LITTLETON, COLORADO - Cynthia Jane (Beard) Hoffman, age 71, died from brain seizures April 22, 2017, at Littleton Hospital in Littleton, Colorado, where she lived at 5242 W. Fair Drive.

She loved growing up in Meade, KS, where she graduated from Meade High School in 1964 after serving as Student Council president, playing drums in the band and writing the class song.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church, 4H and P.E.O. Sisterhood. She graduated from the University of Kansas in 1968 with a Bachelor of Science degree in English and Education on the Dean's Honor Roll. She loved teaching at Columbine High School, where she responded above and beyond the call of duty during the 1999 shooting and retired in 2001. She was a published author of many poems, prose, stories and columns. She followed her grandparents Judge William and Winnie Davis Cooper (Meade) and William Wallace and Iva Jane Beard (Minneola, Fowler, Hutchinson), parents Edward Keith and Juanita Madge Beard (Meade) and brother Larry Beard.

She is survived by her husband of fifty years Alan Hoffman, son Colter Hoffman, daughter Alain Corliss, son-in-law Kris Corliss and grand-daughter Lucie Jane Corliss.

Memorial services will be held graveside at Graceland Cemetery in Meade at 2:00 PM Sunday, October 29, 2017. Arrangements by Fidler-Orme-Bachman Mortuary.