Born: July 18, 1858/9. Location variously reported as Littleport, Iowa, or James, Iowa.
Died: December 31, 1929, Bakersfield, California (she died while traveling by train from Los Angeles, California, to Portland, Oregon).
Mari was the daughter of Andreas Franz Hofer and Marianna Ruef.
She was educated at the Mt. Carroll, Illinois, Seminary and the University of Chicago.
She taught music in the public schools of La Crosse, Wisconsin; Chicago, Illinois; and Rochester, Minnesota.
She also taught at the Pestalozzi-Froebel Teacher’s College, Chicago; the University of California, the University of Georgia, and the University of Tennessee, and managed musical programs for the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.
If you know Hofer’s burial place,