San Joaquin-Marin-Sonoma County CA Archives Obituaries.....Hoeft, Walter Erwin  November 7, 2005
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The Tracy Press
Walter Erwin Hoeft

May 14, 1914 — Nov. 7, 2005

A memorial Mass will be Nov. 25 for former Tracy educator Walter Erwin Hoeft, 
91, who died Nov. 7, 2005 at Kaiser Hospital in Marin County. 

Born in San Francisco, Mr. Hoeft and his family moved to Sonoma in 1916. 
During the 1930s, he attended Santa Rosa Junior College and San Jose State. He 
worked as a longshoreman in San Francisco, a farm and cannery worker in Sonoma 
and Lake counties and a miner in New Mexico. He was a talented musician who 
played the banjo, saxophone and clarinet in a band at weekend dances in Fetter 
Hot Springs. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy as a cook and was 
stationed in the Pacific theater. After he was discharged in 1946, he married 
Louise Ann Radtke. Mr. Hoeft began his career as an educator in 1949 at El 
Verano Elementary School in Sonoma. For 32 years, he worked as an elementary 
teacher and principal in numerous Bay Area schools. He retired at age 67 from 
Tracy Unified School District after teaching special-education classes at 
local elementary schools for 12 years. 

Charming and outgoing, Mr. Hoeft enjoyed a good joke and a good party. He 
loved to play card and board games and was an active member of local cribbage 
clubs. He will be remembered as a beloved dad, grandpa and uncle. He will be 
greatly missed by all who knew and loved him.

Mr. Hoeft is survived by his children, William Hoeft, and his wife, Maria 
Simon, of Los Gatos, Susan Weaver of Napa, Teresa Trejo-Mejia, and her 
husband, Guillermo, of Antioch, Richard Hoeft, and his wife, Donna, of San 
Jose, James Hoeft of Sparks, Nev., Thomas Hoeft of Sonoma, Alicia Atkinson, 
and her husband, David, of Davis and Stephen Hoeft, and his wife, Ann, of 
Pleasant Hill; 16 grandchildren; and one great-grandchild. He is also survived 
by his nephew, John Hoeft, and his wife, Marti, and their two sons, all of 
Santa Rosa.

The memorial Mass will begin at 5 p.m. Nov. 25 at Saint Francis Solano 
Catholic Church in Sonoma. A gathering of friends and family will immediately 
follow at Friar Robert’s Hall. Inurnment will be private.

Contributions in Mr. Hoeft’s name may be sent to Hanna Boys Center, P.O. Box 
100, Sonoma 95476, or a charity of the donor’s choice. 

Published on Friday, November 18, 2005, in the Tracy Press. 


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