train to return to Beauford, South Carolina after spending a week’s leave at home. Mrs. Evert Hoeven who makes her home at Sioux City and who had also spent the week here returned to her home at Sioux City with them.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 21, 1944, p 2
Evert Hoeven, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. Hoeven, has been promoted to Chief Petty Officer (ACMM1). Evert is stationed at Beaufort, North Carolina.
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 15, 1945, p 5
Evert Hoeven and his wife arrived here Tuesday for a visit at the Hoeven home. Evert is chief petty officer in the Aviation Machinists Dept. stationed at Beaufort, N. Car.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 12, 1945, p 8
Furlough Calendar Name, Address, and Expiration Date of Furlough
….. Evert A. Hoeven Sioux Center – 4-22-45 …..
Source: Sioux County Capital Apr. 19, 1945, p 1
DISCHARGED FROM NAVY
Evert Hoeven AMM 1/c, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. Hoeven, was officially discharged from the U. S. Navy on September 13th. He is expected home soon. He was stationed at Beaufort, S. Car. For over a year. His wife has been staying with her parents in Sioux City.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 20, 1945, p 2
DISCHARGED (photo) EVERT HOEVEN AMM 1/c
Pictured here is Evert Hoeven, AMM 1/c, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. Hoeven of Sioux Center who received his discharge from the Navy September 13th. Evert will be home this week to spend a visit with his parents here.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 27, 1945, p 2
Sioux Center Service Men Resume Civilian Activities …..
SOME LOCAL MEN SETTLING ELSEWHERE …..
Evert Hoeven is employed as a watch maker at the Crescent Jewelry shop at Sioux City.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 29, 1945, p 1
Iowa, U.S., World War II Bonus Case Files, 1947-1954 Claim Number 219840
Evert Arthur Hoeven, SN 620-48-03, was born August 30, 1917 at Sioux Center, Iowa, where he was residing prior to enlisting in the Navy on March 31, 1942 at Des Moines, Iowa. He was discharged on Sept. 13, 1945. His application for bonus pay was filed on Aug. 4, 1949, for which he received $430.00.
Source: ancestry.com
