Max Jessie Hoffman

HOFFMAN, GOODWIN, WALSH, RUSSELL, COLLINS, AKES, HERGENRADER, SMELSER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 5/26/2006 at 11:51:38

Earlham Library Obituary Collection
1999

Max Jessie Hoffman, 72, of Winterset died July 7, 1999 at Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset.

Funeral services were held Saturday, July 10, at St. John's Catholic Church in Adel with Father Richard Gubbles officiating. Burial was at Bear Creek Cemetery near Earlham.

Max Hoffman was born Aug. 19, 1926, to Clarence and Mae Ellen (Goodwin) Hoffman of Clarinda. He was educated in the Clarinda schools. He married Regena Walsh on Nov. 17, 1945, in Burlington. He spent much of his life working in the construction business. He also worked in the shipyards in Seattle, Wash., the gypsum mines near Davenport and also worked with bridge construction crews building many of the current bridges that span the Mississippi River. He retired in 1978 from the University of Iowa Hospitals at Oakdale as a maintenance worker. Max was a member of the National Horseshoe Pitching Association.

He was preceded in death by his parents, 11 brothers and sisters and one granddaughter.

He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Barbara Russell (husband Roger) of Earlham; two sons, Philip of Perry and Joseph of Earlham; four sisters, Violet Collins of Sheldahl, Maxine Akes of Bedford and Joetta Hergenrader and LaVerna Smelser, both of Lincoln, Neb.; 10 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.