Doris B. Hoffman

Doris Bernice Adle Hoffman was born on June 8, 1922 in Trinidad, CO as the only child of Harold and Nellie Adle. In the early 1930s her family moved to Denver where she graduated from South High School in 1941. About that time she also went to business school to acquire secretarial skills.

She met Clayton Pershing Hoffman (1918-1994) at a USO dance in 1941. A native of Pennsylvania, he was serving in the Air Force at Lowry Air Force Base. They married at her home on South Acoma Street on June 20, 1942.

The couple lived their entire lives in the Denver area. Doris Hoffman was a stay at home mom, raising their children, Dan (1943) and Nancy (1948) and managing the family household.

Doris Hoffman’s top priority was being a loving wife and nurturing mother. But she also dedicated much time to her home congregation, South Broadway Christian Church, serving in a number of roles over the years until no longer able to be active. She especially valued the weekly prayer group, when it existed; the Homebuilder’s Class, a post World War II Sunday School group; and singing. She sang in the choir until she was past seventy years old. Music of all kinds was always an important part of her daily life.

As a woman of faith, Doris Hoffman believed in exercising duty; telling the truth; and discerning right and wrong in all things. As a mother, she nurtured but did not smother, allowing her children to find their own way and make their own errors and achievements. As a grandmother of six and a great grandmother of eighteen, she took delight in the many children in the family.

She lived her life according to a limerick that she often repeated to her children as they were growing up: “Whatever you do, do with your might. A thing worth doing is worth doing right.”

She lived a righteous and holy life and died in the comfort and hope of the Resurrection.

Arrangements under the direction of Olinger Hampden Mortuary & Cemetery, Denver, CO.