Wayne Arthur Hoffart
Dec. 8, 1944 – Jan. 11, 2021
Wayne Arthur Hoffart
was born December 8th,
1944 and died aged 76 on
January 11th, 2021. The
third of Joe and Angela
Hoffart’s five children, he
was raised on a farm 3.5
miles northwest of Rugby.
The life of Wayne started
in earnest on his 5th
birthday when he started
work in the machine shop
cleaning parts in a
50-gallon drum cut in half
and filled with solvent. In
his youth he extensively
traveled the Midwest on
the Hoffart custom com-
bine crew and as an adult
he traveled the world as a
businessman. Despite a
professional life that also
included being a John
Deere repo man, a foren-
sic accountant, and im-
presario of a
small-business mini- em-
pire; Wayne remained a
farmer at heart and never
stopped measuring his
worth through physical
labor. He moved to
Browns Valley, Minnesota
in 2003 to be
close-but-not-too-close to
his parents in Fargo, and
to return to the
labor-oriented version of
himself by turning his
home into an eternal con-
struction project. Seven-
teen years of constant
exertion turned his home
into a Rube Goldberg-ian
art project tottering on the
edge of collapse that the
city, at long last, con-
demned in December
2020. His long-standing
wish was to die in his
house and take it with
him and, although not in
the way he’d envisioned,
it was granted. Wayne is
survived by his sister
Margaret; his brothers
Willie (aka Frank) and
Larry; two sons Matthew
Joseph and Sawyer Blur;
and two granddaughters
Ann and Sora who were
too young to engage in his
preferred social activity:
argument. Due to a combi-
nation of the coronavirus
and Wayne’s wishes, no
services are currently
planned. He would have
been offended by the idea
of flowers or donations on
his behalf so, if inclined,
please give to the person
or organization of your
choosing and know that
outwardly Wayne would
have huffed while inward-
ly he would have been
touched.
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