Ben Hofstetter
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - November 29, 1918
The first Eagie County Soldier to be Reported Killed in Battle
Gave His life in the big Drive of October 12
Word was received in Eagle one day last week of the death on the field of battle in France of Ben Hofstetter , employed at the Hugus store as a bookkeeper up to the time he enterted the army thru the draft October 3 , of last year . The young man was 24 years old , and had worked for the Hugus company in theirstore at Hayden for a number of years prior to comingto Eagle in April , 1917 . He went to Camp Funston first , but was soon transferred to Camp Kearney , where he received train in tr as an infantryman .
Recently he wrote friends at Hayden , according to the Route County Sentinel , that he had been offered a commission , but he preferred to remain with his fellow soldiers as a _non-eom-nissioned officer in his company . Roy Hofstetter , a brother of Ben , is also in the service , having gone into the army from Hayden . The deceased boys parents , Mr . and Mrs . P . J . Hofstetter , reside in Hayden, where they received word of their son s death November 21 , seven weeks after he was killed . Hofstetter is the first soldier from Eagle county to be killed in action in France , and so far as is known at present , the only one .
