January 25, 2021
Eugene (Gene) John (Joseph Patrick Aloysius) Hoffman, as he sometimes introduced himself, was born July 25, 1945, in Chester, Pa.,and died Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, in Rehoboth Beach from complications of dementia at the age of 75.
Gene graduated from St. James Catholic High School in 1963 and met his wife Sandra (Sandy) at a high school dance. A foot shorter than him, he reportedly wooed her by asking if she was standing in a hole, and 54 years of marriage later, he still loved making her laugh. He was a devoted husband and caretaker of Sandy, and even as his ability to communicate diminished, he never stopped saying isn t she beautiful when she entered the room.