WILLIAM RUSSELL HOFER

HOFER, LARSON, JENNINGS, LISOWSKI, DUPONT

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Date: 12/28/2005 at 20:35:43

WILLIAM RUSSELL HOFER

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William Russell Hofer, 45, of 2782 Idaho Street, Napa, California, died in Oak Knell Hospital, Oakland, California on February 3. Funeral services were held February 6 at St. Peter's Chapel at Mare Island, with Chaplain A. S. M. Kirkland officiating. Interment was in Tulocay Cemetery, Napa.

An Iowa native, he was born near Elgin. The family later lived in Gunder, Lansing and Postville. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy in 1940 in Postville and served with the submarine service during World War II. He retired from the Navy as an electronics technician in 1960.

He worked for Lockheed Aircraft Company for five years and in 1966 became associated with the Naval Training Device Center with offices in Alameda and Mare Island.

Mr. Hofer was a member of Fleet Reserve Branch 198 and St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Postville. He was married to June Larson of Clermont on October 23, 1943 at St. Paul's Church, Postville. Survivors include his wife, two daughters, Kathryn, student at Chico College, California; and Nancy, College student at Napa; his mother, Mrs. Louise Hofer, Mundelein, Illinois; three sisters, Mrs. Floy Jennings (Bertha) of St. Louis, Missouri; Mrs. Stan Lisowski (Dorothy) of Chicago, Illinois; Mrs. Richard DuPont (Eileen) of Mundelein, Illinois; four brothers, Laurence, Postville; Richard, Clermont; Melbert, Comanche; and Arthur, Melrose Park, Illinois.

He was preceded in death by his father, Samuel Hofer and a brother, Pvt. Clifford Hofer.

Postville Herald newspaper clipping, hand dated 1968, from my mother's obituary collection.

Submitter has no further information.

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