Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hoffner, Conrad C., Rev. August 6, 1956
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Virginian-Pilot  August 7, 1956
PRIEST DIES AT 51 AFTER LONG ILLNESS

SERVICES THURSDAY FOR FATHER HOFFNER OF CHRIST THE KING

NORFOLK - The Rev. Conrad Hoffner, 51, retired pastor of Christ the King Catholic 
Church, died yesterday in the Maryview Hospital, Portsmouth, after an illness of 
three years.

The priest retired in 1953 because of ill health and later that same year was 
stricken with paralysis.  He was taken to Maryview where he remained until his 
death.

He was succeeded in January of 1954 by the Very Rev. Msgr. Carrol T. Dozier, 
present pastor of Christ the King.

Father Hoffner became widely known as one of three priests who formed the first 
diocesan missionary band using a motor chapel.

A native of Bethlehem, Pa., he was the son of the late John V. Hoffner and Mrs. 
Magdalena Faust Hoffner.  He attended the Holy Ghost Parochial School in 
Bethlehem, Pa., and later the Pontifical College Josephinium in Columbus, Ohio.

From June, 1930, until May, 1937, he served as assistant pastor at Colonial Beach, 
Our Lady of Nazareth in Roanoke, St. Paul's in Richmond and then as one of the 
diocesan missionary band.

Father Hoffner came to Norfolk in June, 1944, and opened the work at Christ the 
King, becoming its first pastor.

He is survived by three brothers, Louis H. Hoffner, Frank Hoffner and Paul 
Hoffner, and two sisters, Mrs. Lloyd O. Wilt and Mrs. Patrick Mahoney.

The body was taken to the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments.  Today it will be 
removed to the rectory of the church and tomorrow will be taken to the church 
where it will remain overnight.

Funeral services will be held at Christ the King Catholic Church Thursday at 11 
a.m.  Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.

It has been requested that no flowers be sent.

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