Amy Hoffman was born in 1923 in Pomeroy, Iowa with a small family of just her parents and two year older sister.
Legacy Project: Amy Hoffman
By Jesus Duenas-Galvan
Early life
she is the little one in the middle
One the of major events happened in her life in this time was the Great depression, her and her family were affected very much.
Teenage years
In her teenage years she moved around a lot. From Pomeroy to Sue City then to Lincoln Nebraska.
Another major event that happened was WWII, A lot of her friends were drafted and lost all of them later in the war.
Her most embarrassing moment happened in high school when she didn't know where the auditorium was asked the teacher a random teacher where it was so the teacher told another student in front of her class " take this stupid girl to the auditorium".
She started college in Nebraska, the it was the Nebraska Wesleyan University and graduated.
Did you know?
In the 1940's a full 4 years of college, 8 semesters, cost about $4476. That's about the equivalent of living in a dorm for one year today .
Early adulthood
When she finished college, she didn't know what to do so she moved to Washington to find a job. Later, she found herself working for the government decoding Japanese messages during WWII.
After the war, she had no job, so she moved back to Iowa, where she later on went a blind date. They both had mutual friends and they thought they would be perfect for each other.
In 1948 she married him, Bob Hoffman, who was 3 years older than her was a manger at a bank that his family owned. Later on the bank merged into a bigger bank.
Unfortunately there were no pictures of both of them din their early adulthood
In 1949, she had her first son, Jim Hoffman, who is now a farmer in Nebraska with a wife and three children.
In 1950, she had her second son, Brad Hoffman, who is professor at KWU with a wife 2 children.
In 1953, she had her last son, Bob Hoffman, who is an accountant with 4 children and a wife.