Hover T. Lentz ’45

Hov was raised in Denver, Colo.

At Princeton he participated in freshman golf, Whig-Clio, and Tower Club until Pearl Harbor was attacked. He joined the Army Signal Corps and became a meteorologist. After graduating first in his class, he was assigned to the 8th Weather Squadron in the North Atlantic. He was stationed at Gander Lake, Newfoundland, which was crucial for predicting the weather in Europe during World War II.

After the war he married Lorraine Wadlington. He earned a law degree from the University of Denver Law School and joined Pershing, Bosworth, Dick & Dawson. The firm later became Dawson, Nagel, Sherman & Howard, specializing in tax and estate law. Hov established the law firm of Lentz, Evans & King. He was active in the taxation section of the American Bar Association and was chairman of the gift and estate tax committee of the section on taxation.

He worked on the 1954 tax code and was instrumental in revising the U.S. tax laws. Hov served on the board of trustees for the University of Denver and the Boettcher Foundation. He created the Lentz Scholarship for students in the master’s program in tax at the University of Denver. Hov was also an avid golfer and a member of the Denver Country Club and Paradise Valley Country Club in Scottsdale.

Hov died June 18, 2018. He was 94. Lorraine predeceased him in 2008. He is survived by three daughters, five grandsons, and two great-grandchildren.