Obit: Hoffman, Carolyn #3 (1870 - 1955)  

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Surnames: Hoffman, Schwartz, Hiebsch, Irlbeck, Bachmeier, Kauffman, Stasek 
 

----Source: Abbotsford Tribune (Abbotsford, Clark County, Wis.) 02/17/1955 
 

Hoffman, Carolyn (28 Nov. 1870 - 14 Feb. 1955)  
 

Mrs. Max Hoffman, 85, died Monday at 6:30 a.m. at the home of her son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hoffman, Colby, Route 1. She had been in poor health the past two years.  
 

A requiem high mass was sung this morning at 9:00 o’clock at St. Mary’s Catholic church, Colby, with the Rev. Vincent Schwartz officiating, after which internment was made in Hillside cemetery, Marshfield.  
 

The pallbearers were six grandsons of the deceased: Tom Hoffman, Abbotsford; Bernard Hoffman, Rochester, Minn.; Jerry Hiebsch, Owen; Leonard Hoffman, Marshfield; Eugene Irlbeck, Baraboo; and Robert Irlbeck, Appleton. 
 

Mrs. Hoffman, formerly Carolyn Bachmier, was born Nov. 28, 1870, in Bavaria, Germany, where she received her education. At the age of 18, she came to the United States and settled in Marshfield where she was married on Nov. 19, 1890 at St. John’s Catholic church, to Frank Irlbeck, of Iowa, whose death occurred in 1891.  
 

Her second marriage took place on Sept. 5, 1893 at Sheboygan, to Max Hoffman, whose death occurred Jan. 14, 1947.  
 

For 20 years, the couple farmed in the town of Richfield, Dorchester and Colby, returning to Marshfield in 1941. On July, 1954, she came to live with Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Hoffman.  
 

She was a member of St. Mary’s Catholic church and the Christian Mother’s Society, both of Colby, and of the Altar Society of St. John’s Catholic church, at Marshfield.  
 

She is survived by five sons, George Hoffman, Abbotsford; Max Hoffman, Stetsonville; and Alfred and Joseph Hoffman, both of Marshfield; and Edmund Hoffman, Route 1, Colby; three daughters, Mrs. Ed. (Frances) Kauffman, Marshfield; Mrs. Emil (Mary) Stasek, Athens; and Mrs. Joseph (Margaret) Hiebsch, Owen; 29 grand children and 17 great grand children.  
 

A son, Frank Irlbeck, died in June, 1941. Three other children died in infancy.