Laureen Hoffman

Laureen “Lauri” Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California. After graduation from high school, she began working for Pacific Telephone Company. This job was the beginning of a 36-year career in the telecommunications industry.

Lauri and her late husband, Richard, met at work and were married in Downey, California, in 1968. During their 53-year journey together, they embarked on a number of small business ventures, which included a laundromat, snack vending, hog farming, and over-the-road trucking. Lauri says the most notable was the hog farm they established in 1979, when they moved to West Plains, Missouri. They raised breeding stock for the large pork producers in Iowa and Nebraska. Though she had grown up in the city, Lauri adjusted quickly to rural living and felt the whole farming experience was both enjoyable and educational.

Lauri continued her telecommunications career by securing a job in West Plains in 1981. However, due to various mergers and acquisitions in the industry, she was transferred to Marion, Ohio, in 1991. In 1993 she was transferred again, to Durham, North Carolina, where she retired in 2003. In 2005 Lauri and her husband moved to Bedford, Virginia, where they enjoyed living at the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

With no immediate family, Lauri has embraced her friends as her family, and she takes great delight in spending time with them. She is an avid dog lover, and she thoroughly enjoys time spent with her miniature dachshund, Missy. A dedicated Christian, Lauri is committed to her daily Bible study. She also enjoys cooking, reading, and cross-stitching.