BY WILL RICKETTS SPECIAL TO THE EXAMINER 82 years ago, on the dates of Dec. 7 and Dec. 8 of 1941, events would take place that would change the trajectory
He did it because he loved it. That was what every one of Elmer Hoke’s Meals on Wheels ‘co-workers’ said of the man, days after he passed away at the age of 95.
Hoke had been a fixture of Natrona County Meals on Wheels for more than 20 years. Many people begin volunteering for organizations like Meals on Wheels after retirement, simply because they want something to do. But, for Elmer Hoke, it was something much more than just “a way to pass the time.” That’s why, for the majority of his 20 years at Meals on Wheels, he drove every single day, Monday through Friday.