HOFFMAN, GWENDOLYN JOSEPHINE (HARRISON)
Obituary - Ashland Gazette - NE April 25, 1985

Services held for Mrs. Hoffman - A memorial service of Mrs. Gwendolyn J. Hoffman, 65, 
who died Feb. 3, 1985, at Signal Hill, Calif., was held Saturday afternoon, April 20, at 
the Marcy Chapel. The Rev. Melvin Zerger of the Ashland United Methodist church 
officiated. Inurnment followed at the Ashland Cemetery. 

Gwendolyn Harrison, daughter of Herman and Josephine Harrison, was born at Memphis 
on March 24, 1913. She attended the 10th grade and her last two years at Ashland high 
school. On Aug. 30, 1930, she married Hugo Hoffman at Council Bluffs, Iowa. Not long 
afterward they moved to Lead, SD, where Mr. Hoffman worked in the gold mines for 
many years.

In 1935, they moved to Lincoln where Mr. Hoffman, state pentathlon winner while 
at Ashland high school, played football and baseball at the University of Nebraska. 
In 1938, he left college and the Hoffman's returned to Lead. They moved to California 
in February 1941. Mrs. Hoffman began work for Douglas Aircraft Co. in Long Beach and 
worked off and on there for a total of 18 years. 

In 1947, the Hoffman's bought a home at Long Beach and lived there the rest of 
their lives. For 35 years she was a member of the Wesley United Methodist church. 
She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Jeanette Louise Effinger; a son, John (Jack) 
Franklin Hoffman; and four grandchildren, Tab and Jeanette Effinger, and Tammy 
and John Hoffman. She was preceded in death in 1977 by her husband Hugo, and 
in 1941 by her son, Gary Hugo, 7.