Mary Bernadette Hoffman 1921 - 2013

HOFFMAN, THOMPSON, PIERICK

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/18/2023 at 15:32:13

Sioux City Journal
25 October 2013

Mary Bernadette Hoffman, 91, of Sioux City passed away Tuesday, October 15, 2013, at Correctionville Nursing and Rehab Center in Correctionville, Iowa.

Services were held at Morningside Chapel, Christy-Smith Funeral Home in Sioux City, with the Rev. Paul Albenesius officiating. Burial followed in St. Joseph Cemetery, Anthon, Iowa, with military rites.

Bernadette was born on December 8, 1921, in Sac County, Iowa, to Barney and Camilla (Thompson) Pierick. In the early 1930s, the family moved to a farm three miles north of Anthon. Bernadette attended St. Joseph Catholic School and Anthon Public School, graduating in 1938. She attended National Business Training School in Sioux City from 1938 to 1939. In 1941, she moved to Des Moines and worked in the publication department of Look Magazine. On July 15, 1943, she enlisted in the U.S. Navy W.A.V.E.S. She attended boot camp in New York City and transferred to the Navy Business College in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 15, 1943, and graduated in November 1943. After leave in Iowa, she transferred to the Port Directions Cargo Control Office, where she worked until August 12, 1945, and was discharged as a storekeeper.

On February 27, 1944, in Seattle, Washington, at St. James Cathedral, Bernadette married Willard "Bill" Hoffman of Oakland, California. After discharge in 1945, they moved to Denver, Colorado. In 1963, they were divorced and Bernadette moved the family to Sioux City. She worked for the USDA Market News and Meat Grading office until it closed in 1986. For three years, she worked for the USDA on temporary assignments in Dallas, Omaha, Denver, Chicago, and Princeton, New Jersey, and various Sioux City temporary locations. In 1990, she started at Lindblom Services, where she worked until she retired in December 1998.

She belonged to the American Legion Monahan Post 64 and its auxiliary, Stocketts and Confraternity of Christian Mothers. Her hobbies were photography and making picture albums for her family. Her favorite charities were Battered Women and Mary Tregalia Community House.

Those left to honor her memory include five sons, Thomas (Vonice) of Denver, Iowa; Richard of Whidbey Island, Washington; James (Judy) of Anderson, California; Edward of Kansas City, Kansas; and Chris (Christy) of Albany, Oregon; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; two brothers, James (Vera) Pierick of Danbury, Iowa, and Ted Pierick of Storm Lake, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, and a brother, Richard Pierick.