Martha Hoffman

Kerrville Martha Frances Hoffman died in a local hospital on Thursday, September 25, 2014. In Kerrville, Texas. She was born February 14, 1933 in Brownwood, Texas to Albert William Hoffman and Adelaide McKee Hoffman.

She was a 1950 graduate of Brownwood High School, attended Daniel Baker College in Brownwood and graduated from North Texas State College now the University of North Texas in 1954 where she majored in Foods and Nutrition and received a B.S. in Home Economics. She served a one year dietetic internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital now Brigham and Womens Hospital in Boston and was employed as a dietitian at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas from 1955 to1964. During that time she held positions as clinical, administrative and teaching dietitian.

In 1965 she received a MPH degree with a major in public health nutrition from the University of California School of Public Health in Berkeley, California. Her career in public health spanned 31 years and included positions as a public health nutrition consultant at the Cancer and Heart Division of the Texas State Department of Health in Austin, the University of Texas SW Medical SchoolCity of Dallas Children and Youth Project and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in Jacksonville and Tallahassee.

During her working career she was active in a number of professional organizations including the American Public Health Association and the American Dietetic Association now the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics of which she has been a member since 1955.

She held offices in district Dietetic Associations in Texas and Florida and was a Delegate to the American Dietetic Association. She was a retired registered dietitian.

She spent much of her career planning and ing training of dietetic interns, trainees and graduate students and planning staff inservice education. While in Tallahassee she worked to promote nutrition program planning and development for the general population including the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women Infants and Children and in recruiting to fill public health nutritionist positions with registered and licensed dietitians. In the early seventies she helped evaluate the need for enrichment of grain products in Florida through surveys of the nutrient content of available grain products. She drafted the wording establishing public health nutrition as a vital component of the public health program for the Florida Statutes and worked to support licensure of dietitians and public health nutritionists by the State of Florida.
She retired to Kerrville in 1996 to be near an aunt, Elizabeth Reeves, who lived here. She has been an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and several organizations of the church. She was a former member of The League of Women Voters. In retirement she enjoyed the Hill Country Symphony Orchestra, Kerrville Performing Arts Society and Camerata concerts, was an avid reader, and spent time with friends playing crazy canasta.

She was predeceased by her parents, several aunts and uncles

Survivors include a brother, David Robert Hoffman, and his life partner, Charles R. Peguese, both of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, a cousin, John Wallace McKee of Lubbock, her church family and numerous friends as well as a much loved cat, Zelda.

A memorial service will be held in the First Presbyterian Church of Kerrville at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, September 30.

Those wishing to make memorial donations may send contributions to the Childrens Corner or Christian education programs for children at the First Presbyterian Church, Kerrville, Texas, or to the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation at Norwalk, Connecticut.

Arrangements are under the direction and personal care of the professionals at Kerrville Funeral Home 8308955111

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