Louis Hoffbauer (1878-1967)

HOFFBAUER, MEYHAUS

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Date: 4/19/2019 at 15:52:58

The Quad-City Times
Davenport, Iowa
Monday, October 09, 1967
Page 4, Column 3

BLUE GRASS

LOUIS HOFFBAUER

Louis Hoffbauer, 89, of Eagle Grove, formerly of Blue Grass, died Sunday at Mercy Hospital, Fort Dodge.

Services will be at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Kastler-Babcock Funeral Home, Eagle Grove. Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Blue Grass Cemetery.

Mr. Hoffbauer was born in Buffalo. He moved to Eagle Grove in 1922. He married Ella Meyhaus who died in 1959.

He owned a bottling works in Eagle Grove and Algona.

He is survived by a brother, Max Hoffbauer, Dallas, Texas.

The Eagle Grove Eagle
Eagle Grove, Iowa
Thursday, October 12, 1967
Page 13, Column 8

Funeral Monday For Long Time Business Man

Louis Hoffbauer. 89, long time Eagle Grove businessman died Sunday afternoon in Mercy Hospital, Fort Dodge, where he had been a patient since Oct. 3rd.

Funeral services were held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at the Kastler-Babcock funeral home in charge of Rev. Emmet Braselton, pastor of the First Congregational church. Burial was in the Blue Grass Cemetery at Blue Grass, Iowa. Graveside-services were at 3 p.m. with the chaplain of St. Katherine's College, Davenport officiating.

He is survived by one brother, Max Hoffbauer of Dallas, Tex. and nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Hoffbauer died in 1959.

Mr. Hoffbauer was in business in Eagle Grove for many years and operated the Bottling Works on North East 3rd Street. The business burned out and Mr. Hoffbauer then went to Algona and operated a bottling works until he retired in 1960.

He was a resident of the Rotary Ann Home until his recent illness.

Mr. Hoffbauer was born July 31, 1878 at Buffalo, Iowa. He attended school there, and was in the bottling business with his father until 1922 when he moved here.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Ella, his parents, five brothers and three sisters. His father, Major Hugo Hoffbauer was an officer in the Civil War and was one of the body guards, and commanded the 14th Iowa Infantry Bn. at the funeral of President Abraham Lincoln.

July 31, 1878 – October 8, 1967