Thomas Andrew Van Hoose -- son of McClellan ("Mack") and May Van Hoose -- was born in Indiana on March 13, 1925. (Note the slightly different spelling of the surname than now on the People page.) In 1935, Tommy's family moved from Gary, Indiana, to 2913 Cleveland Street in Hammond. He served in the U.S. Navy at the end of the WWII as a Motor Machinist's Mate 3rd class (MoMM3c), and was onboard the aircraft carrier USS Sable as she was being decommissioned in the fall of 1945. He was twice married after the war, and died in Cedar Lake, Indiana, on November 18, 1996.