Our Neighbors in the Service
Storm Lake, Iowa—
Kenneth LeRoy Hoffman, son of N.M. Hoffman, has received his first-class petty officer’s rating. He has been serving on a troop transport.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, September 17, 1943
Kenneth Leroy Hoffman was born Apr. 9, 1917 to N. M. and Laura Elizabeth Sweet Hoffman. He died Feb. 7, 2009 and is buried in Storm Lake Cemetery, Storm Lake, IA.
Petty Officer Hoffman served in World War II with the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Barnett (APA-5).
Source: ancestry.com
