Daughter of Henry Pengelly and the former Della Snow Warner.
Married Amos Elna Hoyt on Jan. 19, 1929.
Survivors include her son Barney (Glenda) Hoyt of Malin; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and sister Neva Asher of Alturas; .
Preceded in death by her husband and sister Ruth Asher.
Herald & News
Klamath Falls, Or.
Feb 14, 2005
A wooden-wheeled hearse pulled by two draft horses carried the body of 100-year-old Velma Hoyt to her final resting place in the Malin Community Cemetery Saturday afternoon.
It was a fitting end for the Klamath Basin matriarch, friends and family said.
The hearse had once been owned by Hoyt's father, Henry Pengelly. Pengally was partner in a funeral home in Alturas - Kerr and Pengally - and the hearse is almost as old as Hoyt was.
The hearse, painted to a high black gloss and weighing about 1,800 pounds, now belongs to the Modoc County Fairgrounds in Cedarville.
Hoyt's son, Barney Hoyt, brought it from Alturas on a flatbed trailer with friend Tom Venable of Poe Valley.
Bill Morris of Olene drove his Haflinger horses, Charlene and Lady, with Venable in the passenger seat, and the hearse made loops around Malin for about an hour during the funeral service.
It was good exercise for the horses and fun for the riders, Morris said.
Meanwhile, about a hundred people gathered at the Malin Community Presbyterian Church to pay tribute to Velma Hoyt.
Hoyt was born in Alturas Feb. 29, 1904 and died Feb. 5 after suffering a stroke, a little less than a month short of her 101st birthday.
She spent her life in the Basin - working as a bookkeeper for the Alturas Creamery, on a cattle ranch in Canby, Calif., she owned with her husband Amos Hoyt, and living in Tulelake.
Bud Maupin, who went to school with Barney Hoyt, said she was active until the time of her death and remembered dancing with her on her 95th birthday.
Willene Moore, who was also attending the funeral, said she thought the horse-drawn hearse gave the funeral procession an elegance that Hoyt would have liked.
"She would have thought it was lovely," she said.
Despite some worries that the coffin wouldn't fit into the hearse, everything went smoothly as the horses pulled the hearse through town, followed by a long line of cars and pickups, a final farewell to a bygone era and one who lived through it.
Married Amos Elna Hoyt on Jan. 19, 1929.
Survivors include her son Barney (Glenda) Hoyt of Malin; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and sister Neva Asher of Alturas; .
Preceded in death by her husband and sister Ruth Asher.
Herald & News
Klamath Falls, Or.
Feb 14, 2005
A wooden-wheeled hearse pulled by two draft horses carried the body of 100-year-old Velma Hoyt to her final resting place in the Malin Community Cemetery Saturday afternoon.
It was a fitting end for the Klamath Basin matriarch, friends and family said.
The hearse had once been owned by Hoyt's father, Henry Pengelly. Pengally was partner in a funeral home in Alturas - Kerr and Pengally - and the hearse is almost as old as Hoyt was.
The hearse, painted to a high black gloss and weighing about 1,800 pounds, now belongs to the Modoc County Fairgrounds in Cedarville.
Hoyt's son, Barney Hoyt, brought it from Alturas on a flatbed trailer with friend Tom Venable of Poe Valley.
Bill Morris of Olene drove his Haflinger horses, Charlene and Lady, with Venable in the passenger seat, and the hearse made loops around Malin for about an hour during the funeral service.
It was good exercise for the horses and fun for the riders, Morris said.
Meanwhile, about a hundred people gathered at the Malin Community Presbyterian Church to pay tribute to Velma Hoyt.
Hoyt was born in Alturas Feb. 29, 1904 and died Feb. 5 after suffering a stroke, a little less than a month short of her 101st birthday.
She spent her life in the Basin - working as a bookkeeper for the Alturas Creamery, on a cattle ranch in Canby, Calif., she owned with her husband Amos Hoyt, and living in Tulelake.
Bud Maupin, who went to school with Barney Hoyt, said she was active until the time of her death and remembered dancing with her on her 95th birthday.
Willene Moore, who was also attending the funeral, said she thought the horse-drawn hearse gave the funeral procession an elegance that Hoyt would have liked.
"She would have thought it was lovely," she said.
Despite some worries that the coffin wouldn't fit into the hearse, everything went smoothly as the horses pulled the hearse through town, followed by a long line of cars and pickups, a final farewell to a bygone era and one who lived through it.
Daughter of Henry Pengelly and the former Della Snow Warner.
Married Amos Elna Hoyt on Jan. 19, 1929.
Survivors include her son Barney (Glenda) Hoyt of Malin; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and sister Neva Asher of Alturas; .
Preceded in death by her husband and sister Ruth Asher.
Herald & News
Klamath Falls, Or.
Feb 14, 2005
A wooden-wheeled hearse pulled by two draft horses carried the body of 100-year-old Velma Hoyt to her final resting place in the Malin Community Cemetery Saturday afternoon.
It was a fitting end for the Klamath Basin matriarch, friends and family said.
The hearse had once been owned by Hoyt's father, Henry Pengelly. Pengally was partner in a funeral home in Alturas - Kerr and Pengally - and the hearse is almost as old as Hoyt was.
The hearse, painted to a high black gloss and weighing about 1,800 pounds, now belongs to the Modoc County Fairgrounds in Cedarville.
Hoyt's son, Barney Hoyt, brought it from Alturas on a flatbed trailer with friend Tom Venable of Poe Valley.
Bill Morris of Olene drove his Haflinger horses, Charlene and Lady, with Venable in the passenger seat, and the hearse made loops around Malin for about an hour during the funeral service.
It was good exercise for the horses and fun for the riders, Morris said.
Meanwhile, about a hundred people gathered at the Malin Community Presbyterian Church to pay tribute to Velma Hoyt.
Hoyt was born in Alturas Feb. 29, 1904 and died Feb. 5 after suffering a stroke, a little less than a month short of her 101st birthday.
She spent her life in the Basin - working as a bookkeeper for the Alturas Creamery, on a cattle ranch in Canby, Calif., she owned with her husband Amos Hoyt, and living in Tulelake.
Bud Maupin, who went to school with Barney Hoyt, said she was active until the time of her death and remembered dancing with her on her 95th birthday.
Willene Moore, who was also attending the funeral, said she thought the horse-drawn hearse gave the funeral procession an elegance that Hoyt would have liked.
"She would have thought it was lovely," she said.
Despite some worries that the coffin wouldn't fit into the hearse, everything went smoothly as the horses pulled the hearse through town, followed by a long line of cars and pickups, a final farewell to a bygone era and one who lived through it.
Married Amos Elna Hoyt on Jan. 19, 1929.
Survivors include her son Barney (Glenda) Hoyt of Malin; three grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and sister Neva Asher of Alturas; .
Preceded in death by her husband and sister Ruth Asher.
Herald & News
Klamath Falls, Or.
Feb 14, 2005
A wooden-wheeled hearse pulled by two draft horses carried the body of 100-year-old Velma Hoyt to her final resting place in the Malin Community Cemetery Saturday afternoon.
It was a fitting end for the Klamath Basin matriarch, friends and family said.
The hearse had once been owned by Hoyt's father, Henry Pengelly. Pengally was partner in a funeral home in Alturas - Kerr and Pengally - and the hearse is almost as old as Hoyt was.
The hearse, painted to a high black gloss and weighing about 1,800 pounds, now belongs to the Modoc County Fairgrounds in Cedarville.
Hoyt's son, Barney Hoyt, brought it from Alturas on a flatbed trailer with friend Tom Venable of Poe Valley.
Bill Morris of Olene drove his Haflinger horses, Charlene and Lady, with Venable in the passenger seat, and the hearse made loops around Malin for about an hour during the funeral service.
It was good exercise for the horses and fun for the riders, Morris said.
Meanwhile, about a hundred people gathered at the Malin Community Presbyterian Church to pay tribute to Velma Hoyt.
Hoyt was born in Alturas Feb. 29, 1904 and died Feb. 5 after suffering a stroke, a little less than a month short of her 101st birthday.
She spent her life in the Basin - working as a bookkeeper for the Alturas Creamery, on a cattle ranch in Canby, Calif., she owned with her husband Amos Hoyt, and living in Tulelake.
Bud Maupin, who went to school with Barney Hoyt, said she was active until the time of her death and remembered dancing with her on her 95th birthday.
Willene Moore, who was also attending the funeral, said she thought the horse-drawn hearse gave the funeral procession an elegance that Hoyt would have liked.
"She would have thought it was lovely," she said.
Despite some worries that the coffin wouldn't fit into the hearse, everything went smoothly as the horses pulled the hearse through town, followed by a long line of cars and pickups, a final farewell to a bygone era and one who lived through it.
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