While the slaying of North Hills High School graduate Ann Alison Hoover still pains her family, friends and neighbors, they have been working hard to make sure her kindness and generosity are remembered.
Work on the Ann Alison Hoover Memorial Park in Ross is moving ahead — with the help of township officials, state grant money and about 1,800 hours of volunteer work — and should be ready for its June 1 opening.
The opening date would have been Hoover's 50th birthday.
"It will be a bittersweet day," said her mother, Margaret Hoover of Ross Township. "There will be a lot of sadness but yet a lot of joy."
Hoover was killed in Oakland in 1997 by Roy Kirk, who owned the house adjoining hers, police said. Hoover had been involved in dispute with Kirk because his leaking roof had damaged her house. Kirk tunneled into Hoover's basement and dragged her onto his property, where he killed her, police said. He later hanged himself while being transported in a police van.
Read more about this in Saturday's Pittsburgh Trib.
