Mid-section of cemetery near wall of remembrance.
Married MILLER after Stanley passed and also next to Thomas
Evening Star
COSTA MESA, CA-FRANCES HOFF PIATEK MILLER FARRELL, 91, formerly of Waterloo died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Costa Mesa. She was born April 18, 1914, in Waterloo to Christian Hoff and Louise Adler Hoff.
She graduated from high school at St. Catherine's Academy in Fort Wayne and received her registered nurse degree from St. Catherine's Hospital Nursing School in East Chicago, Ind. She practiced hospital nursing in St. Catherine's in East Chicago, in Dr. Bonnell Souder's and DeKalb Memorial hospitals in Auburn. She worked as an industrial nurse with Dana Corp. in Auburn and as a nurse with many private patients throughout her 47-year career. Before her retirement in 1981, she was an administrator and supervisor at DeKalb Memorial Hospital. She delivered many babies, nursed many patients and assisted with the annual Red Cross blood drives. She was known for her optimism and keen sense of humor.
She relocated in 1988 to Sacramento, where she enjoyed tutoring Russian immigrants in English, participating in her retirement community's fashion shows and social activities and traveling in California and to Hawaii. In 2001, she moved to Costa Mesa. At the time of her death she was residing in Autumn Years, a Alzheimer's nursing community. She had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years, and her death was caused by complications from the disease.
She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia P. and Stewart Clark and Constance M. and Kent Foley; two sons and daughters-in-law, John J. and Sara Piatek and Eugene S. and Sheron Piatek; a granddaughter; six grandsons; five great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; four stepdaughters and their husbands, Betty Smith, Josephine and Kenneth Riddle, Mary and Doyne Ferris and Phyllis and Maynard "Mike" Hartman; a stepson and his wife, Frank "Pete" and Shirley Miller; and many stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Rosella Bowman, Amelia Schoenle and Irene Pasmann; three brothers, Rudolph Hoff, Eugene Hoff and Albert Hoff; a son, Thomas R. Piatek; and three husbands, Stanley D. Piatek, Frederick B. Miller and Andrew A. Farrell.
Services will be Friday, Aug. 19, at 11 a.m. in St. Michael's Catholic Church, 1098 C.R. 39, Waterloo. Burial will be in St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery. Calling will be Thursday from 2-4 and 6-8 pm. at Feller Funeral Home, 875 S. Wayne St., Waterloo, and at the church one hour prior to services.
Married MILLER after Stanley passed and also next to Thomas
Evening Star
COSTA MESA, CA-FRANCES HOFF PIATEK MILLER FARRELL, 91, formerly of Waterloo died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Costa Mesa. She was born April 18, 1914, in Waterloo to Christian Hoff and Louise Adler Hoff.
She graduated from high school at St. Catherine's Academy in Fort Wayne and received her registered nurse degree from St. Catherine's Hospital Nursing School in East Chicago, Ind. She practiced hospital nursing in St. Catherine's in East Chicago, in Dr. Bonnell Souder's and DeKalb Memorial hospitals in Auburn. She worked as an industrial nurse with Dana Corp. in Auburn and as a nurse with many private patients throughout her 47-year career. Before her retirement in 1981, she was an administrator and supervisor at DeKalb Memorial Hospital. She delivered many babies, nursed many patients and assisted with the annual Red Cross blood drives. She was known for her optimism and keen sense of humor.
She relocated in 1988 to Sacramento, where she enjoyed tutoring Russian immigrants in English, participating in her retirement community's fashion shows and social activities and traveling in California and to Hawaii. In 2001, she moved to Costa Mesa. At the time of her death she was residing in Autumn Years, a Alzheimer's nursing community. She had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years, and her death was caused by complications from the disease.
She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia P. and Stewart Clark and Constance M. and Kent Foley; two sons and daughters-in-law, John J. and Sara Piatek and Eugene S. and Sheron Piatek; a granddaughter; six grandsons; five great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; four stepdaughters and their husbands, Betty Smith, Josephine and Kenneth Riddle, Mary and Doyne Ferris and Phyllis and Maynard "Mike" Hartman; a stepson and his wife, Frank "Pete" and Shirley Miller; and many stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Rosella Bowman, Amelia Schoenle and Irene Pasmann; three brothers, Rudolph Hoff, Eugene Hoff and Albert Hoff; a son, Thomas R. Piatek; and three husbands, Stanley D. Piatek, Frederick B. Miller and Andrew A. Farrell.
Services will be Friday, Aug. 19, at 11 a.m. in St. Michael's Catholic Church, 1098 C.R. 39, Waterloo. Burial will be in St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery. Calling will be Thursday from 2-4 and 6-8 pm. at Feller Funeral Home, 875 S. Wayne St., Waterloo, and at the church one hour prior to services.
Mid-section of cemetery near wall of remembrance.
Married MILLER after Stanley passed and also next to Thomas
Evening Star
COSTA MESA, CA-FRANCES HOFF PIATEK MILLER FARRELL, 91, formerly of Waterloo died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Costa Mesa. She was born April 18, 1914, in Waterloo to Christian Hoff and Louise Adler Hoff.
She graduated from high school at St. Catherine's Academy in Fort Wayne and received her registered nurse degree from St. Catherine's Hospital Nursing School in East Chicago, Ind. She practiced hospital nursing in St. Catherine's in East Chicago, in Dr. Bonnell Souder's and DeKalb Memorial hospitals in Auburn. She worked as an industrial nurse with Dana Corp. in Auburn and as a nurse with many private patients throughout her 47-year career. Before her retirement in 1981, she was an administrator and supervisor at DeKalb Memorial Hospital. She delivered many babies, nursed many patients and assisted with the annual Red Cross blood drives. She was known for her optimism and keen sense of humor.
She relocated in 1988 to Sacramento, where she enjoyed tutoring Russian immigrants in English, participating in her retirement community's fashion shows and social activities and traveling in California and to Hawaii. In 2001, she moved to Costa Mesa. At the time of her death she was residing in Autumn Years, a Alzheimer's nursing community. She had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years, and her death was caused by complications from the disease.
She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia P. and Stewart Clark and Constance M. and Kent Foley; two sons and daughters-in-law, John J. and Sara Piatek and Eugene S. and Sheron Piatek; a granddaughter; six grandsons; five great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; four stepdaughters and their husbands, Betty Smith, Josephine and Kenneth Riddle, Mary and Doyne Ferris and Phyllis and Maynard "Mike" Hartman; a stepson and his wife, Frank "Pete" and Shirley Miller; and many stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Rosella Bowman, Amelia Schoenle and Irene Pasmann; three brothers, Rudolph Hoff, Eugene Hoff and Albert Hoff; a son, Thomas R. Piatek; and three husbands, Stanley D. Piatek, Frederick B. Miller and Andrew A. Farrell.
Services will be Friday, Aug. 19, at 11 a.m. in St. Michael's Catholic Church, 1098 C.R. 39, Waterloo. Burial will be in St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery. Calling will be Thursday from 2-4 and 6-8 pm. at Feller Funeral Home, 875 S. Wayne St., Waterloo, and at the church one hour prior to services.
Married MILLER after Stanley passed and also next to Thomas
Evening Star
COSTA MESA, CA-FRANCES HOFF PIATEK MILLER FARRELL, 91, formerly of Waterloo died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, in Costa Mesa. She was born April 18, 1914, in Waterloo to Christian Hoff and Louise Adler Hoff.
She graduated from high school at St. Catherine's Academy in Fort Wayne and received her registered nurse degree from St. Catherine's Hospital Nursing School in East Chicago, Ind. She practiced hospital nursing in St. Catherine's in East Chicago, in Dr. Bonnell Souder's and DeKalb Memorial hospitals in Auburn. She worked as an industrial nurse with Dana Corp. in Auburn and as a nurse with many private patients throughout her 47-year career. Before her retirement in 1981, she was an administrator and supervisor at DeKalb Memorial Hospital. She delivered many babies, nursed many patients and assisted with the annual Red Cross blood drives. She was known for her optimism and keen sense of humor.
She relocated in 1988 to Sacramento, where she enjoyed tutoring Russian immigrants in English, participating in her retirement community's fashion shows and social activities and traveling in California and to Hawaii. In 2001, she moved to Costa Mesa. At the time of her death she was residing in Autumn Years, a Alzheimer's nursing community. She had suffered from Alzheimer's disease for many years, and her death was caused by complications from the disease.
She is survived by two daughters and sons-in-law, Patricia P. and Stewart Clark and Constance M. and Kent Foley; two sons and daughters-in-law, John J. and Sara Piatek and Eugene S. and Sheron Piatek; a granddaughter; six grandsons; five great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; four stepdaughters and their husbands, Betty Smith, Josephine and Kenneth Riddle, Mary and Doyne Ferris and Phyllis and Maynard "Mike" Hartman; a stepson and his wife, Frank "Pete" and Shirley Miller; and many stepgrandchildren and stepgreat-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents; three sisters, Rosella Bowman, Amelia Schoenle and Irene Pasmann; three brothers, Rudolph Hoff, Eugene Hoff and Albert Hoff; a son, Thomas R. Piatek; and three husbands, Stanley D. Piatek, Frederick B. Miller and Andrew A. Farrell.
Services will be Friday, Aug. 19, at 11 a.m. in St. Michael's Catholic Church, 1098 C.R. 39, Waterloo. Burial will be in St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery. Calling will be Thursday from 2-4 and 6-8 pm. at Feller Funeral Home, 875 S. Wayne St., Waterloo, and at the church one hour prior to services.
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