Berylene Hoffman

Berylene Edna (Newton) Hoffman died peacefully in Orlando, Florida, January 8, 2016. She was 101 years old.
She was born December 21, 1914,
at home in Sparks, Kansas, to Irwin and Beryl Newton. Her parents, two sisters and younger brother have all preceded her in death. She had no
children of her own, but loved all the children throughout her entire family.

Berylene graduated from Emporia State University and began teaching school in Kansas in 1936. At the beginning of the 2nd World War, she was volunteering
at a USO facility where she met a young airman, Edward Herbert Hoffman, her husband-to-be. They were married July 12, 1942, in Winnetka, Illinois, and remained together for 61 years until his death in 2003.

Throughout their life together, Berylene remained an active Red Cross volunteer at veteran's hospitals wherever she and her husband lived. She was also a
substitute school teacher for a while in Chicago, Illinois, before she and her husband moved permanently to Orlando. She was a 50-year member of the women's "P.E.O." organization, dedicated to providing college scholarships and other support to deserving young women, until her retirement after her husband's death. Even after her husband's death, she lived independently and continued volunteering at the VA Hospital in Orlando, Florida.

During her final years, from May, 2007 onward, she lived actively and cheerfully in Assisted Living at Westminster Towers in Orlando.

She was a long-time member of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Orlando. She is survived by six nephews, their wives, and numerous grandnieces and grandnephews.

In lieu of flowers, donations should be made in her name to the V.A. Hospital in Orlando, or to the Disabled American Veterans, or to Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church in Orlando.

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