Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....HOFFMAN, Bernadine L.  2001
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THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR, Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association.  Volume 36, April-June 2001, Number 5-6; submitted with permission from editor, Grayden D. Slowins
Bernadine L. Hoffman, sister of the late Ronald & Rowland Hoffman and Lucille 
Stambaugh, daughter of Rev. Andrew & Ida (Roush) Hoffman.  After attending 
Huntington College and graduating from Western Michigan University, she taught 
in Lansing, Bath & Charlotte.  Then she served 39 years as a missionary in 
Sierra Leone, West Africa, longest in United Brethren history.  She always cast 
her vote in Sebewa Township in every Presidential Election by Absentee Ballot.  
She was one of only 12 people whose ballot was not recorded in the Gerald Ford 
Re-election vote in 1976.  Gerald Ford had been our Congressman and we had a 
massive 97 1/2 percent turnout - 486 out of 498 registered.  By 7:30 PM that 
day we had contacted anyone who we thought might need transportation or an A. 
V. Ballot.  The other eleven were either very, very sick at home or 
hospitalized, and two died that day, one while I was in his house with the 
ballot.  Bernadine's ballot came to the Post Office one day late, after 
traveling by truck, airplane, jeep, pack-animal, and jungle runner to Darkest 
Africa and back.  Bernadine is buried in Bowne Mennonite Cemetery, Kent County.

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