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Pekin Mutter keeps the legacy of the daughter alive year after her tragic death

Pekin Mutter keeps the legacy of the daughter alive year after her tragic death

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A year after her death in an accident at the workplace, the memory of a Beijin woman lives on with the help of her mother.

Lisa Hofmann lives on in the minds of her family and friends. She lives on in a house in Honduras for a disadvantaged family. And she continues to live in the form of an award that gave workers at Lacosta Facility Support Services, the caretaker company that she has employed.

“She definitely left her footprint in the most positive way,” said her mother Vicky Hofmann.

The aspect of her heritage, who would have liked Hofmann the most, would be at home in Honduras, said Vicky. Lisa intended to receive her passport for her 41st birthday last April to take part in a mission trip with the Imago dei Church in Peoria to build a home there. Before this could happen, a forklift hit and killed Lisa on April 23, 2024 in the CNH factory in Goodfield.

“She died the day before her birthday,” said Vicky. “I gave the church some money from their estate to build the house, and they asked me to take Lisa something important and put it in a baggie, and they would put it in the concrete.”

Vicky said she did not decide which objects she would choose to place the Honduras Home Foundation. She leans into memorabilia from Hofmann's funeral and something related to dolphins or teenagers -ninja -turtles.

“Lisa loved Dolphins,” said Vicky, “and she loved the Ninja Turtles.”

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Lisa was a person for whom a stranger was just a friend who hadn't met her yet, her brother Michael said. He looks at the house in Honduras, which were built for residents that she never hit as a suitable monument to Lisa's character.

“She would help someone with anything, even if she didn't know her,” said Michael. “She lived her life through her heart.”

Last month Vicky took part in the Fallen Workers Memorial Day Ceremony of the Occupational Health and Safety Administration in Washington DC. This year's ceremony fell on Hofmann's birthday. At the end of April, Vicky also took part in a special memory ceremony in Peoria.

According to Vicky Hofmann's memory, Lacosta has kept alive by introducing an annual “Live Like Lisa” price. The company will select some workers nationwide who demonstrate the same values ​​of hard work and human empathy, and she lived with awards from her birthday. The company will contain the pictures of the winners together with Hofmanns on a tribute wall “Live Like Lisa”.

“Lacosta was wonderful,” said Vicky. “The company, the workers and the superiors all stayed in touch last year. They really supported themselves.”

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