Ludolph J. Hoyer

Hospitals in AZ and CA / World War II
  • Military specialty: Medic
  • Awards: Unknown

b. Abt. 19o6, d. Abt. Mar 1987.  Ludolph J. Hoyer was born in Minneapolis, MN  to Christian and Petra  (Stensland) Hoyer. He attended North High School in Minneapolis.

A 1933 graduate of the University of Minnesota Medical School, Dr. Hoyer practiced in Howard Lake for five years before coming to Windom, MN in 1938. He built the Windom Clinic in 1940.

He left to serve in the Armed Forces from 1942-1946 during WWII.  He was in the 6th Division in AZ and then in military hospitals in CA including Camp Beale near Grass Valley, CA. Dr. James Dokken joined him at the Windom Clinic in 1953.  Hoyer and Dokken were later joined by Dr. Alan Johnson in 1964.

Hoyer married his wife Inez Fuglesteen from Jackson, MN and they raised three sons, all of whom also became physicians.

The Hoyers left Windom in 1968 to live in Wisconsin for three years before moving to Leesburg, FL in 1971.

  • Obituary: None on file