Maynard "Buck" Hoem passed away at the Deseret Health and Rehab Center on Jan. 3, 2015. Buck was born in Blair, Wis., the second of seven children to Iver and Tiller Hoem.
Buck enlisted in the Navy in 1944 and served in the South Pacific during World War II. Upon a return from the war, he married Ardyce Mae Drangstveit in 1948 in the Plentywood, Mont.
Buck and Ardyce moved to the Platte Valley for the first time in 1950 with the first two of their five children. Buck worked on the Lucas and Mowry ranches until 1957 when he began his career with the Federal Fish Hatchery. After one year at the...
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