Walter Hoving - Personal Life

Personal Life

Walter Hoving was the author of two best-selling books, Your Career in Business (Tiffany & Co., 1978) and Tiffany's Table Manners for Teen-agers (Random House, 1960) & Tiffany's Table Manners for Teenagers Walter Hoving (Author), Joe Eula (Illustrator), John Hoving (Introduction)

He wrote Table Manners after seeing his young grandson, atrocious table manners. The book is a perennial favorite and has sold millions of copies over the years. In 2011 a 50th Anniversary Edition wasreleased with a new cover and forward by the grandson it was written about, John Hoving.

His 1924 marriage to Mary Osgood Field ended in divorce in 1936, He married his second wife, Pauline Vandervoort Rogers, in 1937. She died in 1976.

Walter Hoving was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity at Brown University (Upsilon chapter). He was a co founder of the Salvation Army Association of New York, and gave his time to the United Negro College Fund and the United Service Organizations, USO.

He died at the age of 91 in Newport, Rhode Island. He was survived at the time by his third wife, the former singer and actress Jane Pickens Langley, whom he married in 1977. She died on February 23, 1992 in Newport as well. Hoving was also survived by a son and a daughter by his first marriage. Thomas Hoving, author of several best selling books, former editor of Connoisseur magazine, former New York City Department of Parks and Recreation Commissioner and a former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Petrea Hoving Durand, founder of Internet Miniature Pinscher Services Inc. as well as four grandchildren, John Hoving, Samuel Osgood Hoving, Thomas Durand and Petrea Hoving.