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February 13, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, February 16, 2009 at 3 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday 2-4 PM.
She will be laid to rest on Tuesday with her late husband Timothy at the Lutheran Cemetery in Queens, New York.
Emily L. Hoffmann (nee Schrodt) age 105 of Wayne. She passed away peacefully on Friday, February 13, 2009 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital while receiving the loving care of her family.
She was born in Mulacher, Germany in the state of Wuttemberg. She lived there and in the Black Forest region and at the age of twenty-three she immigrated to the United States first settling in Bronx, New York later living in Brooklyn before moving to Wayne in 1980.
It is interesting to note that while in Germany the economy was in great disarray, it was extremely difficult to even get basic foods or work causing living conditions of great tensions. The political situation was extremely difficult with people choosing sides for and against the Nazi regime that was emerging and Emily felt she desperately needed a change. A half sister Anna had immigrated to the United States and had sent her letters describing the wonderful freedoms and opportunities of America. Emily decided to take her chances and leave her home land to obtain the American Dream. As things turned out she was right to do so. She became a United States Citizen on August 31st 1933.
When she arrived here she worked as a “nanny” for several prominent families. She had done this kind of work for a baron and a judge in Germany and became quite adept and skilled and admired for her work. Upon her arrival in America it was a natural occupation for her to pursue. At one point she was a nanny for a family of a prominent Judge Frankenthaler who’s daughter Helen grew up to be a noted impressionist artist. Emily recalled to her family how Helen had run into the street on Park Avenue and how she had spanked her for doing so. She would recall and say “I spanked that artist once”.
As the depression years arrived she often spoke of having her monthly pay cut from ninety dollars to forty-five dollars which she readily accepted because there was just no work available. A half a loaf was better than none was the prevailing spirit of the time.
On January 15, 1931 she married Timothy E. Hoffman but under the living conditions of the day they could not live together because the family she was working for had no room for a another person in the house and she did not want to lose her job. She finally moved to Brooklyn and Timothy and Emily set up housekeeping there. Emily and Timothy had forty years of “well suited loving and caring” marriage together until Timothy’s death on June 1, 1971.
Her story of life would be incomplete if we did not mention her lifelong triumph with her health. The only medicine she ever took was an aspirin and up until the last week of her life she experienced wonderful health. She in fact, living to 105, she had outlived all of her personal friends and much of her family.
She leaves her family with many fond memories of a very strict but devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She was gifted with a personality and she became well liked wherever she went. Discipline of children was one of her great skills and she pursued what she knew as the best way to handle any situation. Her son in law Bert recalls her wonderful cooking with her specialties being good American Cuisine of roast beef and mashed potatoes.
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Funeral services will be held Monday, February 16, 2009 at 3 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday 2-4 PM.
She will be laid to rest on Tuesday with her late husband Timothy at the Lutheran Cemetery in Queens, New York.
February 13, 2009
Services
Funeral services will be held Monday, February 16, 2009 at 3 PM at the Vander May Wayne Colonial Funeral Home, 567 Ratzer Road, Wayne.
Friends may visit with the family at the funeral home on Monday 2-4 PM.
She will be laid to rest on Tuesday with her late husband Timothy at the Lutheran Cemetery in Queens, New York.
Emily L. Hoffmann (nee Schrodt) age 105 of Wayne. She passed away peacefully on Friday, February 13, 2009 at the Chilton Memorial Hospital while receiving the loving care of her family.
She was born in Mulacher, Germany in the state of Wuttemberg. She lived there and in the Black Forest region and at the age of twenty-three she immigrated to the United States first settling in Bronx, New York later living in Brooklyn before moving to Wayne in 1980.
It is interesting to note that while in Germany the economy was in great disarray, it was extremely difficult to even get basic foods or work causing living conditions of great tensions. The political situation was extremely difficult with people choosing sides for and against the Nazi regime that was emerging and Emily felt she desperately needed a change. A half sister Anna had immigrated to the United States and had sent her letters describing the wonderful freedoms and opportunities of America. Emily decided to take her chances and leave her home land to obtain the American Dream. As things turned out she was right to do so. She became a United States Citizen on August 31st 1933.
When she arrived here she worked as a “nanny” for several prominent families. She had done this kind of work for a baron and a judge in Germany and became quite adept and skilled and admired for her work. Upon her arrival in America it was a natural occupation for her to pursue. At one point she was a nanny for a family of a prominent Judge Frankenthaler who’s daughter Helen grew up to be a noted impressionist artist. Emily recalled to her family how Helen had run into the street on Park Avenue and how she had spanked her for doing so. She would recall and say “I spanked that artist once”.
As the depression years arrived she often spoke of having her monthly pay cut from ninety dollars to forty-five dollars which she readily accepted because there was just no work available. A half a loaf was better than none was the prevailing spirit of the time.
On January 15, 1931 she married Timothy E. Hoffman but under the living conditions of the day they could not live together because the family she was working for had no room for a another person in the house and she did not want to lose her job. She finally moved to Brooklyn and Timothy and Emily set up housekeeping there. Emily and Timothy had forty years of “well suited loving and caring” marriage together until Timothy’s death on June 1, 1971.
Her story of life would be incomplete if we did not mention her lifelong triumph with her health. The only medicine she ever took was an aspirin and up until the last week of her life she experienced wonderful health. She in fact, living to 105, she had outlived all of her personal friends and much of her family.
She leaves her family with many fond memories of a very strict but devoted and loving wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. She was gifted with a personality and she became well liked wherever she went. Discipline of children was one of her great skills and she pursued what she knew as the best way to handle any situation. Her son in law Bert recalls her wonderful cooking with her specialties being good American Cuisine of roast beef and mashed potatoes.
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