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Emil E. Hoffman
Aug. 15, 1908-March 22, 1998

MIO — Emil E. Hoffman, 89, of
Mio and formerly of Maybee died
Sunday morning in Bortz Health
Care Facility, Rose City. He had
been in ill health since 1991.

Friends may call from | to 4
p.m. and 6:30 to 9 p.m. Tuesday in
the Liedel Funeral Home, May-
bee, where a Scripture service will
be held at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Ser-
vices will be at 10 a.m. Wednes-
day in the funeral home, followed
by Mass at 10:30 a.m. in St.
Joseph Catholic Church, Maybee,
with the Rev. Michael D. Malawa,
pastor of the church, officiating.
Burial will be in St. Joseph Ceme-
tery, Maybee.

Born Aug. 15, 1908, in Exeter
Township, he was the son of
Joseph and Elizabeth (Eby) Hoff-
man. He married Dorothy Leppek
in 1934 at St. Stephen Catholic
Church, New Boston, and she died
in 1968. He then married Christie
Cleland in 1971 at St. Joseph
Catholic Church, Maybee.

He was employed as a building
contractor for 35 years. He
worked as a supervisor for Exeter
Township for one term and a
building inspector of Berlin Town-
ship for 10 years. He retired in
1968.

He was a former member of St.
Joseph Catholic Church, Maybee.
and a member of St. Mary
Catholic Church.

Surviving are his wife; a son.
Marvin of Kalamazoo; a sister
Hildegarde Burkey of Monroe; six
grandchildren, and eight great-
grandchildren.

In addition to his first wife, he
was preceded in death by si
brothers, Vincent, Louis, Otto
Joseph, Carl and Henry, and twc
sisters, Louise Thoma and Ros«
Kaumeyer.

Memorials may be made to St
Joseph Catholic Church, Maybee