Emelia Hoffman Obituary

Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday in the chapel of Everhart and Kent for Mrs Emelia Hoffman, 83, Rt. 1, Canby, who died Monday in an Oregon City hospital. Interment will be in the Rock Creek Cemetery, Needy.

Mrs. Hoffman was born in Germany, in 1880 and moved to the United States as a child. She came to Oregon in 1899, and made her home in the Needy area. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Mount Angel.

Survivors include 3 sons, Kenneth, Molalla, Broderick, California, Harold, Canby; 5 daughters Mrs Elsie Pather, Molalla, Mrs Alma Potter, Woodburn, Mrs Myra Rehm, Mount Angel, Mrs Ida Barstad, Milwaukie and Mrs Mabel Strubar, Salem; 3 brothers, 4 sisters; 12 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.

The Capital Journal (Salem, Oregon) Wednesday, June 10, 1964, pg 11

Age at Death 83 years, 6 months & 15 days

65-Year Resident Of Needy Passes

Resident of Needy since her marriage in 1899, Emila Hoffman, 83, will be buried in Rock Creek cemetery in that community Friday. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. in the Canby Chapel of Everhart & Kent, the Rev. R.G. Messerli of Trinity Lutheran church in Oregon City officiating.

Mrs. Hoffman died Monday morning in Willamette Falls

hospital in Oregon City after two weeks illness. She had been

moved to the hospital by Canby ambulance, under oxygen,

Friday evening from the home she and her son, Harold, shared. Born Sept. 23, 1880, in Weiden, Germany, Mrs. Hoffman was three-month old Emelia Ziegler when her parents, George Jacob and Anna Ziegler, brought her and her two brothers to the United States. They came to Oregon in

1886 from Minnesota, and farmed on Chehalem Mountain, near Newberg, where Emelia and the other Ziegler children attended Mountain Top school. She was working in Portland when she met Needy's blacksmith, Charles Gottlieb Hoffman, whom she was married in Portland Aug. 9, 1899.

The Hoffmans went to live at Needy where he operated a

blacksmith shop until his death in 1928, a business since carried on as Hoffman's Garage by the bachelor son, Harold.

Mrs. Hoffman was the mother of 10 children, two of whom she outlived by more than 40 years: Elmer who died at 10 in 1919, and Oscar who was accidentally killed in a gun accident at Needy in 1921 when he was 16.

She was a member of Trinity Lutheran church in the Monitor Mt. Angel area.

Surviving are five daughters and three sons--Mrs. Arthur (AI-ma) Potter of Monitor, Harold Hoffman of Needy, Mrs. Martin (Myra) Rehm of Mt. Angel, Mrs.Lloyd (Ida) Barstad of Milwau-kie, Mrs. Irvin (Elsie) Prather and Kenneth Hoffman of Molalla. Mrs. John (Mabel) Stuber of Salem and Melvin Hoffman of Broderick, California. She also leaves 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.

Mrs. Hoffman was the sister of Mrs. John (Freda) Gahler of Needy, George Ziegler of Dundee, Charles and William Ziegler of Carlton, Mrs. Lena Meyers of Hillsboro, Mrs. Minnie Gann and Mrs. Louise Cone of Eugene.