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In Memory

Grant Hoff - Class of 1940

lmpressive services for Grant D. Hoff were held on September 4, 1948 at the Sunset Lawn Montuary in Salt Lake City at three o'clock. The chapel was filled to capacity with Idaho and Utah relatives and friends. Bill Nuckols of Montpelier, and Jay Berrey, formerly of Montpelier, acted as pallbearers, with young men from Salt Lake. Interment was in Sunset Lawn Cemetery in Salt Lake City. A veteran of World War II and popular Utah-Idaho radio announcer, Grant, 27, of Butte, Montana, died in a Butte hospital early on September 2, 1948 from injuries received the evening before in a fall from a fifth story window of the Butte YMCA building. Mr. Hoff was assigned to Radio Station KOPR in Butte less than a month before the accident occurred, in which he was fatally injured when he fell from the building in which he was rooming. At the time, plans were underway for Mrs. Hoff and five months old son to join him there. The former Montpelier man was born in Salt Lake City on March 20, 1921, the son of Henry Herman and Ivy Adeline Dalrymple Hoff, former well known Montpelier residents. He was educated in elementary and secondary, schools in Montpelier, graduating from Montpelier High School in 1940. Prior to entering the armed forces in 1941 he was employed as a radio announcer by station KID. Idaho Falls, and KUTA, Salt Lake City. He was with the United States army in the European theatre in 1945 and 1946 and was discharged in 1946. He then worked for Station KLO, Ogden, for a year and at KGEM, Boise, until a few weeks ago. He was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He married Lucille Cramer in Salt Lake City on August 24, 1946. The young man is survived by his widow; a son, Grant Bruce Hoff; his parents, one sister, Lois Hoff; and two brothers, Wayne and Dean Hoff, all of Salt Lake City.