OBIT: James S. HOFFMAN, 1987, Rockwood, Somerset County, PA
  
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  HOFFMAN
  
  James S. Hoffman, 68, of Rockwood RD 1, died May 7, 1987, at Somerset
  Community Hospital.  Born April 11, 1919, in Scalp Level, son of Sylvester
  and Bertha (Shaffer) Hoffman.  Preceded in death by parents; first wife
  Dorothy; brothers Spencer and Herbert; sister Mary Blough and infant
  sister.  Survived by wife, the former Sarah Jane Huston Lilja; and these
  children: Gary, married to Marsha Womack, Colonial Heights, Va.; Jan R.,
  married to Linda Sadlon, and Carol, both of Stoystown RD 3; Arla of Winter
  Haven, Fla.; stepchildren: Rebecca Lilja, Rockwood; Mrs. Donald (Martha)
  Johnson of Bland Ford, Mass.; and Sara Lilja of Gettysburg; and four
  grandchildren.  Brother of Emerson, Scalp Level; Ruby Estep, Somerset;
  Myralene Van Dyke, Michigan; Merle of Hagerstown, Md.; Gerald, Cloyd and
  Harold, all of Windber.  Founder and former owner of Hoffman Nursery.,
  Stoystown RD 3, for 30 years.  Member of Geiger Church of the Brethren,
  where he served as board chairman and Sunday school teacher.  Family will
  receive friends 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Saturday and until noon Sunday at the
  Deaner Funeral Home, Stoystown.  Services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at
  Geiger Church of the Brethren, the Rev. Gerald E. Deffenbaugh and the Rev.
  Gregory R. Pile officiating.  Interment, Berkey Cemetery.  No viewing at
  the church.  If friends desire, contributions may be made to the Geiger
  Church of the Brethren Memorial Fund, Friedens RD 1.
  
  Daily American, May 9, 1987
  
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