Betty J.

Hofacker

Betty Jane Hofacker, 96, went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on August 25 2024 at the Country Inn Assisted Living Center in Latty Oh.  Betty was born on March 14th 1928 on her parent's farm in Grover Hill Ohio where she grew up.  She is the daughter of the Late Nathan Ringger & Alma Wittmer Ringger.  Betty went to the Jackson Township one room school house where she would walk about 2 miles from the farm where she lived until she started high school and graduated from Paulding High School in 1946. Her first job out of school was working as a waitress at Balyeat's restaurant in Van Wert Ohio in 1947 and Grizzlys in Paulding in 1948. In those days Roller Skating was a popular way to socialize in the community and that is where she met Charles Junior Hofacker of Broughton Ohio, at the Fort Brown Roller Skating Rink.

On June 25th 1949 Betty married Charles and they started their family of four children, Mary, Gene, Denny & Ron. They lived in Paulding Ohio on Sugar Street until 1954 when they bought a 40-acre farm but the house burned down in 1956 so in 1957 they bought and moved to their 80-acre farm in northeast Paulding County where they raised their family and resided there for 56 years before she moved to the Country Inn Assisted Living at Latty Ohio in 2013. Thank you to the Country Inn Staff, where she received compassionate and loving care.

Betty was a very loving mother staying home most of the time to raise and teach her children how to love one another and teach them the ways of God and Biblical principles for this life and the next. In 1956 Betty and Charles both made a profession of faith in Jesus Christ to be their Savior and Lord.  After her children were older, Betty did work part time selling Rawleigh Products from her home, working for Stokley Tomato Factory in Paulding and as a Nurses Aid at a Nursing Home in Defiance.

They were members of The Rose Hill Church of God in rural Paulding County since 1956 and were very active ministering to others.  Betty never knew a stranger and for many years picked up many children in the neighborhood to take them to Church & Vacation Bible School, and hosted many gatherings for the Church at her home for the Children & Youth playing games and learning about Jesus.

She is survived by her children Mary Dunbar of Portland Oregon, Eugene Hofacker of Wellington Colorado, Dennis (Lori) Hofacker of Florence Colorado, and Reverend Ronald, (Lynn) Hofacker of Defiance Ohio. She has 3 grandchildren, Nathan, (Maryann) Dunbar, Jenny, (Bobby) Mihsill, & Ben Dunbar. She also has 5 great grandchildren, Marybeth, Abigail, Samuel, Moore and Reese, sisters, Frances Taylor, Waneta Pinkerton, & brother Charles Ringger

Preceding her in death, husband Charles, a son-in-law George Samuel Dunbar, a Daughter-in-law, Karen (Stoller) Hofacker & brothers, Lester & Lawrence Ringger & sisters, Louise Beatty, Loretta Schulz & Marian Hedrick.

Visitation will be at the Rose Hill Church of God, 17965 Rd. 138  Paulding, OH 45879 on Thursday August 29th from 4 to 8 pm.

Funeral Services will be at the Rose Hill Church of God on August 30th at 01:00 pm with visitation one hour prior to the service.

Pastor Ron Hofacker officiating.

Memorials can be made to the Rose Hill Church of God.