This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hoffman Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vk.2ADE/1774 Message Board Post: If someone has access to the Waterloo Courier for Dec 1924, could you please double check a date for me? Many years ago I received a copy of an obit for Joseph M. Hoffman, 1st obit listed under 'MORTUARY" ( I have no idea of what page of column) and written in pencil by the sender (I cannot recall who) is "Waterloo Courier Dec 9, 1924" but now in re-reading it to update/correct my database something is amiss in the dates. He died on the day of the obit Dec. 9, 1924, (according to my date calculator - Tuesday) and was going to be buried on Wednesday (no date) BUT: was he buried the next day with no time for autopsy, embalming, etc??? or was it the following Wednesday of the next week? He is buried in Elmwood Cemetery, funeral home was O'Keefe & Towne. To make things even more confusing: A copy of the "Record of Deaths - Blackhawk County" also sent shows he died on the 12th of Dec 1924. When did this man die and when was he buried????? Since the obit says he died "to! day at his home" the Courier must have been an evening paper...????