Edna R. Hoffman

Sgt Edna R. Hoffman was born in Jetmore, KS on April 11, 1924, and she "passed over" on April 15, 2011 in Jetmore KS. Later she attended Baylor University where she obtained her RN license. After the war she married Captain Charles Hurt, and worked in hospitals in Phoenix, AZ. She has four children and later was divorced. One day she saw an advertisement in the paper that the Phoenix Police department wanted to hire a Police Nurse. She applied and was hired as a nurse and worked in the jail. One day in 1958, Chief Wetzel called her into the office and told her that he could hire a nurse for less than he was paying her patrolman's pay. As of that date, she became a Police woman. She worked in many positions, and was promoted to Sergeant and was placed in charge of the sex crimes detail. She met and married Leonard Hoffman who was civilian employee. Edna retire from the department in 1978, after 20 years in the department. She and Leonard both retired and moved to Sterling, KS to take care of her elderly parents. After "all had passed over," they moved to Tucson, AZ where they purchased a home in Sun City Vistoso in 1988. In 2006 they moved to Santa Catalina Villas, an independent living unit. In 2006, Edna was diagnosed as having Alzheimers disease. In 2007, she spent the first few months in a nursing home, and later was moved to the Clare Bridge Place, an alzheimers unit at the villas. Leonard moved to smaller apartment and has visited Edna everyday. Later, the family will decide about any services, and the Neptune Society will complete it's arrangement for cremation and take care of other matters. She is survived by her husband; sons, Charles, Dan, and John and daughter, Mary Goodwin. She was a last of her immediate family. She was preceded in her death by her mother Maggie and father Elmer Reader; by brothers, Elmer and Dan, and Roy and sister, Lucy Tormey. Arrangements by ADAIR FUNERAL HOME, Dodge Chapel.