1. 90th Birthday
1960 - 1969
• Fam ily Visits
• Building Blackfoot House
• Stacy Born
• A Hoff Dies
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• Fam ily Portrait
• Visit to Arizona
• Going Into Business

2. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 World Events
President: Dwight D Eisenhower, John F Kennedy (1961), Lyndon B Johnson (1966),
Richard M Nixon (1969)
Vice President: Richard M Nixon, Lyndon B Johnson (1961), Hubert H Humphrey (1966),
Spiro T Agnew (1969)
Population: 180,671,158 (1960)
Postage Stamp: $.04
Unemployment: 3.5%
Average US Annual Salary: $4,743, Teachers $5,174, Loaf of bread $0.24
•U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia, Gary Powers pilot (1960)
•Berlin Wall erected to halt flood of refugees ( 1961)
•First US astronaut, Alan Shepard, rockets 116.5 miles up and 302 miles down range (1961)
•Russia orbits moon (1961)
•Pope John XXII opens Second Vatican Council (1962)
•John Glenn is first American to orbit Earth – three times in 4 hours 55 minutes (1962)
•First artificial heart transplanted in a human (1963)
•President Kennedy shot (1963)
•Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment in South Africa (1964)
•The Beatles appear on The Ed Sullivan Show (1964)
•The Sound of Music premieres – remains a most popular musical (1965)
•US planes begin bombing North Vietnam war ends 1975 (1965)
•Medicare begins (1966)
•First black US Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall (1967)
•Congress creates PBS (1967) .
•Martin Luther King Jr. shot in Memphis (1968)
•First walk on Moon , Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin ( 1969)
•The FCC bans all cigarette advertising on television and radio (1969)
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3. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 Visits to Bozeman
When Ray was in college in Bozem an, MT
the Hoffs visited as often as possible and
stayed with them in their 8x44 foot trailer
house. They had traded the little trailer in
on one with a bathroom .
Ray, Melanie, Bessie, Steve, Felix, and Colleen.
Ray had j oined the college
flying club and when he got
his pilots license Felix was his
first passenger.
Fishing on the Montana lakes was a favorite
pastim e. They caught lots of fish from that 1 8’ .
canoe. Felix, Colleen, Steve & Melanie are pictured
but A Hoff was along as well as Bessie, Ray and
nna
Phyllis. They were tenting and Felix had a VW Bus.
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4. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 Idaho
In 1 959 after the Arizona trip, Felix
excepted a j in Blackfoot, Idaho with a
ob
lum ber yard. So the m ove was m ade, a Kit
m obile hom e was parked in Groveland and
Bessie opened another beauty salon.
Bessie, Steve, Felix, Phyllis, Melanie, and
Colleen.
Felix, Melanie, and Colleen by
their trailer in Idaho on Easter
Sunday 1960. That trailer is
now the tool shop at the
Ranch.
Felix, Bessie, Phyllis, Steve, Ray, and
Colleen & Melanie in the front.
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5. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 Ground Breaking '64
It wasn’t long before Felix and Bessie
bought som e land on the edge of Blackfoot.
They m oved the trailer onto it and Felix was
able to have horses and raise som e cattle.
He first built Bessie a salon and then a
house. The property was soon annexed into
the city and their street was nam ed Hoff
Drive.
Ground breaking.
Colleen in front of what was torn down.
Bessie & Felix by the house he built.
One of the
exotic foul they
raised.
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6. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 Stacy -1962
Stacy Sam m ons joined Ray, Phyllis and
Steve on Novem ber 3, 1 962 in Bozem an,
Montana. The second grandchild of Felix
and Bessie and the second nephew to
Melanie and Colleen. Felix was 48, Bessie
49, Melanie 9, Colleen 7 and Great Grandm a
Hoff was 89.
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7. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 Anna Hoff Passes
On Decem ber 7, 1 963 A Sophia Sangren
nna
Hoff passed away j a few days short of
ust
her 90th birthday. She had had a stroke
several m onths earlier.
Services were held in the Bethel Lutheran
Church in Firth and she was buried in the
Rose Hill Cem etery beside her husband
Peter Hoff how had passed away in 1 931 .
She was survived by four of her six children.
Elm er had passed away as a baby in 1 905
and Rudolf passed away in July of 1 963.
She will always be rem em bered as one of
the m ost loving and giving and selfless
persons ever.
Mrs. Anna Hoff
Seventy three year old Anna Sangren
Hoff, Firth, boasts 16 grandchildren
and 15 great grandchildren.
She was born in Gowrie, Iowa and
has been active in red Cross, P-TA,
WCTU and other organizations.
A member of the Bethel Lutheran
church, she has been a Sunday school
teacher for many years. She has done
much sewing for the poor and for the
Red Cross.
During her later years she has spent
the most of her time caring for the sick.
She has a great many family
gatherings for the family at her home
and is loved by all her grandchildren.
She has 16 grandchildren and 15 great
grandchildren.
In the late forties A Hoff was nom inated as a
nna Her husband died several years ago.
contestant for Idaho Mother of the Year. The They have five children, Rudolph Hoff,
following article appeared in the Idaho Falls paper. Aberdeen; Ruth Rogers, Firth; Alvin
Hoff, Rockland; Gladys Alloway, North
Hollywood, CA; Felix Hoff, Powell, Wy.
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8. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 Family
Fam ily Portrait taken in the m id 60’s.
Melanie, Colleen, Felix, and Bessie.
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9. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 Christmas 1966
For Christm as 1 966 the Hoffs loaded their
VW Bus and drove to Tucson to visit Phyllis
and Ray and boys. Ray had taken a j with
ob
the University.
Ray always boasted about
Tucson’s good weather but
Felix never let him forget that
he scraped ice from the van
windows in Tucson!
Felix, Colleen, Melanie, Bessie, Steve, Stacy in tiger pajamas, and Phyllis
before the trip back to Idaho.
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10. 90th Birthday 1960-1969 The Lumber Business
In the late sixties Felix went into the
lum ber business with a friend and later
for him self. Then the decision was m ade
to rem odel houses and sell them . This he
did until he retired.
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