Kathryn L. (Staab) Hoffman
May 1, 1922 ~ April 17, 2015 (age 92) 92 Years OldShare using:
Kathryn L. Hoffman, 92, Hays, died Friday, April 17, 2015 at the Hays Good Samaritan Society.
She was born May 1, 1922 the daughter of Carl and Pauline (Schmidt) Staab. On June 12, 1945 she married Conrad P. “Connie” Hoffman in Victoria. He died June 8, 2000. She was a farmwife and homemaker and a member of the Daughters of Isabella and St. Nicholas of Myra Catholic Church. She enjoyed dancing, gardening, sewing, baking cookies, and reading to her grandchildren. Her Sunday dinners of fried chicken and butterscotch meringue pie were loved by her husband and family. She loved her morning coffee and making snacks and spending time with her grandchildren.
Survivors include three sons, Bill Hoffman and wife Jody, Robert Hoffman and wife Renee, and Curt Hoffman and wife Kaye, all of Hays, three daughters, Connie Grant and husband Robert of Hays, Bette Slepicka and husband Robert of Loveland, CO, and Luanne Theleman and husband Gene of Natoma, Kansas, seventeen grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, two brothers Aloysius “Al” Staab, and Alphonse “Kelly” Staab, and nine sisters, Sister Paulita Staab, CSA, Sister Carlita Staab, CSA, Lydia Brungardt and husband Ed, Bertha Mader and husband August, Lexie Keberlein and husband Isadore, Irene Staab, Edna McColl and husband Robert, Viola Emery and husband Louis, and Pauline Ehler and husband Glenn.
Funeral services will be at 10:00 am on Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at the St. Nicholas of Myra Catholic Church. Burial will be in the St. Joseph Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:00 until 8:00 pm on Monday and from 9:00 am until 9:45 on Tuesday, all at the Hays Memorial Chapel Funeral Home, 1906 Pine. A Daughters of Isabella rosary will be at 6:00 followed by a parish vigil service at 6:30, both on Monday at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to Hospice of Hays Medical Center, St. Nicholas of Myra Catholic Church, or to masses, in care of the funeral home. Condolences may be left for the family at www.haysmemorial.com