Mrs. Catherine America Hopkins Hoffman, the daughter of S.W. and Nancy Brough Hopkins, was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, on March 16, 1855, and passed away in Battle Creek, Michigan, June 9, 1920, to which place she had gone for treatment.
At the age of three she came west with her parents by the overland route and settled in Warrenton, Mo., where her early life was spent and where she attended the Central Wesleyan College.
In January of 1873 she united in marriage with C.B. Hoffman and to this union were born six chidlren, two daughters and four sons, of whom one daughter, Iona, and one son, Walter, passed away in early life, leaving to mourn the loss of a noble mother, Ralph W., Emmett V., Daisy H. Johntz and Taddeus Leon, all well known in this community. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Henry Haze and Mrs. W.F. Whitfield; two brothers, W.F. And Dr. C.L. Hopkins; and six grandchildren, Vivian, Amy Louise, Daisy Catherine, and Leone Marie Hoffman and John and Catherine Johntz, in sorrow.
At the time of her death Mrs. Hoffman was president of the Kansas League of Women voters, the organization formed to take the place of the old Equal Suffrage Association, and has to her credit many notable achievements in the advancement of the suffrage cause. She was president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association when the resolution to submit the question to the people was introduced in the legislature.
At the end of her term she refused re-election to become press chairman of the association during the campaign when the amendment was passed. She had served as a dirctor of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, and as General Federation Secretary for Kansas and was twice District Federation President and several times declined nomination for the presidence of the Kansas Federation of Woman's Clubs.
She championed many causes, such as prohibition, suffrage, national and community needs, yet her larger interests did not lead her to neglect her own community. Her home and family were still uppermost in all her crowded life.
The circle of her friends and acquaintances is too wide to be even estimated at this time and her sudden departue leaves a great vacancy in a multitued of hearts.
Enterprise Journal, 17 June 1920
At the age of three she came west with her parents by the overland route and settled in Warrenton, Mo., where her early life was spent and where she attended the Central Wesleyan College.
In January of 1873 she united in marriage with C.B. Hoffman and to this union were born six chidlren, two daughters and four sons, of whom one daughter, Iona, and one son, Walter, passed away in early life, leaving to mourn the loss of a noble mother, Ralph W., Emmett V., Daisy H. Johntz and Taddeus Leon, all well known in this community. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Henry Haze and Mrs. W.F. Whitfield; two brothers, W.F. And Dr. C.L. Hopkins; and six grandchildren, Vivian, Amy Louise, Daisy Catherine, and Leone Marie Hoffman and John and Catherine Johntz, in sorrow.
At the time of her death Mrs. Hoffman was president of the Kansas League of Women voters, the organization formed to take the place of the old Equal Suffrage Association, and has to her credit many notable achievements in the advancement of the suffrage cause. She was president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association when the resolution to submit the question to the people was introduced in the legislature.
At the end of her term she refused re-election to become press chairman of the association during the campaign when the amendment was passed. She had served as a dirctor of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, and as General Federation Secretary for Kansas and was twice District Federation President and several times declined nomination for the presidence of the Kansas Federation of Woman's Clubs.
She championed many causes, such as prohibition, suffrage, national and community needs, yet her larger interests did not lead her to neglect her own community. Her home and family were still uppermost in all her crowded life.
The circle of her friends and acquaintances is too wide to be even estimated at this time and her sudden departue leaves a great vacancy in a multitued of hearts.
Enterprise Journal, 17 June 1920
Mrs. Catherine America Hopkins Hoffman, the daughter of S.W. and Nancy Brough Hopkins, was born in Botetourt county, Virginia, on March 16, 1855, and passed away in Battle Creek, Michigan, June 9, 1920, to which place she had gone for treatment.
At the age of three she came west with her parents by the overland route and settled in Warrenton, Mo., where her early life was spent and where she attended the Central Wesleyan College.
In January of 1873 she united in marriage with C.B. Hoffman and to this union were born six chidlren, two daughters and four sons, of whom one daughter, Iona, and one son, Walter, passed away in early life, leaving to mourn the loss of a noble mother, Ralph W., Emmett V., Daisy H. Johntz and Taddeus Leon, all well known in this community. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Henry Haze and Mrs. W.F. Whitfield; two brothers, W.F. And Dr. C.L. Hopkins; and six grandchildren, Vivian, Amy Louise, Daisy Catherine, and Leone Marie Hoffman and John and Catherine Johntz, in sorrow.
At the time of her death Mrs. Hoffman was president of the Kansas League of Women voters, the organization formed to take the place of the old Equal Suffrage Association, and has to her credit many notable achievements in the advancement of the suffrage cause. She was president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association when the resolution to submit the question to the people was introduced in the legislature.
At the end of her term she refused re-election to become press chairman of the association during the campaign when the amendment was passed. She had served as a dirctor of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, and as General Federation Secretary for Kansas and was twice District Federation President and several times declined nomination for the presidence of the Kansas Federation of Woman's Clubs.
She championed many causes, such as prohibition, suffrage, national and community needs, yet her larger interests did not lead her to neglect her own community. Her home and family were still uppermost in all her crowded life.
The circle of her friends and acquaintances is too wide to be even estimated at this time and her sudden departue leaves a great vacancy in a multitued of hearts.
Enterprise Journal, 17 June 1920
At the age of three she came west with her parents by the overland route and settled in Warrenton, Mo., where her early life was spent and where she attended the Central Wesleyan College.
In January of 1873 she united in marriage with C.B. Hoffman and to this union were born six chidlren, two daughters and four sons, of whom one daughter, Iona, and one son, Walter, passed away in early life, leaving to mourn the loss of a noble mother, Ralph W., Emmett V., Daisy H. Johntz and Taddeus Leon, all well known in this community. She also leaves two sisters, Mrs. Henry Haze and Mrs. W.F. Whitfield; two brothers, W.F. And Dr. C.L. Hopkins; and six grandchildren, Vivian, Amy Louise, Daisy Catherine, and Leone Marie Hoffman and John and Catherine Johntz, in sorrow.
At the time of her death Mrs. Hoffman was president of the Kansas League of Women voters, the organization formed to take the place of the old Equal Suffrage Association, and has to her credit many notable achievements in the advancement of the suffrage cause. She was president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association when the resolution to submit the question to the people was introduced in the legislature.
At the end of her term she refused re-election to become press chairman of the association during the campaign when the amendment was passed. She had served as a dirctor of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, and as General Federation Secretary for Kansas and was twice District Federation President and several times declined nomination for the presidence of the Kansas Federation of Woman's Clubs.
She championed many causes, such as prohibition, suffrage, national and community needs, yet her larger interests did not lead her to neglect her own community. Her home and family were still uppermost in all her crowded life.
The circle of her friends and acquaintances is too wide to be even estimated at this time and her sudden departue leaves a great vacancy in a multitued of hearts.
Enterprise Journal, 17 June 1920
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