Oswald C. J. Hoffmann

(1913-2005) born at Snyder, Dodge County. Minister, educator, author, known widely from 1955 to 1988 as speaker of The Lutheran Hour, a radio ministry carried worldwide on 1,700 stations reaching an estimated 40 million listeners each week; begun in 1930 it is considered the world’s oldest continually broadcast Gospel program; author of nine books and recipient of several honors. Consult Time, September 19, 1969, pp. 58, 60 and Norfolk Daily News, April 26, 1974, p. 6 and May 6, 1974, p. 20 and Crete News, May 17, 1989, Sec. 2, p. 4 and What Is There To Say But Amen: Autobiography of Oswald C. J. Hoffmann (Concordia Publishing, 1996) and Lutheran Witness, August 2002, pp. 6-8 and obituaries in New York Times, September 18, 2005, Sec. 1, p. 34 and Lutheran Witness, December 2005, pp. 25-26.

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