They found a nice, quiet town with good schools, a modern hospital, and
     the need for a doctor, so they moved to Medicine Lodge in the fall of 1951.
     John, Turelda, and six-year old daughter Virginia.
       John went to high school and college in Wichita and then married Turelda
     Kliewer, a young nurse who got her R.N. from St. Rose Hospital in Great
     Bend. Her father was a farmer near Great Bend, and her grandfather, John
     Kliewer, had been a teacher at Contonement, Oklahoma, where he taught
     Little Raven and Little Man, two Indian chiefs who signed the Medicine
     Lodge Peace Treaty.
       Together John and Turelda went to K.U. Medical Center, where she worked
     in the hospital while he got his M.D. degree. Then, after a tour in the
     Army, our new Dr. John took a surgery residency at the Wichita V.A.
     Hospital and surgery practive at the V.A. Hospital in Fargo, N.D.
       The office opened on NOvember 1, 1951, in the basement of the hospital
     with John and Turelda working together there in surgery while little
     Virginia spent a lot of time begging cookies from the hospital cooks or
     chasing her big white dog.
       Then, in 1954, a son, JOhn George III, was born. That summer the Hoffers
     new baby and all, took a summer trip to California in a small trailer.
     Summer trips became a family time to look forward to with no telephone or
     house calls, a time of excitement and adventure. Other family adventures
     were had on the water, sailing and skiing.
       During the years both children were active in school organizations, 
     music and drama, and John III in athletics. Both went to K.U., Virginia
     in 1963 and John in 1973. Now Virginia lives in Anchorage, Alaska, with
     her husband, Ron Weber, and two sons. John III, after a year off working
     in Chicago, is finishing his education at K.U. where he is a member of
     Delta Upsilon fraternity.
       1964 was a busy year, building a new large office near the hospital. 
     With the loss of Dr. McCarty, John was the only physician in town for a
     time. And then the Hoffers moved to a new home a few blocks north of the
     hospital. Then in January, 1979, the office came full circle when it was
     moved back to the hospital.
       Over the years Turelda has been ont he library board, in book club,
     bridge club, and PEO. John also has been involved in Medicine Lodge. The
     Awards Banquet highlighted 1976 when John was given special recognition
     for service in the community. The Hoffers have found Medicine Lodge a
     warm mecent town full of good friends and happy memories.
    
                 
     Source:Chosen Land - Barber County, Kansas,  pg. 233
     Submitted by: Virginia Hoffer Weber