Valerie Hoff discussing expired meals throughout a 2015 11Alive section. (Courtesy of 11Alive)
Valerie Hoff, a veteran Atlanta-based reporter who labored at NCS and 11Alive, died final week of lung most cancers at age 62, in accordance with her husband, Derrick DeCarlo.
“She was a force with everything she did,” stated DeCarlo, who married her in 2004. “She was a strong, capable, loving woman and a wonderful mother.”
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Valerie Hoff, former WXIA reporter. (Courtesy)
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Valerie Hoff at a breast most cancers consciousness occasion after she recuperated from breast most cancers in 2013. (Courtesy of Derrick DeCarlo)
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Valerie Hoff of 11Alive slowly chips away at a stack of paperwork which might be a part of the 1.4 million launched within the Atlanta City Hall bribery case on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2017. (Henry Taylor/AJC)
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Rodney Ho writes about leisure for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution together with TV, radio, movie, comedy and all issues in between. A local New Yorker, he has coated schooling at The Virginian-Pilot, small enterprise for The Wall Street Journal and a number of beats at the AJC over 20-plus years. He loves tennis, popular culture & seeing reside occasions.