Walter Julius Hofstetter

Brief Life History of Walter Julius

When Walter Julius Hofstetter was born on 7 December 1923, in East St. Louis, St. Clair, Illinois, United States, his father, Herman Hoffstetter, was 34 and his mother, Frieda Molly Lepere, was 34. He had at least 1 daughter with Mary Maxine Bohannan. He lived in Dupo, St. Clair, Illinois, United States in 1940 and East Carondelet, St. Clair, Illinois, United States in 1950. He died on 9 December 1985, at the age of 62, and was buried in Belleville, St. Clair, Illinois, United States.

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Family Time Line

Walter Julius Hofstetter
1923–1985
Mary Maxine Bohannan
1929–2010
Marsha Kay Hofstetter
1959–1995

Sources (7)

  • Walter H Hofstetter, "United States Census, 1950"
  • Walter H Hofstetter, "Find A Grave Index"
  • Walter Hostetter, "United States, GenealogyBank Historical Newspaper Obituaries, 1815-2011"

World Events (8)

1925 · Woman's World's Fair

The first Woman's World's Fair was held in Chicago in 1925. The idea of the completely women-run fair was to display the progress of ideas, work, and products of twentieth-century women

1927

Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.

1941

Japanese attack Pearl Harbor.

Name Meaning

Some characteristic forenames: German Hans, Kurt, Fritz, Gunter, Horst, Otmar.

German and Swiss German: status name for someone who worked or lived at the principal farm on an estate, from Middle High German hovestat, hofstat ‘farmstead, manor farm’.

German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from any of various places called Hofstätt(en) or Hofstetten. Compare Hoffstetter .

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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