Marjorie Grace Hoffman 1904-1922

HOFFMAN, STODDARD

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 6/30/2018 at 08:19:42

13 April 1922 - West Branch Times

Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hoffman this morning received the shocking message of the death of their daughter, Grace, at midnight last night at Rockford, Ill., where she attending college.

Miss Hoffman's death was from heart trouble and came after only fifteen minutes illness. Mr. Hoffman left this morning for Rockford. Mrs. Hoffman is prostrated.

Grace was a graduate of the class of 1921 of the local school, and because of her happy, lovable disposition, was a universal favorite in the school. Her family's grief is therefore shared by the whole community.

20 April 1922 - West Branch Times

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The sudden death of Miss Grace Hoffman, which we chronicled last week, and which occurred at the Rockford College for Women last Wednesday night caused sorrow to the entire community.

So far as we are able to learn, Miss Hoffman's death was caused by taking an over-dose of medicine for headache from which she had been suffering.

Her father, L. R. Hoffman, went to Rockford, Ill., Thursday and brought the remains home.

The funeral was held at the home Saturday afternoon at 2 o'clock with an unusually large attendance of sincere friends. The floral tributes were beautiful and profuse, an eloquent expression of sympathy.

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Marjorie Grace Hoffman was born August 8, 1904, and died April 13, 1922. All her life her home had been on the farm near West Branch. At the time of her death she was nearing the close of her first year at the Rockford College for girls at Rockford, Ill. She graduated from the West Branch High School in 1921 and in her work in the college Grace was maintaining the same standard of faithfulness that she had in her high school. Grace was one of a family of seven children and she leaves to mourn their loss, her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Hoffman, a sister, Mrs. Sylvia Stoddard, and five brothers, Floyd, Burdette, Glenn, Lee and Clare, and many other relatives. There are also as many friends as any one could possibly make in so few years. In character and disposition Grace Hoffman was gold and sunshine. If there is any message that her life left to this world it is that of genuineness and good cheer. She taught the gospel of optimism and the upward look to everyone who knew her and they loved her for it. In the fall of 1921 she openly confessed Christ as her personal Savior. Her affiliation was with the Methodist Episcopal church of West Branch. She was very faithful and active in all the work of the Sunday school and of the Epworth League; and she was also a leader in the high school Y.W.C.A. Grace closed her eyes in the dawn of Life's Day when there were opening before her the visions of service and opportunity and she deeply appreciated all that life held for her friends to see the blossoming womanhood in all its quality and beauty. Grace will be greatly missed and her going will be long be a cause of grief, but there ought to be rejoicing and thanksgiving that in the midst of this day, when there are so many who place a low value upon life and its blessings, there was one who believed that it is a scarce thing just to live.

Two very fine tributes from Rockford College were read at the funeral service, which was held in the beautiful home at two o'clock Saturday afternoon and conducted by Rev. W. Glenn Rowley of the Methodist church. Interment was in the West Branch cemetery.