Louis G. Hoffstetter, well known Perryville resident, succumbed at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, April 20, at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 64 years. Mr. Hoffstetter had been in ill health for more than four months. In December of 1975, he underwent emergency surgery at the Southeast Hospital to replace a ruptured artery. He returned home and was making a satisfactory recovery when blood began escaping into the stomach and a second operation was performed at the Memphis Baptist Hospital early this year, and it was a downhill battle from that time. He was able to return home, but other internal malfunctions caused him to be readmitted to the Southeast Hospital, where he was a patient until he died. Mr. Hoffstetter was born on Dec. 18, 1911, in Perryville a son of Theodore and Magdalena (Ochs) Hoffstetter. On Oct. 20 1934, he married Miss Irma Lorenz, who survives. Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Don (Judith) Pingel of Farmington; three brothers, Otto and Gus of Perryville and Harry Hoffstetter of St. Louis, and three grandchildren. Mr. Hoffstetter worked at the Kiefner Plant of the International Shoe Factory for many years and retired in the spring of 1975. The body was in state at Young & Sons Chapel until noon Thursday, April 22, when it was taken to Immanuel Lutheran Church for services at 2 by the Rev. W. F. Neumann. Interment was in the church cemetery.
Louis G. Hoffstetter, well known Perryville resident, succumbed at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, April 20, at the Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau at the age of 64 years. Mr. Hoffstetter had been in ill health for more than four months. In December of 1975, he underwent emergency surgery at the Southeast Hospital to replace a ruptured artery. He returned home and was making a satisfactory recovery when blood began escaping into the stomach and a second operation was performed at the Memphis Baptist Hospital early this year, and it was a downhill battle from that time. He was able to return home, but other internal malfunctions caused him to be readmitted to the Southeast Hospital, where he was a patient until he died. Mr. Hoffstetter was born on Dec. 18, 1911, in Perryville a son of Theodore and Magdalena (Ochs) Hoffstetter. On Oct. 20 1934, he married Miss Irma Lorenz, who survives. Also surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Don (Judith) Pingel of Farmington; three brothers, Otto and Gus of Perryville and Harry Hoffstetter of St. Louis, and three grandchildren. Mr. Hoffstetter worked at the Kiefner Plant of the International Shoe Factory for many years and retired in the spring of 1975. The body was in state at Young & Sons Chapel until noon Thursday, April 22, when it was taken to Immanuel Lutheran Church for services at 2 by the Rev. W. F. Neumann. Interment was in the church cemetery.
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