M. Wayne Stoffle, Architect, Rear Admiral, Dies At Age 83
Times Picayune 01-12-1996

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Wayne Stoffle, a retired architect and rear admiral in the Coast Guard
Reserve, died Wednesday of cancer at his home. He was 83.

When he retired in 1972, Adm. Stoffle was one of two rear admirals in the
Coast Guard Reserve. He was only the fourth man to hold the rank in the
history of the Reserve and was the first in the Gulf Coast region.

His architectural firm designed many schools and other public buildings in the
New Orleans area.

Adm. Stoffle was born in Pleasanton, Kan., and lived in Metairie for the past
50 years. He attended the University of Colorado and received a bachelor's
degree in architecture from Cornell University and a master's from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He joined the Coast Guard Reserve in January 1942. During World War II, he was
awarded a commandant's citation for outstanding performance of duty as
commanding officer of a construction battalion that built long-range
navigation stations in the South Pacific.

Before his retirement, he commanded the local Reserve Volunteer Training Unit.

The buildings designed by his architectural firm, M. Wayne Stoffle and
Associates, included St. Bernard Senior High School, John F. Kennedy High
School, Arabi Park Middle School, the St. Bernard Parish government building
and the New Orleans Civil Defense Control Center.

It also worked on Crippled Children's Hospital, the Wembley Tie Co. building,
the Louisiana State University Environmental Research Laboratory, the
University of New Orleans Fine Arts Center and renovations of the Canal
Street, Jackson Avenue, Algiers and Gretna ferry terminals.

Adm. Stoffle was past president of the Louisiana Architects Association and
the Suburban Gun and Rod Club, past chairman of the New Orleans Citizens
Committee on City Planning and a past executive committee member of the
National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and the Reserve.

He was a member of the American Institute of Architects, the Downtown Kiwanis
Club, Metairie Country Club, Veterans of Foreign Wars Chapter No. 6640, the
Military Order of the World Wars, the Paul Morphy Chess Club, the Society of
the War of 1812, the Little Lake Duck Club and the Construction Specifications
Institute.

Survivors include his wife, Hilda Anderson Stoffle; a son, William W. Stoffle
of Metairie; a daughter, Sheri Stoffle Estes of Longview, Texas; a
stepdaughter, Pamela H. Day of Springfield, Va.; and a sister, Naomi Stoffle
of Mandeville.

A funeral will be held Monday at 11 a.m. at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home,
5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be in
Metairie Cemetery.