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COMPILED AND RESEARCHED BY MIMI BIRD,

THESE VOLUMES ARE HER LEGACY

TO WHITEFISH BAY AND AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL HISTORY.

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MIMI BIRD, 1933-2002

Mimi Bird knew just what she wanted for a final resting place. After all, she spent years of her life exploring the Town of Milwaukee Union Cemetery, tucked away north of Bayshore Mall in Whitefish Bay. She remembered running through the cemetery as a girl "to scare ourselves on Halloween". Years later, as a neighbor and a historian, she began tending the little cemetery and quite literally, uncovering its history.

Bird died of emphysema Thursday at the Glendale condominium she called home the last four years. She was 69. "She really died from cigarette smoking" said husband John D. Bird. "That's what did it."

She was born Miriam Young in Milwaukee. When she was 4, her parents moved to Whitefish Bay. That was where she grew up and spent her adult life. It was also where she became the undisputed expert on local history, both in the village and the greater North Shore area.

In her earlier years Bird had worked as a secretary. She met her husband when their mothers—concerned about their two twenty-something children remaining unmarried—managed to fix them up for a date. She spent the next decades in volunteer work, including at their children's schools, and working part time for the Whitefish Bay Public Library. In 1976, she began to research her genealogy and that of her husband's family. As that was winding down in the early 1980s, Bird heard about the Whitefish Bay Historical Society.

Her first project involved locating, photographing and researching hundreds of the oldest homes in the village. All kinds of other research followed. Some of the leads took her to the Town of Milwaukee cemetery. There she looked for sunken spots, sticking a spade into the ground. She found dozens of old fallen tombstones, buried by time under the earth. "I just had this wonderful feeling of elation when I'd find an old one," Bird said in a 1983 interview. "The tombstones were the only (surviving) records of births and deaths."

Bird filled volumes with everything from real estate records to the early details of village life, its farms, businesses and people. She pored over the minutes of every Village Board meeting from 1892 until 1950. She interviewed old-timers, acquiring old letters and documents. Bird eventually researched the rest of the old Town of Milwaukee, which includes what's now the North Shore area, and the adjacent Town of Granville. And when Whitefish Bay had a 100th anniversary in 1992, she produced a book on local history. In 1991, Bird was recognized by the Milwaukee County Historical Society. Her research continues to be available at the Whitefish Bay Library, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Golda Meir Library, the County Historical Society and the Milwaukee Central Library's local history room.

Survivors include her husband, John; sons David J. and Peter E.; brother Carter H. Young; grandchildren; and other relatives... Her ashes will be buried at the Town of Union Cemetery. [Obituary by Amy Rabideau Silvers for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 10/14/02.]

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Bora March 28, 1892 in Milwaukee* Wiaommtei» Henry Asen was the

son of Jacob and Pauline Asen* Jacob* the ikther* immigrated to

Milwaukee from Bavaria at the age of sixteen and a few years later

Pauline came from Berlin* They met* wooed and married in Milwaukee*

Young Henry* affcer completing grade school woe employed about

two years as an ornamental iron worker* but hie father being superintend

dent of tfhe Wisconsin Ice Company» he then obtained work with that

company, starting as a delivery man and working up to the position of

route foreman* Affeer remaining with the i ce company eight years* at the

age of twenty~four he became a member of the Milwaukee Fire Beparferaen*

and during his connection with that department was employed as Bel ief

Man and driver at the following stations* Engine Company So* 18* Sngine

Company Ho* 21* Sngine Company Sb* 8 and ®ruek Company $o* &* It was

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of the Milwaukee department *

Baring hie long service for the .^ity* Mr* Asen warn, service at many

la*&* etmflagratiosss* s&ong them f i r e* at Blots Bpewwjr*. the JSksex f l a t s

sad Loehe»eyer m i Bltsa* but in h i s modest way the chief says but l i t t l e

of the exelisttejot* danger and'hardship* of Ms experiencess to him they

se*r4 .rarely "a l l in a"4ayfe. work"*

Coming t o fhi tef ieh Bay in 1926 t o take chmg» of the V i n ^ e z%m

department* chief Aaem woe at f i r s t the enly fo i l time.employe® of the

Department* ;$hteh was thssa composed of t h i r t y - f i v e volunteer c i t i s e n

firemen* h$ the v i l l age popul-atltm and the mmber of hwm® i*wreas#d*

Chief Awea's department likewise expanded u n t i l not (1938) his force com**

pr i ses two'Captains and five other fell time flreai&n* The-very modern fire**

fighting eguip&ent of the degpejrtamt i s garaged In an e&e#Xie*i* briefc

building* &a annex to the Ti l lage Hall* (See $a$*er en f i r e Bep Firtosant J

In 1$15* the ^hief -freefc- to* wife sa«s B&mah lotimmmm* of Curtiw*

Wisconsin and they have reared a f ine .family of tb#ee boys* aged twenty^

one* fourteen and twelve* wi& two g i r l s twerty^ftmr ««d twewty-twe* Both

daughters a re *w?r:£»d md the- Chief l e a -twr* t i a e proud graaaftfat&er*

Idving in tlaa home he ptrelsuwd in 198H* a t SWB 8* tfea&ew Pl&ce* the

Chief l i v e s a taiy l i f e * between his ds&iew **» the jear* «ad at home* and*

h i s roaapswith t h e grandehildreti* he h&$ only too l i t t l e time to indulge in

h i s hobby* which i s f ishing n£tor a l l kinds''** including bass and t rout*

t h i s man* i n the' prime of lift* at f^tyMsto* in a regnrosoiitativw cmt~

teor sucn* Ills spi rkl ing eyw and ruddy ohaefc* beepessk m l i f e well epe»& aufc

h i s pereesealtty eugseets a M I of deoAiilQit and ehaaneter as wall o» tdtodltraiMis.

Such saen usual ly succeed and* maiieured i n tho tmm l ight» Chief Aeea's

has been a successful l i f e *

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* Kditoi's Note—Tills iZ the .fourth of a series of articles an Whitrfish Day village officials.

A man who really loves his work is Chief Henry Asen of the Whitefish Bay fire department. Twelve hours a day he is ton duty, rushing out on calls with the other firemen, making his reports* holding himself ready for any alarm.

But Chief Asen's devotion to the village and his fire department does

1 not stop when his specified hours of duty are up. Evenings he journeys over to the fire station, to enjoy himself with the "boys", and should there be a fire call to work he goes fighting fire with the rest ot them. The Chief has missed less than half a dozen calls night or day, in th^ six years that he has been head of the. department. * On his vacations Chief Asen likes to go up to the north woods and fish. But fifty weeks out of the year his hobby is "fire department".

The experience the chief remembers most vividly is the Circle drive fire at 12:26 a. m. on Feb. 15, 1930. The firemen had just returned from

extinguishing a blaze when they received word that there had been an explosion on Circle drive, and the building was on fire. The fire had started an hour before the call was turned in. All night the fire raged explosions tearing the house to pieces. "One blast", the chief related, "nearly blew me off the back porch". Another bad fire, he recalled was that in the basement of the Lake View apartments on E. Chateau place. r Chief Asen has been head of the "Bay" fire department since 1928. He was at one time a member of the Milwaukee fire department, after which he went into business for himself for a time. He was not pensioned by the Milwaukee department. He is

fmarried, living at 923 E. Meadow place, and has two grown daughters, one of whom is married, and two son* in Henry Clay school and one i Whitefish Bay high school.

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waukee, Henry Asen was the son > of Jacob and Pauline Asen. Jacob, ? the father, immigrated to Milwau-

\\ kee from Bavaria at the age of 16 pj.'n and a few years later Pauline } j ". Came from Berlin. They met, 5 # \ ^ooed and married in Milwau^ )th',,]\p**' ' . .-••'"• r 'rz \lx /> ; Young Henry, after completing

1 grade school, was employed* about two years as an ornamental iron| worker, but his father being BU% perintendent of the Wisconsin Ice| Co., he then obtained work in tha^j company, starting as a dellyery| jtaan and working up to the position of route foreman. After remaining with the ice company eight years, at the age of 2 4 he became a member of the Milwaukee fire department and during his connection with that department was employed as relief man and driver at the following stations: Engine Company No. 18, Engine Company No. 21, Engine Company No. 8 and Truck Com-pany No. 6, It was at this last n^med station that he drove the first "UUerlesa'V motor truck of

| i, the Milwaukee^ department. t ' f fX. , dur ing his long service for the*; K\ city, Mr., Asen saw service at;

many large conflagrations, among^ them fires at Blatz fcrewery,; thei

!-}•{.,.; Essex flats and Lochenraeyer andj Blum, hut in his modest way the!

.enter says but little of the excite^ -ment, danger and hardships, of| . his experiences; ter him they seem;

( merely "all in a day's work/' y% i;- : Coming to Whitefish Bay inj

1920 to take charge of the v i l | | lage fire department, Chief Asenj , wM at first the only full time em l i jfrloyee ot the' department, whichl

W s then composed of 36 volun^ j teer cltteeh firemen^JAS* the j ^ l |

?lage population and the numbefr fpf homes increased, /Chief Asen'| department likewise expanded unf fill ^now his force comprises, tvrj captains and five other full time firemen. The very modern fire| jflghting equipment of the depart^ 'ment is garaged in an excellen| •brick building, an annex to thj [village hall. * f jj' In X913, the chief married Mfis| Hannah Ackermann, ot Curtis/ Wis., and they have reared a fine? family of three boys, aged 25, lljjj and 16, and two girls, 28 and 26.! Both daughters are married and the enjef is a three-time proud grandfather. v

Living in the .home he purchased in 1932, at 923 E. Meadow pL, the chief lives a busy life, be

tween his duties Mon the job/' and j jat home, and, his romps ^ith the [grandchildren, he has, only too little time;-to-indulge in his hob-* fay/ • "which is; ; fIshlng "Ior '• a j | |

Jf^tfhli 'man, in the prime of lifg] atv Sjp> is a representative outdoor jm^h. His sparkling eyes and rud^ |dyZ cheeks v bespeak a life well j&pent $nd hlsi persoriallty suggests famanYjof decision and character* as well as kindliness. Such men usually succeeifand, measured in the <true^ l ight Phief Asen's Jiapj

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Project details village history Jfelong resident

Bird researched over last decade

She started researching houses and eventually got to trees. In between were sewers, among other things.

The result is a detailed historical record of the village of Whitefish Bay compiled by resident Mimi Bird.

Her project, done on a volunteer basis over the past 10 years, will be recognized at a special program from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Whitefish Bay Woman's Club, 600 E, Henry Clay St.

The event is open to the public. Reservations are requested and can be made by calling the Whitefish Bay Library, 964-4380.

The historical collection has recently been remounted using acid-free materials and permanent binders. The project was funded by the Whitefish Bay Foundation.

Sunday's program will mark the unveiling of the 25-volume collection.

To open the program, Tim Erickson, a village resident and director of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Hban Archives, versity of Wisconsin-Mil-Aukee, will speak briefly on the impor

tance of preserving historical records.

The historical collection contains more than 2,000 photos, written records, documents and newspaper clippings Bird collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Through her own research she provided identification for photos that lacked information, explained the significance of many of the records and pieced together more than one local historical puzzle.

She interviewed some longtime residents to get their stories of the village's early days.

She and her sons took many of the modern-day photos included in the books.

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The materials are organized by topics — streets, parks, buildings, early residents. The system allows a serious researcher or a casual browser to focus on a particular subject. '•.'<£

Her work has been a labor of love, said Bird, a lifelong resident of Whitefish Bay.

"I started out to educate myself,* she, said. ul probably had more of an interest, because I grew up in the village, but I also think anybody can find anyplace interest-; ing. Every place has a history.* *

But would everyone find sewers so fascinating? Bird laughed. T know it sounds just awful. But the history of sewers is really fascinating. They started as ditches and evolved from there.*

Her latest research efforts have involved reading the minutes of official village meetings dating back to the incorporation of the village in 1892. She's? done 55 years' worth so far. *

("I decided not to stop in 1942, at 50 years, because that was the middle of the war," she said. "I thought 1947 was a more logical place to end.*

She expects to do the next 44 years as well.

She has organized her notes from the minutes by topic so that a reader can trace the development of a particular aspect of village life.

"I tried to make it interesting, not dry and dull,* Bird said. "Some of it you can't help,* she added with a smile, "but it's not all that way.*

Bird was honored in 1983 by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin for her work in local history.

The historical collection is permanently housed in the Whitefish Bay Library.

The Sunday program is co-sponsored by the Whitefish Bay Foundation, the White-fish Bay Woman's Club and Friends of the Whitefish Bay Library. Refreshments will be provided by the Great Harvest Bread Co., Whitefish Bay,

Those coming to the program are asked to bring a photo of a village scene or resident.

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Rev. John J. Barry Becomes Pastor of St. Monicas

The Rev. John J. Barry became pastor of St. Monica's parish this week. He took over his new duties Wednesday evening, not quite 48 hours after the appointment was made by the Most Rev. Moses E. Kiley, archbishop of Milwaukee.

His first official act Thursday morning was to read a requiem high mass for the late Rev. Peter E. Dietz, his predes-sor at 8 o'clock. The school children's choir, directed by Sister Mary Jane, who also played the organ, sang during the services.

Father Barry plans to preach *at all the masses Sunday morning, starting with the 6:30 mass. Other masses will be as follows: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 and 12:00..

For the present he v*Hl con-" tinue to teach .education three times a week at St. Francis major seminary, of which he was vice rector until his appointment to St. Monica's.

When he arrived at .the parsonage Wednesday evening, he was met by two former pupils, the Rev. Joseph Mueller and the

—Photo courtesy Mount Mary Times. Rev. John J. Barry

Rev. Ralph Schmidt, who will continue on at the church as assistant pastors. Both had been in Father Barry's classes at the seminary.

Many Flowers The assistant pastors ushered

Father Barry to his study, which

was almost solidly banked with flowers. Floral offerings, a welcoming tribute, were also in evidence throughout the rest of the parish house.

Father Barry is not a newcomer to Whitefish Bay. Well known for his lectures and talks, he has frequently appeared before groups, which numbered some of/his present parishioners. Also he is a brother of James T. Barry, 5053 N. Lake dr.

Heavy Schedule St. Monica's new pastor said

that he is more than pleased with the appointment, and the parish his predecessor has built up. He confessed that he does not have the artistic flair of the late Father Dietz but that he will seek the judgment of those who know, when new building is undertaken, so that there will be no architectural monstrocities.

Father Barry comes to White-fish Bay with a heavy speaking schedule before him. He has the average of one speech a week to make for months ahead.

Father Barry was the first priest to ever talk at Oshkosh State Normal school. He talked on "Shakespeare," one of his favorite subjects and one that he has taught to many at the seminary, Mount Mary college, St. Norbert's college, West DePere, Wis., and Cardinal Stritch college. '

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ByMimiBird

Bear's Reliable Pharmacy, 5966 Nf.v

Santa Monica Blvd., Whitefish Bay, closed its doors in July.

Sol Bear died in May 1985, but his widow, Marcia, kept the store open until she sold the building this summer. The sale marked the end of one of the last so-called Mom and Pop operations in the area.

"We had a full-time pharmacist after Sol died,* Mrs. Bear said recently in an interview at her home, "but it wasn't the same. We didn't mean the same thing to people as S>ol had. He was the essence of the store. We limped along, but it was like a wagon with only three wheels.*

Sol Bear began his Whitefish Bay connection at the former Schwartzman's Drug Store, 633 E. Henry Clay St.

"He wanted his own store,* Mrs. Bear recalled, "and we were finally able to buy Wilde's Drug Store (on Santa Monica) in 1957. We were here 29 years.

The drugstore's proximity to Richards School attracted more than one generation of school children, many on a daily basis for a purchase of the store's well-known penny candy.

"After we were in the store for a while," Mrs. Bear said, "we found a house behind it on Berkeley Blvd., moved in and felt we were living in a very small town.*

The three Bear daughters , Annie, Lexie and Robbie, grew up working in the store.

In retrospect, Annie and Lexie felt they learned a great deal frm the experience. "I started working when I was 10,* Annie said, "pushing cash register buttons before I knew what it was all about. And I learned how to deal with people because of

Without Sol, the store "was like a wagon with only three wheels."

working there.* Lexie remembered being accepted by

other children "because my dad owned the store. It was an easy 'in.' But other dads went away during the day and mine was always here, at home or in the store. There were times I'd wish he would go away—he was always around.*

Her husband "thrived on his store," Mrs. Bear said. "He was sa emotionally involved with it—it was his life. It took him 20 years to finally get out of there to take a vacation. .He felt it was a living, breathing entity.

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came in. He could be called any hour of the night and would go to the store to fill a prescription.*

"Owning your own store then was the greatest thing on earth," Annie said. "Now it's easier to work for someone. Pharmacists tend to stay in the back room now.*

"Sol always liked greeting everyone," ~Mrs. Bear said, "calling everyone by first names. It was a kind of forerunner of 'Cheers' on TV, so to speak.

"Sol tried hard to maintain the type of tradition so many pharmacies had in the old days.*

Mother and daughters agreed that Sol Bear had been a confidante and friend to many. "He had empathy for most who; came in and seemed to strike the right chord with them,* Marcia said, "although there were people who didn't like him, there was no question of that. Perhaps they felt he came on too strong."

Bear became a diabetic when he was 35 years old, losing one leg and then the second to amputation.

After his first.loss, Lexie recalled, a -ning child came in and stared at him.

Tiis is what happens if you suck your imb too much,' Dad told him. He was a

^<eat tease, but not everyone appreciated it."

When a child was caught stealing, Bear would usually call the youngster's parents. "He would get a* child to admit he'd stolen, which was a very difficult thing for a child to do,* Mrs. Bear said.

"He would literally make the child break down and say T stole.' He would frighten

the child and scare him badly. It was probably traumatic, but years later some came back to say they'd been so frightened they never did it again.*

"A lot of the children found his death hard to deal with,* she continued. "He'd been a constant in their lives. He treated them, with respect and wanted that in return. If they misbehaved, they'd be banished^ sometimes up* to one week."

"He loved the children, that's why he always tried to keep the penny candy,* Annie said. "If they were short of cash, he'd say 'Bring it next time/ Most of them did, I was the one who finally enforced our rule—if they had money, they could come in. If not, wait outside."

Lexie and Annie agreed their father *Sya8 a neat guy. He was different, he stood by his beliefs. But he was not a saint and we don't want him to appear as one.*

Mike Sager, 225 E. Montclaire Ave., remembers being Bear's second delivery boy. "I started when I was 16 and could drive, but I was also stock boy. I worked there about three summers and through high school. (Bear) was definitely a father figure or older brother to me. He was very demanding, but a good teacher; we got along fine.

"But my son, who's now 21, also worked for Sol and they didn't get on at all.*

Lexie said, "Dad was horrible to kids he'd hired. I was embarrassed the way he'd treat them, but they were mischievi-ously creative. And they seemed to adore him. He'd accept them, they could talk to him and he cared. Maybe they made up for the boys he didn't have.

"It's sad to see the building empty now and the store gone,* she said. "All the kids grew up with this little place

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they could go to. They could go in with baie feet—it was the only place around they could do that—and now it's gone.

"They're an Sinperson' wherever they go now. No one knows them or cares.*

Mjrs. Bear added, "Small neighborhood stores don't exist anymore. Our store used to be jammed with kids and parents buying school supplies, for example. Then one year, Sol stood here waiting and no one came. They'd all gone to the discount stores that sprang up. Even the supermarkets carry those supplies now. It hurt all independent stores."

"But the bigger stores can't take away a personality," Lexie said. "They can't offer that."

l "When Dad died, we didn't keep the

stor^ closed for long," Annie said. "With

him, business always came first and we knew that's the way he'd want it."

Mrs. Bear said, "Some may have thought it was callous to do, but it would have been an injustice to Sol to do otherwise.

"Sol and I talked about moving to Florida sometime, but, with his health, it wa$ always questionable,* she; added. "NoW Annie and I will move to Orlando. He was my best friend—I guess we were both on the same wave length.

"As Sol would say, 'Now that's over, let's get on with life.'*

The sadness is there* underneath, for the loss of a husband, father and a way of life, but happy memories linger for the Bear family.

And the neighborhood also will remember Bear's Reliable Pharmacy, Sol Bear and their impact on the area for nearly 30" yearB.

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By Mary Schuchmann !*— ! - Mimi Bird's recent award from the

State Historical Society was for a photographic record of early White-fish Bay homes.

It could have been for a lot more. In addition to that 80-page album,

Mrs. Bird, 6123 N. Lydell Ave., has researched nearly every angle on Whitefish Bay history during the past year and a half.

She has contributed stacks of findings to the Whitefish Bay Library, where the material is available to the public during library hours.

Some items, like the photograph album, may be checked out for more leisurelyJ>rowsing at home. * The album earned Mrs. Bird a local

Seeing the cont inual

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history award.of merit from the state group.

The Whitefish Bay Village Board passed a resolution commending her at its meeting Monday night.

** r or anyone wno tninKs a nistory buff: must personally have witnessed at least a century of time, Mrs. Bird's age comes as a surprise. Z

• "People think I'm at least 97, V she . laughed.'"When I took a group of GirL

Scouts to the (town of Milwaukee) cemetery this fall, they told me they expected to see a doddering little old lady get out of the car."

Sometimes she has trouble recalling all she has done in the past 18 months. "When I finish something, I kind of forget about it and go on to something else/' she said. ^ _

Research on the cemetery, located on Port Washington Rd. north of Bay Shore Mall, has been one of her latest, projects. It /has produced a

notebook- of buriaPrecords and. a photograph album of many of the old grave markers. ' I '

The cemetery dates back to the mid-1850s when a smallpox epidemic prompted an area farmer to donate part of his land for burials. It is now

owned by Harold Seemann of Head & Seemann next door.

Mrs. Bird estimates that as many as 2,500 persons have been buried there over the years, though some graves were later moved to other locations.

\ It is *>very, very family-oriented," Mrs. Bird said, with many relation-' ships of early Whitefish Bay, Glendale and Fox Point families intertwined into an historical patchwork in the land. - '

It is still in use, with the burial of a

. 17-year-old boy just last week, Mrs. Bird said.

Seemann has copies of the burial records from 1918 to the present, but

. all previous documents were burned in a fire, leaving only the grave markers '

} as evidence of many deaths. ; This fall, Mrs. Bird photographed t.many of. the oldest and most interest-£ ing-Iooking tombstones as a preserva-: tion tool, focusing on those, markers

that, are disintegrating/and in disrepair. Most of them are located in the

; oldest part of the cemetery—the - northeast corner near Lydell and , Montclaire avenues. *

Surprisingly, she found she could . read many of them more clearly in the 7 photographs than from looking at h them in person.

(One of the mos t notable is , that of a wealthy farmer who, accord-* ing-to newspaper clippings of the day* J hacked a woman to death with a sickle

. because she had chased her dog onto • his property but was acquitted of the murder,}

r Mfs.fiird has Itlsoqput together a ' record. -of* yearly, j*oads- built in the i Whitefish Bay afea. &oine"of-Jthem~~ ! date back to the 1850s?M"I found it

fascinating,* although not everybody is going to, to realize that a lot of our

: roads were surveyed and put through as little dirt roads," she said. "I think

7 it gives a sense of history to our community, knowing the roads didnt just appear in 1920, that they have been here for a long, long time."

She has also.put together several 1 albums of old photographs and

newspaper clippings showing life in Whitefish Bay over the years.

A 1942 newspaper picture shows, for example, a group of neighbors in the 4700 block of Woodruff Ave. proudly planting their wartime victory gardens Oh vacant lots in the neighborhood^

Another of her products is a photo album of Green Bay Ave. and Port Washington Rd. *

"I took pictures of old homes, old taverns, old everything," she explained.

She was just in time on Green Bay Ave., she noted, for one of her prfzes— the old Town of Milwaukee Fire Department building just north of the Silver Spring House restaurant—was torn down last week.

"I drove down Green Bay yesterday and it was gone," she said. "I thought, 'thank goodness, I took that picture.' "

Also in the album are stage-by-stage picturexecords of the most recent construction projects on Port Washington Rd.

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Actress recalls years in h,X Germany during war

A drama in real life By STEVE MAERSCH of The Journal staff

CALL IT poor timing, call it bad luck, or call it love.

In the year of 1938, while many were struggling to get out of Nazi Germany and away from what was perceived to be inevitable war, Jane Archer, a Connecticut-born actress then working in New York City, moved to Germany. She spent the entire war there, not leaving until 1946.

In the early '30s, Archer had gone to Max Rein-hardt's school of acting in Vienna, Austria. Among the teachers there was Otto Preminger, later a famous actor/director in America. Archer helped Preminger with his English.

It was at this school that Archer met Horst Schillbach, an engineering student at the University of Munich, the man who would become her husband.

The story of their war-time romance led to a move to Milwaukee in 1948, when Schillbach landed a job at Allen-Bradley Corp.

But their path took many twists and turns before it led to Milwaukee. In the 1930s, Archer returned to the States and the Broadway stage, where she acted for four years with such luminaries as Helen Hayes, Ruth Gordon, Robert Sher-

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Among the plays in which she starred was "Libel,"

JANE ARCHER recalled her wartime ordeal.

directed by Preminger. (She has a pleasant letter from Preminger dated 1934).

She recalls those days as the finest of her life. She and Horst corresponded madly. He came

to the States for a while, and in fact had a number of job interviews. But he decided to return to his native land. "He wrote me to come over there. But the situation in Germany was very depressed, and there was much that I didn't know. He said to me, 'Anything you want to achieve in the theater in

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New York you can achieve here.' " Archer decided to find out if that was true. In

August 1938, armed with a letter of recommendation from Lynne Fontanne, she got a one-year contract with the English Repertory Theater in Berlin and left for Germany. A month later she and Horst were married.

"Everything looked rosy," Archer said.

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HORST Schillbach as a young man (left). Jane Archer shortly after getting to the West in 1945.

Unfortunately, once war broke out, it was hard to move anywhere.

Archer said that in 1940 she went to a cinema and the news-reel showed the Nazis storming through the Low Countries. Part of the newsreel featured the burning of Rotterdam, the Netherlands. "I thought, Today them, tomorrow us' — all of us felt that. There was no sense of jubilation . . . . Never once — never once — did we feel Germany would win that war."

At this time Schillbach, a research engineer, was working at the Siemens electronics plant in Berlin.

Archer said she expected that eventually all the young male actors would be drafted into the armed forces. Strangely, they were not. She ventured that the Nazis may have felt that the theater offered the people a harmless diversion from the inconveniences and sacrifices of the war. The theater kept putting on plays — "The Millionairess," "Mary Stuart," "George and Margaret," "French Without Tears" and other well-known works and classics — no Nazi political stuff. Archer spoke German on stage. "My German was pretty good," she said. "In fact, some people thought I was Scandinavian!"

She said the theater people were either skeptical of Hitler or downright despised him.

As the war dragged on, Allied bombing made life difficult — for the theater, too. It kept pushing up the curtain time. They first started at 8 p.m. This was changed to 6 p.m., and finally to 4 p.m. But the shows went on until well into 1944, when the Nazis started to put every available man in uniform.

But war clouds were gathering over Europe. And that November the Nazis took to the streets, killing Jews and destroying their property in what was to be called Kristallnacht. It was a horrifying experience, and more was to come.

A year later Germany invaded Poland, and World War II, the bloodiest conflict in history, was under way.

Shortly after war broke out, Archer went to the American consul in Berlin and asked him what she should do. "He advised me to go to Denmark right now, and that if Denmark became involved in the war I should go back to the States."

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Archer and her husband lived in a pleasant home on a corner in a suburban area of Berlin. It was separated from other houses and had a nice garden. Schillbach would ride to work every day on his bike.

But the bombers came more and more often as the war pro- . gressed. "My husband's factory was bombed —- several times, in fact — and several homes in our neighborhood were hit also," Ar-phpr *>aid

Why not leave Berlin? "It was tough to flee for any German, because you got food rationing stamps where you worked, and if you didn't show up for work you couldn't get food," Archer said. Nonetheless, in January 1945, when the outcome of the war was obvious, Archer and her husband decided it would be best

if she would make her way tb Munich, and he would join (her • there when he could get away. And so Archer, her American passport tied around her neck, « left Berlin.

But Archer's flight was shor£ lived. She got to Munich, and stayed at the home of a friend, Marianne Langewiesche, sister? of writer Wolfgang Lange? - v wiesche, who had left Germany' in 1933 after Hitler rose to powr er. But she had to rely on others for food, and felt she couldn't ! impose on friends like that Soon she was back in Berlin with herr husband. z

Months later, when Russian > troops began storming into^Ger-many, Archer and her husband^ decided that it would be best if 7 she left Berlin and headed to the West. He would join her later.

It was a precarious journey. . Archer now was fleeing two ene* mies — the old Nazi regime ailcl the invading Russians. Arclier walked, took trains, buses, trucks, military vehicles — any transportation she couldi— and found her way to Munichi n

The first American she en- ; countered was Elton Stevens of Vicksburg, Miss:, a 19-year-old ,< GI. A prisoner of war, h^ had escaped when the Eastern Front collapsed.

Schillbach also had a difficult journey to Munich. The couple won the tnisi of ihe Victors l-%&-. many of whom were astonished to find an American woman living in Nazi Grermany —^and the two got jobs with the Allies, working with the United Nations Recovery and Rehabilitation ,, Act. Archer would take Dutch',;* Polish, Danish, Spanish and / , French United Nations workers on tours. Her husband got a job, with the American occupation • forces going from village to vil-.--lage cataloging war booty, mostly art treasures.

Eventually, the two made * their way to the States — again;, separately. Itjvas easier for 'Afy cher, because she held an American passport, while her husbjtnd had to be cleared by TJS occftpa-tion authorities. Archer made i t back to the States in 1946 and her husband joined her sooh,af-ter. Schillbach got a job as an'isr sociate professor of physics atX Michigan Tech University in Houghton, Mich. Archer trav-...-, eled across the country on lectitfe tours. In 1948, their path r j - , . brought them to Whitefish Bay," where they have lived in the^ s

same house since. They have one son, Robert born in 1949.

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Ralph H. Cahill - was horn in Sioux City, Iowa, cm October, 19thf 1891

At the age of nine years his parents moved to Milwaukee, which place haa been hi©

horn since t h i s tiise* He was educated in the public schools of t h i s c i t y , grad

uating from the % s t Division High School in 1909, Proceeding from there he ty

entered the University of Wisconsin, p u r s u i t a Civi l Engineering course, and

graduated from that i n s t i t u t ion in June of 1913* Bach vacation while a t house

Mr. Cahill had been employed f i r s t as rodman for the Milwaukee Light Heat &

Traction Company on rai l road location work, l a t e r as an instrument man for the

sarae company on maintenance work and tunnel construction, and l a t e r with the

City Engineer as Chief of party engaged in reestabl ishing the Milwaukee Bench

?*l&rk System.

Upon graduation from the. University cf Wisconsin he entered the employ**

ment of the City of Milwaukee &s ass i s tan t ttagin*$er~ in -Charge of design and

construction of the Linwood Avenue Intake funnel, Late c r i b , and Berth point

Distr ibution tunnels* ; In June of 1914 he was appointed Engineer in Oh&rg* of

an extensive tri&ngulation survey of Jones island • This survey was based en t i re ly

upon a system of rectangular coordinates, and was ma&& for con derma tion purposes*

fvom Octobsr 1914 to July 1915 he was smploy«4 &s Assistant Engineer with the

Bureau of Municipal Research on a survey of the a c t i v i t i e s of the Department of

public Works. fvom July 1915 to October 1915 he was Engineer In Charge of Surveys

of th« Milwaukee, Kinnickinnio and Menominee d ivers , for purposes of harbor, dock

and wharf improvements* In October of 1915 he was appointed Engineer in Charge

of Construction of the lake Street sewer tunnel, l a t e r as Construction %gineer

for the ^ewer Dept. on numerous sewer and tunnel projects for the City of Milwaukee* /

In J\me of 19 l^pf* ,Cahi l l enl is ted in the 1st Battal ion Wisconsin ^nglneers, and le f t for t ra in ing a t Qa&p Douglas» He was given a warrant as-Paster lnglneer#

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senior grade, and took charge of camp sani ta t ion and the water supply system a t

Camp Douglas. . In August he entered the Second-Officers ^ rain ing Camp at Fort

""herldan; proceeding thence to for t ress Monroe, ¥&., where he was commissioned

aft Second Lieutenant in the Coast Ar t i l l e ry Corps. He sailed for *ranoe on

December 87th, 1917, and served with the A. l .F . as Battal ion Orienting Officer

with the 3rd Battalion of the 44th Heavy Ar t i l l e ry throughout the *W, being pre-

moted to F i r s t Lieutenant in August ,1918•

While a t the' front near fhiscourt he was given command of a bat tery of captured

German 10 centimeter howitzers and with the assis tance of a local enemy ammunition

dump enough pro jec t i l es and powder charges of t h i s par t icu lar size were found to

enable th i s bat tery to operate against the enemy for the l a s t two months of the

war.

Upon returning home in March of 1918 he waa> appointed Chief Draughtsman in

the City Engineer's off ice , of the City of Milwaukee, and one month l a t e r , entered

the service of Ceo. E. Zlmmrmann Co., sewer contractors , as •^ngineer-in-OhargC' of

Construction. This work consisted in the construction of regulat ing and con t ro l l

ing devices on the Intercepting sewers for the Milwaukee Sewerage Commission* In

May of 19^1 he again entered the service of the c i ty in the capacity of Assistant

Engineer in Charge of design and construction of the new Riverside pumping ^t&tion*

On April 18th, 19B3 he. was appointed engineer-in-Charge of t h i s earns project* This

project involves the design and construction of a s ta t ion and d is t r ibu t ion system

to del iver 138,000,000 gallons of water per day, mainly to the high level d i s t r i c t *

Ih i s project is well under way at the present time and the s ta t ion should be in a

condition to pump water l a te in the sumror of 19£4.

He was employed in th i s same position u n t i l January 1, 1927., when he joined

Charles A# Cahill k Sons, Engineers, special is ing in indus t r ia l power plant design

construction and operation. Also acted in general consulting capacity on water

works problems for water department of the City of Milwaukee, ^epteiaber 15, 1933,

Mr. Cahill because acting Village Manager and Engineer for the Village of whitefish

Bay.

In this capacity Mr. Cahill was in executive charge of a l l Village functions*

Today he is Commissioner of Public Works far the Village which position he has

held since being appointed in 1935.

Mr. Cahill is a member of the following technical and professional societ ies*

.American Society of Civil Engineers; i*merican Water Works associat ion; National

Association of Power %gineers ; Engineers Society of Milwaukee Triangle, an

engineering fraternal organization* Mr. Cahill married and has four children?

Jack, Janfe Anne, Dorothy and Nancy. Mrs. Cahill i s the former Miss Myfanwy Jones

of Milwaukee. The family residence i s at 5851 North Maitland Court.

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"Someone must have Jound Aladdin's lump and used it to transform the village into what it is today,V was the comment of Mr. and %», Ti tPi r-gJlîT1, nM-Hwft residents of

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Mr. Callahan, who held many offices here In tho early days, expressed himself as dumbfounded at the growth of the village during the last five years. In lp26 theCallahans left Whitefish Bay and moved to California, During the . last couple pf years Mr. Callahan has travelled extensively through the United States, and, even though now a Caiifornian, stated he hasn't seen a place that has "boomed" anywhere. near like Whitefish Bay has,'\Y'"> ?(

It was in 1810 that the Callahans took up residence in the small village of 600 hundred people that was Whitefish Bay. It was really part of the country, with the center of attraction the various resorts tha| were found in the district, ?ahst Park was, of course, the most .popular spot, although other places, such as Grover's Grove* attracted large, numT J>ers. '' ' .;r. *^TVQ I4ghta in 1010 f

' ''Rough, dirty roads, with plank sidewalks half rnJt d away, and Ca*fj ada Thistle growing ail over, formed quite a contrast to what we founftf

?when we came back this summer," Mr. Callahan stated. The only pfived walk in the village in 1910 extended from what Is now Richards street alonfc Lake View i Q - ^ e - ^ ^ ^ M ^ : Callahan recollected. '"Were "''were' no light's on' the streets, anal onty one store, which also contained the post-office, in the village. The village hall, according to Mr. Callahan,reminded nnn /»*.*< KA»-/.*i..';'i';;:,Y.',j)' J.ZZ7^''-\\

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In 1916 Callahan was appointed jfc' ;nii r8haH for the village, as a result ^^sj* M ht& work: }n apprehending an ^

fe>^ caped lunatic responsible for several ! ^ robberies in the district. He resigned

HiY^$ H8 i0^ ** telegrapher- in Milwaukee and took over his police duties--for the salary of $65 a month. In a short time» * he found that he was : also street commissioner, weed commissioner, deputy sheriff and water reg

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PP^!«!fiij:^P!MHvrod Convict ';"' %y "f^'Qnp-of |he most vivid recollections ^Jjha f;-ltjh9./|prmer chief of police re-|I;||^8:iaealsj-.jy}th he capture of Her-lin|(fnjfcg | Zast^w, escaped convict;" from

| | f | Greea ;Bay< >J5astrow had, terrorized MMJie village, committing a nunVber of Jjjffobfygries. Callahan finally caught

Kl^l'^mi-.'on. a-street car coming in from l l l ^ ^ o ^ Point. He arrested him unassist-^||^!is'di'»disarmed the convict and took ^ l p , b i m t p the sheriff's office All the |f|^0toot,"made .up of valuable rings, ' f Wjatc ies an<J other articles, was re-iJ QOVQred ; in Chlpago by Callahan,

feîhrpugh a telegram sent hy'the'pris-JKp"toner:::to.,'hl» brother several months llll^before./ -? •-.."',. •.-.-' ...;.;'. " :

#astrow was sent up to Waupun .,„.... for ten years, and at the time, vowed

™Ji|p that he; would get Callahan. Hnw-yjfe :e/ver, on 'his release, he immediately ,i|| fe--;-SPt Into another scrape and received | | ^ Another twelve-year sentence. '.*.?. * 'Whitefish Bay was a lively place

in those days/* Callahan said, "and, as the only representative of law and order, I was kept busy.'*Rowdies that frequented the resorts were the cause of .most of the trouble and the 'marshal! named such gangs as the

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•i.-•:''.-'"•'•;'.Corrigan Was Attorney fe! During his term of office, Frank

•vJfs^-îft^'*:-^11 Jwst "setting his long M||^â,reer as village president.; Walter | | | | |^brrigan was then villageattorney,. ^jE^here] were • many battles in those "*'ife-V^y^Mr;. Callalia^ remarked, frying

l l&|^êi Improvements- such as lights, III fetter' street? and' walks. Those that ||f^j owned farms were against any such ^|fjhangesv,as : they feared raises in "l" tjae';.taxes^v^ ; "•• ;' ;< '••:;,--':/•}•-;> Z '

Mrs, Callahan played her part in m|;the building tip of the Bay. She was |«|fttîce-president of the Women'* €iub,

ife|^when-'it•VaV .organized,- Mrs, Kleist M|iwas the first president. Mrs. Callahan

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WITH the heating pipes above her head in the basement of her Whitefish Bay home, Katharine Carson concentrated on writing a novel of summer days at a Kansas Chautauqua assembly in;

her grandmother's times. She is shown here in her "study." The novel, "Mrs. Pennington," has just! been published. 7 z.-.j

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Cahill, Manager and! Engineer for Village Since September 1933 Ralph H.; Cahill was born in

Sioux City, Iowa, on Oct. 19, 1891. At the age of nine years his parents moved to Milwaukee, which has been- his home since that time. He was educated in the public school of this city, graduating from East Division high school in 1909. Proceeding from there he entered the University of Wisconsin, pursuing a civil engineering course, and was graduated from that institution in June of 1913. Each vacation while at home Mr. Cahill had been employed first as rodman for the Milwaukee Light, Heat & Traction Co. on railroad location workj lar ter as an, instrument man for the same company on maintenance work and tunnel construction, and later with the city engineer as, chief of party engaged in reestablishing the Milwaukee bench mark system. • •

Upon graduation from the University of Wisconsin, he entered the employment of the city of Milwaukee as assistant engineer-in-charge of design and construction of the Linwood ave. intake tunnel, Lake Crib, and North Point distribution tunnels.

He worked at various other jobs for the city of Milwaukee until in June of 1917 Mr. Cahill enlisted in the first battalion, Wisconsin engineers, and left for training at bamp Douglas.' He was given a warrant as master engineer, senior grade, and took charge of camp sanitation and the water supply system at Camp Douglas. In August he entered the second officers training camp at Fort Sheridan, proceeding thence to

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Fortress Monroe,j Va., .where he was commissioned, a second lieutenant in the coast artillery corps. He sailed for France on Dec. 27, 1917, and served with A; E. F. as battalion j orienting officer with the third battalion of the 44th heavy ; artillery throughout the war, being promoted to first lieutenant in August, 19181ft 7 ' Upon returning home In March

of 1918 he was appointed chief draftsman in the city, engineer's office of the city of Milwaukee, and one month later entered the service of Geo. E. Zimmermanri Co., sewer contractors, as engi-neer-in-charge of construction. In May of 1921, he again entered the service of the city in the capacity of assistant engineer in charge of design and construction of the new Riverside pumping station.

He was employed in this same position until Jan. 1, 1927, when he joined Charles A, Cahill & Sons, Engineers, specializing in industrial power plant design construction and operation. Also acted in general consulting capacity on water-works problems; for water department of , the \ city of Milwaukee. ( Y>

N Mr. Cahill became acting village manager and engineer for the village of Whitefish Bay Sept. 15, 1933. In this capacity Mr. Cahill was in executive charge, of all village functions. Today he is commissioner of public works for the village which position he has held since being appointed in 1935.

Mr. Cahill is a member of the following technical and professional societies: American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works association, -t National Association of Power Engineers, Engineers Society of Milwaukee j Triangle, an engineering fraternal] organization. Mr. Cahill is mar-j ried and has four children: Jack,] [Jane Anne, Dorothy and Nancy.!

jMrs. Cahill is the former Miss! iMyfanwyt'Jones of Milwaukee. The • {family residence'is at ^ 5851.,; N/! ^Maitland ct» V; ;;v

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Lt. John T. Conrardy retired this week from the White-fish Bay police force after 24V& years of service and has gone on to California, to become a guard at the Lockhead plant in Sunnyvale, Calif. John Drewek, formerly a sergeant on the Shorewood police force, is the captain of police at the Lockhead plant. Conrardy was promoted to sergeant in 1942 and to lieutenant in 1950. Mrs. Conrardy and the three youngest'sons in the family, Michael, Tommy and Peter, will follow the lieutenant to California. Michael was attending Layion art school. Tommy was enrolled at White-fish Ray high school and Peter at Dominican high school. The Conrardys have three married children. Bill, Johnnie and Charlotte.

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b4;v , ' j t 'Editor 's Note—This is the first of ^ . s e r i e s of articles on Whitefish Bay % village officials intended to introduce lv our readers to the men at the head •Iot their local government.

$ It is probably fitting to begin a *i series of articles on Whitefish Bay | ' officials with a sketch of the man I who supervises your various village | services—the collection of ashes and

garbage, the removal of snow, the trimming of trees, and the maintenance of the village streets and of parks.

Ralph H. Cahill, village commis sioner, is in charge of the 35 regular

ft field workers who perform these P services. He is also in charge of the * F- E. R. A. workers. These men, who - all fall had been doing work of a

general improvement nature, are now busy on winter projects, such

I as tree trimming and the mainten-i ance of the village's three skating lw rinks. A number of workers are also \ busy on "inside projects", such as f the making of maps. I Mr. Cahill's functions are those of I village engineer and acting village f manager. As acting manager he rep-fj resents the village board at confer-I ences and hearings, keeps the board & members posted on village business, '! negotiates for the village with public f utilities, and has charge of all other J< village functions not delegated to - elective officers. |, Mr. Cahill's chief hobbies are golf f and handball. He "keeps fif 'by play-l ing the latter sport three times a f week. I Mr. Cahill was appointed to his I position in August, 1933, to succeed J ! the late Thomas Buckley. •< He had | f been with the engineering depart-^ I ment of the City of Milwaukee since I 1913, and from 1927 to 1933, was I consulting engineer on all the city's t waterworks projects. He was in J charge of the building of the Rivers i d e station and the rebuilding of * the North Point station.

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?f7Mf! :1Cahili I s a graduate of the fi University of Wisconsin school of I engineering and of Riverside high £ school. His home is at 5851 N. Mait-| l a n d court. * 1 / He saw service overseas during I the World War, enlisting in, the First I Battalion Wisconsin Engineers in I J u n e , 1917. After \being commis-IjSioned as second lieutenant he sailed f for France on Dec. .27, 1917, and i served with the A. E- F. as battalion ior ient ing officer with the Third bat-Ifalion of the Forty-fourth Heavy Ar-fti l lery during the war. He was pro-f m o t e d t o first lieuteant in August, \ 1918. While at the front near Thia-! court he was. given command of a | battery of capturedGerman howitzers f which operated the last two months fjor the war.

Cahill. Manager and Engineer for Village Since September 1933 Ralph 11. Cahill was born in

Sioux City, Iowa, on Oct. *19, 1891. At the age of nine years his parents moved to Milwaukee/ which has been his .home since that time. He was educated in the public school of this city, graduating from East Division high school in 1909. Proceeding from there .he entered thi* University of Wisconsin, pursuing a civil engineering course, and was graduated from that institution in June of 1913. Each vacation while at home Mr. Cahill had been employed first as rod man for the Milwaukee Light,* Heat & Traction Co. on railroad location work, later as an instrument man for the same company on maintenance work and tunnel construction, and later with the city .engineer as chief of party .engaged in reestablishing the Milwaukee bench mark system.

Upon graduation from the Univers i ty of Wisconsin, he entered I the employment of the cit> of Milwaukee as assistant engineer Uncharge of design and construction •of the Linwood ave. intake tunnel, Lake Crib, and North Point dis~.

I tribution tunnels. j He worked at various other jobs for tho city of Milwaukee until in June of 1917 Mr. Cahill enlisted in the first battalion, Wisconsin engineers, and left for training at Camp Douglas. He was given a

[warrant as master engineer, senior grade, and took charge of camp sanitation and the water supply system at Camp Douglas. In August he entered the second officers training * camp at Fort

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Fortress Monroe, Va., where he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the coast artillery corps. He sailed for France on Dec. 27, 1917, and served with A. E. F. as battalion orienting officer with the third battalion of the 4 4th heavy artillery throughout the war, being promoted to first lieutenant in August, 1918.

Upon returning home in March of .1918 he was appointed chief draftsman in the city engineer's ottice of the city of Milwaukee, and one month later entered the service of Geo. E. • Zhnmermann Co.; sewer contractors, as engi-neer-in-charge of construction. In May of 1921, he again entered the service of the city hi the capacity of assistant engineer in charge of design and construction of the new Riverside pumping station.

He was employed in this same position until Jan. 1, 1927, when he joined Charles A. Cahill & Sons, Engineers, specializing in industrial power plant design construction and operation. Also act-, ed in general consulting capacity) on water-works problems for water department of the city of

! Milwaukee. Mr. Cahill became acting village

manager and engineer for the village of Whitefish Bay Sept. 15, 1933. In this capacity Mr. Cahill was in executive charge of all village functions. Today he is commissioner of public works for the village which position he has held since being appointed In 193 5.

" Mr. Cahill Is a member of the following technical and profes

s ional Koeietitis: American Society of Civil Engineers, American Water Works association, National Association of Power Engineers, Engineers Society of Milwaukee Triangle, an engineering fraternal organization. Mr. Cahill is married and has four children: Jack, Jane Anne, Dorothy and Nancy; Mrs. Cahill is the former Miss Myfanwy Jones of Milwaukee. The family residence is at 5851 N. Maitland ctv

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Whitefish Bay Heir to Town Hall Site ms Land on 'Deed of Surveyance'

lJtat is to become of the old He recommended that no ren-

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Town hall, which once served the entire north shore, when it was par t of the Town of Milwaukee?

Now legally dissolved, except for a pending court case, challenging the merging of the town with Fox Point and Glen-

N dale, the land upon which the Town hall has stood since 1872 reverts back to the heirs of the original owners, according to the "deed of surveyance" given the Town of Milwaukee on July 18, 1872, by Max Zabel and his wife, Marie.

The deed gives the legal description for a lot, 100 feet deep and 50 feet wide on the Bender rd. and specifies it is to be used as a town hall site until the township discontinues its use, when it shall r e v e r t back to the family.

Mrs. Earnes t (Bertha P.) D u n l o p , 1008 E. Lexington blvd., and her son and daughter are the only1 living heirs. Mrs. Dunlop has asked that the city of Glendale remove *v vuilding immediately and

- a rental from the time 1 ceased to exist.

"-' ney Oliver M. Groote-i.. .41 is representing Mrs. Dunlop.

Pay No Rental Attorney G e o r g e Prent ice

for the City of Glendale advised the Glendale council last Tuesday that Mrs. Dunlop has rio claim to the town hall, which is owned by the city.

tal be paid The deed, of which Groote

maa t has a photostatic copy, provides as follows:

"The foregoing conveyance being made and received by the parties mentioned therein for the sole purpose of the building of a town house thereon, and has the party of the second par t obliged itself to build and maintain a substan

tial board fence around the premises hereby conveyed it is f u r t h e r understood and agreed by the parties hereto, that in case the object of which this conveyance made should cease, that lot of land herein described shall reverse to the party of the first pa r t . "

This deed was accepted by Town Chairman William H. L i n d w u r m and Supervisor's John A. Schmidt and Jacob Gibsel, July 18, 1872. I t was recorded by ' Clerk Anson W. Buttles.

Built in 1872 The town hall, according to

early town records, was built at a cost of $800. Construction

was started on Aug.% 12, 1872 and was completed Oct., 1, 1872. Y-

The carpenter-contractor of the building was Louis Sever-an. Plans and specifications for the building were drawn up by Buttles. '

The donor of the land, it the time he made his gift to the town, owned the property on both sides of the Bender rd. as far east as Bay Ridge ave. Mrs. Dunlop is his granddaughter.

Town Chairman Lindwurm lived on a farm which is now much of Lincoln park. Mrs. Zabel, nee Miller, grew up in the old house, which stands at t h e entrance to Estabrook park.

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Arthur Disch Editor's Note: This is the sixth

of a series ot articles on Wbitefisht Bay officials.

One of Whitefish Bay's pioneer residents and, from the standpoint of length of service, one of its oldest employees, is Arthur J. Disch„ who holds the titles of plumbing and heating inspector, water registrar,, jand assistant commissioner of public works. •• ' - Joining the employ of the village j in 1919, when he began serving as* part-time} plumbing inspector after 22 years of practical plumbing. experience, Mr. Disch is led only by William Volkmann, clerk, in years of . service. He has been a resident of; Whitefish Bay for 24 years/ •' /

In 1927 Mr. Disch became full-;" time- plumbing inspector and also* took over the superintendency of the !water department. He was appointed assistant to the late Thomas Buckley in 19 3 () and now; finds himself quite busy assisting Ralph Cahill, present commissioner, in the supervising of all outside projects. :: Mr. Disch's chief recreation, he de-eiares, is going up and working on, a small fruit ranch he owns outside Greenieaf, Wis., 20 miles south of Green Bay. He also enjoys fishing » during his summer vacation, and; likes a good game of baseball. : Mr. Disch is married, living at 4974 N. Larkin street, and has two children,' a son and a daughter; Vii is also a grandfather, as his daughter is married and has a baby gir 1.

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Work of Late Father Dietz in Labor Movements Subject of New Book

A book on the pioneer labor work accomplished by Father Dietz, pastor of St. Monica's church from 1923 until his death in 1947, is the subject of a book "Peter E. Dietz, Labor Priest," recently published by the Uni

versity of Notre Dame \Press. Mary Harrita Fox is the author

v of the book. Father Dietz was active in

labor work from the day of his ordination in 1904 until he took over the founding of St. Monica's in 1922. Tie did much to interpret and publicize the social justice encyclicals of Pope Leo XII and wrote and lectured, extensively, to make industry and government see that workers have a right to organize.

Before his ordination he edited "The Social Justice Review'* and the "Social Service Bulletin" of the American Federation of •Catholic societies for which he

. also issued a news letter, used extensively by the Catholic press to spread sound ideas on labor unions, social justice and allied Questions. He also contributed

to American Federation of Labor publications and attended every national labor convention from 1902 to 1922.

When he started St. Monica's parish, the A. F. of L. gave him $2,500 in appreciation. He used the fund to make a down payment on the parish propertys \

Before World War I he had gone to Europe to organize an international Christian labor federation and had scheduled meetings in most of the capitals, but only those in England and Belgium had been held when war broke out. He went to neutral Spain to make further social studies, and later founded the school of Christian democracy in Cincinnati. This school building was later given to the Catholic Students' Mission Crusade.

Author of the book is a professor of history at Mundeleiri college, Chicago. She prepared the book as a dissertation for the degree of doctor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame. .

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rhere's no law against recognizing a job well done By Maureen Dietzel Mertens

April 21, municipal court night in Whitefish Bay, Judge Robert L. Elliott presiding.

But this evening would be different from the hundreds of others for Elliott, because, after 15 years in office, it was his final night on the village judicial bench. He did not seek re-election earlier this month and so will be succeeded May 5 by newly elected judge Patrick Brennan.

Elliott entered the courtroom jus t before 7 p.m. and walked to the front of the room, put on his robe, and talked for a few moments to Brennan, who was on hand to observe.

Elliott then sat down, banged his gavel and annotinced for the last time, T h e Whitefish Bay Municipal Court is in session."

Court Clerk Iinda Small called the first case. T h i s one isn't on our docket, Your Honor," and she smiled. "Mr. James Gormley, village president."

Gormley, who had been sitting in the first row, stood up. "If I may approach the bench, Your Honor," he said and, after apologizing to the people waiting, presented a plaque and a citation to the judge. "Fifteen years is a long sentence of service to the community," he said, "and the village commends you on a job well done."

Next Village Attorney William Pagels added his thanks and congratulations. "Personally, It's been a real pleasure to work with you," he said.

Municipal Prosecutor Bill Weigel had a present for the judge. "It has been a pleasure to serve you," he said, "and I commend you for your service."

And then the court attended to its business: requests for extension of payment of previous fines, bad checks, a man with

Whitefish Bay Municipal Judge Robert Elliott presided last week at his final court session. He is stepping down after 15 years on the municipal bench.

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41 overdue parking tickets, and speeding tickets.

The last case was represented by Attorney Robert Courtney who had brought his small son to court.

"I like your jacket," Elliott said to the boy.

Michael Courtney looked at his jacket.

"It's all colors," he said. "Come up here," Elliott said and gave

Michael a pen. "It matches your coat." "It does! " And when they left the court, Michael

called out, "Bye." "Bye," Elliott called back and then to

whom ever else was listening said rather

softly, "As my friend Porky Pig says, That's all folks.' "

And how did he feel? "Whimsical, I guess," he said. "It's hard

to give it up. I've always enjoyed it. But I've been asked to be a reserve judge in the county court, so that makes me feel better. And I can still marry people."

Pam Elliott, the judge's wife, was there for the final evening. She said the 15 years had been a big commitment for her husband but not a burden. "It's because he enjoyed it so much," she said.

Now the courtroom was emptied of the defendants. Left were a group of the judge's co-workers, including Small, Brennan, Catherine Francione, a number of police officers, and Jerry Schmidt, head of the auxiliary police. They had some gifts for the judge.

A comb without any teeth. "For our ttiirining hair," said Schmidt. Next a square bowling ball that looked a great deal like a brick. And a gold brick. A sign that read "25 speed limit." And last a huge gavel to hang in the judge's rec room, and then another huge gavel for the outgoing judge to present to the incoming one.

Brennan, an attorney with Riordan Crivello Carlson Mentkowski Steeves, acknowledged he had big shoes to fill.

"He's done a tremendous job," Brennan said. T h e system works very efficiently and that's a credit to Bob."

"I'm going to steal my old gavel," Elliott said. "I've been using it for 15 years."

And how did Elliott get to court for his last evening? "I rode my Harley motorcycle," he said.

And as the old friends gathered upstairs to say good-bye, Elliott's shiny new black Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Sportster 883 sat behind the Village Hall along with the squad cars, waiting for the judge to end court business one last time.

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pgwridfte&t' assesag those, whose iriaie® -«&& esun*gy t^sntlfetmti lfeit#fis&

Bay from a fiara hmBlet into & aod^Mi a\*lrarha& Tillage mw c* BabiMrft' 0»ilMif!»

ifa i t was who denralepad the mort&em end of the village, through Ma land

eontpa&lee* H# buil t his horn mi Bay &fmm la 1894y sola »my lota Is that

d i s t r i c t i installed a water eyetemt &&d tivedit i t di*e eXiaaet solely te-hltt

for tba eactaael<wa of tr^aapertatto* t o tfoe mm%ii m& of the village* He

was also a toegiber of the firaf acfttool feosrd that tmilt the f i r e t ee&oel

In the vil lage. Trg&aportetloii, water supply m3 aelieel* wer& a l l that were

aee&ed in addition t o ike e$le«&id aatural eei t i ig ot the l&M to taiitee

many &i3jtt£keeeae to build their hotaea in tfele village* hmiXivh ®pewtfe Is

peyul&tlesi c i te Improvement in tr&myertortlaft, € jso&lely&l ^ate* aad eewer

a^ tm-asd f i r e &s*3 polite proteetieiw Ifte effeet *a« eaauletive tmt the

treed wae eat In motion by the' aaAy ra&ltora oparati&g t» the village area

and Gather waa par&apa the one man needed to eperk the otheom lata eosistsme-

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Ho wee bar a jfely SO, 1 S 3 , a* eidemhtirg, %fsmf3r, the aou *f .jngwt and

fitarle aether, the fatfcsr heing %tortxey OatiamU. of tha prt&eipallty* i t tha

age of nine his Mother brought Bobert with her <m a v i s i t to Oh&rlea City*

Iwa* Maria Qether w«ta an. ©iteas*losal:,..i«al«ta» and m mmmn of foreef&l

character, asd- <jni«fcly for»d a liking for *ntorlea and de&oeraey* %e mat

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and aweecneefwl' career in bar pro-feaaicxu Young Bobert received hie education

in the pablle schools of Ht Louis, but being of a- corrs«rcial turn of mini,

ohcee. a l i f e of hue tea as ra ther than, to etucty for a profeaalon. % therefore,

find him l a 18?5 working as a haste elerk in St- Louis* 5hla w&e the ye&r of

the eevere fimnoi&l panto, rgaablag -i t* peak in the famaya *&teek -Friday*t

and Ht* y&uaag iwnê'^nervee-wert* f i t t i n g a&Boat beyond control from, the fewer-

ish daje a t the baak. f<v tha aalce of h i t hea l th , he f ia&liy reelgftatf Ma

position with the haak end went to work for the Talesn Iron «fc Steal Go*., where

he soon beeîae an operating engineer . Two yaara l a t e r , with his mother a&ft

a l e t e r he tmnm t o ffliwankee, where hie mother eeat'mued her mueie&l work, a&d

©ether awaalred a Job aa toekftreepev fo r F.svfan Ccts&auaei^ fhe f oXlewiag

year he wwat to wort: for the firm of Be®tea»- Gove & C©*, type feuadere* where

he kept the books/at tended to ee l lee t ieoe wad pa^reftla and operated the

power p lant , receiving the grand to t a l of $10*00 ?*># week for his -an? sar~

vloee. After a year of t h i a he asked for aa increase in pay "•••ad was f i a a l l y

t l l d by Mr* dove he eeuld have a r a i s e of $1*0© per wee'" and tha t joba were

aearoe a&& he 'had be t t e r ressalnwlth the fiwau ^ r . Gove was jaet leaving to

epead the 4th of July a t hie e w l i y hoste a i i mm tad & de f i a l t e dede i en from

Gether on hta rata3m 1B a 'eotple af da?** Before Save*a return Gather had

accepted am offer for a posit ion with i^Srewa * 3e», a&r&ea the a t r e a t , a t a

e t a r t l a g aalin^r of #1800 per yw*r+ f&le ee&eera were wheleaalem of apleee

and baking powder., «rpleylBg twelve read a&leameft a&d two c i t y a ale amen, and

enjaryed a business of oêr a milllem dol la r s aanuelly* Gether1 a work there

was very arduous aul. laany days Ma. fce*are atarted- a t 4 ;,.M« and laated wntil

© ?•$[•, but hla fa i th fu l aerviee wee rewarded a t the e&d of ose /yaar by a ~-

boa&a eheek ef #1000 aad 1E iaereaae ia #a&agy to f5©0Q*

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Gether remained with this establishment 5g years and unt i l the firm

went into receivership as a r e m i t of the failure of the Manufacturers

Nat f l Bank with which they carried their account.

The day following the fai lure Gether met hie old employer Mr, Bent„a

now of title firm of Benton & Waldo, type found or a, vfao told him he would l ike

him to corns back with him and agreed to pay the eama salary Gether lad been

getting from the Andrews Company* It appeared that Benton & Waldo were

about to s e l l their business to the American Type founders, at a price baaed on

earnings capitalized at six per cent and Gether was to make an audit of the

books covering the previous three years for the purpose of establishing the

net earnings•

When the audit was complete the Benton Waldo Company was absorbed Into the

merger at a price of $1,600,000 although the physical value of the plant was but

approximately |100,000 not inclusive of certain quite valuable patent r ights ,

Mr* Benton was made general Production Manager* Mr* Waldo, Manager of the

New York Sales Office and Mr* Gether waa made manager of the Milwaukee plant*

About f ive years later American Type Founders closed the Milwaukee plant

and Gether entered a partnership with one of his co-workers, Oliver %ebert«

The new firm secured agencies for several large independent type foundries,

and for various printing machinery and accessories, and engaged in the print era

supply business, which they operated for about twenty years•

During moat of this time Gether engaged In realty operations. He helped to

organize and waa made a director of the f i r s t building and loan association in

Milwaukee. In 1894 he built hla heme on Day %eauet fhltef lah Bay and along

other ac t iv i t i e s in real estate in this d i s t r i c t , he was one of the promoters

of the Glendale Investment Association, Acme Realty Co•, North Lawnedale Co.,

and various other oompaniea*

In 1893 Gether married Miss labe l Garter of Milwaukee, the daughter of

a well known lake captain* fhsy have tee children, a married daughter Bemlee,

of Highland Park, 111* and a eon, Carter, living In Shorewood,

Kcw, at the age of 86 Q, Robert Oether, although retired from active

business life* re*a3ns^«ieh~efL 4ile-ene^^-andr la^reea^ hie int^viewer ae

champing at the bit in a deaire-to again, ' '§sf out' sld" accomplish 0ther....m<a»;&h.

while things," as he puts it*

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O. W. Geseli Herthloa being president or the

.Wniteimh Hay Cooperative club, JO. W. Oi^ll i« principal ot" tho

Henry Clay .school. A native or Two Rivers., Win.,

| his present residence is «i MiH

'N. KlUhart ave. He Heeurod his Ph.D. and M.K. while attending. Milwaukee Stale Teachers, college, Northwestern university and Marquette university.

Hi« original position WUH at the Pleasant View school ot. Milwaukee*. Coming to WhltefiBh Hay In 192 6 a.s principal of the Cumberland school, he wan later transferred to hirt present location.

Woodworking and gardening occupy much of hi* spare time. He Is a member of Phi Delta Kappa.

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Hibbard Greened waa bora oa June 22, 1882,' near Uale, IlL*,on a farm. He received an engineer's education at the University of Illinois. Z7'\\Z\ y Z V:

Now ho Is a special agent for the Northwestern Mutual Life in* surance Co. at 721 YS. Mason St., Milwaukee.

Since 1931 the Greenes have lived in Whitefish Bay at 1021, EJ» Circle dr. Their two grown children have \ett their parents' home, Mrs* Hugh I. Ross ot Shore-wood is the Greenes' daughter, A son, Robert/ of Rockford, 111.,'. Is engaged to be married.

About one year ago Greene was appointed as a village trustee to-complete the unexpired term of another trustee. Last April he was elected4 for ft three-year term. He belongs to the public safety and personnel and publicity committees and is chairman of the board of health. , *

As a hobby, Greene pursues a little white hail on the golf course. He. la a member of the

j Milwaukee Country club. I Serving as a junior warden of 1st. Paul'* Episcopal church is an* I other of Greene's positions. He is ; also affiliated with the Forest j Home cemetery as one of the t»ut>-•tees, Y •• • •"*•"

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•7. That .same year ;he began his pre-medical studies nt the Milwaukee Normal, whJ<?h^hool he attended for two years, graduating twlth honors, lir the society called .the "Honor WtmZrt&roia ther^'he went 4o ; Madison -and ôdk \%wo' years /of medicine at the PfUv^sr-jjityftsi :^t^b^9/î i i«h^r«ifuL; * .\;^nhplor^')k .îêneeîê^ree;' ^While at ^ e " a«iver*lty %e **as Elected to Sigma Sif ina; 1^ honor-Wp^Mm fcoetet# He ;*omileted *its riuedicalMurse at Cthe ^ s h l**M*l,; »#$*>*-*t t h e ^ a i i ^ t y j

His internship he served"*!! the Presbyterian hoapltal in Chicago, Milwaukee hospital and Milwaukee Children'e hospital.

Dr. Gute began the practice of medicine in Whiterlsb Bay on June 16, 1926, and in April, 19,27, was made village health commissioner, a position' which he has' held continuously to the present tim<». Later he was also appointed ^chooi physician, being the first

incumbent in that newly created | I position. j

In 1923, atter graduation from the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Gute was married but continued his medical studies atter his marriage. His family now comprises, besides his wife, two children, one girl and a boy. ;

Dr. Gute, in his capacity as I health commissioner and school physician, has contrbluted very; materially to the health and well-being of Whitefish Bay. His placard system for contagious d i s eases, worked out Jointly with?' Mrs. flchlnz, village nurse, has j* won country-wide acclaim. Health; examinations for school children •' are (particularly thorough; *»dj[ very much more extensive than In; the vast majority ot schools. vDr.| Gute'e years of service to the vll4 lage and the schools have won" him a place of high esteem among; the residents of Whitefish Bay. !

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Miss Artherine Harper in a. feature appear* ing in the Herald back in February, 1914,.';.

> wrote the following concerning a Whiteflsib Bay resident:

Commissioner of health for the village of Whitefish Bay—a lugrious title surely, calling up visions of a solemn, bewhiskered

I medic. Haunted by childhood memories of the traditional family doctor, I mustered my* dignity before ringing the *bell beside the? bronze name plate, inscribed "Edwin B»

However, the quick smile and friendly • ^manner of Dr. Gute waived dignity. (And hlsi-

tonsorial affectation is limited to*a neat line,, on his up£er lip, the obvious, gesture of a.1

very young man trying to borrow a fe*f yeara from Father Time.) But his you tin is not

• that of inexperience, but ot fresh and boundless enthusiasm f 6r his work.

His campaigns for health education andl - disease prevention have attracted statewide ! attention and have made Whitefish Bay's f health chart unusually clean.

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Mrs. Gross Rounds Out 50 Years of Service to Village for Her Family

When Vera Gross ceases to be Whitefish Bay's village clerk at the end of this month her family will have completed more than fifty years of service for the village., j Her father, the late William 'Staff ield, became marshal! of Whitefish Bay in 1897 and continued on in village service un-^til his death in 1933. He was I Mrs. Gross, then Vera Staf-*field, became a switchboard operator in the village hall April,

11931, and continued in this post (until February, 1932. She re-Smained out of village service un-ytil Dec. 15, 1933, when she went to work in the, clerk's office. William Volkmann was clerk.

When Volkmann retired, she was elected to the office of clerk and has completed one term.

Ten years ago, she became Mrs. Herbert E. Gross. Her husband teaches violin and plays with symphony orchestras. He is a member of the Music Under the Stars orchestra.

Mrs. Gross intends to devote her time in playing his aecom-j paniments and the accompani- j ments for his pupils. She studied j piano during her grade school and high school days. She is a graduate pF Shorewood high. Mrs. Gross will also go in for extensive g a r d e n i n g at her home, 919 E. Lexington blvd. One of her specialties are iris. She has 12 different varieties.

New Village Clerk 1 Is a Daughter of Village Employee j

What manner of woman is this Vera Gross, who after the April 2 election will be the second woman official of the village? (Alma Shepherd, treasurer, is the first woman official at the village hall.)

She is a quiet, alert young woman, thoroughly familiar with village affairs through her years as assistant to William Volkmann, who recently aiir nounced his retirement after 30 years of service.

Daughter of a veteran village /

employee, the late William Staf-field, she is a native of the village. Her father served as village marshall, street commis-sioner and at the time of his death was foreman of street maintenance. She was born in the home at 919. E. Lexington blvd., which she and her husband, Herbert E. Gross, now occupy. ...-,:./--,- y-.y

Mrs. Gross attended Whitefish ; Bay grade schools and was gradua ted from Shorewood high school. She started her village hall career as a switchboard operator April 29, 1931. In December, 1933, she became Clerk Volkmann's assistant. She was

• married to Mr. Gross, violinist and teacher, on May 7, 1938. Her

I husband is a member of the Mil-! waukee Symphony orchestra and is employed by a local factory.

The new clerk told a Herald reporter that taking over the job whicri Mr. Volkmann did so, well for so many years is a challenge, but added that she is looking •forward to it with confidence and pleasure. '

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Qaorge H$ge the preasnt and only PoStiee Chief of Wfcitefiafc Bay wee

ham September 17, 1889 in De Verm, Wisconsin*

Si *«^va&.&ls early edwatieEB in fihe aeltoels of Be Para and later

was apprenticed to a earpe&ter at.Jbldfe tell he Wd3?kwi for tueuty fow

yaare* larly ia l i fe he exhibits eseoutiire ability and this quality waa

soon recognized. He became auperintendent of construction fer the H«J*

Sallner QtiMtjraetioa Company of %«n Bay, Wisconsin and In foia capacity

ha visited many $$rte of the at&to lnaludlsg Wbitafish Bay. Sia pleasant •*^>«lll^0i^^ •-.'••••••••'• ~.-,.r?~t&r-..

personality a&d Integrity gained him me&y friends and acquaintancoa through

out the st&te hut the rustic chara of Whitefish Bay appealed to him and on

Decerafoer 5, JfgS the future Police Chief aiflted to the village* Hage con

tinued to work at the caTpOTter trade imtil 19£7f ifam cm Hey l f he

*ae appointed Chief of Bolice* succeeding ffrcsms I* &ai2*tltagif t^lgaed^I^- /'^''/

trader the ahle leadership of Chief Sage the de^arfeeat fee* gro*m from

two s&otoreycle men in 19S7 to ten regular police officers in 19361 including

two nlgjit operators*

In 19M Chief Hage tmllt hie own hoeae at 4M1 W* Ouafearlaaad Boulevard*

Chief lage was married June 14, Idle to Louie* Hueeong, and they tote two eons

fifteen ad twenty-one and a daubster eighteen* fhe younger eoa and the daitgh*

ter attend, phiteflah Bay High *efe©ol.

Chief lege is a mmhw of the Sfaaoaic Lodge, and a charter fasmber of the

toyal Order of Moose having hew a Eemher of the latter since 191£*

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Hehlng and banting &*** tfe* chief fe principle eporte and he l ikes to

make hie way up to the Northern part of the •tat*.when tlsta permit** Whet* hie

policing day* are over aM hie AlXdron grown and married* you ' l l prebahly

find our oongeal&l friend and- protector to&ildiiag himeelf a c&hin among the

pines up north and fi ah ing and hunting to hie heart* content* But to the

writer** knowledge the people cof Whit&flife Bay de not want thie to take place

for mmy ym?& to *&&*» for u&il* i t hae heen hie dtaty for the p**t eleven

years to reprimand and correct the children and amatlma* to arreet the

adulter hie Juatice amci patience have gained him a heat of friend* in

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Photo of Fred Geilfuss and son Carl, in their farmyard, which was located on present Bay Ridge Ave. and the south side of Silver Spring Drive. View is looking east towards present Kent Avenue (to the east). Photo taken about 1916-1917. Photo courtesy of Carl Geilfuss.

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Fertile Grams Polices Park Once Farmed by Grandfather Grams

iBy Madeline Dahl Nagle

F$rdinand G r a m s , 5955 N. •Lafofe dr., is known to practically every man, woman and cKild in Whitefish, Bay. / The children call him "Fer-cue," even though he celebrated his 65th birthday on July 27. Probably it's because he himself was a child in the Bat- In fact, he's lived right here for alii his 65 years and only a few times has he been out of the state.

There were times he went to Chicago with1 his father and grandfather to buy horses for the f<,arm. They traveled to the Illinois port by boat. Coming home in a storm one time they landed in Kenosha, instead of Milwaukee.

Once, a long, long time ago he went to Lake Namakagon near Ashland. That is the farthest he has ever been from home.

For the last 27 years he has lived at the Lake dr. address. A bachelor, he has two widowed sisters, Mrs. Elsie Czerwan and Mrs. Annie Hecker, living with him/ They manage the household, while he acts as a special policeman in the Bay, policing Klode park, once his father's farm land. He has been a special officer since January 18, 1937 — exactly ten years.

But this is not his first village service. Since he was 17, he has been working for the village. He hauled gravel with his team of horses and did,^ many odd and useful tasks to| : | help build up the vicinity, now > termed the "Gold Coast."

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Ferdie Grams

$30 an Acre He knew this area as the old

: Grams farm. His grandfather bought 21 acres of lake front property in 1866 at $30 an acre. Klode park is the south half of the cud Grams farm.

Ferd's father fought in the Civil war, returning in 1869 to marry Annie Engle and to settle

(down on the farm land, now concer ted into avenues. Eleven children were born to them, three boys and eight girls. Two boys died in jnfancy. Following years have taken three of the girls.

Those still surviving in addition to Ferd and his home-mak-

I era are Mrs. Lillian Dickman, N. Woodburn st.; Mrs. Hulda Hage-man, N. 12th st., and Miss Hattie Grams, who has been in the employ of Mrs. Erma Adams, N. Shoreland ave., for 31 years.

Hardwood for $2 a Load Ferdie has watched Whitefish

Bay grow up. When he was a boy, this land was raw and rugged. He recalls his father telling of blasting stones and stumps to clear space to build the farm home. Stones and stumps slid down the hill.

Ferd remembers when the best h a r d w o o d could be

v 7 bought for $2.00 a cord; when Day ave. was paved with cedar blocks in 1892 — and when it

was paved with concrete in 1914. He was a pupil at the old

Green Tree school and was the first boy to graduate from the first grade school ever built in Whitefish Bay. . . . This school burned to the ground in 1918.

Collected Glass He remembers how he fished,

hunted and trapped along this section. He chuckles when he tells of the two summers he worked as a "glass collector" (gathering u p e m p t y b e e r glasses) at Pabst's Whitefish Bay Resort, where there were 150 waiters, a German brass band and yodelers.

His father was on the village board of trustees from 1898 until 1900 and was again elected in 1903 and served on the board until his death in 1912.

Assessor •to* Six Years Fred belongs to the Ind-

pendent Order of Foresters. He was assessor in the village for six years, 1914-15-16-17-18-19. Although he has never married, he is very fond of children. How else could he have gained the affection of the hundreds of kiddies he looks after at Klode beach and the park during the summer — and those he directs across the street and boulevard at Richard school during school days?

Mr/. E. J. Zeiler,fianta Monica blvd., principal of Richard • school, often mentions how Ferdie is beloved by all children. And Ferdie loves the children—he loves every stick, stone and grain of sand in the village — he loves the lake, the village and its people. He told me that he loves his

job — and even though he, is only a "special policeman" arid not on the regular force, he is as proud as if he were the "chief."

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t When George H. Gabel graduated^ •from the Ann Arbor law school way,*;J| jback in the early part of the cen^v. [tury he may have dreamecT hopefully";' of fame. . . And now that samef : George H. Gabel, Village Attorney*' |of the Village of Whitefish Bay, 'baft had it come to him through his ap-V

!pointment to the Metropolitan Sewerage Commission for a lifetime 1 term. * $

He is one of three men to have ;i this honor bestowed upon him. It j is as honor, although it also is a | long and difficult task. The plans <| for construction of all sewer arranged.til

'meats throughout the entire county*'"3 with the exception, of the City "o4T 3

^Milwaukee, will fall on his and ni& | two companions' shoulders. It is nov\ J small bit of work; rather it involves" | |

/millions of dollars and a great deal;|j < of intelligent and patient advise; ;* Z$M J Shorewood, Too, Claims Him '\X^ ^ Shorewood, too, even as the Bay^lf 'has a hold on Mr. Gabel, as he i s - j fa resident of that community, living;! at 4066 North Stowell, and it was I* J happy to hear of his appointment.^

But members of the board with Vhom he works were particularly 5j eager to praise him and his fine work and constant efforts in the office of attorney which will be his as long:? as he wants to serve. >/

"There is just one thing to say1; about such an appointment/' Henry t S. ,Wright began, "it's a great honor! and I'm mighty glad George re-J ceived iU he's deserving of it. There ? is no one in the state who has . aJ greater knowledge ,oi municipal .-law J he is!in a,classrj>y jhimself.'*,t . 1- i;*J

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William Volkman was "of VheTamel opinion of Gabel's knowledge of hisj office. MHe has taken a greater; in*-> terest and has a more thorough uin<? derstanding of Village lawthen any^ other man in the state. He is to bej

Congratulated on his appointment."! Commission Fortunate ,; ; ^ J

"The commission is fortunate inV; |adding him to its staff," said Tom J ^Buckley. "George is a tireless work-|er and is willing to put in * hours if land hours to complete something1" tthathe has started.' We are glad to: Jknow that his efforts have been recognized by others than our own | I board." - t> • ' ' r 'Z rr'] • y X

Frank l&lode, president of the Village} of Whitefish, Bay,' was high .in •his praise of his able aide. "W© are 5| all happy to know that George has been awarded this honor and we 1 know he surely deserves all the hon- * ors that can be given to him." ?

Village Citizen Since 1011 *To say that George Gabel's ac- ;

quaintance with Village affairs was j only learned through books would ^ be an untruth; he has been a Villager himself since Shorewood was inks infancy. Before 1911, he catnen to settle in the Village. Immediately, he was recognized for his prowess in the study of law and was ap- i pointed; attorney in 1911 and served j on the Village Board until 1919Vj While at the same time' and' untir'j 1922 or 23,, he acted as advisor ins| legal matters for the Shorewood5 j school board. $

Then in '22, Whitefish Bay took J him away as its own Village Attor--\ ney and he continues to serve ins thatl capacity. , 1 ^Mr, Gabel. is a member of the* ]

fwbiteflsh Bay Blue Lodge and a di-f > [rector of the Bank of, Shorewood.

R. K. Healy 11. K. Healy has had the un-

u&ual pleasure of witnessing the formation and growth of two high schools, Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. When the Shorewood system was organized, he became head of the science department, which position he held for seven years. Then he came to Whitefish Bay to be principal of the Richards i Street school. After a year, the I Whitefish Bay high school was I completed and Mr. Healy assumed'' his, present position there as principal.

Coming from Drayton, N. D., he now resided at 836 Lake Forest ave. He received his 1*. S. degree at Mainline university, and his, M. A. at Columbia university.

Mr. Healy enjoys vacationing in the north woods with his two: strapping sons,, John and George.!

After 13 years with the White-} fish Bay school system, Mr. Heaty-can look back on work well done.]

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Thursday, June 4, 1942 George Hage, Police

Chief Since 1927 George Hage, the present and j

second police chief of Whitefish Bay, was born Sept. 17, 1889, in, } De Pere, Wis.

He received his early education -. in the school^ of De Pere and la- ! ter was apprenticed to a carpenter <

. at which trade he worked for 4 years. Early in life he exhibited j executive ability and this quality , was soon recognized. He became ' superintendent of construction for the H. J. Sellner Construction Co. ot Green Bay, Wis., and in this capacity he visited many parts of ". the state, including Whitefish . Bay. His pleasant personality and 1 integrity gained him many friends !• and acquaintances throughout the state but the rustic charm of • Whitefish Bay appealed to him and on Dec. 5, 19,23, the future police chief moved to the village. Hage continued to work at the carpenter trade until 1927, when on May 1, he was appointed chief of police, succeeding Thomas K. Callahan, who resigned after one year. ' Under the able leadership of Chief Hage the department has grown from two motorcycle men in 19,27 to ten regular police officers in 1942, including two night operators. t

RAY HILLER—Trustee

Ray Hiller was appointed as a village trustee in December, 1940, to fill the vacancy left by the death of Sam Rhue. He serves on the finance and claims committee, the board of health and is • chairman of public safety. He will "*\ be up tor reelection in 1943. i ;

Having been connected with thev.; real estate business tor the past 2,2 years, Hiller was appointed as manager of Milwaukee Properties bureau by Governor Hell. He is also secretary-treasurer of the ' Hiller-Armitage Co., with offices at 808 N. Third Bt.f Milwaukee. , Hiller was born on June 11, 1899, in Milwaukee, where his family has lived since before the Civil war. His schooling was jre-* ceived at West Division hlfch school. • Married for 19 years, the Hll-

lera have three sons. Burt, the eldest, plans to enter Wisconsin university next fail. Perry, age 15. will be a junior at Whitefish Bay high school, and the youngest boy, Don, 12, is a sixth grader at Cum-* ! berland school. The Hiller* hare resided In the Bay for 14 yeara, V

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blvd. Chief Hage was married] June 14, 1916, to Louise Hussong, and they have two sons J one 19

. studying electrical engineering at the Vocational school, another 25 with the air corps at Chanute field in Illinois, and a daughter 22.

Chief Hage is a member of the Masonic lodge, and a charter member of the Loyal Order of Moose, having been a member of the latter since 1912.

Fishing and hunting are Chief Hage's principal, sports and he likes to make his way up to the northern part of the state when time permits. When his policing days are over and his children

Ygrown and married, you'll prob-j ably find your congenial friend; and protector building himself a; cabin among the pines up north 'j and fishing and hunting to his heart's content. But to the writer's knowledge the people of Whitefish Bay do not want this to take place for many years to j

v come, for while it has been his^ \. duty for the past 15 years to* f reprimand and correct the chil-' ^ dren and sometimes to arrest the | ' adults, his justice and patience < have gained him a host of friends

in Whitefish Bay.

lee, the bftrSTSt/fcealifc-*md*:is^i chairman ot public safety. Hv wHtV: >e up for reelection in 19W&*f£i

Having been connected with the^, real eatate business for the p a a t ^

/ 2,2 years, Hiller was appointed a* Y I manager of Milwaukee Properties: < bureau by Governor Hell* He is -v

; also secretary-treasurer of the . Hiller-Armitage Co;> with offices

[at 808 N. Third st* Milwaukee. •> " " v Hiller was born on J une 11, 1899, in Milwaukee, where his < family has lived since before the r

j Civil war. His schooling was re-»; ceived at West Division hlgl* 1 i school. ) Married for 19 years, the H1I-" j lers have three sons. Burt, the , ji eldest, plans to enter Wisconsin .' ;J university next fall. Perry, age 15, , 'will be a junior at Whitefish Bay high school, and the youngest boy, I Don, 12, is a sixth grader at Cumberland school. The Hillers hare -resided in the Bay for 14 years, living now at 1581 B. Black-thorne pi.

Playing bridge- is Hiller'a favorite hobby although he, alee, enjoys golf at the Tripoli Country club*

Cud worth post of the American • Legion, the Lions club and the Real Estate board claim Hiller1

as a member. He is the past pree- * ident of the Real Estate board and the Lions club. He is ranked as a second degree Mason of tne> -Masonic Order?

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Julius Pi Heil, governor of Wis- dayij Governor Heil will see the paratie'tfrom the reviewing stand cousin and a resident of White-

fish; Bay- for many; years, will be the guest of honor at the Golden Anniversary 'celebration on Sun-

on >t»fe »athletic' field; at the high school! and later, will address|the

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Held Next Monday Bay Contingents. | Will Take Part 1 in Ceremonies

Boy Scouts and Band Will March in Procession With Other Groups *

All state roads will converge^ on Madison for the inauguration.; of Wisconsin's new governor,* Julius P. Heil, on Monday of next! week, Jan. 2, and the capitol city* will he packed with enthusiastic * well-wishers gathered there to* participate in the pageantry andt to see the induction of a new re-< gime into state public offices. . Xl

Whitefish Bay will be amply 5 represented on Jan. 2 because* this' inauguration holds a special*; interest for the residents of that : village inasmuch as the majority! of voters throughout the state j chose a Whitefish Bay man, Jul-, ius P. Heil, as their governor for ] the next two years. ' '>:

Perhaps the largest contingent;! to attend the inauguration ceremonies next week Monday will be the members of the three Boy ? Scout troops, Nos. 7.2, 134 and \ 400, and the entire Whitefish B a y \ high school band, which Mr* 4 Heil so generously invited to be*: with him on inauguration day^ The invitation for this group of young people to be in Madison on Monday was given at the time of the Whitefish Bay village party tendered in Mr. Hell's honor at the Henry Clay auditorium on Dec. 9. The band will precede; the governor's party in the march j from the Northwestern depot ins i Madison to the capitol building , and the Boy Scouts will form a,/ guard of honor. The entire party '*

of young folks will number about" 120 persons and on the trip will occupy special cars on the governor's train. Charles Roeder, instructor in the Whitefish Bay schools, will head the Boy Scout delegation and the band will be under the direction of Edgar Kundman. Miss Mary Keating will also accompany the party.

In recognition of the signal honor which has come to the north shore, Hell's home town newspaper, the Whitefish Bay Herald, has chartered a special car on the governor's train. Close friends and business associates will be on board the special car and will march in the triumphal parade. This week's issue of the Whitefish Bay Herald is dedicated to Mr. Heil's inauguration and the best wishes of the entire organization are extended to him in this issue.

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Bay Fireman Is Injured in Fall

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Damage to Home Estimated at $1,500; Cause of

Blaze Unknown William Hoppenrath, 10,21 E.

Henry Clay street, Whitefish Bay, a member of the Whitefish Bay fire department, is in serious condition at Columbia hospital as a result of v injuries sustained when he was thrown from the roof of a blazing home at 1,218 E. Henry Clay street, to the flagstone walk below, a distance of more than 20 feet, Monday afternoon.

According to Fire Chief Henry Asen, the accident occurred when pressure was applied to a hose which Hoppenrath was holding ae he stood on the roof of the burning home. The pressure caused the hose to swing wildly and Hoppenrath lost his balance and was thrown to the ground.

The fire was discovered by neighbors at 2:05 p. m. Monday and the Whitefish Bay fire department was called immediately. An electric clock which had stopped when wire leading to it had burned off showed the time as 1:10 p. m., and Chief Asen concluded that the fire had been

.burning more than an hour before the firemen were called. The firemen were able to confine the

•flames to a smail section of the | attic where it originated. The i cause of the fire is still unknown •although it is believed that defective wiring may have started the blaze. The estimated loss was $1,500, which was covered by insurance. The house is occupied by John Kelly and his family, and is owned by H. Hoelzer, 944 E. Sylvan avenue. . •

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Voters Turn to Whitefish Bay

for New Pilot North Shore Ballots Fall

on Republican Soil in Record Vote Tuesday Voters of Wisconsin turned^ to

the north shore Tuesday and^elgr vated one .TnHna P | fr^n nf

o T h e high* highest i^ireflsr'W'i..ip1'. position within their power * to award in t h e s t ^ With a commanding Majority, that was evidenced with the receipt of the ve?y first election returns, Hell continued to pile up a yote that bore evidence of a great trust put in his ability as a potentially strong chief .executive. ! While the Heil vote of the north shore may have been partly because of a neighborly feeling

t toward a fellow townsman, the traditional Republican tenor of the area vote was reflected in

i Tuesday's balloting. Whitefish JBay, 'the home town of Julius P. J Heil, gave him a total of 2,933 {votes with a scant 405 for La Follette and 66 for the Democratic candidate, Harry W. Bolens. Shorewood, with its relative claim for neighborhood recognition, gave Heil 4,609 votes as against 757 for La Follette and 184 for Bolens.

Fox Point gave Heil 414 votes, La Follette 26,' and Bolens 5, while River Hills voted 167 for Heil, 20 for La Follette and 7 for Bolen.

In the senatorial race, Alexander Wiley of Chippewa Falls was by far the principal choice of the north shore with Shorewood casting 3,991 votes on the Republican ticket, 675 for Ekern, Progressive, and 8 56 for F. Ryan Duffy, Democratic incumbent. Whitefish Bay voted 2,59,2 for Wiley, 339 for Ekern and 42C for Duffy. The Fox Point vote for United States senator was Wiley 38,2, Ekern 24, and Duffy 29, while River Hills followed the same trend with 170 for Wiley, Ekertt 12, and Duffy 10.

Republican trends in the north shore gave other candidates for state offices virtually the same percentage of the votes as those cast for governor and IT. S. senator.

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Hunting and fishing , are the favorite recreations of the man who is responsible for the protection of Whitefish Bay residents, and their property r— Chief of Police George Hage. '' * '' : \ *; *• • » Y ' - *-;* * ,

The chief also likes a good football or baseball game. But hunting and fishing have an irresistible appeal for him and beckon him every year to tne north woods. He likes to! hunt deer, rabbits,, ducks and other game. '"' > > >4 >

A resident of the village since De-i cember, 1923, Chief Hage has beeh? at the head of the village police department since May 1, 1927. He enjoys his work because something different happens every day. "You never know what to expect," he declares, l

v. Before coming to Whitefish -Bay,; Chief Hage lived in Depere, Wis. He served five years with the United States shipping board during the World war.

j He is married and has three children — a boy who is a senior in ; Whitefish Bay High school, a girl In the eighth grade of Henry Clay jchool, and another boy in the sixth grade of Cumberland school. His home is at 4921 N. Cumberland boulevard.

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Meister Named Police Lieutenant { , Y *

Police Chief George H. Hage .resigned Monday night. His resignation, effective Oct. 1, was accepted by the village board "with regret.*'

Hage was 60 years of age this month and has been head of the police department for 22 years. He was appointed Police

: Chief May 1, 1927 to succeed the" {late Thomas Callahan, the J3ay's ! first police chief. Callahan served but one year.

Department Grew •\ At the time Hage became chief of the Bay police force it consisted of two motorcycle patrolmen. The department now itj-r, eludes 13 members;

Hage will retire to Spider-Lake, along the Manitowich Waters, Wis., an area in which he has spent numerous vacations hunting and fishing. This summer he started building an all-year round home on his Spider Lake property. The home is not yet completed.

Anniversary in May When Hage observed his 22nd

anniversary with the police force last May he was presented with a huge bouquet of flowers fey police; officers and village hall personnel. - •?

Hage will retirte on a pension; of approximately? half of hitf! $350 a month salary. V ,.'

Orval Meister, 4790 N. Sheffield ave., was, named police lieutenant by the board to sucf ceed Lieut. Arthur F. Priebe; Meister has been on the police force, since 1940/

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Nelson Hall Disagrees With Voters on Bonds Nelson C. Hall director of the

Whitefish Bay school board and a board member since 1934, has resigned because of Tuesday's referendum vote which rejected a bond issue for construction of a new Whitefish Bay elementary school in the town of Milwaukee. In a let-ter to Mrs. T. J. Kuemmerlein, board secretary, Hall explained his position as follows: "The Whitefish Bay voters by an overwhelming majority have effected a fundamental change in the long range school building program which I cannot conscientiously endorse. In justice to these voters, I feel that my place on your board should be held by one who is in accord with the decision of the majority. Herewith isjmy. resignation, effective 1Q days from date, which will allow a reasonable time for appointment of my successor," *f

Hall's letter.was dated Septi27l He said he delivered'it to Mrs. Kuemmerlein after the board meeting Wednesday night.v

Hall declined to discuss the letter further! He said he believed it stated all that he had tajsay. Hall lives at 6166 N. Kent 'a$jft 1 1 1

Whitefish Bay voters rejected trie proposed $362,000 bond issue by 2,518 to 815. At the same time they approved a $280,000 bond issue for an addition to the Cumberland school, 2,653 to tjf%, T l \£i board had* urged appro\$_$Qf WQP| bond issues. * \ • """

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By Mimi Bird ost roads were dirt, the department had only two men, and the squad car was a Chevy coupe,

when George Hage became Whitefish Bay's second police chief.

The year was 1927. Now 95 (96 in September), Hage

recently returned to live in the North Shore, with a son and daughter-in-law in River Hills.

Appearing remarkably robust, he suffers only a light hearing loss and diminished eyesight. His memory is remarkable.

Hage served as Whitefish Bay police chief from 1927 to 1949, longer than any other chief.

He moved to the village in 1923. A carpenter by trade, he built his own home at 4921 N. Cumberland Blvd. in 1924.

He was appointed chief of police in 1927, succeeding Thomas Callahan, who resigned after a one-year term as the village's first chief.

"I told them I didn't know anything about (the job), Hage recalled in a recent interview. "I'd never been a policeman but they said they would send me to Milwaukee's Police Training School.

"I was a young man who seemed to appeal to them."

The full-time job also included the position of town marsh all. The department had just one motorcycle officer.

The chiefs pay: "I was surprised to learn a few years ago that the chief (today) earns in one day what I had earned in a month."

• Hage remembered burglaries and bike 'thefts as the greatest problem in those

early years. "I got a burglar my first night on the job," he remembered. "I caught him after he broke into a home on Glen Ave.

"Walker Russell had a detective agency in the old Wilke hardware store on Silver Spring, and he helped me question the

; guy. He'd been walking around looking suspicious."

In those days the police station was

located to the rear of the old Village Hall, on the southwest corner of N. Marlbor-, ough Dr. and E. Lexington Blvd. Target practice took place in a basement room.

"Any responsible person could bring his .22 rifle or pistol and ammunition there and practice," Hage said. "We had a lot of good times down there seeing who was best." Later, when the library moved into the room, target practice continued at the Whitefish Bay Armory in the afternoons.

H age said the Whitefish Bay Police Department was the first police department in Milwaukee County

to check homes of vacationing residents. "I started this in the 1920s," he said. "And in the early 1930's we were the first department to get radios in our cars to connect us to Milwaukee."

Also during his time as chief, the crossing guard program was begun at the grade schools.

Hage continued: "We had mainly dirt roads back then. Only Lake Dr., Hampton Rd. and Silver Spring were paved. Our first squad car—my car—was a 1927 Chevy coupe. We didn't get too many calls but we traveled around the area. We'd call in back to the station from the call boxes. They'd be located at various places in the village. They were hooked up to the Police Department switchboard."

Hage remembered trouble with young people and broken street lights. "We had a bunch of pretty good kids in those early years. The last 10 years I was there we had a headache with some."

There were few cars on the road in the beginning of his term but he remembered one man who would deliberately speed through the village on Silver Spring Dr. "One day L followed him, took his license number and got a warrant for his arrest. We took him to court and he never did it again. In those days we only had to get a warrant and serve it on them. We didn't have to stop them for speeding."

He recalled that the jail was "empty more than full." There were two cells for men and one for women.

"People were mostly arrested for disor

derly conduct," he said. Hage recalled the village acquisition in

the 1930s of the land for Buckley Park, the small park south of Big Bay Park. "It should have been named 'Employee's Park,'" he said. "They (the Village Board) didn't have any money appropriated for this purchase. In order to pay for it they took it out of our hide. They cut me back $100 a month, cut all village employees salaries back except for one who was an elected official. They wanted the park land right then instead of waiting for it. They reluctantly gave us the money owed us the nextffety:" T|i2a**v ^<U/

H age was treasurer of the Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association for 14 years. "I joined in 1927. I must be

the oldest police chief in Wisconsin. I'm a life member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police."

He smiled when he said: "I outlived an insurance policy—I outgrew it. They sent me the check the other day."

By the time he retired in 1949 the police department had increased to 13 men. Two of the men he appointed became future i chiefs—Orval Meister and Alex Boeder.

Hage returned to carpentry, his first love. For a time he worked for Francis Schroedel on the Schroedel Apartments now the Whitefish Bay Townhouses. He helped his son and daughter-in-law build their home in River Hills in 1953 and worked on the construction of Bay Shore Mall. Finally, he and his wife moved to the home he had built in 1949 on Spider Lake, near Manitowich Waters.

One of the biggest changes he has noticed in Whitefish Bay over the years has been the loss of elm trees. He remembers how they had arched over most streets.

"And Fve changed," he concluded, "I finally got so I couldn't do too much for myself. Cooking was a chore. Now all I have to do here is sit down when ; I'm called and eat," he added, smiling.

He certainly does appear to enjoy living with his son and daughter-in-law in the house he helped them build. , \

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IN 1940 Whitefish Bay's police chief George Hage was surrounded by his men in a picture taken at that time. He is the man standing between the two motorcycles. Hage, now 95 and living in River Hills, was chief from 1927 to 1949.

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OWNER OF FASHIONS AT LARGE, 130 W. Silver Spring Dr., ' ' <iAnna Haupt. (Staff photo by Dan Johnson)

Color adds dash, class at Fashions at Large

By Kathryn Esser

The tall Victorian house at 130 W. Silver Spring Dr. has been the location of Fashions At

Large for 14 years. It is a small shop that specializes in clothing for the bigger woman.

Walking into the shop the first thing you will notice is the rainbow of colors. "This is my influence," said Joe Anna Haupt, the owner. "When I bought the store last year, this was one of the first things I did; the other was to carry swimwear all year long."

She lives at 614 E. Beaumont Ave., Whitefish Bay.

Many women have come to depend on Fashions At Large for fashionable garments in bigger sizes that combine classic styles, good quality and, in many cases, natural fibers.

"Women love coming here," Ms.

Haupt said. "It's their store." A place where finding bigger sizes isn't a chore, she said.

Many women have been loyal customers for many years. As their lives changed, so did the store. Now, the store carries a wide selection of business apparel including Pendleton suits from the Large Women line.

Over the last few years, Ms. Haupt and her staff have helped coordinate interview outfits and business wardrobes for clients who have been out of the work force for years and want advice with updating and completely changing their way of dressing.

Large women have to get away from wearing neutral colors all the time, said Ms. Haupt. "It's a trap that needs to be overcome."

That is why the clothes are displayed in a way that does not make a woman afraid to try them on. "Just try it on" has become their unofficial slogan over the years, she said.

And color plays an important role in this. Many women have had their colors analyzed and bring color swatches with them. The staff works closely with each woman so the colors are worked into a outfit or coordinated with an existing article of clothing.

"We do everything that our missy sisters do," Ms. Haupt said. "We're just a bigger size." Over one-third of the population of adult women in^

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"One shouldn't worry over a figure problem, everyone has at least one," Ms. Haupt said. "I want people to feel good about themselves, to get on with their lives."

Haupt was manager of the Elm Grove Fashions at Large store before becoming owner of the Whitefish Bay shop. The previous owner was generous with her advice and helped with a smooth transition from being a manager/buyer to businesswoman, Ms. Haupt said.

Buying is one aspect she enjoys most, she said. She generally goes to the Chicago Merchandise Mart several times a year to choose clothes for the upcoming season. Then there are the salespeople who bring samples into the store. "It is more realistic to see the clothes where they will be sold," Haupt said.

Big sellers this holiday season were shiny, silky-looking tops with skinny-legged bottoms. This spring, she predicted, the look will be "Mattie Hayes," from the TV show "Moonlighting."

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Village manager to begin by July

By Mary Schuchmann Michael Harrigan, village administrator

in Saukville and formerly assistant village planner in Shorewood, has been picked as the new village manager in Whitefish Bay.

He succeeds David Weis, who resigned in January for personal reasons.

The Village Board will formally approve HarriganV appointment at its meeting Monday, April 2. He will be paid $35,000 a year.

Harrigan, 33, has served as the first full-time administrator in Saukville, an Ozaukee County community of 3,500. Before coming to Saukville in 1979, he worked for six years in Shorewood, with the title of management assistant, community development.

He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Marquette University, and has five credits remaining in work on a master's degree in urban affairs at the University -of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He also attended Northwestern Junior College, Sterling, Colo.

He is a past president of the Port Washington-Saukville United Way; chairman of the finance committee of Immaculate Conception Parish, Saukville; and past secretary and member of the board of directors of the Saukville Lions Club.

In Shorewood, he was president of the Shorewood Men's Club in 1978-79.

Harrigan said Tuesday he was "extremely excited about the opportunity" in Whitefish Bay. "I'm anxious to get on the job." , While the position means personal professional advancement, Harrigan said it also means taking what he regards as "one of the best jobs in the state."

He expects to start in Whitefish Bay about July 1. Because his current employer gives a 90-day notice to employees, Harrigan said it was only fair that he do the same, allowing Saukville the chance to find a replacement before he leaves.

If a successor_is found before July 1, he

will come to Whitefish Bay earlier than planned.

In the next three months, he said, he plans to learn as much as he can about Whitefish Bay and spend some time with local officials "so I'll be ready to go.M

Harrigan said it was premature for him to speculate on what kind of challenges he will face in Whitefish Bay.

He said the North Shore suburb differs from Saukville in its stage of development. As a rapidly expanding community, Saukville "has the growing pains that Whitefish Bay did in the 1920s and 1930s," he said.

Bradley Hoffmann, chairman of the Village Board's Personnel Committee, which handled the village manager search, said Harrigan comes to Whitefish Bay "with the highest qualifications."

Said Hoffmann: "He is highly thought of by people he has worked for and with. He got some outstanding plaudits from some Shorewood trustees, and his peers in the Grafton-Saukville area gave

him high recommendations." Hoffmann said Harrigan helped to create

a financial turnaround in Saukville, enabling the community to balance its budget for the first time in several years and build a wastewater treatment plant, village hall and police station, well and intercepter sewer.

In Hoffmann's view, Harrigan "has a , great ability to meet people and work with

in the committe structures in a manner that produces results."

"""As a former Shorewood administrator, Hoffmann said Harrigan has an obvious advantage in knowing the North Shore.

As village administrator in Saukville, Harrigan coordinates administration, implements Village Board policies, supervises financial records and performs the duties of municipal clerk.

In Shorewood, Harrigan focused on g writing, program administration and management technical support. He wrote applications for community development block grants in 1975 and 1977, and for a federal recreation grant for development of

a nature preserve in 1978. He also supervised technical studies on

garbage carts, market research on land development and a plan to use citizen help in creating a comprehensive plan for the village of Shorewood.

Harrigan is married and has two sons, ages 7 and 2.

He plans to move to Whitefish Bay, he said, regarding residency as "essential" to being a good administrator.

Whitefish Bay trustees finalized their choice of Harrigan in a closed session held after Monday night's committee meeting.

During the open committee meeting, j Trustee Ralph Knoernschild questioned 1 the search process for a new manager, 1 charging that details of the search were not

kept confidential. He said that, at one point, his

(Knoernschild's) opponent for village president, F. Patrick Matthews, knew more about the progress of the search than h as an elected official.

Despite being told that the matter would be discussed later that night in the closed session, Knoernschild pressed on, insisting he was going to get to the bottom of what he called a "leak" on the Village Board. He mentioned the name of a candidate for the job.

Other trustees reacted angrily, accusing Knoernschild of disclosing personnel information that was reserved for closed sessions.

There followed an emotional exchange between Knoernschild and several trustees.

H o f f m a n n sa id T u e s d a y t h a t Knoernschild "embarrassed the board by his discussing personnel matters in public."

Knoernschild "acted unprofessionally," Hoffmann said. "He doesn't understand the professional way in which a management person is selected."

In a telephone conversation Tuesday, Knoernschild said he was willing to forget the Monday night clash. "It's time to look ahead," he said.

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Founder Dies !Henr!y R."-Kih^ sW;

! ;;dehI^:Stricken|at His broej6tH Park; Place

£Uj .-.- | • .• • l l.'King, 75, the first presl-

dent of the Milwaukee Athletic club', founded 61! years ago, and} for many years a member o t the printing Arm of ./King,

f Fowle & Cramer, d i e d suddenly Wie d n e s d a y rHfcht ,at his

^home, 348 ; Park •place. Although j'he« had been in [poor health for i-some t i m e , he j,had n o t -been {'•seriously ill, and j the heart attack (; which he j: suffered Wednesday was unexpected. Mr. King w a s ,

! able to vote! in . f , jfthe primary election Tuesday. ;. j . i It was around a corner taple in the [old Noble restaurant in the fcasemfenjl 'of the Mackjbuilding at E. >Vater si jand E. Wisconsin av. that Mr. King /and,two frierids originated [the ldep (of a ; Milwaukee Athletic cjub. jThci friends were Atty. John M. W. Pratt| 313 Summit av., and the late| Charlel' W.-Norris. This was in November1

1878. After several public mhetings had been called to arouse interest.

' the club was established on Mar. 31, ;i879, |.j ; I

Mr. King and Mr, Pi*att and eight 'other charter] imemberi; 9f the bJubl 'held a golden anniversary djnner^nj 1020 at tlio-present club bulldfhg at Masorrst'. and Broadway. . ? ;. \.

As, a newspapfcr-rrian emplpyed 6n the Republican News in the Eighties', Mr. King wrote the! story of the dedication of the old armory of trje Light

.Horse squadron on Broadway. The* isquadron, which „was affiliated With the Wisconsin national guard j and 6fj which Mr. King was a past member,', was the military pride of Milwaukee \ 45 years ago. No big (street parades-or gala celebrations took place in which J the squadron, including Mr.- King, did not take a part. ! . Ifir. King's wife, Mrs; Marian Ju-

to neau King, who died nine years ago, 3 was a granddaughter of| Solomon Ju-Ipeau, first mayor of Milwaukee. R e f cently Mr. King was working to-pre-!pare a history of the Juneau ifam-; ily in Milwaukee. j j

Aided renting- Progress While with the King-, Fowle & Cra-

uner Oo, yekrs ago, MK King was a piorifeer in establishing new processes in the; printing, and engraving Indus-

, try m Milwaukee. Hej put into his shop the rflrst halftone engraving plapt in trie city,, the first photo-,

•gravure plsnfcj and the first color Iphotogravurje^plant. These processes 'virtually changed the j character of ;the entire m^ustry. j I ! About five yeiars agoJMr. King di-jvlded all his property among his legal heirs 'and ("started out in life" all over again,! despite his! age. ! Since jthen he has earned every dollar he spent, He iestablUshed an armature

! winding plant on the north side and ' also establji hed a plaint manufacturing autdmohile lam pa. Both of t them ,were successful. {

Collector of Antiques For more 1han 50 years Mr. King's

greatest hobby was to collect antiques. He*, vas said to have one. of jthe finest .|collQctions n the state, j IAmong the i irticles in. 1 he collection I iiwere a Pcrsi m shawl, n ore than 300 i Wears old, vf'iich he obialncd.nearly ' JtfO years! ago; a copy of the .Bible •Pauperum. (Uible W the Poor - Man. jwhich' wis,p-intefl fron plates made lin 1534, and of wtfich h> copies have neen known to be printed since, and Ithree conesi from' the sjacred cedars of Lebanon jfrom'whlclk the timbers of King Solojmonfs temble were 'cut. *.. For man^ years tor. King was a

vestryman jdf Sti, Jam JS* , Episcopal church. I Hd formerly played thet thlmes there! ,. ! ; i Survivingjlkini are a d wghter, Mrs. Helen King Ott;! two sons, Harry

^Juneau Kingl Chicago, md Paul Ju-jneau King,! [Milwaukee, and three! grandchildren, Jane E izabeth Ott, pbhn Mbrrow King anc Marian •;Juneau King, I I Funerar services will be held at the undertaking rooms of Fred C, Fass # Son,! 730 Third st., at 2 p. m'i.; Saturday. Burial will >e in Forest Home cemetery. i Besides the old Light -iorse squadron and the,. Athletic club. Mr. King was a memb ?r of I the Old Settlers) club in Milw mkee for many years.4

He was a native of Troy, N. Y., but' was brought to; this ci^y when he was only 5 v£ars old

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Case of the missing ex-sheriff »/»/tv Bay lawman vanished with $20,000 more than 80 years ago

By Amy Rabideau Silvers of The Journal Staff

Whitefish Bay — He was the black sheep of Whitefish Bay. !

He was Fred Isenring, one of the area's most prominent citizens at the turn of the century.

And, one day, he disappeared. It was later learned that an estimated $20,000 in

funds he was responsible for as Milwaukee County sheriff were unaccounted for.

Even today there are no answers on what may have happened to him. A Whitefish Bay historian, Judy Kloman, has been as fascinated with the questions as Isenring's contemporaries were.

After all, at one time or another in the 1890s, Isenring was Milwaukee County sheriff, the first village president of Whitefish Bay and the village's representative to the County Board. He also was manager of the posh Whitefish Bay Resort and developed three subdivisions in Whitefish Bay.

"He had a really good name and was much beloved," said Kloman. "He and his first wife were leaders in the community. He started out as a very respectable citizen."

She speculates that the troubled economy of the day began Isenring's problems. He owned the equivalent of about eight city blocks in the village and probably bought them at the boom prices of the early 1890s.

"By 1898, there was a depression," she said. "The bottom fell out of the real estate market. But he still had to pay taxes at the higher value."

\ Money from sheriff's sales He also may have incurred bills from his daugh

ter Mary's hospitalization for "rheumatism." She later died in 1904 of tuberculosis, then considered a disease caused by filth and a source of shame, and probably never had rheumatism, said Kloman.

The missing money was from the sheriff's sales Isenring conducted after he was elected in 1896.

Fred Isenring

He left office in 1897 but failed to file financial reports for at least 18 months.

Finally, after repeated delays, the County Board made a formal request for the district attorney to investigate the matter. Papers were served on Isenring, ordering him to appear in court. He did not. An order was issued for the former sheriff's arrest only days before Christmas in 1899, but by that time he had disappeared.

"Maybe he thought he could make it up as any embezzler would," said Kloman. "I don't think, basically, he was a dishonest man but that he wasn't very smart or didn't think things through far enough ahead."

At the time, his second wife told a local newspaper that her husband, then about 45 years old, had said he was going to Fond du Lac on business.

"He did not tell me whom he was going to see or what the nature of his errand was," she was quoted as saying. "We were sure he would come

back for Christmas and we had the baby's Christmas tree waiting for him in hopes he would arrive at the last moment, but he didn't come . . . . I am sure he will be here sooner or later."

But he was never seen again.

Body never found The stories continued to make the papers for

weeks. A headline in The Milwaukee Journal on Jan. 10, 1900, declared: "Isenring Books Spirited Away." The story called the disappearance of an old trunk in the sheriffs office, which may.have contained Isenring's missing records, "a profound mystery."

The trunk later turned up, without the most-wanted records, and had probably been taken by Isenring's friends, Kloman said.

Later that month, Isenring's brother told The Milwaukee Journal that the family believed he was dead. He said Isenring had been despondent for a long time and might have taken his life the day before he was to have appeared in court. His body was never found, however.

Does Kloman thinks Isenring committed suicide?

"I don't buy that he was depressed," she said. "Not any guy who could hold off the authorities for a couple of years. He was a hustler."

"One of the rumors is that family or business associates did him in," she said. "There must have been such embarrassment and humiliation over so many months, not to mention the financial problems. He fell from grace. It was an embarrassment

One school of thought is that he's down at the bottom of the lake somewhere."

Yet another is that Isenring may have simply moved and started a new life. Rumors persisted in the months after his disappearance that he had fled to Puerto Rico, Alaska or even south to start a wine business.

"Maybe he just got on a train and never came back," Kloman said. "It was easy to get lost then. He could step off a train and change his name. Nobody knows what happened to him."

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THOSE WOHMtRFBI. TEARS t'7i ' y.

Those of us able to gather here tonight have done so due ,

to the generosity of our childhood pal and classmate,; Leo'.

Sorenson* We thought it might he'fitting to reoall some of u .

the highlights of our youth which was spent in Whitefish -

Bay* We've got some of those facts from .those in attendance

here tonight, but to reminisce on all of t.h« pleasures and

experiences could go on for hours•

Our first contao t with le0 and his fami^y-nas -through

the H» P»Sbrenson,s General Storer^eo was the youngest of .'•.

the Sorenson olan. He was also the proud owner of a tent

which he slept In Just south of the etore# He was one. of

those guys that waa always good natured and never,s eemed to

carry a grudge. When you think of ibhe,store you can11 k?if..".

hut reoall the summer sausage and. bacon, hanging on the north

wall and the candy'counter "With one ,hunic.fof glass missing on

the side out it-had "that fancy rounded lass in front w.here.;. .,*.

we could stand and drool at It"s,.oentente. Then there was ...

that big glass cover on the counter that:was used to cover

the cheese* Ih the back room there was the kerosene tank

with the'pump on it, I wonder.^ifrpeople .using kerosene for

their lamps still use a fresh potato as a* stopper, for, .the

spout on their kerosene cans? , ••> • .

Sorenson^s were the only people in the neighborhood who,

had an automobile. It was a dashing auburncolorel one-lung

Cadillac roadster that ended it days in an accident at Hamp»

ton and Port Rd., but that was before the,new concrete bridge

was built.

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nal photo by Patrick Murphy-Racey

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years of life, taxes: Bay man has seen rates, values rise

By BARBARA ISAACS of The Journal staff . "*

Whitefish Bay'— Meivin f; Immekus paid $177 In property ' " taxes on his house at 5011 N. *- :

IdlewildAve.ml938.iHepaid . $2,575 in property taxes on the'.' „, same house for 1987.> • " The light-brown brick Dutch ;- *

colonial has been nicely maintained, but it is basically the same house in which Immekus has lived for a half-century. . i

"Many other things have changed during those years, some related , to property taxes and some not Immekus, like most homeowners, has paid his taxes willingly, if not always happily. - - > /

"What are we going to do?* Immekus said. "We've got to pay them/, :,,, \ , , ,. ,

The 86-year-old man has lived in Whitefish Bay since 1907, and he has never really considered . living anywhere else* ( The changes in the area still startlehim. •" r: y, \ Z

"I liked it better when it was :;" more open,5* he said, sitting near the natural brick fireplace in his;; living room. "There was a time : when they were building too many houses. But I guess that's ... progress.* " :f

In 1938, about half of the fc ..'*\ ,-)t village's 4,500 lots were still \ ; V> vacant. Jn 1987, just 19 of them ?-!*£ remained. Z-/i. ,;;'-£:?$""

In 1922 he was hired as a- '?*%?*:' mechanical engineer for the J y'Ziy-village, and in 1936 he and his wif6 Augusta built their home. He :: Y sometimes wishes he still knew ^ Y

every Whitefish Bay resident by name, as he once did.

And he sometimes wishes he' ' could pay 1938 taxes instead of '

1980s taxes. When Immekus built Ms home

more than 50 years ago, It was -assessed at $5,800, at about 40% of fair market value. In other

• words, its resale value was about * $14,500. Today, the home is assessed at more than $74,300, at 90% of market value. So his home is now worth about $81,700.

Of course, inflation has played the major role in how times have changed. One 1938 dollar was equal to $8.11 in 1987, according to the US Labor Department Bureau of Labor Statistics.

So the Immekus house, if inflated from its 1938 value, should

. be worth $117,595, if it followed inflation.

Although Immekus built the i f house in 1936, he didn't pay taxes on it until 1938. The first two years' taxes were forgiven under a federal program designed to stimulate home building and jobs during the Depression, Y ; These days, such tax breaks are just a memory , Immekus said.

:•.*. Taxes are figured per $1,000 of real estate's assessed value. In

'1987, the rate was $34.66 per $1,000, which put Immekus' tax bill at slightly more than $2,575, It is Indeed more than his 1938 tax bill of $177.01, but the tax rate even in 1938 was $30.53 per $1,000. Since then, inflation, but also a general increase in the cost of government, has caused tax bills to creep up.

"There was a time when they were building too many houses. But! guess that's progress.55

— MeMn Immekus

If you took the village's entire tax levy and assessed value separately and calculate the raw inflation effect on the numbers, both sets of figures still run about three times higher than inflation.

Why? The most important reason the

total assessed valuation went up from the 1930s to the 1980s is that the bulk of the village was built in the last 50 years. Those vacant lands of Immekus' memory are worth much more now that they -have houses and other buildings on them. ;;\

The rise in value of some older properties, especially in desirable : locations like Whitefish Bay, also has outpaced inflation, said Michael Robbins, an assistant professor in the department of real estate and urban land economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robbins said that local governments needed more and ' more money to operate because rising costs affected them, too. Wages of municipal workersrose more than inflation, as their standard of living improved. Fringe benefits and higher insurance costs . also help make employes a more expensive necessity than they were during, the 1930s, he said.

Robbins added that Wisconsin remained a state with reasonable tax rates.

"Given what you get for what you pay, you get a hell of a deal,59

, he said. "The typical homeowner likes to complain about taxes, but

' ask him what he wants to give up as far as services."

Village Manager Michael Harrigan said Whitefish Bay had excellent services for the money. He said he had a sense that village residents wished taxes were lower, but that overall they were satisfied with what they were getting for the money. \ r. \

That would be true of immekus. ^They take good care of us

here," he said. ^They have good rubbish collection, good fire and police."

Immekus grew up in the house next door to his current home, in

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By Maureen Dietzel Merfens

On the first day of the brand new year, Melvin Joseph Immekus, 92, an 87-year resident of Whitefish Bay, died of natural causes.

He'd been admitted to Columbia Hospital a few days earlier complaining of chest pains.

'Then he got better," said granddaughter Mary Immekus, "but on Friday he didn't feel so well arid died on New Year's Day." •*• Services were held Jail. 5 at Holy Fam

ily Catholic Church with burial at Holy Cross •.Cemetery. \ Y He is^survj^ed by three sons, seven grandchildren, asister, and many friends and relatives.

But wait just a minute. That's too fast. A life of 92 years takes time to remember. Let's turn the clock back and let Melvin tell some of his own story in an interview he gave this summer.

Immekus sat in the living room of the home he grew up in — his grandparent's Id faimhouse — where his sister still red on North Idelwild. His own home,

jne he built, was right next door. That afternoon, he told stories of his

youth and of a Whitefish Bay that no longer exists. Stories so rich and full that they came alive again.

"It was all farmland out here," he said. "All of this was fields. . .corn arid other crops. And this house was over there." He pointed to the middle of Idelwild.

Their house was located right in the middle of where the village wanted to put Idelwild Avenue.

"When the village put in the street, we had to move the house. The village condemned some of our land, and they didn't pay us for it. It was about a half acre."

He remembered the first car in White-fish Bay. "It belonged to that Judge Williams who lived on Day Avenue," he said. "It was a touring car."

And the first time he saw an airplane? "Oh, I thought it was wonderful. And

there were dirigibles too. They were something to see."

He wanted to go to school to study engineering but didn't have-enough money, so he served an apprenticeship that was equal to four years of college and a t tended school.

'That's called MSOE now," he said, ut back then it was the Allan Bradley hool of Engineering on Milwaukee and

,ate streets. I worked days and went to school nights and Saturday mornings. Many, many times I'd have to walk home because we'd missed the last street car.

Td get home a 2 a.m. and have to be up at 5 a.m."

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In 1921, Whitefish Bay advertised for two engineers, a civil and a mechanical.

"Thirty-two people applied for the jobs," he said. 'Torn Buckley got the civil engineer job, and I got the mechanical one."

In 1929, he married Augusta Wald-vogel, who was from northern Wisconsin. They were married by the Rev. Dietz at St. Monica Catholic Church.

His work for the village meant that he was in charge of the municipal garage, garbage collection, snow removal and all the equipment.

"I was on call 24 hours a day," he said. "If they had trouble with a truck or a car, they'd call me. I retired in 1964, and I don't miss it. I'm glad to get away. I build grandfather clocks, now, from scratch."

Immekus loved Whitefish Bay and said he wouldn't want to live anywhere else,

"I like the people and everything about it," he said. "One time we knew everyone out here by their first name. And I helped lay out many of the streets in the village."

He said all the kids he and his sister went to school with were gone.

"We're the only ones left," he said. His wife, Augusta, died in 1990, and

according to his sister, Vera Lawrence, he was never the same after that.

Relatives reflect

This past Saturday his three sons, Robert, John and Melvin Joseph Jr., along with their wives and Mary and her fiance, gathered at his home, the one he'd built in 1936, the home they grew up in, the home where two of them were born, to speak of him.

His oldest son Robert (Bob to his friends) of Fox Point, and John of Grafton are both electronic engineers. Melvin Jr., of Jefferson, designs and creates uniforms from the days of the Civil War.

Bob said he never heard his father swear or even say a harsh word.

"It's an end of an era when he died," Bob said. "A lot of Whitefish Bay history went with him."

Mary agreed. "He had no vices. He wasn't a complicated man. He was simple in the sense of being gentle and kind. He was a very special, precious man."

His sons said if anyone ever wanted to know how to do anything mechanical, or electrical or about plumbing, he knew how.

"He was a journey tool and die maker. They were the elite in the city back then," Bob said. 'They knew how to do things."

He rebuilt an engine right in their back yard.

"We had a maple tree and put a hoist

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his life before autonibbtos and im? dedi twi l&menwalk^ , started to work for the village of Whitefish Bay iwfwsci: He- iw!u»* tsg c y c ' 20 years old, ^ % ' ; w wV$%-*R*-> Os

At his f u n e t a l ^ liceman said, i&el <U$pi*tt*e*$Dte(ge \ running*" ; ^Z^:"

It was also mentioned^ that perhaps a village park could be named after, him because jhe'd 'done so t much for the village ih&t he loved so much.

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on it and had a brand new car almost." Bob said. "The cost of all of it: $60."

Before World War I he built a radio and he told them how he talked to people in Michigan and Illinois. A fantastic accomplishment.

"It was talking to Jupiter in those days," Bob said.

His sons remembered all the hours he worked for the village.

"On weekends he went to the incinerator located on Lydell and Fairmount," Bob said. "He had to stoke the fire. There was no auto-feed in the old days and they didn't want the fire to go out over the weekend."

He went twice on Saturday and twice on Sunday — no day off.

In 1953. he bought a cottage in northern Wisconsin.

"He said this was his only way to get away," John said.

"He'd sit in that chair right there," Bob said pointing to a corner of the living room. "With that same lamp behind him and drink one bottle of Weber Beer, We'd run in with our little green mugs and he'd pour us each a little bit."

On Saturday's Bob would take him grocery shopping and then stay and visit.

"We would chat about something I might want to fix on my house," Bob said. "He always knew more than I did, and I always respected that. He also said to us, 'My sons never caused us any heartaches. . .you were always good kids.' He was proud of us."

As" far as careers, he wanted them all to follow their hearts.

"He told us that he wanted us to have the freedom to choose our own careers," John said. He made each of his sons their own grandfather clock, and in the living

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room there were three clocks he had made . In the basement was a wood turning lathe he made himself, and according to Bob, he also made his own cast ings to make the lathe.

He took care of his wife for the last three years of her life when she was ill, and this past Chris tmas he signed his own cards using a big black pen so he could see his signature.

Mary remembered tha t he told her tha t even though his wife had passed ont "I see

her everyday." Mary had some final things she wanted

to say to he r grandfather. "We spent many happy and full years

with you b u t it was time and you were ready to be with grandma again. And we all loved you very much and we'll never forget you and we'll miss you terribly."

"I'm sad he 's gone," Vera said, "but he's with his beloved wife, now. I look next door and I can see him walking."

In h is eulogy, the priest said, "He was a kind and gentle pat ient m a n who accepted what life had to offer."

As a child, Melv» ouov^n numenos, pictured with sister Vera, moved to Whitefish Bay in about 1907.

In a 1929 wedding photo Immekus is pictured with his bride Augusta. He began working for the village in 1921, retiring in 1964.

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Banker's Many Hobbies Show Him as a ^Methodical Vellow1

0, K. Johnson Appreciates Order in Gardening, Exercise and at Whitefish Bay State Bank

By LOREN H. OSMAN Of The Journa l Staff

For a banker, 0. K. Johnson can provide as many surprises as anyone in the business.

You might, for instance, meet him at 6 a.m., pedaling a bicycle on the quiet streets of White-fish Bay.

Or find him stooping to pick a scrap of paper off the lawn of the Whitefish Bay State bank.

Or engage him in a discussion on the merits of Bibb lettuce, which he raises.

This is not to say that banker Johnson gives cause for alarm as a nonconformist. Once you know the man, his hobbies appear as extensions of his orderly philosophy of life.

What makes more sense to a financial man than a few vegetables, utilizing the back yard? Isn't a neat lawn an asset to the business? As to bicycling, it has helped Johnson, at 55, keep

; his 5 foot 10 inch figure at a trim 165 pounds.

j Bank is an Example of His Careful Planning ' "I am," Johnson summed up, "a methodical

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is spacious, air conditioned office, John-traced his upward climb, which brought

co the presidency of the suburban bank, presidency of the Independent Bankers' association and numerous posts in other organizations.

The bank itself at 177 E. Silver Spring dr. is testimony to Johnson's purposeful outlook. He had a hand in planning the studiously mod-

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ern structure, occupied about a year ago. Everywhere he can point to good arrangement and provision for future expansion.

Orland Keith Johnson was born on New Year's day, 1904, on a farm near Beaver Dam, one of five children. His parents, from Vermont and of English descent, moved to Milwaukee. In 1922, he was graduated from Washington high school.

During vacations, Johnson worked at Stein-meyer's grocery store, a now vanished N. 3rd st. institution which catered to the food whims of a more leisurely Milwaukee. It was a fine place for a young man to pick up habits of conservatism and hard work. His first job was filling telephoned orders. Applying himself, he soon was promoted to "dumb waiter, boy," which meant sending down orders from the second floor.

He Cleaned the Place at Night "This was considered a position of trust,"

said Johnson. Then a fellow employe recommended him to

Joseph M. Wolf, president of the North Avenue State bank. Johnson went to work there as a bookkeeper for $65 a month.

His life course now set, Johnson put to work the business principles he has used ever since.

"I tried to learn all I could about my job," related Johnson. "But I also learned what I could about other jobs. I soon was given an opportunity as a relief savings teller. With the help of banking courses I was taking, I got into much more of this."

Johnson was not above the menial part of banking. When the janitor took sick, he got out the brooms and mops without being told and cleaned the bank at night.

With the start of his banking career, Johnson enrolled in courses at the extension school •of the University of Wisconsin here and the American Institute of Banking. For years he

slugged away, often as many as four nights a I •week, on such subjects as negotiable instruments and commercial law.

Even now, Johnson has not relaxed his training. Last summer he attended the two week) course for senior bank officers at Harvard university. He plans to return this year. I

Two big events marked 1925: Johnson shifted to the Bank of Shorewood, as assistant cashier (later cashier) and he took a bride. Mrs. Johnson—first name Ceal—has figured strongly in the banker's career since: Graciously presiding at the opening of the new bank; making sure there were enough socks in his suitcase for his business trips; growing flowers, which help decorate the bank.

"I depend on her to make all my arrangements," Johnson said with a smile. "Often she goes with me to the conventions."

The Bank of Shorewood became one of the casualties in the stormy financial seas of the early 1930's. After its closing, Johnson went to work as a special deputy commissioner of banking for the state, helping to liquidate other banks.

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Campaigns for Soil Saving Measures "It was a wonderful experience because I

became acquainted with farm properties. Tharr was the need for a bank to manage farms anc livestock, as well as city real estate," he said.

This interest in the soil continued. In later years'Johnson became aroused to the dangers of erosion. Through the Wisconsin Bankers' association, he campaigned for soil saving methods, and helped publish a brochure on the topic.

Twenty-two years ago, the Whitefish Bay bank was looking for a manager. Johnson was selected, became its executive vice-president and in 1952, its president.

Johnson picked up an interest in 1939 that has claimed a great deal of his spare time, the revision of bank forms. He was on the WBA's education committee and became concerned1

about outdated and inadequate forms. He was j appointed chairman of a subcommittee to look j into the matter, and then head of the forms j and procedures committee. Except for 1951-'52, j when he was president of the association, he! has been on the committee ever since. j

His Work on Forms Spans Globe j The job was of heroic proportions. Since1'

technical bank forms often become legal documents, the work had to be done with the help of attorneys.

The result is a loose leaf binder, with more than 200 carefully worded blanks, called "Standard Bank Forms." Although it has not made the best seller lists, it has been put on the shelves of commerce schools, federal reserve banks and other institutions throughout the world.

Whitefish Bay was a thriving community and the bank grew with ity from a half million dollars in deposits when Johnson came to $15,-000,000 now. He made sure that he stayed "close to the customers." Every one of the 20,000 "knows he has access to my office," Johnson added.

The Johnsons, meanwhile, had been rearing two sons, O. K., jr., and Gerald, and had built a new home at 200 E. Lexington blvd., orily a two block walk from the bank.

O. K., jr., followed his father's footsteps into banking and now is assistant vice-president of the American Bank & Trust Co., Racine. Gerald is a speech correction teacher in Michigan. Both sons have presented their parents with granddaughters.

Keeps Record of His Activities Explaining that he keeps everything in order

so not even his death would cause confusion, Johnson reviewed his other activities from a prepared record. They include: Member of the American Bankers association's executive committee; member of the Community Methodist church and trustee of the Methodists' Wisconsin conference; member of the panel of the American Arbitration association, of the Lions, Rotary and Masons.

He also is a stamp collector, and has a speciality of radio stamps issued by the early stations with call letters on them. Also, and a natural for a banker, is a collection of old bills and coins.

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THE three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Otto R. Kuehn, 968 Circle dr., Whitefish Bay—Otto, 14; Teddy, 12, and Peter, 6—are shown

here with their three tame crows, Tom, Dick and Harry. The boys found a crows' nest on their grandmother's farm and watched it until the birds were hatched. Something happened to the mother crow and the boys took the fledglings home and brought them up by hand. As soon as they could fly, the baby birds were released, but they came back to feed and now come when their names are called. The birds like to eat out of a spoon. Otto says he would like to teach the birds to talk but has heard that their tongues have to be slit to help them with the language and he feels this is too cruel an experiment to undertake. —journal staff Photo

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Federation Ral l i es for B a t t l e on

Appointment By ISABEL MC DONALD ;

Sentinel Staff Correspondent SHEBOYGAN, Oct. 10—

Organized protest against the! appointment of Frank C Klode, Milwaukee, as director of the new state public welfare department was brewing in the forty-third annual convention of the Wisconsin1 Federation of Women's clubs which opened here today. The federation numbers more than 350 clubs.

A committee, named in the'meeting on American citizenship and legislation, was charged with pur-suin gthe matter further, with the possible view to asking the delegate ,body to go on record against the appointment* Klode was chosen yesterday in unanimous action by the new state public welfare board.

BLAST APPOINTMENT Purpose of the committee, as

voiced by Mrs. Harold Peterson, Milwaukee, who brought the matter into the open, is to investigate facts concerning the appointment

. and to consider the advisability of r th£ federation's formally protest

ing it. She and other opponents of the

appointment maintain the new director does not possess the qualifications demanded by the* bill which created the position. They are in favor of the federation's recommending to the public welfare .board that it reconsidered the ap-pointmeny'so the head may be one having recognized professional and scientific training required by law.",

Serving with her are Mmes, Leonard Evans, Sheboygan, state chairman of American citizenship; W, T. Malone, Menomonie, and George Strom, Milwaukee*

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SHEBOYGAN, Wis., Oct. 11— (Special)—No mention of the appointment of Frank C. Klode of Milwaukee to the directorship of the new state welfare department was contained in the resolution which reached the floor of the forty-third convention of the Wisconsin Federation of Women's Clubs Wednesday afternoon.

In compliance with a long standing policy of the federation, the resolution submitted for consideration merely reaffirmed the principle of the merit system instead of dealing with a specific condition. The statement will come up for action by the delegate body tomorrow. Discussion from the floor will be allowed under federation rules then.

The appointment, rought by many individual members, came up in a meeting on legislation and Ameri can citizenship yesterday. Mrs. Harold Peterson of the Shorewood Woman's club declared the appointment was illegal inasmuch as the new director was unqualified for the job. The opinion was echoed by others off the convention floor.

After conferences between a committee chosen at that meeting and the resolutions committee, the resulting suggested action was one reaffirming belief in the merit system, approving consideration of all candidates for state appointive of fices on a basis of training and fitness and urging members "to apply the same standards to all candidates in public office,"

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Klode Then"Re-elect-dd Village President, Friendly Suit Shows The village of Whitefish Bay. was

without the services of its president, Frank O. Klode, for a few hours two

weeks ago so that a land deal between the village and a corporation owned and'operated by Mr. Klode. could be successfully consummated.

Mr, Klode's temporary resignation as president and trustee

i of the village was.revealed in

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suit to test the validity of the transaction. At a board meeting Nov. 5 Mr. Klode resigned and G. W. Van Derzee was named temporary president. When the deal was completed Mr. Klode was again elected president. - i,.-n - •

The transaction involves a large tract of park land on the lake shore east of Shore drive and north of Belle av., owned by the Fidelity Realty Co., in which Mr4 Klode is interested. The land was offered to the village for $103,000, payable over a 26-year period. The offer was accepted.^ >

The realty company agreed to the transaction only on ' the condition that the deal would be tested in court and consequently a declaratory judgment was asked Tuesday. The price of the land was the same as that fixed by condemnation commissioners from which award the village appealed several months ago but subsequently withdrew the appeal.; * ;:,,...'• Y'; -x.

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Ae a graduate of the "Bchool of hard knocks/' Grover F Knoerns-

, child has responded to the knocking of opportunity.

When he was a young lad he attended grade school in Milwau:

3cee, where he was born in 1890. liater he took a course at the Bpencerian Business school. The Test of his education he acquired the hard way—-by experience and tolght school where he * studied

v3aiathepiatiC8 and public speaking. "1 deliberately traveled from

?3ob to job learning and studying the problems of help and labor/*' rKnoernsehild said. "I worked as J i bank messenger, and in the* credit department ot a depart-tment store. As assistant superintendent and bookkeeper X studied mining and the separation of min

ting products at a Grant county • •(Wisconsin) separation plant." '•

He also learned the trades of a baker and a confectioner. In 1 9 1 0 Knoernschild associated himself with the Prudential Insurance Company of Newark, N. J., whose local office is at 110 E. "Wisconsin ave. From the ranks ot bookkeeper and cashier he has risen to the position of assistant manager for the state of Wisconsin. K

For the past eight years, Knoernschild has been a member-of the board of trustees in White-fish Bay.

"During my second term as a trustee I was elevated to the

^presidency by my fellow trustees mtter the death of *' the itormer o

^president, Harold rw. ? Oouneli.", stated': Knoernschild. 7sy$faZ-.y>£i?

Since then the villagers have elected him for two more terms, the present one expiring in 1945.

As .a result of many years' study of governmental affairs, Knoernschild expresses his apprehension by saying, "My greatest concern is the laxity shown on the part of the people in governmental matters, best described by their laxity in exercising one of $he greatest privileges which they have—the exercise of franchise."

By virtue of his position as village president, Knoernschild is commander of civilian defense In Whitefish Bay. In addition to this, he was appointed deputy chief air raid warden of Milwaukee county. • , , • ,

,' Y 'AS a hobby, Knoernschild con-1 verts discarded materials into beautiful and useful articles. He I has built and furnished an office!

* in the basement of his home at 5101 N. Cumberland blvd. as one of his projects. From junk heaps, he collected marble slabs from which he has constructed a marble floor.

A pulp container pervious to air and Impervious to water is an invention of Knoernschild's. He is secretary-treasurer of the com* pany which manufacturers his product. „.

Ralph, t i e knoernschildR1 son, was graduated from the Milwaukee University school in 1941, and la now engaged in industrial work to» qualify himself for the position of a personnel director. On May J 21 he enlisted in the naval air corps;!: J

Graduating from Holy Angels academy last spring, Marlon!

Knoernschild has just completed her first year in the liberal arts course at Marquette university. I

Concerning the trustees, the' president says be is satisfied that Whitefish Bay is governed by men of the finest caliber, each successful in his own line of endeavor and Berving the village unselfishly. His ambition is to maintain these standards and that officials shall never hold office, if he can prevent it, for selfish motives or for any personal aspiration or gain.

To formulate the policies of Whitefish Bay, seven men are elected by the people to act in their behalf. The village president, Grover Knoernschild, is the chairman of the board of trustees which 1B the policy-forming body of the village. Paul Stever, Hibbard Greene, Charles Ray McCallum, Clarence Post, R. C. Zimmerman and Ray Hiller are the present village trustees.

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Honored trustee recalls debate that made splash By Mary Schuchmann

Ralph Knoernschild was honored Monday night for 30 years of service as a Whitefish Bay village trustee.

Knoernschild was first elected to the Village Board in 1953, and has been re-elected 10 times since then. From 1973 to 1976, he ,was also a member of the Whitefish Bay School Board.

He is a candidate for village president in the spring election;

Asked to recall his most interesting experience as a trustee, he talked of what he called "the great swimming pool debate" of the early 1960s.

He said the Village Board had set aside funds over the years to build an outdoor, public pool at Cahill Square, but opposition developed about the time the board was ready to advertise for bids.

Knoernschild said some residents felt it was a frivolous use of money, while Cahill Square neighbors "foresaw all sorts of racket emanating from the pool,"

Knoernschild said. The debate raged for months, he said, in public and

in private. At a public meeting at Henry Clay School, he

recalled, a well-to-do resident argued against the pool, saying that if a person wanted a pool, he should build one in his own backyard, not at public expense.

That, the resident said, was what he had done for his own children.

Knoernschild said at that point, the late Glenn Elliott (a former village trustee who was "skilled in debate and sharp of tongue," according to Knoernschild) leaped to his feet and shouted: "What I want to know is, how do I get to be one of your kids?"

That remark, Knoernschild said, "brought down the house."

(The pool issue was later put to a referendum, where it was defeated by a narrow margin, and ultimately scrapped by the village.) Ralph Knoernschild

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Whitefish Bay — If there is ever a Mr. Whitefish Bay award, Ralph Knoernschild will be in the running.

In April, Knoernschild, 63, of 5166 N. Berkeley Blvd., will celebrate 32 years as a village trustee. Multiply that by the 10 hours or so a week he puts in on village-related activities and you have a good portion of anybody's life.

But to Knoernschild, who says he "lives and breathes the village," that time is spent with the evident concern and devotion a good father has for his child.

To serve the village better, Knoernschild believes, a trustee should get to know village employes. He said that idea did not originate with him but with his father, Grover, a White-fish Bay trustee from 1934 to 1936 and village president from 1936 to 1945.

"My father made it a point to know all of the employes of the village practically by their first names," Knoernschild said. ,

The son has followed suit. "My philosophy is — by knowing them on a

person?' "" — this gives me an opportunity to dis' them the operation of the vil

lage and to get their thoughts on how the operation should work in terms of saving time and money for the village. You can best find out by actually talking with the people who do the work."

Getting to know the people who run the village and talking with them about their work are the first two prerequisites Knoernschild meets before he makes a decision to vote for or against an ordinance, he said. The third is observation.

"I watch all of the operations of the village: how the trash is picked up, how the parking situation is on Silver Spring, tree trimming. Fm a great believer in observing what is going on before decisionmaking."

How and when did Knoernschild's affair with the village begin? It started when he moved with his family to Whitefish Bay from Milwaukee when he was 10. His father built a house at 5101 N. Cumberland Blvd. He credits his parents with instilling in him a fervor for serving the people.

As a boy, Knoernschild remembers tagging along to Village Board meetings with his dad, who also was active in the campaigns of County

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"I can remember sitting at the top of the basement steps listening to the political movers, the big industrialists of Milwaukee County talking with my dad in our smoke-filled recreation room," Knoernschild said. "I was interested in listening to how

, things were managed." He vividly recalled an example of

his father's grass-root relationship with the public. At the time his dad was Village Board president and the Department of Public Works was on strike. The strikers were picketing in front of their house one Saturday afternoon.

"Dad walked outside and the men talked to him. 'Grover/ they said, •we got problems.* They a lways called him by his first name. /We know that you can help us and will be willing to talk to us.'

• "My dad invited them into the ; house. They all came and sat in the'

recreation room. 'Before w e get started,! my dad said, T m going to serve you some refreshments. I want you to relax, then we'll get down to

* work.' B^ the time they finished, the strike was over and the men all went

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Pride is evident , Knoernschild's mother, a founder,

of the Whitefish Bay Woman's Club and the Whitefish Bay directory, believed "you should do something for your community, add to it for your country."

Knoernschild's pride in his father's public service and his own can be seen in the wall of pictures of alt the village boards he and his father served on. His wife, Maureen, who is a teacher of students wi th learning disabilities at Whitefish Bay High School, keeps a scrapbook of all of

,her husband's village activities. At present, Knoernschild is on

three committees , including the chairmanship of the Public Safety

Committee. He has served on every one of the village's six committees "at least three times over," For the last 20 years, he's earned his living as

* a real estate agent with North Shore fcealtyi

He talked about some of the bigger issues Whitefish Bay faced during his years as trustee. In the '60s, he remembers the referendum voting

' down the building of a municipal pool at Cahill Square.

Sewer battle "In '57 or '58, the Village Board

went against public opinion and put not only storm sewers in but sanitary sewers as well, which I would say was great foresight. We are now one of only a few communities in the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District that has split sanitary and storm sewers. But now the district is making us pay for other communities that don't have the split sewer sys-tern. I don't think that's fair."

j Knoernschild has a plan he developed in 1970 that would use the rock from the North Shore sewer tunnel system to extend Lincoln Memorial Dr. so that people who live along the lake could use the shoreline area as a marina. He still believes that idea could work today and hopes to revive interest in i t

In 1957, Knoernschild was the recipient of the National Jaycees' Man of the Year Award. From 1973 to / 1976, he served as a trustee and a School Board member, which he said

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was the first time anyone in the state served on a local school board and a local government board at the same

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In the spring of 1984; he ]ivas'an unsuccessful candidate for the"village; presidency, losing to Patrick Mat-'.V thews, who now holds the post ^

Knoernschild's wi fe says that" being a trustee is not just a Job forZ him. "He cares about the individual people and the individual things that could happen to make the village be t - ; ter. He talks to the grass-roots people before he makes a decision about things." - ! Y

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So mudh has been written and, said about Ralph Knoernschild's affection for Whitefish

Bay and its people. Anyone In the ; village who has never heard of him is } probably a newcomer*

.* Few people, however know why Knoernschild, 65> "is not seeking

' what would have been an unprecedented 12th term on the Whitefish Bay Village Board. It has to do with,

i his fondness for Whitefish Bay and his hope for its future. '

It also tells you everything you i need to know about Ralph Knoerns

child. On Monday, Jan, 6, the day before

candidates were required to file their nomination papers, the village held its first monthly meeting of 1986. At the meeting Knoernschild announced he was all set to run for another three-year term.

However, the next day he changed his mind, His decision, he said, was based on his respect for a younger trustee, Michael Hatfield.

"Mike and I had a chat at the board meeting and he said yon

t know, we might have competition/ * Knoernschild recalled.

At that time Hatfield and Knoernschild were the only candidates who had indicated they would run, for the two available seats.

There was always the possibility that a third candidate would file on the last day, however.

If this happened, Knoernschild knew there was a, chance one of the two would lose his board seat. Knoernschild didn't want to see Hatfield, a first-term-trustee, leave the board*

In 1984 another trustee was in a similar position and lost, Knoerns* child explained.

Knoernschild said he did some thinking at home after the board meeting. "My wife (Maureen) and I

; discussed this and I thought about i t I said that I respect Mike, He's

: done an excellent job on the finance committee, getting the budget in order and really keeping taxes down."

Knoernschild decided that night to step down if a third candidate entered the race. He delivered his nomination papers to the village clerk on Tuesday, Jan. 7 but he left the document that declared his candidacy with his attorney.

When a third candidate (David Belfus) appeared, Knoernschild never delivered that paper to the

j clerk,

It was a tremendous ges-i ture, especially for a man who has

served on the board since 1953. That fact was not lost on Hatfield;

4 who admitted he was at a loss for ; words when he heard of Knoerns-^ I child's decision, * f the job has meant so much to

r Ralph and so has thercommunity * : Hatfield said* "There'a Really not

* much a person can say at a time like fthat j "I was surprised that he had done I it, I thought it was a pretty heavy . j sacrifice. He has dedicated his life to ; the village,*

Said Knoernschild; "I feel the time is right for other individuals to have

; the opportunity to share their; lives with the village.

"I intend to stay involved through : civic activities. 1 want to. continue serving on committees and shoul*

. dering my share of the responsibility. Others can now serve the

: honored position of village trustee. I wish them well.*

Knoernschild, who has been a , resident of Whitefish Bay since he was 10, also said he will continue to take time to view village matters first-hand, if he is asked. •

Through the years, personal involvement has been his trademark. Whether it was traffic or parking problems or concerns about aesthetics, Knoernschild has made it a point to check things out for himself and seek citizen input.

His direct approach to municipal government was soem-thing his father, Grover, a former Whitefish Bay village president,

> handed down to him, he said. T h a i was really his whole back-

ground and his basis for knowing I people, enjoying people, getting to know their views and seeing how they felt." t

His father's close friends, who , were also public servants, also influenced his style. He mentioned*

* the late Roland Steinke, a former Milwaukee County Circuit Court

Judge, and Wisconsin Supreme I Court Justice, Joseph Shinners, a former Milwaukee County Sheriff and Alexander Wiley, a former United States Senator. .

"During their term a politician was somebody to be looked up at,* Knoernschild said. "The word politician was a good word then.*

From these men Knoernschild gained an appreciation for clean government, honesty and sensitivity toward people. Those qualities were a "guiding light* to him, he said.

"I wanted to do my part in government," Knoernschild said. "1 think the world was good to me and I owed something to my community. Rather than take something out of it, I wanted to put something back into it.* -To Knoernschild, putting some

thing back meant staying in touch with those he served. "That is my

{philosophy and I've always had that philosophy," he said,

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closeness to people and get their input. I'm a very strong supporter of that.

*Tm on the street, I get out and look. I watch the parking. Ill go out there twice and three times a day just to see what's happening.

"I really get involved in government, I get involved in Whitefish Bay."

Knoernschild doesn't believe all the current village trustees share his philosophy of governing.

He sharply disagrees with those who feel he relies too much on other's opinions and not enough on his own..

"Sometimes you have to make a decision that's unpopular," he acknowledged. "But at least give (people) the chance to have the input."

Knoernschild feels the village board made a mistake last year when it didn't consult with merchants and apartment dwellers, when revising the garbage collection system.

"In July (1985) we should have discussed this with them," he said.

aI voted for the new system, but by then (November) it was a lost cause. I know that's a poor attitude to take. I should have stood up and said no, even though it was unanimous to go ahead with it."

Knoernshcild has b e e n instrumental in making sure the same thing doesn't happen in the village's review of proposals for the renovation Df the business district. A

committee with citizen representation is being formed to help in the review process. The people of Whitefish Bay have responded positively to what Knoernschild calls his common-touch approach. "I have people say to me, *Mr. Knoernschild, you don't remember me but we had some problems on our block. You were the only one to come down and see and try to help us.'

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trustees don't think so. They think they're policy-makers, but somebody has to be.. .they've got to look to somebody for answers, right or wrong. . •

"That's what I'm there for." During his years of public service,

Knoernschild has had a hand in the planning and development of the North Shore Water Commission, the fire station, village hall, library and Cahill Square.

Yet he seems to take the greatest pleasure in what some may consider lesser matters.

A 1968 Whitefish Bay Herald editorial lauded Knoernschild for his

work as chairman of the village's health committee, a job considered to be a menial assignment.

The editorial listed Knoernschild's contributions to village health. They included his proposal for a housing ordinance to regulate apartment maintenance and his attempts to monitor the cleanliness and upkeep of businesses.

"He need do none of these things and could twiddle his thumbs largely content to make routine reports," the editorial read. "But this is not the Knoernschild way.. .He is giving an outstanding example to all officials in the North Shore that no assignment is so small that it can't be broadened and made fruitful."

Knoernschild's energies have also been evident outside the village hall.

He has helped organize two festivals that raised money to send Whitefish Bay High School music groups to Florida and Austria. And this year as in years past, he was a sponsor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison band concert in White-fish Bay.

With his long tenure as village trustee nearly at an end, Knoernschild is acting like anything but a lame duck. He continues to speak up at committee and board meetings.

He is also outspoken about issues of concern to him.

One of his biggest worries is easing the erosion problems along the Lake Michigan shoreline. He said he will continue to work for a resolution of the problem.

"That is my dream," he said. Knoernschild, who served simul

taneously on the village and school boards from 1973 to 1976, has been a frequent critic of school district spending. A favorite target has been the size of the school administration. "There are too many in the administration for the number of students in the district," he said.

"It's been my argument, it's been my discussion."

He said he would welcome an advisory role to the village board but he doesn't expect one.

He bristles at any suggestion that his stepping down as trustee signals his retirement. "I'm a busy man, I've got a business to run," said Knoernschild, a partner in , North Shore Realty.

He remains philosophical about his loss to F. Patrick Matthews in the race for village president two years ago. "What's to be is to be," he said. aIt was God's will."

He admitted he sometimes thinks he's letting people down by. not running again. "Since I've annoucned I wasn't running I can't tell you how many people say to me, What are we going to do without you?'

"Then I think that life will go on. It's a good feeling to have people think that much of you.

"I love Whitefish Bay and I'm happy that I've been able to give part of myself to it."

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Whitefish Bay Police Sgt. LeRoy Konrath has announced that he will retire effective May 9.

Konrath, 60, has served the department for 31 years, the last 15 as juvenile officer.

He said he orignially wanted to be a fireman so he could teach flying on off days. "Teaching flying wasn't very lucrative at the time," he said. "I had to find another job so I could continue teacbing."

However, instead of landing a temporary job with the fire department, Konrath wound up starting his police career. "When a group of us took the civil service examination, (Village Manager) Ralph Cahill told us to express an interest m the police and fire department.

"I passed the exam and it turned out that I was the first single police officer they had ever hired," Konrath said. "It was a real taboo to hire a single officer at that time. All of the officers were married."

Konrath was promoted to sergeant in the early 1970s and has worked closely with youth in the village ever since. "I started out dealing with the hippies and the flower children," he said. "There were a lot more kids getting arrested then."

Juvenile crime statistics have gone down in recent years. From 1974 to 1984, the number of juvenile arrests decreased from 760 to 430. Of those 430 youths arrested in 1984, more than half were from outside the village, Konrath s,aid.

"We've done it through crime prevention work in the schools," he said. "Most kids today tend to avoid trouble. I think the kids in the Bay are darned good."

In a related matter, Ron Stefanski, the village's newest patrolman, graduated from the Milwaukee Police Academy last Friday. Stefanski graduated number two in his class, just nine-tenths of a point below the top graduate.

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Whitefish Bay Krueger, 78, is a lifelong Whitefish Bay

resident, and has spent the last 50 years at 5045 N. Woodburn St. His parents raised vegetables at two farms in the village.

"I remember the railroad tracks used to run right by, and bums would try to steal the, vegetables,* Krueger said. The Chicago and North Western Railway tracks, which paralleled what is now N. Marlborough Dr., were

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Left: Reggie and Ed Sweet stood in front of th§ir* South Milwaukee home. Reggie said she had lived Jn the home for 60 years. Above: George Krueger,;a lifelong resident of Whitefish Bay, remembers when his father farmed 15 acres of land in the village.

removed in the 1920s, when, as Krueger piijjt it, "people started to get fancy." j

"Just before the [stock market] crash; in 1928, there was a land boom," Krueger said. At the time, his parents farmed 15 acres along £. Hampton Ave., where Catholic, Lutheran and Baptist churches are now located.

Krueger said his father had paid $6,000 for the land, and sold for $1,500 an acre. The developer "wanted to give him a land contract," Krueger recalled. "He said, *Pay cash, or Jou don't get it.' " 3

Krueger's father got the cash, "but the {fuy that bought lost his shirt, that's for sure. W|ien the crash came [1929], the land lay vacant until 1941, when the Catholics bought some of it.?

Krueger attended the old Pennsylvania >fve. school, now the site of Old Schoolhouse Park, until the school burned down in 1916. Classes were held at Community United Methopist Church and at an Army barracks where *he National Guard Armory is now located before Henry Clay School opened in 1918. J

There was no Whitefish Bay High School *n the 1920s, so Krueger went to Shorewood. He joined the Whitefish Bay school system as; a maintenance worker in 1933, and spent «41 years with the schools. *

"The kids were great to me," Krueger sjlid. "I never had problems with them." He said he still saw people who remembered him from when they were in school.

If Krueger has any regrets, it's that neighbors used to socialize and help each other out more than they do now. ,

"Everybody is more independent," Krueger said of newer residents. "They're good people, but it's kind of *mind your own business* these days;"

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\ Kuemmerlein, Ruth (Nee Patterson). Of St. John's Home, former longtime resident of Whitefish Bay. Died Sat., Jan. 6, 1996, age 88 years. Beloved wife of the

xlateTheodore John. Mother of Barbara Beesley of Columbus, OH and Patricia "Kim" Kassner of

..B6$ton, MA. Loving grandmother of John and Anne Beesley and Capt. Elizabeth, Timothy and the late Christopher Kassner. Great-grandmother of Mackenzie and Dylan Beesley and the late Alexandria and Sierra Kassner. Memorial Services 2 PM Monday, Jan. 15 at St. John's Home Chapel, 1840 N. Prospect Ave. Private Burial Wisconsin Memorial Park.

Ruth was a graduate of South Division High School and Miiwaukee-Downer College. She had a long and distinguished career in education as a teacher, PTA officer, 20-year member of the Whitefish Bay School Board, career counselor and director of adult education, Through her book reviews, Ruth shared her love of literature with many people. In lieu of flowers, Memorials may be offered to St. John's Home.

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I t was a last-minute move, F. Patrick Matthews said of his surprise decision in January not to seek re-election as

village president of Whitefish Bay. He has held the village's top elected office since 1984.

; He had his nomination papers ready for filing, he said. "I didn't really make the decision until the last day," he explained.

I The up-in-the-air approach was very j different from Matthews' six-year adrnin-i istration, which has been characterized by j careful planning and decisive action. The end result, everyone agrees, has been substantial accomplishments.

Asked to name the achievements during his years in office, Matthews lists long-range planning, stabilization of the tax rate and a reduction in the number of village personnel.

Those actions, Matthews said, "will stand the village in good stead for a long time to come."

In a more visible way, Matthews points to the renovation of Klode Park, the largest public works project ever done in Whitefish Bay, and East Silver Spring Drive. Each cost more than $1 million.

His leadership is readily acknowledged. "Pat's a very demanding person," said Village Manager Michael Harrigan,

j adding that the two have become close ' personal friends over the past six years. "He has very high expectations of himself and the staff and the community. He lets you know right up front what they are."

On the flip side, Harrigan said, "Pat has a positive attitude about life and people. He's a very caring person."

As part of a dogged attention to detail, ! Harrigan said Matthews was good about i follow-up and about responding person-| ally to citizen contacts.

"And a sense of humor," Harrigan continued. "You've got to get that in there." He said Matthews' injection of humor into board discussions often helped stimulate dialogue among trustees.

"He's really done a tremendous job as village president," Harrigan concluded.

~ On the eve of leaving office (hell step down when the new village president is sworn in next month) Matthews has a few regrets of what might have also been done.

"I would have liked to have seen full consolidation of our fire department with another — probably Glendale's. I think that will come," he said.

He noted that a North Shore fire consolidation was discussed in the mid; 1980s but was put on the back burner shortly after Norman Wichman was hired as Glendale's fire chief. On April 2, Wichman will start as acting fire chief of Whitefish Bay.

"By virtue of the work that we had all done, going to this alternative was relatively easy for us. We'd done all the examination, all the work back three years ago," Matthews said.

Matthews says he has thoroughly enjoyed the team effort that is part of local government these days. "The greatest pleasure of the last six years was working with all of the people that are involved. On the Village Board, everybody has really pulled their weight. We have probably 60 to 70 people who serve on a volunteer basis on behalf of the community.

"I've learned that we have an awful lot of well-qualified, very committed people within our community."

One of the few disappointments Matthews said he has had in the last six years is the cost to residents of the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District's deep-tunnel project. He sees the project as solving "what is basically the problem

occasioned by Milwaukee's and Shorew-ood's lack of foresight to put in separated sewers."

He said the recent settlement of the FLOW dispute may not help Whitefish Bay. "I have great scepticism that that money will ever come back to the benefit ofthe village of Whitefish Bay residents," he said. ~ —_

In April 1984, when he took office, Wliitefish Bay was facing a lot of challenges, he recalled. The Village Board was struggling with a proposal to use garbage carts for trash collection. The village manager and village assessor had recently vacated their positions, and taxpayers were still recovering from a 32 percent village tax increase.

Neighbors near the Heritage (now M&I) Bank were up in arms over a proposal for a 52-car parking lot behind the bank. They filed a lawsuit to block the move.

In 1985 the village did its first borrowing to replace equipment and undertake special projects. Up until then, Matthews said, a * >ay as you go" policy had been in place.

Since 1983, village tax increases have been limited to single-digit hikes. "We've done well on it, but it's a result of a lot of hard work, and a lot of preparation, and a lot of attention by everyone here on the board," Matthews said.

Some items remain on his wish list. One is reconstruction of Lake Drive. "There are no curbs left on most of Lake Drive," he reminds you. He sees the project as a mid-'90s event.

"I'd like to see our Department of Public Works in a single, modern state-of-the-art facility rather than divided now between two facilities, neither of which gives the men everything that they need," he said.

He'd also like to see more cooperation among business people in Whitefish Bay. "There have been some awfully good efforts in the past four or five years in trying to pull that business community together, and Fd like to see them continue," he said.

As for his own future, aIt11 be family, law practice and golf in that order," he said. A combination ofthe press of his law practice and a desire to spend more time with his family contributed to his decision not to run.

He said that before deciding not to seek another three-year term, he considered constricting his village activities while still holding the office. "But I'm just not made that way," he said, adding that he did not like the idea of working less than

Jbhe~job really required. "This thing has? taken-me- 50 to 100 hours a naonth£ depending upon what's going on."? •'••""'J §

In his new life, he will cut back a little" from the 65-70 hours a week he currently spends on his law practice and community service. He will remain a director of the taxation section of the State Bar of Wisconsin, and on the board of directors and as general counsel for Second Harvesters of Wisconsin.

Putting his accumulated knowledge of municipal law to work, his law practice at Weiss, Berzowski, Brady & Donahue has

| expanded to include more and more \ municipal, land use and zoning work.

Matthews and two partners are also involved in building a 100-unit apartment complex in Butler.

At home his wife, Patty, is ready with some non-municipal, residential projects to occupy her husband's free time. "She's got three spiral binders all set up," he quipped. _____

This year will mark the first year t neither ofthe Matthews will work on or be

in the Fourth of July parade and enter-, tainment. Pat and Patty Matthews have

been the spirit behind the growth of the village celebration. (Patty Matthews recalls the 1984 parade: "Three cars, no music, not a sound, and Betty Jo Nelsen on her bike. They asked us if we could provide our own car."

For the next five years, she was in charge of either the parade or the entertainment. "Now people don't leave Whitefish Bay for the Fourth of July," Patty Matthews said.

Thinking ahead to life outside the village fold, Pat Matthews said, "It's a little difficult to realize I will now be able to watch a parade."

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Surrounded by a bevy of guests, among them children and grandchildren, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Leu, 5020 North Richards street, celebrated' their golden wedding anniversary Saturday evening. Novel entertainment served to recall to the couple the day fifty years ago when they were married. . k

Dressed in old-fashioned wedding clothes, Mr. and Mrs. John' Gores emanated the bride and bridegroom of 1881. The guests danced to the music of an accordion. Masters of ceremony at the party, which was given as a surprise, were Walter Gores and Fred Liebenthal.

The guests were Messrs. and Mmes. E. Machleith, G. Schrieber, Granville, John Gores, Joseph Leser, Gustave Koch, Waupaca, Rudy Off, Wausau, Frank Liebenthal, Walter Gores, William Mohr; Mmes. John Mohr, William Leu, George Leu; Misses Elsie, Ida, and Agnes Schrieber, Granville, Miss Adelaide Mohr; Messrs. Anthony Leser, Gordon Mohr, Henry Schrieber, Walter Schrieber,' Herman Geipfel, William Koepfler, Otto and August Schrieber, Arthur Beil, Robert Kruecke, and Frederick Liebenthal.

The grandchildren present were Lois Off, Virginia and Dorothy Leu, Lucille Gores, Frederick Liebenthal. Others were Paul Leser, Robert Koch, Margaret Leser, Emma and Doris Koch. i

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This is tho fifth of a series of arti-t clos on Whitefish Bay officials.

One of the busiest persons in .Whitefish Bay right now is John J. YO,Leary, village assessor, who is also

assistant treasurer. Kept at the village hall every day and on most nights by his duties of keeping post-

f ed on real estate sales and studying prices, a t present he finds himself very much occupied receiving tax payments. >-

Mr. O'Leary has been assessor since he was first elected to the position in April, 1930. He moved to Whitefish Bay and built his home in Mach, 1926. He waa married in his home June 30, 1926^ He has four hoys, two of whom attend St. Monica's school and two of pre-school age^

Mr. O'Leay confesses he finds him-? self pretty busy to find much recreation outside of his job. "I am at the village hall most evenings," he said. " I like to spend my free evenings at home with my family, or go out occasionally with Mrs. O'Leary to card parties or socials." Mr. O'Leary's physical recreation, he confided, Is •working around the house.

All tho tax-payers of Whitefish Bay know Mr. O'Leary, meeting him once a year between May 1 and June 30, when assessments are made, and they consider him, one and all, to be a fair and competent assessor. Y

Mr. O'Leary has been doing appraisal work continuously since 1919. As a "side recreation" he now serves as secretary of S t William's court No. 1062, C. O. F., and as chairman of the credit committee of the St. Monica church credit union.

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Letter from Mrs. Olive M. (Scheife) Lowry to Minri Bird Feb. 22, 1984, regarding photographs of the old Scheife home (Carl and Caroline's) on site of present 6220-6226 N. Lake Drive:

RpgarrHrig the* pnVf-irrgg ypn g^nf- The picture,without the enclosed porch on the front, and with the little girls sitting on the steps, I am sure is the house where Carl Scheife and his wife, Caroline (Schumacher) Scheife, my grandparents, lived, i Can remember those steps leading out from the large kitchen & the house faced the lake (Lake Michigan). I had never seen the house after the enclosed porch was added nor the larger home shown on the separate pictures.

(The larger home was one built by Charles and Cora Roberts 1912.)

*fy father and mother, Lewis F. Scheife and Mary Jane Consaul Scheife, di^ own a home directly south of the road showing a driveway and a house across the road and behind a telephone pole. But this house was located farther to the south and about in the middle of this property - the back with a porch facing south. My mother called their hone "Suranit View". My Dad was in the commercial fishing business with a Charles Langschwager at that time. It was before I was born in the hone above the grocery store picture in the brochure on page 10 (of the 75th Anoiv. "WFB brochure) and also the news clipping you enclosed with the brochure.

When Dad discontinued the fishing business and moved to the grocery store, he sold the fishing business and rented the house'to Peter Schaefer (or Shaver) and a partner whose name I do not ronaiiber. But Dad occasionally volunteered, along with my uncles, William and Frank Consaul, to help ,!lift the nets" at different times. We, my brothers and I, used to walk to the house "up on the hill" (where 6220-26 are now on Lake Dr.) to pick currants, gooseberries, raspberries, cherries and crabapples and apples and

whatever was in season. Later, when I was in my teens and we had moved from the grocery store to the hardware store on Silver Spring and Consaul Place, Dad sold the property "up on the hill" to a Mr. Boelke. (I think his 1st name was Emil) and Mr. Boelke (sp.) built a new home there. So maybe the house on the picture could be a part of the old house moved to" that northwest corner of the lots. It looks to me like it might very well be a part of the original house belonging to Dad and Mom. Later, ,Mr. Boelke sold the property and I think to Mr. Schroeder. (Yes he did.) '

I remember so well driving up on Sunday to see my grandparents (Carl & Caroline Scheife) with Grace (the horse pictured on page 10 of the brochure), hitched to the carriage, or as we used to call it, fThe Buggy"

This, I Hope, will help you a bit with putting things together on your (I think) really interesting project.

Olive M. Lowry

(Note: Mrs. Lowry thought the picture of her parents early home on the site of 6220-26 and lot just south of here, was in the northwest corner of the land. I believe she felt this way because of the dirt road and telephone pole in front of the house on the -:\o -. picture. However, the picture was taken standing far back in on the property and the house in question was really in the middle of the Scheife property and close to the lake bluff. Therefore, I believe this house was Lewtfand Mary Jane (Consaul) Scheife1 s home on his parents property.) .

Letter from Mrs. Olive (Scheife) Packard Lowry, June 1981, to her sister-in-law, Mrs. Ruth Scheife, former wife of Alvin Scheife. Mrs. Ruth Scheife gave this letter to Mimi Bird, to assist in putting together some of Whitefish Bay's history.

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OHARLDB HAY MJOCAMAJM— Trustee .

For aix years Charles Ray lie-ium haB served as a trustee of Utefish Bay. At the present

.ae he acts as the leader of the personnel And publicity committee. He Is a member of the hoard of health and the public utilities committee. Hie term expires In 1944.

Born In Milwaukee in 1894, he Attended the 18th Ward school, now known as the Maryland Ave. school. Riverside high school waa known as East Division when McCallum went there. For three < years he attended Cornell.

This trustee is the president ot the McCallum General Insurance Co.. Inc., with offices at 226 E. Michigan St., Milwaukee.

/In 1919 McCallum .married "Esther Worden. The McCalluma have two sons: CharleB Uay, Jr., .20, and Sammy, 16. Sammy attends Country Day school of which his father is a member of the hoard ot directors. The oldest son is studying at Arahurst college, Am-hurst, Mass.

McCallum has been the general chairman lor the Milwaukee County Community Fund campaign and is a member of the Columbia hospital board of dlrec-

ra. Living in Whitefish Bay for 11

ears, the McCallum* reside at 1924 E. Cumberland blvd. Aa a member af the University club and the Milwaukee Country club, McCallum enjoys the fellowship of others.

C. L. Mulrine One of tlie most Important men

in the Whitefish Hay school system is the superintendent of schools, G\ L. MuJrliie, of 5 701 N. Kent ave.

Born in Black River Falls, Wis., he attended Oshkosh State Teachers college, Marquette university and the University ofi Wisconsin. At these schools he won the following degrees: Ph.11., L*L.13., and M.R. His first position was in a rural school in Jackson county; later he taught in Hillbert, Politer and Odanah, all situated in Wisconsin.

Mr. Mulrine, who has been with the Whiteftah Bay system for over 25 years, finds much enjoyment in his young son, Peter, and daughter, Mary Ann. When' not with them, he spends his time walking and playing golf.

When asked where he plans to be this summer, the superintendent stated, "The best place to spend a vacation is right here in Whitefish Hay!"

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; By Priscilla Ahlgren

Choosing one's wedding cake used to be one of the simplest decisions a bride and . groom had to make. -. It was generally tall, white, topped with a

miniature bride and groom, and had the consistency of a dry, heavy pound cake. One was pretty much lice every other. *- Not anymore!

Today's bride and groom can choose from among dozens of different combinations of cake and filling flavors, scores of shapes and styles, and a wide variety of caketops.

Icing is tintecT to match bridesmaids' dresses and can be trimmed with fresh fruit or flowers. Grecian pillars, fountains, and champagne glasses add elegance and romance to even the smallest of cakes.

In short, wedding cakes have become real specialty items, and local bakers take great pride in their ability to offer personal, individualized service.

I- Someone' who has watched this trend evolve over the years is Hannah Meredig Remus, who with her first husband William Meredig opened the Bay Home Bakery and Delicatessen at 423 E. Silver

Spring Dr. 50 years ago. . Now 82 years old, Mrs. Remus still works

at the bakery on a regular basis, but recalls with ease the store's earlier days.

According to Mrs. Remus, the Bay Home Bakery quickly became known for its wedding cakes, and despite lean times during

Cakes then weren't nearly as elaborate as they are now, said Mrs. Remus. Pound cake was definitely in vogue, often accompanied by a small groom's cake much like a holiday fruitcake. "Now, fruitcake is much too expensive/' she added.

Years ago, the serving of wedding cake

"Couples out to dinner on their first anniversaries

sometimes spot me in the same restaurant They always

want me to have a piece of their cake, and send some over

to my table." • ~ -—Hannah Meredig Remus

the Depression, the orders kept coming. Even the rationing of sugar during the

war years didn't stand in the way of some customers, she recalled "I remember one customer who saved up the sugar for her wedding cake, and brought it in to us," she said. >

differed too, said Mrs. Remus. Once the official photographer had a shot of the newlyweds cutting into the lowest tier, the cake was whisked away to the kitchen, where caterers would pack individual servings into tiny cake boxes for wedding guests

. to take home.

"You don't see that so much anymore," she said. "If people, take their cake home, usually it's wrapped in a napkin."

If the elegance of individual cake boxes is no longer the rule, there's one wedding cake tradition that's still going strong. • It's the custom of saving the top tier of the wedding cake for a couple's first anniversary. "That's still a very important thing to many young couples," said Mrs.-Remus.

And how does wedding cake taste one year later? "Ours tastes very good," she said, speaking with authority. "It freezes , beautifully." - \

She should know, for it turns out that on more than one occasion she's been invited to share that all-important top tier,_

"Couples out to dinner on their first an-' niversaries sometimes spot me in the same restaurant," she said. "They always want me to have a piece of their cake, and send some over to my table."

Years ago, Mrs. Remus used to help with deliveries. Those w,ere the daysJ)efore por-

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If it hadn't been for her nurses training, Mrs. Hannah Meredig Remus, co-founder and ownerof the Bay Home Bakery. 423 E. Silver Sparing dr., admits she could not have survived the rigors of 20 years in the bakery business. That is the age of the bakery this week. '

She was young, skinny and healthy and well trained as a nurse to meet all life's vicissitudes when she and her first husband opened sho^u In the Rhineland hospital in which she trained, nurses were taught, belief in themselves and given the assurance they could do anything they willed, provided they^ were willing and determined to workior it.

As a nurse she was trained to long hours. Bakery around^ the clock hours she met in stride. It was nothing for her to be awakened from sleep in wee morning hours to offer relief or take over because someone failed to show up or the delivery wagon, perhaps broke down and she was needed in store or bakery.

Laugh Over Incident Years later when the White-

fish Bay bakery was well on its way to success, she and her husband used to chuckle over his mother's doubts— "If she could only see," they would laugh.

Mrs. Meredig Remus never went back to the profession for which she was trained, but her nursing skills were often put to use. It was she who washed out wounds and gave aid in case of accidents about the bakery, she who nursed the children in their illnesses; she who gave helpful and sought after advice to the early residents of the village and neighbors when sudden illnesses or accidents took place in their families.

"Mama," her two sons chant, "was always about when someone needed her."

Learned New Business Determined she was quick to

learn the rudiments of the bakery business and even went

i, tQ^chool to learn bow to make fancy trimmings on cakes and pastries. > • ' J •" "*• [ Her husband came frrim a? (family of bakers and millers and knew how to handle the various flours. He taught her what he, knew and their sons, fifth gen-, eration of bakers bearing the Meredig name, grew up absorb^ ing the bakery business. They, learned much by watching. Theyf were allowed the freedom of the bakery shop and, when practical,

^were given small tasks to do. I ' B o t h boys attend Richards

school and Whitefish Bay high school. Hans was tutored in the art of baking by his mother and dad. Herbert went to bakery school irf Chicago. It was there, he learned to make the ribbon candy and flowers with which

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he topped his step-brother's wedding cake. !

Youngest Master Baker The boys' father in his day was

the youngest master baker in the Rhineland.

The German breads and rolls he turned out at the Bay Home bakery soon won the new* store wide patronage. From the start and up until World War II, the bakery made deliveries of breakfast rolls and sweets • to Bay homes. The delivery wagon would start on its rounds at 2 a.m. To have bakery goods ready, the store would be open 24 hours a day.

"It was so quiet on the street in those days," recalls Mrs.f Remus, "The village had many) open spaces and empty fields. Our store seemed so isolated. How quiet the winters were and how unbroken the snow would be We knew everybody would come into the store. They were more than customers. We knew how many children they had, their good fortunes and bad . . . it isn't that way now. The village is built up. On a Saturday we ring up a thousand or more sales. Impossible to know each customer intimately. But we remember the old timers who've become grandparents and their children who in some instances are parents."

When Bay Home bakery was opened, a garage stood across the street. Also on the street were Brand's meat market, a drugstore, Klanns, Wilke's hardware store, now Weidlers and a gro-ceryvstore.

- In those days policemen went] on-foot in making their rounds. They always came in the back j door at the bakery for hot coffee j and.a .rol l or doughnut. Milkmen also stopped on cold mornings for a warming dup of coffee. So too did the mailmen. To them the bakery shop was a continu-j ous friendly open house. Coffee seemed to be always at hand. I And naturally with baked goods about, one never went hungry.

The same friendly spirit prevails today. With cars for police to ride in as they make their

rounds and with milkmen and mailmen having more stops to make there isn't quite the frequent calls for coffee. •?

The shop too is a busier place*, j It now employs 18 people in I addition to Mrs. Remus and her^ sons, who have gone into the

i business with her, intending to make it their life work. During • world War II„ Hans was in serv-* I ice with the army. He was doing j radar work in Europe when his: father died in 1945. Herb wak still in high school, where he starred as a football and basketball player and made the track team with honors. He also went, out for dramatics and at present is a member of the -Whitefish ? Bay Players.

Last summer, Mrs. Remus re-* turned to her native city, Soling gen, in the Rhineland. She) found the changes and growth there almost identical to the Bay's. Solingen has a flourishing steel industry. It is noted for its cutlery and surgical instruments^ used all over the world.

Some of the cutlery is in use at the Bay Home bakery, which so well combines the traditions of! a family with a promising future and also joins the . old world with the new.

"Mama, see this rose," Her? bert pridefully scrapes a butter sugar concoction of faint pink off his confectioner's palette and deftly places it upon the cake.

The cake grows lovlier. From the store, a customer

waves a passing greeting, Mrs. Meredig asks about the family.

"I enjoy waiting on people, seeing their faces, talking to them, you'd think that after twenty years I'd like to sit back —no, Fve grown to love this business. The bakery business and not nursing has become my life's work. . . , I wouldn't want to change it."

Twentieth Anniversary—the Bay Home bakery 423 E Silver Spring dr., founded by Hans Meredig #and his wife ^ Z ^ S S m ^ has never moved from^t. l « * b o i ^ the two decades but has grown considerable in size. It was onened when Herbert, shown decorating the wedding cake was ^ o T S s old. Hans Meredig and the boy's mother, Mrs Hannah Meredig Remus, are shown decorating smaller cakes. ?he ffve tiered cake wili deck the wedding table of the Mere-d S step brother, Kurt Remus, who will be married April 15.

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Mixter ties bow By Mary Schuchmann

When Henry Mixter challenged the local political order to run for Whitefish Bay

* village president 18 years ago, he was eyed as a newcomer.

Although he had lived in the village for 12 years, his New England accent gave away his Boston roots. His political apprenticeship was a single year as village trustee. '

In that 1966 election, Mixter defeated fellow trustee George Ernst in a hard-fought race, 2,458 to 2,051.

Mixter, now 63, has run unopposed every time since then.

(At a Village Board meeting several years ago, a woman was overheard asking a companion: "Is Henry Mixter like one of those Supreme Court justices, is he going to be around forever?")

Next month he will put away his gavel for good. He is not seeking re-election.

Later on, he will retire from his job as materials manager at the Falk (Corp., and he and his wife, Claire, will move to New Hampshire, where they will build "our first and last house" in the small town of North Hampton, just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean.

According to Mixter, "Claiire says she'll give me two years and I'll probably be back (in local government) in some way."

While sorfle people may disapprove of Mixter's style of handling village affairs (he can be heavy-handed and over-bearing, they say), few question his dedication.

His trademark bowtie has probably chaired more than^a thousand meetings in the past 18 years.

He served as the first chairman of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Council, a monthly roundtable for suburban officials. For another 10 years, he served as secretary of the group.

Mixter calls those "extra-curricular activities." He explained: "They come with the job (of village president) i£ you are going to take, your responsibilities seriously."

Mixter was born in Boston, spent two years at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in business and engineering, then • joined a ship-building firm during World War II.

In 1948, he attended a wedding in Milwaukee. "I liked the looks of it here and so I stayed," he said simply.

on memories The Mixters were married in 1950. Like

scores of now-well-established Whitefish Bay families, the couple started out in the Whitefish Bay Townhouses (128 E. Chateau, Mixter recalled).

They moved to their home at 4517 N. Murray Ave. in 1954. \"

A stop sign propelled Mixter into' local politics in 1965. "It's really a simple » story," he said. "A group of us from our neighborhood went to the Public Safety Committee asking for stop signs at Glen- f dale and Murray. We told them people , were whistling through that intersection. *

"We had all the figures, we counted up the number of children in the neighborhood, we made a good case," he said.

Their request, however, was turned down. "We were all upset," he recalled. "At a neighborhood gathering at Christmas, we got to talking about it. I said

to people, if you'll back me, I'll run for ; trustee."

They did, and he did. (And the stop sign was eventually approved.)

Mixter campaigned for village president Y in 1966 on the need for more involvement in Milwaukee-area affairs. He pushed also ^ for most cost-effective government and • long-range village planning. He en- 7 couraged subdividing some large estates on "'• the east side of N. Lake Dr. as a way of i, achieving better use of the land and increasing village revenues.

That 1966 race aroused high interest. A candidates' forum at the Whitefish Bay . Woman's Club featuring Mixter and fellow trustee Ernst attracted more than 400 people, according to a newspaper clipping.

Mixter's lack of opposition in the years that followed means one of two things, he speculated: "People don't know what's % going on, they don't care, or they're satisfied." "

He concluded: "I hope it's the latter." "There's a part of Henry that people

don't know," said Claire Mixter. "He ' s a ve ry , v e r y s e n s i t i v e ,

marshmailow kind of a person. He's the one who cries in movies and cries when he sees his children. He puts on a real good show to cover that up."

Mrs. Mixter said she is uneasy with her husband's public personality. She has learned, slie said, to stay out of the Village Hall. "I don't know him that way," she explained.

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r The times she has seen him with gavel in hand, "I was so unhappy, watching the tough side of him.

"Years ago, we, served on a board together, and I Was unhappy working with him. He runs a good meeting, he's

organized and efficient, but that's not the person I know.

"I see him coming in the door and giving , me a big kiss and asking if I've heard from • any of the kids. I've learned it's best not to

see the other side of him. "He cares so much, he will drop anything

to help. He just does thing, he sees something that needs to be done, and he does it. He just has this feeling that he ought to be doing something that's worthwhile. I don't think a lot of people see that side. He's quite a guy."

.;/- She paused, then acknowledged that her view may be biased. "I happen to think he's wonderful," she said, smiling. "I don't know how 1'n ever going to roast him (at the April 17 dinner in Mixter's honor). Everything I want to say is complimen- j tary." . .:.. /

In shepherding the village, Mixter said he has relied on delegating '

' authority to others. Calling it "a basic rule of government," Mixter said: "You give people authority to do their job, and then v

you hold them accountable. It's one of my t philosophies. It's the same in a corporate structure, and it's true even in this small .

, village, even though it's difficult for some [ y people to understand.'! [

He admitted it was difficult to follow f that approach when the oicome was not to I his liking "but-you learn to bite your \ tongue." < Y v j • • •

Reflecting on his years in office, Mixter ; mentioned the passage of a controversial open-housing ordinance in 1967 (more than 750 people attended a hearing on the

matter) and construction of the Village Hall in 1970.

The cunrent Chapter 220 state legislation promoting voluntary school transfers between the city and its suburbs "was conceived, in my opinion, in Whitefish Bay," Mixter said, when a group of School Board and Village Board members sought an alternative to the so-called Conta plan that would have merged several area School Districts. . .

Also during his years in office, Mixter said, the Building Board was given new life, and Whitefish Bay provided the leadership for a highly successful cable television ordinance.

On the North Shore consortium that led to the ordinance, Mixter said: "It's pretty good when you can get seven sets of

officials to agree on anything." A Mixter family scrapbook chronicles

some of the events of the last 18 years. Campaign literature used in 1966 showst

that Mixter's bowties have a long tradition. On a 1967 newspaper photo, Mixter is shown cutting the ribbon on a new parking . lot west of the Heritage Bank.

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In 1971, the Mixters were auctioned off as maid and butler in a benefit for school activities at Whitefish Bay High School. Another 1971 clipping shows Mixter clearing the sidewalk in front of the Village Hall with his own snowblower during a strike by members of the Department of Public Works.

Barely recognized behind a fluffy beard and tall cap, Mixter, in another newspaper clipping, is shown playing St. Nicholas for a Christmas event at his church.

Over the years, Mixter has opposed metropolitan government but encouraged metropolitan cooperation. He has made his presence known well beyond the village borders.

"I 'd l ike to think I've changed some of the attitudes of some people about Whitefish Bay," he said. "At one time we were looked on as the Gold Coast, a community of the wealthy, powerful and influential. I feel I showed them I put on my pant one leg at a time, just like everyone else."

His reward for service, Mixter said, "is the satisfaction of trying to do my best for 18 years, A lot of people criticize government but never do anything about it. I tried to take on that responsibility in Whitefish Bay village government. I'd like to think it has been reasonably well executed."

In response to criticism of the Village Board's handling of several recent issues, Mixter said public opinion does not bother him.

"Even though I'm criticized," he said, "if

I feel that I have acted in the best interests of the village from my point of view, weighing all the information available to me, my conscience is clear. I can live with it. • Y •''". *••• "Z

"One thing I've learned is that you can't agonize over decisions, you have to make a decision and move ahead. You can't go back and rehash, unless there's new information. You've got to move on. That's what I do in business and that's what I've tried to do in the village.

His wife sha re s Mixter 's view of himself. "He feels so deeply but he doesn't let things bother him. He doesn't lay awake nights worrying," she said, adding, 'Tv always said I have Henry's ulcers."

In future years, Mixter predicted that residents' expectations of village services may clash with their ability to pay.

As a maturing community in need of replacement parts, Whitefish Bay will have upcoming capital expenses like those in developing communities, he said.

"The crunch has started," Mixter observed. "There will have to be changes in

Z the way some things are done." If 8 probably little known today that Mix

ter once had a passion for sports cars. "Not the driving, the cars themselves, the mechanical parts." explained his wife.

He officiated at road races and was 'publ ic relations head and magazine editor

to r the Sports Car Club of America. The magazine "was pasted up in our base-

, ment," Mixter said.

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lay honors retiring By Mary Schuchmann

When Claire Mixter described her husband recently as "a marshmallow kind of person," she was conveying an inside look at what many people see only as an outside crust. ' And a tough crust, besides. At last week's nretirement roast, there

was more than a glimpse of the soft, nonpublic side of retiring Whitefish Bay Village President Henry Mixter.

The "marshmallow" showed through. In the pre-dinner social hour, a woman

with a camera was overheard to say she wanted to photograph Mixter with his special friends, and was going to identify the friends by those he hugged in greeting.

The woman and her camera were kept busy. '

When Mixter had a chance to speak in a "counterattack" to his roasters, he pulled out a huge red polka-dot bowtie. He put it on and wore it for the rest of the evening.

In a fond tribute to his wife at the end of his remarks, Mixter gave her a sack of marshmallows. ~

The farewell party, called the lixt-Grill," attracted more than 250 peo-

a. Held at the Bavarian Inn, it was co-sponsored by the Whitefish Bay Foundation and the Whitefish Bay Woman's Club.

Part of the ticket price was designed for a village playground fund set up by the Whitefish Bay Foundation. More than $1,300 was raised for the fund, according to Wade Mosby, president of the foundation and chairman of the roast.

With balloons and streamers everywhere, the evening had the excitement of an election-night victory celebration, not the solemn ceremonies of a retirement get-together.

A "Mixter for Bay President" cartop sign, salvaged from Mixter's first campaign in 1966, was visible outside in the parking lot. Identical signs lined the walls inside.

Mixter's bowtie trademark was carried out in hundreds of construction paper versions used as decorations.

Sportscaster Jim Irwin, another roaster, spoke to the gathering by tape recorder because of an unexpected broadcast duty.

Said Irwin on tape: "It is said that the quality of the man is reflected by the speakers at the roast. Obviously, you have not made much of an impression."

F. Patrick Matthews, Mixter's successor s village president, said Mixter told him

ne was happy to step down. "Now I'll have someone to call," Matthews quoted Mixter as saying.

Setting the tone for the roast, an elaborately-accented French "Fifi" appeared with a singing telegram proclaiming that "Old Mixters never die."

She persuaded "Henri" to join her in a j few chorus line steps.

As "Mixt-master" for the night, Mosby j got in his licks at Mixter. Of those attend- j ing, Mosby said, "14 percent came to say \ good-bye, 86 percent came to make sure ; you were leaving."

Referring to Mixter's reputation as a heavy-handed leader, Mosby said Mixter presiding at a public hearing "is like General Custer entertaining the Indians."

An ode to the "King of the Bay" was sub-mitted by John Mann, president of the Shorewood Village Board. Among the lines: "To find a president who's done more good, you'd have to look as far as Shore-wood."

Radio personality Larry 'The Legend" Johnson was one of the official roasters.

Although a Whitefish Bay resident, Johnson acknowledged he had never met Mixter. He had hoped once for a confrontation, he said, when he was picketing the Village Hall on behalf of disgruntled Whitefish Bay firefighters, "but you (Mixter) came in the back door.

In a reference to Mixter's conservative approach to government, Johnson told of a letter received from officials in North Hampton, N.H., where the Mixters plan to retire.

North Hampton welcomes Mixter, Johnson said, quoting: "We enjoy living in

.e. the past too." Johnson was among the men who

sported bowties for the occasion. He said he looked up the word in the.dictionary and found it was "a piece of men's fashion that went out in the 1950s."

There were some irreverent but good-| natured pokes at recent village controver-i" sies such as garbage carts and parking lots.

The Whitefish Bay Retired Men's Club j sent a message welcoming Mixter to their ; ranks. His tenure in office, they said, "will

be best remembered for the large increase \ in property taxes."

About taxes, Mixter and the Village ; Board, Mosby said: "Never have so many i owed so much to so few."

Sprinkled among the roast ing words were citations of appreciation from the Milwaukee County Board, Wisconsin state legislature, Gov. Earl and President Reagan.

•S Mrs. Mixter had her turn at the < microphone. Lamenting earlier that she

could not give a fitting roast ("everything I want to say is complimentary"), she spoke with warmth about 18 years in local politics.

She remembered their first election night, when a backed-up incinerator filled their home with smoke. She told of the unnerving times when a squad car delivered the weekly village mail.

l (Once, she said, a squad car startled their son and his date by pulling them off to the side of the road—only to hand over official village correspondence.)

Another time, Mrs. Mixter recalled, her husband was called out of bed at 2 a.m. by a resident upset with a clogged sewer drain.

Mixter responded, she said, but later took a form of revenge. When he finished .the job, she said, he rang the man's doorbell and announced: "Your public servant, sir."

Given a chance to reply, Mixter told the crowd, "There have been many, many people involved in our life."

Pulling out a baseball-style cap with E Falk Corp. emblem, Mixter thanked hif employer of 36 years for allowing him tc

- spend company time in public service. "It's important that companies like Fall

continue to support the activities of peoph in politics," Mixter said.

As parting gestures, Mixter tied an Irish green bowtie on Matthews—and presentee the marshmallows to his wife.

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There's probably not a major or a village administrator in Milwaukee County I don't know on a first-name basis," he said.

• His political. interests and growing-up family put an end to hi sports-car involvement. "I, must admit I'm probably the reason he gave it up," Mrs Mixter said.

In addition to his village activities, Mixter has long had close ties with his church, St. Mark's Episcopal on N. Hackett Ave in r Milwaukee, and with children's day care programs^ * He served for several terms as president of Day Care Services for children, He was also active in Boy Scout Troop 40Q at Cum

berland School.

Leaving Whitefish Bay will be a

job, both Mixters agreed, "It's scary to dismantle 30 years of living in the same place," Mixter said. (Still around are the Mixter-for-President car-top signs from 1966.)

In retirement, the Mixters plan to occupy themselves at first in building their new home in New Hampshire. "And we want to have a vegetable garden and lots of flowers," Mrs. Mixter said. They want to reserve time, too, to visit friends and family across the country.

Of their five children, two live on the East Coast, two on the West Coast, and one in Milwaukee. There are three grandchildren.

"We hope to get back here, too, and not just for a weekend," Mixter said. "It's the people we're going to miss the most when we leave. There are a lot of great people in this community. We hope some of them will seek us out, too."

Mrs. Mixter is looking forward to their new life. "I think Henry will be a lot of fun to retire with," she said. "I know he'll be hopping, and he'll keep me hopping, too."

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Village president, trustee sworn in

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B y Mary S c h u c h m a n n

F. Patrick Matthews was installed Monday night as the new village president in Whitefish Bay. He replaces Henry Mixter, who has retired after 18 years as president.

About 20 people witnessed the installation ceremony. The event was recorded by several cameras, including Mixter's.

Also installed as village trustee was Phyllis Ernest, who was elected this spring to her first term on the Village Board. She served on the Whitefish Bay School Board from 1973 to 1976, including two years as School Board president. !

She was the top vote-getter in the race for trustee in the April 3 election.

She replaces Thomas Goss, who stepped down after serving for 18 years on the board.

Retaining his seat on the board was

Thomas Churchill, who has been a trustee since 1975.

At Monday night's Village Board meeting, Matthews' first official duty—committee a p p o i n t m e n t s — w a s cr i t ic ized by trustee Ralph Knoernschild, who was Matthews' opponent in the recent election.

Knoernschild said he thought he was in line to be chairman of the Zoning, Parks and Buildings Commi t t ee , but was assigned to head the Public Safety Committee.

B r a d l e y r lo f fmann w a s n a m e d a s chairman of the Zoning, Parks and Buildings Committee.

Knoernschild said it was the board's practice to rotate committee chairmanships so that trustees moved from one post to the other in a set pattern.

"Normally this is the way it has been done," Knoernschild said.

He continued: "I don't know if it was oversight or intentional, but this year was , my opportunity to be chairman of Zoning, Parks and Buildings. Now I'm back on^ Public Safety, and I'm disturbed about it. I don't know what was in your (Matthews) thinking."

Knoernschild said he would not fight the appointment but "I want to note for the record that I am dissatisfied."

He questioned whether Matthews' appointment "was the last finagle before midnight."

M a t t h e w s m a d e no r e s p o n s e to Knoernschild's comments during the meeting but said afterward that Knoernschild's statement "was not entirely accurate."

There have been "some exceptions" to

the committee rotation pattern, he said. Matthews said he tried to match commit

tee assignments "with the strengths and abilities that each member could bring to their respective duties."

H i s c h o i c e s , h e s a i d "wi l l fit w e l l with what I hope to accomplish in the coming year."

Zoning is likey to be key village issue in the months to come.

In addition to the controversial rezoning last month of four properties on N. Kent and N. Shoreland avenues for a parking lot—a decision currently being challenged in Circuit Court—the Village Board has been asked to approve a rezoning of the University School Milwaukee campus on

N. Santa Monica Blvd. for use by the Milwaukee Jewish Federation.

An official request for rezoning of the USM site is expected to be presented to the Village Board in the next few weeks.

A rezoning may also be requested by the Whitefish Bay School Board for the? Lydell School building on N. Lydell Ave.

The school is scheduled to be; closed as" an attendance center at the. end of the 1984-85 school year because of declining enrollment. The School Board is currently seeking alternative uses for the property. Some of the uses 'could require a zoning change. j

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REMINISCING at the farewell roast for retiring Whitefish Bay Village President Henry Mixter were (from left) Mixter and his wife Claire, 4517 N. Murray Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Loewi, 9621 N. Lake Dr., Bayside; and Earl

McGovern, 8084 N. 62nd St., Brown Deer. Loewi is president of the Bayside Village Board; McGovern heads the Village Board in Brown Deer.

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Mrs. George T. Meyer, the first lady of Whitefish Bay's Fourth of July fireworks display, is planning something bigger than ever this year. „. Next week's fireworks, on Thursday, July 4, will be the family's 50th annual display in the village. Bowing to her children's wishes, it will be her last.

"This year's fireworks will be lovely, better than ever, and I'm including a special addition," Mrs. Meyer said last week, in a sparkly, secretive way.

Her children, grandchildren and, all 12 great-grandchildren will join her for the occasion. She still "doesn't know where Fll hang them all," since so many will be staying with her at her home on N. Shore Dr.

The Meyer display began 64 years ago on N. FarWell Ave., when Mr. Meyer set off fireworks from the porch ofthe couple's first home. Friends began to gather

together to celebrate with them, and a tradition began.

When the Meyers built their home next to Klode Park 50 years ago, the celebration continued for their children, relatives and friends.

Because of their location next to the park, it was only natural that nearby residents (and, soon, their friends) came to watch.

The event has grown to such magnitude over the years that the park—particularly the hillside— has become jammed with spectators from all over the North Shore. Many people feel the Meyer fireworks rivals Milwaukee's lakefront show, held the night before.

After her husband's death 13 years ago, Mrs. Meyer decided to continue the fireworks tradition because, she said, it had meant so much to him.

She hasn't changed the format of the show over the years, and always ends it with the American

flag displayed in fireworks on the lawn of her home.

This year, in appreciation of her 50-year contribution to the village, Mrs. Meyer has an invitation to ride in the morning parade in an antique car with Village President F. Patrick Matthews.

Several years ago, two of her grandsons from Atlanta, Ga., came for a Fourth of July visit and decorated a surrey to ride in the village parade. This year they will be here again, but only as observers.

A warm, giving lady, Mrs. Meyer said she'll miss the Fourth's fireworks if the village or a group doesn't continue the event after this year. She declines to tell the cost of her holiday project.

Asked about the future ofthe . fireworks, Matthews said he is "determined to see that our village has fireworks."

The fireworks begins at dusk at Klode Park.

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ByMarkKass z Whitefish Bay — For the past fifty

. years, on July 4, fireworks have been launched from George Meyer's property, 5960 N. Shore Dr., adjacent to Klode Park. * \

But 1985 will be the last year tar the tradition that grew out of Meyer's hobby.

Meyer's wife, Lucille, who has continued the tradition since her husband died 12 years ago, said Thursday she was "getting along In years" and felt it appropriate to end the display after this year.

Mrs. Meyer, 88, said the colorful displays were not born in Whitefish Bay.

"It started out in a little duplex on Farwell Ave. when we first got married," she said. "My husband loved fireworks, it was his hobby. In the morning, he would go out and shoot off a cherry bomb to see which way the wind was blowing"

*- When the Meyers moved to White-fish. Bay, Mr. Meyer continued his hobby. The first few years, it was a simple display with some firecrackers, rockets and sparklers, she said.

"We had a party to go along with the fireworks," she said, "It has really turned into a family affair. We'd have a picnic supper with a couple of close relatives and friends.

"We then expanded it to all our friends and their children, and these

children invited their friends and it has grown into quite an affair."

The fireworks have grown over the years into a professional display with an American flag finale, she said.

Mrs. Meyer said the cost of hiring professionals to set off the fireworks was costly, but would not disclose the amount.

"I have a bond for insurance and all the permits and everything," she said, "It is a whole lot of rigmarole, but it's well worth it."

Village Manager Michael Harrigan said that Mrs. Meyer has been acting "above and beyond the call of civic duty."

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"What she has been doing is very generous. It is really good for the village that she has the desire and the ability to do something of this magnitude," he said.

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The designation of Jack Pandl's Whitefish Bay Inn, 5200 N. Lake Dr., as a Milwaukee

County landmark last November should come as no surprise to the patrons who have been dining there for years.

The green and brown wooden building with white trim has the quaintness and charm of another era. It stands basically the same as it was well over 70 years ago, with only slight interior and exterior remodeling. The floor plan is identical.

The owner, Jack Pandl, who resides just west of the restaurant, explain^^Thafs why it was declared a landmark"

Pandl, a treasure trove on White-fish Bay history, noted that the neighborhood was once the site of the famed Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort. "People would come from all over the county to spend a day here to swim, eat, drink, and dance. Right across the street from my place was Welcome Park. Another popular recreation site was Jefferson Park, at the location which is now Henry Clay (Community Center);Z'ZzJ

"On a busy Sunday, as many as 15,000 people would come in by horse and buggy on the toll road, or railroad which brought

Celebrating its 70th year in 1985, Pandl's Whitefish Bay Inn is now a Milwaukee County landmark.

them very close, or by boat. "At Grand Ave., presently Wiscon

sin Ave., a boat called the TBloomer Girl' docked in front of what is now the Marine Bank, on the Milwaukee River, and then brought the passengers to the resort, which was run by the Pabst Brewery. There was a dance pavilion, tables, chairs, a lovely beach, and people sat and

; drank their beer and watched the Ferris wheel which was the first steel one of its kind. Previous to this one, all the Ferris wheels were wooden."

With the advent of the automobile, prosperity declined at the resort. People drove in but soon drove out to new places they had never seen, such as Port Washington. Soon, business decreased, attendance dwindled and some of the recreational facilities closed.

It was at this time, in 1915, that Pandl's father decided to purchase

an existing restaurant from a man named Bently.

Pandl relates, "There was a big barn in the back, buggies, stables for horses, and a chicken coop. My father knew there had been a big drop in business but he decided to take a chance on the area coming back He bought it cheap.

"His place became known as a restaurant where people could get good sandwiches. Gradually, the site did make a modest comeback and our business increased.

"When my father died, my mother did the cooking and then my brother and I learned it from her. In 1967, my mother passed away and my brother and I ran the restaurant."

His brother, George, later opened his own restaurant in Bayside.

"We pioneered the serving of whitefish," Jack Pandl said. "It was a plentiful Lake Michigan fish and

very good but tended to be bony. My brother and I pulled the bones out with pliers, a very tedious task. Then, people ate whitefish like it was going out of style.

"Since then, most restaurants now remove the bones. However, our restaurant still sells more whitefish than any other place in the city," he said proudly.

In his enthusiasm to learn more about the area, Jack Pandl checked with the Whitefish Bay library and found a packet of old photographs which showed the various buildings in the Whitefish Bay Resort area. When the old armory in the pictures looked familiar, he discovered the buildings were really the old Welcome Park and Jefferson Hall buildings. They had simply been moved to a different location and were being used by the army for drills. In those days, it was cheaper to move buildings rather than tear them down and construct new ones.

The original buildings were eventually razed and the present-day armory is now on the site.

Visitors to the restaurant often contribute additional information to Jack Pandl's fund of history. Railroad buffs come in and talk with him about the engines that used to t

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bring groups into Welcome Park , Boat enthusiasts discuss early Lake Michigan ships: ; /In the small dining area off the

back entrance, there are many paintings and photographs showing old Whitefish Bay Resort. There are pictures of both Jefferson Park and Welcome Park. Also in the collection

" are charming paintings by Whitefish Bay: resident Mercedes Ballam. Resort scenes, the old metal Ferris wheel, and the "Bloomer Girl" are some of her artworks that enliven the room. Several original postcards which were sold to tourists at the resort area are also on display.

Photographs of Jack Pandl's parents on their wedding day hang in large oval frames on the wall.

Historical brochures, published by the Wisconsin Historical Society are available at the restaurant. "They're packed full of information and are a real buy," Pandl says. "They even point out that, in the old days, if you wanted to start a pottery business, this location was Ythe best to begin because the clay was good and abundant."

Within the restaurant, along with the fragrance of good

' food, are many antiques that Pandl has collected appropriate to the German theme. Mounted on the paneled walls is his collection of beer steins. A unique ceramic figure of a woman, imported . from Germany, perched on a stag's horns, hangs above the bar. •'-<--••••:

In the room adjoining the N. Lake Dr. entrance, hangs a painting entitled "Three Gnomes Examing Fruits of the Hunt" by Herman

Michelowski, a German panorama painter.

Panorama artists were all Germans who migrated to this area, Pandl said. Their paintings were often 50 feet high and 300 feet long, the length of a football field.

Despite the German decor, the Whitefish Bay Inn serves primarily American fare. "We have weiner schnitzel, of course," Pandl said, "but most Milwaukee restaurants serve that. Our one German specialty is the German pancake which is quite spectacular looking. It's a huge puff pancake made with flour and eggs.

"We have specials on a weekly basis but we try to keep our menu standard with about 35 to 40 items on it. We find it is easier that way to insure freshness and better preparation."

Throughout the years, the restaurant has played its own part in the lives of the people who have eaten good food, enjoyed the interior decor, the bird feeders and flowers outside the windows, and the overall ambience.

Jack Pandl replies, with a twinkle in his eye, 'Well, we've always tried to maximize the pleasantness of the dining experience. People often come up to me and say that the restaurant has been part of some special occasion in their lives. Someone will confide that she remembers receiving her engagement ring in my restaurant.

"Or, they tell me they'll never forget the anniversary celebration they had here. We like to feel we've been part of memorable experiences in people's lives."

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After, living in Whitefish Bay. for only one year, Clarence Post waa elected as a village trustee In 1940. Elected for a three-year term, hU present term will expire in 1143. He serves as chairman ot the soning, parks and building committee and is a member of ..the public works, utilities and streets and public safety committees. He represents the trustees, as a member of the village plan commission.

Born in Milwaukee on Feb. 8, 1901, Post later attended West Division high school where he became an outstanding football and track star. In recognition of his sportsmanship he waa chosen the all-state center *rid the all-city center. At the state track meet in Jhla senior year' young Clarence received firsts In the 440 yard run and the shot-put In tfie £tyA*a A schools competition. > > i

Majoring in buslnesa admlrils^f tration at the University, of Wisconsin trained Post for his present position as general agent for the Provident Insurance Company in Milwaukee.

Beta Theta Phi and the University club claim this Bayite as «. member. In 19 3 S he waa the president of the Milwaukee chapter of the Life Underwriters association.

Mr. and Mrs. Post have one son. William, who is 4 % years of age. They live at SI74 N. Kent ave.

Fishing; hunting and bowling are Post's hobbies. Also a former national guardsman, Post served three years «s a member of the fifth cavalry.

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Flowers Deck Pagels Desk On His 25th Anniversary

by Evelyn Rose Building and Electrical Inspec

tor Erwin L. Pagels, 4834 N. Larkin st., spent his recent 25th anniversary (May 16) as the village's building and electrical inspector, in much the same way he has spent all those other days. ' There was one exception: his old style pigeon hole desk, in addition to holding building codes, construction plans and the like, was adorned with many flowers, the gifts of other village employees who throughout the day came to offer congratulations.

Only two other village employes, Halsey Rapp and Melvin Immekus, have longer service records with the village.

Pagels became building inspector for the Bay in 1927, five years after' the first Whitefish Bay building code was written. At the time: th£ late^Frahk'O} f

f Klode and the late Thomas Buckley were village president and village commissioner, respectively.

There were a couple of policemen then, Pagels recalls, but no fire department. Every night the foremen would load half a dozen hand f i r e extinguishers on Pagel's pick-up truck for any possible emergency.

Another Anniversary On June d Pagels will cele

brate another, anniversary. He and Mrs. Pagels will observe their 23rd wedding anniversary

, and later this month will drive to Madison to see their son, Bill, graduate from the University of Wisconsin, where, he majored in u

> psychology.r^^e1 family hope'lfo " ' get in a little vacation together

before Bill reports for service. f There is little about White-

fish Bay that Pagels does not know. The house in which he wa$ born and spent his boyhood was located about 90 feet from

« his present home. It burned down in 1908.

\ The Bay school he attended : was in the now village owned ; triangle bounded by N. Idlewild

ave., W. Birch ave., and N. Marlborough dr. (It is here the proposed village libarry may be located).

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t MarlboroughJ dr. in Pagel's boyhood was also the right of way for the Lake Shore railroad. Later, when he was in the village hall as an employe, all conversation of necessity had to cease when Lake Shore trains thundered by. As a boy, Pagels often picnicked in Whitefish Bay park, north of Henry Clay st to Lexington ave. To this site many picnickers came every week end on the lake excursion steamer from Milwaukee. Sidewalks in those days, were made of plank. The first concrete walks in the village were laid by Pagers father, William Pagels, for whom young Bill was named. .

In addition to plans and'reports for the 75 homes now under construction in the Bay, Pagels has in his desk a copy of the 1927 Whitefish Bay directory, the first one compiled and edited by Mrs. Edward J. Schleif (old address) 1880 Oakland ave. This directory vhas been edited for man*v years now by the Whitefish Bay Women's club. « T Prior tp his service with the Bay, Pagels was an electrician and wired many homes in Shore-wood, ^ Wbitefish Bay and Fox Point. When he became building jand electrical inspector the only large building on E. Silver Spring dr. was the Powell building on E. Silver Spring dr. and N. Diversey blvd. The top year in building during his 25 year

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George E. and Ruth A. Pie-per turned their store key over to Mr. and Mrs. John Dobrus,h-ken at the close of the day, April 30, but when they locked the door of the grocery store at 601 E. Henry Clay St., they did not lock themselves into retirement. -

F a r from that! They are deep in plans of what to do with their leisure. The plans will include some traveling but already they are busy with inventions. Even before they gave up grocering they had sold one of their patents to the Electrolux Corp. Also they have patented an at tachment for a vacuum cleaner wlrich will make it possible to clean cotton carpets without snagging them.

Here for 28 Years The Piepers have operated

stores in Whitefish Bay for 28 years . They opened their first store March 1, 1927, at 809 E. Henry Clay st. This had been

the Nellie Jones store. Nellie Jones was a favorite shop in the early days of,the village.

In 1928, the Piepers moved to 627 E. Henry Clay st., in the building built by Schultkins pharmacy and now occupied by Schwartzmans. ,

Ten years later, the Piepers built their own stofe at the Henry Clay address. They will continue to live in the apartment above the store.

" A r t " Will Stay During their 28 years as

Whitefish -Bay grocers, the Piepers have always enjoyed a close relationship with their customers. They leave some of themselves behind, even though they will no longer be behind the counter, for "Ar t , " the clerk whom everyone calls by his first name, will stay on. "Ar t " has been associated with the Piepers for many years .

The Piepers grew up with the1 village. When they first

c a m e , t d ^ W h i i e f ^ str^et&Weije mostl£fairtfwagon roads . , Henry Clay was paved on but one side of the street— the side their store was located on. The pavement extended* from the curve to the center of the street.

F rom the s tar t they ran a credited delivery type of store and so became familiar with the wagon type roads. At one time road conditions were so rough, that a young husband, who.found it impossible for his car to travel through the mud, called upon them to take his expectant wife to the hospital in the store truck.

Cash and Carry When the war came along,

the Piepers stopped delivery and changed to cash and carry . ' They become one of the first stores in the county to carry a frozen foods line

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.Their new^t6*r%^$& serh self service and c r e d i t quit* a lot of excitement at it$%pen* ing for. there ' ^ a s no such a thing as a self-service store in the village. Pieper8\also was the biggest store in the*v4llage.

One < of the redsons t h e ^ pers became so popular, w l their many customers YW4 their fair play during war iirm shortages. They tried to trem all customers a l i k e . B e c a u s ^ they had close personal con^ tact with-all those who shopped; in their store they were in' ai position where they could he fairer than they Could have been where they did not know those who patronized v their s to re / -. 7 ' ' ;A::-r. v '

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the first time in 102 years afish Bay is without a Rabe.

|*iisie and Charlotte, the last of 'the family to live*in the village moved from the old home

stead at 4856 N.»Woodruff ave., j Wednesday, to a smaller home at 3979 N. 27th st.

John David Babe* grandfather to Elsie and Charlotte, came from Germany in 1848 and received a 15 acre land grant from the U. S. government at what is how Santa Monica ? blvd and E. Henry Clay st. It was here that the girls' father, Charles, was born.

Second Land Grant : When Charles Rabe was 11

years old, his father, took up another land grant on the site J where the Rabe home has since stood. Charles Rabe married

j Lisette Burchard of fox Point

in 1881. He brought her to the? Woodruff ave. home. It was here that" their nine children were born; here that they celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary in 1941.

Tn December of that year Mrs. * died. Mr. Rabe died in >mber, 1947, at the age of

At the time they celebrated vueir last wedding anniversary, all their children were living.

Son Died in War Since then two have died. Gil-

berti who had been with the marines for 17 years was killed during World War IL HuWa died four months after her mother.

; All of the 6ther children are, living in Milwaukee, Elsie and

j Charlotte are the only ones unmarried. The other children are

; Arthur, Mrs. Leon Oteelberger,

(Wilhomene), Mrs. Jack Kasper (Rose), Rudolph and Roland. The latter was a former White-fish Bay policeman.

Incorporated Village Grandpa and Papa Rabe

helped incorporate the village of Whitefish Bay. Grandpa Rabe was a great one for acquiring and selling land. He was a restless soul. For a time he lived in Fox Point and then came back to the village to live with his son, Charles. It was at Charles' home that he died. He had another son and daughter but

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The Misses Rabe have been finding it difficult to move all the furnishings and dear keepsakes of a ten room house into one with five rooms.

By selling and giving away furniture they finally had their belongings down to five room size ' '

200 Year Old Chest One of the pieces they moved

with them is a small black walnut chest that is 200 years old. It belonged to their great grandfather. Grandfather R a b e brought it to America with him. It was ori the door of this chest that he did all his figuring for lancli deals lie made. The mark-

oin|g are still on the door, which opens up on a series of shelves. The door locks with a small key. In all these years the lock still works and the key never once was lost.

The Rabe sisters admit it was difficult to uproot themselves, but as Elsie, the one who teaches piano, gave a last fond look about the big house, remarked:

"This house was built for children, it should be the home for a family with children."

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After 11 years on the White-fish Bay police force, Roland Rabe was resigned to become a farmer. He and his wife, with their three children, Roland, 14; Ronald, 8, and Ruth, 4, will soon move to their 180-acre farm* in Fredonia, Wis., to realize a dream of many years. ;n >•

One hundred and. sixty-five acres of the completely equipped farm are under cultivation and the brick house has every convenience to be found in White-fish Bay. ;

The retiring police officer is\ truly a native son, having been born in his father's farm house at N. Woodruff st. and E. Hamp

ton rd. His father, Charles Rabe, at 89, has lived in the Bay longer than any other resident;

. he has spent all of his life on the fRabe homestead at 4856 N.( i Woodruff st * * ' Rabe joined the Whitefish Bay police force Sept. 1, 1935; pre-, yious to that date, he had been employed *or three years by the village, first in the, department of public works, then as a spe

cial officer. From 1935 to Jan-iuary, 1, 1944, he was on night duty, then was assigned to day duty, and for the past year and a half he has been the special friend of all the Richards school children who four times *a„.day cross the intersection'of Day ave>5 and N. Lake dr. under his protection.

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f In 189,2 Mr. Rabe and his wife (were among the residents who

Milwaukee Journal helped incorporate Whitefish Bay as a village. Mr. Rabe was then named the village's first street commission. The village had two through streets at the time.

Among those who will help in the celebration are Charles Bauer, who was best man when the Rabes were married, and Mrs. Paul Luedtke, who was the bridesmaid.

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l , The old nickelplated base burner stove in the Rabe living room at 4856 N. Woodruff av. has witnessed many a joyous family event/ but none such as the one which will be held there, Thursday.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rabe, the oldest married couple in Whitefish Bay in point of residence, are going to' celebrate their sixtieth wedding anniversary in their old house on Thursday. Friends, old, and new, are expected to troop in.

There will be Charles Bauer, who was best man when Charles Rabe and his wife, Lisette, were married in'the log church near the Port Vtfashington rd. Mt&'Paul Luedtke, who was the bridesmaid then, will also attend/- v; • . William Lindwurm, who gave Mr. Rabe'a father his first job when he came over here frc^; Germany; p^ 1849, is long dead,>bf#YMr. Lfrid-^urnVf daughter/;; RoSfc,. WbWrah,

*WSfi*C tffciftand to congratulate the Rabes and\{ish them many more, years of hapfcjjmfcs.

Nine Children in Family Then there are the nine. Rabe

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sons. Two of the sons are'in the service and may not be able to get here, but the others will be on hand.

The old base burner stove, which has faithfully served tne old couple for many years, has been polished up for the occasion until its nickel surface gleams like a mirror. The house which the Rabes occupy was built long before the days of furnaces, and the old base burner has the place of hVihor in the living room.

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One of theearliest homes in Whitefish Bay, the Rabe homestead, is now the home at 4856 N. Woodruff Ave.

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Early resident nurtured, preserved village roots

Just in time tor the start of White-fish Bay's centennial celebration, the great-granddaughter of one of the area's early settlers has stepped forward with historical materials compiled by her father.

Helen Grabowski, the great-granddaughter of John Rabe, who arrived in what is now Whitefish Bay in 1856, has offered to the Whitefish Bay Historical Society a collection of early plat maps, old photos, memorabilia and carefully typed written reports gathered by her father, Arthur Rabe. Arthur Rabe was John Rabe's grandson.

Arthur Rabe was born in Whitefish Bay in 1886. He moved to Milwaukee in 1910 but never lost his affection for the village, his daughter said.

"My father lived and breathed Whitefish Bay,v she saldr^Heioved it there. He was proud ofthe Rabe family's place in Whitefish Bay history."

Arthur Rabe died in 1981 at the age of 96. His daughter has worked off and on over the last 10 years putting together her father's historical materials.

"He was a man who had a lot of records," she said. She wants to donate the materials to the Historical Society in her father's memory. "It belongs in Whitefish Bay," she said.

The Rabe homestead was in what is now the 4800 block of North Woodruff Avenue. John Rabe first came to the area in 1856 and bought property at what is now the southwest corner of East Henry Clay Street and North Santa Monica Boulevard. Twenty

years later he bought 15 acres on what is now North Woodruff Avenue. Arthur Rabe was born there in 1886. He graduated (in a class of four) froin the village's first school, which was located across from present library.

The original Rabe farmhouse was replaced in 1913 by a home moved to the site, now 4856 N. Woodruff Ave., by Charles Rabe, John's son and Arthur's father.

Charles Rabe and his wife were among the residents who helped incorporate the village of Whitefish Bay in 1892. Charles was the village's first street commissioner (probably not a big job, considering the village had only two through streets at the time).

Helen Grabowski said her father was a good friend,pf another lpcalhis--tory^buff^ the\:MiM^(^6WBW^S%tti':

Fox Point. Buttles, the son of early settlers in that area, wrote extensively about the history of that community.

T h e two of them would argue by the hour," Grabowski said of her father and Buttles. "They would try to get it all straight, such things as what street was where. Mr. Buttles and my Dad seemed to think it was all such very important material. I called them Mr. Fox Point and Mr. Whitefish Bay."

Arthur Rabe lived with his daughter and her husband for 25 years. He spent countless hours on the historical project, Helen Grabowski said. "He was in there typing all the time," she said.

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H. » . COOtRT AFftlL 20, 1938 Words

INTOVOT ^ITH*B. .3© MRS. LEWIS SCHEIFE

Mrs. %h©ife, oee friary-Jam Ceosattl *a* bcra in « log farta house wltfela

the l imi t s of Whitefish Bay. Her FaveBta wsre Gillian. Hsajy and Ruth shcvle?

Oesssul who.sane t o &llwsu&e& in 164? from f$L«a©t Ohio and se t t l ed ©a a S6

aero fara on tha s i t s rnci^ bounded by Santa Monica Boulevard, Silver spr ing

Road j. Lake Klohlg&a and ( E l l i o t t ' s t*xm on north)

the Oonsauls bought th i s 36 acre t r ac t from a Mr« l ipaeonb. OB i t WEB

a leg house where the eoupfc© Red© t h e i r boas©, and a l so a small frame house

where Vv. Consaul*® father and mother l l w d u n t i l tiieir deaths* Mrs* Sohelf©

says l i f e in tfce ea r ly days was not d i f f i c u l t , although they knew nothing of

the conveniences and luxuries of the present day* Her father worked his farm,

aiding mostly garden' truck and enough hay and grain for the i r stock and eatt 1©*

Some grain was eent to the pierren mil l for grinding and l a t e r on grinding was

done s t the Bander Mill* Mr* Consaul had bean a f i r s t eleae shipbuilder in t h e

l a s t , so had no d i f f icu l ty in securing work during the winter a t the old Wolf

and Davidson Ship yard on the ifenotslnse Biver in Milwaukee* % i s work, together

with the pound fishing op©ratione they carr ied on in the Bay, produced ample

cash incase for t h e i r needs, while the farm provided a ©eisfort&bl© horn and a

great plenty of vegetable, f ru i t s be r r i e s and meat*

I t the tlaa© the ^onsauls moved to the &ay there were but three jiwrtean

families l iving in the v ic in i ty - the Charles %©rta, feeir son-in-law Sylvester

Abbey and Humphries* The Averts had a fart?: in fte ncrth aad of the present

v i l l a g e , the Abbeys lived in a rented house €na the % e r t a farm, and Hr* Huispbries,

a gardener by t rade , lived on sfcat is now Sylvan Avenue and l a t e r moved to New

York. Mrs* %heif© says the Abbeys were gone for two years on a t r i p brr

covered wagon to Plke fs peak, during the "jM&es Peak or Bust Days*** i f t e r the i r

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return t o the Bay the:/ soon movea to Saginaw, Michigan and Later on to Tennesee*

The reminder of the. farmer residents of the Bay in those early days were

mostly 3wmn Immigrants', w'tb sees© few Hollanders*

Mrs* ~cbeif© well remembers Anson W* But t les , who for 50 years was Clerk

of the Town of Milwaukee and whose s i s t e r carried Paul Juneau, a eon. of

Solomons Two of the daughters of th i s .couple , **nm and Marion Juneau mere

married to Henry King and Jsmss >rc©ee, partners In th© large &llwaukes pr in t ing '

concern of King, Fowl© and SseGee* The l i ngs and lie Owes b u i l t Identical houses of

glazed t i l e about 1894 at 5559 and 5569 $• Lake :)rive, which they occupied for

some twenty years* In that day these homs-s were considered among the f inest in

the d i s t r i c t *

Mrs* Sehelfs r e ta ins a c lear recol lect ion of the Indian °car© of 1868, a

story of which she wrote for the Milwaukee journal* She a l s o told the following

incident that occurred wh« she was a young g i r l* One day a neighbor came running

to t he i r h083© aaach excited over having seen a wild cat on his farm* 'Kir* Ccnssul

pulled on h is boots, took down the gun fmw over the door, and rounding up other

neighbors s imi la r ly arased, chased the wild eat un t i l they los t i t in the woods,

and without gett ing close mough to shoot*

During Mrs* Scheife9s childhood there were no churches closax* than Milwaukee

m& she had to mXk da l ly to the school then located'on port Washington ioad about

a half mils nor th of Si lver spring Boad* Later, the Town School d i s t r i c t was

divided with one school located on port Washington ^oad near the ^rean Tree Road

and ftm other , c a l l ad the Lindwer® aohool on fee Port &&,shingtaa Ba&d near the

golf l inks in the present Lincoln park* Tier© was no high a a ®pl closer than

Milwaukee*

V for recreat ion they had frequent pa r t i e s , birthday and anniversary

celebrations and an occasional t r i p t o the city for an evening a t t h e t h e a t r e .

The German set also held picnic 3 and dances a t t^e several taverns located

on Port Washington *Wd*

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As the modern fishing laws were enacted, which would have forced them to set

thei r net much further out in the Lake and probably make necessary the purchase

of a steaia fishing tug, th© business was discontinued and Lewis ^cheifo, in 1892

entered the grocery business , having h is s tore and bom© on Silver Spring load

at Lake Drive, a s i t e new occupied by the Whitefish Bay pharmacy and Erause fs

Grocery. Here Mr* ^cheife conducted his s tore for 8 years when he gave up tha t

business and star ted up a hardware s tore on Silver Spring Boad in vfeich business

he continued u n t i l 1980^ $ten he r e t i r e d . Mr* Scheife was the second t reasurer of

the v i l l age , being elected to that office fcr the years 1893 and 1894. ^gain in

190$ he was elected ^reasux*er and his encumbancy lasted for 15 years u n t i l h is

retirement from act ive business l i f e*

During the years Mr. ^cheife spent in the grocery business he was Postmaster

of Whitefish Bay, which posit ion carried ?dth i t more honor than p ro f i t . He says

tha t many months he received as much as 60 or 70 cents remuneration, or the sum

t o t a l o f t h e postage stamp cancellation of the off ice.

Mr. and Mrs. Scheife are s t i l l hale and hearty, physically and mentally and

are a fine example of health and longevity induced by clean l iv ing in a salubrious

clinmte. h .....

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Mr./Scheife,::still -hale and hearty, physically and mentally at the ~

age of,87 is living with his son A1.W, Scheife and family at 5055

N. -Berkeley blvd. Another son Henry lives at 5933 N." Berkeley blvd.

Mrs. Scheife passed away.in December, 1941,

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Long Career

Remembered ARTHUR A. R A B E was

born 87 years ago in White-fish Bay when that community was little more than woods and farms. While not as spry as he used to be (and who is?), the old gentleman is still nimble of mind. Memories come bubbling up like foam on beer.

No, Rabe did not attend a one room school. "My first school on Port Washington Rd.," he s a i d , "had two rooms, one for the boys and one for the girls."

AFTER TELLING about the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort, described in some detail Tuesday, Rabe skipped to the turn of the century when he attended Hoffman's Business College at 3rd and State Sts.

"I finished my business courses in 1903," he s a i d , "and got a job as office boy with the O'Neil Oil and Paint Co. on E. Water and Detroit Sts. I was with this firm for 20 years and was purchasing agent when I quit to become president of t h e National Paint a n d Varnish Co. We h a d seven stores scattered about the city. But each time we opened a store, a competing f i r m opened one next door and undersold us. This firm prospered and we went broke. I lost my life savings.

"I went to work for Geu-der, Paeschke and Frey Co., manufacturers of kitchen-ware, as a laborer. After 10 years, I became interested in the American Federation of Labor and helped to organize

the workers at Geuders. My first official job was auditing the books of the kitchenware firm.

"I spent 15 years with the AFL and made several trips to Washington, D. C. My job was helping with organizing, auditing a n d appearing in court. I retired 15 years ago at the age of 72."

IN 1909, R A B E married Florence Creed. She worked for the Pere Marquette Transportation Co. Rabe met and fell in love with her when she came into O'Neil's to order paint. They had six daughters, four of whom are still living. T h e oldest is Mrs. Charles H. Kestermeier, who retired in July, 1972, as administrative assistant to Francis McCormack, clerk of courts.

Sister Mariana, a Daughter of Charity, is at St. Mary's Hospital, D a l y City, Calif. M r s . Andrew G. Magruder lives in San Jose, Calif., and Helen, the youngest daughter, Mrs. Phillip Grabowski, is a public Health nurse who lives at 4920 S. 14th St. Her father resides with her.

During our interview, Rabe showed me a picture of a Christmas gathering at t h e old Whitefish Bay h o m e stead. There were 27 relatives in the group from babes in arms to grownups, repre-s e n - t i n g four generations. "My mother," s a i d Rabe, "known to e v e r y o n e as 'Grandma Lisette/ w a s a g r e a t cook and we raised m o s t of the food on the farm."

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Four decades Jakob Sikinger retired at the end of December after 40 years of employment in the Public Works Department. His smile was a familiar sight on trash collection days in the south end ofthe village.

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time, Mrs. Roberts was outspoken in her opposition to the Vietnam War.

Last year, in her winter home of West Palm Beach, Fla., she was honored by the local branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Mrs. Roberts said she is not able to explain—even to herself—her independent spirit and the depth of her convictions. She noted that her father brought with him an anti-militarism when he came from Germany to the United States.. Her mother, born in England, was always interested in politics, she said.

While she believes strongly in the need for a world court to work out nonmiiitary solutions to international conflicts ("like a Supreme Court for the world") she supports the efforts of the United Nations.

"It has accomplished a lot, people i don't realize how very helpful it has been," she said. She is a long-time member of the World Federalists Association, a national group promoting world organization.

She has a strong interest in politics,

considers herself a Democrat, but has > never been involved in grassroots

campaigning. She can recal l , however, being a staunch supporter of Robert LaFollette and the Progressive Party in 1924.

She has conflicting thoughts about prospects for the future. She continues to marvel at the technological achievements of the 20th century ("I think about it every night when I go to bed"), but despairs oyer the lack of world" harmony.

"There is a point I want to make," she said. "Despite all our comforts we have acquired so much, yet the security of life is something we don't have, is not with us at all. We have fallen short here.

"I thought the progress of peace would be farther along than it is," she said. "People still don't understand

'. the stupidity of war. I can't say enough against war, the stupidity of war."

Yet she chooses to be optimistic. "Every once in a while I do get discouraged, when terrible things happen, when I think of how things should be, but I feel we cannot despair, we absolutely must not think the future can

not be better than the past. We must continually go, on to a better life."

She spends a good part of each day with books, continuing to read extensively in the fields of

1 philosophy, politics and biography. "I often read far into the night," she

said. Emerson is one of her favorites. "I

feel he is supreme," she said. Her 1981 Christmas greeting used quotations from Emerson, including the words: "If things are ever to move upward, someone must be ready to take the first step, and assume the risk of it."

The night before she was interviewed; she had picked Plato off the bookshelf for her evening reading. "I hope that doesn't sound smart-alecky," she said.

Her eyesight could be better, she said, "but I manage because (reading) is important to me." She recently began to supplement her reading glasses with a magnifying lens. "It's not easy (to use) but it's terribly helpful," &he explained. "There was a time when I thought I couldn't read anymore. This has been a new discovery." '

She watches mainly news and cur

rent events programs on television. Her favorite is the MacNeil Lehrer Report. "It's so comprehensive," she said.

The day she was interviewed she had watched Nancy Reagan's television appearance on behalf of drug education. She approved of the First Lady's involvement, she said, but she wasn't sure she wanted that men-tioned in a newspaper article. "I don't want my name associated with the president's," she said.

Asked to explain, Mrs. Roberts said: "I think history will show (Reagan) to be one of our poorest presidents. He . doesn't follow through. There is so much he is neglecting."

Two weeks ago, Mrs. Roberts went to the ballet. This week she was planning to attend a local political function for a visiting presidential hopeful..

("I don't want you to say who it is, I" may not support him, I haven't made up my mind yet," she said.)

If she were able, she'd still be part of the activist parade. "If I could just get ~ out, I'd go to every meeting I could," she said.

At age 99, soon to be 100, her contribution of heart and mind will certainly suffice.

THE HERALD OCTOBER 20.1983 Page 3

Harold Rose, 81, of 5069 N. Diversey Blvd., Whitefish Bay, was on the Whitefish Bay School District staff for nearly 40 years. "I was principal from 1945 to 1967,* he said. "I taught math from 1933 until 1945, and also coached freshman and sophomore football and basketball."

From 1967 to 1972, when he retired, he was director of personnel for the Whitefish Bay schools.

He chose education, he said, because he lived within a block ofthe normal school in Platteville, Wis. He also had two brothers who were teachers. "Besides, I liked kids," he said.

In his observation, changes in the schools began in the '60s, when college protests filtered down to the high school level and attitudes toward authority shifted.

"Whitefish Bay was less affected by the tumult than other schools," he said.

After retiring, Rose volunteered as a tutor in an academic support program until he developed heart problems. "Surgery followed, along with certain restrictions," he said. "I can be reasonably active, which enables me to enjoy our lake cottage and fishing up north." , JRose a|sp takes pleasure in music

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\ Dr. Edwin C. Reichert Although he has no childron of

his own, Dr. Edwin C. Reichert, principal of the Cumberland school, manages several hundred ^ay tots.

His present address is 4 4 6t> N. Tamer St., but he waa originally

a Duluth, Minn., home town boy. He attended Dartmouth, the University of Wisconsin where he secured his U. A., and the University of Minnesota, where he acquired a Ph.D. '

Three years ago, which was before he Joined the school system

here, he taught in Robbinsdale, a suburb of Minneapolis, Minn.

Dr. Reichert, a member of the education fraternity, Phi Delta

i Kappa, finds his greatest avocational pleasures In reading and 'collecting a quartz-type mineral. However, due to the tact that he will be a counselor at Camp Lincoln in Minnesota this summer, he

'fill find the majority of his time {occupied. \ "I am happy to he in the village," Dr. Reichert said In closing) the interview. "It Is a> pleasure to work with such intelligent peo-

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, Streets Halsey T. Rapp,. 4714 « N, Berkeley blvd., will retire on his 65th birthday Jan. 30. He has been with the department of public works since J922, a year after he moved into Whitefish Bay.

It was in the spring of 1921 thatv Anna and Halsey T. Rapp moved to the village, Ijle well remembers that he and Anna brought the village population up to 999 and thai their baby made it an even

4; A great many changes have dfccurred in the Bay's department of public works in the last 35 years, said Rapp. When he first joined the department, garbage and refuse were collected by a contract

or; This was changed within a year of his joining the department and soon Whitefish vBay was making all its own

is confident, will be able to accommodate tin cans along with garbage, etc. ,

When Rapp moved into the village, Montclaire ave^ was then known as Irma ave.; Lake dr. was through; Santa Monica was not a through street; the southern part of the village, in parts, was still in the Town of Milwaukee.

Dirt Roads , Most of the roads were dirt. Today all are either concrete or stabilized roads and the rusticity of road ditches, for the most part has been given over to curb and gutter.

From the start of, his employment with the ' village, Rapp was in charge of some department. For " the - last twenty years, it has been; as street superintendent. He how has 46 men under him. ;

Working in various parts of the village »he often recalls early incidences, Y In * some

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Purely ' a family, Jman^he intends to have some time for his nine f grandchildren. : He has . two daughters,' Betty Bork, a bookkeeper who lives in Wauwatosa and /Mildred Messer, a Glendale housewife, whose husband Is a Glendale, policeman. .+ . - - %> \

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recalled ' the time he grew wheat on this* land, just out of curiosity. Much of White-fish Bay was farm land, 35 years ago. ;

When he retires) Rapp plans to divide his time between his home here and his 40~ acres on the Wisconsin river.. It can* be found on Highway 2 V off j

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Special^ honors were paid to Raymond"L. Ritzier, 6275 N. Santa Monica blvd,, Whitefish Bay, on Friday night of last week, when he was the guest of the Milwaukee Country Day schooB alumni association, at a meeting held at the Medford hotel. Ritzier has been head janitor at the school since it was founded in 1916.

The association also honored A. Gledden Santer, headmaster of the school, and Charles Neiber^ and Franklin Montgomery, former headmasters. Brooks Stephens served as chairman of the dinner and Atty. Arthur T. Spence wass toastmaster. Al Buettner, director of the junior school's music department, played the piano for the singing of school songs.

Present Watch to Retiring Street Superintendent

Retiring Superintendent of Bay Streets Halsey T. Rapp, 4714 N. Barkeley blvd., was presented with a framed resolution commending Rapps work for ihe village and a wrist watch by President Tom Hayes on behalf of the village board at iheir Monday night meeting.

"Thank you very much for ihe watch/ ' said Rapp. "I tried to do the best I could. Nobody made me any trouble here.''

Asked by President Hayes what his plans for the future were, Rapp said, "My wife and I have been planning this for a long time* We are going up to our place on the Wisconsin river, where the Yellow and Wisconsin rivers intersect, about 50 miles from the Dells.

He then introduced his wife, his two daughters, Mrs. Rudy Messer and Mrs. Donald Bork and her husband, and two grandchildren. —Herald photo

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Village reaped what he sowed By Jacqueline Lehatto

I n the 41 years Ron Schultz trimmed trees and planted flowers for the village of Whitefish

Bay, he saw a lot of changes. In 1948, trees were cut by men

using handsaws and swinging from ropes and saddles. When Schultz, 62, retired as head forester last month, he was supervising men in hydraulic aerial trucks using chain-saws.

Schultz was interviewed last week—appropriately, in Klode Park-to talk about the changes he has seen in Whitefish Bay. As he talked, he stopped from time to time to watch some of his former stafTtrim a tree in the park. It was obvious he was evaluating their work in his head.

Schultz is not a man of many words. He measures his thoughts before he speaks, and he puts his thoughts into as few of words as possible.

"When I started here, we had 63 (DPW) workers,'' Schultz said about the village's Department of Public Works. "Now there are 24."

The largest forestry crew he can remember was 13. "That was in the 1950s when the farmers up in the North Woods had no work so they came down here."

"That was a good time," Schultz said. "We had some fun."

But that was before Dutch elm disease struck and before losses in federal and state revenues meant a shrinking budget. The crew dropped down to four, and the, elm tree population went from 13,000 to 2,000. v -

"Most of that work (tree removal) has been contracted out the last 20 years,* Schultz said. "We were taking out up to 200 trees a season." Schultz was the one to paint the "X* on the trees that could not be saved.

"At first it bothered me," he admitted. "After a while you just turn your head away. They were beautiful trees. All the mailmen enjoyed our village, it was in the shade all the time."

Schultz said he doesn't hold much hope for elm trees, even though the removal rate has slowed to about 100 a season. He said the disease, which is thought to have come from Europe in a boatload of logs, has pretty much spelled an end to them.

Schultz's favorite tree is the Autumn Purple Ash, as well as other ashes, maples, lindens, honey locusts, in fact, just about every tree.

He mentioned one tree in particular, 3n elm tree at Shore Drive and Belle Avenue, that the forestry department has had to put together twice with bolts and cables. He pointed to the tree, which stands tall on the corner, and shook his head. "See, it is still there," he said.

It seems as if Schultz wishes he was still there, too.

But no, Schultz laughs, it was time for him to leave. "That last snowstorm did me in," he said.

"We asked him to stay," Village Manager Michael Harrigan said later. "W e asked him to stay at least a few more months, but his mind was madf up. He had been talking about retiring for a while."

Said Shultz: "After the storms in the summer, you have to clear the streets. After one storm two years ago it took three days to clean up. I guess I had enough," he added, shaking his head.

He is proud of the flowers he planted every spring. The garden spots are one item on the village budget residents don't seem to mind, he said. "The people like the flowers," he noted, "They keep calling for more and more every year."

Pointing to the flower beds up and down the bluff at Klode Park, he said, "I wish all this had happened two years ago, I would have liked to have a chance at it.*'

He has a small garden in the back yard of his Glendale home, but he isn't thinking too much about it right now. "Fve got to get this out of me, first," he explained, gesturing to the park he had maintained for more than 40 years. "I've got to get it

out of my system." With that thought, he took a

measured look at the tree the men were trimming.

At that point, one of the men walked over to Schultz and shook his hand. Then both men stood, arms folded across their chests, studying

the tree in progress. Schultz seemed more relaxed. And he had a big grin on his face.

It was clear he had enjoyed his career in the village. "It had to be good, to spend 40 years here," he said. T h a t is three-quarters of my life. It is hard to let it go."

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WHEN RON SCHULTZ retired last month after 41 years in the Whitefish Bay Forestry Department, he donated his 10-foot office cactus to the Village Hall. He calls the cactus "Big Molly."

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Schroeder, Olive Julien (Mrs. Joseph Schroeder) Nov. 1983

Mrs. Schroeder, age 86, grew up in her maternal grandparents home, Joseph and Minnie Julien*^ which they built in 1894 on the southeast corner of Henry Clay St. and present Elkhart Ave. (which didn't exist then). She had an adopted sister named Sadie, who died at age 19, and an adopted brother, Arthur. Her mother remarried to Henry Klingpiann and they had a daughter, Eleanor, and two boys. She also had another half-sister, Myrtle, from another marriage of her mother's.

She remembers the Milwaukee River overflowing at Henry Clay St, (and Port Washington Road) and her grandfather, Joseph Julien, would take her down there and go fishing.

There was also a stream flowing from Pennsylvania Ave. (Marlborough Dr.) on an angle over to Henry Clay St. and her grandmother, Minnie Julien, planted watercress along it, which they wDuld then pick.

Henry Clay St. was a dirt/gravel road then, very narrow. She remembers the Taufner house, later owned by the Dobrogowski family, just to the east of than, on Henry Clay St. and what is now Woodruff Ave. Both this house and the Julien house have been torn down. The Dobrogowski house was called the "tower house" by everyone, due to its 3rd floor tower.

Grandpa and Grandma Julienfs daughter, Laura, mother of Olive Julien Schroeder, had a sister, Lillian, who married Henry Scheife. Henry and Lillian Scheife had just one child, a daughter named Lillian, also, who became close friends with Olive. Years later, Henry 6cheife built a house for his daughter, Lillian, at 5933 N. Berkeley Blvd. Lillian was later killed in a car accident and Olive Schroeder now lives in this house.

The Juliens also owned three lots behind and to the eafet of their home, on which Joseph Julien had a cherry orchard and raspberries. Joseph's parents lived in Milwaukee on Market Street and spoke French. Joseph's mother's name was Angeline; where their heme had been is now a park.

Minnie Julien's maiden name was Hartling; her parents brought their family to Wisconsin in the 1850'^when Minnie was a baby. Her mother and 5 brothers and sisters died at sea. The Hartling family went to North Lake, Wis., where they settled; between Merton and North Lake is a small triangular piece of land on which there is a small cemetary. Here is where the rest of the Hartlings are buried.

Minnie worked at the Newhall House, where she met Joseph Julien. Minnie Julien died in 1930. Olive went to the first WFB School until 8th grade, when the family moved back to Milwaukee. She then went to St. John's and later W. Division High School. Her husband, Dr. Joseph Schroeder, WBS a dentist; they did not have any children. He died in 1977.

Grandmother Minnie Julien would make a washtub full of potatoe chips for New Year' s Day. She would spend the week before slicing the potatoes very thin, get ice from the iceman to soak and chill the slices, then dry than and fry them in hot grease on the stove. Her 1st washing machine had a paddle and Grandpa Julien would turn it for her to make the clothes swish around. Hot buckets of water had to be brought down to the basement and the washer was emptied by buckets. Clothes and sheets were very heavy and took a long time to dry.

Mrs. Schroeder remembers that the Huber family rented around the corner from them for awhile, at what is now 5141 N. Elkhart Ave. (Emily Damn's house).

Fred Isenring's daughter by his 2nd marriage, Mildred, was her good friend. Mildred and her mother lived in Milwaukee after Fred's disappearance in 1899 and Mrs. Isenring worked at Schuster's. Mildred married Lester Eifler and moved to Manitowish Waters, Wise, where she lives, as does her daughter.

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Grandma Schober will be 90 Friday; Crochets without Specs and Helps About House

Mary Isenring Schober will be *90 years old Friday. A slim little lady, with lots of auburn hair, fringed with gray, she plans to cut her own birthday cake, and perhaps do a little crocheting and

"helping about the house. She^ lives with her daughter, Mrs.' William Hoppenrath, 1021 E. Henry Clay st. < >* 4

The house in which she now lives is not too far from the

site on which she was born in a log cabin on what now is E. Day ave.

She was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Isenring, Oct 26, 1861. For a short while she lived in Chicago, but most of her life was lived in the village*

Xttany changes have taken place since her birth. Some of the changes were wrought by members of her own family. Her brother, Fred, opened the White-fish Bay resort, which drew people from all over the country. Later it became known as the Pabst-Whitefish Bay resort. It covered vast acres, fronting on Lake Michigan and afforded a variety of entertainment, and the best in music. It was ja wonderful place for a holiday.

A nephew, Wynand G. Isenring, was treasurer of Whitefish Bay: for 18 years. He died about ten years ago.

Oldest Settler Mrs. Schober is the oldest

settler alive in the village today. She will have plenty of opportunity to talk about the past, for which she has a font of mem-

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ories, on her birthdayM for her daughters, Mrs. Hoppenrath and Mrs. Walter C. Mann, 5112 N. Elkhart ave., have arranged an open house in her honor at the Hoppenrath home. A son, Gallus Schober, Milwaukee, will also \)e on hand for the open house. Another son died during the flu| epidemic of 1918. He was then eldest in the Schober family/] Her husband, Carl, one of the; oldest lithographers in the cowM try, died about 15 years ago.

The Schober, home was on N. Kimbark pi., right in back of the Hoppenrath home. Mrs. Schober sold it about 10 years ago to make her home with the Hoppen-raths.

She has six grandchildren and eight great grandchildren, and is a Gold Star Grandmother as her grandson, W a r r e n Thomas Ramey, a bomber pilot was killed in Germany during World War II,

Although Mrs. Schober was never one to belong to organizations and always made home!the important thing in her life, she has always enjoyed a host of friends. The legion of friends never lessened through the years, for children and young people are quick to make friends with her and call her grandmother. Age has riot brought on ill* humors. She is still the sweet, gentle lady whom Carl Schober married.

Her hobbies kre * crocheting, which she does without glasses, and reading, which she does solely with the aid of a magnifying glass. No spectacles for Grandma Schober!

She is a member of Divinity Lutheran church.

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In 1930, when the edict waa la-sued that all village employee* must reside in Whitefish Bay, Mrs. Schtnz moved to the Tillage. She now lives, with her mother, at 6678 N. Santa Monica blvd. Her father is no longer living.

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Tape recorded Jan. 29, 1982, while driving around the north end of Whitefish Bay; he grew up in the house at 516 E. Day Avenue.

fin 'The house at 5719 U. Kent is one my father built and deeded to me. I sold it for $9500 in 1941. He also built the one on the corner, a one-story little white brick house, in 1925. My uncle lived in there for a while. My brother built two houses on Shoreland Ave., 5640 and 56 ; he lived in this one, but lost it in the depression. They were both built in the early 30fs. (Jack's father was George C. Sullivan). 5701 W. Shoreland is where the Kiehns* lived and where I courted my first wife. The living room is like a big church. (It has a cathedral ceiling.)

The Flariing farmhouse used to be right where the gymnasium for St. Monica's School is now. 5654 N. St. Monica Blvd. was where one of the Scheife^ lived. 314 E. Beaumont Ave. was moved up here from where the (1st) school was. (Fleetwood PI., north side, between Idlewild Ave. and Marlborough Dr.) John D. Singles used to live right on the corner of Consaul and Beaumont Ave. (SW corner, gone now). Behind the Fox-Bay Theatre is land that my father built houses on .. .they've been torn down. My dad built houses as an extra; he still had his own job with Wadham's Oil.

Tom Callahan lived at 400 E. Lake View. The RR track ran nearby. I was married from our heme at 5715 H. Lake Drive. On Lake View Ave., my dad owned all the property at one time. Glasers and Moranos had a barn and an outhouse (604 E. Lake View) and big Christmas trees in the yard. There were no houses then. There was a big driveway and a big barn in the back. On the side of the house was a conservatory of glass for flowers. There used to be a front porch.

700 E. Lake View must be the old Glodrey house; they moved it from the corner of Silver Spring and Lake Drive (NW corner) and have remodeled it so much, I wouldn't know it. Where the front door is, the house faced east, along the tracks. (Streetcar tracks on Lake Drive.) They've added a 2nd floor to the house. It used to be stucco. I rananber when it was at Lake Drive and Silver Spring and I remenber when it was moved here.

Deke Town built the house at 731 E. Lake View; he was a teacher at Country Day School (now University School). 4*Wild Biir'Thompson built the house at 745 E. Lake View, that is set way back on the lot line.

The house at 801 E. Lake View used to have a big porch on it. I used to deliver papers there to the Phillips

Remingtons used to live here on Shore Drive (803 E. Lake View Ave.) It was just a frame house. Max Thiermann, who jumped out of the Goldsmith Bldg., in the depression, fixed the house all up. (Hackett, Hoff and Thiermann).

On Carlisle Ave., there was nothing but cow-field.

On Day Ave., the Bucks' lived in the end house (758) and AtwoodS lived in 752. My baby-sitter, Mrs. Laiers, used to live there before. Then, Dr. Schnidt's house -the garage was not there at 746 E. Day Ave. Before the Geddes' lived there, there was an alley. The house at 738 E. Day is the house that I crawled out of Mr. Viall owned a little cottage and it's been enlarged, at 740. The house at 738 looks pretty much the same as when Mr. Viall caught me coming out of it. Right in back of 740 E. Day, Mr. Viallfs cottage then, was where we pushed that old wagon over the bluff. He came running out and said "You can't" and we said "We hope you're satisfied". We were going to run it over Lake View and (Mr.) Wright came out and said "You can't do that11. So by that time, we were teed off and decided that Mr. Viall was the guy who caused all the trouble; if he comes running out, we're not going to stop. We were going to run it over O'Connor's bluff (at Day and Shore Drive), but Viall stopped us.

The top of Day Ave. looks much the same as it did back in the 20's, but there were steps going down back then. Mr. Viall built a stairway and Mr. O'Connor built one

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from the back of his property. Down below the bluff, on Day Ave., was where they had the ice house. For awhile, Mr. Viall used to let us use his stairway to the lake, then he kicked us off.

The Kinne house at 716 E. Day used to have a porch on it. Mr. Buck, at 758 E. Day, was a teacher at Country Day School. Mr. Atwood (lived at 752 E. Day) was a teacher at State Teacher's College. His house was brown in the 20's. 758 E. Day was always stucco, always looked pretty much as it does now. Dr. Schmidt's house has had a garage added on. Mrs. Schmidt used to have her Christmas tree up until Easter. She was a kind old lady.

723 used to be the Bradley house. He had a big iron fence around his property. He had a big barn in the back, where he kept his horses. There was no evidence of another house nearby; the lawn was all filled in by the time I lived there. His property ran down to the red brick house - where BowerC lived. Mr. Bradley was a distinguished looking man with a goatee and erect posture. He had a coachman to drive his fancy horses and carriage.

726 was C. R. Gether's house. It burned in the early 20's; where the garage is now, that's where the big tower (water) was.

My friend, Bill Klatte, lived at 716 E. Day. It used to have a big porch. The top of the house is the same and the shingles in front are the same.

708 was the Williams' house. It was yellow then; that's the same barn. I cut this grass, shovelled the snow for 50 cents. She was a customer of mine with the Sat. Eve. Post, Country Gentlemen and Ladies Home Journal.

700 E. Day, you would never believe, was the old Gether home. It was falling apart. Russ Winne lived there at one time, from WEMJ. He was a sport seas ter. They changed the house after I was gqne (1929). When I was a boy, Emma Gether was an old maid, with teeth falling out. She never went out of the house, just took care of her mother (Marie Gether; she was also the mother of C. R. Gether). We used to be afraid to go in there because it was such a scary place. Euma looked like an old witch and the house had fallen into disrepair. They built the present house right around the old Gether house. (This house had burned in the late 1920's and was then remodeled. It had been built in 1892-93.)

Mr. Bower built the house at 639 E. Day Ave. It used to have a sunken garden to the east of the house. My brother and I used to do this lawn, too. Bill Bower was a big fat guy. Then the Kiekhaefers (sp?) came. My sister, Margaret, used to baby-sit for them.

The Miller . used to live at 624 E. Day, then Kraemer bought it in 1921. They had about 12 kids. 621 E. Day was not there when I moved here in 1917. 615 E. Day had a big porch on it when I moved here. 601 E. Day was built by Dr. Baker in the 30's; he was president of the Teacher's College. Baker Field House was named for him.

531 E. Day was Steffen'.* house, an older home; that's all changed now. 523 E. Day Ferris' built later. It wasn't there when I was a kid. The Otto Voeks lived at 524 E. Day, then Rugee^ then Balker.

My dad built the house at 513 E. Day. It came in pieces and we had to pick it up at the depot. We had two carpenters and kids to help put it together. I helped, too. It was called a "Gordon Van Thuyne" (sp?) home, a pre-fab.

My house hasn't changed much at 516 E. Day. My dad built the garage himself; I helped, of course. Dorothy Ludwig lived next door at 506 E. Day Ave.. The porch on my house is the same, but the wrought iron railings are different and we used to have wooden steps. My dad lost the house and Mr. Kersten got it for the taxes. My dad lost it in 1929, but he hung onto it for awhile; he rented. The guy who lived at 506 E. Day rented it for awhile. Father Marshall Day, from the Episcopal Church, rented it from my father. The fellow from 506 E. Day came over and said to my father, "I got the axe today, this is all I can pay you." r So my dad cut his rent in half. He said "If I can ever make it up, I will". Well, that was the end of that. Things

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went downhill. My dad couldn't afford it anymore, so he had to let it go. There wasn't a house on the WE corner of Lake Drive and Day. Glaser's house was across the street on the NW corner. (Gone now)

Along Lake Drive, there was nothing - no trees, no houses going north. We could look out of our rear window and see the streetcar coming at the top of the hill and Grandma and Grandpa wuld say, "Okay, go out and get it." The Knop house was there; Al Knop, their son, lived there. The Ferd Gram house was there, too; you can see the big porch that sticks way outC&fS'S'r)* JLAfteM]

The train track (C & NW RR) ran right through where Shoreland and Mbntclair Avenues are. On the other side of the track was Grober's Grove; they used to have picnics here every Sunday. There was a murder in a house on Bay Ridge Ave., 5906. A mother killed her two sons and committed suicide (Sept. 11, 1932). The house is still here, still the same.

The train track ran right next to the Goodalls•, at 415 E. Day Avenue (on the west side of the house). This used to be a wood house, now it's all changed. (It also used to have two bowling alleys in the basement. The house was built in the 1890 's). We used to play ball here. Glazer£ were across the street and they had a big garden. (House was Eugene Morehouse's originally, on the NW corner of Day and Lake Drive, gone now.)

My house on Day Ave., I wDnder what it looks like now on the inside. It used to seem so big. I bet if I went in there now, it wouldn't be as big as I thought it was.

At Klode Park, we used to take crusts of snow, get a hunk, sit on it and slide downhill.

The Brennan s lived here about 1930 (2nd houee south of Klode Park). Terry used to be the coach of Notre Dame. His brother, Jim, is City Attorney; he's in-the paper every day. Joe, who lives on Lake Drive, is the older brother. (SV6>? **> i/*H& T>R.)

The house at 624 E. Day used to have a big tree beside it, on Store Drive. We used to hide there with the girls. The house had been painted grey.

On Lawndale Ave. (Beaumont), the MacNeil and Bachman were the only houses on the street. (**3«0 (**6> &>)

Before my time, there might have been a little road running along the lake bluff between Silver Spring and Lake View Ave. Henry Wright lived in the house with yellow awnings (5684 N. Shore Dr.) ;he was on the village board. He was one of the ones that hollered at us when we were trying to push that old truck-wagon over the bluff.

Bachman had the gray house at 806 E. Beaumont and the land around the house was all his farmland. He had a big barn for his horses and cows. Xfe used to get milk from him. He had cows at pasture out here. Walter Bachman had a beard (he was the son); he died. (John) Bachmanfs daughter went to war in World War I. She was about 10 years older than I was. There was no road here then, only a boardwalk to their house.

MacNeils at 813 E. Beaumont, lived in this red brick house. It had a glassed.-in porch and I pedaled papers there.

Where Preuss Flowers is now was Dutcher's Gardens. I dated Lydia Hickock, who was related to the Whitconib's, who had a dairy farm called "Clovernook". (This was in the area now named "Clovernook" in Glendale, just west of the Jean Nicolet frontage road.) I was working at the Standard Station where Spinelli's is now (NW corner of Lake Dr. and Silver Spring, where Mrs. Glodrey's cottage had been) and Dutcher's Gardens was just north, on Lake Drive. Lydia brought a load of manure to the gardens, a job her brother usually did, because she wanted to meet Dutcher. She did and they were married. (The Hickock house still stands at 525 W. Clovernook Lane, Glendale, built 1900.)

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At the Mobil Station there was an apple orchard (NE corner of Lake Drive and Silver Spring.) Logemann1 s house was here - 716 E. Silver Spring, but it was moved over farther. (The old Consaul house, still here at 716). Klinzing's house was here, too (802 E. Silver Spring) and later, ICLndler built at 828 E. Silver Spring. At the foot of Silver Spring was the public walk down to the beach.

On Glen Ave., 840-42 was here; 828 was Art Weber's home. Doc Claasen, the m N dentist, lived at 810. On Danbury Rd., Dr. Richter had a house that b u r n e d ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ v

809 E. Lake Forest was there when I was here, as well as 836, 848 and at 854, there used to be a tennis court. 875 was Steganann's. He was on the school board and his daughter, Elinore, became a teacher at WFB. (I think she was at Henry Clay School.) Kleisttf, Greenblatt-S and Oldenberga lived at 5477 N. Lake Dr. BownanS were at 5466; Muller^ lived there first.

On Birch Ave. lived Thekla Klatt and Tom Bell at 895, Charlie Braun at 880, Rreutzer at 874 - he had false which he lost in an explosion as a boy. Van Derzee was president of Wise. Electric & Power Co., he lived at 869.

Mrs. Daniels was a lady who lived at 5519 N. Lake Drive and drove an old time car, about a 1916 model, real ornate. It had little glass flowerpots in it. She was all frilled up like a madam and had a dozen or so little white poodles, who were all over in the car.

Right next door to her house, to the north, was another house, that has been torn down. A man and wife committed suicide there, in the early 20's, using chloroform. Also, when I lived on Lake View, there was a little shanty and a man hung himself in there. There was a lot of stuff going on back then.

The three houses on Briarwood were here when I was a boy, east of Idlewild, north side of the street, beginning at the corner.

At Marlborough and Briarwood - Marlborough was called Pennsylvania Ave. then - they had a big loading dock where they sent the equipment from the National Guard Armory that was up here, Battery A, to war in 1917. That stood here for years. There was a platform to equal a boxcar, with a ramp built of 12 x 12's, which they used to load cannons and materials onto the tracks.

The next village hall was on the southwest corner of Lexington and Marlborough, where we held our first Mass for St. Monica's Church on Christmas Day 1923.

On Lexington Blvd., the house at 921 was Staffeld . Their son, William, was about 19 years old in 1893; his daughter, Vera, was in my class. Now she's retired from the city of Glendale. He was the conmissioner of the village when they had about 300 people and he and three or four other guys did all the wDrk, plowing, etc., like a public vorks commission.

Wynand Isenring lived at 1036, Griff Williams at 1109. A man named Sullivan lived at 1110 E. Lexington. The maid's boyfriend came and an argument ensued in the middle of the night. Sullivan was awakened by the shouting and screaming and came running down, frightened the boyfriend, who shot and killed Sullivan. There was a big murder scandal.

McCarty lived at 1129 E. Lexington; it was built in the early 1920' s. When Father Dietz first came to St. Monica's, he had to live in a cottage up on Thelan's farm (6200 block of N. Lydell) and it got so cold in there without heat or pluribing, the water froze in his dish. McCarty £ took him in and he used to say Mass on the mantle of the fireplace, until we got the church going. Then we got into the village hall for services.

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Where the Herman Uihlein hone is now, used to be the WFB Resort. (5270 N. Lake Dr.) The house was built about 1916. They spent thousands of dollars to save the bank, which almost fell into the lake. In 1930, they wanted to extend Lincoln Memorial Drive north along the lake shore; it would have protected the properties, but the folks didn't want to give up their shoreline, so it didn't go through.

PandJ's has been here a long time. There are no saloons allowed in WFB, so I don't think this can go out of the family, or its kaput.

Wager* lived at 5149 N. Woodburn St. Ethel Wager went to school with me and lived there when we graduated from grade school in11926.

In 1917, my father bought the house at 516 Day Ave. for $4400. There was a big open stairway going upstairs; my dad built a breakfast room with benches. I remember clearly the day my youngest brother was born; he was born at hone. I had been the baby for seven years..

We all had paper routes and got around the whole north end of the village on our bikes. We didn't use the bikes for the paper routes, however. My brother was run over and my dad wouldn't let me have a bike for a long time, so I carried the papers on my back or take a coaster (wagon). I had about 20 customers, but they were stretched out. The route was from Day Ave. down as far as Birch. My brother would go up what is now St. Monica Blvd., which was just a little dirt road then, to 2 or 3 customers, then into Fox Point as far as where the bridge over the RR tracks is now, then over to Lake Drive and about 1/2 mile north of School Road. That was in the early 20' s. We were delivering The Milwaukee Journal and were only paid a pittance. The papers cost five cents and people didn't tip us.

I had a couple of jobs where I'd do grass cutting and snow shoveling; I also watched the tailor shop. As I got a little older, I used to deliver stuff for the drug store with a shoulder bag. When I was old enough to drive - I was about 14 when I drove the car - I made deliveries with the car. My dad had an old model T with 3 pedals.

T also worked on the railroad, the section north of Country Day School, which replaced the section taken out of the Bay. They had to dig all that out north of this school and west of Yates Road, south of Cardinal Stritch College. It's all lower in there; that was dug out by mule teams, then they'd put it in gondola cars and ship it west of the Port Road, where it was dumped, to build up that roadbed. They put gravel and cinders in for about 10 years, because dirt settles. I worked as a gandy dancer walking up and down; the gondola cars would drop the stone and cinders. That was in 1933; I was 21 years old, it was in the Deptession and you couldn't get a job. I was lucky to have this one; I think I made 28 cents an hour with a pick and shovel. You were glad to have it, because there would be other guys around waiting to get your job.

ArjDund Day and Lydell, west side of Lydell, that was all farmland. Then it was all dug out to get the sand. Grober*£ owned a lot of this land, along with Grober's Grove over to what is now Bay Ridge. The RR ran through that and we would go there to have picnics every Sunday. We'd go up when they were dishing out ice cream and get a dip of ice cream in our handkerchiefs - we were always cheating somebody! Then the sand pits filled with water and later, dumping began- During Vforld War II, when I worked for A. 0. Smith, we hauled away the rubbish, junk and tires to Gro-ber — who sold tickets. We'd go in and dump the stuff - tires and old cans, which would rust. If you'll notice at Bayshore Shopping Center, on th^jbast-west mall part, it has all settled. That was all level when they started, but it had been about 30' deep, filled with ashes, cans and garbage. As this stuff disintegrated, the level of the land would sink. Even today you can see seme of the dips caused by the landfill practices.

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In the 1930's, a little boy drowned in one of the pits that was made by the removal of sand around Day and Lydell Avenues. When I was a little kid, that was all farmland, before the sand and gravel were removed. I remember the Zip-f el lived on part of that land (that is now where Kohl' s Grocery Store is) and she said, "I ranember the little farmhouse there. My bedroom was just about ^ where the toilet paper shelf is at Kohl's now.11 C **U. a*JJ "* *. - * u>*< *.%<?&+/ d^tf****

Right on the west side of the river was where the Mitchell boys, Pinky and Richy, had their boxing camp. They were famous. Richy almost got the lightweight title, but Benny Leonard was the chanp in the early 20's. Pinky was a little different weight, but they were both pretty good - they fought some of the best. Bill Sadie was a big guy, their trainer, who was supposed to have been in the ring with Jack Dempsey. Another brother, Billy, was their promoter. We went over there one time and watched. At the end of Silver Spring, they had a cabin and they'd go down there to the lake, where they also had a canoe.

At the end of Silver Spring, just to the north of the steps, was a big concrete place with bars on the windows. Someone said a guy was a rum runner who had this place and made it down there on the shore; eventually, the waves beat it all up. We'd go down there to play and he'd leave notes .. ."I've gone for ammunition, be back in an hour" .. .1 suppose to scare us kids away. At night, he was supposed to have gone out on the lake and met a ship to get the booze. I don't know if that was true or not.

Wynand Isenring was village treasurer for many years. He lived on Lexington Blvd. and had a son, Warren. Warren became a radio-*fV dealer and had his store on Silver Spring. Later, he built a store on Bender Road; it's still there, but he has since died. (The store is now Larry Dorst — at 229 W. Bender Rd.)

Way back then, they used to have a baseball team called the WFB A.C. 's (Athletic Club) and some of the boys who went to war had played on it.

Ferd Grams, who lived across the street from Klode Park, dug all the basements for the homes my father built.

Where Circle Drive is now, there was nothing but an old mud hole and wx>ds. My dad had wanted some men to put money into it, it was to be the coming thing.

In 1930, the Bay changed the house numbers to coincide with the city numbers. The village furnished the numbers and I got 50 cents an hour in the summer to do this. On wood, it was fine, but on Lake Drive, some of the folks wanted them on stone, which was very difficult. You used a chisel and a lead sinker.

I walked the rail (RR rail) from Country Day School to Day Avenue without falling off. That's a record. That was when I was a kid.

I knew Roland Rabe and his brother, Jiggs. Roland was older than I; he was a big guy, but he lisped and I used to imitate him to my best friend, Bill Klatte. Roland worked for the village.

I remember the snowstorm of 1924, oh, was that a snowstorm. Then you had plows and horses to clear the sidewalks. They used to collect garbage in a dumpwagon, pulled by a tractor. Rollie used to go by with a shovel and when the wind was blowing, he'd hold the shovel up in front of his face. Rollie and Jiggs belonged to the ice-house gang. At the bottom of Day Ave., on the lake, was an old thing without windows, that was used years ago for fishing. Maybe Gether owned it. The gang got permission to go down there - there were no police then, this was in the early 20's - they'd go down with their girls and have parties. Rabe was one of the gang, as was Claude Thelan. They used to hang out at the drugstore, too. I'll never forget the time Claude got so pickled. He had the ice route and^go down and raise hell.. .he was a roughneckf

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he'd throw great big firecrackers around. One time, he made a mistake and threw it in the mailbox and it went off. That's a federal offense and he almost went to jail for that. He was a grown man then!

There were two Thelan boys, Claude and Roy; they lived on a farm on Bender Road (really on Lydell Ave., their house was where 6220 N. Lydell is now located). They went to St. Robert's School and Claude was going to become a priest. He went from 8th grade into the seminary, but he didn't like it. So his mother, who boarded one of the teachers from Country Day School, Mr. Fick, managed to get the two boys into that school. They weren't the "idle rich" like the ones who went there, but they graduated. It turned out that Roy got a scholarship and graduated from Yale ; then he got another degree from Marquette and he became the priest.

Claude, who was going to be the priest, turned out to be a rounder. He married Virginia Klatte, Bill's sister, and they went up north to live in the woods. She died. He would get like a wild man when he became drunk. He drove the ice truck. I knew all these guys at the ice house - Hank Huber, Warren Isenring, Jiggs Rabe. All these guys were older than I was. I was just a little clerk in the store.

Back of Day Avenue were these cottages; Viall lived in one, over here was Wither-spooo& -~ then it was empty. One time, all the kids were playing and we crawled into the milk chute. We didn't do anything; we were maybe 12 years old. Mr. Viall was mad at us, anyway. He was going to be married and we had a chivarie on him. He had a party and gave us ice cream, then he got mad at us. He was a Jekyll and Hyde as far as I was concerned.

I lived on Day Avenue until 1929, then we moved to a house on Lake Drive - we built the house - and stayed there until my folks bought a little farm in Palmyra. I'd been going with a girl since 1933 and I didn;t want to go to this little town, so we got married. We moved into her parents home (the Kiehiu?) for a month that sunnier - it' s on the NW corner of Lake View and Shoreland); the type of house that' s called a Studio heme.

The red armory building on Ardmore has been here for a number of years, but that was a replacement for an old wooden barracks that was here during World War I. The colonel lived in the white house on the corner of the armory grounds. Colonel West-phal led this group during WW I. The other barracks was on Henry Clay St., that's been torn down. Across the street is Henry Clay School, originally called the White-fish Bay School, because after the first one burned down, this was the only school in the village.

Behind the new addition on Henry Clay School, in the entranceway, are two bronze plaques. The names of the boys from the Bay who were in the first World War are on them. When this school was put up originally, after the other one burned, it was smaller than it is now. I went to 7th and 8th grade there. My dad was the one who named the school Henry Clay School. He was also instrumental in getting the train tracks out of the Bay.

The Powell building is still there on Silver Spring. It was built by the Powell brothers, MacCutcheon and Hector. When I was a little boy, there was a terrible accident between a truck and the 7:00 a.m. train. I ran out to see. Hector had been driving the truck and three guys were sitting in it, in the back, with their legs dangling over it. There were no guard rails and the train had hit the back of the truck - there were arms and legs all over.

Later on, Hector, who had not been hurt in the accident, fell into the foundation of a house of his under construction and he became a cripple. Mac Powell later went into real estate with Leo Rice; their company was called Rice-Powell. In 1932, they built the Powell Building, which houses the Bay Bakery. The two "L's" are gone frcm the name on the building.

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My dad wanted to build a building about where Schwanke-Kasten Jewelers is and he had a hole dug. He was going to build a store, but they wouldn't let him. My dad drew up his own plans back then.

The "old professor" used to live on the NW corner of Lydell and Silver Spring. (This was Mr. Rathjen; he was a bachelor, living with his widowed mother, Theresa Rathjen.) He cane here in 1920 and built his house without a basement; he never painted it and it was set way back. He had a lot of degrees, the guy was a brain, but he was a queer character. He wore an old, black, long coat. He used to help students who were working in the filling station and going to college. He'd sit there and tutor them. He'd just scrub his way around, pick up rubbish - he looked like an old tramp or hobo. He didn't have any water in his house and he smelled bad.

(Most of us growing up in the Bay from the 1920' s to 1940' s remember this man and have stories, true and untrue, about him. He was our Greenwich Village character.) a

I had two teachers that I liked in 7th and 8th grade, Miss Elberfeld and Miss Crotte (sp?). I liked Irma Crotte because she was Irish. Elberfeld used to slam us around; she hit Fats Smith, who didn't say anything, but his mother found out from a neighbor. They raised hell down at the school over it.

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Memories of Jack Sullivan - January 1983

"I moved from Fox Point to Whitefish Bay, by horse and wagon, in 1917 to 146 E. Day Avenue (now 516 E. Day Avenue). Lake Drive was a dirt road at this timef so to move, we went from Calumet Road to Port Washington Road to Silver Spring Road, over to Lake Drive and north on Lake Drive to Day Avenue. Silver Spring Road, at this time, was a paved two lane road. Day Avenue was the only other paved road in Whitefish Bay. (Day Avenue was the first residential street.)

My father (George C. Sullivan) built the garage at our new home. There was a windmill here to provide water, when we moved in. We lived in this home until 1929, when my father built a hpme at 2449 y * (5715) N. Lake Drive, where we lived until 1 9 3 7 • ( ^ 4 ^ 5 ^ ^

My father also built the home at 129 W. Day Avenue. This side of Day Avenue, from Lake Drive west, was a dirt road and had been part of the Timpel and Geilfuss farmlands. Both became part of St. Monica Church and School and Dominican High School. Father Dietz, of St. Monica's parish, had purchased aLLot of land and sold some of it off for lots. (He kept intact the land from St. Monica Blvd. to Lydell Avenue, Silver Spring Drive to Lakeview Avenue.) St. Monica's also owned land west and south of Lydell and Lakeview Avenues, which Dominican High School eventually used as an athletic field. This land was sold to the U. S. government and the North Shore Branch of the U.S. Post Office was built on it.

The (Leonard) Fleming farmhouse stood on Lake View Avenue and St. Monica Blvd., on the southwest corner, where the present St. Monica Convent now stands. (Rose Timpel had married Leonard Fleming and this was the old Timpel farmland.) The Fleming house was moved, after the land was sold to St. Monica's parish, west to stand north of the old Geilfuss barn, which had been turned into the 1st St. Monica Chapel. The Fleming home was then used as a home for the nuns. The Fleming barn was used to store sports equipment, etc. in for St. Monica's.

Kent Avenue, north of Lakeview Avenue, wasn't here yet; this was all field. My brother, Herbert, built the home at 5740 N. Shoreland Avenue, about 1930, which he didn't live in. He then built the home at 5718 N. Shoreland and lived in this one.

My first wife, Mary Martell <op,?) lived at 5701 N. Shoreland Avenue, with her sister and husband, Bernadette and Lewis P. Kiehm. My father also built the home at 5719 N. Kent Avenue about 1930 or 1931.

Father Dietz had wanted to build a hospital on the Santa Monica property, on Silver Spring Road, and to put a high school here, when Messmer High School was being built, but it was thought that this area was too far out in the country then.

A family named Wiggins built the home at 32 5 E. Day Avenue. Day Avenue was paved only from the railroad tracks, just west of Lake Drive, east to the lakfi. St. Monica Blvd. was still a dirt road. The railroad tracks went through the home presently at 405 E. Day Avenue, through Richards School property (the school wasn't here at that time) and north of Devon Street to the railroad tracks that are still there, then east along that track. This same railroad track went south from the present Richards School area, along present Marlborough Drive, through the

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present Cahill Square area and divided into two tracks near Atwater Road (Capitol Drive). These tracks through Whitefish Bay were taken out about 1929 or 1930.

(W. H.) Goodall lived at 415 E. Day Avenue (this was the "Suburban Club" built in the 1890's) and he had a bowling alley in the basement when I lived on Day Avenue, in the early 1920's. There was a fire in this house, it was burned out, but rebuilt.

In the old Gregg farmhouse (604 E. Lake View Avenue), a family named Terrance lived there, later the Glazer-S * Then the Glazer^ moved into the old Morehouse home (gone now, it stood on the northwest corner of Day Avenue and Lake Drive) and the Wrars (sp.?), with a son named Roland, lived there, about 1923.

513 E. Day Avenue - My father, George C. Sullivan, built this home in 1923. It was a Gordon Van Tyne (sp.?) home, pre-fab style, shipped on railroad cars, with the pieces marked and ready to be assembled on the site.

506 E. Day Avenue - the Nelsons lived here and had two sons in World War I; they lived here in 1916 and 1917. Later, the Ludwig£ were here.

524 E. Day Avenue - the Voeksf lived here and we lived next to them. Mrs. Voeks was a SteffenS and her niece, Lillie, came to live with the Voeks1. Lillie's sister, Mabel, went with another aunt and uncle, the Steffenjf who lived across the street.

523 E. Day Avenue was built by £ohn P. Ferris in the 1920's.

Maitland Court wasn't here then - this was all field north of Day Avenue. Lt. Maitland hadn't flown over the Pacific Ocean at this time.

601 E. Day Avenue - Frank E. Bakers lived here; he was President of the Milwaukee Teacher's College (later part of Downer College and then absorbed by UW-M.)

608 E. Day Avenue - Otto J. Hoff lived here. He was with Wisconsin Ice and Coal Co., and he built on the front part of this house. It was originally an open porch, which he enclosed.

615 E. Day Avenue - the Schwitzers lived here, later Dr. McNamara.

624 E. Day Avenue - the F. H. Millers lived here. One of their daughter^ (Arline) married Art O'Connor. A few years later, Mr. Miller built the double home at 5770 N. Shore Drive and the Millers and O'Connor,? moved in there.

621 E. Day Avenue - the Taylors were here in the 1920's.

629 E. Day Avenue - this was F. Willis Goldsmith's home; the garage was added on later. The Rhyn,3 (sp.?) lived here later.

639 E. Day Avenue - the Bower* built this home. It had a large sunken garden on one side.

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Mrs. Marie Gether and her daughter, Emma, lived at 700 E. Day Avenue. It was a big, old, haunted looking house to me and they were "scary" ladies to a young boy. I delivered the newspapers in this area. Later, Russ Winnie, the radio announcer lived here.

708 E. Day Avenue - Harold M. Williams lived here. He was a Justice of the Peace and we all called him Judge.

723 E. Day Avenue - the Bradley lived here. He had a beard and his carriage took him either to the bus or downtown each day. They had a barn behind the house, where the horse and carriage were kept. It was all pasture to the south of him, to Carlisle Avenue and his horse wandered around there. Later, the George A. Benisch's lived here.

716 E. Day Avenue - the William KlatteS lived here; Bill, Jr. was born here. The porch originally went all the way around the front of the house. There was a windmill here in the back. Mr. Klatte, sr. built the garage. (A new front and side* porch were added by the Michael Speich in late fall 1982, after they had seen a photograph of the original home.)

The water tower behind Mr. Gether's home was there in 1917. (His home, built in 1892, was at 726 E. Day Avenue.) The kids played in the water tower; it had stairs inside it.

732 E. Day Avenue - this was H. Stanley Geddes' home,which he built.

752 E. Day Avenue - Mrs. Laers (sp.?) lived here, then the Atwood^ moved in. There was a porch on the front of this home.

There was a stairway to the lake at the end of Day Avenue, at the bluff. Later, Mr. Art O'Connor had steps put in behind his house to go to the lake.

Mr. _Viall had a summer home at 740 E. Day Avenue, which is a private road behind (to the north) of Day Avenue. He turned it into a year-round home. (Further additions have been made on this home.)

738 E. Day Avenue is a small, gray cottage, back in on this private road. The WitherspoonS and then the Ripples family lived in this in the 1920's.

There was another tiny cottage north of 740 E. Day Avenue, which is gone now. It stood on top of the bluff approximately where 5822 N. Shore Drive Is how. The other homes on Shore Drive (5800 block) weren't here then; this was all field.

The Walter P. MomsenC had lived in the Grams' old farmhouse, when it stood where Klode Park is now. (Their address in 1930 was 6010 N. Lake Drive, although it was really present Shore Drive.) Then Frank Klode bought the Grams property; he was Village President and when he sold the land to the village for park use, he resigned for an hour to do this. The Grams' old farmhouse was moved to where it now stands, 5967 N. Berkeley Blvd. Frederick Grams dug basements with his horse and plow. His son, Ferd, built his home at 5955 N,

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Lake Drive (still standing) and had his barn in the rear of the house. Richards School wasn't here then. He was a bachelor and lived with his sister, Louise. I remember he always said "By golly, say".

Lemke-Timpel families:Ernest Timpel's daughter Anna married Henry Lemke. Henry worked for the Electric Company - street car. A Lemke daughter,Genevieve,married A. E. Geraty; another daughter, Anna, married Halsey Rapp. Son Cassious Lemke married Viola Geilfuss; then there was a son, Raymond and another son (Arnold).

5944 N. St. Monica Blvd. - this was the 2nd house south from the corner of Montclair Avenue and was built here. Alfred Geilfuss and his wife lived here (Alfred was a brother of Viola Geilfuss <£e**^£ .)

5952 N. St. Monica Blvd. - this was Ernest Timpel's home first, then his daughter, Birdie (Bertha) and husband, Fred Stein lived here.

5958 N. St. Monica Blvd. - this home was built on the corner (southeast corner) of St. Monica and Montclair Avenue, by n^e^V^^D^g. It was a house and grocery store. Later, Anna (Lemke) and husband, Halsey Rapp moved in here. The house was moved from the corner to where it now stands. A , n * . xfjij \

In the next block north (6000 block of St. Monica Blvd.) there was a cottage and a very large tree, on the east side of the street. I was a paper boy in this area, too. The old Steffen's farmhouse has been torn down (it stood two houses worfih of present 6166 N. St. Monica Blvd., which was also a Steffen's home.) There were few homes in this area.

Walter Steffen, son of Henry (they lived in the old Steffen farmhouse) was very shy. He went to the Whitefish Bay School with me in 1926.

Henry Steffen's brother, Albert, lived at 531 E. Day Avenue.

In the 1920's, David Matten (Madden?) lived at 6166 N. St. Monica

"Latta Vista" was a large old farmhouse, up on St. Monica (this was the Zimprich farmhouse, really on E. Devon Street, west of St. Monica Blvd.). In the 1920's, Mrs. Tina Wenz lived in here.

Country Day School owned all the land on the west side of the 6200 and 6300 block of N. Santa Monica Blvd. Ray Ritzier's home was up here, next to the road, called Richards Street then. The first school building for Country Day was built in 1917. Ray was the maintenance man for the school and his home was moved back to where it now stands, on the west side of the street, in the 6300 block, on the school grounds. The first school building for Country Day was the building at the top of the hill, at E. School Road. The street car, a special one, ran up Lake Drive to School Road, for the school.

(Perry S.) Pray lived at 6310 N. St. Monica Blvd. He was a * teacher at Riverside High School and had sons, Claude, Lee and M ^

6350 N. St. Monica Blvd. - this was the Patza farmhouse. Two big trees are still here from way back when - they're probably 100

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About where 6440 N. St. Monica Blvd. is now, there was a large old stucco house, now gone. A family named Drauble lived here. (I'm not certain of the spelling of that last name.)

The land below the bridge over the traintrack (on St. Monica Blvd., in Fox Point) and to the west was originally much higher -the hill is still there, north of the track. All the land from the hill south was dug out by mule teams and moved to the west to build up that part of the track. The track originally curved south (just west of the bridge area) and traveled through Whitefish Bay, south to Capitol Drive, then west to Wiscona.

A truck crashed through the railroad bridge (on St. Monica Blvd.) one day and dropped onto the tracks below. A lady flagged down the train to stop, so it wouldn't run over the driver and the truck. I don't know what happened to the driver.

The land west and south of present Country Day School (University School of Milwaukee) was a cow pasture. The school kids practiced their athletic events behind the first school building. The kids in the neighborhood would come up and scrimmage with them for practice.

Grober's Grove was a park-like area in the 6100 and 600tfblock of N. Lydell Avenue west to the Port Road. Church groups would hold picnics here and we kids would go over there to get free ice cream, etc.

There was a small cottage that used to stand on E. Devon, just east of N. Lydell Avenue, on the north side of the street. Father Dietz, of St. Monica's parish, lived in this cottage for several months, until it got too cold for him in here - it wasn't a heated cottage. The first Mass for this parish was served on Christmas Day in 1923, in the old Whitefish Bay Village Hall - I helped serve it. (This small cottage may be the home now standing at 6224 N. Lydell Avenue. This home was moved by Mr. Thelen, who owned this property and had his farmhouse here, where the home at 6220 N. Lydell Avenue now stands. I had heard that Mr. Thelen had this home at 6224 moved here from Day Avenue, but it may have been the one on E. Devon St.)

The land that the Milwaukee Gear Company is on (southeast corner of Port Washington Road and Henry Clay Street) was all swamp. A lot of pilings had to be put under this building before construction began. The Milwaukee river flooded here and they finally dynamited under the river to deepen the river and built the dam, south of here, to control the flooding.

The ice jams were so large at the bridge on Silver Spring Road -some chunks were as large as houses, that it caused flooding farther south down to Henry Clay Road. One winter, men were ready to blow the bridge up to let the ice through. The Schulpius farm and others along Port Washington Road, south of Silver Spring, would be under water because of this.

Bay Shore Shopping Center land was all farmland (several farms were here) and as the land was developed, the sand and gravel in this area was taken out, leaving large holes. This was then used as a dump by present Glendale and Whitefish Bay, during the 1930's and '40's. The mall of Bay Shore, on the south end, running east to west, has

settled somewhat since construction, due to the ground underneath settling because of the old dump here."

This recollection of events and homes was given by Mr. Jack Sullivan to Mimi Bird, as we drove around the northern end of Whitefish Bay and tape recorded Jack's memories.

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VILLAGE OFFICIAL—William Staffeld, a Whitefish Bay village employe for more than 40 years, was a marshal at the time this photo was taken. He was street commissioner at the time of his death, on Oct. 1, 1933. His parents, who signed the village incorporation papers, operated a farm on the site of the present National Guard Armory, 1225 E. Henry Clay st. His daughter, Mrs. Vera Cross, lives at 915 E. Lexington blvd.

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I Serving hit second term as a village trustee, Stover heads the public utilities committee and be-

; longs to the zoning and finance ! committees. He will hold office until 1044 when, he will be up for reelection. r Mr. and Mrs. Stover buve filled their 'spacious home ,wlth curios, antiques, and portraits acquired while touring in Europe and the United States.

When asked about his hobbies, Mrs. Stover replied for her husband, "movies and stamps/' '

"Movies, stamps and my wife/' added Mr. Stover with a twinkle in .his eye.

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Originally from South )Bend, Ind., where he was born on Feb. 8, 1879, Paul Stover has lived in Whitefish Bay since v January. 1931, at 5762 N. Shore dr.

Mr. Stover received his literary A. B. degree at Wisconsin uni-; verBity in 1901 and continued his law training at Marquette for the next four, years/Y> ' 3 y 7y" Y V • •

Later he spent fours years in; the United States "Attorney's office and worked in the Milwaukee county district attorney's office for another four years with William Zabel.

The Stovers have two children, John and Virginia, both of whom are graduates »f Whitefish Bay high school. John will graduate from the pre-law school at Michigan State university this month, but due to the draft will he unable to continue his law training at the ^present time. Virginia is a junior i t the same school. ' f.

: At the present time Stover is an attorney-at-law connected ;%ith stover .v*ni Stover in theo Wells

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k Later •'.'£<*> spent fours* years in i the United States attorney's office and worked in the Milwaukee county^ district attorney's office for another four years with William Zabel;

The Stovers have two children, John and Virginia, both of whom are graduates of Whitefish Bay high school. John will graduate from the pre-!aw school at Michigan State university this month, but due to the draft will be unable to continue his law training at the present time. Virginia is a junior at the same school.

At the present time Stover is an attorney-at-law connected with Stover and Stover in the Wells building.

Those who earn their "W's" at school are eligible to membership In the W club. Stover earned the privilege of joining by qualifying for his/letter as a basketball star. He also belongs to Beta Theta PI.

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! In a surprise move which left village officials in a state of per-* plexity and- indecision as to their action, christian J. Schroeder,' 5034 N. Woodruff, avenue, a trus- ' tee Of Whitefish Bay for nearly seven years, tendered his resignation to Village President Grover, F. Knoernschild at the i*egular meeting of the board held Monday night. Although in his letter Mr. Schroeder reviewed the work which he has done as a member of the village board, no explana-. tion as to his decision to resign was given. -Y

Schroeder also submitted his resignation from the village 11-' brary board which wag recently jformed stating in his letter that it was through his insistence that a village trustee was named A* member of the board and that because of his •resignation he felt that he could no longer serve in that capacity.

Apparently stunned by the resignation, the Whitefish Bay village board decided to postpone action on the matter and a committee consisting of C. R. McCallum, Thomas H. Melham and Eugene C. Wann was appointed to call upon Schroeder and, ask him, to reconsider the action.

Building construction in White*-* fish Bay showed an increase during the month of December, 1937, over a similar period for 1936J Total valuation of construction, during December, 1937, was $76,-. *470 while for December, 1936, the total was $74,650. .Total valuation for the year of 1937 was $1,-245,810 while for, the year of 1936 £he total was $1,184,?4U» The number of buildings ; con-, structed' in. 1937 was *v 155 as compared t o 4 6 1 during 1936.,. , s

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Christ T. Schroeder, retired trustee of the village of - White-fish Bay, will be the guest of honor at a party given a t the home of George Andrae, trustee, 4905 N. Larkin street, tonight. The party has been planned as a tribute to the many years of service which Mr. Schroeder has .given to the village of Whitefish Bay. A gift from the village officials has been planned.

Those who will be guests at the party are: I Grover Knoernschild, president of Whitefish Bay village board; Thomas Melham, Eugene Wann, E. L. Smalley and George Andrae, trustees; Frank Clode, former president; Henry Wright, Joseph Gallagher, E. L. Borgelt, G. W. Vanderzee, 'Gilbert Hyer, Walter Meyer, Oscar Kruetzer and O. Stozer, former trustees; Dr. E. D* Gute, health:commissionert jVUf chael Dunn, justice of thie peace; George Gable, village attorney;; Ralph Cahill, village commissioner; George Hage, chief of police; Henry Asen, fire chief; William Volkmann, village clerk; W. G. Isenring, treasurer, and John O'Leary, village assessor.

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— X 5R SCHROEDER. TWO important business interests art v vk """ jviderice of the ability and progressive spirit of Wa Schroeder, who heads Chris. Schroeder & Son Company of Milwaukee. He is also president of the Schroeder Hotel Company, controlling a chain of ten important hotels in four different states of the Middle West. His discernment and keen perception of business opportunities which he readily utilizes have given him place among the outstanding

: business men of Milwaukee, his native city. He was born May 19, 1878, and is of German lineage, his parents

liajpng been Christian and Amelia Schroeder. The father was born July 12,1841, in Stettin, Germany, where he-was reared and educated. After crossing the Atlantic he came to Milwaukee and was first employed in connection with the packing industry. He entered the real estate, loan and insurance business in 1885, his sons joining him in the venture, and continued in that field of activity until his death, which occurred January 20, 1915, when he was seventy-four § years of age. He had become widely known as a sagacious business man of unquestioned integrity, who carried forward to successful completion whatever he undertook by reason of his unfaltering industry and determination.

On the 19th of December, 1865, Christian Schroeder married Amelia Gleisberg, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gleisberg, and to them were born nine children: Frank, now deceased, who married Ida Schulz; Edward, a real estate man, who wedded Josephine Uhrig; Amelia, Arthur, Anna and William, all deceased; Walter, Ella; and Amanda, now the wife of Dr. Harry J. Heeb. The father of this

family was a member of the Old Settlers Club, the Masonic fraternity and Grace Lutheran Church, and his life was ever guided by high and honorable principles that made him a man whom to know was to esteem and honor. His sonsf Edward and Walter, and his daughters, Ella and Mrs; Heeb. are still residents of Milwaukee.

Walter Schroeder completed his grade school studies at the age of fourteen years and then announced his wish to start out in business, which he did as an employe in the office of Milwaukee's register of deeds, with a salary of three dollars per week. Three months later he was offered six dollars a week, which he accepted and began working on the Milwaukee Daily Reporter, a real estate publication, which he offered to buy from the owner when he was but sixteen years of age. His offer was refused but obstacles and difficulties in his path have ever served to act as a stimulus to renewed effort on his part, so with borrowed money he started a paper of his own. The venture proved so successful that within six months his former employer was glad to sell him the Daily Reporter, which he merged with his own publication, calling it the Daily Abstract. The young man not only carefully assessed the value of business opportunities but he took cognizance of his own powers and felt that he could increase his business efficiency by attending a business college. He therefore enrolled for a night course and as the years have passed since that time he has given opportunity to various youths to pursue similar courses of study and has thus aided them to prepare for business life, realizing just how much that meant in his own career.

In December, 1899, his brother William, who ha associated with his father in the real estate and insurance but>. ^, died, and it was necessary that some one should go to the father's assistance. W^ltejL^broeder, then nineteen years of age, sold his paper and became a partner in the firm of Chris. Schroeder Son & Company. His progress since^tnat time has been notabfer-iir lOlSy when one of Milwaukee's largest hotels was erected, he sold bonds, believing it to be a safe investment, but when the hotel failed to operate with profit he took over the management because he felt responsible to those who had become bondholders • through him. Again he proved the soundness of his judgment and the Hotel Wisconsin became the largest and the finest in the city of Milwaukee, and it constituted Walter Schroeder's initial step in hotel ownership and management.

When the pride and largest of the Schroeder Hotels chain, the Schroeder Hotel, Milwaukee, was finally finished and about to be opened, two prominent doctors told Mr. Schroeder on the very day of his gala opening that he would either go to the hospital that very afternoon or not live through the day, so he packed his bag and went, January 18, 1928.

One by one he has opened other hotels until today he owns valuable hostelries in Madison, Green Bay, Fond du Lac and Wausau, Wisconsin, also in Duluth, Minnesota, Benton Harbor, Michigan, and Wabash, Indiana, until altogether the Schroeder chain covers ten excellent hotels in the Middle West.

In the meantime, Mr. Schroeder continued in the business established by his father and is today the president of the largest insurance agency in Wisconsin, now conducted under the name of Chris. Schroeder & Son, Inc. That he has greatly developed and promoted this business is indicated in the fact that when he joined the organization they represented only three fire companies and today they have the agency for twenty of the largest insurance companies of the country and handle fifty-seven varieties of insurance coverage.

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p-'ltaki<f«ty. night to.celebrate the 501 h anm-' veraarj 'of the village's founding. And, us ! w&a appropriate, the cake cutter was

^ i i i s F. Scheife, 8fi, of 5055 N. Berkeley '{ hi-e presided

Blvd., who settled in the urea in IK<>6\ and in whose general store at Sil\er Sprint; Kd. and Lake Or. the villagers metJune 1, I Sir!, and voted to incorporate. With Mr. Seheife is Grover i\ Knoenisehiid. \il-

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he specialized in catching. He was also the fir> treasurer of the village. Edith May Schie» (left), great-great-grandchild of the first coupl will play the role of one of her ancestors in a g nineties scene, and Mrs. Olive Packard. 1809 Lake Bluff blvd., a grandchild of the first settle will play the role of her own grandmother in t Indian scare that had Whitefish Bay up in an Mrs. Packard was the first child born in community after the scare. —journ..

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Mrs. Lewis Scheife Tells Interesting

Whitefish Bay Tales Mrs. Lewis Scheife (nee Mary

Jane Consaul) was born In a log farmhouse within the limits of Whitelteh Bay. Uer parents were William Henry and Kuth Shouier Consaul who came to Milwaukee in 184? from Toledo, Ohio, and

\ 'settled on a a 6 acre farm on the *dte now bounded by Santa Monica blvd., Silver Spring rd., Lake Michigan and Elliott's farm on the north.

The Cpnsauln bought this 36 .acre tract from a Mr. •Lipscomb. On it was* a log house where the couple made their home, and also a- small frame house where Mr. j CoasauTs father and mother lived until their deaths. Mrs. Scheife says life in the early days was not difficult, although they knew nothing of the conveniences and luxuries of the present day. Her father worked his farm, raising mostly garden truck and enough hay and grain for their stock and cattle. Some grain was sent to the Pierron mill for grinding aud later on grinding was done at the Bender mill. Mr, Consaul had been a first class shipbuilder in the east, so had no difficulty in

.securing work during the winter et the old Wolf and Davidson ship yard on the Monomonee river1

in Milwaukee. This work, together with the pound fishing operations they carried on in the Bay, produced ample cash income for their needs .while the farm provided a comfortable home and a great, plenty of vegetables, fruits, berries and meat.

Three Fauiiltos At the time the Cousauls, moved

to the Bay there were but three j American families living in the vicinity—the Charles Everts, their-son-in-law Sylvester Abbey and Humphries. The Everts had a farm in the north end of the present village, the Abbeys lived in a rented house on the Everts farm, und Mr. Humphries, a gardener by trade, lived on what is now Sylvan .are. and later moved to New York. Mrs. 'Scheife says, the Abbeys were gone for two years on a t r ip by covered wagon to Pike's Peak, during the "Pike's Peak o r Bust Hays." After their return to sthe Bay, they soon moved to Saginaw, Mich., and later ou to Ten-;

Mrs. Scheife well remembers Anson W. Buttles, who for 50 years was clerk of the town of Milwaukee and whose sister married Paul Juneau ,a son of Solomon. Two of the daughters of this •couple, Anna and Marion Juneau, -were married to Henry King and Jainee McGee, partners in the large Milwaukee printing concern of King, Fowle and McGee.

Recollects Indian Scare Mrs. Scheife retains a clear re

collection of the Indian scare of 1862, a story of which she wrote for the Milwaukee Journal. She also told the following incident

.. tha t occurred when she was a young girl. One day a neighbor came running to her home much •excited over having seen a wild cat on his tarm. Mr. Consaul pulled on his boots, took down the gun over the door, and rounding up other neighbors similarly arm-esd, chased the wild cat until they lost It in the woods ,and without geting close enough to shoot.

During Mrs. Scheife'a childhood there were no churches closer than Milwaukee and she had to

, walk dally to the school located

on Port Washington rd. about a half mile north of Silver Spring rd. Later, the town school district was divided with one school | located on Port Washington rd.l near the Green Tree rd. and the other .called the Lindwerm school on the Port Washington rd. near ' the golf links in the presnt Lincoln park. There was no high* school closer than Milwaukee. ;

For recreation they had frequent parties, birthday and anniversary celebrations and an occasional trip to the city for an evening at the theater. The iGermau set also held picnics, and dances a t ,the several taverns located on l*ort Washington rd.

Train Snowed In

The second winter the railroad ran through the Bay, the southbound train was snowed in at about where Lake View ave. now is, from about 3 p. m. on Friday until 2, p. m. the next day.

About 6 o'clock the conductor sent two of the crew with a note to Mr. Consaul asking if he could furnish supper for 18 passengers. The men got lost in the storm, and instead of going east, they went to the Port Washington rd. That w«as at the end of the 'Silver Spring rd., east of the river in those days. Inquiring there at a little house ,the men were told by the old man resident that the Consaul home was located three-quarters of a mile east. Facing the storm, the two messengers walked the distance and arrived a t the

I Mr! Consaut let them in they look-l ed more like snowment than }* ' man beluga. "Whtel the conduct* note was being read, the Consaut boys brushed the snow from the men's, clothes. Then all busted themselves in the making of supper. About 10 o'clock <t large clothes basket lined with white oilcloth and paper was filled with food aud covered by table cloth. The hot dishes were well packed, and a six-quart pail of coffee was included, in addition there wus milk, cream, a basket of dinhes, knives and forks, spoons, sugar, gait and pepper. Mr. Consaul and two of the boys helped the men carry the baskets and pails back to the train, where it was received with great enthusiasm as some of the passengers said tbey had not eaten since early morning.

The next day, several of the passengers walked down to the Conattula' home for breakfast and stayed the morning aud amused themselves by reading and playing dominoes until t.h train was able to continue on its way.

Mr. Consaul and his son William were taken to Milwaukee on the train to buy groceries and were brought back on the evening train. The C. & N. W. n\' -id later recompensed Mr. C< ul with a liberal check.

In ISiSO Mary Jane Consaul was married to Lewis Scheife, a native of Germany who immigrated to Milwaukee county with his Pom mer parents at the age of 0 months, in 1850.

Move to Bay in tSC>U The elder Scheifes moved from

Milwaukee to the Bay in 1866 after the Civil war, through which Carl Scheife served in the Union army. They first lived on a farm near the present Country Hay school, extending from Santa Monica blvd. to the lake shore. Carl Scheife was a farmer, carpenter and bridge builder and helped to build the first Chestnut st. bridge in Milwaukee. As young Lewis grew to manhood he worked with his father on their farm and when about 22 years of age he formed a partnership with Charles Langschwager and entered the fishing business. Their nets were spread off the beach of his father's farm. A large scow was rigged with a pile driver for driving* the net stake*;. The weight, about 300 pounds, was attached to a rope which a crew of ral men would pull and auddiv release, the falling weight driving the stakes solidly into the lake bottom. Pound nets were used,

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and a s.ort of fish trap rigged with * nets. When it was thought a sufficient catch had been made, the >ien put out in a large flat bot->med row boat, r lifted the nets

>md. scooped the fish into the boat Their catch would consist of sturgeon, perch, lake bass, lake trout and whitefish. A goodly part of their catch went to supply the Pabst resort for its famous fish dinners, while a wagon route for the benefit of city customers along Prospect ave. who liked fresh fish, and a stand in the old German market in Milwauke compelted the market for their fish.

As the modern fishing laws were enacted, which would have forced them to set their net much farther out in the lake and probably make necessary the purchase of a steam fishing tug, the business was, discontinued, and Lewis Scheife, in 1892, entered the grocery , business, having his store and 'borne on Silver Spring rd. at Lake dr. ,a site now occupied by the Whitefish Bay pharmacy and Krause's grocery. Here Mr. Scheife conducted his store for eight years when he gave up that business and started up a hardware store on Silver Spring rd. in which business he continued until 19,20, when he retired. Mr. Scheife

as the second treasurer of the Hage, being elected to that of-

ice for the years 1893 and 1894. Again in 1904 he was elected treasurer and his e-ncumbancy lasted for 15 years until his retirement from active business life.

During the years Mr. Scheife spent in the grocery business he was postmaster of Whitefish Bay, which position carried with it more honor than profit. He says that many months he received as much as 60 or 70 cents remuneration, or the sum total of the postage stamp cancellation of the office.

Mr. Carl Scheife, still hale and hearty, physically and mentally at the age of 87, is living with his son Al. W. Scheife and family at 5055 N. Berkeley blvd. Another son, Henry, lives at 5933 N. Berkeley blvd. Mrs. Scheife passed away in December, 1941*

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She may not be the "Little Old Lady from Pasadena" but she surely is the spry, spirited 90-year-old from Shorewood!

Longtime North Shore resident Ruth Scheife, of 1700 River Park Ct., Shorewood, celebrated her 90th birthday recently amid 60-plus adoring relatives. All of her five ' children were on hand to usher, in the new decide as the family reunion was held at the Bayside home of her daughter and son-in-law, Bea and Fred Zahn, 1007 E. Glenbrook Rd.

Welcoming the guests were 90 balloons decorating the outdoor pool in the yard and 90 cupcakes arranged to form one big cake.

Mrs. Scheife's other children in- , elude Jane Hirsch, Oconomowoc; i Edith Haug, Esconitio, Calif; Rick Scheife, Houston, Texas, and Jack Scheife, Palatine, 111.

Mrs. Scheife also boasts of 14 ' grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. All but three grand- 1 children attended the recent ~

"celebration. : ; -^ *--" ^ She and her late husband, Alvin

Scheife, were longtime Whitefish Bay residents. Her father-in-law, ] Louis Scheife, was a past village j treasurer and one of the founders of • Whitefish Bay.

"He owned most of the land what i is now Silver Spring. He farmed the land which was nothing more than a horse trail," she recalled.

Mrs. Zahn also remembered '• catching the train for downtown at what's now Silver Spring Dr.

"My mother still loves to sew and cook. And get her exercise. She walks to Kohl's and takes the bus to Bay Shore Mall. She insists on being so independent, despite my attempt to curtail her," Mrs. Zahn revealed.

An avid sports fan, Mrs. Scheife and several friends brought home a winner from the Brewer game which they attended last Thursday.

"I enjoy everything. I'm not old-fashioned in any way," she said.

Granddaughter Laura Haug Ardellini confirmed that fact as she reported a recent visit from her grandmother;, ^

"I had a baby recently and had taken my children for a short walk one afternoon. When we got home I found my grandmother waiting for us on the front step. And I live on 74th St. in the city. She had taken the bus from Shorewood just to come and see how we were doing.*'

That baby, at age two weeks, was

the youngest at the family celebration.

Mrs. Ardellini has very strong feelings for her grandmother whom she termed to be almost like a "monument."

"As I grew up she's always been around for me. I never think of her not being here. She's taught me to always do what I feel a need to do. And, if I make.a mistake—I tried and had faith in what I believe."

She, too, is cognizant of her grandmother's ability to be self-

sufficient and even called her stub- • , born when it comes to her obses

sion with exercise. "I'll offer to pick * her up in my car and she always

refuses."

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Apartments and sometimes partakes in the social activities offered in the housing complex for the

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"I just keep going. You have to

take the good with the bad and keep on doing as much as you can," Scheife offered as her secret to good health and longevity.

She remembered as her children were growing up their house was always filled with young people and she's still involved and interested in the happenings of her children, grandchildren and great-' grandchildren.

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Mrs. Ardellini attributes much of r the family's closeness to her grand- ?f mother. "We may not see each -| other often, but just her being keeps j us together."., , : ]

She also told of the family ) Christmas party held at her grand- r mother's apartment which has ] become known as "grandma's par- I ty.M "It's a potluck supper and you '] can tell that she has taken special i time to concentrate on the names of 'f the great-grandchildren because 1 she knows they won't understand if * she calls them by the wrong name." :

Mrs. Scheife has great regard for the youth of today and admits that . people just get used to changes in life as you go along day to day,

"I hope these changes are all for ;

the best. Many things of today are no better than they were in the "olden days." Some things are too extreme now, but I don't really ob- . ject and I'm all for the youth of today.

"I've seen many changes in my lifetime and the world is s o ; different now. But the changes have been gradual and you can adjust to anything if you want to," she offered. " ,;

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who come honestly by the title of "old Whitefish Bay residents/' because they have lived there steadily for more than three quarters of a century, yesterday marked a milestone in their lives.

They are Mr. and Mrs. Louis Scheife, whose friends and relatives gathered at a dinner in the home of their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Scheife, to honor them at their golden wedding celebration. . ~~

The affair was a complete surprise to these alert old timers who have given abundantly of themselves to Whitefish Bay's civic growth. Mrs. Scheife was a Miss Consual,—whose name has jbeen perpetuated there in the naming of a street and whose earliest recollections deal with a quick move ber family made when an Indian scare came up in 1862. She was four years old then and her parents had a four day old baby. Yet, in an article she wrote for a newspaper a few years back, she depicted her family's pioneering spirit of moving that whole family into Milwaukee along the trail which has since become Lake drive. Mr. Scheife for niany years was treasurer of the village, and still likes, in his daily walks with a third generation family member, young Jackie Scheife, to watch the progress of the village he has lived in since he was a youth. m His wife was born in Whitefish Bay, in a house at the intersection of Lake drive and Silver Spring road.

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One'of the oldest residents of Whitefish Bay, Henry Scheife1 75, whose Mediterranean siyle home at 5933 N. Berkeley blvd. is erected witliin four blocks of the former site of the old farm where he was born, will retire Aug. 1 after 49 years with the Transport Coi He is superintendent of the Oakland division of the company.

Born in the Town of Milwaukee when the Bay area was farmland, Mr. Scheife moved to Milwaukee in 1898. In 1936 he answered a blind ad offering Bay property for sale and moved back to his childhood haunts.

"I knew that land, top and bottom," he said reminiscently.; "It wasn't a 'blind' ad for me."

In his Whitefish Bay home, where he lives with his daughter, Mrs. Lillian Kellogg, is a priceless antique bedstead-r-a wedding gift presented by Solomon Juneau to Mr. Scheife's late wife's grandfather.

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LANCAGTFP - " A u n t i e " Margaret Siegfried Schinz, celebrated her 103rd birthday Friday with red, white and blue balloons, a color guard and ice cream and cake for 300 people at the Senior Center in Lancaster.

The surprise birthday party was given by the Antelope Valley Commit tee On A g i n g (AVCOA).

** For Schinz, the oldest surviving World War I nurse, it was both a day of remembrances and a day to remember.

"It's such a big surprise to

have all of you here to honor me," Schinz told the crowd of well-wishers. "I was simply hoping to have a little cake and ice cream at home with a few of my friends. I never expected this."

Schinz received recognition from Bob Coyne of VFW Post 7283 and Auxiliary, a plaque presented by Lancaster Mayor Arnie Rodio and a proclamation from Fifth District Supervisor Mike Antonovich.

Among those seated at the head table were Schinz' nephew and niece, Jerry and Mildred Rounds of Garland, Texas, World

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From A1 War 1 veteran Larry Linegnr and his wife Peggy of Lancaster, and Bob Ortiz, service officer for the Los Angeles County Office of Veteran's Affairs.

"All our veterans need to be recognized for their contributions to their country and their communities," Ortiz said. "Much of our emphasis now is finally being placed on the women who served in different capacities during war. They are certainly deserving of any recognition they receive,"

L inegar , 94, w e a r i n g h is World War I Doughboy tunic, recited a poem about Kaiser Wil-helm being turned away by the devil, and then thanked Schinz for her efforts during tho war.

"We arrived (in France) in

1917 and were waiting for you soldiers to come. We waited a whole year. I was beginning to wonder what was taking you so long," Schinz said.

Follow a standing ovation for the birthday girl, pinnist Sue Cook nnd ringer Jerri Wil?on offered a George M. Cohan medley - "Yankee Doodle," "Grand Old Flag" and "Over There."

And of course, a chorus of "Happy Birthday."

"1 don't know if 1 can take many more of these (birthdays)," Schinz said. "It's hard when you cnn't really take care of yourself anymore."

Schinz thought for a second, then smiled.

"But, I'm already n -half-day on my way to 104. vSo you never know."

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Today, "Auntie" Margaret Siegfried Schinz may have a little trouble blowing out all the candles on her birthday cake. No matter, at 103, she's already had plenty of her wishes come true.

The a diminutive, white-haired, birthday girl is the oldest surviving American World War I nurse. She was born Aug. 13, 1890, in Milwaukee, Wis., where her family operated a bakery. She moved to Lancaster 23 years ogo and resides by herself in a Lancaster mobile home park.

"I pray and I sleep a lot," said Schinz, sitting up in her easy chair. "At my age that's about all I can do."

, Schinz smiled and giggled, masking the discomfort of her arthritis and heart condition.

"I feel like every one of those 103 years," Schinz said. "I was doing pretty good until about four years ago, then I crippled up. I don't get around so much any more."

Schinz can shuffle only about . tb- ^eps before having to sit

>e gets her weekday I N vered by Life Nutri-\ j me health aide visits ^~" ^ week.

three years, I've mostly been sitting in this chair. I'd like to get out of it more - to go to my church. To visit with my friends. To see the kids swimming," said Schinz, pointing in the direction of the park's recreation area.

"But here I sit. My hearing has deteriorated and my eyes have have been failing me. I don't hear the clock, the dogs next door or strange noises at night - so I guess it isn't all bad."

Schinz's eyes brightened and she giggled OP.CC more. Then her eyes dulled slightly and her voice took on a more serious tone.

'I've been a nurse almost all my life and I'm used to taking care of people, not people taking care of me," Schinz said. "As a nurse, I always wanted to make the patients fool comfortable. To

I bring a little sunshine into their \ lives."

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time, she wore a pair of high heel shoes and puffed her hair so she would meet the 5-foot minimum height requirement.

The nursing profession was quite different back then, Schinz recalled.

"Doctors were on a pedestal. If you were sitting down writing or charting and a doctor would walk in, the nurses would have to get up, give them a seat and wait on them," Schinz said. "That's certainly not happening now. And nurses couldn't question a doctor's orders even though she may know the patient better than the doctor."

During World War I, Schinz was one of 25 Red Cross nurses in a special expeditionary detachment of nurses sent to France in 1917. She crossed the Atlantic on the S.S. Finland, a small ship which was part of an 18-ship convoy under the command of General John J. Per-shing.

During the trip, the convoy was attacked by German submarines.

"We (the nurses) heard a big 'boom' and we all ran onto the deck," Schinz recalled. "Then they ordered us to quarters. WThen we woke up in the morning, all the other boats were gone except for our (submarine)

Because of her cheery and caring disposition, the soldiers she treated gave her the title of 'Five Feet of Sunshine/

chasers. The convoy split up and the boats all took different routes."

Aboard ship, the nurses were required to carry life preservers wherever they went. Because of her small stature, Schinz's issued life preserver was so long it prevented her from bending at the waist.

"I was so short, they ended up giving me a little child's preserv* er," Schinz said.

Once in France, Schinz and the other emergency nurses were sent to Vannes to ready a small hospital there to treat the injured. She was then assigned to the Army Nurse Corps and sent to a hospital at St. Nazaire.

Many of the first patients,

Schinz said, were soldiers sick from diseases contracted during the voyage from the United States.

Once U.S. troops began fighting in 1918, Schinz's unU. started treating the wounded. After being stabilized at the base hospital , the wounded were put aboard ships for the return tHp home.

When she talks about her service in France, Schinz remembers one soldier in particular.

"As I walked by his cot, he told me that his blanket was heavy and was making his feet too hot. He wanted me to take it off his legs,'' said Schinz. "When I lifted up the blanket I saw his legs were gone."

Because of her cheery and caring disposition, the soldiers she treated gave her fhe title of "Five Feet of Sunshine."

On the move Schinz served at St. Nazaire

until October 1910, almost a year after the armistice. After returning from Europe, Schinz resumed her job with the Milwaukee Health Department. She later became the nurse of Butler County, Iowa, for two years.

Schinz was married briefly, but did not have children. Still, she spent most of her career

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from bought. but put her retirement plans on the back burner for a short time after being asked to be the nurse at a local school.

"I 've always been one to help," Schinz said. "That's just my nature. People depended on me."

Move to AV In 1970, Schinz was asked by

her nephew, the late Dr. Vincent Rounds, a retired Lancaster pediatrician, to move to the Antelope Valley.

Once in Lancaster, Schinz continued her bedside manner, caring for -a-terminally-ill rein tive. .

Rounds passed away shortly after Schinz celebrated her 100th birthday at a party organized by Rounds for family and friends.

"Now Vincent isn't around to visit, but I still have ladies from the church who come over and say the rosary with me and friend? who check in fa see how I'm doing,*' Schinz said.

The centenarian begins each day by watching a Catholic Mass recorded on videotape and a lav minister at Sacred Heart Church comes to her mobile home one** a week to give her communion.

Schinz attributes her long life to prayer.

"I'm not so sure how many more birthdays I have left, but let's just say I'm well-prepared to see the Lord," said Schinz.

After 103 years, is there anything Schinz would like to change in her life?

"I really can't think of anything special," said Schinz. "I only wish I could have been a little bit taller."

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It was a matter of formality Monday night when the Whitefish Bay Village Board met and approved several items which had already passed through committee action.

The board formally approved stop signs for intersections that have had more than its share of accidents in recent years. Stop signs will be installed on E. Birch Ave., both at N. Hollywood Ave. and N. , Berkeley Blvd., probably within three weeks.

In other traffic action, the board approved more no-parking restrictions at Cumberland School and at the athletic field at Whitefish Bay High School.

Also approved Monday night was a 60 cent per hour pay increase for the village's acting garage superintendent and forester. The agreement was tentatively approved in closed session Oct. 18.

The board set Monday, Nov, 11, at 7:30 p.m. as the date for a public hearing on zoning changes requested for the Milwaukee Jewish Federation for its new complex on N. Santa Monica Blvd.

honors Tetzner In a brief report Village President F.

Patrick Matthews noted that special legislation concerning the deep tunnel rock introduced during the October session ofthe state Legislature was not acted on.

"The issue remains unresolved," Matthews said. "It will stay unresolved until at least January or February when the Legislature can act on it."

As their last official action of the evening, village trustees presented outgoing village Clerk/treasurer Lois Tetzner with a framed copy of a resolution acknowledging her contribution to White-fish Bay over the last 31 years.

Tetzner began working for the village on June 1, 1954. She was named deputy clerk in 1964 and became village clerk in 1968. Tetzner is retiring at the end of this month. ^ ^

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Whitefish Bay — If you've lived in Whitefish Bay any time in the past 17 years, you've probably seen Lois M. -Tetzner's name ori everything from meeting notices to property tax information.

That will change at the end of this month when Tetzner retires after 31 years of service to the village. She Joined Whitefish Bay in 1954 as deputy clerk, was named clerk-treasurer in 1968, and has held that position ever since. " • * .

"A lot of people always know my name but they don't know who I am," said Tetzner, laughing. "Everybody knows somebody's retiring but they're not sure who."

So before she leaves the work-a-day world, take a look at her picture — that's Tetzner looking over her reading glasses — and find out a little bit about her and the job she's leaving behind.

First know that Tetzner may be retiring from her Job but there's little about her as a person that is retiring. Why is she quitting at 62?

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"I have been working for 45 years and that's enough," she says matter-of-factly. "I'm sick of working."

Sick of working? Since when do people say things like that upon retiring.

'it's not that I'm lazy and that I dofi't like to work," Tetzner replied. "But I'm thinking I'd like to be lazy. A lot of my friends are retired. A couple of my friends sent me a postcard from a [senior citizen] seminar at the Hyatt Regency and said, 'YOu're not old enough yet'"

While the mechanics of the Job of clerk-treasurer may have changed in recent years — the advent of the computer, for example — the duties haven't.

The office handles a host of village functions. Elections, bookkeeping, payroll, tax bills, water bills, licensing, Village Board agendas, minutes, and correspondence. Tetzner is responsible for supervising the office staff.

She also meets the public. "There's a grumpy one here and

there," she said. "Usually someone who's late with a bill and they're mad at themselves for forgetting. No matter what you say, it's not the right thing. The best thing to do is Just smile and say nothing."

Some dealings with the public can be unexpectedly funny, though, like a tour of her office by a group of local Girl Scouts last year.

"We were In the clerk's office vault and I showed them the volumes of Village Board minutes back to 1892. One little kid asked me what will happen when you die. I think she thought I had been here since 1892 and that I had kept all those minutes.

"Another kid fingered the dust on the shelves and asked, 'Doesn't anybody dust in here?'

"And, it so happens nobody does, with the vault closed at night," Tetzner said.

SQ in the few days left before Barbara C. Patin, now Fox Point's deputy clerk-treasurer, takes over, Tetz

ner sits at her desk. It is piled with boxes and trays of neatly paper* clipped bundles, all bearing her local* ly famous signature.

Still in place is the potholder that declares "This Is No Dress Rehearsal. This Is IT!" She put it up to let people know "I mean business." There also is a china bank of a woman in a rocking chair labeled "Retirement Fund" that Tetzner put by her desk for the funofit.

"I think there's a $1.58 in there now," she said. A7

"I'm looking forward to some leisure time that I don't have now," Tetzner said. "My house needs lots of attention, and I like yard and garden work. I want to travel around the world. I want to visit family and friends.

"The first day I'm not working, I'm going on the county transit bus and ride wherever it goes. I Just thought that would be kind of fun. The girls here think I'm crazy, but I haven't ridden on the bus in years and years. I Just want to be free, and that's how I'll feel. Free like a butter-fly."

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Whitefish Bay — It will be 60 years ago this Dec. 8 that Ora Belle Tompkins' body was found on a cold, snowy Saturday morning in a desolate lakefront area in Ozaukee County. '>•.-.

The murder of the Whitefish Bay woman by her husband remains one of the saddest and most gruesome cases ever in the area. y Even then it was called "one of the most gruesome in the history of the northwest" because of the nature of the murder: The victim was strangled, then beheaded and buried nude to niake identification difficult; her head and clothing were burned.

The case was particularly sad^becauseMe womai^ 42 — after years of physicaLabujse and threats agains£r&r • life during their 12-year marriage ^'d|b^/':t6"i'so^*ftr^.. vorce her mentally iliûsband and J>egra anew Iifeîth;^ their twb children.; ?!

Her husband, E. Ray Tompkins, was found to be "paranoiac" and "incurably" insane. He was confined until his death at age 70 in 1964. He. died at Central State Hospital, a mental institution at WaupuiL

Diary secrets The case was also unique in that, unknown to anyone,

the victim had kept a diary the last two years of her life, . recording in detail theincidents with her husband.

"Many things the diary did not reveal," read one

j w$pa|HBr account of theia^.**These are secrets which Wr TV>hipkins earned with her to?the grave, Written &t^.)the liê'T^k'in;:'a\'cdde the woman had devised, êa1r|n&eyeuto ke^fiidden iromall the world." ^ v Y .

Lrv^mapartm^ . ,.;' ^Threatened me lately," she wrote in the black-cov- j

ered notebook. "Threatened to break a chair over my"..* head. Allhe could do to keep from doing something to-be-sent off to the pen.. ;••>.He petted me and loved m^ then

, told me very calmly that if it weren't for the children he Y would murder me. . . . It is a dark future to think that we can't go Anywhere or see anyone, and yet he goes and ^ sees whom he pleases all the time;. ' . ^ t.

The couple lived *ra th%-tour-sto^ apartment building --*• the first apartment building built in White-fish Bay — at what is now 1700 E. Chateau PL, said Judy Kloman, a Whitefish Ba^historian who has researched the murder case;

Tompkins was described in news stories as a real estate operator. He hatf^to^ Milwaukee Normal School.

"He [Tompkins] actually began to build it illegally without a building permiv' Kloman said. 'The village was really pretty peeyed at hjm." ? f 7 So, too, were rîdie i}^^^^ maintained that apartments werelna^rôâtiBlhihe neighborhood.

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After the murder and the subsequent revelations about atf affair by Tompkins and his brutality to his wife, some residents took it as further evidence of just how inappropriate an apartment building in the area was, Kloman said.

Later investigation showed that it was in a garage apartineht at the building that Tompkins choked ^Swife to death and decapitated her before drjvfng the body to the Lion's Den, a remote area then about two miles south of Port Washing-

• i&ir AZ:x.y^ . •><;••••• Z^'••:..•: - '. 4 'Z-f- Daughter's report Z The case, at least officiaily, beganDec. 6, 1923, whien.the Tompkins' 10-year-old daughter called her aunt, upset when Tompkins appeared glad that his wife had not returned home the night before. Mrs. Tompkins was then reported missing by ':xe\s&esiy:yZAy7AZyZ-:-7.-Z,[ -.--[, 1 George Pitrof, 85, then a police reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel, remembers: "Of course, they [police! grabbed himnght away. They searched the furnace in his apartment building, looking for her body. Of course, they didn't find it."

After stories of the woman's disappearance ran

local newspapers, ponce received a tip from businessman Jacob Donges, referred to as "the hatter" in news stories, that his caretaker had seen Tompkins in the Lion's Den. 1 It was "where he buried the mutilated body of the mother of his children with the white birch trees and awe-inspiring cliffs overlooking Lake Michigan as his only witnesses," read one newspaper account.

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body," said Pitrof. "It was a slushy day, and there was snow. I remember it vividly.

"t took a branch and scraped the ground 'cause there was a mound of dirt like there might have beejra grave there," £e said. "I found her body tlfere on the morning of Dec. 8, 1923 After it was discovered, it was found that she had no head." , -

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v "Puts some one between us and expected me to be happy," wrote Mrs. Tompkins in her diary. "Can't keep anything from me. Tells me about his love affairs, etc. . . . [He says] Can't work without inspiration, these girls give him inspiration

"Taunted me all morning about not wanting a divorce. I told him I was going down [to see a lawyer] in the afternoon, Which I did. Then I was reprimanded and abuse&for going to a lawyer.... God give me the strength to hold out a little longer .. / a lawyer . . . God give me the strength to hold out a little longer...." -

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Looking at those reports now, from 70 years away, grandson Robert Johnson said: "There was a lot of purple prose here. Yet if you look at the facts, there was a lot to be purple about."

Justice was swift then. It took less than two weeks for five psychiatrists — "alienists," probers of the mind were called then — to declare Tompkins insane.

Zander was among those who rode with Tompkins from Milwaukee to the hospital for the criminally insane (now called Dodge Correctional Institution) in Waupun on an overcast day that finally was stabbed by sunlight near Slinger.

"This day is a good deal like my life," Tompkins said. "A little sun here and there and lots of clouds."

He put his hand on Zander and pointed to the sky. "Zander, see that sun? The sun always will come out.

The clouds can't last forever." But they did. Despite his oft-stated belief that he

would be cured and sent home, Tompkins never was free again. He died at the hospital in 1954.

BUT young Robert Johnson knew nothing of that, only that his grandfather had had the flu. He was 17 before he opened the door to his moth

er's secret again, and the only reason he learned anything then was that he provoked her into talking.

He had been to see the movie "West Side Story," then the rage. He was taken by the love story's sorrow, poignancy, sadness and beauty and told his mother she should see it, too. She told him she could never see a film like that.

"I couldn't understand that," he said. The next day he persisted in asking her why she

wouldn't see a movie like "West Side Story." "She said, 'Well, it's so sad.' Somehow, I got her exasperated enough to explain."

There were two reasons, she said. First, Robert, her only brother, had disappeared in

the war. The second reason was that her father had killed her mother. She was not sure how — everyone had tried to spare her details when she was young — but she thought maybe with an ax.

"That kind of left me speechless," Johnson said. "I didn't question any more why she didn't want to see a tragic film.

"That was the very first time, at that point, that I knew he had killed her. I think that [my mother]

^~ygre t t ed telling me the instant she did i t . . . because we ^*4en t right back to not talking about it. We didn't have

^iS'any discussion about what she had just said. We just

They never did explore it together. His mother died in 1973. It wasn't until 19 yea^4ter that Johnson, driven by something he couldl put his finger on, began to explore the story alone.

J OHNSON now lives outside Washington D.C., where he works at Gallaudet University for the hearing-impaired. While he is not deaf, Johnson,

as senior research editor at the university's research institute, edits articles on hearing impairment.

He remembers talking one day with a friend about the past, about how people can learn about themselves by looking backward, and suddenly he was seized with a need to find out about Edward Ray Tompkins. Continued

So on microfilm at the US Library of Congress, Johnson sought out copies of old Milwaukee Journals and Sentinels to read, as spellbound Milwaukeeans had almost 70 years before, of the horrible killing of Ora Belle Tompkins. He was fascinated, but at the same time he felt lightened by what he was learning. He felt, he said, that he was on the edge of his life's great adventure.

His search blossomed further when, about the same time, he also acquired from his father, who had remarried and moved to California, a large box of his mother's memorabilia.

It was a treasure trove for a man looking backward. There was correspondence from the War Department about his Uncle Robert's disappearance, which introduced him to the man he had been named for but had never met. There were old photos of his grandparents and his mother as a child.

And there was another envelope. "I opened it up," he said. "Bingo. There were

all these letters written to my mother from Edward Ray Tompkins. In one of them he was expressing gratitude because she had sent a photograph of herself. He said, 'You look just as beautiful as your mother did.'"

At that moment, Johnson, too, saw his mother in a new light.

A S JOHNSON discovered his grandfather / \ through these letters, and at the same

1 1 time was reintroduced to his mother, her lifelong melancholy finally made sense. So did the sadness he had drawn from her like breast milk. He had wondered, growing up, why he had had a difficult time in relationships and in handling adulthood. Surprisingly, psychiatrists he had consulted had not inquired in detail into his family past.

somenow l was living m tne atmosphere she had created," he now says. "I tended to be

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It's been therapeutic, let's put It that way — my own

personal self-healing'

the one who brooded about our family." His brother, he says, told Johnson he wasn't going to waste his time with indecipherable problems.

"But Fm also named after my mother's brother, and I think [with his death] I became kind of my mother's confidant emotionally, without fully understanding what it was all about.

"She was a sad person. When I grew up, my parents used to talk about how the Depression was the sad times and now that they had things, they were happy. The trouble was, I never noticed the happy part."

"More recently, now that I have this explanation, I found [a new psychiatrist]. I went to see him, not that I was concerned but just to get confirmation. The explanation is, look in the newspapers. Let's go back to 1923. These

events, even without knowing the details, had a profound influence on my life.

"I don't know. Life's a soap opera, I guess. You have to turn in to the early episodes to find out what it's all about, and that's what I did.

"My mother's life wasn't ruined. She was able to create a life, in spite of all of this. But it's kind of like being a survivor of the holocaust. She not only witnessed a lot of abuse [as a child], but then just knowing what the result was and having to go on and live a life was tough. Her life was not destroyed, but it was damaged.

"Then mine was pretty well interfered with, too, because I ended up inheriting this sense of gloom and pessimism and lack of joy, but I didn't know why. It's kind of like you inherit half the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. There was this missing part, in a sense. It's a strange case. I got the emotions, but I didn't know why."

Knowing why has changed everything. "It's been therapeutic, let's put it that way —

my own personal self-healing," he said. "Many times I wished I could bring my mother back from the dead and say, 'Now I understand.' I'm much more sympathetic toward her." • *"

CO-') zy And he also sympathizes with his grandfather, all horrible history aside.

From the letters and his other research, Johnson, who has one of his grandfather's watercolors above his desk, has come to know Tompkins as a troubled but talented man.

J OHNSON intends now to write a book about his grandfather and Johnson's search for his past. Although It has been

39 years since his grandfather died, Johnson has found some retired guards from the hospital in Waupun who remember Tompkins, and Johnson is looking for others. The guards told Johnson that Tompkins was intelligent and spent much of his time writing and reading. He

MURDERER was said to be polite but not interested in rehabilitation programs.

Johnson would like to find any surviving writings of Edward Ray Tompkins, especially unpublished books that he referred to in his letters — one supposedly called A Murderer's Prayer for Mankind — and any other existing records on Tompkins' case, his health or his time at the Waupun hospital, once called Central State Hospital.

Johnson also is looking for: • Information about or ways to contact the

children of William Derivan, who was the guard in charge of Tompkins' ward at Waupun. Tompkins reportedly confided in Derivan.

• Information on the now-gone Edgewater Apartments, where the crime occurred. The address was given at the time as 136 Luther St., near the intersection of Oakland Ave. and Lake Dr. Johnson is not sure exactly where that would be, since there is no longer a Luther St.

• Information on the Inspiration Girl, Florence Witmeyer.

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IN THE FAMILY By Dennis McCann

ROBERT Johnson inherited his mother's melancholy, the profound and weighty shroud of sadness she wore her whole

life. He didn't know why she was so sad, not for many years. She hid it from friends, but Johnson saw it, a gloomy air of mystery that was beyond his understanding. He absorbed her unhappy aura as if it were his birthright, or burden.

His older brother took after their father, less troubled and intrigued by family mysteries, less interested in opening doors to see what secrets they hid. Robert, however, wondered, but at least as a child he accepted his mother's mien as he accepted that his family was not like everyone else's.

His mother had grown up with an aunt and uncle whom he and his brother called "grandma and gramps," and while that wasn't quite right,

A man learns his grandmother was the victim of a grisly murder that shocked Milwaukee in the '20s

he accepted it. Beyond the odd relationship, his family moved around a lot and sometimes his mother would get mysterious letters, which she read silently and kept to herself.

Johnson, now 48, was in the third grade in Pensacola, Fla., the day he got his first peek behind the door that hid her heart.

"I recall one day my mother got the mail and there was a letter from this person. My mother sighed loudly and kind of collapsed into a chair

and shook her head in exasperation," he said. He pressed her. What was wrong? Mama? She finally told him. The letter was from her

father. "Oh," Johnson said, surprised. "Your father.

Oh. So he's still alive?" "She said he was in a hospital. I said, Ts he

sick?' She said he went into this hospital in Wisconsin because he caught this flu during a 1919 epidemic. So, well, that was a way of saying something that was sort of true.

"I guess 8-year-olds, at least the type of 8-year-old I was, took that and said, 'OK, he had the flu — had the flu for 40 years, or whatever.'"

It was years before he learned the truth, that his grandfather actually had been hospitalized for committing one of most wildly grisly and sensational murders Milwaukee has ever seen.

Teacher, developer and dreamer, Edward Ray T o m ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ u n a t e l y , also insane.

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MURDERER Edward Tompkins was not insane all his life, but he

certainly was on that December day in 1923 when he strangled his wife, decapitated her with a butcher knife, burned her head in the furnace, buried the rest of her body on a cliff overlooking Lake Michigan and went home to continue his life.

That was Robert Johnson's inheritance, too.

T HE killing of Ora Belle Tompkins took Milwaukee like a storm of sensation. Matrimonial

murder is almost as old as matrimony, and the newspapers of the 1920s loved such tales.

But Tompkins was not just another husband from across the tracks with a snoot full of moonshine whisky, a temper too quick and a weapon too near. He was a man of some prominence.

He and Ora Belle, who had met during college in Peoria, had come to Milwaukee in 1912. He was a teacher at what was then Milwaukee Normal School, and he was a real estate developer. He had built the Edgewood Apartments in Whitefish Bay and had grand plans for more and bigger buildings that would turn that still young suburb into an inviting residence for the young and upcoming. He also was a watercolorist, a cabinet maker and prolific writer of correspondence.

He truly had suffered the flu in 1919. It was a serious illness then, and Tompkins had to be hospitalized. It was then that he exhibited his first bouts of mental illness.

The marriage produced four children, two of whom survived infancy: Mariorie, who became Johnson's

mother, and her brother, Robert, for whom Johnson was named, who died in World War II while piloting a mission over Italy.

But the marriage also produced much pain and turmoil for Ora Belle and frequent episodes of mental and physical abuse..The danger was real enough that she feared for her life, and doctors who had examined Edward Ray Tompkins feared for her, too.

Tompkins wanted a submissive, unquestioning wife and he did not have one. He chafed at her questions, which he viewed as attempts to control him. He refused to invite friends or relatives to their home, or dance with her, even though she enjoyed and needed such social contact. Once he found and gave her a magazine article on naggi'/

"I wanted her to understand the great American crime," he wrote later. She would not read it. Perhaps to his credit, Tompkins recognized his mental instability and vowed to correct it. On the other hand, he blamed his wife for much of it.

There were separations. By 1923 Tompkins had found a new companion in Florence Witmeyer, a young woman he had met at Normal School. Ora Belle knew. She had hired a detective, who found the pair in an illicit love nest in another apartment in the Whitefish Bay building he had developed.

Ora Belle decided on divorce, explaining in a letter to her husband's parents that she would seek control of Tompkins' considerable real estate holdings to provide for her and the children. If Tompkins refused, she would have him charged with adultery, which at that time could have sent him to jail.

She said she had moved into a new apartment at the Edgewater and felt safe. But she wasn't. When Tomp-

Edward Ray Tompkins (right) is shown with his parents, his grandmother (sitting at left) and his wife, Ora Belle, who sits holding daughter Marjorie.

kins found the letter, he saw his life being turned upside down. The next morning, while the children were in school, he ended hers in spectacular fashion.

T HE melodramatic movie "Flames of Passion" was playing at the Princess Theater on Dec. 7,

1923. "Flaming Passion" was at the Garden and "The Scarlet Lily," a "story of sacrifice fanned by the breath of scandal," was showing at the Miller.

In the newspapers, the real-life sacrifice of Ora Belle Tompkins roared as if fanned by a tornado. The Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel seized the

story the day her headless body was discovered on a cliff south of Port Washington and didn't let go for several weeks until Tompkins — escorted by three reporters — was taken to the hospital for the criminally insane and closed away for life.

Milwaukee expected no less, for the city was mesmerized by the horrid deed.

The largest crowd in Milwaukee ever to gather to see a murderer filled the streets in front ofthe county jail to watch Tompkins walk to court. More than 4,000 morbidly curious Milwaukeeans traipsed through the city morgue to view the headless body of poor Ora Belle, one after another proclaiming, "Oh, Isn't that horrible!" Others surrounded the killing site in Whitefish Bay, the most adventurous sneaking in to see the infamous furnace.

And police reported a spate of complaints from women whose husbands had threatened them with beheadings.

Tompkins' every utterance was published. So were his letters and those of Ora Belle that preceded — and occasionally predicted — her violent death. Witmeyer — dubbed the "Inspiration Girl" by the papers — was eagerly sought out for interviews (she was later convicted on a morals charge for her relationship with Tompkins), and even the celebrated killer himself freely gave jailhouse interviews.

"What manner of being is E. Ray Tompkins — madman or devil, genius or lunatic?" wrote Journal reporter Harry R. Zander in the florid style ofthe day.

"What manner of demon is it that perches on Reason's throne, shooting black darts from cell to cell of a husband's brain, as he severs the thread of a life he has loved?

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E^Ray?Tompkins , ' j Held ; Insane," Asks i Court for, Rehearing {«. ' *' . V "-* ? <K '* •' • i * • • ;L;E. Ray Tompkins, who has been a patient' at the'hospital'for criminal /insane since December * 1923/, com-, 'nutted' there for the .murder.of his' wife- Ora Belle'Tompkins,,is to.be, prought' back t£ municipal court and 'given another!1 hearing on > the question of his sanity with a jury of i2 as ijudges of the fact. -.• 4 ': i Ar I This was admitted Monday, by Judge George Av Shaughnessy, who received a letter, from Tompkins a few weeks ago, in Which the court was [notified that it was Tompkins'inten^ ition to insist upon his rights, as laid down in the supreme court decision Ma$rl2.',< ,r" !V i . \ '* * '• i ' > "Tompkins will be brought in and given a rehearing as he demands," said the judge Monday. • "He will be given his place ,on the court calendar as soon as the case of Mrs, Josephine .Ribanski is disposed of, which will probably be late this month.'* ' ^ ,,';

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E. Ray Tompkins built the apartment at 1700 E. Chateau Place in 1923. He was married, had two children and lived in this building. The Milwaukee Sentinel and Milwaukee Journal called him a "real estate operator11 and "former teacher at the Milwaukee Normal School11 in their articles.

An early edition of the Milwaukee Sentinel, on Dec. 8, 1923, featured an article stating his .•wife, Ora Tompkins, had been missing for two days. A late edition of the same paper stated that E. Ray Tompkins was being detained, a former grade school teacher was being taken into custody (a woman, later released), stains were found in Tompkins auto and stained clothing discovered in the apartment.

Jacob Donges, owner of property in what is now Bayside, telephoned the sheriff and recalled that Tompkins had been out on his property at 11:00 a.m. Thursday, inquiring about the caretaker and said he was looking for a site for golf links.

At 12:00 noon, that day, Farmer Henry Schmitz, living near the "Lions Den" (probably the area around the lions on the stone wall at the entrance to Donges Bay) stated he had seen a small machine drive over the hill and down into the valley.

The police took Tompkins out there, found car tracks, followed them towards the lake and discovered a shallow grave, containing the headless body of a woman. The body turned out to be that of Ora Tompkins. She was buried in Bloomington, Illinois, near the grave of their eldest son.

E. Ray Tompkins had choked his wife, who had started divorce procedings against him due to his involvement with another woman, then decapitated her. He apparently put the head in the incinerator of the apartment building, then buried her body in the field.

He was committed to a hoppital for the criminally insane. The 1924 WFB Assessment Rolls show the apartment building under the name of Oscar E. Schwemer, owner and guardian for E. Ray Tompkins, "an insane person".

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J,T By Amy Rabideau Silvers The case was particularly sad because the woman, 42 ;

of The Journal Staff — after years of physical abuse and threats against her ,

snowy Saturday morning in a desolate lakefront area In W J ^ ^ 2 ^ L Ray Tompkins, was found to be Ozaukee County. "paranoiac" and incurably" Insane. He was confined

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newspaper account of the day. "These aire secrets which Mrs. Tompkins carried with her to the grave, written into the little book in a code the woman had devised, fearing even to spread her secrets upon a book which she kept hidden from all the world."

Lived in apartment "Threatened me lately," she wrote in the black-cov

ered notebook. "Threatened to break a chair over my head. All he could do to keep from doing something to be sent off to the pen He petted me and loved me, then told me very calmly that if it weren't for the children he would murder me..;. It is a dark future to think that we can't go anywhere or see anyone, and yet he goes and sees whom he pleases all the time... ."

The couple lived in the four-story, 16-unit apartment building — the first apartment building built in White-fish Bay — at what is now 1700 E. Chateau PL, said Judy Kloman, a Whitefish Bay historian who has researched the murder case.

Tompkins was described in news stories as a real estate operator. He had formerly taught at the old Milwaukee Normal Schools

"He [Tompkins] actually began to build It Illegally without a building permit," Kloman said. "The village was really pretty peeved at him."

So, too, were residents in the area, who maintained that apartments were inappropriate in the neighborhood.

"Before the murder even happened, a picture of the apartment building ran in the paper," she said. Tompkins won his legal battle to finish the building, Y

After the murder and the subsequent revelations about an affair by Tompkins and his physical j brutality to his wife, some residents took it as fur- • ther evidence of just how inappropriate an apartment building in the area was, Kloman said.

Later investigation showed that it was in a garage apartment at the building that Tompkins choked his wife to death and decapitated her before driving the body to the Lion's Den, a remote area then about two miles south of Port Washington.

Daughter's report The case, at least officially, began Dec. 6,1923,

when the Tompkins* 10-year-old daughter called her aunt,_ upset when Tompkins appeared glad that his wife had not returned home the night before. Mrs. Tompkins was then reported missing by relatives.

George Pitrof, 85, then a police reporter for the Milwaukee Sentinel, remembers: "Of course, they [police] grabbed him right away. They searched the furnace in his apartment building, looking for her body. Of course, they didn't find it."

After stories of the woman's disappearance ran in local newspapers, police received a tip from businessman Jacob Donges, referred to as "the hatter" in news stories, that his caretaker had seen Tompkins in the Lion's Den.

It was "where he buried the mutilated body of tne mother of his children with the white birch trees and awe-inspiring cliffs overlooking Lake Michigan as his only witnesses," read one newspaper account.

' • T - ' "Slushy day" "We left in the sheriff's car to look for the

body," said Pitrof. "It was a slushy day, and there: r was snow. J remember it vividly. * %

"I took a branch and scraped the ground 'cause there was a mound of dirt like there might have^ been a grave there," he said. "I found her body there on the morning of Dec. 8, 1923. A. After it was discovered, it was found that she had no < head." • \ —

Tompkins, who was at the scene when the body was found, was ordered to help uncover the body and did so calmly, newspaper stories said. He first

protested his innocence but, later that day, admitted committing the murder. He also admitted to an affair with a former student, whom he called his "soul mate" and his "ray of sunshine."

"Puts some one between us and expected me to be happy," wrote Mrs. Tompkins in her diary. "Can't keep anything from me. Tells me about his love affairs, etc [Heisays] Can't work without inspiration, these girls give him inspiration

"Taunted me all morning about not wanting a divorce. I told him I was going down [to see a lawyer] in the afternoon, which I did. Then I was reprimanded and abused for going to a lawyer. 1.. God give me the strength to hold out a little longer . . . a lawyer . . . God give me the strength to hold out a little longer.. i. "

Asked release Moments after his confession, Tompkins still

expected to be released. "I'd like to spend the evening at home with the children," he was reported as saying. "A deputy sheriff might remain in the neighborhood — I wouldn't object to that. Maybe I could take them down to some hotel for supper."

Instead, he was soon hospitalized for mental observation. Authorities said he not did not seem to realize the gravity of the crime,

"What good will it do society to send me to an insane asylum," he declared, according to one newspaper account. "Of course, I realize that you have a public sentiment to contend with, but then a fine or probation will satisfy that. That will leave me free to become a useful citizen and to take care of my children."

One person who had tried to help Mrs. Tompkins was B.B. Rowley, an "alienist," then the term for psychiatrist, said Kloman.

"I used to hear him abusing her . . . ," said Rowley, who had lived below the couple in a building in Shorewood and had tried to have Tompkins committed the year before.

"When I brought Tompkins to the hospital, I told those in charge that he was a dangerous lunatic and that he would kill his wife if released," Rowley told a prosecutor after her death. "The following morning the hospital telephoned me that Tompkins was to be released [on a technicality]."

But the questions about his release the year before came too late to save the woman who, according to her diary, once watched her husband dig a grave for her along a deserted road.

Melvin Immekus, who still lives in Whitefish Bay, age 82, related that shortly after the murder, he was working in the alley behind the apartment building. He was grading the alley for his employer, Bill Staffeld, for the village, along with other private construction workers. E. Ray Tompkins came out to ask Mr. Immekus if he would help him move a trunk from his apartment into his car, parked at the curb. Mr. Immekus said no, but two other workers did help move the trunk, about the murder! (December 1983)

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ca's body politic and Jack Dempsey in its heart, the country was roaring back to normalcy. Although it was difficult to the break the World War I-bred habit of summary action, the nation was beginning to relax. It was a time of bathtub gin and racoon coats, the Charleston, jazz, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles, Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino.

The twenties, a restless and uncertain period, was also a decade of general prosperity for Americans. Aided by a prime interestrate below 4 percent, American cities eApaioiced anunprccertenfrri growth, both physically and commerdafly.

Architecturally, thccomrasdngarritudesofthetime : manifested themselves in the simultaneous proliferation of skyscrapers and movement to the suburbs, America was growing upwai d and outward. •. ^

- i Responsible' for much of Milwaukee's upward growth was the achUectural firm of Martin TuBgren k. Soor Co. Throughout Shot cwoocf, Whitefish Bay, and Mirwrakee's Yaukeelliil, Jtmeautown* and Pros- . pect Avenueareas are examples of wort done by the, firm in Ael92fti«d»30r. K ^ ^ - ; ^ j |

Martin T\iBgrcn died ttt1922.1 r was under the crea^ tive guidance of his son; Herbert W; Tullgren, that the firm attained its greatest and most sigmficaitt success. Upon his death in 1944, Tullgren was eulogized as : **one of the most widely known architects ra Wiscon- ; sin." His local legacy includes over fifty apartment irai&mgs ao3'ttumer^^ sites, many of ;S them compact, immatureskysaapcis. Some of Tull-/ * gren's structures were influenced by the modem move- •"-;. mem and some containdetails reminiscent of the Italian Renaissance. ..

Tullgren'scommera the S 1/2-storr First Wisconsin Garage Building, 746 N. Water

f- Sf.v wriich, when finished in 1929V was called "one of hthe most efficient multi-floor garages in the country." - In 1925, TuSgren designed the Watts Building, 761 N. Jefferson Su^ one of the finest examples of ornamental terra cotta architecturein*the city of Milwaukee. The two-story building is still occupied by its builder, George Watts & Son Inc.

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And, in 1936, when the Scottish Rite Masons acquired the Wisconsin Consistory at 790 N. Van Buren St., Milwaukee, Tullgren was hired to remodel it. „ - : 7'-, Z-A-.7.

Tullgren also designed the Whitefish Bay High School, 1200 E. Fairmount Ave., and the Northwestern Hannah Fuel Co. Building, 2150 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee; <.

Among the residential buildings designed by TuBgren is the Hathaway Apartments, 1830 E. Kane

.Place, Milwaukee. The ultimate in modern design when it was buth in 1931, the square monolith has many details typical of the art-deco era. Through use of dark panels between the windows, Tullgren gave the nine-story structure greater height. The panels, or stripes, and the structure's foundation are black, glazed terracotta. The Hathaway* entrance mantel, with its multi-faceted arch* is faced with black glass. Bhimmatfri art-deco numbers flank thedoor way. *

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. Tuflgrcn. Built m 193fr byTIarry Grant, the former owner and publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, the buikfing has 32 apartments, eight on each floor, and two penthouses.Tullgren designed each suae with two floors connected by a stairway.

According to "The Heritage Guidebook" of landmarks and historical sites in southeastern Wisconsin, Tullgren designed the building's elevators to stop at every other floor (1, 3, 5, 7 and 9) so that die upper-levei bedrooms in each apartment would be isolated from public corridors, thus offering maximum quiet. Each unit has two bay windows, one in the dining room, and a solarium connectedto a bedroom.

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On July 1, 1924, Shorecrest Realty Co. broke ground on what was to become the Shorecrest Hotel. It was the avowed purpose of Shorecrest Realty to erect a structure that not only embodied the most significant architectural advances of the time, but also captured the elegance and high fashion that characterized the twenties. The hotel was built to appeal to Milwaukee's social elite. ^ ^^y...£**.. ^ -~«.-: In designing the Shorecrest, Tullgren had to account for the fact that it was to be builtona_bhiff sixty feet above Milwaukee's lake front and as such would be

-: exposed to-driving winds and i ^ off the lake. At ^nine-stories, the Shorecrest was :Ooe of the earnest

high-rise devdopment'son the iakcbhiff.yyrggt -r Tullgren designed the stnicttaL^^ built <m a riv-

eied sieel frame us^^ The înnovadon, perfected i l l t ^ J ^ ^ in Xfcfcca^ u i l ^ ^ A -.-•/ ^j^tyBsdcall^ Tuilgren^tr^ committed to making the

^Shorecrest Vuixigynr^ test -'"of.time. For that reaso^bc^ ity and rectilui^^ meat* ***cb V ^ | f c ^ ^ a ^ ^ T O p « ^ r i t y U n

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instead, Tullgren choactQ pimctuate tiie.btLilding's verticatityên^ the exterior with tenu cotta and cogjper noteworthy is the termcoÔTament of modified Moorish design that defines the hotel's first and second floor facade and its balcony pinnacles*

Tullgren also placed considerable emphasis on the amenities the Shorecrest would offer. In its day, the ballroom and restaurant located on.the top floor of the east wing was the most elegant in the city, offering its guests a magnificent, panoramic view of the lake

front. The four corners of that floor were illuminated by electric harbor lights atop the terra cotta pinnacles, and for years served as a visual landmark for boaters on Lake Michigan. Within its walls* the Shorecrest also housed an upholstery shop, tailor shop, beauty salon, barbershop, and pharmacy.

The ShorecfSst Hotel as it exists today was not com-.?-,pieced-until $29. The east structure, completed in

1924, fronted'on what was then called Hathaway Place (now Summit Ave.). The hotel was doubled in capacity in 1928, when a $400,000 west tower addition extended the new front to North Prospect Avenue.

The first floor of the original exterior is highlighted : with glazed terra cotta ornament, including spiral,

twisted columns supporting arches that are decorated ^.with griffins. ^ •'r -Even before the completion of the west tower, the

Shorecrest had been home for many of Milwaukee's ^business and social elite. In 1926, for example, over a ^ dozen company presidents and their families lived fijtfacre including the Pabsts, -Uihieins, Conrads, and yQffistCTsem. The roster of guests who have stayed at |5tlieôiiecresr includes Eleanor Roosevelt and the ^Banymores and nume^ %iulrdfwh€ffia preferred; a quieter ambiance from the

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da&atyiaf the %iNirccrar o v £ ^ tbnsidera&e energy and expense; Although- the hotel .has not often changed hands, commitment to the pres- • ervation of aspfendid testimony of T98r*$ architecture; has varied - • ^ /:>-*i^:>-*^-.~- *

When its present owner, Joseph Balistrieri, pur* chased the Shorecrest in 1971, there were signs of neglect. Some of the wrought iron and terra cotta ornament, including the harbor lights, had been removed. The rooftop ballroom and restaurant had been gutted; the commercial occupants of the hotel were gone.

Immediate measures had to be taken if the Shorecrest were, to survive. What has transpired over the past fourteen years has not only assured that the Shorecrest will endure, but that it will remain historically significant. ~ .-

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FORMER WHITEFISH BAY OFFICIAL FINED AFTER RAID

A. A. Viall And Four Companions Caught in Police Net on

Disorderly Charges

A. A. Viall, former member of the Whitefish Bay Village Board and Chairman of the Police Committee, and four companions were fined^ $1 and costs each Tuesday night in justice's court by Judge Harold Williams. Viall as keeper of a disorderly •house and Clara Sawitzke,s Mary Pflughoeft, Charles Buch and Arthur Glock as inmates.

The five arrested in the raid were not present in court bail having been posted for them to the amount of $100, all of which was returned to a representative save the small amount of the fines and costs.

A ripple of laughter went around the audience in the court room when W. G. Williams, contractor, started joking with the judge. Mr. Williams had appeared for his nephew who had driven past an arterial sign without stopping. The judge remarked, "We have to protect ourselves out here. We don't want to get killed." To which Mr. Williams retorted, "There's a few out here that ought to get killed."

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W. H. VQmyHN- Village Clerk

The oldest employee of the Village of Whitefish Bay in point of service ,

i s W.H.Volkmann, Village Clerk• ^looted as a part-time clerk in 1916, he

succeeded himself un t i l January l f 1926, when the office of clerk was made a

full- t ime position* Mr. Volkmann, has been in office continuously since then,

and at the completion o!f his present term, in 1940, he wi l l have served the

v i l lage in the capacity of Village Clerk, for twenty-four years . I During h is

term of office he has seen the v i l lage grow from 800 in 1916, to 8,450, the

present population. Votes cast in various elections have increased from

165 to 3,700* {

Mr. Volkmann has received much unsolici ted commendation from the Wis

consin Tax Commission and various Certified public Accountants, upon the neat ,

thorough and accurate manner in which h i s records have been kept . Many short

cuts in thw worjk, ins ta l led by him, wil l be of Inestimable value t o those who

may follow in of f ice .

Born at ftatertown, Wisconsin, on November 10, 1873, he attended grade

and high schools, as well as the Northwestern University t he re . After completing

his schooling, he served his apprenticeship as a pr in ter on the ttWatertown

Gazette,"a.Bemocrati'c weekly paper. In the f a l l of 1890, he moved to Milwaukee

and became an *ad* man with the "Milwaukee Journal"• The following spring he

graduated to a full-fledged journeyman pr in te r , joining Milwaukee Typographical

Union No. 23, the card for which he s t i l l c a r r i e s .

With the advent of type-set t ing machines, which displaced, on an average,

seventeen men out of a personnel of twenty-five in each office, he entered the

job-printing business with the S.E.Tate Company, as a "lay-out*1 man and designer,

a position he retained for a number of years .

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He enl is ted with Company"!* F i r s t Wisconsin Volunteers for service

during the Spanish-American War, being stat ioned at Jacksonvil le , Florida,

as part of the Seventh Army Corps under Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, nephew of Gen.

Rovert E. Lee, of Confederate fame. Col. William Jennings Bryan, of Neb

raska, also served in the same corps.

After h i s re turn from the war, Mr. Volkmann was married a t Milwaukee,

on Dec. 31, 1899, to Zella Sanger, who was born at Boscobel, Wisconsin,

January £2, 1879,, het parents l a t e r having moved to Wauzeka, Wisconsin.

Mrs. Volkmann died on Sept. 3, 1935, leaving besides her husband, three

children, Harr ie t , $>om Oct. 7* 190X'}, Drus i l la , ^January 23, 1912/and

William, (June 17, 1920\

Mr. Volkmann has resided in h i s present home, at 4611 N. Bar t l e t t

Avenue, since August 1, 1908.

He is a member of the Whitefish Bay Community Church, and a lso i t s t reasurer ,

is a f f i l i a t ed with Silver Swing Lodge No 337 F. & A,lf». the Sagles, the

Whitefish Bay Club; and is a member of Hu^b McGrath Camp No 4 of Milwaukee,

Spanish-American War Veterans.

Mr. Volkmann has never nade any pretense of being a p o l i t i c i a n , baaring

his return to office s t r i c t l y upon merit and performance. xhat he has been

returned to office year af ter year is a very good indication of how amoh the

res idents of Whitefish Bay appreciate the high quality of h is work and hie

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Editor's Note—This is the second of a series of articles on Whitefisli Bay village officials.

From the standpoint of length of village service, William H. Voikman, clerk, heads the list of Whitefish Bay officials. First elected to the post in April, 1916, Mr. Voikman has completed nearly 19 years of service. Four men have filled the village president's chair while he has transcribed minutes at the clerk's table: the late Dr. A. J. Richter, Herman Uihlein, Frank C. Klode, and the present president, Harold W. Connell.

Mr. Volkmann's duties include the registering of voters, the preparing of poll lists, the preparing , of the monthly and annual reports of the village's financial condition, the recording of village board proceedings, the filing of communications and reports—in fact, the keeping of all village records, which he does with with an efficiency that has won him praise from many quarters. The special assessment card index system installed by Mr. Volkmann, giving an immediate answer to any question regarding outstanding improvements on any piece of property in the village, last year was commended specially by the Wisconsin tax commission.

Mr. Volkmann's favorite recre-tion is reading, of which he does ail kinds. He also enjoys an occasional drive or motion picture.

He is married and has two daughters, one a teacher in Richard's street school and the Qther a graduate of Wisconsin Sta>te Teachers' college, and one son, a freshman in the Whitefish Bay high school. His home is at 4611 N. Bartlett avenue.

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Volkmann Not To Seek Re-election as Bay Clerk

William H. Volkmann a n -jounced this week that he will not be a candidate for re-election ! as clerk of Whitefish Bay at the spring election. He has been the village clerk for 30 years.

He told of his decision in*!* letter to Dr. Frank E. Drew,: president of the village. He wrote in part;

" I l ls - -with feelings of pro-> found regret that I sever these ties, which to me throughout the past years have at all times been most pleasant. I feel that in liv- j ing up to the letter of the law j as set forth under the Wisconsin j Municipal Retirement Act, I can do no different. However, I wish to thank each and every one of you for making it possible,! as an elected official, to participate in the benefits to be derived from the Wisconsin Municipal Retirement Fund." • ' . ! • ' *

Jan. 1, 1945 the village board voted to put the village clerk and treasurer under the retirement fund along with other viU lage employes. Volkmann's retirement pa# will be about $110 a month. His present salary is $250 a month. Certified to Office

When the village board heard of Volkmann's decision t h e members unanimously voted to certify him to the office in the event he should decide to continue to seek the office in the coming election.

"My personal gratitude and the vote of confidence of the village board in certifying you should be a great satisfaction to you, Bill," Dr. Drew replied in a letter to Volkmann, "because it shows in what esteem we hold you and even though you have made your decision we still like to tell you in our own humble way that we are most appreciative of your efforts and still maintain the greatest confidence In your ability.

"Your resignation has placed A great burUen on my shoulders am* I shall find it difficult to find Someone to replace you, I

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j hope that I may feel free to call I on you in the future for help, J because I know we are going tos V need it.

"In closing I again wish to express my deep appreciation for your service and kind human understanding, and I know the whole village thanks you for a job well done." ' ,

Candidates for the vacancy will be nominated at the March 5 caucus. Served Under 8 Presidents

Volkmann served the village under eight presidents. Serving as part time clerk from April, 1916, to December, 1925, he kept the village records during the presidencies of Frank C. Klode, 1914-1918; Dr. A. J. Richter,

11918-1922; H. A. Uihlein, 1922-1923; Edward L. Tracy, 1923-

|1924; Frank C. Klode, 1924-1934. Since 1926 he has been full time clerk. Presidents during this time in addition to Klode have been Harold W. Connell, 1934-1937; G r d v e r s F. Knoernschild, 1937-1945: D r . Frank E. Drew, 1945-Won on Lone Vote

It was on a' single vote that ! Volkmann became the village's part time clerk when its population was but slightly more than 500 and its tax rate was $10.56. He secured 83 votes, his opponent 82.

During 30 years behind the clerk's desk he has watched Whitefish Bay grow to a popu

lat ion of approximately 11,000, almost 20 times the 1910 census. Its tax rate has tripled the 1916 record and for 1945 was $32.19. Old Newspaperman

An old newspaperman, facts and figures have always been grist to his mill and kept the crow's feet of advancing years from leaving their mark on his genial face. Born in Watertown in November, 1873, he came to Milwaukee in 1891 and set to work as a printer for the old Milwaukee Journal plant on Mason st., opposite the old Sentinel building. He moved with the Journal when it published from the Montgomery building, Michigan and Milwaukee sts.

He left off newspapering to enter job printing with the S. E. Tate Printing Co. — remaining with the firm until Dec. 31, 1925.

Ten years before he became ,the Bay's clerk, he moved to his own home in the village.

Not All UDlt ; "Don't let this sound like an-'

obit," his blue eyes sparkled as his voice cajoled the reporter seeking the facts of his life.

He told of his marriage, Dec. 31, 1899, to Zella Sanger, Wau-zeka, Wis., in the parsonage of the Methodist church, which once stood where the Schoeder hotel now rises skyward. Mrs. Volkmann died Sept. 3, 1935, Of this marriage were two daughters and a son—Mrs. Lee C. Hag-erty, Green Tree rd., Drusilla Volkmann, a teacher at Sheboygan, and William Kenneth Volkmann, now on terminal leave after more than three years overseas, recently with the Railway Operation Battalion. He is a first lieutenant.

The retiring clerk still holds membership in the Milwaukee Typographical Union. It is 55 years since he took out his Union card. He received his 50 year

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button in October, 1941. Al- * though he left the trade at which | he had worked from 1891 to ; 1916, he never lost interest in the union.

In World War I he was number one registered in the 45-year old class. * '" * '

He is a member of the Spanish American War Veterans, the \ Whitefish Bay club and Tripoli Temple. He belongs to the Fraternal Order of Eagles, is a 32nd degree Mason and was master of Silver Spring Lodge in 1943. : ; Not a Thumb Twiddler /

Now at 72, preparing to hand over his stewardship to someone younger, he does not intend to sit and twiddle his thumbs until the' curtain falls upon his life.

Indeed not. That is not the Volkmann way. Even as he continued to champion his union and cherished all connected with the makings of a newspaper — personnel and machinery — so too will he maintain his interest in village affairs.

There is just one thing he will change in his life. He intends to get rid of his alarm clock.

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'Bill'Volkmann Has Served Village for Twenty-Six Years

The oldest employee of the village of Whitefish Bay in point of service is W. II. Volkmann, village clerk. Elected as a part-time clerk in 1916, he succeeded himself until Jan. 1, 1926, when the office of clerk was made a full-time position. Mr. volkmann has been in office continuously since then, and at the completion of his present term, in 194 4, he will have served the village in the capacity of village clerk for 28 years.

Mr. Volkmann has received much unsolicited commendation from the Wisconsin tax commission and various certified public accountants, upon the neat, thorough and accurate manner in which his records have been kept. Many short cuts In the work, installed by him, will be of inestimable value to those who may follow In office.

Born at Watertown, Wis., on Nov. 10, 1873, he attended grade and high schools, as well as the Northwestern university. After completing his schooling, he served his apprenticeship as a printer on the Watertown Gazette, a Democratic weekly paper, In the fall of 181)0, he moved to Mil

waukee and became an ad man with the Milwaukee Journal. The' following spring he graduated to a full-fledged journeyman printer, joining Milwaukee Typographical Union No. 23, the card for which he still carries.

He enlisted with Company I, First Wisconsin Volunteers, for service during the Spanish-American war, being stationed at Jacksonville, Fla., as part of the eev-' enth army corps under Gen. Fttz-.

hugh Lee, nephew of (Gen. Robert E. Lee, of Confederate fame. Col.i William Jennings Bryan of Ne-) braska also served in the same corps.

After his return from the war, Mr. Volkmann was married at Milwaukee on Dec. 31, 1899, to Zella Sanger, who was born at Boscobel, Wis., Jan. .22, 1879, her parents lata*- having moved to Waukesha, Wis. Mrs. Volkmann died iu 1935, leaving besides her husband, three children, Harriet, Drusilla and William.

Mr. Volkmann has resided in his present home, 4611 N. Bart-lett ave., since Aug. 1, 1908.

He is a member of the White-fish Bay Community church, and also its treasurer, is affiliated with Silver Spring Lodge No. 337, F. and A. M., the Eagles, Ihe Whitefish Bay club, and is a member of Hugh McGrath Camp No. 4 of Milwaukee, Spanish-American War Veterans.

Mr. Volkmann has never made any pretense of being a politician, basing his return to office strictly upon merit and performance. That he has been returned to office year after year is a very good indication of how much the real-) dents of Whitefish Bay appreciate the high quality of his work and his personal integrity.

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ks Welcome to Her 81st Year! Mrs. J. Louis Wolff, 4819 N.

Cumberland blvd., celebrated Y her eightieth birthday l a s t

Friday with two parties: the first for many of her friends

i who now live in the Protestant Home for the Aged and knew her when she was a religious work director at the

f Milwaukee YWCA; the second ( party was for her neighbors. . She lit a single candle on • each cake to usher in the

new year ahead of her. Mrs Wolff and her husband

have lived in Whitefish Bay since 1916. She came to Milwaukee as Lucy Edmunds in 1905 to become the YW s religious work director. She had previously taught School in Illinois and was a graduate of the Illinois State Normal university at Bloomington, 111.

Three and a half years after her arrival here, Lucy Edmunds became Mrs. Jonn Louis Wolff and set up housekeeping on Maryland ave., m the block north of Locust st.

In 1916, the Wplffs bought

13-acres between Hampton rd.) and Fairmont ave. The acre-; age had been a truck farm; but the Wolffs did not farm it. It was growing space for their children.

Seven years after their purchase, they had the land platted and retained only their home site. , . ,

The WoHfs had four cbd-Jdren, Richard Edmunds Wolff, 6a civil engineer m Seattle,

—Herald Photo Wash.; Mrs. Howard (Betty) Bauman, West Bend; Halhe,; who is the wife of Dr. Robert; Dew, Kalamazoo, Mich., and the late Lt. jg Justin Louis; Wolff, who lost his life in 1942 when the destroyer Ingraham was blown up in Nova Scotia.

All the Wolff children, were graduated from Henry Clay school. The two oldest graduated from Shorewood h i g h school, for Whitefish Bay was without high school facilities then; the two youngest from Whitefish Bay high school. #

Mrs. Wolff's activities in education and religious work did not cease with her mar-— — — ~ l l

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riage. She was long' active in PTA work and the Milwaukee county C o u n c i l of Church Women. She was president of the State Council of Church Women for &A years. She is a charter member of the Solomon Juneau chapter, D A R and of the W h i t e f i s h Bay, Woman's club.

Whitefish Bay has changed considerably in the last forty; years. In the early days, the> Wolffs knew everyone in the village —now it's impossible,; Vistas have narrowed with the building up of the village, no longer can one see for blocks from a window; but progress is not disturbing to Mrs. Wolff. She is fond of her many neighbors and the flowers from their gardens to beautify her h o m e , on her birthday attest to the love and esteem with which. they regard her. *» ' ' < yy I

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Charles Weber Ends Tenth Year With Whitefish Bay Police Force

' Monday was an important day.; homestead daily, for it still stands in the life of Charles F. Weber, 5109 N. Santa Monica boulevard. It marked the tenth anniversary Of his service with the Whitefish Bay police department. On Mar. 1, 1927, Mr. Weber started work for the Bay as a switchboard operator in the village hall. He now is desk sergeant, treasurer of the Bay Policemen's Protective association and oldest employe on the force in length of service. .

When Mr. Weber joined the force, Tom Callahan, the Bay's first police chief, was head of the department. In May of that year George Hage succeeded him as chief of police and has held the office ever since.

liaises Vegetables Not only a veteran on the po

lice force but also an oldtime resident of the Bay is Mr. Weber. Away back in 1897, when he was just a lad of 11, his parents moved from the south side out to the wide open spaces that were White-fish Bay, in order that they might go into the gardening business.

The poultry and vegetables which the Weber family raised found a ready market in the famous Whitefish Bay resort which was then in , its heyday on the property now owned by Julius Heil and Herman Uihlein on N. Lake drive.

Homestead Still Stands "I still remember the little

dummy steam locomotive that used to run from Lake park to the Bay resort 30 years ago," recalls Mr. Weber. "At that time one had to pay five or ten cents when driving a horse and buggy into the Bay on the old toll road, too."

Mr. Weber sees his family

at E* Lexington boulevard and*!*. Marlborough drive, next to the village hall. After he married Ida MaschmanVof Colgate, Wis., in 1911, Mr. Weber built his own. home on N. Santa Monica'boulevard, and there he pursues One of his favorite hobbies, the ra,is- , Ing of vegetables. Baseball is an-i other pet pastime of his. ;r

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their twenty-sixth ..wedding anniversary on Mar. 26, have two sons, Lei*oy and Edward. The young men operate a filling sta-tion a t NH Santa Monica boulevard and E. Henry Clay street, following in the footsteps of their father, who used to run a filling station at Ni. Lake drive and Silver Spring road before he became a member (of the Bay police force.

One of the boys, Edward, 23, just passed an air transport test for a transport pilot's license. Edward has been flying for about three years and has high ambitions—he hopes to become an air- . line aviator some day, A police badge, rather than aviator's wings, still signify sufficient excitement for the elder Mr. Weber, however. *

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from Chicago, 111., in 19111 the school was opened. His home is at 5777 N. Port Washington rd., where he lives with hb» wife and 2-year-old daughter.

He received his normal school training at Concordia college in River Forest, ill., and earned his A, B. at Valparaiso university. Mr. Waldschmldt will go to Northwestern university this summer to do graduate work, completing the course for his M.A. degree.

Outside of school work, he is interested in all types of athletics, mainly baseball.

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Crocking guardian: Bay man cared for 'his kids' J* 19

ByJOEGAROFOLI of The Journal staff

Whitefish Bay — Phil Perlson knew better than to throw snowballs near "Emil's Corner'' while he was growing up in Whitefish Bay. Like others kids, the last thing he wanted to do was get Emil mad at him.

"Everybody wanted Emil to be his friend," recalls Perlson, now 27. "It was kind of a status symbol.

"But that doesn't mean we didn't throw snowballs four corners down."

You see, Emil's Corner, really the intersection of N. Ardmore and E. Hampton Aves., was not just another village corner. And it will continue to remain special to residents who remember Emil H. Wilke, a school crossing guard there for 21 years, who died of heart failure while trimming his hedge Sept. 26. He was 92.

"He used to line us up before we'd cross the street so he could check to make sure the notes the teachers had pinned on our backs were still there," said Perlson, whose mother used to roll him past Emil in a stroller when he was a toddler. "He was really protective of us. He was very fatherly in kind of a clownlike way."

To make sure Emil was not forgotten, Whitefish Bay students contributed money to buy a plaque for him when he retired in 1976. The plaque remains at the corner.

When Emil finally did retire, it was a shock for many residents. Samuel Perlson, Philip Perlson's father, remembers calling the police station one September morning because a stranger was at the corner helping kids cross the street.

"Emil must have retired very quietly in June," Samuel Perlson said. "Because when I called the police station, 1 got some lieutenant whe said, 'What's with everybody* They're all calling about about Emil.' "

Residents knew they would mi& the way Emil knew everybody's name, and remembered it even when

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Wilke, Emil H. Mon. Sept. 26,1988. Age 92 yrs. Lifetime resident of Whitefish Bay. Beloved husband of the late Ozabeth M. WHke. Dear father of Wiiam E. (Nancy) of Ephraim, Wl. Devoted grandfather of Ric, Tom (Jenirve) and Scott (Marilou). Further survived by 4 great grandchildren, other relatives and friends. * In state Wed. Sept. 28, from 4 to 8 pm at the funeral home. Graveside service will be held Thurs. at 10 am at Holy Cross Cemetery. MEET AT THE CEMETERY.

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school. They remembered Emil standing outside until the last pupil got inside school, telling the principal that a pupil might be having some home problems if a pupil came to school crying one day, flagging down drivers who ran the stop sign and giving them a gentle earful.

"A red face, that's what 1 think of when I think of Emil," said Saul Eichenbaum, former principal of Cumberland Elementary School. "He'd be redder than a beet because

he'd be out in the cold so long, his eyes watering, nose dripping. I'd ask him to come in and warm up, but

he'd say, 'Nah. I gotta get back out there out there and watch my kids.'"

Emil always called them "his" kids. His only child, William E. Wilke, 61, who lives in Ephraim in Door County, suspects that his father was lonely after his wife, Elizabeth, died when she was 51. He thinks that his father's adopted "kids" might have filled that void in his father's life.

The senior Wilke, who lived in Whitefish Bay for 60 years, worked in a family grocery store business, then at Bay Shore Mall as a custodian before becoming a crossing guard.

"He'd always be telling me about his kids, and how he might have had a couple close calls. He was grazed by cars several times while watching them," William Wilke said.

One of his kids, Philip Perlson, used to grab an extra brownie or two from home to give to Emil.

"I don't know if he ever ate them, but it didn't matter," Perlson said. "Even when I went to Whitefish Bay High School, I would walk the other way just so I could go by his corner-and shoot the breeze for a few minutes."

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Shaping a new life Burt Zien turns to art in retirement By JAMES AUER Journal art critic

During most of his 73 years, Burt Zien did his best to shape the world by challenging the status quo across a broad range of social issues.

He spearheaded the presidential bid of John F. Kennedy, fought for civil rights, defended the Tennessee Valley Authority against attacks from its private rivals, and struggled to achieve improved conditions for working people.

At the same time, he built to major status Zien Mechanical Contractors, a family-owned firm that he and his three younger brothers headed until its purchase by a group of aeven employes in 1985.

In the past few months, however, this onetime business executive and power in the Democratic Party has found that shaping delicately veined chunks of alabaster gives him an even greater thrill — along with an enhanced sense of self-worth and creativity.

Burt Zien, engineer, activist and political operative, has become Burt Zien, student, sculptor and advocate of the arts.

The change will be officially confirmed from 2 to 4 p.m. today as Zien and* his wife, Betty, open the garden of their home at 501 E. Lake Terrace, Whitefish Bay, to invited guests and

the public for the benefit of the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee School of Fine Arts.

Actually, Zien's debut as a sculptor — he will be showing 10 pieces in alabaster, plus a few figurative works in clay — is intended to draw attention to the role of the university in the community and to encourage formation of a support group for the UWM art department.

Robert ffickok, dean of the UWM School of Fine Arts, will speak briefly, and Zien will informally tell his guests how it feels to make the transition from shaper of history to shap-er of stone.

'The fact that Mr. Zien could come to a place like this and do this is very touching," Hickok said when questioned about this latest phase in the engineer / artist's long and productive career.

"I haven't seen the work, but that's not really the point. This event is a very fine example of what can 'happen to a successful businessman in retirement in regard to the arts.

"The real significance of the show is that in his later years Mr. Zien is singing the same lyrics that Leonardo sang, There's a song in every rock.

Zien's journey toward an acute appreciation of Leonardo's song was unexpected but characteristically well-directed.

Once he had yielded control of the

company, he decided to audit a few courses at UWM — among them, money and banking and, in the summer of 1985, clay modeling under the

tutelage of Narendra Patel, a professor. **>

He soon discovered an affinity forr working with three-dimensional

shapes — first in clay, then, at the suggestion of Patel, in alabaster.

"I found myself creating something of my own for the first time," Zien said a few days ago.

"I began working with rock in August 1985, when Narendra gave me a small piece of alabaster and a chisel. Since then, it has been an important part of my life."

Like many other active people who set a new course after retirement, Zien has discovered that "you never really know who you are or what you can do until you try it. You don't know the talents you have inside you until you give yourself the opportunity of participating on a personal level "

To date Zien has completed 11 modestly scaled pieces, most of which he has given out on long-term loan to friends and relatives. He has never sold any of his artworks, nor can he bring himself to part with one of his creations on a permanent basis.

Most of Zien's work — chiseled out of stone in the studio at UWM, then laboriously sanded to a satiny finish at home — refers directly to his own perceptions and experiences.

His interest in mental health is reflected in the head of a woman, placid from one side, angry and disturbed from the other. His love for the sea finds an echo in a frozen, but still graceful, wave.

! Other pieces suggest an affinity for nature, reflection and contemplation.

But always these alabaster evi-f dences of his absorbing new profes-

sion bespeak hope, faith and optimism.

"Friends have asked me," he said, "if I expect to live forever. The answer is, 'Yes.' I never think of age. It's an exciting way to visit the world."

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Honor Zeiler for 25 Years With Bay Schools • Dr. Bach Holds Hope for Friendly Relations

With Russia Despite Country's Godlessness School Superintendent Edward J . Zeiler was *h%!*»red

for his quarter of a century with Whitefish Bay schools at the Community Night sponsored Monday evening in Henry Clay auditorium by the PTAs of Cumberland, 'Henry ,Clay, Lydell and Richards schools. He was presented with a pair of opera glasses.

Zeiler was also an honor guest along with Dr. Marcus Bach, the speaker of the eve-[ ning, a t a reception later in the evening at the Whitefish Bay l ibrary. '

Dr. Donald Ruch, president! of Richards PTA, made the | gift presentation, following the | singing of three religious se-, lections by the Whitefish Bay] high school senior choir, directed by Kenneth Beall.

Dr. Ruch stated that Zeiler began his Whitefish Bay career as principal of Richards1

school in 1932 and became superintendent of schools in 1951. He brought out thatl Zeiler's characterist ic "fore-sightedness"* had increased] the number and quality of the teaching staff and had successfully worked out an ex-| pansive building program. His latest building activities include a new classroom and auditorium wing at the high s c h o o l and multi-purpose wings at Cumberland and Richards schools.

Opera Glasses Some amusement was had

in deciding upon an appropriate gift for Supt. Zeiler. Dr. Ruch ,feaid Mrs. Zeiler had reported that her husband was tired of taking his field glasses to the theater to view the actresses. Therefore, a pair of opera glasses which had been "checked for any optical illusions" were selected for the gift.

On accepting the present, Zeiler said it was very kind of the PTAs and that it "will help m e to keep young and spry for quite a while." He also stated that he enjoys the friendly and cooperative spirit and the sense of responsibility towards the boys and girls in the community Which prevails among the Whitefish Bay residents. "What Russia Was to Me"

r Dr. Marcus Bach, well known author and speaker on religion, spoke on "What Russia Was to Me" .

Dr. Bach, a native of Sauk City, Wis., has lived with people of various f a i t h s throughout the U.S. and Eur-ope, recently returning from a visit to Russia. A disciple of the doctrine "We understand people best when we understand what they bel ieve", he sought to explain his impressions of the basic beliefs existing in the USSR.

Poses 3 Questions To facilitate explanation, hei

answered t h r e e questions; posed to himself before jour- ' neying to Russia—"What is Communism?", Is it possible to sublimate basic spiritual drives in an non-spiritual atmosphere?" and "Are these people really happy?"

The lasft question, he felt, was the key to a t rue understanding of the R u s s i a n people, which is imperative today.

School Superintendent E. J. Zeiler was presented with a pair of opera glasses as a token of appreciation for '.-his quarter century of service to Whitefish Bay schools,-by the PTAs of this village at a Cominuniiy Night Monday in Henry Clay auditorium. The presentation was made early in the program by Dr. Donald Ruch, Richards PTA president.

In Russia, he stated, "God is a non-entity, Jesus is a myth, and the entire country is a tremendous laboratory of atheistic experments ." With Mrs. Bach, who accompanies

[him as a photographer on his journeys, Dr. Bach spent much t ime with the young college people of the nation, 90% of whom had never been inside a church. '

No Capacity for Joy He felt that the Russian

people dtf not know what happiness is in our conception of the term, therefore they have not developed a capacity for happiness. Communism is Russia 's substitute for Religion— "God is the State, the Bible is the Communist Manifesto, and their temples a re the colleges and universities of the country"—the temples of learning".

However, Dr. Bach concluded on a positive note by saying that with understandr ing we may establish friendly relations with the Russian people, and that there is something restless about us which rests in God."\

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Artist Narendra Patel (right) admired sculptures-by retired businessman Burt Zien, 73

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Edward Zeiler, 5340 N. Santa Monica blvd., has been principal of Richards Street school tor over ten years.

Born In Baltimore, Mu\, Mr. Zeiler attended the University of Chicago, earning his H. A. stud M. A. there. He then taught in Atdon, III., came to Milwaukee as principal ot the Washington school in West Allls, and assumed his present position in 193.2.

Mr. Zeiler, when he isn't referee-ing baseball games or discussing weighty matters with his young son, devotes his time to gardening.

\ As president of the Wisconsin Elementary School association, secretary of a professional fra-

Uernity, Phi Delta Kappa, and act i ve member of several other educational associations, the Richards' principal finds few spare moments.

JO. O. ZIMMERMAN—Trustee

As a village trustee, R. C. Zimmerman has served Whitefish Bay for the past five years. At present he is chairman of the finance and claims committee and serves as a member of two other committees, the toning/ parks and building and the personnel and publicity., The expiration of his term will be* in 1945. I

Zimmerman is a leader outaide: of Whitefish Bay, too, as are' most_>of the village trustees. He i 1B president of the Milwaukee! Brewers association and past prea- j ident of the Milwaukee chapters of the Controllers Institute of America and the National Association at Cost Accountants. As chairman of ..the war bond sales for the malt and brewery industries of Milwaukee, be is boosting defense bond sales. The Better Business bureau of Milwaukee is under Zimmerman's directorship. Controller and assistant treasurer are Zimmerman's official positions at the Pabst brewery where! he works, )

A 14 year old daughter, Jane, is the only child in the Zimmerman family. Next tall she will en-

| ter Whitefish Bay high school as a freshman. They have lived In Whitefish Bay for the last nine years at 6274 N. Santa Monica blvd. _._ {

In 1899 R. C. Zimmerman waa born in Milwaukee. He attended South Division high school and was graduated from the school of commerce at the University ot Wisconsin In 192,2.

Membership in the Rotary club, the Wisconsin club end the Wisr consln Society of Certified Public Accountants Is enjoyed by Zimmerman,

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also earned a master's degreefat^ the University of Chicago and has taken further graduate work":at Wisconsin and Chicago.* 5ii ^5V4$

In his experience as teacher and school administrator* Zeiler has? noted many changes—most.impor-S tant ot which is the effect of ex-J$ plosive knowledge on whole c o m ^ m unities—teachers, parents, chil-v* dren—-not only in} one field b u t f

- many fields; Z * -* x>' ^ r.'??*:. *5J He finds that teachers, who com-/g

pleted their Studies 15, .20 or more years ago, falteii as teachers un-^ less they continue to do a lot of* reading and studying - to keepr, abreast with all the* neW knowl-j edge that has become available to mankind. "Good teachers,'^ he;; said, "have to do a lot of out-? side work." They have to be con-'; stant readers. * , ? • / # y

Assn. Founder '" * 1,1 ^ Zeiler is one of the founders and

former presidents of the Wiscon-^ sin Elementary Principals assn.;I he has been active in the Wis- ' consin S c h o o l Administrators* assn. for the last 15 years, is an

F active member of "the^NationaT | Educational assn. and the Amer:, | lean assn* t of r School Administra-| h tors. ~'<z*'f *! '-'•"f""'* ";>4 ! ^ A mmeber of Phi Delta Kappa, | A honorary < professional fraternity $ f, for many:' years, he is a past | I president,of the local chapter. He J £ is also a past president of the I

* |; North Shore f Sertoma club, of q " f which »he is a member. For sev-t

V ,;\eral years he was superintendent! >f the Sunday school at Commu4

So that there will be ample time to find his successor, School Superintendent Edward J. Zeiler has announced that he will retire on July 1, 1966.

This disclosure was made to * the Whitefish Bay school board at its meeting last Wednesday by Richard A. McDermott, chairman of the instruction committee. He said the committee would begin immediately to seek qualified applicants for the position.

Superintendent 14 Years Zeiler has been superintendent

Rural School Start Zeiler belongs to the old line £

of teachers, who had their pro- ;; fessional beginnings in one-room i schools. His career had its start u in 1918 in a rural school in St. j,, Claire county, southern Illinois, ;' after he had completed high school % in Carbondale, 111. Two years later 1 he taught a similar school in Jack- > son county, 111. All of this tune he was spending summers in tak-; A ing teacher trainirig and moving » on to teach in a little,mining town of Cambria, 111. ,

After one year at Cambria, he of .Whitefish Bay schools since_ finished his junior college work, 1951 At first he was acting super- :, £ ™ g* J™^uthern Illinois mtendent because of dlness suf- 1 a . -fered by Superintendent Clifford Mulrine. He became superintendent in his own. right in the spring of 1952. He has been a part of the Bay school system since 1932, when he became principal of Richards school.

For several years, 1934-1939, he supervised both Cumberland and Richards schools. In 1939 he returned full time to the principal-ship of Richards school.

university, Carbondale,. III, and;

two yearsN it Alton, 111. He men^ took a leave of absence to com-j nlete his work for a bachelor de-* gree at the University of Chicago., g O n his return to Alton he be- -came superintendent-principal of i ' ^ s c h o o l s for me years He* came to West Alhs in 1931 as p?Scipal of Washington school: y * Continuous Study . . .

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Ish Bay, in which he holds mem-| ., bership. *-*f* > "• \&Z7$ \Ayz Born in Maryland : ^ ^ 4 I Further statistics reveal that | f Zeiler was ' born in Baltimore | h county, Maryland on July 11,1900. | | The Whitefish Bay school board f rruling is that personnel retire at; •* the end of the year in which they 1 *' reach 65.*" •«' * < ' " *v. J ) In 1926, Zeiler married W wife,] ;, Cordelia, who grew up on a farmf H in southern iffinois. The 'Zeilers j I have one son, William' E. Zeiler a [who is industrial sales manager| ; for * Midland Indusrtial Finishers, j I Waukegan, 111., and makes his | vhome in Highland Park with his I k „wife and two year old daughter.!

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plans for his retirement Up to J . t h e day he ceases to be superin- -* !' tendent his hobby will continue to 5 L be his job, which has left h im! y little time to explore hobby pos-1 1; sibilities. * + ' . '"-"• • r "8 1 "He has traveled extensively dur-| v ing his vacations and so will prob-1 : ably dp some traveling, which he | V enjoys, v ^ v ? »•» ^ >*•+ ^ , 1 \ "I also like to work with m y | I hands," he said, "and have done j |; most of the maintenance work'] '•• around our home at 5340 N. Santa I -'Monica blvd. I particularly l ike \ / t o work with wood. Most impor-,1 < tant to us, as least, is that we l Ihope to stay in Whitefish Bay." 4

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Speaking of history Conyersiing with Ralph Knoernschild, president of the Whitefish Bay Historical Society, about days gone by are three of White-fish Bay's oldest residents: (from left) Vera Lawrence, 92; Lucille Meyer, 96, and Theresa Maegli, 91. All attended the open house and dedication ceremonies for the new Historical Whitefish Bay Room on the lower level of the Whitefish Bay Village Hall. (Related photos inside)

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Surprise party celebrates resident's 90th birthday She lives in family home built in 1859, recalls bygone days

By Maureen Dietzel Mertens

One ofWhitefish Bay's oldest residents was honored last month.

It happened when Vera Lawrence's daughter, Pat Cronin, invited her to come over on a Saturday afternoon.

"Well pick you up. Mother." Cronin had said. Lawrence looked forward to seeing her daughter

and family. But little did she know, she was going to be the guest of honor at a very special party.

That day was Lawrence's 90th birthday. When they arrived at Cronin's house, Lawrence saw a house full of friends and relatives.

"I was so surprised." Lawrence said. There must have been 50 people there. Cousins and grandchildren, my brother, nieces and nephews. I never, never expected it. No one had said anything. Not even the little girls."

The girls are Lawrence's granddaughters, Mary Bridgid, 11, and Margaret Ann, 9. Her grandson, Tony Lawrence, 19, lives with his grandmother. He's studying police science at MATC. But he didn't say anything either.

Cronin's Aunt Kathleen was there. She's 83. And Leone, her cousin. She was 90 a few months ago. And of course, Lawrence's brother, Melvin Immekus. He's 92 and lives next door. He was honored at the Whitefish Bay centennial last year as the village resident who has lived longest in the community.

Planned for months

Cronin had been planning the party for more than three months and intended to have it even though she had just moved into a new house on East Hampton Avenue.

"But I really wanted to have the party," she said. "We had friends from way back, including some neighbors from the old days."

"The cake was just beautiful," Lawrence said. "I couldn't get over that cake. It had, 'Happy Birthday, Vera' written on it and then all the names, 'mother,' 'grandmother/ 'aunt/ 'cousin/ 'friend/ It was just beautiful. And It was delicious, too. All the food was excellent."

Between them, Vera Lawrence and her grandson, Tony Lawrence, represent the third and fifth generation to live in one of the village's oldest houses, on North Idlewild Avenue. Lawrence celebrated her 90th birthday last month and was honored at a surprise party.

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Lawrence has lived almost all her 90 years in the same house on North Idlewild Avenue. The house, built in 1859, had belonged to her grandparents, then her parents, then to Lawrence and her husband.

With her grandson there now, five generations of the family have lived in the house.

Lawrence remembers the Whitefish Bay of long ago. She remembers the day when the village schoolhouse burned down. It was where Old Schoolhouse Park is now.

"We were out playing in the cow pasture and we saw the fire, and I said, 'Oh, the school is burning/ That was our last semester before graduation. So

we finished up over at the armory on Henry Clay."

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Lawrence went to dances at Henry Clay School with her Mom and Dad.

"Dad had to carry a lantern so we could see. There weren't any sidewalks, and it was so dark you couldn't see anything. You can't imagine how dark it was," she said.

Her family shopped for groceries at H.P. Soren-son's General Store on what is now North Hollywood Avenue, she recalled.

"Nothing was packaged then," she said. "They had to weigh everything — sugar, flour. He had sausages hanging up inside the store."

But when they needed a lot of things, her mother would order it from Steinmeier's on Third Street, and it would be delivered in a horse-drawn wagon.

Vera Lawrence remembers going to the Whitefish Bay Resort on Sundays.

There was a band and we'd have ice cream cones, they cost a nickel, and Cracker Jack. Everyone went," she said.

Her father worked for Willmen's Bros, as a lithographer.

"Mother packed a sandwich and maybe an apple for his lunch, and he'd take the street car and go to work."

When she was 12, Lawrence had appendicitis attack and became critically ill.

"It was a very bad case. They took me to a little hospital. North Side Hospital on Fifth and Cherry, and then I got pneumonia and the stitches on my side came open. I was there for three months, from

April to June. And one day Dad came to see me, and I didn't have a nightgown and he decided to take me right out of there.

She remembers the first time she saw a car, and so does Immekus, who lives next door in a house he built in 1936.

T h e first automobile in Whitefish Bay belonged to Judge Williams, who lived on Day Avenue," said Immekus. "It was a touring car."

Woriced for village

Immekus began working for the village in 1921. "They advertised for a civil engineer and a me

chanical engineer." He said 32 persons applied for the jobs.

T o m Buckley got the civil engineer job, and I got the mechanical one," Immekus said, Y - \

He served an apprenticeship to leani his trade and went to what is now the Milwaukee School of Engineering. - v /Y;*•**-

"I worked days arid went to school nights and Saturday mornings. Many, many times I'd have to walk home because we'd miss the last street car. I'd get home at 2 a.m. and have to get up at 5."

He likes baseball and the Brewers. T h e Brewers can't win," he said. "I used to like (former Brewer Paul) Molitor," who is now a member ofthe Toronto Blue Jays.

The family house was originally located right in the middle of where Idlewild is now.

"We had to move it." Immekus explained. "The village condemned some of our land and took it away to build the roads. And they didn't pay for it."

Back in those days there were only three roads, he said: Hampton, Henry Clay, which was then called Washington Avenue, and Silver Spring. T h e only way to get to Milwaukee was on Oakland Avenue. Lake Drive was a toll road," he said.

Lawrence and Immekus have many stories to tell about a Whitefish Bay that no longer exists. But when they speak of it, you almost feel as if you could walk outside that 1859 home see the corn fields and vegetable gardens and perhaps take a walk through the cow pasture to Sorenson's General Store or the old school.

Junel2,1992

Mimi Bird

Dear Mimi:

I hope you will forgive my typing. My eyes are going bad but I will try

and put down my memories about my childhood in Whitefish Bay.

I was born in August, 1929 and I was raised at 5572 N. Santa Monica Blvd, I

lived there until I entered the Air Force in January,1952.

I remember most of all the sounds afound our home in the Bay. We did not

have air conditioning in the Thirties and Forties so we slept with our windows

open. Whenever an earth-shaking event would occur I recall the paper boy shouts

ing "EXTRA,EXTRA,read all about it." The Ragman drove through our alley with his

horse and wagon shouting "REX,REX ,anyone have REX?"

Other sounds were the tinkle of glass milk bottles as the milkman

delivered his products according to our list in the milk chute or delivered into

our kitchen because nobody thought of locking &98± doors at night.

There was the sound of the Pop Corn vender and the Ice Cream cart which were

favorites to all of us kids.

We played in our£j$£ and our sand lots which were all over the place and I can

still hear the sounds of my friends playing baseball, kick ball,stick ball-You

name it.

• •- ..- -,•.—1„ .•„ H n R a v in those early days.We were all a little naive,andf <££x

I am thankful for that and for the fact that I grew up in a wonderful place

like Whitefish Bay.

Rodger Warshauer

22 Ridgeview Drive

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dumberland school third and fourth graders- receiiredl a glimgse into the early hi^ory of Whitefish Bay, when Arthur Rabe -related" incidents from his childhood in the village.

|tahe> 87, was. introduced, to the classes "by Mrs. John Collins, 1218 E. Courtland pi5 a member of the Cumberland cultural arts committee*

His talk was part of the committeel's project to make children aware, of village history. It was augmented with 'photographs; displayed at the school by Mrs. Harold Itskovitz* 4819 N. Lake Drivej another member of the committee who contacted the Herald and received photographs of the early history of the Bay.

Rabe., was bprnuin his grandfathers home which was located, at what is now-;48'5^ On Feb* 23, 1886. He attended the "1real,,r

school, built in 1892, and graduated from eigth grad^ :with a class; of, five in 1900. I ^

Before Rabe was allowed to graduate, he told the children that he had to journey to 19th and Wells sts. to take final exams from the? County superintendent of schools. Teachers were not trusted to be fair in the grading of exams in those days.

The school Rabe attended was built shortly after Whitefish Bay became a village. The school had two- rj fe&a and stood across from the present library, It was destroyed by fire in 1918. Rabe said the cause of the fire was never determined.

The children echoed loud "ohsm when Rabe described what at farm looked like and what a typical day of work was like on a. farm in White-fish Bay before the last century endeeb.

A cow bell originally owned by Rabefs grandfather was shown to:; the children when he explained! his father cured a cow of jumping over fences. "We hung a board from the cows horns: So that she could not look up to see the top of fences.1"

Rabe told of bringing the cows home from pastures, on horseback and picking cherries and apples on Cahill S'quare and along what is now Hampton ave. One child asked-Rabe "what happened to the apple trees111 ??

Rabe told off kummgi^ Resort | !?rsince my father worked there"1 he related with" glee, I was often able to get a. free ice cream cone. The ice cream for the resort was made by the turning on the Ferrie Wheel..

When Rabe finished his talk, he was* mobbed with questions from the students. Questions ranged from inquiries about the existence of a fire department to the existence of toy stores.

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Rabe replied that there was no volunteer fire department but there were places ta> get toys. Too poor to buy toys, however he-made his own.. ••• , ' •'.:.*

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Rabe became interested in the history of Whitefish~Bay shortly before) his retirement as an official of the AF&-CIO in 1958; He has supplied the Whitefish Bay public Lubrary with much of the information it has on the history of the' Bay. He works with his daughter Mrs. Chas. H. Kestermeier to check on the accuracy, of his reports to the library. •

It was through the library that Mrs. Collins contacted

Rabe and brought him to Cumberland for his speech which left the

third and fourth graders- better able to fathom some of the changes

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The Rab$fs sold many a bushel, of, those apples and of course ate some. The RAbeJs had a good friend, in,Gilbert Schultz. He worked • in North- Milwaukee and needed a horse and buggy to get'to> tlxe<job and back home again to North Ave. & Humboldt. Schultz had a cow pony called Nellie. The hoarse had been branded on the right shoulder.^ S'ehultz told my father Nellie tes getting too old'and how about my giving you Nellie and its harness. Let your boy and; Nellie get aac— quainted a.nd he cduld ride, Nellie. My father, agreed' to take the horse, Nellie and I got acquainted and I rode the horse hom'e with the cows*

In winter time the cattle and Nellie stayed in the barn. When a man or boy is around a horsej it is best to be very bareful. One evening my father was milking dur 3 cows, and I was told to water BILL one of our horses. I got^a full pail of water from the well and did a very foolish thing . Instead of saying "'get over bill"1 I touched Bill who had his down in the manger, Bill with hind legs in the air shot me and the • empty pail through the opefa barn door and landed, me on the-manure pile outside. I did not get hurt but my father might take care of that. I quickly got a full pail. of watery Bad said "'get oyer Bill™ and Bill got his drink. It must have gotten by my Dad for he said nothing. But I was extra caretyOL: after that.

When I was 5 years' old and my sister Lottie 6 years, my Dad-talked to us one day. Whitefish Bay had no schoolv He told,us it may take a long time before the Bay. has a school. I want you kids to> learn something so you wont have to work with tools digging ditches or be out in all kinds of weather,' snow,, rain, and cold. So Lottie and I walked 2 or more miles to the-Port Washington Road school. It was a :

Town of Milwaukee, school. I room for boys' and 3L room .:for girls. It=-was on the'west side'of: the street, on Win. Lindwurm's.^ Land . There were ' no automobiles in-those days , traffic was light, and safe to cross the street. , , , . • « <z

It was no go. The weather- did not allow us to go,regular every day and time,was wasted, A lot of people that had'children old, enough to go to school had quite a few- meetings about a,>school. George Rogers,

. that edited, and printed the Pioneer Weekly Newspaper sa±&i will help all I can. He had 4 children ready for school. More, meetings, and then Rogers said let us work to get to be a village and the school/will (' follow. * Henry Scheife was told to take a census: of the people" living

" in the Bay. His census showed there ''were. 316: people: living in the Bay. That numher feut us way over the top. They selected a committee who met, elected officers to run the village , and sent a; arommitte#- to meet w±± with Judge Johnson ,of the circuit courtr whp signed the .order that .

brought the Village of Whitefish Bay into existance. ' . . YTweedy LandUJo,- Richard and: Elizabeth Burke, ,and John and Cath—

rine Mann, for -Sl tone dollar) deeded enough < land-to the'-Village to , allow for the;building of( a school house,'-toilet 'facilities and a MJLdrens. playground. • John Kohlmet» was chosen«to build the school s©. It was finished building in_1392:and"%edicat¥d "tAlQ^Z,"""?"•"'" ^

^ .^fortunately this school"buteed to the ground in 1918. 'No cause of vV the fire. was' ever found out;, \ Z' ' Arthur A. .Rabe and a class of 4, graduated from^this school June 1900^

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;;v.i ,j...ad t . . • ,Jz *r' The school you boys and girls go to, *<$he Cumberland SchooJ"', As .on :^ \ ground that used to have cows, horses, wagons, plows J hay forks and much more on it. There used to be ax well to draw fresh water, with;a

\ pump on it, for the house and kitchen needs.. This well was near the ( > )house. Another deep well was near the bam so water would be javail.— '" /able to the'horses, cows and chickens. No doubt a. large barrel, was,

available to. catch, rain water from the roof of the house, because .this, rain water was softer and used for'washing clothes. Henry Schreiber and his wife, that owned this farm, had a family, of boys; & girls that were ver# helpfuX as they grew up. Young Henry was 15 years old, Eddie 13, Rosie 11, Minnie 8, and Elsie 2 years.

When Mr. Schreiber got up early in the morning, the first thing he • saw to -was that the animals were watered, and fed* He then smarted to milk the cows, no doubt helped ih the gilking.Tsy the two older boys* As to) watering the cattle, there was a deep) well near the barn with a. trough so arranged that the cattle could be drinking from both sides, of the trough. After being milked and fedm in summer time they were put out to pasture.. Now the farmer and children and wife were ready* to-have breakfast.

The the farmer hitched urp> a horse to a wagon, put a can of milk on it, possibly 10 gallons, took his measuring can and a bell, to call the customers, as he arrived in Milwaukee.After taking care of some, he would keep going to other customers that were waiting,, until all the milk had ' been sold. :":

No doubt he stopped at a butcher shop so as to bring home some fresh beef^meat. No doubt he* stopped, at a bakery to bring home one or twr coffee cakes, or piesrand even, bananas to the gang. When he got home of ~ course the familtf sat down to eat. Then, depending oh the season , he would plow a field, for planting/potatoes, ;or cut some grass to make hay for the horses and cows. There was always plenty to do. In rainy weather

, every wagon, buggy, grass mower etc. was taken to a shed, wheels.- taken off and plenty of axle grease put on to stophany schreechimg; noise. This greasing had' to be regularly, done» '

Wilth-,a large herd of cows you might have one that.acted kind of ornery. 'My grandfather" said-take: a board, that had. been, fixed to be,, about 2. feet long & 2 feet wide, and fasten this oh the cows horns. That cow could see the ground and. grass but would not try to jump fences. iV.hag-to behave./ Cows would sometimes get their milk bag dirty] and it was necessary to wash of f the dirt td keep*, the milk clean. I believe the Schreiberstvalso fattened about 6 pigs; every winter, and killed them one as needed, made sausages,''etc; and'the hams were well smoked in the smoke house.

My folks, vthe Rabefs had 3 cows, after^having been milked in the morning it was up( to me, about 5 years old^-ta see to it they got to> the pasture, which is right across the road, from, you.. Mr. Kruse having died, Mrs. Kruse-;-sold barn, house and everything worth,while to Otto Runge^ who had just been married^ and all was moved, to the East side o£- the Railway-tracks. The railroad had bought the Kruse 8 acres and-the Rabe1s re j them from, the railroad for cow pasture , and used the. rest for raising.S-y

""other'w Near Hampt6n-Road Kruse had left quite a few" apple trees of all kinds and cherry trees. It was 'a question if I would eat vthe' cherries or' the birds who were also waiting. . " v

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An interview with Mrs. J. Martin (Roberta Roberts) Klotsche and her sister, Mrs. A. D. (Joan Roberfcs) Robertson on September 1, 1983, at Mrs. Robertson's home, 6226 N. Lake Drive.

Walter Schroeder (of the Schroeder Hotel) had his home to the immediate south of the Roberts/Robertson property. His home was eventually sold to Augie Mack, his nephew. Augie tore down that home and built the home, still standing, at 610 E. Lake Hill Court. When he sold this home, he sold the surrounding land to a developer, who put through present Lake Hill Court and built the remaining homes here.

The Schroeder homes (they were at old 6170 and 6180 N. Lake Dr.) were to the west of the home at 610 Lake Hill Court, which was built on the Schroederfs former swimming pool and two story shed site.

There was also a small shack type house on the bluff of the Schroeder property. The Schroederfs had a couple, David and Julie Singers, working for them, who originally rented the old Steffen farmhouse, on St. Monica Blvd.(this Steffen home is now gone) and later moved into the small house on the bluff. The Roberts family (especially Roberta R. Klotsche) wooed the Singers1 away from the Schroeder?s and had them come to work for them, as cook and gardener.

As a youngster, Joan Roberts had a series of monkeys for pets; they would escape every so often, and go into the Schroeder apple trees, knocking down the apples and eating them. She also had a pony who wandered over into Mr. Schroederfs cornfield, trampling down the corn and nibbling on it. None of this made Mr. Schroeder very happy!

Pete Shaver, 'a local fisherman, had his shack on what is now Berkeley Blvd., near a now non-existent road, Crystal Lane (6200 block today); Roberta and Joan's grandfather, Charles Roberts1, would go fishing with Pete. Roberta went to his shack often. She remembers Pete as a jolly fellow, rosy-checked; men would come and sit around his wood stove in his small place. He made moonshine and people said he had a "blind pig11 (illegal saloon) - Roberta Klotsche remembers trying to find this blind pig of his!

In 1912, on present Montclaire Ave., Allan J. Roberts, father of Joan and Roberta, purchased 3.66 acres of Johanna Lenneker's farmland. There was a small house here of hers and the Roberts' rented it out, as a summer cottage, to their friends, the Elliott Ogden's, of Milwaukee, for several summers.

Later, Mr. Roberts leased the land and potatoes were grown on the property, the Roberts' children would go down and pick off the potatoe bugs for their father - "to help develop their character11, Mrs. Klotsche surmised.

There was a store on Lake Drive and Silver Spring Rd., which several pharmacists had bought. They asked Allan J. Roberts if he would help with the financial aid, which he did. It was a small clapboard building on the west side of the street car tracks. One pharmacist then moved out of town and the other left later; this left Mr. Roberts owning the store alone. The Articles of Incorporation were drawn up in 1924, with three signers - Ernest Druschke, Howard Thompson and Mr. Roberts. Mr. Druschke later had his own store on Oakland Ave. in Shorewood and so did Mr. Thompson, on Capitol Drive. When these pharmacists left, Mr. Roberts hired Dan Fitzgerald. After the 2nd World War, the store began to prosper.

At this time, Mrs. Klotsche was bedridden with arthritis for three years, but decided to become involved with the drugstore business, as her mother and sister weren't interested. She wanted to upgrade the card selections and the cosmetics, since all they carried at the time was the Pond's line. She hired

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Mrs. Winkie, who was head of the cosmetics at the downtown Smartwear store, on Wisconsin Avenue. Mrs. Winkie said she had been used to working with carpet under her feet and Mrs. Klotsche told her "you should see this place -all the linoleum is cracked!" Mrs. Winkie was a lovely, elegant lady, Mrs. Klotsche said.

Then the pharmacy moved into the Williamsburg type building Mrs. Klotsche had built at 5269 N. Lake Drive in 1953. She said having the drugstore got her moving around and gave her a real incentive to "go", even with her arthritis. They started buying beautiful gift items and going to New York City to Elizabeth Arden's on buying trips. At night, she would be taken down to the store to see how everything looked. She said she did all the planning from her bed, for the new store; her father had owned the property (formerly Dutcher's Garden Mart was located here) and he had planned some type of building for this location. Finally, she was able to completely get out of bed and thanks her drugstore involvement for this.

She has the minutes from the drugstore's beginning. Pharmacists began coming to them right out of the university. Jim Eberts was one of them and is still working at Dan Fitzgerald's Pharmacy on Silver Spring Dr. Mrs. Klotsche went to the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Pharmacy building and found a man who would come each month to her pharmacy. He would sit down with the pharmacists (she said "we didn't have ERA then and the men preferred to talk to another man") and answer their questions and help with inventory control. Today, he is the head of the whole Pharmacutical Association of America, in Washington, D.C "He made us a professional outfit". She recalled that just before she went into the Pharmacy building in Madison, she found a penny on the ground. She calls it her good luck penny, which she kept for many years after finding this gentleman.

Dan Fitzgerald left the Whitefish Bay Pharmacy to start his own store; later, she opened the Fox Point Apothecary and the Lake Park Pharmacy, on Downer Avenue. She said she doesn't take any credit for these businesses, she just had the initiative to keep them afloat. She eventually got to the point shere she could go in once a day after lunch and stay for half the day. "It made my life so interesting" she said. Finally, the Whitefish Bay Pharmacy was phased out and Fox=Preuss Florists occupy the space, along with Litton Interiors.

Francis H. Schmitt was the builder for the Roberts, Klode and Schmitt homes, along Lake Drive. His own home, at 6410 N. Lake Drive, just at the top of the hill, Fox Point, was built at the same time as the Roberts/Robertson home at 6226 N. Lake Drive (1912-13). Eugene Schmitt, his son, had his home to the north of the Roberts' home, at 6310 N. Lake Dr., also still here.

When Roberta Roberts and Joe Martin Klotsche were married, they lived in the old cottage on her grandparents, later her parents' property at 6226 N. Lake Drive, for two years, until they had children and had to move to a warmer home. By the time they were married, Roberta's grandmother, Cora Roberts' had died, and when the Klotsche's returned from their European honeymoon, Mrs. Allan J. Roberts, Roberta's mother, had fixed up the old cottage for them to live in.

Three generations of Roberts' have lived in the old Scheife farmhouse cottage-Cora and Charles Roberts, while building the home at 6226; then their son, Allan J. and his family summered in it for years, until they moved :into the home at 6226 N. Lake Dr., and then the Klotsche's. The cottage has been to.rn down (1950) and Mrs* Allan J. Roberts present home, at 6216 N. Lake Drive, was built, on tl , site of the old cottage.

Mrs. Klotsche remembers when she and her husband lived in the cottage, they would have friends out for dinner. The last street car left School Road, for

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Interview with Annette (Jacobi) Roberts^ widow of Allan J. Roberts, age 99-1/2 years.

Interview on Aug. 19, 1983 at Mrs. Roberts' home, 6216 N. Lake Dr., with her daughter,

Mrs. (Joan) A. D. Robertson assisting.

Annette Roberts' in-law's, Cora and Charles B. Roberts, purchased the old

Carl Scheife farmhouse and accompanying 2-1/2 acres in 1912. Land value on the Assess

ment Rolls states valuation at $1200 and improvements (home and out-buildings) at $700.00.

This is the property at 6216 and 6226 N. Lake Drive, now occupied by Mrs. Roberts and

her daughter and son-in-law, Joan and Alfonso D. Robertson.

The 1913 Assessment Rolls show that the land value had risen to $3750 and the

improvements to $5000. Between 1912 and 1913, Charles Roberts built a plain two-story

stucco home, still standing, at 6226 N. Lake Drive, shown by the Assessment figures.

However, the $5000 also included the old farmhouse and any other out-buildings still

standing.

The farmhouse was used as a summer residence by Charles and Cora Roberts' son

and his family, Allan J. and Annette Roberts, and their three children, Roberta (Mrs. J.

Martin Klotsche), Joan and Allan, Jr. The new stucco home was also used only as a

summer residence at this time and both families returned to the city when school began.

The farmhouse cottage consisted of two rooms on the first floor - a living room

and lean-to type kitchen. Heat came from a wood-burning stove; later, a bathroom and an

^closed porch were added. This cottage stood where 6216 N. Lake Drive is now located,

th of these homes (6226 and 6216) are set far back from the street, on the bluff, over

looking Lake Michigan. The three children slept upstairs in the loft and Joan Robertson

can still remember the wonderful sound of rain falling and squirrels dropping their nuts

on the roof, along with the train passing through the night to the north.

The property was quite bare of trees and shubbery, which the Roberts' men planted"

on the hillside and grounds, along with putting in tiles for drainage. Mrs. Cora Roberts

planted a large grape arbor to the west of the homes. On hot summer days, they would take

picnics to the beach, going down steps that had been carved into the bluff. Charles and

his son, Allan, had built picnic tables on the beach and on their return from the city in

the evenings, joined the women and children at the beach. Joan Robertson remembers that

her father drove into the city, instead of taking the TMER & L line, which ran past their

home, ending at the top of the hill on School Road. She also noted that vandalism had

become much worse in the past twenty-five years along the beaches, so they have let the

hillside become overgrown.

Annette Roberts said that most of their groceries were purchased out of the

village in those early years and delivered to them, although they did buy beautiful white

iparagus from Mr. Kitzerow and other vegetables from Mr. Meissner, both on N. Port Washington

J- ad; (Kitzerow's farm was located just north of Silver Spring and Meissner's Pickle

Factory was located where The Coat Rack is now, north of Henry Clay St.)

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downtown around 8:00 p.m. Everyone waited until the last minute and would then yell "Here it comes", rushing out to catch it. As there were few trees from the Roberts' property up to the corner at School Road then, they'd have a clear view, along with hearing it. The guests would then wave frantically at the conductor to stop.

Roberta Klotsche remembers her grandfather, Charles Roberts, bringing her out to his property on the old Northwestern train, which stopped at Silver Spring to let everyone out. This was prior to the streetcar. They'd stop at the grocery store there, which also housed the Post Office,

(The Whitefish Bay Pharmacy began on the site of present Winkles Variety Store. At that time, Marlborough Drive did not exist, and when it did go through, north of Henry Clay St., it angled north of Birch Ave., to the northwest, ending at Hollywood Ave. and Silver Spring Drive.)

Mimi Y. Bird

Note: The Walter C Schroeder mentioned in this article &6<^d ^ ^ ^ 2 ^ A * - W u>/M Walter Schroeder, builder) tots the Walter Schroeder of the hotel

family. The builder Schroeder built many Bay homes and lived in a home he built at 5560 N. Lake Dr. in the 1960's.

6180 N. Lake Drive, on former Schroeder property, is the same home at 611 E. Lake Hill Ct., built by Dr. Harry J. and Amanda Heeb (a Schroeder daughter) between the 1921 and 1924 Assessment Rolls. The listing at 6170 N. Lake Dr. was the former garage/coachhouse and that was torn down. Mrs. Amalia and Miss Ella Schroeder lived there; it was torn down in the early 1960's.

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She could remember her father-in-law, Charles Roberts, going fishing with a

local bachelor fisherman, Pete Schaefer, early in the mornings and bringing home white-fish. Pete lived in an old shack near them, close to present Berkeley Blvd..and also

i a still.

The senior Roberts' home was robbed one evening, Annette Roberts recalled. There

had been a large jar of peaches in the kitchen when everyone retired and in the morning,

all that was left were the peach pits. Everyone was amazed at the robber's calmness in

robbing them and then taking his time eating the peaches. A motorman on the TMER & L

apprehended the robber, noting his bleeding arm (perhaps from using his arm to break a

window to enter the home.)

She remembered that the two families hadn't socialized with the neighboring

farmers, as the local people near them spoke mainly German. The Roberts' invited their

city friends to visit; the children's school friends came to play and stay "out in the

country".

Their immediate neighbor to the south was Walter Schroeder, of the Hotel Schroeder,

now the Marc Plaza Hotel. (Chris. Schroeder & Sons Co. was a large landowner in this

section of Whitefish Bay in the early 1900's.) His home is no longer standing.

The Roberts' children played with the Klode children while growing up here. Joan

Robertson spoke of "Grandpa Klode", so named by the Roberts' children because the two

^amilies had been close. She said he had built his home at the top of the bluff, in the

die of his property, and had his children build around him.

Between 1912 and 1914, Allan J. Roberts also was a large land owner in the north

east part of Whitefish Bay, purchasing much of Johanna Lenneker's former farmland. He

named one of these parcels of land the Charles B. Roberts Subdivision, after his father,

and it is so named today on the plat maps. This is bounded by E. Montclaire Ave., the

east side of St. Monica Blvd., to the west side of Lake Drive, and north to the 6100

blocks of St. Monica, Berkeley Blvd. and Lake Drive.

Eventually, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Roberts moved to 6226 N. Lake Dr. permanently.

He died in 1927 and Allan J. purchased the home from his mother, Cora. Allan and Annette

then remodeled the stucco home into the Mediterranean style it is today, adding a porch,

two bedrooms and another bath. They fell in love with this style while on a trip to

Italy and did the remodeling on their return home. The original garage was torn down and

the present one built at the same time as the remodeling. Mrs. Charles Roberts then

moved to the Astor Hotel.

In those early days, a dirt road named Crystal Lane ran east and west, connecting

St. Monica Blvd. (Richards St.) to Lake Drive, and if continued, would have run into the

'-idle of the Roberts' property on Lake Drive. This road served the Cornelius, Fons and

arts families, with the Fons and Cornelius homes fronting on Crystal Lane. The

road no longer exists. In effect, it was a continuation of Devon St. to the east, but

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Allan J. Roberts died in 1948 and in 1950, his widow, Annette, built the

home at 6216 N. Lake Drive, where she still lives, with her housekeeper. This home Tas built on the site of the old Scheife farmhouse she and her husband had used as

a summer residence years ago.

Annette Roberts commented, in response to my asking if I had overstayed my

welcome, "I'm really a pretty strong person, am I not? I do like living. I will say

that I always think there is plenty to learn in living. When you get to this age, then

you begin to think of the past very strongly." At this point, she was eager to look

through two old photo albums her daughter, Joan, had found to show me, which they hadn't

looked through in years.

"I always have about five letters ahead of me to write. I wrote a letter this

morning. I don't get half done what I want to do - don't you feel that way? My eyes

are getting bad." (She only wore her glasses during this interview to look at photos and

is just beginning to use a magnifying glass!)

Joan Robertson said her mother has lots of younger women friends, going into

the 3rd generation younger. Annette Roberts mentioned that her two older sisters had

died at age 96. "It's so queer, because my mother died so young (her mother had had

seven children and died of TB, which had been so prevalent then.) You can't seem to

trace where the stren gth comes from or why. My father died at 83 years."

Mrs. Roberts is a charming lady, beautifully groomed and coiffured. She gave me

a firm handshake and retains a keen sense of humor. She lives very much in the present

and is concerned about her great-grandchildren.

She plans to celebrate her 100th birthday, Dec. 13th, in Florida, with her

family around her.

Mimi Y. Bird Aug. 24, 1983

Note: Mrs. Roberts did celebrate her 100th birthday, with her family around her! (Feb. 1984)

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MEMORIES OF MRS. A. D. ROBERTSON (Joan Roberts Robertson)

Mrs. A. D. Robertson lives in her maternal grandparents

former home at 6226 N. Lake Drive. It was built in 1912

by Charles and Cora Roberts as a rather plain two story

stucco house on the earlier Scheife farmland.

An old wood frame Scheife house was moved to the south

of the stucco house and became a summer cottage for the

Roberts' son, Allan J. and his family (parents of Joan

Roberts Robertson). The senior Roberts' also used the

larger house as a summer home. "They packed up in May

with a moving van to come here for the summer," Mrs.

Robertson recalled. "It was nearly an all day trip then

by horse and buggy and sometimes we took the train out

when I was a child." The two families lived on Milwaukee's

East side at that time.

"It was mainly field and farmland then with few homes.

Walter Schroeder1s mother and sisters lived south of our

property (he owned the Schroeder Hotel, now the Marc Plaza);

the Schmitt's home was up on the hill to the north and the

Fons' home was west of us on Crystal Lane. Berkeley Blvd.

wasn't there. Crystal Lane ran east and west connecting

our driveway with Richards St."(St. Monica Blvd.)

"My grandfather died in 1926 and my parents moved here

permanently in 1929. My grandmother moved to the smaller

summer cottage, which was remodeled for her. My parents

extensively remodeled this home, changing it from three to

five bedrooms and adding two more bathrooms. They enlarged

the porch, screening it, and it became our summer living

room."

"They also remodeled the outside of the home, changing it

into the Mediterranean style it is today. My brother and

I went to MUS (Milwaukee University School) and my sister

went to Shorewood High School. I lived here until my marriage,

when my husband and I moved to Cincinnati. I returned in 1947

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when my father died, staying with my mother for several

months.

Then my husband came here and we bought this home. My

mother alternately stayed with us and my sister while

her new home was being built. The old small frame cottage

was torn down to make room for her home. The rest of our

children were born here."

(The Roberts/Robertson property is at 6220 and 6226 N.

Lake Dr. Both homes were built near the edge of the lake

bluff and are hidden from view of Lake Dr. traffic due to

the length of the property and plantings. Joan Roberts

Robertson's parents were Allan J. and Annette Roberts;

Mrs. Roberts died at age 102 in 1985.)

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can fill a lifetime By Mary Schuchmann

As her 100th birthday approaches in December, Annette Roberts might be expected to .dwell on the past. Her years of efforts on behalf of women's* rights and peace have given her experiences and acquaintances enough to fill a couple of lifetimes.

She was a feminist and a pacifist long before those words were unlocked from the dictionary.

But the Whitefish Bay woman lives -very much in the present—and thinks a great deal about the future.

Her thoughts are getting^ more difficult to express, her words are a , little slower, yet her keen mind and outspoken concern for the world are still fiercely evident. Her spirit has not been limited by the calendar. . In May of this year, she wrote a letter to the editor of a local daily paper on the topic of nuclear weapons and war. She made no mention of her 99-year-perspective on world affairs.

Another of her letters appeared two years ago—this one on the need for a world court.

The morning ofthe Herald interview last week, she and her daughter had a $5 wager on an item of current events trivia. Mrs. Roberts won.

"We're' always having bets like that*"; said her daughter, Joan Robertson, 6226 N. Lake Dr. ~ The two have an honest, forthright relationship. There is no pampering on either side. When her daughter challenged Mrs. Roberts to defend a political view expressed during the interview, the older woman looked at the reporter and smiled. "See what happens when you have children?" she said. |

Her family history has to be coaxed from Mrs. Roberts. She is more comfortable talking about ideas and world events.

Born in Milwaukee, she grew up in a Humboldt Ave. neighborhood, attended Milwaukee Downer College and Hamilton Institute in Washington, D.C. She was married in 1904.

She and her husband, Allan Roberts, started as summer residents of Whitefish Bay, in a lakefront farmhouse cottage very near her present N. Lake Dr. home. They moved , permanently to the village in 1929. Roberts died in 1947.

In addition to her daughter Joan

(Mrs. A. D. Robertson), another daughter Roberta (Mrs. J. Martin Klotsche) lives in Tucson/Ariz.

There are eight grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. •;'"'t-"ftp'\:l

Active first in the struggle to give women the right to vote, international events focused Mrs. Roberts' attention on peace. She recalls being stunned by World War I. «v • "It was a tremendous jolt, I felt such despair," she said. "I would walk up and down, feeling that people weren't : concerned about what was happening.

..I couldn't think of anything else, I felt so alone. It was the thing that opened ,. my eyes to what must be done in the future." _ .

She was on hand in Washington, D.C. > in 1915 when Jane Addams organized the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. f/Mrs. Roberts founded th£ Milwaukee chapter of the < group, and is still a member. ' %

Through her peace work, she met George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell, Norman Thomas and Eleanor Roosevelt.

She traveled to peace conferences in Europe seven times. In 1937, at a conference in Paris/she and a friend were asked to—and did— smuggle French money into Hitler's Germany to help a group of anti-Nazis leave the country.

As a member of a prominent, largely conservative Milwaukee family, Mrs. Roberts was frequently alone in her views in the early years. Typical of the times, her husband did not fully approve of her many involvements, she said.

"He tolerated my work," she recalled with a smile, "but he was not very enthusiastic."

In later years, her daughter said, her father grew to understand and support her mother's activism. "Their minds and their philosophies came together," she said. , T

Despite her worldwide view, Mrs*- / Roberts was also active in local affairs. She was one of the first two women elected to the Whitefish Bay School Board (in 1933), and was a member of the University of Wiscon*. sin Board of Visitors in the 1930S. ,

She was honored in 1965, at the age of 81, by seven Milwaukee peace organizations. In an interview at that

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Dassow, Lydia Runge Interviewed 11/11/1983

Mrs. Dassow was the daughter of Annie Augusta Mbhr and Otto Runge. She is 81 years old. Her father's parents were Carl and Caroline Runge, who lived in Whitefish Bay in their later years. Her mother's parents were Dora (Dorothy) Rose and Philip Mohr.

Grandpa Mohr's farmland was on Henry Clay St., north side, between Lydell Ave. and Bay Ridge Ave. After Grandma Dorothy Mohr died, Annie and Otto Runge moved into his house to take care of him, along with their children, Annie's tvro brothers, Philip, Jr. and Fred, and her nephew, Walter Mohr. Walter was the son of Annie's deceased sister-in-law, Marie Quabius Mohr, and her brother, Andrew. The bid Mohr home the Runge's moved into on Henry Clay St. was torn down in the early Iy20's, shortly after Fred MDIIT bought and moved the Kaestner farmhouse to the Mohr property. The Kaestner house still stands at 106 W. Henry Clay St., having been built on the south side of Henry Clay St., between Lydell Ave. and Kent Ave.

Fred Mohr married Clara Kaestner, daughter of Henry and Alvina (Kohlmetz) Kaestner, who lived across the road. At the time Fred moved the Kaestner home to Mohr land, the foundation was put under the house. Later, a rear addition was added. Fred and Clara Mohr moved to Range Line Road in 1926.

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When Fred married, Annie and Otto Runge noved out of the Mohr house, as Fred and his wife were there to take care of Grandpa Mbhr. The Runge's rented the William Kruse farmhouse, on Hampton Road, near Ardmore Ave. (gone now), on the site of the present Baptist Church.

Their next move was to the farmhouse just to the east of Grandpa Mbhr's home, the former Kleinhans' farmhouse, also torn down now. In 1925, The Runge's moved out to Mequon.

Grandpa Philip Mohr died in 1929, age 91. He smoked his pipe and played cards until he died. (His photographs make him resemble an old sea captain, with his white hair and white beard.')

Lydia Range's in-laws, the Dassow^^ farmed on the Green Bay Road, north of Capitol Drive and this family had been early settlers in that area. Lydia's sister-in-law is Minnie Dassow Schulpius, who still lives on Schulpius land in the 5300 block of N. Iroquois Road.

While Lydia Runge was growing up, she said Whitefish Bay had a lot of small farms, 5 to 10 acres. Her sister, Dora, was named for Grandma Mohr. While they lived in the farmhouse on Hampton Road, north of present Cumberland School, they played in the woods that were on the site of Cumberland School.

She remembered Harriet Volkmann, daughter of William, as a friend of hers and said that Harriet, now deceased, had been a teacher at Richards School for many years.

Her father, Otto Runge, couldn't speak English, only German. Once Lydia and her brother and sisters went to school, her mother told her they had to stop speaking German and could only speak English from then on.

Mrs. Dassow loaned me old photos to photograph, of the way Henry Clay St. looked in lyl4-1916, the old Kruse farmhouse and grade school pictures.

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Funkhauser, Laura Weber October 1983

Mrs. Samuel Funkhauser (Laura Weber) was the daughter of George and Mary Weber, who moved to Glen Avenue (828) in April 1912. This house was built in 1895 by Frank Boltes. Mrs. Funkhauser said when her family moved into the house, it was in very bad shape and had to have a lot of work done to it.

She was in 6th grade when they movecyf*here and she went to WFB's 1st school, on Birch Ave. and Marlborough Dr. (although Birch Ave. didn't exist then). The school had four rooms when she went there, with two grades to each room. The principal was Peter J. Maas and he taught 7th and 8th grades. The older grades were upstairs, the younger ones downstairs. MLchae Carney was the janitor.

When they moved here, Glen Ave. (then called Connecticut Avenue) was a dirt road, as was Lake Drive, although there were cement sidewalks on Glen Ave. (It was part of Tweedy's Subdivision - more improved than other areas.) One day, Mrs. Weber (Laura) and her brother had gone to the south side to a birthday party. Coming home at night on the streetcar, the motorman let them out on Henry Clay Road, not knowing where Silver Spring Road was. The family walked in the dark, along Lake Drive, hoping they would recognize their street, since they hadn't been in the heme a long time as yet. After a lengthy search, they found it.

There were seme apple trees and plum trees on their property when they moved in. The Blankenhorns lived next door to the Weber-S^ Mrs. Blankenhorn was an aunt of Harold KlarmS * From Birch Avenue south to Lexington Blvd., the area was marshy, full of wild flowers, wild raspberries and strawberries. The Weber kids would take pails and go pick the berries.

Everyone came out to watch the first schoolhouse burn. It was thought, since the school caught fire early in the morning, that sparks from the 7:00 a.m. train that went to Green Bay from Milwaukee alongside the school (on present Marlborough Dr.) flew to the schoolhouse roof and started the fire.

She saw the 1st Methodist Church in Whitefish Bay burn on Feb. 11, 1923. (Other versions say 1921). An overheated furnace started this fire. As Whitefish Bay did not have a fire department, and the closest one was on Park PI. and Oakland Ave., there never was much hope that any building burning out here could be saved. In order to even get that fire department's engines out here, one had to notify our village president, who was the one to make the call. (One wonders what happened if he was unavailable - although whether or not the engine came, the same consequences happened; whatever was burning usually was destroyed.)

John Kindler, who lived across the street on Silver Spring Rd., called the village president to notify him. Others came running with hoses. The horse drawn engine did finally arrive, but it was too late. What was left of the church was torn down. This white frame church was built in 1895, originally named St. Clements, an Episcopal Church. It had a 24 x 3b' sanctuary and a steeple. On Aug. 12, 1902, the Milwaukee Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church bought this church for $1600. In Feb. 1903, the Adeline Noble Memorial ME Church of Whitefish Bay was incorporated and deeded with the provision that the church remain Methodist.

Mr. Harold Detzler, who lived on Glen Avenue across the street from the Weber$y took pictures of this fire, which Community Methodist Church (rebuilt on the site of the original church) has included in their historical booklet. Mrs. Funkhauser wrote the history of the church for this booklet.

Mrs. Funkhauser remembers Silver Spring Park (the area now being used as an access road to build up the bluff, at the east end of Silver Spring Drive at Lake Drive) as all grass. The village had built wooden steps down to the lake, with four wDoden landings along the way. Bubbling springs came out on each side of the walk down the

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bluff; the bluff was almost all clay. The children would dash out into the lake, get all wet, then slide around in the clay and go back to the beach to let the clay dry on them.

She also ranembered that when she was going to the 1st school in Whitefish Bay, ^ the owner/manager of Crystal Springs Park would drive his daughter to the school in a wagon or carriage, and everyone envied them their beautiful horses! (Crystal Springs Park was located on what is now W. MDntclaire Ave., west of 1-43. Max Zabel had built this area into a park with a small lake on it, large enough though for rowboats to go on.)

Dr. Schmidt lived at the east end of Day Avenue, on the bluff. He had steps going down to the lake, with nets to catch fish, which he'd sell. He caught them in a net off his pier there. People questioned whether or not he was a "real11 doctor, she said.

(The pier and nets may have been Lewis Scheife's years before.)

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Bimekus, Melvin Interviewed 11/22/1983

Mr, Melvin Immekus grew up in the home next door to the one he has lived in with his wife. His parent's and grandparent's home, and the one in which his sister, Vera Immekus Lawrence now lives in is at 5007 N. Idlewild Avenue, the August Bauch tanrihouse.

At the beginning of the interview, Mr. Inmekus identified, as best he could, children's names in two grade school photos, taken in 1913 and 1914, of his classmates in the first Whitefish Bay School.

He remembered that several of the children did not live in Whitefish Bay; Herbert Stroebel's family lived south on Port Washington Road, south of Hampton Rd., on the east side of the street, just north of present Continental Can Co. LaVerne Hittman's family lived in what was called White House Inn, on Port Washington Rd., west side, between Silver Spring Rd. and Bender Rd. Mr.Hittmann was the manager. Another boy, Clarence Luy, lived in the former Grober farmhouse, on the Port Washington Road, and it was a tavern. His father, Jacob Luy, ran the tavern. Later, this became the Golden Palace restaurant and when 1-43 went through and the Port Road was widened, this house/restaurant was torn down. Pizza Hut now is built on its site. The rest of the classmates lived in Whitefish Bay, except for Oordie (Cordelia) Brown, whose family lived on Bender Road, west of the Port Road.

He had a teacher, Miss Meyers (Meiers?) who had a headache every day, she told the children, and she hated the boys - didn't like the girls much, either, he remembered. She always kept the boys after school. Even though they passed their tests, she flunked most of the boys in his 4th grade. When I said that didn't make much sense, since she'd only have them all again the following year, he replied "No, she was fired."

5th and bth grade, at this time, was being held in the old village hall, located on Fleetwood PI. and Marlborough Dr. (Lewis Scheife bought this building and moved it to its present location, 314 E. Beaumont Ave.) Classes were held there due to space shortages in the school building and an addition was put on the school. Many of the boys the teacher flunked left this school and went to others, but Melvin got up his courage and entered 5th grade the next fall, sticking it out.

Albert Raasch took over the soda water factory from Conrad Cassal and his son was in school a short time with Melvin. Everyone in the village called William Staffeld "Uncle Bill". He was a kindly man and after school, he would drive his wagon around, picking up various kids and taking them heme in the wagon.

lb get to school, he would crawl through Kryzsch's dairy farm's barbed wire fence, in their cow pasture, as a short-cut. (Kryzsch's farm was an 80 acre farm they rented, between St. Monica and present Idlewild Ave., Henry Clay to Silver Spring Dr.) <&&** V£e

Mr. Immekus mentioned a house named "Bella Vista" and the "Kentucky Colonel1' who lived in it. (This was A. F. Nussbaumerfs home, on the triangle of Lake Drive, Fairmount Ave. and Bartlett Ave., gone now.) The man was James Haynes, so-named due to his white mustache and goatee. Behind his house there was a bowling alley and a pit, in which he held dog fights with pit bulls. He also held rat fights with rat terriers here. It was all illegal, but he was never arrested.

A. J. Crofts had a blind pig (a still) on the grounds of his house, located on the west side of old Lake Drive (Lake Drive was then more to the east of where it is now.) just north of Henry Clay St.

He remembered that Herman Fritzke bought croft's Saloon (stood on Lexington Blvd., near

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^ h Resort grounds) in 1919, tore it apart and rebuilt it, with his wife, on its present site, 5128 N. Idlewild Avenue. This house had been purchased by Dr. T. W. Williams and moved from the resort grounds to Kimbark PI. and Lexington Blvd. It was-Jhere u.fen Fritzke bought it. Mr. Fritzke was Village Constable in lyl9 also.

The Bauch farmhouse, in which Melvin grew up with his sister, mother and stepfather, was moved from its original location about 48' to the west, where it is now located. It was moved about 1922, when Idlewild Avenue was put through/The original fields tone foundation was left behind, and when Mr. Inmekus built his home, directly north of 5007 N. idlewild, his driveway went over the raiments of this fieldstone. He said that accounts for parts of the driveway sinking over the years.' After the brick house was moved, an addition was put on the rear and the side of the heme became the new front of the house. A new doorway was put in, along with windows. The original front of the home, with a porch, now faces south and is a side door entrance. The brick foundation was also put under the heme at this time. He found an old dug well on the property, at thecorner of Idlewild and Fairmount Avenues (SW corner) which he mentioned when I asked him if he knew there had been a small house on that lot at one time. He didn't know about the house, but had found the well.

He remoribered the Hausmann's house, which they rented, on the south side of Colfax Place, west side of present Marlborough Drive. This house was in the way of the new beltline railroad tracks (C & NW RR) that were being put through from what is now Marlborough Drive, west to the railroad tracks west of St. Monica Blvd., along the south side of Fairmount Avenue. Charles Rabe bought this house and had it moved to his father's property, where it still stands, at 4856 N. Woodruff Ave.

The Village of Whitefish Bay had advertised for a mechanical engineer; Mr. Immekus had finished his course at the Milw. School of Engineering, so he took the village test with 30 other men. He was the only one to pass the test and was hired. (As he said, he had just finished his course, which he felt helped immensely.)

The telegraph station in this area was called Station SW Wiscona. Philip Dedrick was the operator.

George Geis's house was built on the SE corner of Idlewild and Fairmount Avenues and was later moved to its present location, 5002 N. Elkhart Avenue. Mr. Geis was a pig farmer, but the pigs smelled up the whole area and the village made him stop this enterprise.

Bill Pechtel's house was on the SW corner of Lancaster and Idlewild Avenues; Ray Schramm and Mel Immekus put the foundation under it. This house has since been torn down.

Bill Mohr was our 1st lamplighter - gasoline lamps. There were only a few lamps in our village: 1 at the old village hall on Fleetwood PI., a few in the Tweedy subdivision (Glen Ave.), 1 on Silver Spring and 1 near the Immekus's home.

Mr. Immekus remembers E. Ray Tompkins well. He murdered his wife in the 1st apartment building in WFB, 1700 E. Chateau PI. and hide her body out in a woods. Tompkins was owner /manager of this building. Mr. Inmekus was working for Bill Staffeld, in the alley behind the building, grading the alley. Tcmpkins came out of the building and asked Mr. Immekus if he would help move a trunk from the apartment to Tompkins' car in the road. Mr. Inmekus said no, since his boss was right there, but two other men, working for a private company, said they would help and did. (One wonders wh&t those men thought the next day when they read the newspaper and must have realized what had been in the trunk!) Tompkins' was arrested shortly after her body was found and died in the Criminally Insane Hospital.

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y i ^ (jj\ Bill Volkmann's house was built in Whitefish Bay, but his garage was in Shorewood, and he paid taxes in both villages. The house still stands at 4611 N. Bartlett Ave., close to the corner of Kensington Blvd.

Ernst Timple had a grocery store on the SE corner of Montclair and St. Monica Blvd., and would sell the day-old bread from a wagon he had, going through the village with it.

The Poize farmhouse, gone now, was on the west side of St. Monica Blvd., facing Henry Clay St. (The PolzeS had been on this land since 1856) and after the PolzeS left there, a man named Steve Kumisch (sp.?) moved in, Mr. Inmekus remembered. He was a moonshiner and the still was in his barn. He peddled the moonshine in a hay-wagon into the city to his customers, but was later arrested.

The Adams family rented the Kryzsch farm (had been the Swain 80 acre farm originally, St. Monica to Idlewild, Henry Clay to Silver Spring) and Mr. Adams planted sugar beets and buckwheat. He didn't listen to others here who told him those crops couldn't grow; the Adams' left after awhile.

The Julius Mueller3 rented the Kleirihans' farm, on Henry Clay St., between Bay Ridge Ave. and Kent (which weren't there then), on the north side of Henry Clay; it was to the west of the Poize farm, above. Mr. Mueller also tried truck farming for a time.

Mr. "inmekus remembers digging his parents field by hand and planted enough potatoes to last them all winter. Then he had to look under the leaves, pick off the potatoe bugs, put them in a can and pour kerosene on them to kill them. He said it took a long time to look under all those leaves and get the bugs.'

His sister, Vera Immekus Lawrence, who still lives in the old brick farmhouse next door, loaned me an original photograph of the house, taken in 1907 when it stood on its original site on what is now Idlewild Ave. I rephotographed it and it is in the "Old Homes of Whitefish Bay" photograph album.

Melvin Immekus was a delight to talk to and put up with twD of my visits. The 1st time, the tape recorder didn't work, and I didn't realize it until I returned home. He and his wife graciously had me come back again to go over everything. The first time, I met Mr. Immekus and his sister in her home and had the pleasure of going through the old brick farmhouse.

Mr. Immekus mentioned a Mr. Cook and his family, who had the distinction of probably being Whitefish Bay's first black family. They lived in an old house on Berkeley Blvd., north of Lexington Blvd. Mr. Immekus remembered Mr. Cook as being very nice and friendly, but he felt the Whitefish Bay folks didn't want him here, so the family left after awhile.

The Zimprich's hone, on Bender Road (Devon St.) at about Shoreland Ave., was named "Latta Vista". It was a big farmhouse and had a view both north and west.

The Rothgens lived at 5135 N. Hollywood Ave. before they built their house on the west side of Lydell Ave., north side of Silver Spring. Their son was called "The Professor" by everyone in the village and after Mr. Rothgen died, "the professor" lived on in the old looking house with his mother. The home was never kept up and looked very shabby. The "professor" would go to the dumps and pick up lightbulbs; he removed something from the filaments which he sold. When radio came in, after the first World War, he helped Mel Immekus and Lee Sohns build battery radios. The floor of his home was littered with papers (he was a saver) and the inside of the house was never finished - only the studs were there. Chickens were kept in the house in one room. (Nearly everyone in Whitefish Bay had stories to tell about the "professor". The house was finally torn down in the 1950's.)

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Silver Spring Park (the area at the east end of Silver Spring Drive at Lake Drive) was originally named "Ladies Park". It was in the Tweedy Subdivision, which had their own sewerage system put in by Mr. Tweedy to promote his subdivision. It emptied under present Fleetwood Place, running through Krzych's farm pasture, down to Henry Clay St. to St. Monica Blvd. and through a ditch to the Milwaukee River.

The Nirschl's home (4823 N. Idlewild Ave.) was on Hampton Road near Idlewild and stood nearly in the middle of the street, before it was moved to its present location. The Burns' family lived here for awhile.

Lester Mbhr's home, at 5020 N. St. Monica Blvd., was moved to this location.

Miriam Y. Bird November 22, 1983

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Letter from Olive (Scheife) Packard Lowry, dated in June 1981, to her sister-in-law, Ruth ScKeife of Shorewood, former wife of Alvin Scheife. Mrs. Scheife sent it on to me, knowing I had been in touch with Mrs. Lowry about early Whitefish Bay history, hoping the letter would answer some questions I had asked of Mrs. Scheife.

"These pages are the answers to your questions, Ruth.

Grandpa- Karl Scheife, lived where the Roberts' are. His first heme was about a block or so west on his farm, nearer Richards Street. The last home was north of Klode Park and on the bank of Lake Michigan. It was north, too, of the next lots south where Papa -Lewis F. Scheife - had his home and was in the fishing business with Charles Langschwager.

(Note: The "Roberts"1 family she writes about were Cora and Charles Roberts, who had purchased the Scheife farmland and house and lived at 6220 and 6226 N. Lake Drive. Karl Scheife's farmland originally went from N. Santa Monica Blvd. east to Lake Michigan. The "last home" she refers to was on the site of present 6220 N. Lake Drive and torn down when Mrs. Allan J. Roberts, daughter-in-law of Cora and Charles Roberts, built her present home there. A photo of the Scheife home on this site is in an album in the WFB Library on pre-existing WFB Homes.)

Papa and Mr. L. sold out the fishing business to Peter Schaefer when he (Papa) went in the grocery business on corner of Silver Spring and what is now Lake Drive. He was also Postmaster and at first had a "butcher shop" (meat market) which was on the east end of the building - the front entrance to our living quarters upstairs being in-between the meat market and grocery store. Later on the meat market was sold and the room used for little celebrations, dances and for a "lodge hall" for 0.0.of Foresters. The building was located on a sort of triangular piece of property and was between the C. N. W. R. R. tracks on the west and the then called "dunmy line11 tracks on the east. There was also a big barn and stables connected- I mean built in the rear of the store and of course located back of the store and to the west of that was the C.N.W.R.R. depot. Charles White was the depot operator. The durrmy line was later the T.M.E.R. & L Company trolley line; "street car" we called it then. This triangular piece of property came to a point about 1-1/2 or 2 blocks south of Silver Spring and then the railroad tracks and the dummy line tracks ran parallel to Henry Clay Street.

(Note: The triangular piece of property Mrs. Lowry refers to here is the land present Winkies Variety Store and the building immediately west of it are now located on.)

Dad sold the grocery store to John D. Singles. I know Waldo and I were born here, but I'm not quite sure about Alvin. He may have been born "up on the hill" as we used to call the fishing business place. I know Mama had little Walter there, but he had passed on when still a tiny baby.

Papa built the hardware store on Mbther' s lots which earlier was a small portion of the Consaul farm/ These lots were located on the N.W. corner of Consaul Place and Silver Spring Road. We lived in Aunt Emma's house - the house you and Alvin bought later -until our building was completed - I think 1898-1899. I remember in some of the first stock we bought there were little blue steel handled 2 blade souvenir pocket knives, with gold colored etching bordering the handles and marked with the year 1900 in the gold and they sold for 15 cents! I was about 7-8 years old then and thot they were beautiful.' It seems not such a long time ago and I wish I had those now (the knives.) I'd probably be able to take a tour of Europe on what I could sell them for now. Papa and Uncle Will Consaul and I think Uncle Frank, too, built the house and store.

It was two stories and a full basement. The store part was on the west side of the building on the first floor and it was enlarged a bit later. We kept some of the surplus stock in the big hay and buggy barn and some in the full basement. There was a two horse stable attached to the barn. Papa used to drive into Milwaukee (downtown) about once a month for new stock at John Pritzlaff Hardware Company and Gross Hardware and on that Saturday, Waldo and I got to ride in for our piano lessons, instead of taking the streetcar. Later, Papa built a show room (Ford) which Alvin was in charge of^

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and the rear of the building was used for a automobile repair shop. I guess you remember that. Papa sold the hardware business to Henry Wilke - I don't reneniber What year.

The last house on Silver Spring Road with the three floors and towers was built for Conrad Cassell and on the lot in the rear of the house, he ran a Soda Water Mfg. business. He furnished WFB Park with some of this soda water or pop or whatever. We kids used to pick up the empty soda water bottles along the lake bank after Sunday picnics and return them to the factory and get a free bottle of soda water to drink for every six bottles returned!

The Milwaukee County Historical Society should have the Milwaukee County Historical book with wood cuts and the colored page with each piece of property - or, at least -the larger pieces and especially the farms, outlined and the name of the owner printed in the outlined section of each farm. I had one of the books but it was misplaced or lost in my noving west. It was used by the W.P.A. project at the Village Hall when I worked there and I knew the Milwaukee H.S. had one at that time, too. There was also three volumes of pictures and short histories of businessmen and I know M.H.S. had those too at that time. Papa, Uncle Webb Chipman and Uncle Theodore Consaul were pictured and historied in these. I remember my name was incorrect and was printed as Olive May instead of Olive Magdelene. I don't think Waldo was born yet. J sp. sp. Uncle Frank Consaul's wife was Louise Loenecker and the Loeneckers lived on a farm on Port Washington Rd. on the east side of the road about a mile or maybe less, south of Silver Spring Road. (I am sure of the Loenecker spelling.) Uncle Will's wife's name was Katherine Carney and Aunt Ida's husband, Michael Carney was her brother. They came from somewhere north in Wisconsin and were orphans. Both lived at the Consaul's a while on Silver Spring and Lake Drive - N.E. corner - a short time before marriage. Aunt Emma's husband was August Luecke from (Town of Milwaukee) Shorewood. Aunt Susie's husband was Henry Marsh as you know. Aunt Emma later moved to Muskegon, Michigan. Lost a little boy Norman and had daughter Mattie. Aunt Susie had Daniel Webster and lost him as a baby and of course, Ruth.

William Theodore Consaul ^ Emna Eliza Ida Ann Mary Jane Susan Sophia Frank

(Children of William and Ruth Elizabeth Shouler Consaul)

Ruth Elizabeth Shouler and William Consaul

Papa's parents

Caroline Schumacher and Karl Scheife

Mama died in 1941 - December - the day before Christmas or maybe two days, Papa died - I think - in 1946. I?

(Note:1 After receiving this letter from Mrs. Ruth Scheife, I corresponded directly with Mrs. Olive Lowry, who lives in Sacremento, California.)

MLmi Y. Bird

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Lettei—Er^^ Mimi Y. Bird, 2/22/1984, in response to Mrs. Lowry receiving copies of old photographs of the Scheife houses (on site of 6220 and 6226 N. Lake Dr.) and a copy of the WFB 75th Anniversary brochure:

Re: Pictures in Brochure - The picture of Consaul Place about 1904 - page 4. The small building in front of the larger one was our horse stable which housed "Queen Bess" and the larger one the carriage and wagon barn with hay loft upstairs. Our house and hardware store was in front on Silver Spring and Consaul Place. We moved from the grocery store and Post Office to a home belonging to my Aunt, on Santa Monica and Beaumont, for a time, until our home and hardware store, adjoining, was completed, somewhere around 1899-1900. Consaul Place used to really "freeze-over" in the winter and we skated on the ice in the gutter of Consaul Place and around on Beaumont Avenue to the RR right-of-way. We had many a skating party from our house. My grancinother was living with us after my grandfather died (Caroline Scheife, widow of Karl) and she used to love to knit and knit mittens, "gobs of them". We kept them in a large basket in the kitchen near the door so we could come in and change mittens whenever ours we were wearing got too wet, by our falling on the ice or throwing snowballs and the mittens felt uncomfortable. We would hang the wet ones' on a line behind the kitchen range to dry.

I attended Sunday School at the Church on page 5. It was originally Episcopalian. The original Methodist Church was a two room small building located on the north side of Lexington Blvd. about 75-100 feet, maybe a bit more, from the RR right-of-way (east). I attended Sunday School there with my brothers when we were little kids. Later, the Methodist Church bought the church on page 5. It was then called the Methodist Episcopal Church. Rev. Henry Coleman was a pastor there at one time when we still lived in the grocery store.

The elm tree on the same page (5) was beautiful and a sort of landmark. Everyone was proud of it and felt badly about its going. I also attended the new (Methodist) church later, (also shown on page 5)

I remember, too, Welcome Park and Jefferson Hall and the WFB resort on page 7. And the dunmy line which later ran to Silver Spring Road. Jefferson Hall was moved across the street to the Armory on Henry Clay and Lake Drive, the southwest corner, where the Staffields once lived. Phillip Westphal was in conmand of the Armory and lived in the (Staffield's) home on the Armory base with his family. (Jefferson Hall had been built on the present site of Henry Clay School.)

The steamboat pier, page 8; My mother's cousin, Henry Consaul,was Captain on many of the steamboats that ran out to Whitefish Bay Resort from Milwaukee. I think the "Bloomer Girl", the original one, ran from Chicago 'cause my Aunt Lily used to ride up on the "Bloomer Girl" to see us in the stumer, from Chicago.

The Schmidt store on page 8 was built after the original one we had and sold to Mr. Singles burned after Mr. Schmidt bought it. (from John Singles.) Mr. Schmidt then bought the property across the TMER & L Company right-of-way, southeast corner of Silver Spring and Lake Drive (now the southeast corner of Marlborough Dr. and Silver Spring Dr.). I also remember the Edgewood Resort, page 8.

I lost the picture of our store and post office, so was happy to see the picture of it on page 10. That is my father standing in front of the store and my uncle Henry Scheife (Dad's brother) holding the reins on the wagon and John Rader, who was a helper, holding his hand on Grace's (the horse) halter.

Page 11: Mr. Asen was Chief of the Fire Dept. and Mr George Hage was Chief of Police. I worked for a time at the switchboard in the Village Hall, also at typing and shorthand under the supervision of Mr. Cahill and his secretary, Dora Fritzke. Mr. Hage and Mr. Asen were both there at that time. My name was Packard then.

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The "Early Class, Whitefish Bay School", page 13: The little "guy" with the big bow tie, in the front row, is my younger brother, Waldo. I can name most of the children in the picture. I can't find my picture on page 14, but may have been absent that day.

The Park Bandstand, page 17: Clauder's Band used to play there on Saturday, Sunday and special holiday afternoons and evenings. They also had important special visiting bands at times. And I had many a ride on the Ferris Wheel, page 25. There was also entertainment of different kinds in the buildings at the Resort. And a dining room "upstairs over the last building on the south and a sort of parlor on the 1st floor of the last building.

I remember Bentley's too. (now Jack Pandl's Whitefish Bay Inn)

Page 32 :f The old mail bag on the stand - that is my cousin Edna Consaul and her husband standing on the crossing at Silver Spring and Marlborough, watching for the mailcar to grab the bag. This is one of the pictures taken by my older brother, Alvin and maybe it is in the library in the collection of pictures and history the WPA stored in the then new library in the Village Hall.

(I believe the train crossed at what is now Hollywood Ave. and Silver Spring Dr. and dropped the mail there, instead of Silver Spring and present Marlborough, as Mrs. Lowry writes, unless the mail came on the old Milwaukee Lake-shore RR line. I thought it came on the Northwestern RR, which ran up what is now Marlborough Dr. and crossed Silver Spring at present Hollywood Ave. But Mrs. Lowry is a lady with an excellent memory and she would know!) MYB

My father sold his hardware store to Mr. Henry Wilke. Dad had purchased the old Village Hall that was located (as near as I can place it on the map of the Village) between Idlewild and Marlborough on Fleetwood, moved it to Beaumont Avenue on a lot he had purchased from my cousin, Mattie Luecke, adjoining a lot with house on it she owned on Santa Monica and Beaumont. The Hall Dad bought even had the old jail cells in it which he later sold. Mother and Dad lived there for quite some time until they moved to live with my older brother, Alvin, and his family.

Olive Lowry

(Mrs. Olive Scheife Packard Lowry, born Aug. 8, 1892, Daughter of Lewis F. and Mary Jane (Consaul) Scheife.)

Note: Mrs. Lowry and I have corresponded over the past two years regarding the history of Whitefish Bay and her recollections. Because her maternal and paternal grandparents were both early settlers here, she has been invaluable as a resource. She will be 92 years old this August and retains an excellent memory. Her handwriting is beautiful and exceptionally tiny, which is the reason I have typed a copy of her original letter.

Mrs. Lowry was born in the Scheife home, above the grocery store her father owned, on the site of present Koch's Furniture Store, in the 600 block of E. Silver Spring Drive.

Mimi Bird

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RECOLLECTIONS OF LIFE IN

EARLY WHITEFISH BAY

By

Hephworth Isenring Kearby

From An Interview Taped on September 6, 1982, by Mimi Bird and Judith Kloman

Edited by Judith Kloman

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I was born at my home, 1012 E. Colfax on November 2,

1899. Dr. Thaddeus Williams was my doctor. In 1913 he sav ?d

my life. I was attending a box social at the Methodist Church

on Silver Spring. I was very interested in the church and

Sunday School; I'd won a Ublo in a contest. My mother fixed

chicken and everything and I went to the box social, mother

didn't go, and we were playing and having a lovely time before

things were being served. You bid on your boxes, and whoever

bid on your box, you were his or her guest. Anyway, we were

playing "Wink" and they had those big heavy kitchen chairs

Walter Bachman pulled the chair out as I went to sit down, and

•I fell and hit my back and I cassed out, just like that. They

picked me up and put me on a cot. Finally I woke up and I

said. Oh, my back! So they took me home, they carried me

halfway home down the block. Wo were living at that time in

^obroaowski's house, on the other side of the track, while

our house at 1012 E. Colfax St. was being built. They

brought me to the back door and my mother said "What are you

doing home?" and I started to cry and I said, I got hurt, I

got hurt! They got me in the house and told her what happened.

So mother put me into bod right away, thoy had a bedroom right

off the living room, that was a big house, the railroad tracks

went right alongside it there was no road then. So right away

my mother put hot applications on my back and spine.

My father was superintendant of the county poor office,

in Milwaukee, on Market Street, so he called Dr. Lemmon, who

was the county doctor. He said, "Bill, just put hot applications

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on it, and I'll come out in the morning." He came out in the

morning. He wasn't very gentle. He took mo and rolled me

and I let a yell out of me and my mother thought the roof

was failing through the honse. Dr. Lemmon said, "Bill, I'm

going to take her into the hospital, we're going to operate. *

My father said, "You're not operating until we know what's

wrong." He said, "All right, Bill, okay."

So old Hoc Williams lived across the street in that

lovely home there, with his daughter and Kitty, his neice.

My dad said "Hephworth got hurt." Doc said, "I'll be

right over*'' Doc then was seventy or seventy two years old.

So he came over and I was laying on the couch and he turned

me very carefully and I said It hurts so, don't touch me, just

let me lay... My father took a big guilt and put it on the

Hiningroom table and put extra boards in and put a guilt over

it and he laid me on my stomach. Or. Williams went up and down

my spine so gentle, and he felt it all over; I was all black

and blue. He said to my dad, "Anyone who wants to operate,

they're crazy." He went to the telephone and called Kitty

and sa id, " K i. 11.y ,- I'm $<*n d i net 01 ady s ov e r and I wan I y ou t o g i v e

her a jar of that ointment that I make up and some tape and gauze.

Gladys was my lister. So she w^nt over and got the things

and brought it homo, brought them over. r)r. Williams worked

on me and pressed and every time he touched me, and it hurt he

just -aid, 'That's going to be all right, it 11 be all right,

just let me do it. \nd I just loved him, wo all did.

r-o he said, M l right. Mr? took the ointment air1 put

it all over my back, put gauze over that and put taon al)

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around my lower back and abdomen, and down my leg. My right

leg became paralyzed I suffered terribly. They carried me back

to th•-* couch. Dr. Williams said to my father, "Bill, put a few

boards on this couch. If she wakes up, or happens to turn

in her sloop, one of the discs are going to slide out. You

call me right away. At three o'clock in the morning he called

the doctor. Dr. Williams came over there right away and said..

"That's all right, I'll have to make the tape tighter. So he

pulled it off, reset it again and put the tape tighter, like

a regular corset. And that's the way I laid. I laid for

three months like that.

I received no pain medication. They didn't give you

anything in those days. A little whiskey they might give you,

but I was only fourteen. So I laid that way.

He made a little arched thing that two weeks later he

started to examine my spine with. He went over every vertebra

with a little rubber mallet, and ho pounded eachvertebra, easy,

real easy, but he knew what ho was doing, all the way down my

spine to the end of that tapo. Then he said, "Tomorrow I'm

coming over to see hey she is, but I'm not going to bring the

mallet, I'm going to every other day give her treatments like

that." And that s finally what released me.

He said to my mother, (he called her "Min") "I want you

to every day, to qet her up, and swing her legs down, otherwise

she's going to have more troubles.." I was flat in bed all. the

day, but once a day they'd got me up.

The man I married, Harold Kearby, a Scot, was a brakeman

on tho railroad. All tho railroad men, tho engine used to

*tand around on the'Y" to help pushing trains over the siding,

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pulling them in. The engineer offered to help get me on my

feet. The whole crew said "We're all going to tato'our turn;

we're going to get her on her feet and get her walking." And

every day those men came over. I only weighed 80 pounds at

that time. My husband was one of those who came over. They'd

stend in front of me with their back to me and they'd loop

their arms through mine and say, "Now we're going to walk; Left

and Right: but the right one didn t work so good but they'd

say, "Walk, Walk, Walk." It took about three months for the

right leg to come back, but it did come back fine. I've had

back trouble ever since, though. Sometimes two at a time

would come: even the dispatcher came over once.

Dr. Williams said, "I want you to go every morning on

the street car to the Kryzch's farm, over the railroad track,

go in the barn where they're milking and you drink that warm

milk! " I did that for six month", day after day-.

Kitty Williams was a wonderful person. Grace William-

wac Dr. Williams daughter. She was a "poilod brat. His

wife had die^ a number of years back. I don't remember her

at all. She died long before I was born. I think that Grace

was' an adopted diuqhter and Kitty was a neice who came from

K°ntucky. Doc Williams had an office down on Wells Street

in Milwaukee. He was not a tall man, but he was well built,

and he took good care of himself. I always thought he was the

best looking man in town. He gave me a ring that had belonged

to his wife. It has three diamonds and two blue stones in it.

I'd wear it once in awhile. It's a beautiful ring. I was a

special patient to him. He always called me "My baby." He

brought all my brothers into the world.

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My oldest brother was Wynand, then Archibald, then Gary,

then Clarence, then Gladys (4/10/96) then me (11/2/99) then

Alice, but Alice (5/23/02) was born in Milwaukee. The rest

of us were born right here in that house in Colfax. There

was no name on the streets then.

Dr. Robert Peterson, the dentist, has an Aunt Edna, who

married Archie and Clarence. After Clarence died, Edna married

Archie. My brother was a World War I veteran. He got that

gas, he and Max Belau. He had a horrible death.

My mother was Minnie Peters. She lived in Milwaukee

before she lived here. Her youngest brother, Henry, had a

farm on the Silver Spring Road. Her oldest brother was Fred.

She had a sister, but $£Jdied of some rare disease. The farm

was kitty-corner from where the White House Inn used to be

on Port Road. The Hickmans lived in there. I went to school

with LaVerne Hickman out there in Whitefish Bay.

I was a baby when pred Isenring disappeared in 1899. Fred

was my father s brother, a good-looking man. Nobody ever found

his body. We all thouaht somebody maybe did Fred in. I was

never in Gallus Isenrina's home, we were gone by that time.

The folks decided to move into Milwaukee because it was better

for my father's work. With the trolley if you missed one train

you had to wait another hour. Many a time I walked from

Schweke's (sp.?) homo, which is now where Bayshore Shopping

Center is located) home because we d missed the train.

I went to High School in Milwaukee* We moved to Holton St.

My youngest sister, Alice, was born two days after we moved in.

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Anna(Isenring) was my father s oldest sister, my Aunt

Anna. Anna married David Milbraith. Mary was his second sister,

she married Carl Schober.

The Hoppenrath's biilt a house right next to us on Henry

Clay Street. Anna lived always in the front house and Mary

lived in the house behind, on Meadow Place. Her daughter,

Willa Johnson, (Billie) still lives there in that house on

Henry Clay. Our house was right next to the railroad tracks.

I was so surprised by Whitefish Bay. The last time I was

here was in 1919 when I got married. We had a great big wedding

at the Armory. We had big tables. Mrs Immekus baked all the

wedding cakes. My father did several nice things for them, they

were having problems, my father was one of them kind, he

always helped everybody. The wedding reception was held inside.

I was married in our house. At that time Colonel Westfahl and

his family were living in th° house on the Armory grounds. He

had three girls. The oldest girl ran around with my older

sister, one was with me and one was with my younger sister.

Wo always wore together. They lived in the Langlois home,

that's what thoy called the house on Driarwood.

I never saw my grandmother, Maria. She died before I was

born but I can remember my grandfather, he had a beautiful

white mustache and beard. It was just like silk. How I used

to like to go and comb it. I'd say Grandpa, can I feel your

face? and he'd say, "You sure can, honey." Grandpa met

Grandma on the boat from Switzerland and when they got to this

country they got married. I was a little girl when Grandpa died.

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He always said "Grandma was waiting for me." She died just

before I was born.. She said I hope that we have a little girl

and I want her named Hephworth. Too bad I don't remember that,

I'd have said, don't put that handle on me. They named me

Hephworth Wilhelmina Isenring. Wilhelmina after my grandmother

and Hephworth after Fred Isenring s (first) wife. (Gallus

Isenring died in 1905.) Alice, my sister, is still living,

in Wauwautosa.

Dr. Williams delivered all the babies in my family. Dr.

Williams was the only doctor in the village. He delivered

some of the babies here, others were delivered by midwives. He

nwver charged my father for our deliveries, my father would do

some things for him at his house. My father was a bookkeeper,

he was the superintendent of the county court office of Milwaukee

at that time. So my father did Dr. William's bookkeeping and if

he had little repairs that he needed done at the house/ my father

would go up and take care of it for him.

Dr. Williams never had a car or a horse; he'd get on the

bus or he'd walk* His office was on third street. He'd get

on the trolley and q^t off on third street.

When I wa s rocuoerating and getting well, he said to my

mother,' "I'm going to take her down to the office. I'm going

to teach her how to do some things. Mother said, "Well, you'll

have to talk to Pa." You see, we girls never were allowed to

work, never. Mo taught mo several things, how to mix a certain

kind of ointment that he made. He'd say "That's what healed

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your back." I don't remember what was in it. He made up all

his own medicines cough medicines, too. There were so many

midwives around, you know, and everybody would call in a midwife.

But he was a marvelous doctor. He talked with a slight Southern

accent. He said to my mother, when I was born, "That's my baby."

I had black hair, black as coal, and it was kinky, but it got

curly as I got older. Mother was torn very badly with Gary

and he had to do stitchering (sic), there was no hospital, you

didn't go to the hospital, everything was done (at home.) There

wen always neighbors to help, to see that you had plenty of

hot water and everything there, for when the baby was born. He

would examine you after the baby was born after he took care

of Mama, then he would check the baby all over, see that everything

was okay. All of the children in out family lived to adulthood.

My brother Archie died about five years ago in Florida.

My mother was a wonderful cook. -She took good care of us.

My dad was the same way, but we respected our parents', you

didn t talk back or say, "No, I'm not gonna do it." We went

to the Methodist church. Th^ boys used to walk down the

railroad track every morning going to school. He had a great

big St. Bernard dog. That dog took the boys to school and waited

if they played out, 'till the schoplbell rang and tho boys went

into school, then the dog would come home. At three o'clock

mother said, as soon as the clock struck three, Bruno would be

going down the railroad track to go and get the boys from school. *\

The school was the one that burned down, on Pennsylvania, in <U*-v

1918, near th™ Kryzch's farm. Kryzch»s farm was just north

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of the School .

I just can't believe these houses here now. Of course,

the uihlein* s had that beautiful estate. I was in that hou;.e

many a time. (This was tho site of the Whitefish <3ay Resort.)

I remember the resort. You know, every summer they would hire

a band that would come in and spend the whole summer there and

play. They had a ferris wheel and the boats used to come in

from Chicaao down to the pier and unload the people. My dad

and mother would take us over; we'd go and sit and listen to

music. They ha 1 meals there, too. We'd always get an ice

cream cone. They'd bring it on a little plate and the cone

would be tipped upside down, then you'd take it and turn it

over and there was your cone.

One year they had the Tyroleans. Was that marvelous.

They wore a singing band. They were all complete musicians

and nVery one of them would sing too. Alot of times Daddy

would take us uo, i f we behaved, and if mother didn't have

any complaints about the children. They had a space where

people could dance if th°y wanted to. One wing went out that

wav an* one wing went out that way and in tho middle was a big

r--l:agri. The long walks that went down to the lake; I went down

ono of thorn with a boy's hi cycle. They were gravel walks,

down very st:e°p hills. So it was five o'clock one morning.

There I am, my bad sleeping habits.: I don't sleep good. I

was up all hours of the night. I used to get up and go down

stairs in the basement and play with my puppy. So I wont and

stole my brother's bicycle. I could ride that thing like

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a little speed demon. I went down that hill. This was way

before I had the accident. I must have been about ten years

old. I went down that hill; I kept the brakes as hard as I

could. When I landed, I landed right by the water. I didn't

fall off the bike, I got caught in the sand. Then I had to

push the bike all the way back up. When I got home my mother

sadi to me "Where have you been?" I said, I took a ride down

to the lake. "You what? Well, that's enough! You 're not

going to bo on that bicycle!" It wasn't ladylike. "You're

not noing to do .that, again. Wait until your father finds

out, you're going to get it!" I said, Do you have to tell him?

She told him and I was punished. I was sent to my room all day.

I was locked up many times.

I had a lot of friends to play with. We had kids that wo

went to school with, farmer kids, the Bauch family had a bunch

of kids. Neighbor kid- would come t0 the yard and we'd play.

Wrs ha-* a qr°at big merry go-round whore wo lived, right across

the field. \ big on°. My father got it going. Some guy didn't

want it, so he brought it in and set it up. A real merry-go round

from som° carnival outfit. All tho kids came over and said,

"Mihhh! \ merry-go-round!" It had horses that wont up a d

tubs, like a tub you sit in* It had a gasoline motor in it

to make it go. The kids alJ liked to come over. We all had

a lot of fun.

I also played with dolls. I have four of them now, that

ar° being fixed. They had beautiful china faces, an1 kid bodies.

I have on° of the first jointed dolls that cam^ out, with her

hat and rod dross and her patent leather shoes. I've been

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o f fe red money for them, bu t I 'm saving them for my g randdaugh te r ,

who loves d o l l s . I combed t h e i r wigs so many t i m e s .

I remember when they opened the new siiool (Henry C l a y ) ,

every week-end t h e r e was danoss in t h e r e . Everybody's family

carhe, they served lunch and had a good t ime , no rowdiness .

Editor's Note

William J. Isenring was born as Jan W. Isenring,

brother of Wynand and Fred Isenring. They were the sons

of Gallus and Maria Wilhelmina Isenring.

The William J. Isenring family may have rented the

Dobrogowski house while their house at 1012 Colfax was

being built, in 1909. Before then, they lived in

Milwaukee, and apparently moved back to Whitefish Bay

in 1909. However, by 1910, The Whitefish Bay census

shows William Burmeister and his wife, Rose Sohns

Burmeister, as renters in the house at 1012 E. Colfax.

It was sold to Ernest Schram by the Isenrings in 1910,

who, in 1912, sold it to the Burmeisters.

Therefore, it would seem that the Burmeisters

rented, first from Isenring, and then from Schram, and

in 1912, finally purchased the home from Schram.

The Whitefish Bay School Census of 1914 gives

the dates of birth of the Isenring children as all

preceding 1909. The three younger children of the

family were: Gladys, 4/10/96 Heohworth 11/2/99 Alice 5/23/02

This information was provided by Mimi Bird crom

research of the Whitefish Bay Assessment Rolls, the

Whitefish Bay Census and the Whitefish Bay School

Census.

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The Grun Baum Tavern

(Including an interview with Mrs. David Praefke (Irma Kuetemeyer Rahn Praefke)

The Green Tree (Grun Baum) Tavern was built on the southwest corner of

Green Tree and Port Washington Roads about 1851.

Gallus Isenring purchased 10 acres on that corner on Aug. 28, 1850 and built

the tavern.' '•:. His son, Fred G., was born in that tavern/home on April 1,

1854. "History of Milwaukee," Chicago, Western Historical Co., 1881, page

1493 states, "He (Gallus) opened a grocery store and saloon on Port Washing

ton Road, which he continued for four years." The next owner was Friedrick

W. Walldeck, who bought the land and building "with part of the farming uten

sils, stock and groceries " on July 11, 1855.

Approximately every five years it was sold. After Walldeck, M. Hahn, Christian

Pfeil, Gottfried Becker, G. Bruss, Joseph Becker and Alwin Wetzel owned this

tavern. On Feb. 12, 1897, Juhn Kutemeyer bought the building and nine acres,

keeping it until he sold in 1918 to John von Bergen.

Irma Kuetemeyer, daughter of John and Emma (Dethlefs) Kuetemeyer, was born

in this tavern/home (she is now age 86) as were her younger brothers and

sisters. The nine acres ran west across present 1-43; the tavern faced the

Port Road and stood on the site of the present Glendale Nursing Home's north

parking lot, near the corner of Green Tree Rd.

Irma, and the other children in the area, went to the original Green Tree

School, which stood on the west side of the Port Rd., where Nicolet High

School's athletic field is now located. It was a two room schoolhouse, with

four classes to each room. The teachers would come there, in Irma's day, on

the streetcar, to the corner of Lake Drive and School Road, or Lake Drive and

Green Tree Road, and then walk to the school. This school later became the

Schoolhouse Tavern before it was torn down.

Mrs. Kuetemeyer was usually busy in the kitchen of the tavern, preparing

lunches for the men who came daily to eat; Irma's two older sisters helped

raise Irma due to this situation. Mr. Kuetemeyer was Town Treasurer for

several years; if he was busy tending bar during tax time, Mr. Pierron, who

lived west on Green Tree Rd., would come help him out. Irma would get out .

the large tax books for him. She remembers that even though her father had

only completed third grade, he had beautiful handwriting. In those early

days taxes were collected in a central place, such as a grocery store or

salpon; the Town Treasurer would be there on those days.

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2; Green Tree Tavern; Irma Kuetemeyer Rahn Praefke

The tavern was two stories, frame construction, and the fieldstone basement was only under the kitchen. There were outside cellar doors to this basement, in which the wine and beer kegs were kept, along with apples and potatoes. Inside the kitchen there was a rickety stairway down to the cellar. Irma and her sisters would have to go down these to pour wine into small bottles from the kegs and bring them up to their father. Sometimes they would sample the goods and occasionally forget to turn the spigot off fast enough. Then the wine or beer ran out onto the dirt cellar floor.

The family living room and kitchen were in the rear of the tavern; the bedrooms were upstairs. The children's bedroom was on the north side, with no heat, Mrs. Praefke remembered. The parents bedroom, on the south side, had a heat ventilator in the floor and the children would dash in there to try and get warm in the mornings.

The tavern had the only telephone in the area and it was mainly used for emergencies or to call Steinmeyer's (a grocery store in Milwaukee) for groceries.

The dance hall, attached to the tavern, was there in 1893 when the Kuetemeyers bought the place. It was not attached originally. A pool table was put in while her father was owner and there was a big pot-belly stove in the tavern, with a wood-box nearby. On Sunday nights, when the tavern was closed, the children did their homework in the tavern near the stove.

The dance hall, not often used, was located on the south side of the tavern. Usually when school was out, there would be a dance, and sometimes around Thanksgiving. A large kerosene lamp fixture hung from the high ceiling and Mrs. Praefke would have to climb up on a ladder to clean it. She recalled how scared she was to go that high and work on it. Mr. Goecks and Mrs. Helm would play their fiddle and concertina for the dances. They were nearby neighbors.

The dance hall was also used for the first movie pictures in the area. A man would come in advance of the showing to make the arrangements. On the day of the movie, he would put up a large screen and then speak the dialog for the actors and actresses - these were silent movies.

Their tavern had the only "talking machine" around, with a large wooden horn on it instead of the usual tin horn. Mrs. Praefke would buy records for it, when she was a teen-ager, at a store on N. 3rd St. and North Ave. To get downtown, she would walk to Lake Dr., get on the streetcar and go to Center St. or North Ave., taking another streetcar to 3rd St.

John Kuetemeyer also owned two acres of land across (east) of the tavern. He sold this to the Schoof family, whose son built the Schoof Tool and Die Co., on the SE corner of Port and Green Tree Rds. The Schoofs also built a home there.

South of Schoofs was land that Frederick and Anna Geiger owned from the 1860's on, with their farmhouse there, gone now. It had stood on the site of the present Glendale Clinic on the Port Rd. On the west side of the Port Rd. and south of the tavern, was Fischer's Tavern. It stood directly in front of Green Tree Electric's store (which was sold to The Flower Studio in Oct. 1987). Fischer's Tavern was later turned into a meat market owned by the Hiltys -Mrs. Hilty had been a Geiger. The Hiltys took in a brother and sister who had been orphaned and raised them. The girl's name was Bertha Richter; she later married Walter Kaiser and he took over the meat market. It was later turned into the Green Tree Electric store and today they have three grandsons in the business. A photo of the original tavern/meat market building hangs

in the store.

Green Tree Tavern 3,0.

Green Tree Tavern had a shed south of the dance hall - a separate building - used for weighing sugar beets, hay, etc. for the local farmers and to house the horses. A large scale sttod in there and the farmers would drive their wagons onto the scale's platform to be weighed. Mrs. Praefke said it would get very cold in late fall when she would go out to weigh the wagons.

The water pump was also outside and the heavy iron handle got very cold in the winter when they would pump water. Their well was quite deep and didn't run dry as others would. She remembers the farm people were hard-looking people due to being outside so much of their time. They looked older than their years, she said, due to the hard life of running farms.

Farmers in the area were generally poor and some, to supplement their income, would cut ice from the river at the ice house at the Capitol Drive bridge. Then they would walk home covered with icicles.

Gustave Geiger, a son of Fred and Anna, had a harness shop on his parents land across the street from the Fischer tavern. He would repair leather items and later on, was the janitor for the original Green Tree School south of the Green Tree and Fischer taverns.

The Kuetemeyers added a summer porch to their tavern. Women were not allowed into the tavern alone. If a woman came in with a man, they were seated in the "front parlor" and not in the tavern proper. It was on the order of a palm garden, Mrs. Praefke said.

When Irma Kuetemeyer married her first husband, Arthur Rahn, her father gave them one acre of his nine, on which to build a house. This house was on the side of the present Glendale Nursing Home and later moved when the 1-43 Expressway was put through, to the 7400 block of N. Mohawk Rd., where it still stands.

The Green Tree Tavern name is a mystery, Mrs. Praefke said. No one seems to know why it or the road were named this. She does remember the sign on the tavern having a gree tree painted on it though.

In 1918, John Kuetemeyer sold the tavern to John von Bergen. After he died, his widow ran the tavern and the dance hall was torn down.

After the Kuetemeyers sold their tavern, they built a house, still standing, on the south side of Good Hope Rd., on the west side of the south entrance ramp to 1-43. When built, Good Hope Rd. was very narrow and the house was located far south of the road. The house was built of wood and later stuccoed. Years later, it became a dog kennel/boarding kennel. When 1-43 was built and the Good Hope Rd. bridge built (in the 1960's) much landfill was brought in and covered most of what had been the Kuetemeyer's front yard. Now the house sits in a valley on the edge of Good Hope Rd.

Mrs. John Kuetemeyer (Emma Dethlefs) was born on Aug. 6, 1868 on her parents farm on Range Line Rd., between Dean and Brown Deer Rds. She lived to be 102 years old and spent her last years as one of the first residents in the Glendale Nursing Home - which had been part of the tavern land she and her husband had owned years ago. She died in 1971. The nursing home was later renamed Green Tree Health Care Center.

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Morehouse, Mrs. Charlotte Jane, widow of Cyrus Morehouse, died at age 82 at the home of her son-in-law, Herman Bleyer of 834 Cass Street. She was born in Syracuse, New York. Survived by a sister, Mrs. Cordelia Washburn of Barton, Wisconsin; sons C. E. Morehouse and L. M» Morehouse,both of Newark, New Jersey and two daughters, Mrs. T. Nichols of Pasadena, Calif, and Mrs. Herman Bleyer of the Cass St. address./* Burial will be in Barton, Wisconsin, where her husband/is buried and where they had lived previously.

She diec| in 1908, no date given on the article clipping. Her son,\ C. Eugene Morehouse, had built the now nonexistent! home on the corner of Day Ave. and Lake Drive (northwest corner) in 189 3.

Brown, James E., "oldest native of the County", died age 89 at his son-jin-law1 s home, Alvin T. Bender, on Bender Road, Fox Point. (Residence was then in Town of Milwaukee, now GTenflale.) Mr. Brown was born Oct. 4, 1838 in the Town of Milwaukee, son of Buell Brown. He married Julia A. Shoffe of Bloomfield, VT, who died nine years ago. They had pine children, of whom six survive: Mrs. Charles Bippel of Plymouth, Wis., (think this should be Dipple); Mrs. George I. Carneross of Lodi, Wis.; Mrs. A. T. Bender of Town of Milwaukee; George Brown of West Allis, John Brown of Sayner, Wis. and Charles Brown of Milwaukee. Mr. Brown was a bee-keeper having over 200 bee-hives for 40 years; he was also a dairy farmer. The Rev. A. F. Rugh of the WFB Community Church presided; burial was in the Town of Milwaukee Union Cemetary.

He died Dec. 7, 1927.

Chipman, Capt. Daniel Webster, died age 94 on Feb. 12, 1931 in Wauwatosa. He settled at Walkerfs Point when 10 years old. He is survived by widow Helen Tutkin Chipman, daughter Mrs. George D. Francey of Wauwatosa; two sons, D. W. Chipman,Jr. of St. Louis, MO and George P. Chipman of Co£fstown, NY. Burial was in Forest Home Cemetary.

He was the husband of Susan M. Consaul, daughter of William Consaul. Susan died in 1881f age 41? the children surviving Capt. Chipman above may have been her children.

Dally, Thomas V. died in 19 22, survived by widow Fannie Gregg Dally, sons Baird G., John E. (both of Milwaukee) and Walter R. of Ocala, Florida. Burial was in Forest Home Cemetary.

Gether, Mrs. Marie, "Music Patron" dies at age 94 on May 25, 1927 at her home on 180 Day Ave., Fox Point. (Was WFB then!) She came to Milwaukee in 1877 from St. Louis, MO. She was born and married in Germany; her husband August Gether died in 1893. They came to America and St. Louis in 1850. She is survived by daughter Adolpha Emma of the Day Ave. address and a son, C. Robert Gether of Gether Piano Company, Milwaukee.

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King, Henry R. died Sept. 15, 1930 at his home on 348 Park Place, Milwaukee. His wife Marian Juneau King died nine years ago. Mr. King, along with Charles W. Norris and John M. W. Pratt, founded the Milwaukee Athletic Club 51 years ago, on Nov. 1878. He is survived by daughter Mrs. Helen King Ott (of Milwaukee?), and sons Harry Juneau King of Chicago and Paul Juneau King of Milwaukee. He was a native of Troy, NY and came to Milwakee at age 5. Burial was in Forest Home Cemktary.

Fowle, Alonzo, age 83 died April 12, 1930, at his home at 607 Prospect Ave. He is survived by widow Clara Elizabeth Fowle and son^ Alonzo, Jr.; 2 grandsons and a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Barnes and a brother Albert of Geneva, NY. Burial was in Glenwood Cemetary, Geneva, NY.

Kinne, Herbert, attorney, died April 28, 1924 at his home at 1130-35th St., Milwaukee. He was born July 24, 1859 and married on Sept. 24, 1891 Jennie A. Fox, who survives. Also survived by daughter Mrs. S. W. Herthel of Oconomowoc, Wis. and a son, Horace Kinne of Milwaukee.

Baird, Thomas, age 96, died April 2, 189 8 at his home at 279 Pearson St., Milwaukee. He was born Oct. 14, 1802 and settled in Milwaukee in 1845. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Fannie Gregg (Mrs. Hugh Gregg of WFB) and Miss Eliza Baird.

Lowry, I. H. (Israel) died . He was born July 19, 1832 at Madison, Ohio and married July 16, 1863 at Cadiz, Ohio to Elizabeth Slommons, who survives. Also surviving are six children - Mrs. Wm. Ward Wright, Mrs. James R. Paul, Annie, Blanche, Andrew and Morrow. Burial was in Forest Home Cemetary.

This was a newspaper clipping cut out with no date on it! The scrapbook said the clippings were from 1902 to 1908.

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John H. Tweedy, born Nov. 9, 1814 Danbury, Conn. Came to Milwaukee Oct. 1836. Died Nov. 12, 1891 and was buried in Danbury, Conn.

Mrs. Ruth Consaul, born 1823 Kent, England. Settled in Milwaukee on July 21, 1851. Died May 29, 1896 and was buried at Forest Home Cemetary.

(This obituary differs from her grave inscription in the Town of Milwaukee Union Cemetary, which shows her birth year as 1825 and death date as Nov. 15, 1896.)

L. L. Disbro, president of the Franklin Printing Co., 39 Juneau Ave., died Dec. 24, 1914. The Rev. S. A. Kose, pastor of the 2nd German Baptist Church conducted the services. Burial was in Forest Home Cemetary. (He had lived on Day Avenue.)

Mrs. Clarence L. Powers, wife of a former well-known Milwaukee newspaper man and a sister of former Congressman, S. S. Barney of West Bend, died in Chicago on July 28, 1909. The funeral and burial took place at Hartford, Wisconsin. About one year ago, the family moved to Joliet, 111. Previous to this move, the family had lived in Fond du Lac, Wise. (They had lived on Day Avenue prior to the Fond Du Lac move.)

Thomas Baird died Apr. 2, 1898, age 96 years, at his home at 279 Pearson Street. He was born Oct. 14, 1802 and settled in Milwaukee in 1845. He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Fannie (Hugh) Gregg and Miss Eliza Baird.

(I believe he was a step-father to Fannie Gregg (Mrs. Hugh) of E. Lake View Ave. Fannie and Hugh Gregg's marriage certificate lists her parents as James and Eliza (Cardwell) Trumble, as does Fannie's death certificate.)

The above obituaries came from "The Old Settlers of Milwaukee", vol. I, located in the Milwaukee County Historical Society library.

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Consaul, Martha M. born 7/18/1834 died 3/23/1908 (believe a dau; _,£ Lot 1, blockl2 Sec. 34 William Consaul & a

sister of Wm. H.) Consaul, Theodore S. born 12/15/1833 died 5/25/1906 (bro. of William

Lot 1, block 12, Sec. 34 Henry Consaul, son of William)

(unless Martha was Theodore's wife - check in the Consaul family history I wrote up, to see.)

Consaulus, Lydia B. born 1840, died 5/17/1911 Cremated.

(It appears she used the original family name!)

Isenring,Fred G. (He is NOT buried here - where IS his body??) But he is the registered owner of this plot - Lot 21, Block 9, Sec. 45.

" Hepworth S. - born G/30/1851, died 11/15/1894 - buried in above mentioned plot.

" Mary H. B. - born 12/11/1876, died 10/28/1904, same plot.

Swain, William - born 12/22/1833 died 1/14/1923 " , Charlotte - born , died 4/29/1910 (wife of William) " , Elizabeth - born 4/10/1806, died 7/2/1898 (wife of John) " , John - interred 9/7/1864, no birthdate given.

All above buried on lot 4, block 14, Sec. 27

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Schindhelm, Philip- buried5/22/1889 Lot 13, blk. 4, Sec. 14

Timpel, Ernst - buried 1/23/1911 - lot N5, blk. 6, Sec. 21

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I Mrs; Eva Grace Briggs, 86, of ,530 &. Lancaster avenue, Whitefish Bay, a member of a family which settled in Wisconsin about 1835, died on Sunday following an operation that had been performed several days before. She had been living with her grah&son, Vern K. Boynton, a civil engineer in Milwaukee. !*;'' * 1 Mrs. Briggs was a native of Hart

ford, Wis,, where her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elida; Fraser, settled in ^835; Her husband Carl'fried-'about 50 years ago of wounds received in the Civil war, in' which' he> served as a captain in the Union 'army* *• Surviving are another grandchild, Mrs. Norma Stevens of Winnipeg, Man., and a sister, Mrs* Nettie Fow* Jer of Milwaukee. -J^:i"*< W;U^ t Funeral services were, held Tuesday at 10 a, m. at the Fass funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland avenue. The remains were taken tot Washburn,

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BAEHR: Rose\ <ne^^auim^mri^*821-f*r Bei;ke!y blvd. j 'Saturday, May «ti$?*g« 68 years, beloved mother of Rose, Martha Chapman, I oulaa Ruzyckl and ^Ruth Baehr, also survived by 2 sliw-Jn-law, B grandchildren, 1 sister and 2 brothers. Funeral Tuesday, May'vflth, at 8:30 aYm., from the Dobratt Funeral Home, 3514 N. Port Washington av. Services at S t Monica's church, at 0 a. m. Interment Holy Cross. In state after 3 p. m., Sunday. I' Y • v •• • ^

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s ed husband of Myrtle A. (nee JuRen). Dear father of Thomas (Anne) Beckmann and PhyWs (Erwin) Mlelke. Also 1 sbtertn-*, law, 5 grandchildren, 3 great*

. orandchudren, nieces, nephews .» other relatives and friends. Visi

tation at the funeral home Sun, May 18, 5-7:30 PM. Funeral

, .Service 7:30 PM. Entombment -' Wisconsin Memorial Memori

als to Friendship Vilage U f e . , Care Fund appreciated. .Past,

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Backman, Walter C Age 12 of 404 Clover Rd Venice, FCFrt. June 25,1982. Mr. Back-man had been a salesman for Burghardt Sporling Goods hi M»waukee, a veteran of World War I and a member of the Mlnocojua Masonic Lodge Ito. . 330 of Wisconsin. He leaves Ns wife Zetis. There w i be no

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V -.Baehr, 4821 N*. Berkeley tboule-j, - vard£:who died Friday^ -Feb*-.26,. " were: held Tuesday> at 8:RQ» a. m:

from-.the Dobratz funeral 'home, ^ 3514 N. Port Washington' avenue, „

Y * to Santa Monica Catholic church;^ 5635- N.' Santa ,Monica4 boulevard.;

r "Mr, Baehr, who was '71^ is* survived by his wife, Rose Uausmann| Baehr; four daughters; Martha Chanman, Louise Ruzycki,* Rose •and" Ruth; two sons-in-law \ and five, grandchildren.

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Funeral services for Thomas" F. Buckley, 40, of 4856 N* Bartlett avenue, were held Wednesday morning at St. Monica church. Mr. Buckley died last Saturday, a victim of pneumonia, ,-; -''"•- yAz> , * --''/

Mr. Buckley had served as village engineer of Whitefish Bay since 1921 and took fin active part in;the. development of the village. :. ;; ; <• $

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and Mrs. Frank Becker, 5621 N. Bay Ridge Avenue, was killed in action when the first wave of Marines landed on Iwo Jima, on 3F rj?uary J8. zZ

Private T?ecker, who was at Pearl Harbor when it was attacked, was in the fifth division of the Marines. He went into the Marines in October of 1940, and has been active ever since.

Frank took part, in baseball and volleyball while in high school, and also played in intramural baseball and tag football in 1939. *

Lientenant Oscar W. Berssen-brugge, Whitefish Bay graduate in 1934, and son of Mr. and Mrs. W i l l i a m E Berssenbrugge, Mount Carmel, Illinois, was officially declared dead, as of JBS-. . March 29. 1944.

Lt. Berspenbrugge entered the Naval Reserve as an Aviation Cadet in January 1941, and was commissioned at Pensacola Air-station in October 1941; as a PBY Catalina B'omber pilot. He .was shipped to Pearl Harbor in December of 1941 and later to Perth, Australia, in March, 1942. In Australia, he was attached to Fleet Airwing 10. .

He was on patrol duty in the Indian Ocean, when he was reported missing with the entire crew of nine on March 28, 1943. A search was made for two days without any results, so after a year. Lt. Berssentougge was_ declared dead." A ~*v< ~^-~- -*.,..

He was active on the football squad for four years, and received a major award in his senior year. As a Freshman and Sophomore, he was interested in volleyball, skating, soccer, and basketball. ^During his Senior year, he went out for track and baseball. -

i Mrs. Stella Bykowski Mrs, Stella Bykowski, 62,

died Easter Sunday" afternoon in* the home at 913 E. Hampton rd.,f in which she lived for; more than

ff/30 years. ' / '' • i She had been ill with the fh£

for the last several weeks. Sun-* day was her first day up. She; joined her family for a fewi hours, before she suffered the' heart attack, which caused her death.

Mrs. Bykowski is survived by her husband, John, an employe

«;, of the village of Whitefish Bay, 3ft five daughters, Mrs. Hedwig g?/ Plazkowski, Mrs. Eleanor Ma-£ < shock, Mrs. Margie Neuens, Mrs.

Bernice Litke, Wausaukee, Wis.; Jt^Bernadine and $ son, John Jr.; ^.nine grandchildren, two sisters, ^ three brothers; four sons-in-law, " o n e brother-in-law/ and* three

;$isters-in-law. | < Funeral services were held Wednesday ,at St.?'.? Monica's church;. Interment was in Holy :Cross * cemetery. St. Monica's Ladies society, of which Mrs.

•ykowskiwwas a,member, held a vigil af The Schramka funeral parlors Tuesday evening. Mrs. Bykowski was also a member of the Third Order of St. Francis.

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Formerly of Shorewood Feb. M, 1988. Ape 91 years. Beloved husband of Luefla (nee Jenz). Pear father of Nancy (Robert)

. Lldecker, Wllmette, I t and Adelbert (Dorothy) .Bertschy, Peoria, IL. A sister, Alice Ka-dish, Milwaukee, 6 grandchll-dren and 2 great grandchildren also survive. Funeral mass 10 a m Thurs. at CHRIST EPISCO-

• PAL CHURCH, 5655 N. Lake Of. Interment Valhalla Memorial Park. In state 4 to 8 p m Wed. at' PASS FUNERAL HOME, 3601N. Oakland Av. Memorials

, to Sti John's Home of Mftwao-""• kee or Christ Episcopal Church

In lieu of flowers appreciated. Member of McKinley Lodge

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Death Came to Anson Buttles Calm and Peacefully in 1906

Anson W. Buttles stopped1

writing in his diary almost with; the end of 1905. He died at the age of 84 while sitting in a chair at his home in Fox Point, Sunday, Jan. 211, 1906.

A newspaper account of his death reported:

"Mr. Buttles had been an in-, valid for more than a year and was, sitting, as usual, in his invalid chair, when the summons came, and he passed away peacefully, without warning,! while his little g r a n d c h i l d , played about his chair. !

"He was in his usual good' spirits andi perfect mental con-*!

: dition, and after smoking a cigar! spoke to his little grandchild asking 'are you going to bring grandpa his slippers?' and in less than five minutes had] passed to his home beyond the dark river, without a struggle, calm and serene, as his life had

> been. "Mr. Buttles was a native of

,Milton, Pa.,; but came to Miil-^ waukee county in 1843. During

his early life he was a civil engineer and was employed on the

first steam railroad of any con-^ sequence in this country, the Baltimore & Ohio. After coming to this county he settled north of Milwaukee, then nothing but an Indian village, and he was employed in surveying what is now the Prairie du Chien division of the Milwaukee Road. The first rails laid in Wisconsin were spiked down to a grade that had been staked out by Mr. Buttles, and his surveying instruments, used then, were treasured keepsakes until his death.

Impaired Hearing "In 1853, on account of im

paired hearing, he gave up his business as an engineer and settled on the farm near Fox Point, where he has lived for 53 years, honored, respected and loved by all who knew him.

Mr. Buttles was clerk p;Lthe foTO-ttf ^waufrfe, MM%&™,

foLBB. ffiMg and^c^tyj imer-irpendent of school^jtdr^jour

jyea^s. in lTodE which offices he served the people honestly and

I faithfully; leaving a record for

probity which is worth more than an inheritance to his chil-, dren than all the Schandein millions.

(He had also been the justice of peace for 56years^DU!T*bf this fiie article makes no mention.)

"Mr. and Mrs. Buttles (who Was Miss Cornelia Mullie) celebrated their golden wedding Jan. 15, 1900, and if we mistake j not, all\|he children were pres-j ent at the old home on that occa-! sion. i

Broke Hip "About eighteen months pre

vious to his death Mr. Buttles jfell and broke his hip, from 'which accident he never recovered and,which finally caused ihis death, % During all the long months of his suffering he was

{the same bright, cheerful com-jpanion he had ever been, never ra word of discontent, but patient mnder all his afflictions, ever recounting his blessings and returning thanks to the Supreme .Ruler for all the blessings he enjoyed. In his life and death

he was certainly an example .worthy to be emulated by all men.

"The funeral services were held at the family home at Fox Point, conducted by the Rev. H. J. Veltman, of the First Dutch Reformed church of Milwaukee, who gave a glowing eulogy of the life, character and public services of the dead pioneer. The remains were conveyed to Forest Home cemetery, Milwaukee, for interment, and there laid to rest until the great day when, we are told, all will be united in* the great beyond.

Sons Were Pallbearers "The last offices for the dead

were performed by members of the family as was requested by Mr. Buttles during his life; his four sons, A. C. Posson, his son-in-law, and G. A. A. McGee, acting as pallbearers.

Eleven Children "The deceased is survived by

his Wife, four sons and seven daughters: namely Cephas Buttles, Lewiston, Mich.; A. M.

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Buttles, Fox Point; A. H. and L. S. Buttles, both of Milwau-, kee; Mrs. G. B. Posson, Fresno,) Calif.; Mrs. C. B. Potter, Mil-; waukee; Mrs. Ida B. Post, Luce-dale, Miss.; Mrs. D. M. Knee-land, Lewiston, Mich.; Mrs. A. C. Posson, South Milwaukee; Miss Virginia Buttles, Fox Point; Miss Alice Buttles, New York City, all of whom attended the funeral except Mrs. G. B. Possan and Mrs. Ida Post.

"The high respect in which Mr. Buttles was held by all classes was attested by the immense-concourse of friends who attended the. funeral and the magnificent tribute of flowers, conspicuous among them being a large wheel with one spoke broken, signifying the first break in his big and loving family.

"The dead may not know of the beautiful words spoken over their bier, or of the tributes paid to their memory and time alone can remove the sting caused by their departure, but

! such evidences of the esteem in which they were held while living is a balm to the bruised hearts that are left behind." "

Mr. Buttles died in the third home he built. His first home was a log cabin, no longer standing. The other two homes still stand on the Bradley rd. The home he died in is located at 820 W; Bradley rd. and is now occupied by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Anson M. Buttles, sr. Her husband died Nov. 3, 1942.

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Monsignor John J. Barry Pastor of St. Monica's Church from 1947 to

1974, Monsignor John J. Barry died Nov. 14 at St. Mary's Hospital after a brief illness. He had been a resident of The Milwaukee Catholic Home.

Born in Chicago, he graduated from St. Francis Seminary and was ordained in 1924. H* also received a Ph.D. in English from Marquette University.

Msgr. Barry taught English at Cardinal Stritch, Mount Mary and St. Norbert Colleges, as well as in many Milwaukee schools.

When he came to St. Monica's Parish in 1947, the congregation worshiped in a white frame building. He later oversaw the construction of the present church, convent, rectory and grade school.

He was instrumental in the donation of land

that led to the construction of Dominican High School. I

Following his retirement, Msgr. Barry assisted at Old St. Mary's Church and the Milwaukee Catholic Home.

Msgr. Barry is survived by two sisters, Marie Hentzen, of Fox Point, and Margaret (John) Foti, of Whitefish Bay; a brother, Richard (Althea) Barry, of Whitefish Bay; and a sister-in-law,. Margaret Barry. He was preceded in death by a brother, James Barry.

'A concelebrated Mass of the Resurrection was offered Nov, 18 at St. Monica's Church. Interment took place in Holy Cross Cemetery Chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions or Masses are suggested to St. Monica's Church or Propagation of Faith. Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral Home served the family.

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former resident of Whitefish Bay, died Dec. 27. She was 80.

Surviving are her children, Ernst (Margaret) of Dallas, Texas, Elsa of San' Francisco and Jon, New Jersey; and her sister, Hilde (Edward) Dictfurgis, Phoenix. Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Martha von Briesen, Lynchburg, Va.; a brother-in-law, attorney Ralph (Dorothy) von Briesen, Milwaukee; five grandchildren;

other relatives and friends. • • Preceding her in death was her husband, attorney Ernst von Briesen. '.

Memorial services were held Friday at St. John's Tower Chapel.

Memorials may be made to the Milwaukee YWCA; Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.; The Ridges, Baileys Harbor; or to charity. •"•

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Berg, Bonita L "Bonnie" Born to Eternal Life Sept. 25,1969. Age 55 yrs. of Whitefish Bay. Dear sister of Robert (Geral-dinej Berg of Brookfleld, Patricia (Robert) Black-well of Milwaukee and the late John M. Berg. Further survived by dear nieces and nephews

< and dear grand nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends. Funeral services Sat. Sept. 30th at 10:30 a.m. from the funeral home to ST. MONICAS CHURCH at 11 a.m. where Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated. In state Frl, from 4-9 p.m. with a parish wake service at 5:30 p.m. If desired, memorials to St. Monicas Church or the Whitefish Bay Foundation, Inc. or the charity of your choice. Bonnie was the Public Health Nurse of Whitefish Bay for 32 yrs.

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FonnerWrnteflshBay Police Chief Alex Boeder died in his sleep last weekend after a two-year battle with cancer. He was 74.

He was a member of the department for 36 years; serving as chief from 1974 to 1980 >and as publics safety director from 1980 until his retirement in 1982.

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law enforcement officer, a local Wftorian, S ry fe l l e r and a poet He.f edto ehter drawings and contests, A few mofrths SjWwm a Chevrolet. Camarojjn a

Clerk Cathy Frahcione. "I had a spfHpot in mv heart for him," . . .,••,..••. \ . • ,

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Longtime Bay chief Boeder follovved law to the letter

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By LAWRENCE SUSSMAN of The Journal staff .

The expression a "cop's cop" •— often used to describe outstanding police officers — was more than just a cliche for ftwv mer Whitefish Bay Police Chief Alex H. Boeder.

Just ask his daughter f

Boeder, who died off cancer Oct. 23 at his home at 74, believed everyone should follow the letter of the law — even his own family members.

Robinl^Sage, of Wauwatosa, remeriAerSt6nce getting a parking tick$%;Whitefish Bay and •going t&sh^clad, who ;wa$ a lieutejiant at thet^me, to ask for -alittfe leniency.'

"He. just lobked at me and said, *Pay it,' " she recalled. "Never once another word... If it was a law, you couldn't get around it."

Upholding the law is something IBpeder did for 36 years in Whitefph Bay. He joined the department in 1946, was promoted to sergeant ip 1949 and became a lieutenant in 1950. As lieutenant, Boeder also served as the village's part-time juvenile officer and for nearly two decades he gave talks to students and

parents throughout the community about topics such as safety and drug and alcohol use.

Boeder was named police chief in 1974, and in 1981, he was the village's public safety director, overseeing both the Police and Fire Departments; v He retired in 1982.

In 1960, Boeder was honored as the outstanding officer i ijfee field of youth and community welfare by the Wisconsin Juvenile Officers Association, He [at so Served as president of that organization.

Before joining the Police Department, Boeder was in the Army during World War It and was stationed in Tunisia, Algiers and Italy, his daughter said.

After he retired, Boeder continued to stay active, LaSagb said. He spent his time swimming,,fishing and writing feature articles and opinion pieces^$he said. Several of his^artic^lwire

•published in T h e ' ^ | | ^ k ^ e Journal. He also''^-w^^8py about writing or callin^pilliti-cians if he wanted to get Sortie* thing off his chest. z

"He did make his opinion^ known," she said. "If tolS&lt strongly about jsomethii^fe^fd write about it or make a Caliph •.

In addition to LaSage, Bpelef is survived by his wife dif 56 years, Edna; two other daughters, Jill Bemett of North Oaks, Minn., and Pamela Boeder of Madison; and a sister, Edna Kania, of Greenfield.

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Grandpa Rabe Dies; Children Pool Funds to Buy Bouquet

Charles Rabe, 89, who was "grandpa" to all the children on Woodruff ave., died last Thursday at 4856 N. Woodruff ave., the home in which he had lived for 75 years.

Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Heiden & Lange funeral home, 3116 N. 3rd st., with the Rev. Richard Jesse of Luther M e m o r i a l c h u r c h , officiating. Herman Kelbe brought a string quartette to play at the last rites for his old friend, who was so fond of music that he even enjoyed listening .to someone practice scales.

Son With Marines Three of his nine children

studied music. Gilbert, who was killed in a train accident at Gallup, New Mexico, in 1943 played clarinette with the U. S. Marine band. He had been with the Marines for 16 years and was returning to the West coast, after a thirty day furlough at home when the accident occurred. He had seen service in the Pacific.

His eldest son, Arthur, plays violin, and a daughter, Miss Elsie Rabe, plays and teaches piano.

The other sons and daughters surviving are Miss Charlotte; Mrs. Whilemine Otzelberger and Mrs. Rose Kasper; Arthur and Rudolph, all of Milwaukee, and Roland of Random Lake, Wis.

Incorporate Village With his father, John David

Rabe and other old settlers, Mr. Rabe helped incorporate the Village of Whitefish Bay in 1891, and became its first street commissioner and first justice of the peace.

Mr. Rabe was born in 1857 on the south-west corner of Henry Clay st. and Santa Monica blvd. His mother died when he was 11 years old. With his father and brother he moved to the farm on N. Woodruff ave. His father died 38 years ago and his brother, Henry, died 18 years ago.

MJarried in Fox Point Mr. Ralbe married Lisette

Burchard, whose parents had settled at Port, Washington and Dean rds., in St. John's Lutheran church, Fox Point, in 1881. To them were born nine children, seven of whom survive.

Mrs. Rabe died six years ago, sometime after she and her husband had celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary.

School Far Off When the Rabe children came

of school age they had to trudge miles to school. The only school thereabouts was one located on what is now the Lincoln park golf course. Mr. Rabe himself had attended the little school, which used to stand on the cemetery at Port Washington rd. tmd Silver Spring dr. In those days Indians often came to call at the school and watch the children at their lessons. The children and teacher gave the friendly Indians apples. And then one day came the big Indian scare. Everybody moved out. The Rabe family found out there was no truth to the scare rumor by the time they had reached Atkinson ave. They returned home at once.

But it probably was the remembrance of that scare that caused Mr. Rabe and his father to take steps "to incorporate the Village of Whitefish Bay so that it could have a school. Winter months were long and cold and the hike to school was much too far, they contended. With other far-seeing citizens of that time, they secured Whitefish4 Bay's incorporation.,

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And then to get the offices of street commissioner and justice of the peace on the ticket, Rabe became a candidate. In each instance, s he resigned "shortly after being elected. His. object had been to get the office on the ticket. Appointments could always be made after the office was recognized, he said.

Retired 25 Years Agio Mr. Rabe continued to farm

the homestead up to a quarter of a century ago. Retiring, he sold all the land but his old home-stead. As each new house went up on Woodruff ave., in the years that followed, he would be on hand to help with the landscaping and with tools. He had all the paraphernalia. Wheel-foarrows, picks and shovels, left over from farming, were there to use and he was generous in loaning them out.

Children of the new families started calling him .grandpa. Many were the toys he mended for them and much was the gentle counsel he gave. Yet he never intruded upon the children. ;

Children Shared Sweets Ever since he suffered a

paralytic stroke last March the children of the street have

taken turns coming to sit with him and talk over the events that are important to. youth and age. They brought him flowers from time to time and shared their sweets with him. In heart, he remained as young as the youngest of them.

The bouquet of baby mums that rested on his coffin, along with a spray from the family, as funeral services were conducted Monday, that was from the children of Woodruff ave.

Without prompting from their elders, the Children pooled thair money, to buy the bouquet for "grandpa."

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Mrs. Anna ML Roth Mrs. Anna M. Roth, 62,! wife of

Adolph F. Roth, piano teacher, died Tuesday at her home at 4850 N. Bartlett ave., Whitefish Bay, where she had lived for the past 25 years, Before residing in Whitefish Bay Bhe lived in Milwaukee for 15 years.

Survivors are her husband, Adolph; a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Peterson; a son, Herbert B. Both, Atlanta, Ga.; a sister, Mrs. Emma Lupinski; a brother, Richard Barby, and three grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Friday at ,2 p. m. at the Fass chapel, 3601 N, Oakland ave. Burial will be in Union cemetery.

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A former •"* trustee of White-fish Bay, Adolph F. Roth, 72, 4850 N. Bartlett ave., col-; lapsed suddenly of a heart B%Z tack on ^Monday and was pronounced dead on entrance a t

^ the County Emergency hospital.* ; Funeral services will be held | today, 1:30 p.m. at the Fass funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland ave. • ; • • ' •* ' -'^'

Mr. Roth was a Whitefish"\ Bay resident since 1917. He was born in OconomoWfOc arid came to Milwaukee a® a boy. He was instructor, of, music all his life and'was a graduate of the Royal conservatory/of Music hi Leipzig,:^ Qdmany; He taught piano.

Survivors include a son Her-bert B. Roth, a daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Peterson and a sister, Mrs. Olga Seebach, all of Milwaukee. He was a member of the G*U.G. G^rmania and the fraternal order of Eagles*

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Funeral services will be Thursday for Elsie M. Rabe, 85, of 251§ E. Newberry Blvd., who died Monday o f c a n c e r ^ j ^ j / ^ v - ^ •• .^ -A y-^

Rabe, whose father was one of the founders of the Village of Whitefish £ Bay,* was a piano teacher for 46 years. Until last June, she taught students In their homes in Milwaukee and the North Shore, suburbs. She lived in Whitefish Bay intii 1950, when she moved to Milwaukee. She was a member of Luther Memorial .Chapel.

Rabe is survived by a sister-in-law, Lydia Rabe, and a brother-in-law, John R. Kasper, both of Milwaukee.

* The body will be at the Schmidt & Bartelt Funeral Home, 106 W. Silver Spring Dr., Whitefish Bay, from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday with services there at 11 a.m. Thursday. Burial will be in Valhalla Memorial Park, 5402 N.91St

Luedtke, Hilder T May 2, 1988. Age 79 years. (Nee Rlsberg). Dear mother of -. Doris Luedtke Thorsen of Florida, Harofd Luedtke of Florida ' and Charles.(Mary Catherine) Luedtke of Georgia; $ grand-

'. children; 3 sisters, Isabelle Litscher, Esther Wedel, and < Oaire Risberg Moffeti Other relatives and friends. Funeral < Wed. May 4 at 5 pm at Fox « Point Lutheran Church, Interment Valhalla. Instate at the . church Wed., * $ pm. Memorial to Alzheimer's Research Fund .

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Obituary ^TfyTy^W^

Services for Allan J. Roberts,!1

16226 N. Lake dr. / were held' Saturday afternoon at the Philip J, Weiss home. Burial was in Forest Home cemetery. Founder and president of the Roberts Co., one of Wisconsins largest fire* and casualty insurance agencies,, Mr. Roberts died Oct. 22 at St.?

Mary's hospital. He was 65. f He was director of the White-

fish Bay State bank and a for-? mer director of the Milwaukee Rotary club. A thirty-second degree Mason, he belonged to the Wisconsin consistory, T r i p o l i shrine and Darhascus Blue lodge. shrine ana uamascus DUAV WU6V. Active in civic groups most of / / his life, he had aided several lol3( /^^/^ needy university students after ' / j ' t I / his son, Allan, jr., was killed in an accident while a student at the University of Wisconsin,

j Mr. Roberts is survived by his wife, the former Annette' Jacobs, and two daughters, Roberta, wife of Dr. J. Martin Klotsche, president of M i l w a u k e e State Teachers college, and Mrs. Joan Robertson of Tampa, Fla.

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Whitefish Bay Mourns Death of Ralph Cahill I • Governmental Officials and Village Employes J

Attend Funeral Services for Bay Manager V| Officials of north shore communities, members of the ?1

Committee of 21, representatives of the Milwaueke M e t r o - / ! politan sewer commission, and many residents of Whitefish Bay, paid their final respects to Manager Ralph H. Cahill, 64, as he lay in state Sunday at the Weiss funeral borne, 1901 7!( N. Farwell ave. Funeral services were held Mondaysjnorn-/~ ing with the Rev. Roscoe Graham conducting the rit^s andi

preaching the funeral sermpnigj Mr. Cahill, who was sched--M

uled to retire- as \ Whitefish Bay's village manager Nov,, 30, died Friday at,St. Mary's A hospital, following .a heart at-.;> tack. He had been in appar- J ent goo'd health Thursday and J*1 had attended the double h e a d - ^ er Braves' ball game at the:%; County stadium Thursday eve-O!

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"Mr. Cahill's death is > really serious loss to good government in so far as Mil- ;, m waukee county and t h e * s t a l e ^ is concerned/' said Hubert -O. Wolfe. Shore wood's village attorney, who worked with Cahill on the Commit- ^ 1 tee of 21, the League of W i s - j | cpnsin Municipalities and in -Z other g o v e r n m e n t a l en-, r? deavors. t \ • i •;*,

; Wolfe recognized Cahill as. ^ an able administrator, not only -, in the field of local govern- -1 ment and municipal law but ir also as engineer and member ', of the Metropolitan sewerage , commission. '

"He was well founded in all . administrative and municipal ' a f f a i r s , " said Wolfe. "His field was much broader than i* just that of village govern- 3 ment. His views on»the Met-'r$ ropolitan sewerage. commis- J sion . r e s u lt e d in : excellent ;i progress by solving, many /! sanitary p r o b l e m s in the/*f northern part of the county, y

"He was a devoted public A servant and we in government J will surely miss him for years--I to come." ., .,, \ J

Village P r e s i d e n t Tom'I Hayes t o l d the Herald "that I "With the death of Ralph Ca- / | hill, Whitefish Bay has lost .ari valuable and trustworthy serv- <j ant. His 23 years of service 3 for the village; were unmarked J I Mr, Cahill had been re-If

lieved of all managerial du- P 1 ties by ihe Whitefish Bay H village board sometime ago,

S ? £** h e m i ^ h i devote all*

unhl his retirement Nov. 30,* to ihe proposed iri-municipal' water plant, 1* ihe Silver: Spring parking situation and* to preparation,of the, 1957f

.village budget. ••' i

*» He was Tooking Ibrwar'd to his retirement and to this* end was having a home built at Winter Park, Fla., a suburb of Orlando. His plan was to work part-time as an engineer consultant. , With his wife, the former Mrs. Phyllis F. Rhue, he had been living at 1609 N. Prospect ave.

Up until a , few years ago, Mr. Cahill was known as the village commissioner. He wasl appointed to this assignment in 1933. Prior to coming to Whitefish Bay, Mr. Cahill was

• a member of the Milwaukee Icity engineers' staff and chief {engineer and designer of the $3,000,000 Riverside pumping station. ' ' v<- - •

Appointed by Governor He w a s appointed' to the

sewerage commission in 1946 by Governor Goodland and s e r v e d on the commission ever since* He was also planning to retire from this body. t

| Mr. Cahill was one of the^

vleven members on the Com-4 toittee of 21 representing the

suburbs. The county and city also each have seven members on this committee, engaged in metropolitan studies.

f Mr, Cahill was Whitefish f Bay's chief p l a n n e r and

'during most of his years at V Whitefish Bay was also the village engineer. He was ihe chief administrator -: of. the village, responsible t% the elected board of trustees. Born in Sioux City, la. , Mr..

Cahill c a m e to Milwaukee with his family at the age of 9. In studying engineering at the University of Wisconsin he followed in the footsteps of his engineer father. He was graduated from the university in 1913 and served as an artillery officer in Europe during World War I.

He returned to Milwaukee to work in the. city engineer's office and in 1926 earned a f master's degree in civil engineering at the University of Wisconsin. He left his job with the city engineer's office to become associated with his/; father and brother in the firm j of Charles A. Cahill & Sons,; consulting engineers. j

Came to Bay in 1933 / I He, remained with the firm j

until Whitefish Bay invited, him to beborrie its commis-j sioner. and engineer; To bet-> ter serve the' village he tookj several courses offered by thej International fAssociation of: City Managers. He has earned j certificates in public works, fire and police administration.

Mr. Cahill -held memberships in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Public Works assn. and the Engineers* society of Mil-

J waukee. ;

He married Mrs/;Rhue,rwho ™ an,, English teacher. at Whitefish Bay s c h o o 1 s, in ^ l - 'His first wife had died a b £ u t five .years earlier, v

.Besides his wife, he is survived by three .daughters, JJw. D o r ° t h y Witt, Mrs Jane Wolterstorff and Mrs. Nahcy Ames, all of Milwaukee* a son, John A. Cahill, / Toledo,

T1?' £ n d a s t ePson, ( Frederick Rhue, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Former Bay Teacher Dies

Funeral services were held on Tuesday at the Kinsgley Methodist church and at the Lodi, Wis., Methodist church on Wednesday, for Alice A. Carncross. for 31 years a teacher in the Whitefish Bay and Milwaukee schools. Interment was at West Point, ,i Wis* Miss Carncross, who lived at '* 710 E. Mason street, died Sunday at J1

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Frank W. Consaul. born in a . log cabin on Silver Spring dr. 80 years ago, three days before the last Whitefish Bay "Indian \ scare," died Tuesday night at. the home of a nephew, Rudolph* l Off, at Mequon.

Up until his illness four weeksr t w ago, Mr. Consaul had always V ° lived in Whitefish Bay. His *a- ^ ther, William Consaul, came to \ \ ^ Whitefish Bay from Toledo, £%; -fi Ohio, in 1847, and bought a 35-acre tract extending from t h e lake to tfie present N. Santa Monica blvd. at Silver Spring rd. "u- ' ' Y At the time of the "Indian scare," the Consaul family and' all others living in this area flecft to relatives in Milwaukee. The* alarm proved to be false, however, and they moved back the same evening. , Mr. Consaul was one of the original incorporators of the vH~ lage and for a time was a t rustee and the street commissioner.. He retired ten years ago front the grading and excavating business. His wife died eight years ago and until three years * ago he continued to live at 3700 N. Santa Monica blvd. Since h e has been boarding with friends. He is survived by a sister; Mrs* Henry Marsh, Whitefish Bay*

Services for the pioneer will be held Friday at 1:30 p . m . aft the Dobratz mortuary, 3514 If. Port Washington rd. Burial wffli be in Union cemetery.

Holcl Services H ! for W. Carter; Captain Dies April 29 at H Home of Daughter at A g e

of 93 Years Capt. William J. Carter, 93, a sail

or on the Great Lakes tor 47 years, died Wednesday morning, April 29, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. It, C. Gether, 4545 N. Bartlett avenue. He had been ill for several months.

Born in Brownville, N. Y., Capt Carter came to Milwaukee to visit; relatives when he was 17 and remained to spend nearly half -a century on; the lakes as deckhand, officer and-captain of many vessels. He retired * in 1908 after sailing the lakes since, 1861.

What the captain called "the closest I everv came to a thrilling experience" took ''place in the fall, of 1900 when the, J. B. Ketcham, of which he was. captain, downboundu from Duluth with a cargo of grain,.; collided with the Typo, Milwaukee built schooner, %

The red and green running side lights, required by maritime regulations, were alight on both boats, but the fog hid the vessels from each other. The J. B. Ketchara rammed her prow into the side of the Typo, which sank so quickly that a dinghy being lowered was sucked down with the schooner. ,A ;

The captain's daughter, Mrs.: Gether, is his only survivor. Funeral services were held Thursday, April 30, at the Phillip J. Weiss funeral home. Burial was < in Forest Home

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Funeral services rwer^ heid Sunday for Mrs. James; S. Campbell, 81, a resident of Whitefish ^ Bay^ s? 1919. Mr-. Campbelkdied.Janl2. her ,hoir<» af t * 1 .B* Colfax^ pi.

She te$UttH<M4 by eight children, and four sisters. Her. husband preceded her in death in 1925, and a? son in 1929. ; r * ^,7 A *• ,%')

Surviving, sons ,. are [ ; William; Neosho, Wis.\ Henry p., 'Ellsworth, Wis., and, James,, Rubicon, Wis.^ Daughters, arer- Mrs., Peter Bertz/4

Loyal, Wis,, Mrs. Henry Westover, West' Allis, Mrs. F . . H>, Mortensen, West Allis, Mrs. Frank' Becker, Whitefish Bay, and Mrs. Art Kaestner, Whitefish Bay, with whom she made her home.* '• r-^*>l./-\'i - <

* Born in 1854^" Surviving sisters are Mrs. Ed.

Morse," Loyal, Wis.; Mrs., Fred Schmidt, Horicon, Wis., Mrs. Philip Bextz, Rubicon, Wis., and Mrs. Fred Thompson, Neosho, Wis. *

Mrs. Campbell's maiden name was Anna Hoffman. She was born July 1, 1854 in New York state, but was brought to Wisconsin in infancy. Previous to her residence in/Whiter' fish Bay she lived in'Brookfield, and on farm£ near Rubicon and the town of Asshippun. She was married to James S.' Campbell, • a great lakes sailor; in 1872. *

., . Funeral .services were^ held from }the residence Sunday morning; and in St. Paul's Episcopal church Sunday afternoon. A *>' '

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John Callahan Former Bay trustee

Services wili be Wednesday for John (Bill) Callahan, who was chairman ofthe Whitefish Bay Fire and Police Commission for 15 years, a Whitefish Bay Village Board trustee and a former Marquette University track star.*

Callahan died of cancer Saturday at his Whitefish Bay home. He was 73.

Callahan headed the Fire and Police Commission from 1970 to 1985 and served on the Village Boarxl from 1964 to 1969. :;: ;;

He was the director of industrial!' relations for Rexnord Corp. from-1967 until 1982, when he retired. Before that, he was the personnel; M? manager at the Wisconsin Gas Co., holding that position from 1951 to 1967. During his career, he specialized in labor relations.

A Milwaukee native, Callahan „ graduated from Marquette High School and Marquette University. He received his law degree from Marquette University in June 1941. While at Marquette, he was a sprinter on the track team and was good enough to be an alternate to the 1936 US Olympic team, which included Jesse Owens and Ralph j, Metcalfe, \\

Callahan was drafted into the. Army about five months before the; United States entered World War? II. He served as a captain at the; Ordnance Department at the Aber- \ deen Proving Grounds in Mary- \ land. He specialized in personnel' matters. |

In Milwaukee, Callahan was a* member ofthe Town Club and the f State Bar Association of Wisconsin, although he never formally practiced law. He also served as,,; president of the Whitefish Bay Retired Men's Club.

"He was one of the nicest guys you'd ever want to know," his wife, Eunice, said.

Said his son Sean, of Wauwatosa: "He always put his children ahead of himself. There's nothing ; that he wouldn't do for his kids of • his family.* ; , • . .$ \

Callahan is also survived by two -' other sons, Michael of Milwaukee and Thomas of Whitefish Bay; a daughter, Kathleen Cablentz of River Hills; and a sister, Sally Mc-Cormick of Arlington Heights, 111.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday at St. Monica's Congregation, 160 E Silver Spring Dr., Whitefish Bay, followed immediately by the funeral mass.

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can«el<tVeraM. Nov. 26, 1986, age 84 years.

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• Parishioners Hold , { /V ig i l Tuesday Night i* Parishioners for whom he

had worked and built since 1923 paid their final respects to Father Peter Dietz; 69, as he lay in state all day Tuesday and Wednesday morning at St. Monica's church. Father Dietz died Saturday following a lingering illness.

They came singly and in groups to pass along his bier and to say a prayer for him, who had established St. Monica's parish and watched it grow from a unit of 30 to more than 800 Catholic families.

Present too were other village officials and business men and officials of various civic clubs— all came as final tribute to the man who took keen interest in every issue of local government.

From all parts of the Milwaukee archdiocese and~other diocese came clergy. Also to come were labor leaders and others whose cause he had espoused in an energetic lifetime*

Brother Says Requiem

Father Frederick *C. Dietz, Maryknoll, N. Y., celebrated the solemn Requim High Mass for his deceased brother at 11 o'clock Wednesday. Father F. C. Dietz is assistant general of the Maryknoll fathers.

The Most Rev. Moses E.' Kiley, archbishop of Milwaukee, gave the absolution at the end of the mass. Present in the sanctuary were eight |mon-signoir, among them Rtf Rev. Msgr. Farrel P. Reilly of St.

.Robert's church. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery.

About 130 to 140 priests, fully robed, chanted the Vespers for the Dead. AH through Tuesday night different societies of the church held vigil.

Mass in Village Hall When Father Dietz came to

Whitefish Bay, the village was without a Catholic church. He offered the first official Mass in the community in the village hall on Christmas Day, 1923.

The parish was so small that the undertaking to build a

church s e e m e d stupendous. Such. challenges fired Father Dietz'. imagination. He looked about the village and found a piece of farm-land with barn and farm house. A builder of buildings as well as of souls, he converted the barn inlto a rustic chapel. The farm house he used as a parish house.

Builds School

Four years later when, the parish had increased to 100 families, ground was broken for a parochial school and a bell tower was added to hold the bells— Monica, Mary, Lawrence and Peter— given to Father Dietz by the Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Father Dietz had brought about the amicable settlement of the firemen and policemen's strike in Cincinnati.

The foundation for the new church was laid and temporarily fitted for-immediate use in 193a* "WhenY thft?churc^ finally completed, the play area for school children will be enclosed on three sides by the present school, its projected addition and the new church. All buildings are Romanesque in style of the Lombardic architecture, which Father Dietz so admired. The fir trees which grow on the parish grounds,

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road, Whitefish Bay, were held; from the Fass Funeral chapel, 3601 N. Oakland avenue, Monday afternoon at 2:30 k p. nu Burial

h was at Forest Home cemetery. Mr. Dernehl, who was 78 years

• of age, died at his home Friday I night. He was founder and pres-Z ident and treasurer of theT A. | Dernehl & Sons, wholesale gro-* i^'cers. He was active in the firm li until he became ill about five X weeks ago. l

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Lillian Dickmann, 76, 5113 N. Woodruff ave., wil l be held at 2 p.m. today at Divinity Lutheran church. The body was at tjie Dobratz funeral home, 3514 N. Por t Washington ave., from 2 p.m. Wednesday to 10 a.m. today and at the church at noon. Burial will be in the Town of Milwaukee Union cemetery.

Mrs. Dickman who died Monday at Deaconess hos-

pital after a short illness had lived in Whitefish Bay a l l her life. She was born on a site, now in Klode park . Her maiden n a m e was Grams. S h e w a T I T m^mBeF THTTfce ladies' guild of D i v i n i t y church.

Her survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Alma Was-luk, Mrs. Norman Otto and Mrs. Meta Schultz; seven sons, George, Edwin, Arthur , Herbert , Carl and Raymond, all of Milwaukee; and Raymond of Sheboygan; four sisters, Mrs. Elsie Czerwan, Mrs. Anna Becker, Mrs. Hul-

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: John Dedrick John H. Dedrick, 75, died of

a heart kttack at his home, 4223 N. Newhall s i , March 14. Mr. Dedrick was a ret ired mail carrier with a 40 year record of service. He entered the postal service after serving in the Spanish American war .

Mr. Dedrick was a member of the Kenwood Masonic lodge and the Knights of Pythias.

He is survived by two sons, Daniel W., Hartford, Conn., and John H., Boston, Mass.; two sisters, Mrs. Addie Meyer anrJJJ^rg. Phillip Sohns, both of Milwauk e e / arid* aJpJother Phil Dedrick also of Milwaukee.

Services were held March 18 at the Fass funeral home, wi th burial at Wanderers ' Rest cemetery./ "• ••£-''•• «H: :v' • • ; > r J

Whitefish Bay Man Dead of Monoxide

; Alfred paniels, 65, of 5519, N. Lake drive, was found dead of carbon monoxide Monday in his car in his garage. He was believed to be despondent over financial troubles. Z: Mr. Daniels formerly a cigar manufacturer, was a salesman at a brewery, His body was found by his wife, Charlotte, who called Whitefish Bay police. They attempted to resuscitate him without success, -fi^i/u t W//9f/fJ3

Dobregowskf, Daniel T. Dec 28,1988. A$e 71 yrs. Residence Whitefish Bay. Beloved husband of Kit Young Dobrogowski. Dear father of Paul G. and Ellen L Dobrogowski. Stepfather of Cynthia (Roy) Johnson, Monica (Brian) McKenney, Bradley Young and Randall Young. Brother of Rudolph Dobrogowski. Uncle of Anne Olson and Phillip Dobrogowski. Further survived byofher relatives and friends. Mass of Christian Burial at Holy Family Church, N. Wildwood Ave. at E. Hampton, Whitefish Bay, Sat. 11 a m Interment St. Mary's Cemetery Elm Grove. In state at the church Sat. at 9:30 a m If d * sired, memorials may be made to Daniel T, Dobrogowski Scholarship Fund care of Marquette University.

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Mrs. Jane Dedrick, who was born in Shorewood 94 years ago when what is now the village was farm land, died Saturday at the home of b^r daughter. Mrs|7n Philip Sohns, ftl 2 E."( ^ ^w u i Me^^_! ! sne was born on* ter fa thers ¥0 acre farm, which was

near the present site of Estabrook park and E. Capitol drive. This farm was purchased for $2.50 an acre by Mrs. Dedrick's father, Thomas JSare. after his arrival here irom ' ireanav

Mrs. Dedrick, the eldest daughter in a family of eight children, often told how her father hunted wild game and shot deer near the farm. She was born Aug. 17, 1841, and

, when she was nine years old, a small log cabin was erected on the site of the present SlioVer/ood High school grounds. She entered as a third grade pupil, t\s her earlier education had been provided by her mother.

Day of Shopping ' When she was four, the city of

Milwaukee was incorporated. When 1 she was nine the first school was

built. . ,, A day of shopping in Milwaukee, f was an event in the early life of

Mrs. Dedrick. The farmers either ; drove to town in ox carts down a

rugged road, or they went on foot along an Indian trail.

The old farm has been split. Part of it forms a corner of Estabrook park, part is used as a railroad thoroughfare, and part is now a residential section. A three-acre plot facing E. Capitol drive is still own-» ed by the family, and now a niece of Mrs. Dedrick/ Mrs. Walter Brandt,, lives there in a house built by Mrs.

'Dedrick's brothers. It is surrounded by fruit trees, part of the original orchard.

{Services on Tuesday Mrs. Dedrick had lived here all

her life- Her husband, John Dedrick, a miller, died about 30 years ago.

Her youngest sister, Mrs. Sarah Shuinan, Milwaukee, is the only member of her father's family still surviving. She also leaves four sonsy Benjamin of State college, Pa.; Stephen of Vancouver, Canada, and John and Philip of Milwaukee; two daughters, Mrs. Sohns and Mrs. Richard E. Myers; 12 grandchildren, and four great grandchildren.

Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Fass chapel, 3601 N. Oakland avenue', with burial

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Dickmann, Arthur F. ' - Passed away Mar. 7, 1991. Age 83. Beloved \ •t brother of Alma Wasluk, Norma Otto, Meta i\

Schultz and Clarence (Juanita) Dickmann of \ Sheboygan, Wf. Sisters-in-law, nieces, nephews, v

other relatives and friends. Arthur was a retiree..; of U.S. Postal Service and a Veteran of WWH. \ Services 12-noon Sat. In state 10 a.m. Sat. untH time of service. Entombment Wisconsin t. Memorial. In lieu of flowers, memorials to the .• American Cancer Society appreciated., •

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Elitzer, William J. ^ Sun. Oct. 5,1986. Age 83. Beloved husband of Meta (nee Otto). Dear Father of Warren (Nancy). Grandfather of Brooks (Mlcaela), Great grandfather of Grace. Brother of Elsie (George) Maier. Also other relatives and friends, visitation at the funeral home Tues. Oc*.7,4-9 pm. Private family services. Retired vice Chairman of Brotherhood Maintenance of Way Employees, Chicago & Northwestern Railroad.

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Eichfeld, Leona R. Formerly of Whitefish Bay at Menash«,Wt,0ct.l7,1988.Age 85 years. Wife of the late W. Kenneth Eichfeld. Mother of the late William K. Eichfeld Survived by a sister Eleanor Brenkus, Menesha, a grandson Kenneth Woldt, a great gran-daughter Nicole Woldt, a niece Joan (James) Jensen, Appteton and other relatives. NOT IN STATE. Memorial services 4 p m Sat. at FASS FUNERAL HOME, 3601 N. Oakland Av., Shorewood. Friends may call from 3 p.m. Sat. i«ntH time of service. Retired Oerk-Treasur-er of Whitefish Bay. Memorials to charity of your choice In leu of flowers appreciated

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nwi Philip S. Fartey. Dear mother of

-arley, I Of Whitefish Bay, July IZ, 1988.

89 yrs. Wife of the late

Paul (Mary) Farley, Whitefish Bay and Jean Ewert, TNens-vllle, Wl. A brother in Oregon Carl (Florence) Weber, 4 grandchildren, 4 great grandchildren, brothers and sisters-in-law and other relatives also survived NOT IN STATE, prl-vate family services to be hekt Memorials to the charity of your choice In leu of flowers appreciated 65 yr. resident of

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* Fetfman, Edward D. ST. * Age 80 of Shawano, formerly of Milwaukee, ; passed away Sun. Jan. 7,1990 in Shawano. He

was born Oct. 20, 1909. Son of the late E.J. • Fellman and Sarah (Helm) Fellman of Milwaukee. •• He was the former Chief Executive Officer and < Chairman of the Board of the Phenlx Manufac*

luring Co. of Shawano. Mr. Fellman was a significant contributor to the establishment o f t h e

; Roundy Memorial Baptist Church of Whitefish Bay and was a member of the First United

• Presbyterian Church of Shawano. Survivors are . his wife of 53 years Marjory (Stevens) Fellman; : sons Edward D. (Carolyn) Fellman Jr., William S. ' (Connie) Fellman, Stephen (Mary) Fellman all of j Shawano; daughter Ann F. (Bill) Radtke, Shawa

no; 11 grandchildren and a great granddaughter , and a sister Harriet F. Meisner, Milwaukee. F u - .

neral services will be Wed. 1 p.m. at First Pres- . byterian Church,.Shawano. Interment Woodlawn Cemetery, Shawano. Friends may call from 4-8 p.m. Tues. and from 8:30-10 a.m. Wed. at the < Schroeder Funeral Home, Shawano and after 11 ; a.m. Wed. at church until services. Memorial funds have been established. • ;w

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Edward J. FellmahJDied Suddenly Monday Night

Funeral services were held at 2:00 olock.; this.? Thursday j afternoon at

the Fass funeral home;;3601 North Oakland avenue, for Edward J. Fellman, 68,f presidentjor the -Phenbc company, manufacturers of millwork. Interment was in Forest Home cemetery. Mr. Fellman died very suddenly at his home1 at^"641.8i North Lake drive, vWhitefis^V;Ba^;'foiia Monday night. ••> f:"- ^ V ^ ^ ^ ^ S ^ ^ ^ ' ^ H , * Born in Hanover, Ont.^Mr. Fellman had lived in Milwaukee for, 42 years. He was active hr the affairs of the First Baptist church, having served as chairman of the board of

i trustees for 23 years. He .was past president of the Wisconsin Baptist league, a member of the board of

I trustees of the Wayland academy, [Beaver Dam, and V' member of the Milwaukee Rotary clubi^ ^ ZA7'S7 f

He is survived by {his ;wife Sarah ; two sons, '• Judson LeRoy,' and:; Edward D„ of Milwaukee;* three brothers, Dr; G, H. of Milwaukee, Dr. Albert of Chicago/' and Dr=<W. Or of Oak Park, Illinois; and'Jthree sisters, the Misses Minnie, Marie and Emma Fellman* all of Oak.Park. AZj^

Mrs. Ida Fisher One of Shorewood's oldest

residents, Mrs. Ida Fischer, died Monday at the home of a friend, 34470 N. Newhall st. Her own home was at 1804 E. Lake Bluff blvd.

Mrs. Fisher was born in Shorewood on the site now occupied by St. Robert's church. Her father, Albert Blankenberg, was one of the first real estate men in Milwaukee.

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' t o being one of the first white chil-z dren born in Whitefish Bay, will be I held Saturday at 2 o'clock under the | auspices of the Palmer lodge, F. &• I tA. M. Burial will be in Union ceme-j A teryy: A-l. -\..y. A"- ';•"• 7 - A

|; \Mr. Fischer died Tuesday morning | i at vhis fhome, ^804 E A Lake Bluff'

tt. boulevard. He "was born in 1864 h* 'A what was then the Town-of Milwau-if kee, little more than a wilderness/' j His father's home lay just over the] 7 northern boundary of Shorewood. It1

jk is still standing, a small cottage on jr N. Oakland avenue north of \Kenj

ffii- sington. '••A-:.* yA AAZ:7ZZ:':- -7'AA$ lf: A Mr. Fischer often related tales of h'A ' the pioneer days before Shorewood f| j and Whitefish Bay history was made,

A Indians camped on the river. He re-: called the time when the countryside |: was thrown into an Uproar.by the ex-' | ; plosion of the powder mill in the flat 1? at the foot of Kensington boulevard.: hAs a boy, Mr. -Fischeir went to the old j: Mineral street school which stood a$ |? th05^orner of E. Capitol drive and1

|Y Oakland avenue. Later his parents! f Y mpyed to ,|he city. For the last six* •T years Mr. Fischer had lived .•-. inj Y Shorewood. ^ 1

1, A stroke of apoplexy two years ago] " forced him to retire as president of .».- the Merchants and Farmers State

bank, which he founded fifteen years ago. Mr. Fischer is survived by his widow, Mrs. Ida Fischer; three sons, Edward, Frank A. and LeRoy, of

. Milwaukee; four daughters, Mrs. Elsie Hedges, Lander, Wyo., Mrs.

\ Alice Butke and Mrs. Nellie. Ker-JY shaw, Milwaukee, and Mrs. Irene! ^Wanderer, Kilbourn, Wis. A>2^|

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^OBITUARIES j Carl Robert Gether j Carl Robert Aether, 88, a retir-. ed business man and real estate agent who was closely associated with the growth of Whitefish Bay,; died Sunday at his home, 4645 N/ Bartlett ave., followinga long ill-k ness, , . •';$

Mr. Gether came to Milwaukee I from St. Louis in the late '70s and" had established his home here

since. He founded the Gether Electrotype Co., which he later sold. For many years he operated the Gether Piano Co. at what is now N. Seventh st. and W. Wisr consin ave. {n aiding the^develon-gtggt:oQaggft?fi Iay>,4.v iii£ l d

fnat Mr. Gether laid a portion of street car track at his own expense as far as Day ave. which he later sold to the street railway company. The incident took place during his fight for transportation for the area, In 1933 he attracted attention by organizing a cooperative residence building venture in Whitefish Bay, which included little capital and five un-

• employed skilled tradesmen. The ' enterprise had the approval of the ! state industrial commission. He j retired from all active work about 110 years ago.

Surviving Mr. Gether are his wife, Mabel Carter Gether; a daughter, Mrs. Marvin Wallach; Highland Park, 111.; a son, R. Cnr-

i ter Gether, and three grandchil-: dren, Joan Wallach, Highland Park, and Robert Carter Gether.

Funeral services were held Tuesday at 11 av m. at the Weiss chapel, 1901 N. Farwell ave., under the direction of Kenwood lodge 303, F. and A. M., of which he was a member. Burial was. in Forest Home cemetery.

Mrs. Minnie Geilfuss I

Member of a pjkmeer White- H iZO j [ ^ (J3 fish ;Bay family, Mrs. Minnie / ' Geilfuss, 64, died Unexpectedly iM^t: A LU„ ^ n J Sunday at the home of • hex iVh & H&uUji son-in-law and daughter, Mr.

* and Mrs. Cassius Lemke, 3724 ! W. Good Hope rcj. Her-husband Fred, died in 1921. ^

Funeral services were helt Wednesday afternoon at the Fas* chapel with burial in Valhalli cemetery, • . - A'Z-: -Y. :.%X :>. . z

Mrs. Geilfuss' father^ the lat| Charles Sturm, was a county sii pervisor for years. She is sur vived by Mrs. Lemke; two sons Alfred and, Carl Geilfuss; a sis — terT Mrs.* Anna Jacobi, St^Louu Mo., and > a brother, Sturm, Milwaukee > i

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Fred Grams, a pioneer Whitefish Bay , farmer who settled in the village long

before its incorporation, died Sunday at her home, 5955 N. Lake drive. She had been ill a year, never fully recovering from a fractured hip suf-. fered in a fall.

\z Mrs. Grams* husband died 20 years I ago. ;. She is survived by eight daughters. Mrs. Minnie Numann, Miss Louise Grams, Mrs, Lillian Dickmann, rMrs. Alvina Zipfel, Mrs. Elsie Czer^ <wan, Mrs. Anna Becker, Mrs. Hulda^l fHagman and Miss Hattie Grams;* a | |

, Ferdinand; 27 grandchild^ryand|i |son, |two great-grandchildren^Y>;;ili|f|fi^^| if Funeral services were' held at 2 :'pM

at the Grams ; home^f lm. Wednesday _ |and at 2:30 p. m. at ''St/John's LuthrM leran church, Port Washington road#l fBurial wiU be in he town of jMUv au f fkee cemetery. /M^^^M^yi i^^^S^M

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home on 180 E. Day Ave. She and husband, August, died in Milw. in 1893.

of 1252 Oakland Ave. (Shorewood) and a dau., Adolpha Emma, who also lives at 180 E. Ave., survive. She and dau., Emma, conducted the Milw. School of Musical Cluture, training many violinists of note.

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) ; Funeral services were held Monday afternoon at the Thomas Jones & Qlson funeral home, 1820 E. North avenue, for Mrs. Tillle M. Geerlings, 54,. of 5822 N. Shore drive, who was killed in an automobile accident near Philip, S. D. She was on a vacation trip with her husband, John Geerlings, an employee of the Wisconsin News. Interment was in Forest Home cemetery. '

Surviving, besides her husband, are two brothers, Oscar* Muellter, Chicago, and George W. Dueller Milwaukee, and three sisters, Mrs. Corrine Sou-ders, Preston, Minn.,-; Mrs. Emma Coles, Seattle, Wash/and Alma-;M.uel-ler;TMUwaukee.Y' --..XZA ^ZAZyZZ^;-. * Z9 il£( A¥mZZt'^

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Double rites were held Monday for] Mr. and Mrs. John Geerlings, 6822-j N. Shore drive. Mrs. Geerlings was instantly killed in an automobile accident at Philip, S. D.,; July 26, and her husband was injured. Her* body had been in the vault of the Thomas, Jones & Olson funeral home awiiting his recovery. Mr. Geerlings requested that the .funeral of his wife b£ de-f layed until he was able to attends

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gg, Scr Frl. Aug. 7,1987. Age 91 years. Husband of Violet Gregg. Fa- ^ ther of Mrs. Jane (William) Schowalter, Princeton, NJ. ' Grandfather of Katherine, Mary and David. Services at St. John's Home Chapet, 1840 N. Prospect Av. Tues. at 10 am. Private Interment Forest Home Cemetery. Not In state. In Ueu of flowers If desired, memorials to St. John's Home Chapel pre-

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GRAMS: Louis*, 5955 N. Lake dr.. Wednesday, Aug. 18, aged 64 years, beloved sister of Minnie Neumann, Lillian Dickmann, Al-vina Zipfel. Ferdinand Grams, Elsie Czerwan, Annie Becker, Hulda Hageman and Hattie Grams; also survived by nieces and nephews. Services Sunday, Aug. 22, at 2 p. m., at the Dobratz Funeral Home, 3514 N. Port Washington av. Interment town Milwaukee Union. In state after 10 a. m. Saturday.

Geraty, Genevieve M. (Nee Lemke) of Whitefish Bay. Born to eternal life June 9, 1990, age 79 years. Beloved wife of the late Arthur t . Geraty. Dear mother of M. Michael Geraty of St. Louis, Thomas H. (Barbara) of Menomonee Falls, the late Timothy and Kathleen (Donald) Drum of Bayside, also survived by 7 grandchildren. 1 great-grandchild, nieces, nnphews, other relatives and friends. A memorial mass will be held Tues.-June 12, at 4 p.m. at ST. MONICA'S CHURCH. The family will receive friends following the mass. Interment Wed. June 13 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Rochelle, IL. In lieu of flowers memorials may be given to St. Mary's Hospice. Member ana founding member of St. Monica's Churcr Ladies of Charity and Whitefish Bay and Shor wood Women's Club and Seniors. Also a met ber of Lakeshore Contract Bridge Club, a a Ronald McDonald House Volunteer.

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Dr. Gute Dies t Age 58

Funeral services for Dr. Edwin B. Gute, Fox Point and Bayside health commissioner and former Whitefish Bay health officer; were held Monday afternoon at the Wisconsin Memorial Park chapel under the auspices of Silver Spring lodge of the Masons. The body was cremated.

did not regain consciousness l i is wife, theiormer Barpn-

ess Fredericka von Redlich of Chicago, was in Columbia hospital recovering from an oper-ation, when he was brought in as a patient. She was told the seriousness of his illness and saw him when he was brought into the hospital.

Dr. Gute' h a d practiced medicine in Whitefish Bay for 30 years, living at 226 E. Henry Clay st. and operating the North Shore clinic at 5630 N. Lake dr. He was chairman

'school and athletic affairs! He / w a s Whitefish B4

health commissioner from I) to 1943, when he entered J navy in World War II to set; in campaigns on Attu a Okinawa. He was discharg as a commander. He serv as a private in the cavalry « the Mexican border in 1916 ai was a first sergeant in tl 120th field artillery, 32nd dh sion in World War I.

For many years he was t Whitefish Bay high sch< team physician. He had be

Dr. Edwin B. Gute, right, is shown ai a John S. Hirschboeck, 3948 N. Harcouri pi. 1953 meeting in the Whitefish Bay village dean of the Marquette university medica hall*of the citizens committee to study pub- school; and Dr, Gorton Ritchie, 4743 N lie health needs. Pictured with him are Dr. Sheffield ave. --staff photo.

Dr. Gute, 58, died Friday at Columbia hospital after a stroke. It was the third stroke he had suffered. The first one in December was slight. A second stroke occurred in February. He was stricken Sunday noon at his LaBelle (Ocon-omowoc) home, Islandale, and

of the Milwaukee County Association of Suburban Health Commissioners, a vice president and director of Whitefish Bay State bank and one of its organizers, a founder and a past president of the Whitefish Bay "Meet' Your Neighbor" club, and was interested in

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Born in Milwaukee Feb. 2' 1897, Dr, Gute was graduate, from the old Milwaukee N mal school, now Wiseoru State college* in 1919! and to his medical training at tl University of Wisconsin ai Rush Medical school.' He wi licensed to practice in Wisco sin in 1925. i A

sDr. Gute's professional E1-fillations were the Milwaukee Academy of Medicine, t* American Public Health ass**?,, the American Association Ap School Physicians and ^ Medical Society of MilwauiM* County, State Medical Socie ty of Wisconsin and the America/* Medical assn. r • *

Dr'. Gute married Florence Browne in 1923. They w{rt divorced in ' 1946. Florence Gute now lives in Washi^-fr* ton, D . C .

In 1949, Dr. Gute marrf<cJ Baroness Redlich in Winnetue* 111.

Besides his wife, he is st*r-vived by a son, Daniel, Wh } jt * fish Bay; a daughter, M f 1 . Sally G. Clarke, Cleveland Ohio; two brothers, Frank BVi the Panama canal zoae at\(f Alfred, who lives in New J<cr + sey, and a sister, Mrs. Thomas Westover, Los Angeles, Cal/P»

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Last Rites Monday f; For Mrs* J. Geerlings t'X '•' "-/, ^TT v n / Funeral services were held Mon-£ day afternoon at the Thomas Jones f & Qlson funeral home, 1820 E. North 5 avenue, for Mrs. Tillie M. Geerlings. f 54, of 5822 N. Shore drive, who was A* killed in an automobile accident near F Philip, S. D. She was on a vacation

trip with her husband, John Geerlings, an employee of the Wisconsin News. Interment was in Forest Home cemetery.

Surviving, besides her husband, are two brothers, Oscar Mueller, Chicago, and George W. Dueller Milwaukee, and three sisters, Mrs. Corrine Sou-ders, Preston, Minn., Mrs. Emma Coles, Seattle, Wash, and Alma Mueller, Milwaukee.

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Double rites were held Monday for-Mr. and. Mrs; John Geerlings, 5822: N. Shore* drive, Mrs. Geerlings was instantly killed in an automobile accident at Philip, S. D;, July ?6, and her husband was injured. Her body had been in the vault of the Thomas, Jones & Olson funeral home awaiting his recovery, Mr* Geerlings requested that the funeral of his wife,be delayed until he was able to attend*! A sudden relapse, however, brought ' his death Saturday. .•

The services took place at the Im-manuel Presbyterian church. Inter-: ment was in Forest Home cemetery/

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Goecks, Martha M. (Nee Meseberg) Jan. 11, 1987, age 89 yrs. Beloved wife of Ben C. Goecks; Dear mother of Bernard (toretta) Goecks, Peart Morett and Jan (Ray) Rozek, 9 grandchildren, 3 great-grandchildren, I sisters Hilda Kiehnau and Agnes Halm Also survived by other relatives and friends. Funeral Tues.,,Jan. 13 at 7:30 p m at the funeral home. Interment Graceland, In state Tues. 4-9 p m

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Gregg, Scranton H. Frl. Aug. 7,1987. Age 91 years.

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ther of Mrs. Jane {William) Schowalter, Princeton, NJ. Grandfather of Katherlne, Mary and DavW. Services at St. John's Home Chapet, 1840 N. Prospect Av. Tues. at 10 am. Private interment Forest Home Cemetery. Not In state. In leu of flowers If desired, memorials to St. John's Home Chapel preferred. Weiss Funeral Home.

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CRAMS: Louise, 5955 Nfc Lake dr., Wednesday, Aug. 18, aged 64 years, beloved sister

.of Minnie Neumann, Liilian Dickmann, Al-vina Zipfcl. Ferdinand Grams, Elsie Czer-wan, Annie Becker, Hulda Hageman and Hattie Grams; also survived by nieces and nephews. Services Sunday, Aug. 22, at 2 P. m., at the Dobratz Funeral Home, 3514 N. Port Washington av. Interment town Milwaukee Union. In state after 10 a. m, Saturday.

Geraty, Genevieve M. (Nee Lemke) of Whitefish Bay. Born to eternal life June 9, 1990, age 79 years. Beloved wife of the Jate Arthur E. Geraty. Dear mother of M. Michael Geraty of St. Louis, Thomas H. (Barbara) of Menomonee Falls, the late Timothy and Kathleen (Donald) Drum of Bayside, also survived by / grandchildren, 1 great-grandchild, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. A memorial mass wilt be held Tues^ June 12, at 4 p.m. at ST. MONICA'S CHURCH; The family will receive friends following the mass. Interment Wed. June 13 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick's Cemetery, Rochelle, IL. In lieu of flowers memorials ' may be given to St. Mary's Hospice. Member and founding member of St. Monica's Church, Ladies of Charity and Whitefish Bay and Shore-wood Women's Club and Seniors. Also a member of Lakeshore Contract Bridge Club, and , Ronald McDonald House Volunteer.

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Mrs. A. Heyer Sudden Heart Attack Causes ; Death of 74-Year Old

Bay W o m a n -Funeral services were held Satur

day for Mrs. Augusta \ Donsing Heyer, 74, who died Dec. 4 at her home, 4723 N. Cramer st. A sudden heart attack was the cause of death. i Services were held at the home and at the Bay Shore'- Evangelical Lutheran church, with* burial in Forest Home cemetery. Rev. Paul B. Bishop was in charge. '

Mrs. Heyer's death occurred three years after that of her husband, Henry Heyer, a well-known furniture manufacturer, She is survived by one son, jGtflbert Heyer, and two daughters, Arabelle Heyer, and Mrs. Hazel Papenthien,

Mrs. Heyer was born in Town {Lake, Wis., July 27, 1861. She had been active for many years in tihe Ladies guild of the Bay Shore Evangelical Lutheran church.

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\\ The funeral of Hans Huber, 63, *4913 N, Newhall street, who w ls instantly ,killed in an automobile accident last Saturday, .wfts1 held [Wednesday from the Brigden f une/al jhome. interment was % made in the [Evergreen cemeteryV' f7;Y.x";,': ', '*'AZ I Mr. Huber was onepf^e pld-tim-•ers of Whitefish Bay, having lived out here for the last thirty years* He| fwas deeply interested in the growth iOf the village and served as trustee* in 1910 and 1911. He was a member* of the school board in 1914. *"';' I

The services were conducted by the Rev. A. F. Nussbaumer, chaplain of ftl e Eagles, who was a close friend ?for the past twenty years of the de« i ?ased 4&imA%&*i

Hoffmann, Phyllis r (neeScNeff) June 22,W86. Age

87 years. Residence Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of the tote Anbelo Hoffmann. Dear mother ' of Donald (Nancy) Hoffmann of Tyler, TX, Bradley (Mary) Hoffmann of Whitefish Bay, and David (Detores) Hoffmann of Harttand. Further survived by W grandchWdr en, 5 great-grand-children, other relatives and friends. Memorial services Thurs. 7pm at the Plymouth United Church of Christ, 2717 E. Hampshire In Milwaukee. K desired memorials may be made to the Plymouth United Church of Christ or The Whitefish Bay Women'sOuo.

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Haupt, Elizabeth M . ^ (Nee Marks). Dec.53,19W. Of

i Grosse Polnte, Ml. Residency '. Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of > the late OeoroeD. Dear mother * of George R . " l ^ a > o ^ -•• son, k% Bzebtth (Dr. PWIto) < Hessburg of Grotse Polnte

I Daughter! Of Charity, St. Vte V cent De Paut CNcagaJL Also i! survived by B orandchwren/8 1 greatgrandchildren, nieces and

nephews, other relatives and friends.

f Funeral services Wed„ 0ec.tt V a t 11 AM at ST. MONICA/S x CHURCH where Mass Of Chris-i? tian Burlat win be celebrated to

state Wed at Hm Church from 10 AM until time of Mass. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. H

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George H. Hage Private services for former Whitefish Bay Police Chief George H. Hage

will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Ryan Funeral Home in De Pere. Hage, 99, formerly of Whitefish Bay and Milwaukee, died in his sleep Friday at the Masonic Health Care Center in Dousman. He was appointed police chief in 1927, when Whitefish Bay had about 700 residents. Under his administration, the department was one of the first in Milwaukee County to monitor homes while residents were on vacation, said his son, Donald C, of Milwaukee. After Hage retired from the department in 1949, he continued his career as a master plumber. Hage also is survived by a daughter, Pauline McCormick of Tustin, Calif., and another son, George A., of Milwaukee. ,

Hage, George H. Former Chief of Police of Whitefish Bay. Passed away Frl. Sept 8, 1989 at the Masonic Health Care Center at Dousman at the age of 99. Survived by 2 sons George A. (Dorothy) Hage. -Donald C. (Estella) Hage Doth of Milwaukee, 1 daughter and son-in-law Pauline and Clem Mc Cormlck, Tustin, CA; 3 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren, Private funeral services will

e held Wed. at 1:30 PM at Ryan Funeral Home, 305 N. 10th St., DePere. Memorials to Masonic

\ Health Care Center, Dousman, Is appreciated.

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H. Hayes, Stricken Suddenly, ! Dies Unexpectedly at Home

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Funeral Serviced Were Conducted at St Monica's Church Tuesday Morning

. Funeral services for , Harry j . Hayes, 624 E. Day ave., member of the law firm of Hayes and Hayes, were held Tuesday at 8:30 a. m. at the residence and at 9 a. m. at St. Monica's church. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery.

Mr. Hayes, a brother of W. A. Hayes, prominent railroad attorney, died suddenly at his home Saturday following a heart attack.

Shortly before being stricken Mr. and Mrs. Hayes had taken a walk, and had retired to his study where he was reading a legal document.

Moved to St. Paul Mr. Hayes was born in Wiscon-

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sin and received his law education at the University of Wisconsin, where he graduated from the law school. He was an attorney here for manjr years.

About 30 years ago he was prominent in semi-pro baseball. He was a member of the Milwaukee branch of the Knights, of Columbus.

Moving to St. Paul about 18 years ago, Mr,. Hayes, practised there for about eight years. He returned to Milwaukee 10 years ago to enter the firm of Hayes and Hayes.

He aided in the brganization of the Whitefish Bay bank in 1930 and was its president at the time of his death. Five years ago he organized the credit union of £ft. Monica's church. During the last Ave months he was in, the legal department of the works progress administration for Wisconsin. He was a {former member of the Pere Marquette council, Quarter Century club and the Whitefish Bay Men's club.

Name Survivors His father was Henry Hayes, who

was a member of the Wisconsin legislature during the Civil war and a clerk of the district court in Pond du L»ac, Wis,t county many years.

Survivors «,*** **•« T»«.~. t , « . e « w ^ three sons, Harry; J./Francis Wâmd! John Robert Hayes; Ave s i s t w s ^ i s s Mary Hayes, who retired as • vice principal of the Detroit, Street schoo<| after,teaching 40 years; MrsÊle nore Whalen of Sheboygan/* Mr Emma Colburn of Sprague, Vf&ah'M Mrs. Anna Trinwith of GermantownJf and Mrs. Cecelia Vincent of Denver*; Col., and two brothers, vEugene; Hayes and W, A. Hayest r

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Hayes, Tom E. Of Whitefish Bay. Died Dec. 22, 1992, age 82 years. Beloved husband of the late Evelyn B. Hayes. Dear father of Thomas E. (Nancy) and Lee T. (Deborah) Hayes. Grandfather of Tnomas (Claudia) Hayes, Kelly (Steven) Glaser, Mark and Kristin Hayes. Brotner of Hanlin J. (Virginia) Hayes. BrotheNn-law of Margaret Vietmeyer. Also survived by, other relatives and friends. Visitation will take place at the funeral home on Sun. Dec. 27 from 1-4 p.m. Private Interment Pinelawn Memorial Park. Mr. Hayes was a long time President of the Village of Whitefish Bay. If desired, memorials to the American ''• r Society appreciated.

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Eryin.E. Heyer Grocer

Services wiK be held Wednesday for grocer Ervin E. Heyer, a grocery chain store owner in the Milwaukee area since the 1940s, who died of heart failure Saturday at Columbia Hospital in Milwaukee. He was 79.

Heyer, who was born and raised in Minnesota, was 20 when he passed through the Milwaukee area and decided to stay, said his daughter, Barbara Franczyk. He worked in a grocery at N. 3rd St. and W. North Ave. in Milwaukee before opening the Shore Drive I.G.A. grocery on E. Silver Spring Drive in Whitefish Bay in 1943. ;, He sold that store in 1954 and moved to Thiensville to open a Sentry store. He bought another Sentry at N. Teutonia Ave. and W. Good Hope Road in Milwaukee in 1961 and sold both stores two years later. Heyer was semi-retired for the next few years, acting as a consultant for small-store owners who were having problems, said Heyer's son, Michael.

"He was a consultant, but he was paid very little, if anything," Michael Heyer said. "He would work with people, showing them

In the early 1970s; when Wi | liam Liebman decided to live else* where, he and Arthur had a falling out. The disposition of their jointly acquired collection was the subject of legal action.

In the end, most of their Chinese trade porcelains went to the Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madison, along with four French wall sconces.

Other Liebman gifts included rare books to Marquette University; china and silver to the White House; Lowestoft china to the Milwaukee Art Museum; French candelabra to the State Department; antique china to the Executive Residence in Maple Bluff; American silver to the Paipe Art Center, Osh-kbsh; and photographs to the Milwaukee County Historical Society.

Together and individually, the brothers also sponsored many cultural programs, musical presentations as well as art history lectures.

Survivors include a sister-in-law, Pauline (Robert) Liebman, and a nephew, Robert, both of Milwau

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Wednesday's private service will be at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Lake Forest. A reception will follow at the Liebman home in Lake Forest.

\ what they needed to do to stay ih A business"*J -V *•' *:' flv\ z HeyeOtnd^his brother, Alfred,

opened the Heyer Clothing Store ih Thiensville in the mid-19o0s. But

£. Ervin Heyer, missing the grocery irbusinessr opened the Green Tree

Market in Glendale in 1967. H^ and "Michael, who were partners,

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I; r Heyer is survived by his wife of 1 54 years, Julia; two sons, Jerome, ^ of California, and Michael of ^Thiensville; four daughters, Barba

ra; Franczyk of Shorewood, Karen ;H Daneman of Fox Point, Mary * Reinhart of Texas and Judy Bitler C;of California; a brother, Alfred of I Thiensville; 21 grandchildren; and p; three reat-grandchildren/ !' ^Visitation is set for 4 to 8 tonight at Schramka-Densow Funeral

r Home, 423 N. Main St., Thiens-v^le. The rosary will be said at 7 p.m. The funeral mass is at 11 a.m.

i Wednesday at St. Cecilia's, 138 Buntrock Ave., Thiensville, with

^entombment to follow at Holy 7 Cross Cemetery, 7301 W. Nash St.,' r Milwaukee. *' *

The family suggests memorials to the St. Cecilia-St. James School Foundation.

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Angelq Hoffmann, 83, Phyllis; sons Donald, of Ty-,1 ! chairman of the board of ler, Tex., Bradley, of White* | Louis Hoffmann Co., sheet fish Bay, and David, of Hart-vi metal contractors, died of land; and a sister, Mrs. Af* i pneumonia Thursday at thur (Mildred) yanselow. Of \

/Shorewood Hospital, 2316 E. Whitefish Bay* ;; ; ,VvU \ . Edgewood Ave, Hoffmann,, of 4850 N. Oak-

: land Ave., Whitefish Bay, had worked all his life for .the

* family business at 117 R Jefferson St. It was founded by his father, Louis, in 1887, :

He joined * the. firm after serving in the US Army Air Force 1 in France^ In World' War I: He became president I

' in 1953 and chairman in .;. 1965. ' . . - ' .

Hoffmann was a former; ;- Whitefish Bay Village Board / member, past president of the. i National Association of Sheet;

'Metal Contractors and mem- j ber of the Alonzo Cudworth j

7 American Legion Post No. 23 j for 50 years. 1

Survivors include his wife. Vj

Memorial serviced will be at 3 p.m. Saturday at May* f lower Congregational Church, 2500 W. Brown Dee£, Rd., River Hills. , ; ; u

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Gregg, Violet Durand July 25? 1991. Age 92 years. Wife of the late , Scranton H. Gregg. Mother of Jane (William) ,; Sehowalter of Champaign, IL Grandmother of *: Katharine (Richard) Lescn, Mary (Jeffrey) Raser \ and David Sehowalter. Great-grandmother of , Stephen Raser. Sister of Ralph uurand and Olive ' "*

„ Ttiemer. Not in state. Memorial service 1:15 p.m. ' m at St. John's Home Chapel, 1840 N. Prospect .

Ave. Private Interment Forest Home Cemetery, I f , . • desired, memorials to St. John's Homo or American Cancer Society preferred.

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Goldsmith, Cora M. i {nee Clasmann), Dec* 18, 1990 age 91 years 1 Beloved wife of the late F.W. (Biff) Goldsmith i«i Dear mother of Nell (Hugo) Heyns, Slydell, LA si Fred W. (Janet) Goldsmith, Mequoh, Wf and Anr Goldsmith, tenants Harbor, ME. Dear grandmother of Chip, Becky, Heidi, Gretchen anc Gerrit Heyns, Gina (Heyns) Castle, Katrina (Heyns) Houren, Gwen, Barbi and Will Goldsmith -urther survived by 2Vz great grandchildren. Manorial services 3 p.m. Fit, Dec. 28,1990 at St. John's Home Chapel. Memorials to American* Field Service or St. John's Horn* appreciated.' PHILIP J. WEISS INC. ; 276-5122

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w. Services will be held Friday for Orville W. Gesell, the first principal of Whitefish Bay's Cumberland School and the retired principal of Henry Clay School. Gesell, 87, died Tuesday at his Whitefish Bay home, ,: r7w»i£

A graduate of what is now the < University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Gesell was the first principal of Cumberland, 4780 N^ Marlborough Dr. The school, which then served kindergarten through eighth grade, now is Cumberland Elementary School and serves kindergarten through fifth grade. . Y , r ( f . .

He later became principal 01 Henry Clay, whose building at J 1144 E. Henry Clay St. now hous-1-es Whitefish Bay Middle School, and stayed there until retiring in the late 1960s, J

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"He was a very respected prin^ clpal who ran a good-quality school," said Harold Rose, former principal of Whitefish Bay High School, who worked with Gesell from 1£>33 until his retirement. ;4", *

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f Gesell's nephew, Robert Prinz ; of Cedarburg, said, "He often

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1 Visitation will be from 7 to 9 I p.m. Thursday at Fass Funeral I Home, 3601 N. Oakland Ave., - Shorewood. Services will be at 11 j a.m. Friday at Wisconsin Memo-I rial Park Family Center Chapel, I' 13235 W. Capitol Dr., Brookfieid. f

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r Gesell, Orville w^pTfWW^^ of Whitefish Bay, Apr. 23,'1991 age 87 years. ; J Beloved husband of the late Carolyn Gesell. Y 4 | Survived by a sister-in-law Nellie Brown, nieces, w f

•.» and nephews Betty (Stanley) Nymczk, Joannj.H} ,; Morhaffey, Robert (Roma), John (Margaret) and ? *

James (Betty Jane) Prinz, other 1 relatives ,and ihj •• friends. Services 11 AM Fri at WISCONSIN ' > H-. MEMORIAL PARK fAMILV CENTER CHAPEL, ivj ••; 13^35 W, Capitol Or. Friends may call at the ^ . funeraf home Thurs. 7-9 PM. Memorials to Unit-'%%

y ed Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay appreciat- 7i ed. Mr. Gesell was the first principal of Cumber- 'ft land Grade School .and. the retired principal of ' Henry Clay Grade School, botH of Whitefish Bay. Y'

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Knight, Jacqueline White Age 46, died January 7, .1997, after a lengthy fight against cancer. Sne was a resident of Whitefish Bay for eleven

the daughter of Mildred" W. White and the late Rov' P. whits, Jr., Ms. Knight was born in Engie-wcod- New Jersey, on May 18,1950. A homernakar ana teacher, with Montessori accreditation, she was a dedicated volunteer of the

, Milwaukee Public Museum and an active member of Christ Church *'n Whitefish Bay. She was graduated from St. Timoihy's School, Maryland,' in 1968„and the University of Pennsyl-vania,~Magna Cum Laude in 1972. She earnea a Masters Degree in-Education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The loving mother cf her two daughters, Jennifer Marie Knight and Elizabeth Jean Knight, she is also survived by her mother M.icred W. White of Naoies, F t and two sisters* Barbara White Crockett cf YVeltesteif Hills, MA and Patricia L . White or Lexington. KY.

A Memoriai Service will be held at 4 PM Saturday, January 11 at Christ Church in Whitefish Say. to be officiated by Reverend Douglas Tompkins, interment, was heid privately at Big

- Bay Park. The family suggested memorials to ;he Milwaukee Public Museum, SCO W. WeJte, Milwaukee, Wi 53233.

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Jacqueline AX'hite Knight May 18, 1950 - J a n u a r y 7, 1997

Christ Church in "Whitefish Bay January 11, 1997 4:00 pm

I open my eyes and look out at the-

beauty of the world.

I look for the worth in all things.

I sense that I am connected to

everything that exists.

I belong to the Earth - I am and will always be a part of the earth.

I feel wonder as I contemplate

the Universe with all of its marvelous

order - its atoms, the planets, the sun, stars, and galaxies - the infinite

complexity of all living things.

Everything is interconnected and

interdependent - nothing stands alone, even rocks and ash.

I feel humble as I ponder the

mystery of creation, evolution, the life-giving forces of sunlight,

water, oxygen...the mystery of

human awareness.

I take pride in being a part of this

world. I seek to accept and fulfill the role I have been given to play.

I am thankful for the web of

life and love that surrounds me

and sustains me. I notice and

take action at the times when I

am able to contribute to the web

by attending to the needs of others.

I am an instrument of peace.

I bow my head before the

imponderables, the unresolvables, the

mystery of life. When I am

troubled and confused or tempted....

I pray that the spirit of wisdom

will protect me from all false

choices.

-Jacqueline White Knight

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iililiiifflii The Museum lost a dear friend this January-with the passing of Jackie Knight'at the age of 46. A committed docent and volunteer, Jackie was a leader and driving force of many Museum projects.

Jackie's intellectual curiosity inspired her td-piirsue iier interests in the sciences with the Museum's Botany and'Science Media departments;.' Her love of botany was clearly evident as she conducted research with-Carf Taylor Ph.D., Botany curator, that resulted in the "Greening of the Lands" brochure.*

Her recent work with the" Membership department resulted in the creation of Clue Grew for member families. Due to her attention , lo detail and tireless work habits, she encouraged the program to -grow from a single idea into a benchmark of Museum quality within one year.. -

As* a longtime docent- Jackie conducted training sessions and ' presented a host of tours. Recently, Jackie was determined to bring

back the Museum-Ginkgo tree-(displaced due to construction)'and led the/docents in the acquisition of a new Ginkgo tree that was planted on Museum grounds last-fall.

JacK-V determination, drive and spirit inspired all who worked withfher. The commitment she displayed for the Museum'was J. unparalleled and was founded in -her love of education. Jackie, -volunteer.-friend and mother, was a-great person who will be missed by all.

' Jackie's family has suggested that memorials be made to the Milwaukee Public Museum, for an appropriate, permanent tribute

;to Jackie's memory and love of the Museum! if you would like to make a memorial in Jackie's name, please call (414) 2~8-6l9" 88

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In memory of Jacqueline W. Knight: -

Memorials received through February 6. 1997

Richard & Susan Batcheider -John F. & Kathleen Becker Lawrence L. Biesiadny Charles C. &1ielen H. Bradford Man* C Buchaklian Man' C Corcoran James & Barbara Copeland Vivian-Corres Mr & Mrs John A Creech Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Crehore 0. B. Davidson ,& Ed.Tapley ' Mr. & Mrs Trenton Davison

Jonn P. Debbink Felician Sisters Linda N Findley Lillian Hall Fisher Leonard & Diana Goldstein Dr Robert B Gordon & .Staff Svhia Z Grossman Gordon ik Grace Gunnlaugs^on \Ir» & Mrs Sheridan Harris* Paul & PhiLu Haye^ " ^ Virginia W Jiayssen Patricia- B. Hemecke . -Susan & John Hooglund Virginia T Irvin Noral & Joyce Jacobs Madeline Knight & Nana

Knight Gamer Edward J. Kohl Marge Konet & Family Man- S. Korenic

„ Michael Kreuser Familv Frank &* Rosemary Kulaszeuicz Jane- Larry Lindgren -Loui>e K. Linn Ingnd & La \ MacCabe

' Mam <£. Allen Manho Mildred H McGaughe\ Jim & Jan McKenna "Michael j . & Sue H Miller Sarah A. Morns

Kenneth & June Naeser Denise L. Nelson James & Eloise Paloucek Mr. & Mrs Charles B. Price. Jr. Jacqueline C Purdy Mary Ellen" & DaudTSampe Slier Schachamever Rosemary Selep Janet S short Dons C Shouse Dorothy Singer Mr. &Mrs WVP. Sitterley -David & Y\ onne Smith Nancy T Sommer Carol L .Stephenson Jack T Thompson: M.D Linda F Townzen Mr <* Mrs Fiedenck B

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disease. During hlu 20 years of service he never.had any opposition for the office, He "Was born in Whitefish Bay and attended schools there, and also attended the old evening normal school. Later he taught school for a time at Brown Deer. He served six years as assistant superintendent of the old county poor farm. In 1910 he became the secretary and treasurer of A. Weigell and Son, Inc.

Mr.'Isenring served as a trustee on the Whitefish Bay village board for two years from 1918 to 1920 until he was elected treasurer in 1920. He carried on with this duties as treasurer in addition to his private work until last January, when because of the development of the village, the services of a full time treasurer were deemed ' necessary and Mr., Isenring resigned his position from

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A. Weigell and Son. ' The Isenring home is at 1036

B. Lexington blvd. Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Fass Funeral home,« 3601 N. Oakland ave., under the auspices of Silver Spring lodge/ F. and A. M., of which Mr. Isenring was a member. Burial was in i Graceland cemetery.

Honorary pallbearers were Village President Grover F. Knoernschild, V i l l a g e ' Commissioner Ralph H. Cahill and, the .members of the board of trustees of the village. ,., lVli -'•... Y •-

The survivors, are. Mr. Isenring's wife, Gussie; a son, Warren; a grandchild;-two brothers, Archie and Gary, Milwaukee* and three sisters, Mrs. Gladys De Somer, Orville, Calif.; Mrs. Hepp-worth Kearby, Oconto, Wis., and Mrs. Alice, Dedi, Milwaukee. '

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. home at 11:30 a.m. to HOLY FAMILY CHURCH at 12 noon where Funeral Mass will be offered. Visitation Sun. at the funeral homeJrom 4-8 p.m. and Mon. from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. with a vigil Service at 6 p.m. Sun. Entombment Holy Cross Cemetery. •" Y ;•

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day at the Fass funeral home for Mrs. Augusta Isenring. 72, 535 W. Calumet rd., who died S u n d a y at her home. Mr. Isenring, a former v i l l a g e trustee and treasurer of White-fish Bay,, died in 1941. I

Mrs* Isenring was a member of the First Church of C h r i s t , Scientist, Whitefish Bay, and is survived by a son, Warren, Glendale, and a brother, John W. Schroeder, Bay-

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Spring Dr. at 1:30 PM on Thurs. Jan. 9, 1992. ' The Family will receive friends after the service. : in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the • United Methodist Church of Whifefish Bay. ;

k Y ; ; . , . " , : . ; •• . .• ••• •.• • - . '-. -<-i Mr. Johnson was instrumental in the growth of ' Whitefish Bay State Bank from 1937 until his retirement in 1966. From 1933 to 1937 he was a: Special Deputy Commissioner of Banking in Wis* <n consfn. ; 'Y. ':"'• :--<r'- * ' * if Ha was president of Wisconsin Bankers Associ- f ation, 1951-52 and president of Independent Bankers Association of America with a membership of,6,0Q0banks, 1960-61; ^ ZyA.. One of his accomplishments In which he took great pride was serving as chairman of the * original committee which prepared a "Forms and Procedure Manual on Banking Forms" for Wisconsin banks. ^ • .

- Johnson was a member Of the United Methodist1

' Church, Whitefish Bay; Rotary Club of Milwau- ( kee-Nortb Shore; Civil War Round Tabler M i l waukee. He was also a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Scottish Rite and Tripoli Shrine. <:«. Johnson was also a member of the Milwaukee,,

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Imimekus, 69, 5007 N. Idlewild ave., were held Wednesday at St. Monica's chapel, S i l v e r Spring rd., with burial in Holy Cross cemetery. Mrs." Immekus was a member, of Holy Family parish.

Mrs. Immekus died of a heart attack Saturday. The fire de-partmenit rescue squaji tried in vain to resuscitate her.

A son, Melvin, and a daughter, Vera Lawrence, a daughter and son-in-law, four grandchildren •and two sisters and two brothers survive. ->Z7' ,.';-. > * ' -

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Funeral Services for O.K. Johnson, Sr., former „ President of the Whitefish Bay State Bank (now > „ part of M & I Bank), will be held at the United i Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay, 819 E. Silver

Spring Dr. at 1:30 PM on Thurs. Jan. 9, 1992. * The Family will receive friends after the service. 1 In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the ! United Memc^ist purch of Whitefish Bay. ^

Mr. Johnson was instrumental In the growth of . Whitefish Bay State Bank from 1937* until his * retirement in 1966. From 1933 to 1937 he was a * Special Deputy Commissioner of Banking in Wis-•''- consln. Y ; : } > ; - A - : A Y "• '.'•":• Y '••'-. 'Y 7 * He was president of Wisconsin Bankers Associ-: ation, 1951-52 and president of Independent ; Bankers Association of America with a member-

ship of 6,000 banks, 1960-61. i > ¥ Z) One of his accomplishments In which he took

, great pride was serving as chairman of the :- • original committee which prepared a "Forms and Procedure Manual on Banking Forms" for Wisconsin banks. * Y Johnson was a member 6f the United Methodist Church, Whitefish Bay; Rotary Club of Mirwau-

. . kee-North Shore; Civil War Round Table, Milwaukee. He was also a 32nd Degree Mason and

{ a member of the Scottish Rite end Tripoli Shrine. , ^ •• Johnson was also a member of the Milwaukee.. » Athletic Club. Milwaukee County Historical Soci-*« ety, Temple Stamp Club and Whitefish Bay Re* | ' tired Men's Club.! ; , \ A,.,,ZZZtZAZAZ'• A 1 O.K. was born on Jan. 1,1904 in Beaver Dam, - Wl. He was married to Ceal ReHterstorf, Sept. 2, I- 1925. She survives along with two sons, O.K.

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Services Are Held for Roy L. Kruecke

Funeral services for Roy 1*. Kruecke, 39, 5075 N. Santa Monica . boulevard, Whitefish Bay, were conducted by Kenwood lodge No. 303, F. and A. M., at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Feeriek Funeral chapel, 2025 E.Capitol drive. Burial was in Wisconsin Memorial park.

Mr. Kruecke was found dead in bed Friday noon at the Loraine hotel, Madison. He had gone there on Wednesday on a business trip. The coroner attributed death to a heart attack. - Mr. Kruecke was Wisconsin representative oil the Dudley Lock corporation, Chicago, and president and treasurer of the United Plumbing & Heating Supply company, Milwaukee. He was

iborn in Milwaukee and was graduated from West Division high school.

Survivors are his wife, Anna-mae; a son Robert; his father, Robert, and two sisters, Mrs. Hilda Roska and Mrs. Howard Kort-sehl, all of Whitefish Bay.

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t Mrs. John Kindler, >28 B. Silver Spring drive, died early today at her (hj>me. She had been ill for three jjjrears, . \ v;, ' -* \ 7"-" • \ K , / 1 ^ * Funeral services will be held at ihe home and the Bay Shore church jSfiturda?. The Weiss funeral home IwiU have charge. 7; \ » ; 1 &< Surviving besides her husband are ;three children, Norman, Alice and JMertle; one'grandchild; and a sister, Miss Minnie Gorstadof Milwaukee.,

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for Half Century , Funeral' services for lyirs. Anna KJnop, Whitefish Bay resident for1 over 50 years, were held Saturday afternoon aj; the home of her son, Alfred Knop, N. Lake dri Mrs. Knop diedf last Wednesday as the result of a stroke. , ; , (

Mrs. Knop was one of the organizer^ of hot lunches for school children. This was started by the Mothers club, which was the forerunner of the P. T. A., in which she continued as an ac-itive member. I Mrs. Knop was also active in church work. When she first

.came here/'she attended a Meth-iodist church. Later, she helped j to found the Community church. 'Still later she became a member 1 of the Lake Park . Lutheran church, and several years ago she transferred her membership to the Bay Shore Lutheran church, where she was actively interested in missionary and Red Cross work. •*','?'*•'•'

When Mrs. Knop was 18 years of age, she accompanied her step-brother to Anierica from Germany. She lived in St* Paul, Minn., until her marriage to Richard Knop of Milwaukee, who died 18 years ago, The J&nops; .* purchased~-some • land-fronting the present N. Lake dr, in 1891. Up until a few months ago, Mrs. Knop lived in her house on that site. Her son's residence is also en that land*z* v,

Besides her son9 Mrs. Knop is survived by a daughter, *Mrs. Ernest Jetisen of N.. 21st st., and six grandchildren. ,- >'

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DEATHS Frank C Klode

Funeral services for Frank C. ; Klode, former president of Klode Furniture Co., will be at nopn Monday at Fox Point Evangelical Lutheran Church.

i Klode, of Bayside, died of a heart attack Thursday at home. He was 73.

Klode graduated from Milwaukee Country Day School in 1931 and the University of Wisconsin — Madison, where he was class president, in 1935.

After graduation, he worked for two years as a radio sportscaster for NBC in New York and was NBC's backup announcer for the Hinden-burg disaster in 1937*

He joined* Klode Furniture Co. in 1938 and broadcast University of

Wisconsin — Madison football games on the weekends. During World War II, Klode served as a naval officer.

He returned to the family business after the war and served as company president from 1963 to 1977. Klode Furniture Co. went out of business in 1979.

Survivors include a son, Frank, of Whitefish Bay, and a brother, James, J

of Annapolis, Md. Visitation at the funeral home will

be from 11 a.m. Monday until the time of the service.

Burial will be at Graceland Memorial Cemetery, 6401 N. 43rd St.

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contributions to the American Cancer Society or Fox Point Evangelical Lutheran Church.

Kruse, Hugo E. May 29, m, age 89 years; oe-loved husband of the late Esther; step father of James (Eunice) Undemann and the late • " ^ J . 0 * * * Undemann; arandchfidren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Complete funeral Mon. June 2nd at 7 p.m. at Memorial Lutheran Church. Interment Evergreen, m state at the church Mon. 4-7 p.m. Memorials to the church appreciated Retiree of me Borden Co.

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Adelaide E. Kohlmetz Adelaide E«. Kohlmetz, 95, of Colonial Manor

Retirement Home, died of pneumonia May 3. She was preceded in death by her husband,

Arthur, and her son, William Kohlmetz. She is survived by three daughters, Marion Kow-alsky> of Milwaukee, Ruth Johnson, of Shore-wood and Carol Jeray, of Wauwatosa; a daughter-in-law, Lois Kohlmetz; two sons-in-law, Jerome Johnson and Robert Jeray; a sister-in-law, Amanda Richter; 19 grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.

Klode, frank C . . ^ Of Bayside. Thurs. July 17, WJ6 age 73 years. Husband of Ihe late Louise L. Klode. Father of Frank C Klode. Brother of Jim Klode, AnnapoBs, MD. Further survived by nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends, Services 12 noon Monday at Fox Point Evangelical Lutheran Church, 7510 N. Santa Monica Blvd. interment Graceland Cemetery. Friends may cal at the church after U A M M w ; day. Memorials to Fox Point EvangeKcal Lutheran Church or American Cancer Society preferred. Mr. Klode was president of Klode Furniture. Weiss Funeral Home, 27*5122 serving thefamBy.

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Funeral services were held May 6 at Feerick^ Funeral Home* followed by a Mass of Christian * Burial at St. Robert's Church. Interment tookf place in Holy Cross Cemetery.-Memorial J contributions are suggested to St. Robert's** Parish, Mount Mary College, Marquette Uni-^ versity High School or Dominican High School.

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Z The Rev. James M; Buxton J • officiated at the funeral services! .Monday afternoon for-William A. Xilatte, 71, secretary-treasurer of the Whitefish Bay Com-' munity Methodist church of | which Rev. Buxton is pastor. ; Services were held at the Feer-' . ick Funeral home, E. capitol | dr., with interment in Wander* ers* Rest cemetery.

Mr. Klatte lived at 716 E. Day | jave., for 34 years, moving here! iwhen the north limits of the Bay \ : were largely in woodland andi \ farms. He was born In Milwau-1 kee. He was clerk of the Mil-1

j waukee county civil court fort 34 years until his retirement two J

(years ago, and secretary of the! !Milwaukee Bar association for' | the last two years. He died Fri-I jday, at St. Mary^s hospital after Jan illness of several months, j For several years Mr. Klatte] lalso served on t)ie school board j land the village board. j j Besides his wife, Florence, he | lis survived by three sons, Corp. 1 Richard in Australia, Lieut. Wil-I Jliam in England,'and Staff Sergt !

1 Charles in Ohio; a daughter,! |Mrs, Merrill Kline, Berlin, Wis., | and two sisters.

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/Whitefish Bay Ex4VesidentMIl! Dies Following Amputation

AMELIA KLODE, widow of Frank C., died July 20, 1950; burial in Graceland Cemetary, Son Emil R. and dau., Mrs. August C. Moeller survive. She was 87 years old, born in Germany.

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:f Frank C. Klode, former presi- * • r dent of . Whitefish Bay and a ; powerful figure in state govern-,

ment, died Sunday. His body was f buried Wednesday in Graceland I cemetery following services at i the Fass chapel and a t .Lake V Park Lutheran church.

Mr. Klode died unexpectedly '. at St. Joseph's hospital, where

he had seemed to be recovering, from i a leg amputation on Jan,, 26. The operation had been performed t6 check gangrene developed from diabetes. Death was caused by a pulmonary embolism. Had he lived he would have been 78 on Feb. 13.

The former village president, whose home was at 6036 N. Lake dr-, is survived by his wife, the former Emily Tom, whom he married in 1885; a son, Emil R, Klode; a daughter, Mrs. August Mueller, and four grandchildren. He was born in a village near. Stettin in the province of Pome-rania in Germany on Feb. 13, 1866, and had but a meager for-;:

jmal schooling. He came here ', with his parents at the age of 12.

| The next morning he started on his way to amassing a fortune by cutting swamp willows grow-;

:ing near the river and with his, ; father weaving them into large j

butcher baskets. He sold these f • downtown for $55. He cut wil

lows and wove baskets .until ,theJ meat market t^ade was supplied.

In turn he carried laths for a builder, became an apprentice in a cigar factory and landed in Mankato, Minn.^ where he worked on a farm fqr two. years at $140 the first year and $??5 the second year. Back in Milwaukee !| he became a teamster and later \\ a shipping clerk, ano} then a store ^ salesman. Soon he was running A the store and the C. W. Fischer p Furniture Co. became the Klode i Furniture Co., whose president -now is his son, Emil R. Klode. He was also associated with the . Water Edge Realty Co-, at Eagle River, the Badger Chair & Furniture Co., which during his presidency had a contract to purchase th output of the Milwau

k e e house of correction furniture factory.

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Kteist, Frank F. July 3,1988 age 99 years. Be-loved husband of the late LHan (nee Wussow). Dear father of Franklin (Adefne). Fond grand-

' father of Peter (Janine). Great-grandfather of Steven, Brian, Kevin vnd Ju*e. Funeral services Wed. July 1,1 p m AT THE LUTHERAN HOME FOR THE AGiNG, 7500 W. North Av. Friends may cal from S p m until the time of service AT THE HOME. Memorials to Holy Ghost Lutheran Church or The Lutheran Home For The Aging appreciated, interment Union Cemetery. >

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Whitefish Bay Board Honors Frank Klode

A moment of silence was, observed by the Whitefish Bay vil-

. lage board at its meeting Monday night in honor of Frank C. Klode, former president.

The board also adopted the following resolution:

It was with a heavy heart that the people of Whitefish Bay learned of the passing of its pioneer citizen and official, Frank C. Klode, on Feb. 6, 1944.

A poor immigrant boy of 13, he came to Milwaukee county

; without position or education. By his own tremendous energy and enterprise, his keen, sound and decisive judgment and common sense, he rose from his humble beginnings to become a successful man of business and a trusted public officer, administrator and adviser in his own village and county and in the state of Wisconsin. His life was characterized by useful and con-

i structive work, by plain, demo-/ cratic living, wholesome family

life and unbounded sympathy, kindness and help for the poor and unfortunate. His home was ever a haven for the troubled and heavy-heatred. He was frank, open-hearted and gener-r ous; but in a fight for the downtrodden, for what he- thought

jyas jfight, he was^ persistent to I

the end, never tan out and never surrendered. * i For many years he was a member of the state board of public welfare and was its director for four years until he resigned late in 1943 because of declining health. In the administration of the state's charitable, curative, reformatory and penal institutions, he displayed keen business ability in operating these institutions In an economical and business-like way—endlessly striving, coaxing and fighting to better the conditions of the state's wards.

Hq was the guiding spirit of Whitefish Bay for /many years during its formative period, serving two years from 1912 to 1914 as a trustee of the village board and as village president for 14 years from 1914 to 1818

land from 1924 to 1934*

WZBecause ^ f 'Ws ' " Inva luab l e * 'contributions and meritorious1

| services to his state, county and | village, his fine example of use* < ful and constructive living and public service, and the love in which he iS held in this village; now, therefore, be, it

Resolved, by the village board of the Village of Whitefish Bay, [Wisconsin, that this resolution be spread upon the minutes of its meeting and that a properly at- j tested copy thereof be sent to his widow, his life-long counsellor and companion.

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Klauck, Vera I. ^ Mar. 2*, 1988. Of Whitefish Bay. Age 85 yrs. (nee Lee). Beloved wife of the late Edmund. Dear mother of Robert Klauck (and special friend Dorothy). Dear grandmother of Edmund Klauck, Debra (Anthony) Harris and Tammy, Uon) Hahn. Further survived by 3 great grandchildren. Dear sister of Esther Weeks of CA., Keith (Helen) Lee and Earl (Roberta) Lee, all of AZ. Special aunt of Marilyn and Donna. Further survived by other nieces and nephews, relatives and friends. Funeral services Tues., Mar. 29 at 9:30 a m from the funeral home to ST. MONICA'S CHURCH at 10 a.m. where mass of Christian buria) w l be offered. In state Mon. at the funeral home from 4 untH 9 p m with a parish wake service at 5 p.m. Interment Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Kefl, Wl.

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I Knauer,RuthM. , . I I (Nee Baehr) June 8,1983. Age *

69 m . Beloved wife of Howard P.knauer.râtMotherofD^ ane and Richard IRedean) Knauer Sister of Louise .Rui-

' ' S S u O W f e 4217 W Fond SStac Ave. Entombment Wis-iorSn Memorial Park. In state <fMÂ.vp.m.Sun, .

Elsie Hocko Elsie Klocko, 93, of 5541 N. Shoreland Ave.,

Whitefish Bay, died last Saturday. She was a member of Divinity-Divine Charity

Lutheran Church. She was preceded in death by her husband,

Lincoln. She is survived by a son, Roy (Edith) Klocko; a sister, Lydia Fahr; two grandsons, Roy

and Gene Klocko; a brother-in-law, Henry Ehlers; and a sister-in-law, Erna Nuelk.

Services were held Tuesday at Schmidt & Bar-telt, Heiden & Lange Funeral Home, with the Rev. Alfred Walther officiating. Interment was in Graceland Cemetery. Memorials to the church are suggested. :

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More than 800 persons gathered t!o pay their final respects | to a former village president when Grover F. Knoernschild, | 59, lay in state Sunday afternoon and evening at the Feericfc | chapel, 2025 E. Capitol dr. Even greater numbers turned put | Monday morning to attend the **'', " funeral services held at St. Mon iea's church. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery.; * -

The Rev. John J* Barry, pastor of S(t.» Monica, was the celebrant at the Solemn requiem/ He was assisted by tê Rev. Au-; gust Zoeller, rector of theTRe-demptorist seminary at Ocono-moWoc, as deacon and the Rev*5 William Knoernschild as sub-deacon. Also assisting were the Rt. Rev. Msgr. Farrel P. Reilly, pastor of St. Robert's, the Rev. Francis Knoernschild and the Rev. William Weishar. i.he Rev. Knoernschilds are cousins of the former village president.

Pall Bearers Pall bearers were Joseph J.

Moser, Joseph J. Schinners, Paul Stenger, Donald Kletzien, William C. Weishar and Fred Le-viash. |

Among those comev to say farewell to a citizen who had served his community and his cliurcET were members of the Holy Name society of St. Mon- ; ica and St. Roberts churches. 7 He was a past president of tbep St. Robert's Holy Name society/ ; The Holy Name men kept a vijgil; < at the funeral chapel Sunday evenings— ,."<*.*-•« v" *<^^^y*y^

Also to come were Knights of * Columbus, Kiwaniang, Rotarians, Interprofessional' club, members, v f followers of the arts and. business associates. v: y '•• 'r-7';z47: ^

President 9 Years *r r | • Mr. Knoernschild died late 'jj Friday at l}js home,, 5101 *N*J Cumberland; blvd. He had been f ill for some time. ', ''•>':'• ZZ>A

President of Whitefish t Bay ;rf for nine years, 1936-45, Mr.' i Knoernschild was originally •elected to the board of trustees in 1934. He was elected prest ^ ident at the death of Harold .' W. Connell.'' •' z>['-> ^'-v**?'^

bounty Park Gifi : * t] Mr. Knoernschild was active;\

in forming the Big Bay subdivi-, sion and during h i ^ l l a g ^ t > r e ^ idency instigated'*aH transaction^ by: which Robert H; Uihlein do-1 nated the lake front site, known ;j as Big Bay park, to the iouhty. ;' When the World War: II : war memorial was erected at Buck-; ley park he had Senator Wylie come to dedicate it at a cere-: mony that drew thousands. ;

Born in Milwaukee, Mr.,« Knoernschild was educated in g Milwaukee public schppls and^ at Spencerian Busihess/coHegeA under Professor Herbert > Sjjen- •{ cer, originator of the system*of . schools- which were .fbundect in I various parts of the couiitjfyi; He j also attended nightvi classes^. ;in| business administration/ at Mar-4 quette university. v~His^ father A was Jacob Knoernsqhild^ wjho*j came to America with ^s^par^J ents in 1851 oh an old time1Wlsif ing vessel/: His mothejrf^tary{| was also a child of earlyjjîlrli waukee Settlers. >. Y * A^^M^M

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, The former yillage president'!'* early work-a-day life, was one -of frequent job changes. But] they were deliberate. He learned^ and studied the problems of help 1 and labor, working as a bank ? messenger in the credit branch v

of a department store. As an** assistant superintendent a n d ; bookkeeper he studied mining J

tand the separation of mining ! products at a Grant county, Wis., separation plant. He also learned to be a baker and confectioner. All this gave him a wide range of knowledge of human nature and of business methods—both

• of which were invaluable to him.

Under the most trying circumstances, he always kept

, his feelings veiled. He was • nevet^ruffled. Always his tem-

per and his speech had an even tenor. When he wished, he put drama into his words. Mr. Knoernschild's father was

one of the organizers of the Light Horse. Squadron of the state militia,' called out by the governor to subdue the riot of 1886. He remained a member of the squadron for eight years/He was also a member of the first board of fire and police commissioners, was a member; of the board of election counselors, which preceded the board of

aldermen. ' He represented the ninth ward of Milwaukee both as a counselor and alderman and was a member of the school board from).. 1875 to 1880. A

Entered Insurance Field Grover Knoernschild entered

the insurance field, in which he remained for the rest of his life on March 16, 1910. He joined Prudential Insurance Co., of which he became assistant state manager. At one time he served as secretary of the Milwaukee Life Underwriters a n d w a s chairman of the Business Practice Council of the Milwaukee Association of Life Underwriters. >

He "was secretary-treasurer' and a director of the Pulpro-cess Co.* which he helped to found in 1930. The company manufactures paper, cellulose and plastic flower containers. He invented a fiber product which this company manufactures from pulp and which is used in many ways. His interest in converting dis

carded material into usefulness and beauty is evidenced in/ his home. An office he built in the basement has a floor of marble slabs which he collected! from junk heaps. !

- H e was intensely interested in •art, and intellectual activities, serving for two terms as president of the Seven Arts society. He was chairman of the St. Joseph's hospital board when the building was opened/ He; had: been a commander in the fund raising drive for the hospital. He had been a deputy grand knight in the Knights of Columbus, was a member of the board of the Sterling Savings & Loan assn. and was a former member of the Milwaukee Athletic club, the Interprofessional club, Ki-wanis and Rotary clubs. Several Community fund drives also found him active.

; Interested in Politics Politics held his interest. In

several judicial elections, he chairmaned political clubs, supporting Municipal Judê Herbert J. Steffes, Circuit Judge Roland J. Steinle and the late; Justice Chester A. Fowler of the state supreme court. When Joseph Shinners ran f or mayor and sheriff, it was Mr. Knoernschild who headed his campaigns. w

The late Mayor Carl Zeid-ler appointed Mr. Knoernschild a deputy air raid warden for the county. He, also commanded the civilian air defense in Whitefish Bay and was a member of the civilian defense corps of the county. His wife, Florence M;.' (Ander

son), whom he married in 1917, a daughter, Miss Marion F, Knoernschild and a son, Ralph F., plant manager of Pulprocess Co. survive. Also surviving are three sisters, Miss Mertha M. Knoernschild and Mrs. Matt Graf, Milwaukee and Mrs. Ella Kersting, Clinton, la., and three brothers, Edwin C, Milwaukee; Elmer, Clinton, la., and Alfred, Kingston, Wash.

|5 PeathNotksi"^ Loke!, Clarence W.

Nov. 25,1986 age 75 yrs. Belov-!

ed husband of Dorothy (nee f Gerke). Dear father of Linda s and Donna Loke. 1 grandson,! Ryan Loke. Brother of Liie Sievers, Lawrence Loke and Edgar Loke. Also survived by other relatives and friends. In state at the Funeral Home Sat. 124pm. Member of Unitarian Church. Retired Instructor at MATC • . . ' . ' y

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Larkin, Velma F. "Dixie" Y Joined our Heavenly Father

4 Sept 15,1986 at the age of 86. Formerly of Whitefish Bay and Tucson, AZ. Beloved wife of the late F. L "Bud" Larkin. Dear

mother of Barbara (Dick) •. Propheter of Random Lake and

Dennis (Mary) Larkin of Grand Rapids, Ml. Loving nana of Dona

, (Brian) Peterson, Claire (Kevin) Graham, JuHa and Marerv Larkin. Adoring great nana of Derek. Fond sister of Irene,

, (Brad) Wines of Sarasota, F U Further survived by other relatives and friends. Visitation from 7 to 9 p m at the funeral

. home Mon. Sept. 22. Services from Church of Jesus Christ of

A Utter Day SaJnti, 120 E. Paradise Dr., West 6en& Tues. Sept. 23 at 1 p m Entombment Washington County Memorial Park, ParaolseDr.atsJithAv. J ^ SCHMIDT FUMERAL HOME > : A Golden Rule Funeral Home '

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Home on^Park Place |f Henry R. King/75, the first presl* clent of the Milwaukee Athletirj club, founded 5J years ago, and for many

, years a member of the printing firm of King, Fowle & Cramer; d i e d suddenly W e d n e s d a y n i g h t at his home, 348 Park place/ ' Although he had been in poor health for some t i m e , "he had n o t been seriously ill and the heart attack* which' he suffered Wednesday waSj unexpected.

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S / ^ r * ' ^ .. able to vote in I the primary election Tuesday. ,' "i '* '\ht was around a corner table in the ,'old Noble restaurant in the basement •V of'the Mack building at E.' Water st. * and % Wisconsin av. that Mr. King i' and two friends originated the idea No'f a Milwaukee Athletic club. The intends were Atty. Johtf M. W. Pratt, 313 Summit av., and the late Charles

,W. Norris. This was'*in' November,, 1878/ After several' public. meetings had been called to arouse interest, ttfte club was established on Mar. 31, 1879.. < ••' - . '

>- ,Mr. King and Mr* Pratt and eight other charter members of the club held a golden anniversary dinner in 1929 at the present club building at Mason st. and Broadway.; * v u ?* As a newspaper man employed on the Republican News in the eighties, Mr. King wrote the story of the dedi* cation of the old armory of the Light Horse squadron on Broadway. The squadron, which was affiliated with the Wisconsin national guard, and ot which Mr. King was a past member, w&s the military pride of Milwaukee 45 years ago. No big street parades or gala celebrations took place in which the squadron, including Mr/ King,

ft;/did not take a part. •'*/.. ; . Y; \ $Mr. King's.wife, Mrs. Marian Ju-. tieau King, who died nine years ago, w.as a granddaughter of Solomon Ju-'

, neau, first mayor of Milwaukee. Re-cimtly Mr. King was working to prepare a history of the Juneau fam-.iiy in Milwaukee. •-/,/••

AidedFrintln^ Pr/ogrew $ #$ IfWhile with the King, Fowled* Ora™

P n\et Co/years ago, Mr.f King w a s $ | lf pioneerîn establishing new processed ;t.i$the printing and engraving indusj

§?£#* in Milwaukee/ He, jputlnto htej jg^-stiop the first half tone > engraving! Ef/; plant inUthe, city, ;thevfirst photo! BrT'g^vure. jpfant/ and'' the Iflrstvcolbjq C 7 photogravure plant. I These nrocesses; g& virtually .changed ,the character 'or | f ; ; t$e entire industry. N'*<'* > s'" j M.'V^bout five years ago Mr. King dl-U Mn vided all his property ampng his legal' J jfr/Mira and "started out in 5 life" all J

^l/over again, despite his* age/* * Since j p \ then he has earned;every dollar he I: silent. He established an armature sf 'winding plant on the north side and

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also "established a plant manufac-, during automobile lamps. Both of* them were successful.^ - V 5, : Collector of Antiquesr

A For more than gêarsjfr/Klng*sj greatest hobby was to collect antiques. He was said to have one of] [the finest collections in the state. [Among the articles in the collection? ' were a Persian shawl more than 300]

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years old, which he obtained /nearly j 60 years agoâ copy,of the Bii?le| Pauperum, Bible of the Poor Man$ which was printed from plates made' in 1534, and of which no copies have . been known to be printed since, and J three cones from the sacred cedars of Lebanon, from which the timbers of King Solomon's temple were cut. , For many years Mr., King was a vestryman of St. James' Episcopal church. He formerly played the chimes there* ,f . . . ' V ty 1 * Surviving him are a daughter, Mrs* Helen King Ott; two • sons, Harry Juneau King, Chicago, and Paul Ju<> neau King, Milwaukee, and three grandchildren, Jane Elizabeth' Ott, John Morrow King and Marian, Ju^ neau King. * ' ?z , { <«;; ,<V\> '

J Funeral services will) be heid, at, the undertaking rooms, of Fred, C. Fass <fc Son, 730 Third st., at 2 p. m. Saturday. Burial will,be,in Forest Home cemetery. < % * . ' . . • > .

Besides the old Light Horse squad-, '" '\ ;, "' « /*,"•* Z'Z \\i"- '' 'v'f,;

iron and the Athletic club, Mr/King was a- member 'of the Old Settlers' club in Milwaukee for many years.,

;He was a native of Troy, N. Y., but |was brought to this,city when he *was only 5 years old.: '' / / > ^ v ' ^ i

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Ernest A. Jensen Ernest A Jensen of Markesan, formerly

of Whitefish Bay, died July 25 at age 96. He was preceded in death by his wife,

Estelle (nee Siebert) and his first wife, Elsa (nee Knop).

He is survived by a daughter, Helen A. Jensen of Kingston; a son, Dr. Eric R. of

(191 Jacksonville, Fla.; two sisters, Ada Graham of Menld Park, Calif., and Eva Hansen of Milwaukee; and a brother, Otto of Portage.

By Jensen's request, cremation arrangements were by Wachholz Funeral Home, Markesan.

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L Klatte, William C. r" Mar. 26. 1966. aged 55 years, resi-' > dence Lake Mills, Wis., formerly ' ; of Whitefish Bay, beloved husband t , of Jayne Klatte^ (nee Williams}. fc.. father -of Richard O., William C , ^ K a t h r y n and Owen W. Klatte, £ . brother of Mrs. Merrill Klein and ^ Charles D. Klatte: further sur-v' vived by other relatives. Services v at the Feerick Funeral Home. 2025

E' Capitol dr. at N. Frederick av.. Shorewood, Tues.. ,1 .P.m.. Rev.

.William F. Edge officiating, followed by Silver Spring lodge No. 337; F. and A. M. Interment Lake Mills. Wis.. Tues.. 3:30 P.m. Friends may call at the funeral hnmejylon.^4 to 9 p.m.

J Obituaries William C Klatte ^

William C. Klatte, 55, a Lake Mills insurance agent and f r-mer Milwaukeean, died at Columbia hospital Saturday after suffering a heart attack wh e visiting relatives here. !

Mr. Klatte, who until f o u r years ago lived at 4610 N. She field av., Whitefish Bay, w s born in that suburb. He was graduated f rom Shorewo d high school and attended t e old Milwaukee State Teachers college.

He was a member of the Masons, the Wisconsin Consistory, Tripoli Shrine, YMCA Businessmen's club and tie Lake M i l l s tongregational church.

He was an army captain n World War II.

Survivors are his w i f e , Jayne, three sons, Richard O., William.C. and Owen W., a d one daughter, Catheryn, all at home; a sister, Mrs. Merr 11 (Mary) Klein, Berlin, Wis., and a brother, Charles D., Medina, Ohio.

Services will be held Tu s-day at 1 p.m. at Feerick u-neral home, 2025 E. Capitol d ., Shorewood. Burial will be n Lake Mills cemetery. The bo y

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lasal, Joseph P. ftet. Fire Chief f Whitefish Bay, March 6,1993, age 81 years,

leloved husband of the late Gertrude E. Dear ather of DuWayne (Patricia) Kasal. Loving randf ather. of Roger, Patricia (Peter) Lunde, fynthia (Peter) Sheperd and Joseph. Great-randfather of Natasha Sheperd. Brother of jorothy Rounds and Ruth (Ray) Kroening. Fur-[ier survived by other relatives ahd friends.,. •'• .

Jer Mr. Joseph Kasal's request a private family Imeral service was held at the funeral home witn

jurial at Wisconsin Memorial Park.

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Kasal, Joseph P. Ret. Fire Chief Of Whitefish Bay, March 6, 1993, age 81 years. Beloved;husband of the late Gertrude E. Dear father of DuWayne (Patricia) Kasal. Loving grandfather of Roger, Patricia (Peter) Lunde,

ynthia (Peter) Sheperd and Joseph. Greatgrandfather of Natasha Sheperd. Brother of Dorothy Rounds and Ruth (Ray) Kroening. Further survived by other relatives and friends. -Per Mr. Joseph KasaPs request a private family funeral service was held at the funeral home with burial at Wisconsin MemorialPark.

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Funeral services for Julius Leu, a former trustee of Whitefish Bay* will be held at 2 p. m. Monday a t Tabor Evanggli- > - --\ cal ^church, ,N. 8th st. and W. Keefe av., with burial in Union cemetery. Mr. Leu, 78, died Fr i day at his home, 5020 Santa Monica blvd., White-fish Bay, after a hear t attack.

Mr. Leu came t o Milwaukee from Germany with his parents 74 years ago, and had lived here since, except for it) years in Jamestown, N. D, He was a grading contractor for 15 years and later managed his own farm in what is now Whitefish Bay for 20 years.

He was a trustee of Whitefish Bay from 1896 to 1899 and from 1908 to 1917. From 1900 to 1902 he served as street commissioner. In April, 1928, he was made foreman of the village's department of public works, a position he held until February, 1935.

Surviving are his wife, Pauline; / th ree daughters, Mrs. F r a n k Liebenthal and tylrs. Walter Gores [of M. ^Vaukee and Mrs. -Rudolph Of \ '

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•;;;: Vera Lawrence ;;! Loved Whitefish Bay

,' Vera Lawrence, one of Whitefish Bay's oldest lifelong Residents, died last week at 92. ;;!; Born in 1903, Lawrence grew ;iip in a Whitefish Bay that no longer exists, in a farmhouse Surrounded by cornfields. She -spent almost her entire life in that home, which had been ;Gwned by her grandparents. '-Built in 1857, it was the oldest

|_house in Whitefish Bay, according to her daughter, Patricia Cronin.

She attended school at the Old School House, the first in, the village; and .remembered the fire that destroyed it in 1918.

•'We were out playing in the cow pasture and we saw the

fire/' she said in a 1993 interview. "That was our last semester, so we finished up at the armory on Henry Clay/'

All his adult life, her brother, Melvin Joseph Immekus, lived in a house he built next door to hers in the 5000 block of N. Idle-wild Ave. He died Jan. 1, 1994, also at the age of 92.

Her husband, James A. Lawrence, died in 1974.

"She was a caring person/ ' said her daughter. "She would want everyone to know how much she loved Whitefish Bay. For her, there was no other place."

In addition to Cronin, Lawrence is survived by Cronin's husband, David, and three grandchildren.

Services were Friday.

Lawrence, Vera (Nee Immekus). Born to Eternal Life March 27, 1996 at the age of 92, Residence Whiter Beloved wife of the late James A. Dear mother of Patricia M. (David) Cronin. Loving sister of. the late Melvin Immekus. Treasured ^andmother of Anthony James Lawrence, Man/iBridgtd Cronin and Margaret Ann Cronin. Further survived by other relatives and friends. . , „ , * . . » Visitation Fri., March 29 from 5 PM until 7 PM at Holy Family Catholic Church on the corner of N. Wildwood and E. Hampton in Whitefish Bav followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 7 PM. Entombment Mon. 10 AM Holy Cross Cemetery.

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Mohr, Gladys A. Jan. 28, 1991, age 78 years. Loving sister of * Aubrey (Vera), the late Gordon (Bertina), the late f Luster (Frieda}, and the late Donald (Delores). * Dear niece of Miss Adelaide Mohr. Further sur- h vlved by 9 nieces and nephews, other relatives ' and friends. * Funeral services Thurs. Jan. 31 at 7pm at ME- „ MORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 7701 U. GREEN I BAY AVE. Visitation at the church from 4-7pm. £ Private interment Graceland Cemetery. Memori- * ats to Memorial Lutheran Church or Wisconsin f Lutheran Child and Family Services appreciated. |

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Mohr, Lawrence H. Nov. 14,1991, age 90 yrs. Beloved husband of the late Irene. Dear brother of Lorraine (Harvey) Kelt and the late Julia (George) Letzler. Dear uncle of Marilyn (Robert) Wolf. Dear great-undo of Brian (Robin) Wolf. Further survivedby nieces,

; nephews, other relatives and friends. ; Visitation Sat Nov. 16 at the Funeral Home from, ' 2 PM until time of Funeral Services at 3:30 PM.

Private Interment Valhalla. Memorials to Divinity Divine Charity £v. Lutheran Church appreciated.

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Mohr, Little Ai , Apr. 21.J991. Age 97 yrs. Beloved mother of the late Evelyn Hoars, Dear grandmother of Sharon Pollack of Tucson, AZ and Robert (Lynn) Hoefs. Dear great grandmother of Rebecca and Klrsten

, Pollack ancfChristopher Hoefs. Further survived by cousins, other relatives and friends.

, Visitation Wed. Apr. 24 at LUTHER MANOR CHAPEL, Faith and Education Building, 4545 N. 92nd St. from 1 p.m. until time of Funeral Services at 2 p.m. Interment Valhalla Memorial Park. Lflffe was a lifetime member of the Order of the Eastern Star Golden ftule Chapter No. 194 O.E.S.Memorials to Luther Manor appreciated. .

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Gladys A. Mohr -^~— Whitefish Bay native Gladys A. Mohr, 78,

died of a stroke, Jan. 28, after a long struggle with Parkinson's disease.

She previously did volunteer work at the Veteran's Hospital and worked at the former George Fredericks and the White House Engineering Company.

Her brother, Aubrey (Vera); nine nieces and nephews and her aunt, Adelaide, survive her.

She was preceded in death by her brothers, Gordon (Bertina), Luster (Frieda) and Donald

(Delores). *• ^ ti A funeral service was held Jan. 31 at V

Memorial Lutheran Church. A private inter-j ment followed at Graceland Cemetery.- t|

Memorials may be made to Memorial. Lutheran Church or Wisconsin Lutheran Child.{

. and Family Services/' ^ '*'$ AA' •. *v zZyy^ Ah - Schmidt & Bartelt, Heiden & Lange Funeral Home, Whitefish Bay, assisted the family with arrangements.

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Off, Arthur G. Age 67 yrs. Nov. 13, 1991. Beloved father of Arthur L. (Sue) Off. Dear step-father of Russell Retter, Sandra Schmidt, and Donald (Cheryl) Reiter. Brother of Dorothy Hoelz. Special friend of Joan Heder. Further survived by grandchll-

, dren, other relatives and friends. Services Frl. 8 ' p.m. at the funeral home with Rev. Dean Phillips

officiating, in state Fri. at the funeral home from 4 p.m. until services. Interment Graceland. Art was an employee of Tews Lime and Cement Co. for30yrs. |

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Nirschl, Viola M. (Nee Sell) born to Eternal Life Dec. 23,1990 agecj&j 88 years of Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of t n e u i late George. Dear mother of Robert, James f (Evelyn). Dear grandmother of Matthew (Cyn- $ thla), Fwricia Lee. Jane Oanforth, James Jr. ,"< & Anna Griffith and Andrew. Greatgrandrnother of ^ James, Benjamin and Abraham. Further survived •&'

t by other relatives and friends. Funeral Mass Fri>% Dec. 28 at 11 a.m. at HOLY FAMILY CHURCtf $ 4849 N. Wiidwood. In State at the church from 10

, a.m. until time of service. Interment Evergreen „ Cemetery.^ • • \ % ^ < - ^ f ^ f f

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J^RKERTT'ChaVIesTFTT bdoved'Tuilmnd"~of Minnie (nee Maechtle), father of Bessie Rang, William H. and Pved C. Markert and brother of Mrs. Henry Hummel, Mrs. C. J, Billerbeck and Andrew Mavkevt, Sunday, Sept. 21, aged 71 years, at the residence, 849 8th st; Funeral from the chapel of Fass & Son, Inc., T30 3d .st., Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 2 p. m. Interment town of Milwaukee. Unkm_cemtery. _ _ _ _ _

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August C. Moelier I Funeral services for August C. | Moelier, 603-6 N. Lake dr., who •died Saturday at Columbia hospital following a major operation, I were held Tuejsday at the

;Fass r . funeral home. The Rev. I John Fedders of Lake Park Lutheran c h u r c h officiated. Burial was in Graceland cemetery.

A Milwaukee attorney for 50 years, Mr. Moelier was 74 at his death. He studied nights at the old Milwaukee law school, now Marquette university law school. Thirty years ago he started his own practice, specializing in corporate and probate work. His son-in-law, Emil Hokanson, who went into partnership with him about a year ago has been main-

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His wife, Helen Klode Moelier, two daughters, Mmes. Emil and Arthur Hokanson, a brother and three sisters survive.

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,.*,,. _ay. Beiovea'wno v. ».,w .„«, ,«.., rence. Dear mother otBalph (Pauline). Loving

. grandmother- of <Sharor£; Isely, Gary ,Mohr ar> Heidi Mohr. Fond slater of Bertina Mohr, Marc;

' - ret Metzger, George Krueger and Bill (Gertrut ;^Krueder.r$lster In-Taw of Adelaide A, Mohr. Sp, K^claLTrlehdYofrthe late|Dr/ Fred' and- Jeanne

" Gaenslen and family, Further survived fcy„pther relatives and freienas. 1

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Mohr, Bertina (Nee Krueger) Feb. 7, 1994, age 89 years ol Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of tne late Gordon. Dear mother of John (Jeanne). Grandmother of Erin and Lisa. Further survived by sister Margaret Metzger and a brother William (Gertrude) Krueger, other relatives and friends. Complete funeral service will be Wed. Feb. 9 at the funeral home at 7:30 p.m. Visitation will be 4 p.m. until time of services. Entombment Wis-

. consin Memorial Park. If desired, memorials to Luther Memorial Chapel or the charity of your choice appreciated.

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Mohr, Adelaide A. Aprjl 19,1994, age 98 yrs. Survived by nephews Aubrey fVeray Mohr and Ralph (Pauline) Mohr. 12 great-nieces and nephews, 7 great-great nieces and hephews, dtherrelatlves and friends.

^Funeral Frl^ April 22 at 7pm at the funeral home/ In state Fr\. 5rto 7pm. Member of Luther Memorl-

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By ROBERT M. RIEPENHOFF and ANNE BOTHWELL of The Journal staff

Whitefish Bay — Whitefish Bay Public Safety Director Alan N. Myszewski died early Wednesday, apparently of a blood clot to the lung. . He was 45.

"It's a stunning loss for us personally and certainly as a community," Village Manager Michael Harrigan said Wednesday. "We are going to miss him greatly."

Myszewski called for a rescue squad at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, complaining of a pain to his left side, a Wauwatosa Fire Department spokesman said. •>

He was transported by the rescue squad from his home in Wauwatosa to St. Joseph's Hospital. At that time, rescue workers suspected a possible kidney stone/

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He died at the hospital about 2 a.m. Wednesday, Harrigan said.

Myszewski served for 20 years with the Village of White-fish Bay and came up from the ranks of patrol officer, Harrigan Said. ••• ^ Y - ' : ; . - . ; •

Myszewski, Alan N. Chief DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY, VILLAGE OF WHITEFISH BAY. Born to eternal life Nov. 29, 1989, age 45 yrs. Beloved husband of Janice < (nee Defter). Dear father of Adam Dean. Dear son of Mrs. Paula (the late Harry) Myszewski. Dear brother of Mlchele (Thomasj Tiffany. Dear son-in-law of Raymond (the late Virginia) Delker. Further survived by nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.

Funeral services Sat. Dec. 2nd at 11:30 AM at ST. MONICA'S CHURCH where funeral Mass will be offered, in state Fri. at the Funeral Home from 2 until 9 PM with a Parish Wake Service at 8 PM. Interment Arlington Cemetery, Milwaukee. If desired memorials may be given to The White-fish Bay Foundation or the charity of your choice.

Chief Myszewski started his career in March of 1969 with the Whitefish Bay Police Department. In 1982 was promoted to Public Safety Director (Chief of Police and Fire) served as President of. Milwaukee County Metropolitan Chiefs of Police Association and President of Milwaukee County Fire Chiefs Association for 1989. Also a member

* of the International Association of Chiefs of Police Academy of Criminal Justice Science, Was also recipient of Distinguished Law Enforcement Person of The Year Award for 1986.

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He wteiriiamed public safety director in 1982. In that job, he headed the Police and Fire Departments in the village.

Myszewski also was active in many organizations. He was president of the Milwaukee County Association of Fire Chiefs and past president of thek Milwaukee County Law ^ Enforcement Executives Association. .. \

He served o i the i Milwaukee County Board committee that coordinated: efforts to • bring the county wide 911 telephone system into operation earlier this year. : c ^ • \K

Myszewski once told reporters that he traveled to different police departments 4 across the country on his vacations to exam- ** ine their 911 systems. r 'Z7774A I

"Beyond any doubt, without^ Alan"' Myszewski, Milwaukee would not have 911 today," County Supervisor Thomas A. Bailey said. "He brought the idea to me severalyears ago.*

Cooperation between police and fire

departments in North Shore communities is common, and Myszewski is partly responsible for that cooperation, his colleagues said.

This year, he was instrumental in pushing through a plan for joint'dispatching among Glendale, Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. He also headed a committee that was working to revamp radio communication equipment in several North Shore communities. \ n }

"I considered him a friend and a colleague," said Fox Point Police and Fire Chief

. Gerd J. Hodermann. "I'm shocked and saddened. I told my staff> and they're shocked. We're looking for answers and more details."

Harrigan said: "Al's personal warmth and ; friendship to the staff and this community is

something that will be missed as much as his % professional skill and ability." ! A 1962 graduate of Pulaski High School,

Myszewski received a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from Marquette University in 1979. .'•'••• > • ;••.••'".. ) • ; . ' -

Myszewski is survived by his wife, Janice, and a son, Adam, a student at the University of Minnesota; ,y; v

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: Of Whitefish Bay, Apr; I ' M 4 ** !f ,* v age 39 years. Wife of the late

Waiter P. Momsen. Dear moth- ; er of Mrs. Mary Anne (John) Gallagher, Fond grandmother of Geri Narloch, other relatives also survive. Complete services 8 p.m. Frl. at FASS FUNERAL *• HOME, 3601 N. Oakland Ave.,

s ; Private Interment. In state 4 ; ? ftm Frl to time of services,;;; I

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Henry Marsh Henry Marsh, 79, pioneer road

contractor of Milwaukee, died at his home at 5625 N. Consaul place, Whitefish Bay, at 5 p. m., Sunday after a lingering illness.

His father, Mantle Marsh, came to Milwaukee from England when Milwaukee was but a small village and with his brothers organized one of the first road building firms in this vicinity. The grading of Humboldt avenue, part of the Lake park district, and Mitchell street. were among some of the jobs completed by this firm. ,, , '*

Henry Marsh * wasx born at an f jkddress of what is now known as m. Pleasant street and N. Hum-fboldt avenue. He attended the Cass street school and in early /tanhood joined his father in the

contracting business. He retired from active work about 25 years ago, but had followed woodworking as a hobby since that time.

He is survived by his wife, Susan S., and one daughter, Mrs. Ruth E. Nelson.

Funeral services were held from the Fass funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland avenue, at 2 p. m., Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. Marshall Day of Christ episcopal

,church, Whitefish Bay, officiating. Burial was in Union ceme-

itery in Milwaukee township. j

OBITUARIES tractor,*Henry Marsh. ? * * A daughter, Mrs. Ruth *E. Nel

son, survives. r\

Mrs. Susan S. Marsh Funeral services for Mrs.

Susan S, Marsh, 83, who died Saturday morning at her home, 5625 N. Consaul pi., were held Tuesday at the Fass chapel with burial in the Town of .Milwau-; kee Union cemetery.

Mrs. Marsh was one of the oldest residents of Whitefish Bay. Her father, William E. Consaul, owned a farm in the region and the street on which she liyed was named for him* She was the widow of a con-v

Mohr, Donald L. , Nov. 20, 1990, age 65. Beloved husband of (

•/ Delores. loving father of Alice (Daniel) Holton, Janice and Dale. A loyal companion of Shannon. Brother of Aubrey (vera), Gladys, the late Gor- -don (Bertina) and the lata Lester (Frieda). Beloved nephew of Miss Adelaide Mohr. Further

' survived by 4 brothers-in-law, other relatives and If IOI ivo. Visitation Frl. Nov. 23 from 4 PM until time of service at 7 PM at the funeral home. Interment Sat. 10 AM meeting at Wisconsin Memorial Park , Family Center. Memorials to the charity of your choice.

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Whitefish Bay

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Obituary William A. Meredig

Funeral service's were held Monday afternoon for William A, Meredig, 46, at the Feerick Funeral home, 2025 E. Capitol

^ dr. A baker for 13 years at 423 E. Silver Spring. rd., Meredig died Friday at Sacred Heart sanitarium after' a year's illness, He is survived by his wife, Hannah; two sons, Sgt. Hans W., with the army in Germany, and Herbert; a sister, Mrs. Martha Stalter; his father andHwo sisters in Germany and a brother in Brazil/ ' <

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T " E i £ t J ^ y K E E JOURNAL Friday, January 4, 1985

Hannah Meredig, > Bay Home Bakery | co-founder, dies

Funeral services will be held Monday for Hannah Meredig, who founded the Bay Home Bakery & Delicatessen in Whitefish Bay with her husband, William, 52 years ago. • • v . • . ; " • : , / ; :

Meredig died Thursday at St. Mary's Hospital. Her son, * Herbert, said she had been taken there Sunday, suffering ! from flu and dehydration. She was 84.

Although Herbert Meredig had taken over operation of the bakery at 423 E. Silver Spring Dr. three years ago, his mother continued to be active in the business.

"Christmastime was her last hurrah," Herbert Meredig said. "She came down one day and took a look at the new decorations and new lights and commented that it looked like Tiffany's in New York." .

She spent much of her time at the bakery that she and her husband founded, even after she retired from ownership three years ago.

"She was still the whip-cracker," her son said. "I had taken over the running of it ,.» but if I didn't listen to Mama I was in trouble."

In an interview with a Journal reporter in 1982, Meredig said she had many friends and that her life was rich.

'Thank God, I am still around," she said then. "With God's help I can stay here a few more years and then — and then, out like a light." t -

She was born in Germany and came to the United States with her husband in 1932. Her husband worked for another bakery for nine years before the two of them established their business in Whitefish Bay. She continued operating the bakery after her husband's death in 1945. ( ;:

Besides her son, Herbert, of Fox Point, she is survived, by a sister, Maria Reidt, of Solingen, Germany. , !

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the Feerick FunerW Home, 2025 E. Capitol Dr., Shore-wood. V

The body will be at the funeral home from 4 to 9 p.m. Sunday. Burial Monday Will be in Wanderer's Rest Cemetery, 6400 W. Burleigh St.

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Mohr, 50, manager of a north side restaurant, were held at

•• 1:30 p.m. Satur* day at the Hei-den ; & Lange funeral home, 3116 N. 3rd st. Burial w a s in Pine lawn Me-* m o r i a l park. M r. Mohr, of 3284 N. Oakland av., died Thursday at St

Mr. Mohr M d w l . hospi-w i k . tal,Y;where he had been under treatment since * suffering a heart attack a week J

He had been manager of Sol- Si l/s* restaurant, 3226 N. Green Bay av., the last 28 years. He also was a rnember of the Mil-waukee Moose lodge.

Survivors are his wife, Dorothy? two daughters, Vicki Lee and Sherry Ann, and a son, ^ f M ^ t home; a sister M i s s Mildred Mohr, and a brother, Verner, both of Milwaukee,

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Maeglj, Teresa (Nee Fons). Born to Eternal Life July 25, 1996, age 92 years, of Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of the late Norva! E. Maegli. Dear mother of Roger N. Maegli. Loving grandmother of Diane (Roy) Maegli-fiippert. Great-grandmother of Christopher. Fond sister of Eugene Fons, Vi Osterhaus, Jean Fleming, Constance Walters and the late Marie Theusch. Further survived by sisters-in-law, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Visitation Mon., July 29 at HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC CHURCH from 5 PM until time of the complete Funeral Mass at 7 PM. Entombment Valhalla Memorial Park. Teresa was a member of the Whitefish Bav and Shorewood Women's Clubs, the Whitefish Bay Historical Society, the Ladies of Charity and the Whitefish Bay Senior Center.

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Hariri Pioneer, | P. Mohr, Dies f e t t l e d Here When f»Wild Beasts Roamed 5' Town of Milwaukee Y Philip Mohr, one of the oldest ct-llcrs in the town of Milwaukee, cl&d

•Wednesday morning at the home ,ftf his son, F r e d Mohr, in Graii ville.' He was 9 |

Mr. Mohr was3 born in Ger-m a n y , June 5,; 1837. When he: was 5 he came to, this country with-his parents.

The f a m i l y came directly to. the town of Milwaukee and set-tied.* on' an 80* acre farm, part of which is now Whitefish Bay .

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^oods and Mr. Mohr's father shot a fax and other prowling beasts that

- frightened his son, Philip. ,•> As Philip grew up he himself hunted and helped his father bring farm 'produce and wood to the market in Milwaukee. The city hall square was Jtoe market scene. ^ . Ityde in Ox Cart

; m The trip to'the-market was made &i an o$en drawn cart/ It was neces-

. eary to cross the Milwaukee river at & spot ih what is now Lincoln park and the river was forded. \ As a young man Philip purchased 37 acres of his father's farm and mar-r;ed. Then for a few winters he lived

• in the lumber camps' in Michigan,

chopping wood* For this fie received; 50 cents a day. Two.cords/of woods was a day's work. |

Served in Civil War During the Civil war Mr. Morn*

served in the Wisconsin infantry | He returned to his farm life in the' town of Milwaukee after the war. \

Up until a few days before his-death Wednesday he enjoyed smok-:

ing his pipe; * * -Mr. Mohr is survived by six sons/

a daughter. 31 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.

Funeral services^will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at tho undertaking parlors of A. F. Dobratz & Son, 1552 Port Washington av., and burial will be in Union,cemetery, town of Milwaukee, v~z "" ••A

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Of Whitefish Bay. Nov. 14, 1989. Age 80_yrs. }• Beloved husband Bertina (nee Krueger). Dear :- father of John (Jeanne) Mohr. 2 grand-daugh

ters. Brother of Aubrey (Vera), Gladys and Donald (Dolores) Mohr, 1 aunt, Adelaide Mohr. Also survived by other relatives and friends. Funeral Thurs. Nov. 16 at 8pm at the funeral home." Entombment Wisconsin Memorial Park. In state Thurs. 4-8pm. Member of Luther Memorial Chapel and Whitefish Bay Seniors. Memorials appreciated.

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Whitefish Bay

Fall Fatal to Mohr; Dies At Home

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Fred Mohr* .78,: of 6747, N: .• Range Line rd.,. a lifelong

resident of the area, sustained a f&tal; head "Injury Friday, September 5, Zwhen he fell down a > flight of stairs

. at his home. Glendale po-. lice answered the rescue

call. He was pronounced dead on arrival.": Funeral services were held Monday at Christ Memorial . Lutheran church, 3107 W. Thurston ave*, with burial in Graceland : cemetery* •'

Mr. Mohr, a truck .gardener, had been active ' in th<a business all his life, maintaining gardens at his Rarige Line residence at the t ime of his death* He was a member of Holy Ghost Lutheran church/* -. . -, /

Surviving are fyis wife, Clara; two daughters, Mrs* Leona Thornton &nd Mrs*

, Alita Mueller; one brother, ;< Herman, and tfyree grand-\ children, All are of Milwau-- kee. • ; ' . ' ; , , " ' • • * ' 7\

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Meredig's kindbiess as popular as his bakery

Took over business from parents who opened it in 1932

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"He was kindness personified."

That's how Herbert Mere-dig's friends, relatives and employees will remember the kind-hearted baker who filled his customers with sweets and smiles.

Meredig died of a probable heart attack Friday in his apartment above the Bay Home Bakery, the oldest business on East

' Silver Spring Drive. He was 65. Meredig's parents, William

and Hannah, started the bakery in 1932. Herbert took over the bakery some years later and devoted himself to improving his business and the lives of almost everyone he met.

"He was like a friend of everybody's," said Rae Graf, the shop manager who referred to her boss as "kindness personified."

"The people on the street are crying," Graf said. "They're sad. They're so sad, and what a great

loss it's going to b^. "They're remembering all the

funny things and the nice things. Nobody has had an unhappy thing to say about him."

Meredig was the type of person who would give rides to his employees when he thought the roads were too icy for them to drive themselves. And he always found time for a little conversation to go with his confections.

"I'd want to close the store and he'd be standing there in the doorway talking," Graf remembered.

Sandra Meredig said her father gladly devoted his life to the store and the people it brought to him. His employees and his customers were part of his family, she said.

"He never thought bad about anybody," Sandra Meredig said. "He walked into a place and he knew everybody, and he would give them hugs."

Meredig is survived by Sandra and a son, Rick;

Visitation will be held Tuesday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Feerick Funeral Home, 2025 E. Capitol Drive.

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arrri Pioneer, P. Mohr, Dies

.e t t led Here; When :;^,Wild Beasts Roamed ;f Town pf Milwaukee:'

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his r80H,UFr^d Mohiw, in GrarV ville.: He was 9$ ; Mr. Mohr wa&

bor ;h:in Ger< ma 1837, was 6 this his parents,

The f a m i l y came directly *to the town of Milwaukee and-, set-, tied?orR an 80-acre farm, part of which is now. Whitefish' Bay. W i l d ; animals roXmed t h e

chopping wood** For this fte received 50 cents a day/'^Twa. cords of wood! was a day's work, \

Served in Civil War During the Civil war Mr. Montf

served in the Wisconsin infantry.-He returned to his farm life in the town of Milwaukee after the war.

Up, until a few days before his death Wednesday he enjoyed smok-' ing his pipe;, ; * , .*.-,- ? * ;•

Mr. Mohr is (survivedby six; sons? ^daughter, ,31 grandchildren and 2% great-grandchildren: !jf/ , - \.' * ^ Y Funeral seryic«tovili be held Sa& urday at 2 p. in- at tt*e; undertaking parlors of A. F, Dobrat£& Son,'1552] Port Washington av,, and burial Willi be in Union, cemetery,; town bt'WU waukee* •qy.sffvr

ôods and Mr. Mohr's father shot a mr and other prowling beasts that

l ightened his son, Phijip*; > As Philip grew up he'himself hunt «ki and helped his father, bring farm produce and wood to the market in Milwaukee. The city hall square was Hie market scene. > , •; - ••

Y| Rode in Ox Cart 1 iThetr ip to the market was made 'î an oxen drawn cart. It was neces-;<tary,to cross thevMilwriuitee river at ;$ spot in what is. nowi-Lincoln park ,*nd the river,was forded. \ s -•r, As a young man Philip purchassd *7 acres of his father's tarm and mar. '5Jedk Then for,ja few winters he lived

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resident of the area* sustain* ed a f&tel head ~ injury Friday, September 5, when he fell down a flight of stairs at his home. Glendale police answered the rescue call. He was pronounced dead on. arrival. ^Funeral services were held: Monday at Christ Memorial •Lutheran church, 3107 W* Thurston aye?t with burial. in,-. Qiftdelaiidg fceme-

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ing garden^ '-at his : Raage Line residence "at the> ttoie

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County School Officials Joined Bay School Faculties in Tribute to Mulrine *

School Supt. Dies Of Heart Ailment

County school officials and the faculties of Whitefish Bay public schools gathered in St. Monica's church Monday morning to attend funeral services for Clifford L. Mulrine, superintend-ent of Whitefish Bay public schools, who died Thursday of a heart ailment at St. Mary's hospital.

County School Superintendent Michael Keyes was one of the pallbearers. The others were members of local school staffs, picked for the offices they held.

They were Michael Cienian, president of the School Masters

. club; Wallace Zastrow, president of the Whitefish Bay Teacher's assn. Principal Orville Gesell of Henry Clay school, the principal who had served -the longest under Mr. Mulrine's administrar tion; Principal Harold Rose of the high school and E. J. Zeiler of the superintendent's office.

Honorary pallbearers included Dr. T. J. Jenson, Shorewood school superintendent; Dr. J. D. Logsdon, Shorewood high school principal; Milwaukee School Superintendent Harold S. Vincent, Dr. William Lamers, W. W, Theisen, Walter S. Nichols and T. J. Kuemmerlein of the Milwaukee school superintendent's office; E. G. Kellogg, West Allis s c h o o l superintendent a n d George Carlson, principal Nathan Hale high school; Waukesha school Superintendent R. ' H. Hein, Wauwatosa school superintendent Harley Powell; West Milwaukee School Superintendent Mathew Bartley; Greendale School Superintendent J o h n Ambruster; and South Milwaukee School Superintendent Earl Luther.

The Rev. Joseph Mueller read the requiem mass and preached the funeral service. Burial was in Holy Cross cemetery.

The body lay in state at Fass funeral home, 3601 N, Oakland ave, Many were the teachers, former pupils and present students in Bay schools who came to pay their last respects at the funeral parlors or the church.

In tribute to the man who set the pattern for fine education in Whitefish Bay, all public schools ijvere closed Monday,' A7yy^

In ill health for more than a year, Mr. Mulrine took a leave of absence last September. E. J. Zeiler has been the acting principal since then.

With Schools Since 1917 Mr. Mulrine came to White-

fish Bay in 1917 to be the prin- * cipal of the only school in the village. It was a frame building on Marborough dr., Idlewild and Fleetwood pi., the triangular plot now destined to house the

' village library. Besides his administrative work, Mr. Mulrine taught in the upper grades. There was no high school in the village. , The school burned down in 1918 and was replaced by Henry Clay, which opened in 1919. Within ten years, Whitefish Bay had 'two more grade schools, Cumberland, 1928, and Richards, l,929i High school classes were

., started in Richards in 1930 and in 1932 were transferred to the

'present high school. In the building of all these schools, Mr. Mul-

; rine led the way and directed r the planning.

Born at Black River Falls, : WiSV Mr. Mulrine was trained

A as a teacher at Oshkosh Normal 7 school, now Wisconsin State eol-

-, ? lege, Oshkosh. He continued his 7 education when he moved to h Whitefish Bay, enrolling at Mar-! quette university, •, earning a j! Bachelor of Laws degree in 1923,

?4,a bacb^W ?f philosophy degree

in 1930 and a master of education degree in 1940.

Superintendent Murline was a member of St. Monica's Church, the! Knights of Columbus, 'the National and Wisconsin Educa tion assns., the American assn. of | School Administrators. He was a director of the Wisconsin School

Administrators assn. and anKor$ ganizer and merhber of * iftfe Suburban Administrators' assnu

His wife, Virginia, a son) Peter^ and two daughters, Mary Ann and Susan, pupils in the Whitefish Bay schools, survive. The family lives at 5701 N. Kent ave. Also among the survivors are a brother, J. J. Mulrine, Black River Falls, and two sisters, Mrs. Herbert Pekel, Cincinnati, O.; and Miss Maude Mulrine, Madison, a former Mil-; waukee school teacher;. A .'*

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Former MU coach Nagle dies at 73 ByRICKBRAUN Sentinel staff writer

Jack Nagle, who coached the Marquette University men's basketball team for five seasons in the 1950s and spent 30 seasons at Whitefish Bay High School, died Wednesday at Columbia Hospital of cancer. ; Nagle, 73, retired as coach of the Whitefish Bay girls team last December after a 6-0 start. •[ Nagle is credited with bringing the Marquette men's basketball program into national prominence. He had an 11-15 record in his first season but was named the National Jesuit Coach of the Year in 1954-'55 as the Warriors went 24-3.

Marquette lost the opening game of Nagle's second season before winning 22 straight games. The Warriors closed the regular season with a loss to Notre Dame, but they made the first appearance in school history in the NCAA Tournament, winning two

; games before losing in the final of 4 the Eastern Regional to Iowa.

The Warriors finished 13-11 the next season and lost in the first round of the NIT. Marquette went 10-15 and 11-11 in Nagle's final two seasons. His record at Marquette was 69-55.

"He was a very kind, gentle man," said Terry Rand, who led Marquette in scoring in all, three seasons he played under Nagle. "And he took a very personal interest in the players. One of the players got married, and it was a big thing for Jack to participate and give advice and help everybody. He was a fine individual, a nice family man."

After four years as coach of the junior varsity boys basketball team at Whitefish Bay, Nagle became head coach of the boys varsity team from 1962 to 1973 and then coached the girls basketball team from 1973 until last December.

Nagle compiled a 604-245 record jn his years at Whitefish Bay.

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Nagle also was an English teacher in his years at Whitefish Bay and won the- district's Teacher of the Year Award in 1973.

"Jack's going to be sorely missed no doubt about that," said Don Laine, who took over for Nagle last season. "1 know every year kids came back to visit with him during their Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, and they enjoyed him immensely as a person and a coach. I know the kids are really going to feel bad about

As a basketball player, Nagle was a standout at Shorewood High School, from which he graduated in 1936. He earned a scholarship at Marquette and played as a reserve in 1939 and 1940. V Nagle is survived by his wife,

Maude, three sons —• Charles (married to Bonnie), William (married to Christine) and James (married to Uuirie) — and five grandchildren.

Visitation will be held from 5-7 f>.m. Friday at Feerick Funeral Home, 2025 E. Capitol Dr. The funeral mass will be at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. Robert's Catholic Church at 2214 E* Capitol Dr.

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Fall Down Stairs Fatal To Well Known Figure

In Village

I John Pandl; 51, proprietor of the fWhitefish Bay. Inn, died Wednesday knight at 10:30 at St, Mary's hospital ^following an accident at his restaur-* ant at about 6:45* He lived at 1306 Et Henry Clay, street*/ ? *?•/•".. I :*'\* ;

I, ; Mr. Pandl went to his restaurant I, from his hornet in search of an electric ^fuse." In the search he lost his bal-" ance and fell down the cellar stairs* ]i He was rushed to the office of Dr. £ Edwin Gute and then to* St. Mary's I hospital, where it was discovered, that : he was suffering from a broken wrist

and internal injuries. Death was /thought to be due to •cerebral hem-

morage. . ! - \ v; ! Bay Resident 16 Years

:_ Mr. Pandl came to Whitefish Bay » in 1916 and engaged in the restaur

ant business. ^ He had lived there since that-time. ; '

He was a member of the Franklin lodge, K. of P., G. U. G. Germania, No. 51; Liederkranz, Austrian-Hungarian society; the Oddfellows, White-fish Bay club, and the Holy Name

;ti society of St. Monica's church, White^ V&5h Bay ' A

Surviving are his widow; five child-* i ren, Violet, Angeline* Helen, George? ' and John, jn, three brothers, Julius z and Herman of Milwaukee, and Frank| • of Allentown, Pa., and two sisters! i Mrs. Max Grefig,, and another in thej f old country. •/ \ -. ., t.XXr'*£]<*: [•';*- 'A Funeral Saturday ; y> z ^zA

; Funeral services will be held Sat| ) urday morningifrpm the Fred C. Fass: \ k Son funeral home, 3601 N* Oakland f. avenue, at7 8:80 and at! St. Monica V

church at 9. /"Interment will be iiv 'Holy Cross,cemetery. J5?j>A'A A*%i%

Prange, Mabel F. (nee Filter). Born to Eternal Ufe Mon. Jan. 30,1989, age 81 yrs. Beloved wife of the late

. Leonard H. Prange. Dear mother of Beatrice (Albert) Hepfner

, and the late Monte Prange. MotheMivJaw of Susan Prange.

r Prange. Also randchMren, 7

Sister of Esther Prai survived by 5 grai great grandchildren, other relatives and friends.

Visitation Frl. Feb. 3 from 4:00pm until 7:00pm Services at

ZWASKA FUNERAL HOME 4900W.Bra<*eyRd

Pastor David R. Seager of St. John's Lutheran Church offk* atina Private Interment Grace* land Cemetery. In lieu of flowers memorials to Si. John's Lutheran Church appreciated.

Praefke, Irma E. (Rata) May 6th, 1986. Of Luther Manor. Age 88 yrs. (nee Kuetemeyer). Dear mother of Marten (Richard) Curtfs„Step-

. mother of Alen Praefke of l

Washington. Sister of Meta • Dassow and Adele Splerlng. Dear grandmother of WHam (Jean), Thomas, James, and John Curtis, Suzanne (Stan) l

Westbrook, Richard (Trudy) \ Rahn and Gloria (Richard) Allen. Further survived by 4

. great-grandsons, other relatives and friends. Complete fu* „„

Ki neral services Frl„ May 9th at •? 7:30 p m from the funeral home , with the Rev. Harvey Wangerin

^ officiating. In state Frt, at the , . funeral home from 4 p m untt *

time of service. Interment Val- \ , hala Cemetery. If desired, me- ^

morials may be given to ST. ^ JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH GLENDALE

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Funeral services for Mrs. Louisa Pagels, 87, 4341 N. Morris blvd., were held Wednesday at the Heiden and Lange mortuary. Interment was at the Town of Milwaukee Union cemetery.

Mrs. Pagels is survived by two sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law and three grandchildren.

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Id;John and Garner;, and fc.pprcy, of Fond du Lac.

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pi; Fttperal^servicV\^ r ^William/* M| yeter^fsp};lifelong resident Jpf*Mi$ |waukee,;and :well knowiiUb' Shor fwood and WhlteflisitrBaytdisttictSi * fto ibe'held at ',2 Yo'clock^bn r Friday fafternopn from; the Heiden- A/Langej tfuneral;ihoma,^:3116;'North ^Thirdj Street,•.->with . burial^ hi it JBvergrsenl icemetery. r \ *..c, •;.;; ' ' '/. zyAZ'f'zA^ f (Mr , Peters was widely known bjS residents of the north and northwest] sides, having operated a tailor shop] on the northwest side for 64 years.. He is survived by his widow, Ella,

fand four children; Mrs. Ida Froeh-;iich, Mrs. Jenny Bell, Fred of Osh-*kosh, and Charles, who operates the^ |Red Mill Tavern and cafe: qn the .Green Bay road.

Pagels, Emma A. (nee Differt). Nov, 12,1985, age ' 86 yrs. Dear mother of William H. (Merofyn) Pagels. 3 granddaughters, 1 great grandaughfer, other relatives end friends. Complete funerat Thurs. Nov* M, at 7:30 pm at the funeral home. Interment Grace-land. In state, Thurs. 5-7:30 pm.

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DEATHS Leo S.Rice

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Services for Leo S. Rice, a for-rner real estate broker and home builder, will be at 11 a.m. March 2 at the Milwaukee Catholic Home, |1462 N. Prospect Ave.

, | Rice died Friday at the retire-. pient home of complications of / age. He was 90: He had moved to

the home seven years ago from y/hitefish Bay. V Rice was co-owner and president of Rice-Powell Real Estate from 1939 to 1969, when he sold his share to his partner, McCutch-en Powell, and semi-retired. The company sold real estate and built homes on the North Shore. ; A native of Kewaunee, Rice was a second lieutenant in the Army during World War I. ,In 1923, he graduated from Marquette University with a bachelor's degree in business administration.

He then went to work as a real estate broker for the. Frederick P, Jones Co. of Milwaukee. After founding his own company, he helped Cardinal Stritch College acquire the land for its campus. *

From 1969 to 1981, Rice closed sales for Ogden Real Estate. \

Rice was a former secretary of 1 the Milwaukee Board of Realtors

and a former board member of Stritch College. He also was a member of Blue Mound Country Club, the Milwaukee Athletic Club and the Marquette Minutemen, a financial support group for the uni-

. versity and its athletic programs. For recreation, he played golf. •• "He was very outgoing, and he

had many, many friends of all different age groups," said his daughter, Patricia Blake of Fox Point.

Besides Blake, Rice is survived by his wife* Loretta; a son, Jere, of

'' Whitefish Bay; and a sister, Mary Fahey, of Elkhart Lake. *'*'

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Robert D. Shawl, 28, son of Mrs. Ray L. Wright, 5590 N. Diverisey blvd., and Dae E. Shawl, Milwaukee, was killed Sunday while climbing the 12,-395 foot Mount Fujiyama in Japan, according to word received here.

A member of the U. S7 diplomatic service, Shawl and a friend were killed when they slipped during a windstorm. They had passed the 10,000 foot mark of the peak and fell more than 1,000 feet.

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N. Newhaii street, Whitefish Bay, drowned.in Army lake near East Troy, Walworth county, on Monday night of this week. Valiant efforts by five of his companions failed to save him and only the timely arrival of a deputy sheriff prevented a multiple tragedy.

Ravenscraft, a recent graduate from the Whitefish Bay high school and an outstanding athlete, had gone to the Army lake cottage of William Sigler, 707 E. Briarwood place, with his com: panions intending to Spend a few days of his vacation there and to! paint the cottage. Accompanying him were Hugo A. Vogt, jr., 825' E. Silver Spring drive; Joseph! Kelley, 6320 N. Berkeley boule*! vard; Douglas Devos, 5129 N»J Woodburn street; Ralph Knoerns*: child, 5101 N. Cumberland! boulevard, and Henry Seefeldt, 5902

, W. Washintgon boulevard. f According to reports of the accident, Ravenscraft, a good swimmer, rowed out on to the lake a distance of about 150 feet, pulled off his shirt, placed his wallet on the seat of the boat and then jumped in the water. He immed

iately called for help, but assistance was delayed for a moment, the other boys believing that he was in no danger. When they realised that he was in danger, Seefeldt and Kelley entered the water and swam to the drowning boy. Devos and Vogt Jumped Into a boat and rowed to the scene. ' Seefeldt reached Ravenscraft first and succeeded in bringing

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him to the surface, but by the time Kelley reached the , scene, Seefeldt was exhausted. Kelley kept both boys afloat for a time, but lost his grip on Ravenscraft. Kelley and Seefeldt were rescued by the two boys in the boat.

During the attempted rescue, carried on in the dark, Knoernschild had summoned a deputy sheriff and a doctor, who sh6rt-ly arrived on the scene, ordered the boys to the shbre and began his search for Ravenscraft. The body was recovered after a short time. Ravenscraft had either suffered a stomach cramp or was caught in the weeds at the bottom of the lake. , Glen Ravenscraft was the son

of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Y. Ravenscraft. ^He was'an all-conference basketball player and*a member of the Whitefish Bay high school football and track teams.

Funeral services will be held from the Dobratfc chaptel, 3514 N* Porth Washington avenue, Friday afternoon at 2 p. mi, with interment in Union* cemetery.

*aj :3£ RUNGE: Anna (nee Mohrl. .Route 2, Theinsville, Sunday. July U. aged 64 years. . beloved wife of Otto Runge, mother of VJ- . ola Wiedmann, Dora Bortz, Lydia and El- * mer Runge, also survived by five broth*. < crs, 7 grandchildren, brothets-in-law. sisters-in-law. eons-in-Jaw and i daughter-in- * law. Funeral Wednesday, July 14i at 1:30 . p. m., from the Dobrats FuheraJ Home. 3514 * N. Port Washington av„ to St. Peter's Lu- i theran church, Range tine rd,< River Hills.* Interment Graceland. » <-' <" '

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and Mrs. Allah J. Roberts, 6236,N* Lake drive, died Saturday afternoon

at the Walworth county; hospital from a skull frac-t u r e , suffered when his motor-c y c l e collided with an automobile on Highway 12, two .miles north of ,Lake Geneva; - | i : » t Mr. Roberts Ls president of the Roberts Co., in-surance brokers.! Mrs. Roberts is.1

x active in Milwau«<i kee club circles,! Vioth left for ! Lake Geneva im-•A. J. Roberts, Jr.

mediately upon being \uformed of the accident They returned to Milwau*. kee Saturday night. — * * < * ' *' Thrown From Cycle \ ., ; ?(

$kid marks'on the pavement at1' the scene of the collision indicated^ that Roberts, had swung too far to: the outside of the highway in round-f ing a cornerT^His1 motorcycle crashed into the heavy passenger automobile driver! byt EdgarÔppenbeime^vehi^ cago, Young Roberts "Was, catapulted from hfecycle^the.pavementiJstJrik^ ing his hâd-on the concrete, j7Zjy , z>y siadent at tf. of ,W^VV^f

Roberts <#as a freshman at, the University ot.Wisconsin and a mem* ber of Chi<??si fraternity.* He was born in Milwaukee and attended the*> Milwaukee University school before entering the< university, ^ ~ZZ\ / Besides his father and mother, he is survived by * two sisters, Roberta and Joan. Ifuneral arrangements ha(fc not been completed ;saturdiy;night|

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leader, Annette Roberts, died Feb. 1 in Tucson, Ariz., from complications of age. She was 102:

She had lived in Whitefish Bay since 1929; before that, she and her husband, Allan, had had a summer home in the village.

She crusaded for peace before the peace movement was fashionable. ,,

Mrs. Roberts* father, William Jacobi, founded the German-American School, now the University School Milwaukee. V

She was one ofthe organizers ofthe Women's International League for Peace, and Freedom, and one of 38 women who witnessed the 1920 birth of the group in Washington, D.C. - >

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more acceptance as society's views changed, She was still writing letters to local and national officials when she was 100. •» ,* - &.•*•>

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Mrs. Roberts was also involved in the ' suffrage movement as well as other women's Y issues. As a married woman and a mother, she • won the right to vote. She supported birth' \ control long ago, when some of jts advocates )v 7 were forced to leave town. - r ''

She was in Tucson to spend the winter with some family members. During her stay, Mrs. Roberts became interested in the plight of that city's poor and hungry. She donated a generous s ^ amount of money to help the hungry, and went ' on a television show to discuss their plight.

Mrs. Roberts is survived by two daughters, ',. Roberta Klotsche, of Tucson, and Joan Robert-son, of Whitefish Bay. - 7 X" *'''

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Annette Roberts, a longtime Milwaukee peace activist and women's rights leader, died Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., from complications of age* She was 102.

Roberts was described by those -who knew her as a rebel, but also as a charming, dignified and gracious woman of benign and aristocratic bearing. She was a crusader for peace in the days when the peace movement was not fashionable.

Roberts was the daughter of William Jacobi, founder of the German* American School, which is now the University School of Milwaukee.

In 1920, Roberts was one of 38 women who witnessed the birth of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in Washington, D.C. She was one of the league's organizers. ; : ? *

Married at 21, just as her interest in peace was beginning, Roberts at first found little sympathy for her views from her husband, Allan, and his family. But she continued her in-terest in the peace movement throughout her life, and found more acceptance for her ideas as society's views on the subject changed. At age 100, Roberts was still writing letters to officials in Washington. Roberts was a pacifist in World War I. World War II and the Vietnam War.

She also was involved in women's issues, including the suffrage move-

* ment. Roberts won the right to vote as a married woman and mother, and supported birth control at a time when some of its advocates were forced to leave town.

Roberts worked for her beliefs to the very end of her life.

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"She was active'up to yesterday afternoon," her daughter, Roberta Klotsche, said Saturday from Tucson.;

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Roberts became interested in the , plight of that city's poor and hungry, :

her daughter said. She donated a generous sum to help the hungry and went on a television show to discuss their plight, Klotsche said.

Roberts is also survived by another daughter, Joan Robertson of Milwaukee. Mrs. Klotsche is the wife of J. Martin Klotsche, former chancellor of the University of Wisconsin — Milwaukee.

Funeral arrangements were pending.

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DEATHS J. Harold Rose Retired principal

A memorial service for J. Harold Rose, Whitefish Bay High School principal from 1945 to 1967, will be held Monday.

Rose died of heart failure Tuesday at the Bradford Terrace Convalescent Center. He was 85.

Marion Rose, who was married to Rose for 51 ]h years, said her husband ran a tight ship at the high school.

"He was vitally interested in all the graduates from Whitefish Bay High School, and he kept in touch with many of them."

Rose was born in Platteville and came to the Milwaukee area in 1933 to teach mathematics at the high school. After he served as principal, he was the district personnel director from 1967 to 1972, when he retired.

He was a member ofthe United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay and a former president and past member of the Wisconsin In-terscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control. He also was a member of Wisconsin Retired School Administrators Association.

His wife said Rose enjoyed sports, especially fishing, and often would take his immediate family on spring fishing trips to Canada.

In addition to his wife, who lives in Whitefish Bay, Rose is survived by two daughters, Nancy Stankewicz of Waukesha and Jean Hamann of Scottsdale, Ariz.

There will be no visitation. A memorial service will be at 7 p.m. Monday at United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay, 819 E. Silver Spring Drive. Rose will be cremated, and his remains buried in Platteville.

Memorials are suggested to the Whitefish Bay Public Education Foundation in care of Charles Mueller, 5265 N. Santa Monica Blvd., or to the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay.

Rose, J. Harold Born to Eternal Life May 26,1992. Age 85 years. Residence Whitefish Bay. Beloved husband of Marion C. Dear father of Nancy (Bernard) Stankewicz and Jean (Dave) Hamann. Loving grandfather of Greg, Todd and David Stankewicz; Michael and Scott Hamann. Further survived by other relatives and friends.

Mr. Rose was a former teacher and principal of Whitefish Bay High School from 1933-1972.

Memorial services Mon., June 1, 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay. Interment private Platteville, Wl. Memorials appreciated in memory of J. Harold Rose to the Whitefish Bay Public Education Foundation, c/o Charles E. Moelier, 5265 N. Santa Monica Blvd., Whitefish Bay, Wl 53217 or the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay.


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Sohns, Royal S. Of Whitefish Bay; Nov. 21, 1991; age 84 yrs. Beloved husband of Mildred (nee Schmidt). Dear father of Marjorie E. Harris, Dayton, OH. 2 grandchildren Joseph S. and Mandy C. Harris. Other relatives and friends also survive. Complete ser-

. vice 2 p.m> Sun. at the funeral home. Private interment Wisconsin Memorial Park. Friends may call noon-2 p.m. Sunday. Memorials to the , charity of your choice appreciated.

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Sohns, Geraldine S. Passed away Aug. 19, 1991 at her residence.1

She Is survived by 2 sons, Richard J. Sohns of AshevHIe, NC, Carl W. Sohns of Oak Ridge, TN, 1 sister Bernice Knem of Milwaukee. Wife of the late Carl Benjamin Sohns who died In 1984.,

. Native of Milwaukee formerly of Whitefish Bay,*' before moving to AshevHIe, NC 20 yrs. ago. She was past President of the AshevHIe Symphony Guild, active member of the AshevHIe Art Muse-» urn, vetust Study Club, Civjtan International and \ a Volunteer at St. Joseph's Hospital, AshevHIe. x

Memorial contribution may be maae to any of the above organizations. Thos. Shepherd & Son .j Funeral Directors, serving the family.

Siegel, Lois A. ^ v (nee Malmon) Nov. 19, 1991. Age 59, Of Fox * Point. Beloved wife of Martin. Dear mother oi'M Elizabeth Siegel, Shorewood; Robert Siegel, W Brown Deer; and William (Lauren) Siegel of ; Whitefish Bay. Fond sister of Diane (Bud) -Schwartzbach of Glenco, IL and the late Arthur Malmon. Loving grandmother of Adam Church, Andrew Siegel and Alexander Foshaoer. Also survived by nieces and nephews. Private services and entombment Thurs, at Spring Hill Cenv Y etery. Not in state. Memorial contributions to the Milwaukee Alliance for the Mentally III or the American Cancer Society appreciated.

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Mn. Strickler for 40 years,

MrS. Roy Strickler •Of; 4841 N. «G u m berland blvd., Whitefish B ay, aged 71. Of h e a r t att a c k Wednesday in h e r home." Chairman of the Whitefish Bay election board f rom 1948 to 1963 and active in civic affairs

Former president of the Whitefish Bay Woman's club, an organizer and past president of the Whitefish Bay high school parent-teacher as-socation and the high school bank mothers club. *,

Survivors include her husband and a daughter, Mrs. Howard Martin, Beloit

Services 8 p.m. Sunday, Fass funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland a v., Shorewood. In state after 2 p.m. Sunday. Private burial services Monday at Rose Hill cemetery, Chicago. >\ Schwarz, Charles ~ * I

*.' 5eP" 2?r 1993, age 93 years. Of Whitefish gay.! Beloved husband of Gertrude (nee Neumann), Further survived by nieces, nephews, other raia-» tives and friends. - , Visitation Thurs. Dec. 30 at DIVINITY D I V CHARITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, 900 E K Clay from 10 a.m. until time of the corr funeral services at 11 a.m. Private interment

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John Schindhelm

Funeral services for John* Schindhelm, 83, who was bornJ and brought up on a farm which,"

included the property on which IWhitefish Bay High and Henry iciay Grade schools now stand, (were held Wednesday afternoon from Heiden & Lange Funeral home with burial in the Town of Milwaukee; Union cemetery. He died Sundays

He was a director of the Green Tree school for 50 years and a member of the Old Settlers club. Until seven years ago he operated a barber shop and a piano and sewing machine shop near his home on the Port Washington road. jj_tf (f"% !

Mrs, Louise Schinleber A resident of the village off

Whitefish Bay for the past 72; years, Mrs. Lroulse Schinleber, 80,! died at the home of her daughter,)

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She*is survived by a daughter^ Mrs; B. S. Willman; two, sons; Walter Rhodes, Harland/Iowa, and Oris'Rhodes, Wichita, K&n.J and one brother, Walter Arnolds! Chicago, 111. ' . '/M

Funeral services were held in i Northbrook, 111., at 2 p. m. Tues-1 day, Jan. 20, with burial in North-4 field cemetery, Northbrook, 111.1 The Fred C. Fass and Son Co;* were in charge.

Amanda Schleif Dies at 75; -ZA'h Services Friday ;i

Memorial services for! Mrs J Amanda Schleif, 75, resident of. the Bay the past 2.7 years who! died Tuesday at Margo hos-j

(pital will be held at 4 p.m*] .Friday in Plymouth Congre- \ Rational church* She,lived a t l 4850 N, Oakland ave. <r -; Friends are requested not t<? J êridHower^since Mrs^&chleid êxpressed a wish that money be donated instead to the White-

' fish Bay Women's club and the .Volunteers of America: Day .Nursery* :A -^ , .- .« ' Active until recently in both organizations, Mrs Schleif was last six weeks. On her last, confined to the hospital the» birthday, (Dec. 2, she was hon-1 ored at a birthday party by! friends. |

One of the Bay's oldest residents, she organized the first Bay directory, the first Parent and Teacher association of the community, and helped to bring mail service to the village. She also began the Eastern Star Silver Spring

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finance department, winning a citation on the third war loan, and a certificate of membership in the Ûnited |States Serve ice corps. A ( '..• , ^ jr

Home Campaigner < Another honor came to her when President'Herbert Hoover appointed her to the Better Homes campaign. She was instrumental in promoting building of the home at 1520 & Hampton rd. f One of the biggest t events In Mrs; Schleif^ fa i r life was

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vyzz^X?^ . Motion ; requeuing ;JVillage; Cornniissioner to n^gotfete/ôyl winning first place in '193&%if the Herald Travel- Club-contgatf This took^her on; a ? oruisef t o | the Carribean/ :Â: V„ / ' ^ P l

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whose husband Dr. E.', Schleif $ died in 1932, include: honorary? life membership in PTA J and $ (the Bay. Woman's v club;* of j which she was-past,president;! She . was also a - member '/oft the Sev^n Arts society, ; and | on the board of the Volunteers! of America Day :$furseryi >

|- Suryiving her ; a re ; three phil^ dren; Mrs. Angel9 A Hoffmann, | 4850 N. Oakland ave.;rGeorgrJ iana Schleif, Waukesha; Llewelf^ lyn-of the United States Navy^4

Washington, D. C«, and a grandson, David, student at the University of Michigan. Both, her J son and grandson will be home | for the funeral.

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pioneer resident' of Whitefi&h Bay, who was a child when Indian scares drove her parents to seek the safety of the village of Milwaukee, died early Monday at her . horned 6055 -N. Berkeley blvd., Whitefish Bay, after a short illness* * .

Mrs. Scheife was, tjo.rn in a house of logs on a farm in Whitefish Bay on what is now t Silver Spring dr., about 100 feet east of N. Lake dr. On Sept 3,. 1862,, she and three sisters were playing the yard of their home when two men on horseback gallop- f ed up crying that ''the Indians are coming/' Hastily a few clothes were tied in, sm$U bundles, her mother and a 3 day old , baby brother were put into a bed in the back of a wagon and the family set off for the home of an aunt in Milwaukee.

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The Whitefish' Bay village bWd at its regular meeting Monday passed a resolution4 of condolence to the r l&* tives of William Staffeld, 60, employee of the village for 37 years, whd^Bitt; of a heart attack Sunday at his hdtne 921 E. Lexington boulevard, 4$fk

Mr. Staffeld had lived in Whitefisn Bay since he moved with his parents to a farm there, from Milwaukee, when he was/ 12 years old. During his youth he and his brother, Frederick,; worked at the Whitefish Bay park re-: sort.. He was appointed marshal of Whitefish Bay; in 1897, and street commissioner in 1907. In recent years he had been foreman of the street workers. 7 President Frank Klode spoke for a few moments at the board meeting,

Upraising Mr. Staffeld's constant interest in the welfare of the village and his faithfulness as an employee.

Services were held Wednesday at I the Dobratz funeral home, 3514 N.j Port Washington road, and at the Pentecostal Lutheran church, White-fish Bay. Burial was in Union ceme--tery. •> —• i Z

Mir. Staffeld's wife died two years ago. Surviving him are two daughters, Vera and Margaret; a sister, Fredas icka, and a brother, Frederick, all of Milwaukee.

Bay Incorporator Dies at Age 91 j ; ' Funeral services for Lewis F. Scheife, 91, postmaster of White-fish Bay from 1890 to 1900* whp died New Year's day, will bejheld Friday at 1:30 p. m. at the Dobrats funeral "\ home/ N. Port Washington ave. * Burial will be in .Union cemetery, ; ,^/Mr, Scheife had been in popr health for some time. His home ;was at 5055 N, Berkeley blvd. •He was one of the original incorporators of the Village of

J Whitefish Bay, coming to this country from Germany with his parents as an infant. His parents settled on a farm in the area Jhat is now.Whitefish Bay. ,

For many years, Mr. Scheife operated a fishing business in tthe village. At the time he was post-master, he also operated a grocery store. From 1900 to 1920 he ran a hardware store on the Silver Spring rd.

Besides his ten year term as post-master, Mr. Scheife served several terms as village treasurer and was also on the board of trustees. He was a member of the Odd Fellows. i His survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Olive Lowry, Portland, Dre., and two sons, Waldo, Downey, 111., and Alvin.

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y> FuneralServices for MrsV Margaret Staffeld^62,iwife of * William Staffeld)/ .921 E. Lexington boulevard,,were held Monday at the Pentecostal Lutheran church on Henry Clay street. Interment was at Union cemetery. Besides her husband, two daughters survive.

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Services for Robert W. Swain, a retired Shorewood banker and community volunteer, will be held Tuesday. < , - ' : * . ^ T / ' ' ••< ..;•"-

Swain died of heart failure Saturday at Park Manor Nursing Home in Milwaukee, where he had moved several months ago from his home '-* Shorewood. He was 81,

A Milwaukee native, Swain liveu for many years In Shorewood, where he was an officer with North Shore State7 Bank, now First Interstate Bank. He served as president and treasurer of the Shorewood Men's Club and as treasurer of' Shorewood Players. He also was active in Ken* wood.United Methodist Church, served as a scoutmaster with a Boy Scout troop and was a member of McKinley Lodge No. 307, F&AMi

In 1970, he was named Shore-wood's Man of the Year by; the Shorewood Men's Club for his civic work.' *''•'; '.' < ^v^-'V'^^" I

"His interest was hi serving peo-; pie," said one of his sons, Robert] Swain Jn of Appleton. v > ; }z j

Other survivors include his wife j Elizabeth, and another son, Richard/ of Princeton, N J. *. / *f

A memorial service is scheduled for 1 p.nvTuesday at Kenwood Unit* ed Methodist Church, 2319 E, Kenwood Blvd; "*1 -^"vv,; M Zh<,^z -

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m.? Monday at the Fass Funeral Home,i 3601 N. Oakland Ave., and from] noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday at the church I

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Funeral Services Were Held Tuesday;, Was Lithographer for Ten Years

* Funeral services for Carl Schober, \ 78, 1034 E. Meadow place, were held 1 Tuesday at the Dobrata funeral home, 3514 N. Port Washington avenue, burial was in Evergreen cemetery. He died Friday at St. Mary's hospital.

Up to his retirement 10 years ago, Mr. Schober had been a lithographer for 50 years and was one of the or-, ganizers of the Lithographers' union, I local No. 7. A native of. Austria, he came here 5 years ago.

He is survived by his widow, Mary; three children, Willa Hoppenrath, Joseph Ramey and Gallus Schober, and seven grandchildren and two greatgrandchildren. I^CUA** +/*>/f//f37&

Steffen; William F. * Sept. 28,1985. At the Lutheran Home for the Aging, toe At the age of 91 yrs. Beloved father,of Dorothy ' ( the tote Gtew) Ltodemann and Wfflam W. (Marilyn) Steffen, i grandchlK dren, 7 great grandchildren, Brother of Gertrvd Sampe, sis-ters4Maw, brothers-in-law, nieces, nephews, other relatives

' and friends. Funeral services i Wed. eve., Oct. 2 at 6:45 pm at i the LuMm Home for the Ag-I tog, Inc., 7500 W. North Ave. In* | ferment Graceland. to state 1 from 4 pm Wed. until time of 1 services. Member of Gospel i Lutheran Church. Memorials to \ the Church or the Lutheran { Home appreciated.' *•>" , HARDER FUNERAL HOME

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. Funeral services for Grandma Schober (nee Isenering), 92, member of an early pip neer family, were held Mon day afternoon. Nov. 30, at the Dobratz Funeral home, 3514 N. Port Washington rd. with] the Rev. EL R. Blackewell, pastor of Divinity Evangelical Lutheran church officiating. Mrs. Schober died Friday.

Grandma Schober's mother came to America with her brother and his f a m i l y of seven children. They left a beautiful home in Holland to come to live in wilderness) and in a log cabin and to help expand new frontiers. It was in a log cabin at the foot of Day ave. that Grandma Schober was born Mary Isenring. Her mother had married Gal-| las Isenring, w h o s e familyj was also among the pioneers. Her brother, Fred, operated; the Whitefish Bay resort.

For most of her life Mrs. Schober lived in the North Shore. But she also lived for]

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short times in Chicago and Milwaukee. Much of her mar-Iried life she lived in the Schober home on N. Kimbark pi. Her husband, Carl Schober, died more than 15 years ago. He had been one of the oldest lithographers in the country.

Her nephew, Wynand G. Isenring w a s treasurer of Whitefish Bay for 18 years. He died more than ten years |ago.

Mrs. Schober was born Oct. 26, 1854, as third oldest child in the family* More than a I dozen years ago, she went to live with one of her daughters, Mrs. William Hoppenrath, 1021 E. Henry Clay st. She lived there until nine months ago when she went to live with another daughter, |Mrs. Walter C. Mann, 5112 N. Elkhart ave. She is also survived by two sons?, Gallus i Schober and LeRoy Schober, a daughter-in-law, two sons-in-law, six grand-children, 9 great grandchildren and other relatives and friends. One son died during the. 1918 flu epi-'demic. She was a member of Divinitjy* Evangelical Luther-|an church.

She was active almost to the end of her life. Two years [ago! she baked her own birthday cake .and had a merry time with friends who came to call that day. She also con j tinned with her hobby of Jcrocheting almost to the end.. She never used glasses. Not] even to read and she was an ardent reader. To help what if ailing eyesight she had, she used a magnifying glass.

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,' In good health before fracturing her left leg in a fall at her home Noyi ,13, Mrs. Amalia Schroeder, widow of Christian Schroeder, founder of the Chris Schroeder and Son company, died Monday at St. Joseph's hospital. She had celebrated her ninetieth birthday in August at the home of her son, Walter, well known hotel head and now president.-of the Chris Schroeder company at Lac Vieux Des? ert in northern Wisconsin.

Born in Germany, Mrs. Schroeder ha d been a resident here for 84 years. She had been living with a daughter, Mrs. Harry J. Heeb, 6180 N7 Lake drive. For over 70 years, she was a member of the iGrace Lutheran church.;.. ,

Besides her son, Walter, and daughter, Mrs. Heeb, she is, survived by another daughter, Miss Ella Schroe^ der; another son, Edward, president of the Edward Schroeder Realty and* Loan company; two grandchildren* Mrs. Edna Sehiek and Mrs.-August P. Mack jr., .and three great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at the Fass chapel, 3()0.1 N. Oakland avenue, the Rev. William Sauer, pastor of the Grace Dutheran church officiating. Burial was in Forest Home cemetery.

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j Albert F. Steffon, 71, a lifelong I resident of Milwaukee county, died last Saturday at hi3 home, 531 E. Day ave., Whitefish Bay, He was a retired Chicago and North Western road sectlor worker. Surviving are his wife, Bertha,' nee Klein* hammer; a son, Alvin; a daughter; Mrs, Mkhel Thomson;' three brothers, August, Frank and Hen-ryyVand; a sister, Mrs.- Louisa Voeks. Fuftoral rite* were held'at 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Dobratz

\ehapel, 3514 N. Port Washington rd., with burial in the town of Mlb waukee Union cemetery.

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years. Preceded In death by his wife Gertrude. Beloved father of Dr. Robert (Marcia) Schroeder.

, Dear grandfather of Dawn Marie. Dear brother of William, Lester (Eileen) and Curtis Schroeder. Further survived oy nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Funeral services Tues. Aug. 15

• " -«.»ir-p»A« Uf\k»c Informant at 10 a.m. at the FUNERAL HOME. Interment Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call Mon. 4-8 p.m. Mr. Schroeder was a member of North Shore Congregational Church.

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[Sonntag, Harvey E. y June 11, 1983, aged SO years. 7 Residence Manitowoc/ WI.V fi Formerly of Whitefish Bay. ' Husband of the late Anna M. " Father of Mrs. Lois (Robert) ;; y Kovacfc Brother of Mrs. Olvo | (Harry) Lelker, Alvin (Marie) f * and Norman (Hazel) Sonntag. . v Grandfather of James (Pame

la) and Robert Kovach Jr. Fur-7' ther survived by 2 great-grand*

children. Complete services at the funeral Home Mon. 7 P.M.

. Private Interment Wisconsin • Memorial ParK. Retired White- ,

fish Bay police officer. IN STATE MON. 4 PM. •

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Whitefish Btfj^Womah* ^Die« ; .A^Sh^ l l i |K A Mrs* Amelia Schroeder jSchuck for. many years an active member of the First Church of Christ, Scientist/ser-^ n"g as a reader there, died on Monday at her home, 524 E. Day avenue, Whitefish Bay. She had been ill less than a week. She was born in Mil* waukee. Because of her great love Cor children, Mrs7 Schuck was particularly interested Jin the church Sunday school. *A :ZAZ ; ^ v ; ^ ^ ' \. She is survivedby" her husband, John B. Schuckr t c« sisters/vMrs. roseph B. Schuck; Jand Miss Toiga Schroeder, and two brothers, 'X the tlev* George W» Schroeder, vicar; ot St Paul's Mission house and-rSocial Commons, and > Harry ;A;:; Schroederr J Funeral services were* held/from ihe Phillip JVWe4ss; funeral rooms, Sf.< Far well avehue' and , B.V Kane; place, at 10:00 o'clockvthis^Thurs^ Jay morning. Interment • was]in thel family lot at Forest Hill qemetery^M

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. Mrs. Mary Jane Consual Scheifo, 81, a pioneer resident of White-fish Bay;4who was a child when Indian scares drove her parents to seek the safety of the village of Milwaukee, died early Monday at her home, 5055 N, Berkeley blvd., Whitefish Bay, after a short illness, \

Mrs. Scheife' was born i n / a house of logs on a farm in White-fish Bay on what is now Silver Spring dr., about 100 feet east of N. Lake dr. On Sept. 3, 1?62, she and three sisters were playing in the yard of ^their home when two men o»n horseback galloped up crying that "the Indians are coming." Hastily a few clothes were tied in small bundles, her mother and a 3 day old baby brother were put into a bed in the back of a

; wagon, and the family set off for the home of an aunt in Milwaukee.' V ^ -; 7 .. .' \..,. ; The old Lake rd,* now N. Lake dr., was then a narrow traU through the woods, with only a few log houses between Silver! Spring dr. ^nd the middle of Lake park, where there was a largo •house and a picnic ground popular >with Milwaukeeans: § The Indian scare only lasted rtwo days.; Then the Indians, who had been camped near Qedarburg, started^fbf Green Bay and tho Consual family returned home. Mrs. Scheife also used to recall feeing Union /soldiers marching through the streets of Milwaukee on their way to flflght in the Civil war. r - ,;. '•' ** ' : < * . In September, 1936; she celebrated her golden wedding anniversary with her husband^ Lewis F. Scheife, who survives her. Al£0 surviving are two1 sons, Alvin and

j Waldo Scheife, and a daughter, [Mrs; yOJiye Packard, all of Mil-

Stumpf, Charles J. , Born to Eternal Life Nov. 0,

1988. Age 91 years. Residence Milwaukee Catholic Home. Formerly of Whitefish Bay. Husband of the late Bernice (nee vebber). Father of Joan (Rob-

. ert) Zimmerman and the late John Thomas Sfumpf. Father" Waw of Anne Stumpf, brother of John Stumpf, brothertn-tow of Ruth, Elizabeth, and Lulsa Vebber. Grandfather of Frank, Daniel, Lillian, and Bernice Stumpf and Patricia Zimmerman. Further survived by great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives and

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Chart* was a former owner of The Stumpf dothJng store In Milwaukee.

Mass of Christian Burial Frl., 10 am. at The Milwaukee Catholic Home, 2462 N. Prospect Ave. Visitation at The Catholic Home, Fit from 9 a m t» time of mass. Interment Holy Cross Cemetery. Memorials may be made to The Milwaukee Catholic Home or the charity of your choice.


waukee; a, brother, Frank Consual of Me<iubn, ,and a sister, ,Mr&; Henry Marsh, Milwaukee. : z \Funeral "services, will be/held

at 1:30 p. in., Thursday at th0 Dobrata eh&pel, 3514 N.i Port Washington ave,, with burial in the town ; of } Milwaukee Unioii cemeteryv - •• T A AA: -,; r r ' l 7

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He'is survived by-a daughter, Carol Schramm;.,; a sister, Florence Schramm, all of Whitefish Bayi. two brothers-in-law, Clarence Schroeder, of Whitefish Bay and Raymond Westfahl, of Glen* dale; one nephew. Tom (Mary) Schramm: four nieces, Lois (James) Deligatti, Susan (Wallace) Schneider. Marilyn (Thomas) Hauber, and Jean (Warren) Cole. : Mr. Srhramm waa retired from Janson, Con- :\

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Whitefish Bay Pioneer Was a Postmaster, Village Official Lewis F. Scheife, one of the origi

nal incorporators of the village of Whitefish Bay and active in the af

fairs of the village for many y e a r s , d i e d Tuesday. He was 91. Mr. Scheife had suffered a long illness. Hisr home w a s a t 5055 N. Berkeley Mvd* Whitefish

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ifishBay. He operated a fish-iti£ business under his name there fat many years. He was postmaster of Whitefish Bay from 1890 to 1900. He operated the postpffice in combination with a grocery store under his name. From 1900 to 1920 he ran, a hardware store, also under hisj name, on the Silver Spring rd. im Whitefish Bay.

He served several terms ajs treasurer of the village. He was also on the board of trustees of White-fish Bay for several years. He was a member of the Odd Fellows.

Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Olive Lowry, Portland, Ore., and two sons, Waldo, Downey, 111., and Alvin.

Services will be at 1:30 p. m. Friday at the Dobratz funeral home, 3514 N. Port Washington av., with burial at Union cemetery.

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struction, Milwaukee, where he had been vice president. Previously, he worked for First Construction, also of Milwaukee. - " . . * • v i ^

He belonged to Luther Memorial Chapel; and was an elder and trustee there for many years,

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In lieu of flowers, memorials are suggested to Luther Memorial Chapel, Shorewood. ;

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great-grandson, other relatives and friends. Memorial service time to be given later. Memorials to the Bradley Convalescent Center appreciated/

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Stegeman, Former Bay Trustee, Dies

Funeral Services Were Held Monday Afternoon at Fass

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man, 55, a pioneer builder of automobile trucks and once head of a motor truck manufacturing Arm bearing his name, were held Monday at the Fass funeral home, 3601 N<

j Oakland avenue, under Odd Fellow auspices. Burial was in Union cemetery where the Spanish war veterans held military rites. ^

Mr. Stegeman, who residues, at 875 B. Lake Forest avenue, died Friday at Mercy hospital Rafter an illness of about five years. '\

He was the president of the Stegeman Motor Car company from the time he was fa young man until the World war. Fifteen years after its founding the manufacturing company was dissolved and he turned to selling automobiles. He w&s also sales manager of the Taylor Manufacturing company before he retired in 1933.

Mr. Stegeman was president of t t^ Whitefish Bay school board from 1919 to 1929 and was also a village trustee for several terms. He was grand representative of the sovereign grand lodge of the Independent OrJ

derof t)dd Fellows and past grand master for Wisconsin, and was a member of tne Hugh McGrath camp' of the Spanish war veterans. In the? Spanish war he served in the third^ United States cavalry. ;•! :' He was a native of Germany rind „ .came to America with his parents, when he was an infant. He! is sur~ vived by his wife, Helene;> daugh* ter, Elinor e; W son,/Richard ,A., and* his mother* ft£re.l Otto Grossbuesch> all of Milwaukee.?-: v< ,-<•' ""• "•rf

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Seiigmann, Ruth E. Dec. 29,1989. Age 86 years. Lifelong resident of Whitefish Bay. Wife of the late Bernhard Selig-mann. Mother of William A. (Joyce) Seiigmann and Claire S. (Robert) Pfleger. Grandmother of William R. Seiigmann, Michel Sue (Bradley) Mitchell, Susan Pfleger and Bruce Pfleger. Great-grandmother of Graham Geren. Memorial services Sun. 2pm at the funeral home. No visitation. Interment private. Memorials appreci- ; ated to the charity of your choice. I

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: pressive solemnity* Wednesda^^^! ; noon. Services were conducted;^ the Becker funeral home and Hnter l ment took place at the Valhalla cen#

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! The cortege was headed by 6neV , of the village fire engines, wljich waslf ; literally covered with beautiful flori'^ ôfferings. Six of the lateWeaian'i mates, Fred Bauneier, irvin^HeT'

. U?airlugton Palmer, William S ^ p | rath, George KronanichV^ndcoMH

• Kugelman, bore thercasket,* •**&"#' '""'" ^ trested the fireman's helmetiôyea {y*ith flowers, to its Ijast resting!^

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' Z T h e f u n ^ ' p r p c e s s i o n ^ ^ f $ V 6 ^ jsir blocks in length/ many !&&%$ prominent village residents ank; firef officials being present All ^ c i & f at the village hal l> ere suspended Wednesday afternoon, enabling %f# lage employees to, attend theiunferali Seeman, before; assuming hia^duiiel in the Bay; ha$ ! seen twenty^ years of service<ii: Mi lwauW # A J

[had many friends in ihe citfa ;as in WhitefistiVBay;^^'7""" ;, The/sudden passing ot'Junu^ms iman, who, at the.time of his/4atii vwas acting firei chief in (thâb1ii| lot Chief ttenryjAieii, whd wift^Ms ton his.vacatlon, w as/a dist inct ion I to the whole community;?f|genrki j Wright, chairman!of, the policVAn^l - Are committee, who approvedîliff hiring of Seeman -three yearsîgopi said, "I think that Seeman ' w ^ o h e l of the finest men ever employed4 "by?*1

the village. When he was hired, his % experience made him invaluable^ in; :i # teaching the younger firemen, aftot he | ?

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Herbert W. Tullgren, who designed the grade and •'high I schools in Whitefish Bay, died [ Tuesday at Columbia hospital at the age of 54. V

Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Friday at the Scottish Rite Cathedral under the direction of Kenwood Masonic lodge. Burial will be in Prescott, Ariz.... v Y

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OBITUARY Herman A. Uihlein

Herman A. Uihlein, 55, of 5270 N. Lake dr., Whitefish Bay, an executive of the Ben Hur "Manufacturing Co., prominent as a real estate dealer and a patron of music and the arts,, died Friday at San Antonio, Tex.

Death was caused by a cerebral hemorrhage, according to word received by the family Friday night. He had left Milwaukee a

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He was & member of trie family, pioneer settlers of Milwaukee, who have been connected with' the brewing Companies here for yeafs. At one time he was.a director of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co., in which he still had an interest at the time of his death. He was, also connected with a real estate firm and a manufacturing enterprise at Fond du L»ac.

Mr. Uihlein was born here, the son of Henry and Helene Uihlein. He was a graduate of Cornell university in mechanical engineering, and then studied law for two years at the Columbia university, law school. He had • always displayed an intense interest in mu1-sic, and his. generosity was credited with making possible the Milwaukee Philharmonic orchestra.

He had been a member of the Chi Psi college fraternity; the Wisconsin club; the Milwaukee Athletic club; the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of American Automobile Engineers.

Surviving are his wife, Claudia; j seven children, Helen, Herman A. jr., Mrs. Robert Cunningham of j Bozeman, Mont., Mrs. George; Ceasar of Ft. Sill, Okla., Mrs. 'Uf Middleton Black of Tuckahoe, N.j Y., John Holt Uihlein and Helens Holt Uihlein; a brother, * George. Uihlein, and two sisters, Mrs.j Charles E. Albright and Mrs. Wal-j demar' Kopmeier.

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Mrs. Volkmann! T J)ies at Home Wife of Village Clerk of | Whitefish Bay Dies at | Home Tuesday vv

Funeral services for Mrs. Zeila Volkmann, who died at her home, 4611 N. Bartlett avenue, early Tuesday, were conducted this afternoon at 2 p. m. from Fass funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland avenue. Burial was in Wisconsin Memorial Park cemetery. She was 59 years old. \ Mrs. Volkmann, the wife of William H, Volkmann, village clerk of Whitefish Bay, was a resident of Milwaukee for 36 years, 27 of which were spent in Whitefish Bay. She was born at Boscobel, Wis. ; ;;Survivors are, besides her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Harriet |M. Hagerty and Drusllla Volkmann; (a son, William H.; her mother, Mrs. John F. Sanger, Wauzeka, Wis.;

two brothers,' Adolph and Henry; and three sisters, Mrs. Mathilda Fowler of Gary, InoV, Mrs. Edna Willis of Rhame, N. D„ and Mrs. Winifred Dl Vail of Mlddleton, Wis.

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£"• William H, Voikman Served Village for , 30 Years

William H. Volkmann, 76, who had been Whitefish Bay's village clerk for 30 years, retiring in, 1946, died Monday at Veterans hospital, i/Wood, Wis.

\ He had been ill $ for several \ years. •

Funeral services were held v Wednesday evening by the

Hugh McGrath camp, Spanish } American War Veterans at

Fred C. Fass & Son Co. funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland ave., and the following day under

7 masonic . auspices.v -by..:.„ Silver I Spring lodge. Interment was^ in I Wisconsin Memorial park.

Until his retirement,' Volkmann had come to he an in-

' stitutlon in the village. Retiring at 72/ he served as jclerk under

t eight.'" presidents: \ Frank C. Klode, Dr. A. J. Richter, H. A.

: Uihlein, Edward L. Tracy, Har-\ old Knoernschild and Dr. Frank '- E. • Drew. Klode /served as ;.. president from 1914r1918 and \ again from 1924-1934.

It was on a single- vote that Volkmann became the village's part-time clerk when the popu-

\ lation was but slightly more than 500 and the tax rate, $10.56. He secured ' 83 votes,

\ his opponent 82. Watched Bay Grow

During 30 years behind the clerk's desk he watched White-fish Bay grow to a population df about 11,000, almost 20 times the 1910 census. Its tax rate tripled and the year before his retirement the rate was fixed at $32.19—including schools.

An old newspaperman, facts and figures were always grist to his mill and kept the crow's feet of advancing years from leaving their mark upon his genial face. Born In Watertown,

; Wis., in 1873, he came to Milwaukee in 1891 to become a

{ printer with the Milwaukee I Journal, then located on Mason I st., opposite the old Sentinel • building. He moved with the

Journal to the Montgomery '7 building, Michigan and Mil-z waukee sts.

J*/ Lived Here Since 1915 f :He'left off riewspapering to I i enter: job printing "with the* •'' . . yS.; E. Tate Printing Co., re-I maining with this firm until S Dec. 31, 1925. Even though no f longer a printer, he retained £ his membership in the Milwau-| kee Typographical union, being ! a member for almost 60 years. | Ten years previously he had*vm*-^_r, mfH | moyecV to his^ own home at! 4611 N. B a r t l e t t ^ v ^ H e l w a s | ^Vpart time clerk from .1910, tot 1925."'; . ; ,y :Ai>yZZA^ZAA07Z^

I^'"His private life included mar> triage to Zella Sanger of Wau-zeka, Wis. They were married Dec. 31, 1899 in the parsonage

< of the Methodist church, which stood where the Schroeder hotel now rises skyward. Mrs.

i Volkmann died Sept. 3, 1935. jj..Of this marriage there ; were; I two • daughters and a Ison: Mrs. '•'• Harriet M. Hagerty, 105 E. i Green Tree rd., Mrs. Drusilla

Morgan, Shawano, Wis., and y. William K. Volkmann, Sans

Jose, Calif, He is also survived by two sisters, Mrs, Dora Jeschke and Miss Hilda 'Volkmann, Madison, Wis. ;_.Z

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mann was long active in masonic work. He was a past master of Silver Spring Lodge 337, F. & A.M., a member of the Wisconsin Consistory and Tripoli temple, a veteran of the Spanish American War, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Modern Woodmen of America and the Whitefish Bay "Meet Your. Neighbor" club.

In announcing his decision to retire four years ago, Volk-~m¥rin * wf 6£e * tfie" V&fage^lroard as follows: * . "It is with feelings of profound regret that I sever these ties, which to me throughout the years have at all times been most pleasant. I feel that in living up to the letter of the law set forth under the Wisconsin Municipal * Retirement Act, I can act no different. However, I wish to thank each and every one of you for making it possible, as an elected offical, to participate in the benefits to be derived from the Wisconsin Municipal Retirement fund."

Under Pension Plan The village board put the

village clerk and treasurer under the retirement fund along with other village employes Jan. ; 1, 1945. His retirement pay was about $110. His pay had been $250. . The village board had unanimously voted

j to certify him for office, despite his , age, should he decide to seek re-election. He was deeply appreciative of this. . Â~J >AZZ ^'-AÂ'x.:^ ,. A • •' k •••••'."•' •'••••••'* w

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William H. Volkmann, 76, who had been Whitefish Bay's village clerk for 30 years, retiring in, 1946, ^ed Monday at Veterans hospital, <Wood, Wis.

•1; He had been ill : for several .' years. ,*

Funeral services were held ; Wednesday evening by the

Hugh McGrath camp, Spanish ? American War Veterans at

Fred C. Fass & Son Co. funeral , home, 3601 N." Oakland ave., ?

and the following day. under '7 masonic... auspices.... .by. - Silver »• Spring lodge. Interment was. in \ Wisconsin Memorial park. v

«"•• Until his retirement,' Volk-' mann had come to be an In-" stitutlon in the village. Retiring

at 72, he served as clerk under '• eight; presidents: \ Frank 0.

Klode, Dr. A. J. Richter, H. A. Tihlein, Edward L. Tracy, Har

old Knoernschild and Dr. Frank I E. Drew. Klode served as

president from 1914r1918 and : again from 1924-1934. * It was on a single vote that

Volkmann became the village's part-time clerk when the popu-lation was but slightly more than 500 and the tax rate, $10.56. He secured 83 votes, his opponent 82. •

Watched Bay Grow . During 30 years behind the

clerk's desk he watched White-fish Bay grow to a population Of about 11,000, almost 20 times the 1910 census. Its tax rate tripled and the year before his retirement the rate was fixed at $32.19—including schools.

An old newspaperman, facts and figures were always grist to his mill and kept the crow's feet of advancing years from leaving their mark upon his

.genial face. Born in Watertown, • Wis., in 1873, he came to Mil

waukee in 1891 to become a • printer with the Milwaukee f Journal, then located on Mason 1 *t, opposite the old Sentinel

/ raiding. He moved with the ^ j o u r n a l to the Montgomery

> building, Michigan and MU-z waukee sts.

f ^ He 'left off newspaperlng to Center1 job printing "with the "i'S. E. Tate Printing Co., res' maining with this firm until i Dec.'31, 1925. Even though no I longer a printer, he retained J his membership in the Milwau-5 kee Typographical union, being i a member for almost 60 years. i •'• Ten years previously he h a d r v v m r - c ^ ^ v ^ r — ^ ^ imoved V h i s own home at 4611 ,N. Bartlett w # ^ M - -^part-time clerk from 1910. toi 1925. - v ^ r ^ r ' ^ ^ f^'His" private life Included mar> iriage to Zella Sanger of Wau-

zeka, Wis. They were married Dec. 31, 1899 in the parsonage

,of the Methodist church, which stood where the Schroeder hotel now rises skyward. Mrs.

. Volkmann died Sept. 3, , 1935. I Of this marriage . there were f two daughters and a feon: Mrs. ' Harriet M. Hagerty, 105 E. C Green Tree rd., Mrs. Drusilla

Morgan, Shawano, Wis., and' : v William K. Volkmann, San i A y t . 4 . 4 1 . * * » «

'Jose,' Calif. He is also survived | by two sisters,1 Mrs, Dora Jeschke and Miss Hilda 'Volkmann, Madison, Wis. .••;

yyA- 'Past Master •""" ' A 32nd degree mason, Volk

mann was long active in masonic work. He was a past mas-1 ter of Silver Spring Lodge 337, F. & A.M., a member of the Wisconsin Consistory and Tripoli temple a veteran^ of the Spanish American War, Fraternal Order of Eagles, Modern'Woodmen .of America and the Whitefish Bay "Meet Your. Neighbor" club. ;

In announcing his decision to retire four years ago^Volk-mariri" w? ofe * tfie^vfllageboard j as follows: ' "It is with feelings of profound regret that I sever these ties, which to me throughout the years have at all times been most pleasant. I feel that in living up to the letter of the law set forth under the Wisconsin Municipal* Retirement Act, I can act no different. However, I wish to thank each and every one of you for making it possible, as an elected offical, to participate in the benefits to be derived from the Wisconsin Municipal Retirement fund.

Under Pension Plan The village board put the

village clerk and treasurer under the retirement fund along with other village employes J a n . ; l , 1945. His retirement pay was about $110. His pay Sad been $ 2 5 0 , The-village I board had unanimously voted to certify him for office, despite his , age, should he decide to seek re-election. He was deeply 'appreciative of this. •. •„, ; : ;. >; h ^ ^ ^ A ^ - v i ^ " ^ . ^ »./•' •••• •••••' '•

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Sylvester A. Yost / f M . Sylvester A. aLesw Yost, 86, died July 19 children; and two sisters, Sister Rosemary

at home, after a lingering illness. OSB of St. Cloud, Minn., and Frances Yost had lived in Whitefish Bay for more (Michael) Stutz of Prescott, Ariz,

than 50 years. A Mass of Christian Burial was cele-His wife, Verna R. (Pahl nee Lilley) said brated July 22 at St. Monica's Church,

he was a gentle man. Interment was in Holy Cross Cemetery. In addition to his wife, he is survived by Schmidt & Bartelt-Heiden & Lange

two sons, Roger (Joan) of Whitefish Bay Funeral Home handled arrangements, and David (Elizabeth) of Westerville, Ohio; 13 grandchildren; 12 great-grand-

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[Whitefish Bay Lieut. I Listed Dead by Navy IY:'.-'V , • ''A-''_ i Reported missing in action on Aug. 23, 1942, Lieut, (j.g.) Justin L. Wolff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Wolf, 4819 N. Cumberland blvd , has now been listed as dead by the navy department.

Lieut. Wolff was communications officer . of the destroyer U.S.S. Ingraham which sank when it was rammed by a tanker during a heavy fog. The destroyer had been ordered to the aid ot. a distressed merchant ship.

Lieut. * Wolff >{was born in( Whitefish Bay, Feb. 17, 1920,| and was graduated from the lo-^ cal high school in 1937. He had

completed two years of pre-medical work at the University of Wisconsin when he enlisted for naval reserve training at Northwestern university* He was married April, 1942, to Annette Helen Vogel, daughter of the AU bert Vogels, 3160 N. 52nd st.; who now lives in Sail Diego/, Calif. -•> - >\r_ ^ : .--; *

Besides his wife and parents," he is survived by a brother; Richard E., of Seattle, Wash., and two sisters, Mrs. Beety Bau-man, West Bend, and Mrs. Robert Dew, Cleveland, Ohio. • -

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George L* Weber 5 ; George L Weber\ 65, for -40

(jears a resident of Milwaukee county, died Sunday at his home, 828 E. Glen avenue Funeral services were held Tuesday at the Fass chapel, 3601 N. Oakland ave; nue, He1 was a pioneer of White^ fish Bay, havng, lived there for 26. years, , r , y t, .. , ,. *

Mr Weber was'an interior dec-'{ orator and painter and wks a member of the Paperhangers* and In* teriqr Decorators' union, local No/j 781 He was born in Oedarburg,* Wis. /*: ""• - - A± \ ' Z7 ""A*

iHe is survived by hls-wldow^, Katherine \ > a son, Arthur. Lr/.,anC a daughter-Mrs.-Laura E. Funk** houser. '*•* - »'<^, * > u.Y~n>a4

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Obituary A I 1 J. Louis Wolff, 90, .former pwner of Gillett & Co., died Oct. 12th at his home, at 4819 N*. Cumberland blvd. ^ , * Born in Eagle, Wis., he arrived here as a child ahd was a member of Westminister Presbyterian church. >

His son, Justin. L., was tilled in service as a communications officer on a navy iestroyer in the north Atlan-dc. ' :., ' •"' * J 1

Survivors are his wife, Lucy:] wo daughters, Mrs. Betty Bauman, West Bend, and Mrs.! Hallie Dew, Kalamazoo, Mich., and a son, "Richard E., Sea-: tie, Wash.

Services were held Monday at the Feerick funeral lome, 2025 E. Capitol dr., Burial was in Pinelawn ceme-

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Whitefish Bay Neighbors Found Dead in Hoijies Demmon Westover, 74, Mrs. B. A. Marlett

Succumb to Natural Causes; Coronet Goes From One House to the Next

Two neighbors in Whitefish Bay, who had bid each other the time of day often, were found dead within- a few minutes of each other Tuesday. Both deaths were ftfom natural causes. Z .

They were Demmon Westover, 74, of 805 E. Birch av . /and Mrs. Marion Marlett, 46, of 817 E. Birch av.

Mr. Westover collapsed and died at his home. Dr. Edwin B. Gute, health commissioner of Whitefish Bay who had pronounced him dead, and Raymond Gutowski and Ervin Schoknecht, deputy coroners, were still in the home when Byron A. Marlett returned from his work as shipping clerk at the\ Callaway Fuel co. As he passed the West-over home, Marlett noticed th6 coroner's ambulance.

FINDS WIFE ON FLOOR Arriving at his own house, Mr.

Marlett found it locked. There was no response to knocks. Seeing light in the basement, he looked through a window and saw his wife oh the cement floor, near the oil burner, with a lighted flashlight alongside of her.

Marlett notified the police de-j partment A few minutes later, a truck containing the Whitefish Bay fire department rescue squad] dashed by.the coroner's ambulance' and pulled up in front of the Mar-! lett home. Dr. Gute- ran to the scene, and pronounced Mrs. Marlett dead. The coroner's deputies followed him to the Marlett home. Both bodies were taken to the Heiden & Lange undertaking establishment at 3116 N. Third st,

RETIRED 19 YEARS AGO

Mr. Westover was a veteran sheet metal worker, and had worked for various firms here. He retired 1ft years ago, and moved to Beaverj lake. When he was taken ill six] months ago, he; was brought from

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1 Waldner, Louis, ^ ^ I "th2yb J^n 0 nf 9 a / 9 i ^ r ^ Be,oved husband of/

m? J a t l ^ n n a Waldner. Dear father of Hflma ;

Menard) Carabajal and the late George (CarS) i JftSiST*?? ^ 9 grandchildren, 8 great grand-

• f^'Wren nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends Complete funeral services Sat 10*0 am

rial Park Cemetery. In state Frl. 4-8 Dm at the-funeral home, toufe was the Founder of the Bavi Shoe Service in Whitefish Bay. ' ay

SCHHAMKAfUNErtALHOIvlE 7 '., i 7841 W. Appleton Ave; - • £ < * • .

the lake to the home of his son, Thomas R. Westover, on Birch av. Surviving are another son, Clai ence; two sisters, one brother and a grandchild,.

Mrs. Mariettas home originally was in Minneapolis. She came to Milwaukee 11 years vagp following her marriage to MrV Marlett. Surviving besides. her husband are three sisters in Minneapolis.

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£»<Mrs. J. Louis Wolff, 86, 748 S. r 6th ave., West Bend, formerly of

4819 N. Cumberland blvd., died in , West Bend on Jan. 2L Services

will be conducted from the Feerick funeral home, 2025 E. Capitol dr., Friday at 2 p.m. on Jan. 24. Friends may call after 3 p.m. on Thursday. Interment will be in Pinelawn cemetery./*^j .(„d

Mrs. Wolff, the former Lucy E. Edmunds, was born in Gardner, 111., in July 1877. She was graduated with honors from the Illinois State Normal university in 1902. She taught in Illinois several years and then came to Milwau-

* kee as religious work director at the YWCA.

In 1909, she married J. Louis Wolff. They lived in Whitefish Bay until his death in 1957, at which time she moved to West Bend.

She is survived by a soil, Richard E. Wolff, of Seattle, Wash., and two daughters, Mrs. Elizabeth W. Bauman of West Bend, and Mrs. Hallie W. Dew of Kalamazoo, Mich. A younger son, Justin Louis, an officer oh the USS Ingraham, was lost at sea in 1942. She is also survived by ten grand-

> children, and a brother, Justin Olin Edmunds of Fort Smith, Ark.

Mrs. Wolff was a charter member of the Whitefish Bay Woman's club, and of the Solomon Juneau DAR chapter. She served as* president and organizer of

,- PTAs in three Whitefish Bay schools, and was a member of the state PTA board for several years.

By many, Mrs. Wolff will be remembered best for her clear cut interpretation of the Bible, and the application of its principles to modern Christian living. She was active for many years in the National Conference of Christians and Jews, and the Milwaukee Council of Church Women. She was president of the Wisconsin State Council of Church Women for three years and was a member of its national board.

She was a member of Westminster Presbyterian church in Milwaukee for more than 40 years, of the Community church in Whitefish Bay, and later of Immanuel United Church of

Christ iir West J3end.

|von Briesen, Elsa ^ ! (Nee Kronshage) Formerly of Whitefish* Bay>

I Dec. 27,1991; age 80 yrs. Wife of the late Atty. j Ernst J. von Briesen. Mother of Ernst Theodore

(Margaret) von Briesen, Dallas, TX., Elsa Chris* tine von Briesen, San Francisco, CA; and Jon

' Andrew von Briesen of New Jersey. Sister of !• Hilde (Edward) Didjurgls, Phoenix, A2. Sister-in-

law of Martha von Briesen, Lynchburg, VA. and Atty. Ralph (Dorothy) von Briesen, Milwaukee. 5 grandchildren and other relatives survive. Me-

* morial services 1:30 p.m. Fri. at St. JOHN'S TOWER CHAPEL, 1840 N. Prospect Ave. Friends may greet the family following the service. Memorials to the Milwaukee YWCA, Carle-ton College, Northfield MN, The Ridges, Baileys Harbor Wisconsin or charity of your choice, in lieu of flowers appreciated. . < *<* FASS FUNERAL HOME, Shorewood, 964*1291 >

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Report outlines aging of village

By Mary Schuchmann The aging of the suburbs is clearly docu

mented in a report on Whitefish Bay's changing population presented to the School Board last week by Superintendent of Schools Lee Rieck.

In 1940, senior citizens (those 60 years of ' age and older) made up about 6 percent of the village population of 9,651. Forty years later, in 1980, that same group comprised 19.7 percent of the village's 14,930 residents.

Those comparisons—and many more-are based on Rieck's detailed study of U.S. census information -for the years 1940 through 1980, done as a part of thef district's long-range planning studies.

Age shifts. Increases in single-family households, separations and divorces, rental housing, minority residents, working wojnen. Decreases in household size. Little change in the kinds of jobs held by village residents. All those statistics are included in Rieck's report.

Rieck told the School Board his study turned up "nothing particularly surprising" about the characteristics of Whitefish Bay. • •- "Most of us could have predicted what we found," he said.

The data "helped confirm many of the things we suspected," he said. "It helped us to document many ofthe things we felt were happening."

If anything, Rieck said, the numbers provided by the census tables showed some population trends were even stronger than believed.

As an example, he cited the increase in the percentage of older residents in Whitefish Bay. "We all knew what was happening," he said, "but we didn't know the extent to which it was happening."

Among the statistics presented to the School Board:

• Population. Whitefish Bay's population lecreased 18.8 percent between 1960 and 1980, while public school enrollment leclined 24.9 percent.

As the number of older residents has in

creased, the proportion of children has dropped. In 1940, ,the age group from 0-19 years comprised 36 percent of the village population; in 1980, it was 29.9 percent.

More striking, perhaps, is the increase in the older age category, mentioned earlier.

Both trends have meant an increase in the median age in Whitefish Bay. Between 1950 and 1980, the median age of female residents increased from 33.6 to 36.9 years of age. For males, the increase was from 32.8L to 33.9 years.

The 1980 census reported 790 widows and 109 widowers living in Whitefish Bay.

• Minority Population. Since 1950, the black population in Whitefish Bay has more than doubled, yet it still remains a very small percentage of the total count (47 per sons—less than .4 percent in 1980), Rieck noted.

The census data for the past 30 years shows a larger percentage gain for Hispanics and those listed simply as "other" in census records. The number of residents of Spanish origin increased from 2 in 1950 to 79 in 1980.

The category called "other" increased from 5 to 140 in that 30-year period.

Rieck said it was not clear whether the increase represented actual gains or simply more sophisticated census-gathering techniques.

• Marital Status. In 1980, about 16 percent of school-age children in Whitefish Bay lived in single-parent households. The number included 259 households with a female as the head, with no husband present, and 36 headed by a male with no wife present.

No figures are available for comparison with earlier years, Rieck said, because census data on household type was not collected before 1980.

• Employment. No significant changes in the occupations of Whitefish Bay residents were evident in the past 30 years, according to the report.

Professional, managerial, administrative

and proprietor occupations were listed for 51.7 percent in 1950,45.7 percent in 1970 and 49.9 percent in 1980.

Salesworkers made up 16.9 percent of the Whitefish Bay work ffirce in 1950, and 15.5 percent in 1980. x

A dramatic increase occurred, however, 1 in the number of Whitefish Bay women \ working outside the home during that j period. Between 1950 and 1980, that number 1 increased 176 percent, from 15 percent of all \ female residents in 1950 to 40 percent in 1980.

1 During the same period, the number of Whitefish Bay males in the labor force remained about the same.

• Housing. The number of rental housing units in Whitefish Bay has increased ; steadily since 1950. . . ' - ' • •

In 1980, 1,060 rental units were listed for Whitefish Bay, compared to 464 in 1950. ;

According to the census information, the ; median monthly rent was $270. Rieck said j school officials had expected that figure to be higher. j

The number of owner-occupied homes in- j creased from 3,691 in 19504o 4,440- in1980. j TheT median value of single-family homes quadrupled during that time, from $18,904 in 1950 to $81,500 in 1980.

The largest jump in value occurred during the last decade, when the median price more than doubled (from $31,300 in 1970 to i $81,500 in 1980).

Total housing units increased from 4,272 in 1950 to 5,588 in 1980. X

• Household Size. Whitefish Bay's aging population is reflected in a significant j change in household size over the past 30 \ years.

The number of one- and two-person house- | holds increased 188 percent between 1950 j and 1980, while the number of four- and five-person households decreased by 25 percent.

The average household size in Whitefish - Bay in 1980 was 2.7 persons.

i In the last census, 19.2 of Whitefish Bay's > 5,515 occupied housing units were one-person units. Another 34.9 percent were two-person units.

• Family Income. The median family i n - y h ^ come in Whitefish Bay increased from \jOo $6,074 in 1949 (1950 census) to $32,198 ih 1979 (1980 census).

Of the 4,371 family income units in 1979, 933, or 21.3 percent had incomes of $50,000 or more. Approximately 68 percent ot Whitefish Bay families had incomes of $25,000 or more in 1979.

(Until the 1980 census, the top income category in census reports was $25,000 or more.) ••'*••• -

v • Education. Whitefish Bay residents were better educated in 1980 than they were 30 years before. s . ••

In 1980,52.6 percent of the population had completed four or more years of college; in 1950, the figure was 29.6 percent.

The percentage of residents who did not finish high school decreased from 23.2 to 6 percent during that time. ^

• Mobility. Whitefish Bay residents appear to be slightly less mobile than 20 years ago. According to the data, 31.8 percent of Whitefish Bay residents had lived in the^ same house for five years or more. In 1970, the figure was 34.3 percent, and in 1950, it j was 36.1 percent. ; i

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