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Naomi Hoffman Obituary

Naomi Harriet Hoffman went to be with the Lord at the age of 94 years, in Phoenix, Arizona as a result of medical complications in connection with her recent surgery for cancer. Her earthly body was brought back to her home in Colorado Springs to be buried. Naomi was the eighth child borne to a family of eleven children. Her parents were Nels August Benson and Anna Marie (Wicklund) Benson of Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. She graduated from high school in Detroit Lakes and was an active member of the First Baptist Church of Detroit Lakes. It was in this church that she established a lifelong relationship with God and a love for his Holy Word. She was employed as a clerk stenographer in Becker County, Minnesota, and as secretary stenographer for the US Department of Agriculture in St. Paul, Minnesota and in Denver, Colorado. She graduated as a Practical Nurse from Denver General Hospital in 1952 and attended college in the Panama Canal Zone and in Savannah, Georgia. Naomi was an Army wife, an able secretary, a skilled Sunday school teacher, an Adult Literacy Teacher, and a volunteer worker for hospitals and community organizations. She was a stalwart defender of the preborn and a counselor to women contemplating abortion. While her husband was on active duty in the Army, she made the family home a place of loving comfort in two foreign countries and seven military camps, posts and stations. Naomi is survived by Chaplain Peter Hoffman, her husband for 62 years, her brother Marshall Benson of Detroit Lakes, her sister Grace Benson of Detroit Lakes, her son Stephen Hoffman (Lynn) of Colorado Springs; her son Daniel Hoffman (Susan) of Colorado Springs; her son James Hoffman (Kathy) of Santa Maria, California; and her son Philip Hoffman (Cathleen) of Moraga, California. She is also survived by fourteen grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Pastor Glenn Packiam, Pastor of New Life Church Downtown, will officiate and minister to the family. The family asks that remembrances be directed to Operation Rescue in lieu of flowers. The Colorado chapter address is Operation Rescue, PO Box 280309, Lakewood, CO 80228-0309.

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Published by The Gazette on Apr. 19, 2013.

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George Thibault

April 26, 2013

Dear Hoffman Family,

My sister and I were sorry to hear about the loss of you wife and Mother. We reminisced about Naomi from when we were young kids. Naomi worked in the Agriculture office above the fire hall in Detroit Lakes. We were living just down the hall from the office. Our Mother passed away when my sister was 11 and I was 7. We would go to the Ag office and visit (pester) the workers there. Naomi and the others were so good to us. We never forgot them. We are now 82 and 78 respectively.

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