Yvonne Elizabeth Hove

OBITUARY --

Yvonne Elizabeth Hove, 69 years old, died on February 14, 2018 in Jacksonville FL. Yvonne was born and educated in England to Executive Secretary with high level of shorthand and high speed typing skills. She obtained several employments with Manufacturing and Pharmaceutical companies. In her twenties she was passionate about land hockey where she led her team to many victories. Yvonne moved to USA in 1989 with her husband John and daughter Johanna. Here she worked as a real estate agent and enjoyed golf in her free time. Yvonne lost her daughter Johanna in 2015 under very tragic circumstances. She is survived by her husband John that she married in 1976.

Services will be held at Hardage-Giddens Chapel Hills Funeral Home, 850 St Johns Bluff Road, Jacksonville, FL at 11 am, Saturday February 24, 2018 with Pastor Robert Morris from First Presbyterian Church officiating. A reception will follow at Hidden Hills Country Club.

BIOGRAPHY --

Yvonne Elizabeth Hove, passed away in her home in Jacksonville on February 14, 2018

Yvonne was born in England in 1943 but spent a lot of her youth in Germany and Singapore since her Dad Ivan was working for the Royal Air Force, RAF. Yvonne also spent time with her grandmother at the weekends when she was attending boarding school in England. She was a good student and a quick learner and became very skilled at shorthand and a fast typist, making it easy for her to get good employments.

In her free time she was passionate about land hockey and helped her team score several wins due to her competitive drive and athletic can-do attitude. She married young and got two children, Fiona and Clive but later divorced when she met John in 1975 when she worked as Executive Secretary for a Fabric distributor in Leicester England. She moved with John to Sweden and they got married on New Year’s Eve 1976. She studied Swedish and after less than six months she was able to communicate and continued to learn and within less than two years she was able to qualify for secretarial work employment.

In 1983 Yvonne gave birth to Johanna that Yvonne home schooled until she enrolled into British Primary school in Stockholm. Six years later in November 1989, the family moved to Jacksonville, Florida. In early 1990 John and Yvonne bought a house in Hidden Hills Golf and Country club where they became members and learned to play golf. In 2001 Yvonne took her real estate license and her first employment was with Prudential where she became Rookie of the year. Later she got hired as site agent for various builders where she achieved exceptionally high sales volumes thanks to her skillful selling techniques. In 2007 she started her own real estate company called Prestige Realty that also offered a real estate school. In 2009 Yvonne got severely injured in a car crash when she was hit from behind at a red light. This accident, coupled with the collapsing real estate market, ended her working carrier. In spite five heart oblation procedures, the doctors could not stop her heart fibrillation. Additional health complications along with the grief of Johanna’s death in 2015,finally took their toll and ended Yvonne’s life in the early morning hours of February 14, 2018.

Yvonne is survived by Clive Goodwin and Fiona Milbank, her children from her first marriage now both living in Australia and Yvonne’s husband John.