Submitted by Linda Braden Gray  

South Bend Tribune, 2 July 1958, Page 28  

RESIDENT DIES AT AGE OF 83  

Retired Studebaker Employee Ill for Two Years.   Jacob Hoffman, 83, of 426 N. State St., died at 9 p.m. Tuesday in the Osteopathic Hospital, South Bend,  He had been in ill health for the last two years.  Mr. Hoffman, formerly of 732 S. 35th St., South Bend, was born in Guenswieler, Germany from where he came to this vicinity 70 years ago.  He married Freda Fox Nov. 17, 1898 and she died Nov. 2, 1950.   Mr. Hoffman was retired from the former Studebaker Corp., in 1941.  Surviving are one son, Edgar H. Hoffman, of Mishawaka; three daughters, Mrs. Otis Andrews, of Bremen, and Mrs. Charles Miller and Miss Emma Hoffman, of this city; 12 grandchildren; 18 great grandchildren; one brother, Fred C. Hoffman, of Lakeville, and one sister, Mrs. Lena Zeiger, of Woodland.   Friends may call at the Bubb Chapel after 7 p.m. Thursday and until the funeral services there at 11 a.m. Saturday.  Rev. Edward W. Brueseke, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, South Bend, will officiate.  Burial  will be in St. John's Cemetery, Woodland.  Mr. Hoffman was a member of Zion Evangelical Church.   South Bend Tribune, 5 July 1958   HOFFMAN - Funeral services for Jacob Hoffman, 83, of 426 N. State St., who died Tuesday, took place at 11 a.m. Saturday in the Bubb Chapel.  Rev. Edward W. Bruseke, pastor of the Zion Evangelical and Reformed Church, South Bend, officiated.  Burial was in St. John's Cemetery, Woodland.  Pallbearers were Robert and Howard Fox, and Charles and Walter Schermier, of South Bend, Harold Fox, of Mishawaka and Ardale Weber, of Bremen.