OT yVTHlJJTISTH Newspaper articCes* interviews and obituaries COMTILTT), 7WD I3WElZVIrEZW'E'D £]/ MIMI 'BJ'RD 1982-1992 JArchivaCmateriaCs, incCucCing the aCfaum, "were donatedBy the Whitefish 'Bay foundation £777 (S COMPILED AND RESEARCHED BY MIMI BIRD, THESE VOLUMES ARE HER LEGACY TO WHITEFISH BAY AND AN INVALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF LOCAL HISTORY. \J 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.] Archer Jane 17,18 Asen, Henry Chief 5,6,7 Backman Walter C. 281 Backman John C. 281 Baehr Rose (Hausmann) 281,281 Baehr Andrew 281 Baird Thomas 275,276 Barry John J. Rev. 11,286 Bear Sol 12,13 Becker Frank 282 Beckmann Ernest J. 281 Benish Bob 284 Berg Bonita L. 296 Berssenbrugge Oscar W. 282 Bertschy A.P. (Del) 15,282 Bird Mimi 9,14,61 Boeder Alex Chief 286,287 Boynton Vern 281 Briesen Elsa ,von (Kronshage) 286,382 Briggs Eva Grace 281 Brown James E. 274 Buckley Thomas F 282 Burmeister Earl 286 Buttles Anson 283 Bykowski Stella 282 Cahill Ralph 21-23,27,30,292 Callahan T.E. Chief 25, Callahan John (Bill) 294 Campbell James Mrs. 293 Canfield Vera M. 295 Camcross Alice A. 293 Carson Katherine 26 Carter William J. 293 Chipman Daniel Webster 274 Connell Harold W. 295 Conrardy John T. Lt. 29 Consaul Henry 166 Consaul Ruth 276 Consaul Martha 276 Consaul Theodore S. 276 Consaul Frank W. 293 Consaulus Lydia B. 276 Dally Thomas V. 274 Daniels Alfred 298 Dassow Lydia (Runge) 238 Dedrick JohnH. 298 Dedrick Jane 298 Dernehl Adolph 297 Dickman Lillian 298 Dickman Arthur F. 299 Dietz Peter E. Father 32,296,297 Disbro LL 276 Disch Arthur 32 Dobrogowski Daniel T. 298 Dunlop Bertha P. 31 Eichfeld Leona R 302 Eifler Mildred 302 Elitzer William J. 302 Elliott Robert Judge 35 Everts Charles 167 Farley Irma E. 302 Fellman Edward D. 302 Fellman Edward J. 303 Fick Ida (Rabe) s. 302 Fischer Frank C. 303 Fisher Ida 303 Fowle Alonzo 275 Funkhauser Laura(Weber) 240-241 Gabel George H. 50 Geerlings Tillie M. 305 Geerlings John 305 Geilfuss Fred 47,304 Geilfuss Minnie 304 Geraty Genevieve M. 305 Gerber Alois 304 Gesell O.W. 43,312 Gether C. Robert 39-42,274,304 Gether Marie 274,304 Goecks Martha 305 Goldsmith Cora M.(Clasmann) 312 Grams Ferdinand 49,304 Grams Anna 304 Grams Louise 304,305 Greene Hibbard S. 43 Gregg Scranton H 305,312 Gregg Violet (Durand) 312 Gross Vera 44 Gute Edwin Dr. 43,44,306 Hage George Chief 45,46,51,55,56,57,308 Hall Nelson 55 Harrigan Michael 60 Haupt Jo Anna 58 Haupt Elizabeth M.(Marks) 308 Hayes Tom E. 59,309 Hayes Harry J. Attorney 309 Healy R.K. 51 Heil Julius Gov. 52,53,54 Heyer Augusta (Donsing) 308 (C Heyer Ervin Gocer 310 Hiller Ray 51 Hoffmann Phillis (Schieff) 308 Hoffmann Angelo 312 Hokanson Emily Jane 59 Hoppenrath William 54 Huber Hans 308 Immekus Melvin Joseph 67-72,242-245,325 Immekus Augusta (Donsing) 324 Immekus Rose 325 Inbusch Dorothy W. 325 Isenring Fred 65,266,268,277 Isenring William 266 Isenring Mary H.B. 277 Isenring Wynand 324 Jensen Ernest A 333 Johnson O.K. 73,74,324,325 Johnson Robert 184-187 Kasal Joseph P Chief 334 Kearby Hephworth Isenring 254-265,277 Kindler John Mrs. 326 King Henry R. 63,275,332 Kinne Herbert 275 Klann Harold W. 334 Klatte William A. 328 Klatte William C. 334 Klauck Vera 329 Klocko Elsie 329 Klode Frank C Vill. Pres. 76,328,329 Klode Amelia 328 Klode Frank C. 327 Knauer Ruth M (Baehr) 329 Knight Jacqueline (White) 316-322 Knoernschild Grover F. Vill.Pres 77,330 Knoernschild Ralph 78-83,106,216 Knop Anna 326 Kohlmetz Adelaide 327 Koltsche Roberta (Roberts) 228-231 Konrath LeRoy 84 Kruecke Roy L. 326 Krueger George 85 Kruger George 327 Kruse Hugo E. 327 Kuehn Otto 90,246,248,249,250-252 Kuemmerlein Ruth 86 Larkin Velma F. 331 Lawrence Vera 218,336 Leu Julius 91,335 Logemann Edna W. 91 CU Loke Clarenece 331 Lowry Olive (Schiefe) 92-96,166,246-254 Lowry I.H. 275 Luedtke Hilder 289 Maegli Teresa (Fons) 346 Markert Charles F 340 Marlett B.A. 381 Marsh Susan 344 Marsh Henry 344 Matthews Patrick 106 McCAIIum Charles Ray 98 Meredig Herbert 349 Meredig William A. 344 Meredig/Remus Hannah 99-101,345 Meyer Lucille 108,109 Mixter Henry 102-105,107 Moeller August C. 340 Mohr Gladys A. 340 Mohr Lawrence H. 340 Mohr Lillie A. 340 Mohr Donald L 344 Mohr Herman F. 345 Mohr Philip 348 Mohr Fred 348 Mohr Gordon W. 348 Momsen Emma 344 Morano Joe 90 Morehouse Charlotte Jane 274 Mulrine Clifford L. 98,351 Myszewski Alan N. Chief 342 Nagle Jack Coach 352 Nirschl Viola M. 340 Off Arthur G. 340 O'Leary J.J. 91,355 O'Leary Josephine M. 355 Pagels Erwin 116 Pagels Louisa 355 Pagels Emma(Differt) 355 Pandl Jack 112,113,115,354 Papenthein Roy 0. Archite 308 Peters William M. 355 Piepers George 117 Post Clarence 114 Powers Clarence, Mrs. 276 Praefke Irma (Kuetemeyer) 268-270,354 Prange Mabel F. 354 Pray Perry S. 355 Rabe Charles 120,121,288 Rabe Roland 120 t£ Rabe Arthur 126,132,224-227 Rabe Elsie 289 Rabe Lydia E. 358 Rabe Gilbert Sergt. 358 Rapp Halsey T 139,140 Ravenscraft Glen E. 360 Reichert Edwin Dr. 138 Remus Hannah (Meredig) see Meredig Rice LeoS. 358 Ritzier Raymond L. 140 Roberts Mrs. 136 Roberts Annette (Jacobi) 232-233,236,237,361 Roberts Allan J. 289,360 Robertson Joan (Roberts) 228,234,235 Rogers Homer 358 Roller Henry G. 358 Rose Harold J. Principal 137,362 Roth Anna 289 Roth Adolph F. 289 Runge Anna (Mohr) 360 Scheife Mary Jane (Consaul) 128-130,167,168,365,368 Scheife Ruth 169,170,171,369 Scheife Henry 171 Scheife Louis F 165 Scheife Lewis F 166,167,168,365,368 Schindhelm Philip 277 Schindhelm John 364 Schinleber Louise 364 Schinz Margaret (Siegfried) 172,174,176 Schleif Amanda 364 Schober Mary (Isenring) 146,366 Schober Carl 366 Schramm Raymond 368 Schroeder Christian J. 163 Schroeder Walter 164 Schroeder Olive (Julien) 144 Schroeder Amalia (Schuck) 367 Schroeder Amalia 367 Schroeder Melvin W. 367 Schultz Ron 142,143 Schwarz Charles 122-124 Schwarz Charles 363 Seeman Julius 369 Seligmann Ruth E. 369 Shawl Robert D. 359 Siegel, Lois A. 363 Sikinger Jakob 134 Sohns Royal S. 363 Sohns Geraldine S. 363 d Sonntag Harvey E. 367 Staffeld William 162,365 Steffen William F 366 Steffen Albert F. 367 Stegeman Oscar 369 Stover Paul 162 Strickler Roy Mrs. 363 Stroebel Hazel S. 364 Stumpf Charles J. 368 Sturm Ray C 363 Sullivan John(Jack) 148-161 Swain William 277 Swain Charlotte 277 Swain Elizabeth 277 Swain John 277 Swain Robert W. 365 Tetzner Lois 180 Timpel Ernst 277 Tompkins Ora Belle 182,186,187 Tompkins E.Ray 182-184,188,190,191 Tullgren Herbert W 192,193,370 Tusa Al 181 Tweedy John H. 276 Uihlein Herman A. 382 Viall A.A. 194 Volkmann W.H. 196-200,377,378 Volkmann Zella 376 Waldner Louis 381 Waldschmidt Victor 205 Warshauer Rodger 220 Weber Charles 205 Weber George L. 380 Westover Demmon 381 Wilke Emil 206 Wolff Louis Mrs. 204 Wolff Justin L. Lieut, 380 Wolff J.Louis 380 Wolff J. Louis Mrs. 382 Yost Sylvester A. 379 Zeiler Edward J. 210,212 Zein Burt 209 Zimmerman R.C. 210 Jti p e o p ? g X 3 1 ZZ'-fZZ ITa*aaJi« H# Cooley Sat® Jtely 23» 1988 Words HI3HRY ASEH CHI8F OF FIRB DEPABBGUHf 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 ice 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 Belief Man and driver at the following stations* Engine Company So* 18* Sngine Company Ho* 21* Sngine Company Sb* 8 and ®ruek Company $o* &* It was 0 o$ this last nmmA station that he dreve the first ^tlttrle&s** meter twvmk of the Milwaukee department * Baring hie long service for the .^ity* Mr* Asen warn, service at many la*&* etmflagratiosss* s&ong them fire* at Blots Bpewwjr*. the JSksex flats sad Loehe»eyer mi Bltsa* but in his modest way the chief says but little of the exelisttejot* danger and'hardship* of Ms experiencess to him they se*r4 .rarely "all in a"4ayfe. work"* Coming to fhitefieh Bay in 1926 to take chmg» of the Vin^e z%m department* chief Aaem woe at first the enly foil time.employe® of the Department* ;$hteh was thssa composed of thirty-five volunteer citisen firemen* h$ the village popul-atltm and the mmber of hwm® i*wreas#d* Chief Awea's department likewise expanded until not (1938) his force com** prises two'Captains and five other fell time flreai&n* The-very modern fire** fighting eguip&ent of the degpejrtamt is garaged In an e&e#Xie*i* briefc building* &a annex to the Tillage Hall* (See $a$*er en fire Bep Firtosant J In 1$15* the ^hief -freefc- to* wife sa«s B&mah lotimmmm* of Curtiw* Wisconsin and they have reared a fine .family of tb#ee boys* aged twenty^ one* fourteen and twelve* wi& two girls twerty^ftmr ««d twewty-twe* Both daughters are *w?r:£»d md the- Chief le a -twr* tiae proud graaaftfat&er* Idving in tlaa home he ptrelsuwd in 198H* at SWB 8* tfea&ew Pl&ce* the Chief lives a taiy life* between his ds&iew **» the jear* «ad at home* and* his roaapswith the grandehildreti* he h&$ only too little time to indulge in his hobby* which is fishing n£tor all kinds''** including bass and trout* this man* in the' prime of lift* at f^tyMsto* in a regnrosoiitativw cmt~ teor sucn* Ills spirkling eyw and ruddy ohaefc* beepessk m life well epe»& aufc his pereesealtty eugseets a MI of deoAiilQit and ehaaneter as wall o» tdtodltraiMis. Such saen usually succeed and* maiieured in tho tmm light» Chief Aeea's has been a successful life* ** JJ ** •j * Henry Asen Manages :;Y B^ Pire Depart, i Born March 28, 1892, in Mil waukee, Henry Asen was the son > of Jacob and Pauline Asen. Jacob, ? the father, immigrated to Milwau- Jf^tfhli 'man, in the prime of lifg] \\ kee from Bavaria at the age of 16 atv Sjp> is a representative outdoor pj.'n and a few years later Pauline jm^h. His sparkling eyes and rud^ } j ". Came from Berlin. They met, |dyZ cheeks v bespeak a life well 5 # \ ^ooed and married in Milwau^ j&pent $nd hlsi persoriallty suggests t ,,] r r * Kditoi's Note—Tills iZ the .fourth ) h' \p**' ' . .-••'"• ' z famanYjof decision and character* \lx /> ; Young Henry, after completing as well as kindliness. Such men of a series of articles an Whitrfish 1 Day village officials. grade school, was employed* about usually succeeifand, measured in two years as an ornamental iron| the 4r\ 9 Project details village history The materials are organized by topics — Jfelong resident streets, parks, buildings, early residents. The system allows a serious researcher or a casual browser to focus on a particular Bird researched subject. '•.'<£ Her work has been a labor of over last decade love, said Bird, a lifelong resident of Whitefish Bay. "I started out to educate myself,* she, She started researching houses and said. ul probably had more of an interest, eventually got to trees. In between were because I grew up in the village, but I also sewers, among other things. think anybody can find anyplace interest-; The result is a detailed historical record ing. Every place has a history.* * of the village of Whitefish Bay compiled But would everyone find sewers so by resident Mimi Bird. fascinating? Bird laughed. T know it Her project, done on a volunteer basis sounds just awful. But the history of over the past 10 years, will be recognized sewers is really fascinating. They started at a special program from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Sunday at the Whitefish Bay Woman's as ditches and evolved from there.* Club, 600 E, Henry Clay St. Her latest research efforts have The event is open to the public. involved reading the minutes of official Reservations are requested and can be village meetings dating back to the made by calling the Whitefish Bay incorporation of the village in 1892. She's? Library, 964-4380. done 55 years' worth so far. * The historical collection has recently ("I decided not to stop in 1942, at 50 been remounted using acid-free materials years, because that was the middle of the and permanent binders. The project was war," she said. "I thought 1947 was a more funded by the Whitefish Bay Foundation. logical place to end.* Sunday's program will mark the She expects to do the next 44 years as unveiling of the 25-volume collection. well. To open the program, Tim Erickson, a She has organized her notes from the village resident and director of the minutes by topic so that a reader can trace University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee the development of a particular aspect of Hban Archives, versity of Wisconsin-Mil- village life. "I tried to make it interesting, not dry Aukee, will speak briefly on the impor and dull,* Bird said. "Some of it you can't tance of preserving historical records. help,* she added with a smile, "but it's not The historical collection con all that way.* tains more than 2,000 photos, written Bird was honored in 1983 by the records, documents and newspaper clip State Historical Society of Wisconsin for pings Bird collected over the years from a her work in local history. variety of sources. The historical collection is permanently Through her own research she provided housed in the Whitefish Bay Library. identification for photos that lacked The Sunday program is co-sponsored by information, explained the significance of the Whitefish Bay Foundation, the White- many of the records and pieced together fish Bay Woman's Club and Friends of the more than one local historical puzzle. Whitefish Bay Library. Refreshments will She interviewed some longtime resi be provided by the Great Harvest Bread dents to get their stories of the village's Co., Whitefish Bay, early days. Those coming to the program are asked She and her sons took many of the to bring a photo of a village scene or modern-day photos included in the books. resident. WB 3-7-?/ •mMwmhM \o. Rev. John J. Barry Becomes Pastor of St. Monicas The Rev. John J. Barry be came pastor of St. Monica's par ish this week. He took over his new duties Wednesday evening, not quite 48 hours after the ap was almost solidly banked with pointment was made by the Most flowers. Floral offerings, a wel Rev. Moses E. Kiley, archbishop coming tribute, were also in evi of Milwaukee. dence throughout the rest of the parish house. His first official act Thurs Father Barry is not a new day morning was to read a re comer to Whitefish Bay. Well quiem high mass for the late known for his lectures and talks, Rev. Peter E. Dietz, his predes- he has frequently appeared be o> sor at 8 o'clock. The school fore groups, which numbered children's choir, directed by Sis some of/his present parishion ! ter Mary Jane, who also played ers. Also he is a brother of the organ, sang during the serv James T. Barry, 5053 N. Lake ices. dr. 50 Father Barry plans to preach Heavy Schedule O St. Monica's new pastor said © O *at all the masses Sunday morn 3 ing, starting with the 6:30 mass. that he is more than pleased Other masses will be as fol with the appointment, and the lows: 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 and 12:00.. parish his predecessor has built up. He confessed that he does For the present he v*Hl con-" not have the artistic flair of the tinue to teach .education three late Father Dietz but that he will times a week at St. Francis ma seek the judgment of those who jor seminary, of which he was know, when new building is un vice rector until his appoint dertaken, so that there will be ment to St. Monica's. no architectural monstrocities. Father Barry comes to White- When he arrived at .the par fish Bay with a heavy speaking sonage Wednesday evening, he schedule before him. He has the was met by two former pupils, average of one speech a week to the Rev. Joseph Mueller and the 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 fa vorite subjects and one that he has taught to many at the semi nary, Mount Mary college, St. Norbert's college, West DePere, Wis., and Cardinal Stritch col lege. ' (O(VIMJ —Photo courtesy Mount Mary Times. Rev. John J. Barry Rev. Ralph Schmidt, who will continue on at the church as as sistant pastors. Both had been in Father Barry's classes at the seminary. Many Flowers The assistant pastors ushered Father Barry to his study, which -s\\ X \ \\ \ v \ rsX\\\ You got a dose of Sol at Bear's ByMimiBird ear's Reliable Pharmacy, 5966 Nf.v Santa Monica Blvd., Whitefish Bay, Bclosed 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 Without Sol, the store "was a wagon with only three wheels.* Sol Bear began his Whitefish Bay like a wagon with only connection at the former Schwartzman's Drug Store, 633 E. Henry Clay St. three wheels." "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. working there.* The drugstore's proximity to Richards Lexie remembered being accepted by School attracted more than one genera other children "because my dad owned the tion of school children, many on a daily store. It was an easy 'in.' But other dads basis for a purchase of the store's well- went away during the day and mine was known penny candy. always here, at home or in the store. "After we were in the store for a while," There were times I'd wish he would go Mrs. Bear said, "we found a house behind away—he was always around.* it on Berkeley Blvd., moved in and felt we were living in a very small town.* Her husband "thrived on his store," The three Bear daughters, Mrs. Bear said. "He was sa emotionally Annie, Lexie and Robbie, grew up working involved with it—it was his life. It took in the store. him 20 years to finally get out of there to take a vacation. .He felt it was a living, In retrospect, Annie and Lexie felt they breathing entity. learned a great deal frm the experience. "I started working when I was 10,* Annie "In those early years,* she said, "a said, "pushing cash register buttons pharmacist could be out of his store for before I knew what it was all about. And I one half hour, so he could come home for learned how to deal with people because of lunch or dinner. Now a (licensed) pharma- m /fe&e- XAJ^M, tyAjicsLzdZ^tyti^ st has to be on the premises at all times." the child and scare him badly. It was Lexie added, "He was the first 24-hour probably traumatic, but years later some %*&*/• iarmacist in the area, until Walgreen's came back to say they'd been so frightened came in. He could be called any hour of they never did it again.* the night and would go to the store to fill a "A lot of the children found his death prescription.* hard to deal with,* she continued. "He'd been a constant in their lives. He treated "Owning your own store then them, with respect and wanted that in was the greatest thing on earth," Annie return. If they misbehaved, they'd be said. "Now it's easier to work for someone. banished^ sometimes up* to one week." Pharmacists tend to stay in the back room now.* "He loved the children, that's "Sol always liked greeting everyone," why he always tried to keep the penny ~Mrs. Bear said, "calling everyone by first candy,* Annie said. "If they were short of names. It was a kind of forerunner of cash, he'd say 'Bring it next time/ Most of 'Cheers' on TV, so to speak. them did, I was the one who finally "Sol tried hard to maintain the type of enforced our rule—if they had money, tradition so many pharmacies had in the they could come in. If not, wait outside." old days.* Lexie and Annie agreed their father Mother and daughters agreed that Sol *Sya8 a neat guy. He was different, he Bear had been a confidante and friend to stood by his beliefs. But he was not a saint many. "He had empathy for most who; and we don't want him to appear as one.* came in and seemed to strike the right Mike Sager, 225 E. Montclaire Ave., chord with them,* Marcia said, "although remembers being Bear's second delivery there were people who didn't like him, boy. "I started when I was 16 and could there was no question of that. Perhaps drive, but I was also stock boy. I worked they felt he came on too strong." there about three summers and through Bear became a diabetic when high school. (Bear) was definitely a father he was 35 years old, losing one leg and figure or older brother to me. He was very demanding, but a good teacher; we got then the second to amputation. along fine. After his first.loss, Lexie recalled, a "But my son, who's now 21, also worked -ning child came in and stared at him. for Sol and they didn't get on at all.* Tiis is what happens if you suck your Lexie said, "Dad was horrible to kids imb too much,' Dad told him. He was a he'd hired. I was embarrassed the way ^ (Continued from page 4) him, business always came first and we knew that's the way he'd want it." they could go to. They could go in with baie feet—it was the only place around Mrs. Bear said, "Some may have they could do that—and now it's gone. thought it was callous to do, but it would have been an injustice to Sol to do "They're an Sinperson' wherever they go otherwise. now. No one knows them or cares.* "Sol and I talked about moving to Mjrs. Bear added, "Small neighborhood Florida sometime, but, with his health, it stores don't exist anymore. Our store used wa$ always questionable,* she; added. to be jammed with kids and parents "NoW Annie and I will move to Orlando. buying school supplies, for example. Then He was my best friend—I guess we were one year, Sol stood here waiting and no both on the same wave length. one came. They'd all gone to the discount "As Sol would say, 'Now that's over, let's stores that sprang up. Even the super get on with life.'* markets carry those supplies now. It hurt all independent stores." The sadness is there* underneath, for the loss of a husband, father and a way of "But the bigger stores can't take away a life, but happy memories linger for the personality," Lexie said. "They can't offer Bear family. that." And the neighborhood also will remem l ber Bear's Reliable Pharmacy, Sol Bear "When Dad died, we didn't keep the and their impact on the area for nearly 30" stor^ closed for long," Annie said. "With yearB. QS ^^g> — By Mary Schuchmann ** r or anyone wno tninKs a nistory buff: r Mfs.fiird has Itlsoqput together a !*— ! - Mimi Bird's recent award from the must personally have witnessed at ' record. -of* yearly, j*oads- built in the State Historical Society was for a least a century of time, Mrs. Bird's . 17-year-old boy just last week, Mrs. i Whitefish Bay afea. &oine"of-Jthem~~ photographic record of early White- age comes as a surprise. Z Bird said. ! date back to the 1850s?M"I found it fish Bay homes. • "People think I'm at least 97, V she Seemann has copies of the burial fascinating,* although not everybody is . laughed.'"When I took a group of GirL going to, to realize that a lot of our It could have been for a lot more. records from 1918 to the present, but : In addition to that 80-page album, Scouts to the (town of Milwaukee) . all previous documents were burned in roads were surveyed and put through Mrs. Bird, 6123 N. Lydell Ave., has cemetery this fall, they told me they a fire, leaving only the grave markers ' as little dirt roads," she said. "I think researched nearly every angle on expected to see a doddering little old 7 it gives a sense of history to our com Whitefish Bay history during the past lady get out of the car." } as evidence of many deaths. munity, knowing the roads didnt just year and a half. Sometimes she has trouble recalling ; This fall, Mrs. Bird photographed appear in 1920, that they have been She has contributed stacks of find all she has done in the past 18 months. t.many of. the oldest and most interest- here for a long, long time." "When I finish something, I kind of £ ing-Iooking tombstones as a preserva- She has also.put together several ings to the Whitefish Bay Library, 1 where the material is available to the forget about it and go on to something : tion tool, focusing on those, markers albums of old photographs and public during library hours. else/' she said. ^ _ that, are disintegrating/and in dis newspaper clippings showing life in Some items, like the photograph repair. Most of them are located in the Whitefish Bay over the years. album, may be checked out for more Research on the cemetery, ; oldest part of the cemetery—the A 1942 newspaper picture shows, for leisurelyJ>rowsing at home. located on Port Washington Rd. north - northeast corner near Lydell and example, a group of neighbors in the * The album earned Mrs. Bird a local of Bay Shore Mall, has been one of her , Montclaire avenues. * 4700 block of Woodruff Ave. proudly latest, projects. It /has produced a Surprisingly, she found she could planting their wartime victory gar . read many of them more clearly in the dens Oh vacant lots in the neighbor notebook- of buriaPrecords and. a 7 photographs than from looking at hood^ photograph album of many of the old h them in person. Another of her products is a photo grave markers. ' I ' album of Green Bay Ave. and Port Seeing the continual The cemetery dates back to the (One of the most notable is Washington Rd. * mid-1850s when a smallpox epidemic , that of a wealthy farmer who, accord- "I took pictures of old homes, old changes in the area ''has prompted an area farmer to donate * ing-to newspaper clippings of the day* taverns, old everything," she ex part of his land for burials. It is now J hacked a woman to death with a sickle plained. made me want to preserve the . because she had chased her dog onto She was just in time on Green Bay owned by Harold Seemann of Head & • his property but was acquitted of the Ave., she noted, for one of her prfzes— record for my kids, your kids Seemann next door. murder,} the old Town of Milwaukee Fire Mrs. Bird estimates that as many as Department building just north of the and everyone else——to help 2,500 persons have been buried there Silver Spring House restaurant—was over the years, though some graves torn down last week. them know what it used to were later moved to other locations. "I drove down Green Bay yesterday and it was gone," she said. "I thought, look like/' 'thank goodness, I took that picture.' " \ It is *>very, very family-oriented," Also in the album are stage-by-stage Mrs. Bird said, with many relation-' picturexecords of the most recent con ships of early Whitefish Bay, Glendale struction projects on Port Washington and Fox Point families intertwined Rd. history award.of merit from the state into an historical patchwork in the group. land. - ' Mrs. Bird is hoping her work The Whitefish Bay Village Board It is still in use, with the burial of a passed a resolution commending her (Continued oa page 3) at its meeting Monday night. t: J _ U, V^T\ /- r>& • (hedteelfy ^y' *7*ix * ( * ^c - 7 Z *. a - 'v.**** J > V. Highsmith, left, and A.P. (Dei) Bertschy and paper money. The two long-time collectors \ne and discuss one of the Items from their and friends are past presidents of the Milwaukee ctions of rare coins, commemorative medals Numismatic Society. — Sentinel photo by Jack Orton 15 V Actress recalls years in h,X Germany during war A drama in real life By STEVE MAERSCH of The Journal staff ALL IT poor timing, call it bad luck, or call it love. C 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 fa mous actor/director in America. Archer helped Preminger with his English. It was at this school that Archer met Horst Schillbach, an engineer ing student at the Uni versity 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 Schill bach landed a job at Allen-Bradley Corp. But their path took many twists and turns Journal photo by Mark Gail before it led to Milwau JANE ARCHER recalled her wartime ordeal. kee. In the 1930s, Ar cher returned to the directed by Preminger. (She has a pleasant letter New York you can achieve here.' " States and the Broad from Preminger dated 1934). Archer decided to find out if that was true. In way stage, where she She recalls those days as the finest of her life. August 1938, armed with a letter of recommenda acted for four years She and Horst corresponded madly. He came tion from Lynne Fontanne, she got a one-year con with such luminaries to the States for a while, and in fact had a number tract with the English Repertory Theater in Berlin as Helen Hayes, Ruth of job interviews. But he decided to return to his and left for Germany. A month later she and Horst Gordon, Robert Sher- native land. "He wrote me to come over there. But were married. wood Alfred Lunt and the situation in Germany was very depressed, and IAMF ARCHER in KVW ' there was much that I didn't know. He said to me, "Everything looked rosy," Archer said. JANE ARCHER in 1938. Lynne Fontanne> 'Anything you want to achieve in the theater in Please see Archer page 4 Among the plays in which she starred was "Libel," S->' Arsher/After war came difficult journey From page 1 But war clouds were gathering over Europe. And that Novem ber 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, HORST Schillbach as a young man (left). Jane and that if Denmark became in Archer shortly after getting to the West in 1945. volved in the war I should go back to the States." Unfortunately, once war broke out, it was hard to move anywhere. It was a precarious journey. . Archer said that in 1940 she Archer and her husband lived Archer now was fleeing two ene* went to a cinema and the news- in a pleasant home on a corner mies — the old Nazi regime ailcl reel showed the Nazis storming in a suburban area of Berlin. It the invading Russians. Arclier through the Low Countries. Part was separated from other houses walked, took trains, buses, of the newsreel featured the and had a nice garden. Schill trucks, military vehicles — any bach would ride to work every transportation she couldi— and burning of Rotterdam, the Neth n erlands. "I thought, Today day on his bike. found her way to Munichi them, tomorrow us' — all of us But the bombers came more The first American she en- ; felt that. There was no sense of and more often as the war pro- . countered was Elton Stevens of jubilation .... Never once — gressed. "My husband's factory Vicksburg, Miss:, a 19-year-old <, never once — did we feel Ger was bombed —- several times, in GI. A prisoner of war, h^ had es many would win that war." fact — and several homes in our caped when the Eastern Front At this time Schillbach, a re neighborhood were hit also," Ar- collapsed. search engineer, was working at phpr *>aid Schillbach also had a difficult the Siemens electronics plant in Why not leave Berlin? "It was journey to Munich. The couple Berlin. tough to flee for any German, be won the tnisi of ihe Victors l-%&-. Archer said she expected that cause you got food rationing many of whom were astonished eventually all the young male ac stamps where you worked, and to find an American woman liv tors would be drafted into the if you didn't show up for work ing in Nazi Grermany —^and the armed forces. Strangely, they you couldn't get food," Archer two got jobs with the Allies, were not. She ventured that the said. Nonetheless, in January working with the United Nations Nazis may have felt that the the 1945, when the outcome of the Recovery and Rehabilitation ,, ater offered the people a harm war was obvious, Archer and her Act. Archer would take Dutch',;* less diversion from the inconve husband decided it would be best Polish, Danish, Spanish and /, niences and sacrifices of the war. if she would make her way tb French United Nations workers The theater kept putting on plays Munich, and he would join (her • on tours. Her husband got a job, — "The Millionairess," "Mary there when he could get away. with the American occupation • Stuart," "George and Margaret," And so Archer, her American forces going from village to vil-.-- "French Without Tears" and passport tied around her neck, « lage cataloging war booty, mostly other well-known works and clas left Berlin. art treasures. sics — no Nazi political stuff. Eventually, the two made * Archer spoke German on stage. But Archer's flight was shor£ their way to the States — again;, "My German was pretty good," lived. She got to Munich, and separately. Itjvas easier for 'Afy she said. "In fact, some people stayed at the home of a friend, cher, because she held an Ameri thought I was Scandinavian!" Marianne Langewiesche, sister? can passport, while her husbjtnd She said the theater people of writer Wolfgang Lange? - v had to be cleared by TJS occftpa- were either skeptical of Hitler or wiesche, who had left Germany' tion authorities. Archer made it downright despised him. in 1933 after Hitler rose to powr back to the States in 1946 and As the war dragged on, Allied er. But she had to rely on others her husband joined her sooh,af- bombing made life difficult — for food, and felt she couldn't ! ter. Schillbach got a job as an'isr for the theater, too. It kept push impose on friends like that Soon sociate professor of physics atX ing up the curtain time. They she was back in Berlin with herr Michigan Tech University in first started at 8 p.m. This was husband. z Houghton, Mich. Archer trav-...-, changed to 6 p.m., and finally to Months later, when Russian > eled across the country on lectitfe 4 p.m. But the shows went on troops began storming into^Ger- tours. In 1948, their path r j-,. until well into 1944, when the many, Archer and her husband^ brought them to Whitefish Bay," Nazis started to put every avail decided that it would be best if 7 where they have lived in the^ s able man in uniform. she left Berlin and headed to the same house since. They have one m West. He would join her later. son, Robert born in 1949. » /9 §LO 2. ct^ \-'-.. File l^aea© JOSEPH HQOAH Jim 15, 1938 •«©rds 790 BALPB H. CAHILL - TW a-^o^^ 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 this tiise* He was educated in the public schools of this city, grad uating from the %st Division High School in 1909, Proceeding from there he ty entered the University of Wisconsin, pursuit a Civil Engineering course, and graduated from that institution in June of 1913* Bach vacation while at house Mr. Cahill had been employed first as rodman for the Milwaukee Light Heat & Traction Company on railroad location work, later as an instrument man for the sarae company on maintenance work and tunnel construction, and later with the City Engineer as Chief of party engaged in reestablishing the Milwaukee Bench ?*l&rk System. Upon graduation from the. University cf Wisconsin he entered the employ** ment of the City of Milwaukee &s assistant ttagin*$er~ in -Charge of design and construction of the Linwood Avenue Intake funnel, Late crib, and Berth point Distribution 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 entirely 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 activities 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 divers, 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, later as Construction %gineer for the ^ewer Dept. on numerous sewer and tunnel projects for the City of Milwaukee* / In J\me of 19l^pf*,Cahill enlisted in the 1st Battalion Wisconsin ^nglneers, and left for training at Qa&p Douglas» He was given a warrant as-Paster lnglneer# A -2- *—> senior grade, and took charge of camp sanitation and the water supply system at Camp Douglas. . In August he entered the Second-Officers ^ rain ing Camp at Fort ""herldan; proceeding thence to fortress Monroe, ¥&., where he was commissioned aft Second Lieutenant in the Coast Artillery Corps. He sailed for *ranoe on December 87th, 1917, and served with the A.l.F. as Battalion Orienting Officer with the 3rd Battalion of the 44th Heavy Artillery throughout the *W, being pre- moted to First Lieutenant in August ,1918• While at the' front near fhiscourt he was given command of a battery of captured German 10 centimeter howitzers and with the assistance of a local enemy ammunition dump enough projectiles and powder charges of this particular size were found to enable this battery to operate against the enemy for the last two months of the war. Upon returning home in March of 1918 he waa> appointed Chief Draughtsman in the City Engineer's office, of the City of Milwaukee, and one month later, entered the service of Ceo. E. Zlmmrmann Co., sewer contractors, as •^ngineer-in-OhargC' of Construction. This work consisted in the construction of regulating and controll ing devices on the Intercepting sewers for the Milwaukee Sewerage Commission* In May of 19^1 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 ^t&tion* On April 18th, 19B3 he. was appointed engineer-in-Charge of this earns project* This project involves the design and construction of a station and distribution system to deliver 138,000,000 gallons of water per day, mainly to the high level district* Ihis project is well under way at the present time and the station should be in a condition to pump water late in the sumror of 19£4. He was employed in this same position until January 1, 1927., when he joined Charles A# Cahill k Sons, Engineers, specialising 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, ^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 all 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 societies* .American Society of Civil Engineers; i*merican Water Works association; 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 is the former Miss Myfanwy Jones of Milwaukee. The family residence is at 5851 North Maitland Court. £3 In 1916 Callahan was appointed CAuAtfMJ Ijfcf ' ;nii^r8haH for the village, as a result Old Residents ^^sj* M ht& work: }n apprehending an ^ fe>^ caped lunatic responsible for several !^ robberies in the district. He resigned Astounded At 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 *m street commissioner, weed commis Fornner Chief of Police in sioner, deputy sheriff and water reg Early Days if Here for fe^p > istrar. Gradually, as the village grew ; * Visit with Friends -NYJt! Knlf ^ biggor»'he was relieved of these ex- fa^f'ajv (ra duties* hut remained as chief of "Someone must have Jound Alad |l|j|||vpqliC(S up to the time he moved from din's lump and used it to transform Pl5tli;;h;jty-ft|(Cpntinued on page fpur):,;^j-.' the village into what it is today,V JipHcpntlnued from the front page) was the comment of Mr. and %», Ti tPi r-gJl^iT1, nM-Hwft residents of PP^!«!fiij:^P!MHvrod Convict ';"' %y Whiteiiseflshtfh ~Baa y visiting for a i few "f^'Qnp-of |he most vivid recollections weeks with Mr. and Mrs; "Frank V ^Jjha^f;-ltjh9./|prmer chief of police re- Consaul, N. Richards street i Y ;^ |I;||^8:iaealsj-.jy}th ^he capture of Her- Mr. Callahan, who held many of lin|(fnjfcg | Zast^w, escaped convict;" from fices here In tho early days, expressed ||f| Greea ;Bay< >J5astrow had, terrorized himself as dumbfounded at the MMJie village, committing a nunVber of growth of the village during the last Jjjffobfygries. Callahan finally caught five years. In lp26 theCallahans left Kl^l'^mi-.'on. a-street car coming in from Whitefish Bay and moved to Cali lll^^o^ Point. He arrested him unassist- fornia, During the . last couple pf ^||^!is'di'»disarmed the convict and took years Mr. Callahan has travelled ex ^lp,bimtp the sheriff's office All the tensively through the United States, |f|^0toot,"made .up of valuable rings, and, even though now a Caiifornian, ' ^f^Wjatc^ies an ITH the heating pipes above her head in the basement of her Whitefish Bay home, Katharine W 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 y[u£^ [iQ Fortress Monroe,j Va., .where he Cahill, Manager and! was commissioned, a second lieu Engineer for Village tenant in the coast artillery corps. He sailed for France on Dec. 27, Since September 1933 1917, and served with A; E. F. as battalion j orienting officer with Ralph H.; Cahill was born in Sioux City, Iowa, on Oct. 19, the third battalion of the 44th 1891. At the age of nine years his heavy ; artillery throughout the parents moved to Milwaukee, war, being promoted to first lieu which has been- his home since tenant in August, 19181ft 7 that time. He was educated in the ' Upon returning home In March public school of this city, grad of 1918 he was appointed chief uating from East Division high draftsman in the city, engineer's school in 1909. Proceeding from there he entered the University of office of the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pursuing a civil engi and one month later entered the neering course, and was graduat service of Geo. E. Zimmermanri ed from that institution in June Co., sewer contractors, as engi- of 1913. Each vacation while at neer-in-charge of construction. In home Mr. Cahill had been employ May of 1921, he again entered the ed first as rodman for the Mil service of the city in the capacity waukee Light, Heat & Traction of assistant engineer in charge of Co. on railroad location workj lar design and construction of the ter as an, instrument man for the new Riverside pumping station. same company on maintenance He was employed in this same work and tunnel construction, and position until Jan. 1, 1927, when later with the city engineer as, he joined Charles A, Cahill & chief of party engaged in rees Sons, Engineers, specializing in tablishing the Milwaukee bench industrial power plant design con mark system. • • struction and operation. Also act Upon graduation from the Uni ed in general consulting capacity versity of Wisconsin, he entered on water-works problems; for wa the employment of the city of Mil ter department of , the \ city of waukee as assistant engineer-in- Milwaukee. ^( Y> charge of design and construction N Mr. Cahill became acting village of the Linwood ave. intake tunnel, manager and engineer for the vil Lake Crib, and North Point dis lage of Whitefish Bay Sept. 15, tribution tunnels. 1933. In this capacity Mr. Cahill was in executive charge, of all vil He worked at various other jobs lage functions. Today he is com for the city of Milwaukee until in missioner of public works for the June of 1917 Mr. Cahill enlisted village which position he has held in the first battalion, Wisconsin since being appointed in 1935. engineers, and left for training at Mr. Cahill is a member of the bamp Douglas.' He was given a following technical and profes warrant as master engineer, sen sional societies: American Society ior grade, and took charge of of Civil Engineers, American Wa camp sanitation and the water ter Works association, -t National supply system at Camp Douglas. Association of Power Engineers, In August he entered the second Engineers Society of Milwaukee j officers training camp at Fort Triangle, an engineering fraternal] Sheridan, proceeding thence to organization. Mr. Cahill is mar-j ried and has four children: Jack,] [Jane Anne, Dorothy and Nancy.! U)ZA {k*al<£ jMrs. Cahill is the former Miss! iMyfanwyt'Jones of Milwaukee. The • {family residence'is at ^ 5851.,; N/! ; ^Maitland ct» V; ;;v '-Zr^TyZ '.;.r$ Cm c Police Lt. John T. Contrardy Retires from Force t h ti b u a a c L 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 ser geant 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. e/t*//? *Vi..! fo n* •'*.-. .;,.-.wY£;Yii..-,ll„,1 ' ,,'ar ZZ'ZiSMSM PUMLO (J ~Y^^ Ti ff-W''^WWf/#s?jFW*«4V'!!J9 tial board fence around the was started on Aug.% 12, 1872 Is Town H oil Doomed? premises hereby conveyed it and was completed Oct., 1, is further understood and 1872. Y- agreed by the parties hereto, The carpenter-contractor of Whitefish Bay Heir to Town Hall Site that in case the object of the building was Louis Sever- an. Plans and specifications ms Land on 'Deed of Surveyance' which this conveyance made for the building were drawn should cease, that lot of land up by Buttles. ' herein described shall reverse lJtat is to become of the old He recommended that no ren- The donor of the land, it the Town hall, which once served tal be paid to the party of the first part." time he made his gift to the the entire north shore, when The deed, of which Groote This deed was accepted by town, owned the property on it was part of the Town of maat has a photostatic copy, Town Chairman William H. both sides of the Bender rd. Milwaukee? provides as follows: Lindwurm and Supervisor's as far east as Bay Ridge ave. Now legally dissolved, ex John A. Schmidt and Jacob Mrs. Dunlop is his grand "The foregoing conveyance daughter. cept for a pending court case, being made and received by Gibsel, July 18, 1872. It was challenging the merging of the Town Chairman Lindwurm the parties mentioned therein recorded by' Clerk Anson W. lived on a farm which is now town with Fox Point and Glen- for the sole purpose of the Buttles. N dale, the land upon which the much of Lincoln park. Mrs. building of a town house there Built in 1872 Town hall has stood since 1872 on, and has the party of the Zabel, nee Miller, grew up in reverts back to the heirs of the second part obliged itself to The town hall, according to the old house, which stands at original owners, according to build and maintain a substan early town records, was built the entrance to Estabrook the "deed of surveyance" at a cost of $800. Construction park. 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 dis continues its use, when it shall revert back to the family. Mrs. Earnest (Bertha P.) Dunlop, 1008 E. Lexington blvd., and her son and daugh ter 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 George Prentice for the City of Glendale ad vised the Glendale council last Tuesday that Mrs. Dunlop has rio claim to the town hall, which is owned by the city. ZZu~ f) s&e^**- GLsx^ • u )1AAA rt Tzz ?. ~j ^y^yA^e. Arthur Disch Founded St. Monica's Editor's Note: This is the sixth of a series ot articles on Wbitefisht Work of Late Father Dietz in Labor Bay officials. One of Whitefish Bay's pioneer Movements Subject of New Book residents and, from the standpoint of length of service, one of its old A book on the pioneer labor est employees, is Arthur J. Disch„ work accomplished by Father to American Federation of Labor who holds the titles of plumbing and Dietz, pastor of St. Monica's publications and attended every heating inspector, water registrar,, church from 1923 until his death national labor convention from in 1947, is the subject of a book 1902 to 1922. jand assistant commissioner of pub "Peter E. Dietz, Labor Priest," lic works. •• ' recently published by the Uni When he started St. Monica's - Joining the employ of the village j versity of Notre Dame \Press. parish, the A. F. of L. gave him in 1919, when he began serving as* Mary Harrita Fox is the author $2,500 in appreciation. He used part-time} plumbing inspector after 22 v years of practical plumbing. experi of the book. the fund to make a down pay ence, Mr. Disch is led only by Wil Father Dietz was active in ment on the parish propertys \ liam Volkmann, clerk, in years of . labor work from the day of his Before World War I he had service. He has been a resident of; ordination in 1904 until he took gone to Europe to organize an Whitefish Bay for 24 years/ •' / over the founding of St. Monica's international Christian labor fed In 1927 Mr. Disch became full-;" in 1922. Tie did much to inter eration and had scheduled meet pret and publicize the social jus ings in most of the capitals, but time- plumbing inspector and also* tice encyclicals of Pope Leo XII only those in England and Bel took over the superintendency of the and wrote and lectured, exten gium had been held when war !water department. He was appointed sively, to make industry and gov broke out. He went to neutral assistant to the late Thomas Buck ernment see that workers have Spain to make further social ley in 19 3 () and now; finds himself a right to organize. studies, and later founded the quite busy assisting Ralph Cahill, Before his ordination he edited school of Christian democracy in present commissioner, in the super Cincinnati. This school building vising of all outside projects. "The Social Justice Review'* and : the "Social Service Bulletin" of was later given to the Catholic : Mr. Disch's chief recreation, he de- Students' Mission Crusade. eiares, is going up and working on, the American Federation of a small fruit ranch he owns outside •Catholic societies for which he Author of the book is a pro Greenieaf, Wis., 20 miles south of . also issued a news letter, used fessor of history at Mundeleiri Green Bay. He also enjoys fishing » extensively by the Catholic press college, Chicago. She prepared during his summer vacation, and; to spread sound ideas on labor the book as a dissertation for the likes a good game of baseball. unions, social justice and allied degree of doctor of philosophy at : Mr. Disch is married, living at Questions. He also contributed the University of Notre Dame. . 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. %y i 33 1>H %***< Y~ **-13 rhere's no law against recognizing a job well done By Maureen Dietzel Mertens softly, "As my friend Porky Pig says, That's all folks.' " April 21, municipal court night in And how did he feel? Whitefish Bay, Judge Robert L. Elliott "Whimsical, I guess," he said. "It's hard presiding. to give it up. I've always enjoyed it. But But this evening would be different I've been asked to be a reserve judge in the from the hundreds of others for Elliott, county court, so that makes me feel bet because, after 15 years in office, it was his ter. And I can still marry people." final night on the village judicial bench. Pam Elliott, the judge's wife, was there He did not seek re-election earlier this for the final evening. She said the 15 month and so will be succeeded May 5 by years had been a big commitment for her newly elected judge Patrick Brennan. husband but not a burden. "It's because Elliott entered the courtroom just be he enjoyed it so much," she said. fore 7 p.m. and walked to the front of the Now the courtroom was emptied of the room, put on his robe, and talked for a few defendants. Left were a group of the moments to Brennan, who was on hand judge's co-workers, including Small, to observe. Brennan, Catherine Francione, a num Elliott then sat down, banged his gavel ber of police officers, and Jerry Schmidt, and annotinced for the last time, The head of the auxiliary police. They had Whitefish Bay Municipal Court is in some gifts for the judge. session." A comb without any teeth. "For our Court Clerk Iinda Small called the first ttiirining hair," said Schmidt. Next a case. This one isn't on our docket, Your square bowling ball that looked a great Honor," and she smiled. "Mr. James deal like a brick. And a gold brick. A sign Gormley, village president." that read "25 speed limit." And last a huge Gormley, who had been sitting in the gavel to hang in the judge's rec room, and first row, stood up. "If I may approach the then another huge gavel for the outgoing bench, Your Honor," he said and, after judge to present to the incoming one. apologizing to the people waiting, pre Brennan, an attorney with Riordan sented a plaque and a citation to the Crivello Carlson Mentkowski Steeves, judge. "Fifteen years is a long sentence of acknowledged he had big shoes to fill. service to the community," he said, "and "He's done a tremendous job," Bren the village commends you on a job well Whitefish Bay Municipal Judge Robert Elliott presided last week at his final court nan said. The system works very effi done." session. He is stepping down after 15 years on the municipal bench. ciently and that's a credit to Bob." Next Village Attorney William Pagels (Photo by Marny Malin) "I'm going to steal my old gavel," Elliott added his thanks and congratulations. said. "I've been using it for 15 years." "Personally, It's been a real pleasure to And how did Elliott get to court for his work with you," he said. 41 overdue parking tickets, and speeding "It's all colors," he said. last evening? "I rode my Harley motorcy Municipal Prosecutor Bill Weigel had a tickets. "Come up here," Elliott said and gave cle," he said. present for the judge. "It has been a plea The last case was represented by At Michael a pen. "It matches your coat." And as the old friends gathered up sure to serve you," he said, "and I com torney Robert Courtney who had brought "It does! " stairs to say good-bye, Elliott's shiny new mend you for your service." his small son to court. And when they left the court, Michael black Harley-Davidson Motorcycle And then the court attended to its bus "I like your jacket," Elliott said to the called out, "Bye." Sportster 883 sat behind the Village Hall iness: requests for extension of payment boy. "Bye," Elliott called back and then to along with the squad cars, waiting for the of previous fines, bad checks, a man with Michael Courtney looked at his jacket. whom ever else was listening said rather judge to end court business one last time. QV) f £>7 ^z'^ 3. H. CCOLSY July m, t*m c# HOHBtt* m^mrn 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 it was who denralepad the mort&em end of the village, through Ma land eontpa&lee* H# built his horn mi Bay &fmm la 1894y sola »my lota Is that districti installed a water eyetemt &&d tivedit it di*e eXiaaet solely te-hltt for tba eactaael J>? «8~ %0 St Louis atiene she set up a sekool of nvuaie &&& thia eoaasa&cad * lane 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 life of hue tea as rather than, to etucty for a profeaalon. % therefore, find him la 18?5 working as a haste elerk in St- Louis* 5hla w&e the ye&r of the eevere fimnoi&l panto, rgaablag -it* peak in the famaya *&teek -Friday*t and Ht* y&uaag iwn^e'^nervee-wert* fitting a&Boat beyond control from, the fewer- ish daje at the baak. f .ko Gether remained with this establishment 5g years and until the firm went into receivership as a remit of the failure of the Manufacturers Natfl Bank with which they carried their account. The day following the failure Gether met hie old employer Mr, Bent„a now of title firm of Benton & Waldo, type found or a, vfao told him he would like 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 sell 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 rights, 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 five 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 first building and loan association in Milwaukee. In 1894 he built hla heme on Day %eauet fhlteflah Bay and along other activities in real estate in this district, 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 label 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 :. Z "> ^ ^_-V-;;^ZY^^. jf^*****' ^ IHBBARB a GUEBNB-^ruste© O. W. Geseli Hibbard Greened waa bora oa June 22, 1882,' near Uale, IlL*,on Herthloa being president or the a farm. He received an engineer's .Wniteimh Hay Cooperative club, education at the University of Il JO. W. Oi^ll i« principal ot" tho linois. Z7'\\Z\ y Z V: Henry Clay .school. Now ho Is a special agent for A native or Two Rivers., Win., iH the Northwestern Mutual Life in* | his present residence is «i M surance Co. at 721 YS. Mason St., 'N. KlUhart ave. He Heeurod his Milwaukee. Ph.D. and M.K. while attending. Since 1931 the Greenes have Milwaukee Stale Teachers, college, lived in Whitefish Bay at 1021, EJ» Northwestern university and Mar Circle dr. Their two grown chil quette university. dren have \ett their parents' Hi« original position WUH at the home, Mrs* Hugh I. Ross ot Shore- Pleasant View school ot. Milwau wood is the Greenes' daughter, A kee*. Coming to WhltefiBh Hay In son, Robert/ of Rockford, 111.,'. Is 192 6 a.s principal of the Cumber engaged to be married. land school, he wan later trans About one year ago Greene was ferred to hirt present location. appointed as a village trustee to- Woodworking and gardening complete the unexpired term of occupy much of hi* spare time. another trustee. Last April he was He Is a member of Phi Delta Kap elected4 for ft three-year term. He pa. belongs to the public safety and personnel and publicity commit tees 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 •• • •"*•" (** Dr% £dtf>tn G.6CL+<2~ •7. That .same year ;he began his In 1923, atter graduation from pre-medical studies nt the Milwau the University of Wisconsin, Dr. kee Normal, whJ*-*t the^aii^tyj won country-wide acclaim. Health; examinations for school children •' His internship he served"*!! the are (particularly thorough; *»dj[ very much more extensive than In; Presbyterian hoapltal in Chicago, v Milwaukee hospital and Milwau the vast majority ot schools. Dr.| kee Children'e hospital. Gute'e years of service to the vll4 Dr. Gute began the practice of lage and the schools have won" medicine in Whiterlsb Bay on him a place of high esteem among; June 16, 1926, and in April, 19,27, the residents of Whitefish Bay. ! was made village health commis sioner, 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 •^^^pff^vP?^'" Remember New Village Clerk 1 Way Back When Is a Daughter of Miss Artherine Harper in a. feature appear* Village Employee j ing in the Herald back in February, 1914,.';. What manner of woman is this > wrote the following concerning a Whiteflsib Vera Gross, who after the April Bay resident: 2 election will be the second Commissioner of health for the village of woman official of the village? Whitefish Bay—a lugrious title surely, call (Alma Shepherd, treasurer, is ing up visions of a solemn, bewhiskered the first woman official at the I medic. Haunted by childhood memories of village hall.) the traditional family doctor, I mustered my* She is a quiet, alert young dignity before ringing the *bell beside the? woman, thoroughly familiar bronze name plate, inscribed "Edwin B» with village affairs through her years as assistant to William Volkmann, who recently aiir However, the quick smile and friendly • nounced his retirement after 30 ^manner of Dr. Gute waived dignity. (And hlsi- years of service. tonsorial affectation is limited to*a neat line,, Daughter of a veteran village/ on his up£er lip, the obvious, gesture of a.1 employee, the late William Staf- very young man trying to borrow a fe*f yeara field, she is a native of the vil lage. Her father served as vil from Father Time.) But his you tin is not lage marshall, street commis- • that of inexperience, but ot fresh and bound sioner and at the time of his less enthusiasm f 6r his work. death was foreman of street maintenance. She was born in His campaigns for health education andl the home at 919. E. Lexington - disease prevention have attracted statewide blvd., which she and her hus band, Herbert E. Gross, now ! attention and have made Whitefish Bay's occupy. ...-,:./--,- y-.y f health chart unusually clean. Mrs. Gross attended Whitefish ; Bay grade schools and was grad uated from Shorewood high \xtfb/4&**d itlXwX. school. She started her village y hall career as a switchboard operator April 29, 1931. In De cember, 1933, she became Clerk Volkmann's assistant. She was Mrs. Gross Rounds Out • married to Mr. Gross, violinist and teacher, on May 7, 1938. Her I husband is a member of the Mil- 50 Years of Service to ! waukee Symphony orchestra and is employed by a local fac Village for Her Family tory. When Vera Gross ceases to When Volkmann retired, she was The new clerk told a Herald be Whitefish Bay's village clerk elected to the office of clerk and reporter that taking over the job has completed one term. whicri Mr. Volkmann did so, well at the end of this month her for so many years is a challenge, family will have completed more Ten years ago, she became but added that she is looking than fifty years of service for Mrs. Herbert E. Gross. Her hus •forward to it with confidence the village., band teaches violin and plays and pleasure. ' j Her father, the late William with symphony orchestras. He is 'Staff ield, became marshal! of a member of the Music Under Whitefish Bay in 1897 and con the Stars orchestra. XiV I9¥6 tinued on in village service un- Mrs. Gross intends to devote ^til his death in 1933. He was her time in playing his aecom-j paniments and the accompani- j I Mrs. Gross, then Vera Staf- ments for his pupils. She studied j *field, became a switchboard op piano during her grade school erator in the village hall April, and high school days. She is a 11931, and continued in this post graduate pF Shorewood high. (until February, 1932. She re- Mrs. Gross will also go in for Smained out of village service un- extensive gardening at her ytil Dec. 15, 1933, when she went home, 919 E. Lexington blvd. to work in the, clerk's office. One of her specialties are iris. William Volkmann was clerk. She has 12 different varieties. &•• yfXwt 7 X*^ w *¥3 Joseph Hogaa June 6, 1926 CraCROE H&3E, mSBB CHII? warRKPBs B^r 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?k^wi for tueuty fow yaare* larly ia life 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 lf 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£* 'W. Hehlng and banting &*** tfe* chief fe principle eporte and he likes 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'll 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* it 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 Wfeitefiah Buy, 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. 1* $ O0^f10y Fertile Grams Polices Park Once v .v zj ;.^hf^? Farmed by Grandfather Grams WHITEFISH BAY HERALJ> iBy Madeline Dahl Nagle Friday, Aug. 8, 1947 - - Page 3 F$rdinand Grams, 5955 N. •Lafofe dr., is known to practi cally 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 him self 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 was paved with concrete in grandfather to buy horses for the 1914. f<,arm. They traveled to the Illi He was a pupil at the old nois port by boat. Coming home Green Tree school and was the in a storm one time they landed first boy to graduate from the in Kenosha, instead of Milwau first grade school ever built in kee. Whitefish Bay. ... This school Once, a long, long time ago he burned to the ground in 1918. went to Lake Namakagon near Ashland. That is the farthest he Collected Glass has ever been from home. He remembers how he fished, For the last 27 years he has hunted and trapped along this lived at the Lake dr. address. A section. He chuckles when he bachelor, he has two widowed tells of the two summers he sisters, Mrs. Elsie Czerwan and Ferdie Grams worked as a "glass collector" Mrs. Annie Hecker, living with (gathering up empty beer him/ They manage the house glasses) at Pabst's Whitefish hold, while he acts as a special $30 an Acre Bay Resort, where there were policeman in the Bay, policing He knew this area as the old 150 waiters, a German brass Klode park, once his father's : Grams farm. His grandfather band and yodelers. farm land. He has been a spe bought 21 acres of lake front His father was on the village cial officer since January 18, property in 1866 at $30 an acre. board of trustees from 1898 un 1937 — exactly ten years. Klode park is the south half of til 1900 and was again elected in But this is not his first vil the cud Grams farm. 1903 and served on the board lage service. Since he was 17, Ferd's father fought in the until his death in 1912. he has been working for the Civil war, returning in 1869 to marry Annie Engle and to settle Assessor •to* Six Years village. He hauled gravel with Fred belongs to the Ind- his team of horses and did,^ (down on the farm land, now con : certed into avenues. Eleven chil pendent Order of Foresters. He many odd and useful tasks to| | was assessor in the village for help build up the vicinity, now > dren were born to them, three boys and eight girls. Two boys six years, 1914-15-16-17-18-19. termed the "Gold Coast." died in jnfancy. Following years Although he has never married, have taken three of the girls. he is very fond of children. How Those still surviving in addi else could he have gained the tion to Ferd and his home-mak- affection of the hundreds of kid I era are Mrs. Lillian Dickman, N. dies he looks after at Klode Woodburn st.; Mrs. Hulda Hage- beach and the park during the man, N. 12th st., and Miss Hattie summer — and those he directs Grams, who has been in the em across the street and boulevard ploy of Mrs. Erma Adams, N. at Richard school during school Shoreland ave., for 31 years. days? Hardwood for $2 a Load Mr/. E. J. Zeiler,fianta Mon Ferdie has watched Whitefish ica blvd., principal of Richard • Bay grow up. When he was a school, often mentions how boy, this land was raw and rug Ferdie is beloved by all chil ged. He recalls his father tell dren. And Ferdie loves the ing of blasting stones and stumps children—he loves every stick, to clear space to build the farm stone and grain of sand in the home. Stones and stumps slid village — he loves the lake, down the hill. the village and its people. Ferd remembers when the He told me that he loves his best hardwood could be job — and even though he, is v 7 bought for $2.00 a cord; when only a "special policeman" arid Day ave. was paved with cedar not on the regular force, he is as blocks in 1892 — and when it proud as if he were the "chief." «<*t, ' t't[^'i^i^fammammmmttlmmmmmm»mmmmttimmmmmmm» .m —, ...... •« ,.•-.• .tf ,j^» « m i •. i ..Wm i ,.')' w^—— Gabel Awarded^ **&?( mission Post Y'->V,4J$ William Volkman was "of VheTamel Law Talent 'Zz4& opinion of Gabel's knowledge of hisj office. MHe has taken a greater; in*-> terest and has a more thorough uin r of fame. . . And now that samef Frank l&lode, president of the Vil : George H. Gabel, Village Attorney*' lage} of Whitefish, Bay,' was high .in |of the Village of Whitefish Bay, 'baft •his praise of his able aide. "W© are 5| had it come to him through his ap-V all happy to know that George has !pointment to the Metropolitan Sew been awarded this honor and we 1 erage Commission for a lifetime 1 know he surely deserves all the hon- * term. * $ ors that can be given to him." ? Village Citizen Since 1011 He is one of three men to have ;i *To say that George Gabel's ac- ; this honor bestowed upon him. It j quaintance with Village affairs was j is as honor, although it also is a | only learned through books would ^ long and difficult task. The plans <| be an untruth; he has been a Villag for construction of all sewer arranged.til er himself since Shorewood was in 'meats throughout the entire county*'"3 ks infancy. Before 1911, he catnen with the exception, of the City "o4T 3 to settle in the Village. Immedi ^Milwaukee, will fall on his and ni& | ately, he was recognized for his prow two companions' shoulders. It is nov\ J ess in the study of law and was^ ap- i small bit of work; rather it involves" || pointed; attorney in 1911 and served j /millions of dollars and a great deal;|j on the Village Board until 1919Vj < of intelligent and patient advise; ;* Z$M While at the same time' and' untir'j J Shorewood, Too, Claims Him '\X^ 1922 or 23,, he acted as advisor ins| ^ Shorewood, too, even as the Bay^lf legal matters for the Shorewood5 j 'has a hold on Mr. Gabel, as he is-j school board. $ fa resident of that community, living;! Then in '22, Whitefish Bay took J at 4066 North Stowell, and it was I* J him away as its own Village Attor--\ happy to hear of his appointment.^ ney and he continues to serve ins thatl But members of the board with capacity. , 1 Vhom he works were particularly 5j ^Mr, Gabel. is a member of the* ] eager to praise him and his fine work fwbiteflsh Bay Blue Lodge and a di-f > and constant efforts in the office [rector of the Bank of, Shorewood. 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 RAY HILLER—Trustee lee, the bftrSTSt/fcealifc-*md*:is^i Ray Hiller was appointed as a chairman ot public safety. Hv wHtV: village trustee in December, 1940, >e up for reelection in 19W&*f£i to fill the vacancy left by the Having been connected with the^, R. K. Healy death of Sam Rhue. He serves on real eatate business for the paat^ 11. K. Healy has had the un- the finance and claims commit / 2,2 years, Hiller was appointed a* Y u&ual pleasure of witnessing the tee, the board of health and is • I manager of Milwaukee Properties: < formation and growth of two high chairman of public safety. He will "*\ bureau by Governor Hell* He is -v schools, Shorewood and Whitefish be up tor reelection in 1943. i ; ; also secretary-treasurer of the . Hiller-Armitage Co;> with offices Bay. When the Shorewood system Having been connected with thev.; was organized, he became head of real estate business tor the past [at 808 N. Third st* Milwaukee. •> " the science department, which po 2,2 years, Hiller was appointed as " v Hiller was born on J une 11, 1899, in Milwaukee, where his < sition he held for seven years. manager of Milwaukee Properties r Then he came to Whitefish Bay bureau by Governor Hell. He is family has lived since before the to be principal of the Richards i also secretary-treasurer of the ' j Civil war. His schooling was re- Hiller-Armitage Co., with offices »; ceived at West Division hlgl* 1 Street school. After a year, the I i school. Whitefish Bay high school was I at 808 N. Third Bt.f Milwaukee. completed and Mr. Healy assumed'' , Hiller was born on June 11, ) Married for 19 years, the H1I-" his, present position there as prin 1899, in Milwaukee, where his j lers have three sons. Burt, the , cipal. family has lived since before the ji eldest, plans to enter Wisconsin .' Coming from Drayton, N. D., he Civil war. His schooling was jre-* ;J university next fall. Perry, age 15, , now resided at 836 Lake Forest ceived at West Division hlfch 'will be a junior at Whitefish Bay ave. He received his 1*. S. degree school. high school, and the youngest boy, I at Mainline university, and his, • Married for 19 years, the Hll- Don, 12, is a sixth grader at Cum M. A. at Columbia university. lera have three sons. Burt, the berland school. The Hillers hare - Mr. Healy enjoys vacationing in eldest, plans to enter Wisconsin resided in the Bay for 14 years, university next fail. Perry, age 15. living now at 1581 B. Black- the north woods with his two: thorne pi. strapping sons,, John and George.! will be a junior at Whitefish Bay After 13 years with the White-} high school, and the youngest boy, Playing bridge- is Hiller'a fav fish Bay school system, Mr. Heaty- Don, 12, is a sixth grader at Cum-* ! orite hobby although he, alee, en can look back on work well done.] berland school. The Hiller* hare joys golf at the Tripoli Country ^•'*v.!w-.,:-:.vi^?,i-!vi;i.1 ri,-:;,.4;i..,i:r.,,.4f.;,;;, <^.: ;.:.t.-Y$ resided In the Bay for 14 yeara, V club* Cud worth post of the American • «vto* Ti^^iJi-aLisji.vJ^ :W&m Legion, the Lions club and the Real Estate board claim Hiller1 U-tl-l9*f3L as a member. He is the past pree- * U>f6 l4&A*ld ident of the Real Estate board and the Lions club. He is ranked as a second degree Mason of tne> - Masonic Order? Thursday, June 4, 1942 Y • In 1924 Chief HageHBullt his| i own home at 4921 N. Cumberland 1 George Hage, Police blvd. Chief Hage was married] June 14, 1916, to Louise Hussong, Chief Since 1927 and they have two sons J one 19 George Hage, the present and j . studying electrical engineering at second police chief of Whitefish the Vocational school, another 25 Bay, was born Sept. 17, 1889, in, } with the air corps at Chanute De Pere, Wis. field in Illinois, and a daughter He received his early education -. 22. in the school^ of De Pere and la- ! Chief Hage is a member of the ter was apprenticed to a carpenter < Masonic lodge, and a charter mem . at which trade he worked for 4 ber of the Loyal Order of Moose, years. Early in life he exhibited j having been a member of the lat executive ability and this quality , ter since 1912. was soon recognized. He became ' Fishing and hunting are Chief superintendent of construction for Hage's principal, sports and he the H. J. Sellner Construction Co. likes to make his way up to the ot Green Bay, Wis., and in this ca northern part of the state when pacity he visited many parts of ". time permits. When his policing the state, including Whitefish . days are over and his children Bay. His pleasant personality and 1 Ygrown and married, you'll prob-j integrity gained him many friends !• ably find your congenial friend; and acquaintances throughout the and protector building himself a; state but the rustic charm of • cabin among the pines up north 'j Whitefish Bay appealed to him and fishing and hunting to his and on Dec. 5, 19,23, the future heart's content. But to the wri police chief moved to the village. ter's knowledge the people of Hage continued to work at the Whitefish Bay do not want this to carpenter trade until 1927, when take place for many years to j on May 1, he was appointed chief v come, for while it has been his^ of police, succeeding Thomas K. \. duty for the past 15 years to* Callahan, who resigned after one f reprimand and correct the chil-' year. ^ dren and sometimes to arrest the ' Under the able leadership of |' adults, his justice and patience Chief Hage the department has < have gained him a host of friends grown from two motorcycle men in Whitefish Bay. in 19,27 to ten regular police of ficers in 1942, including two night u;pe) \Unaid, operators. t Reprint From The Milwaukee Journal ,,•**• ^•,-*,.-,-, . , v s T , .••••;• • V . •• . .Y Y., /. • •• ••.»: vY^'''' 'iYY,;Y -,YY 1 Julius Pi Heil, governor of Wis- dayij Governor Heil will see the cousin and a resident of White- paratie'tfrom the reviewing stand fish; Bay- for many; years, will be on >t»fe »athletic' field; at the high the guest of honor at the Golden school! and later, will address|the Anniversary 'celebration on Sun- lf)F6 ffa^ (p. if- /f& hv uration of Heil to Held Next Monday Bay Contingents. | Will Take Part 1 of young folks will number about" in Ceremonies 120 persons and on the trip will occupy special cars on the gov Boy Scouts and Band Will ernor's train. Charles Roeder, in structor in the Whitefish Bay March in Procession schools, will head the Boy Scout With Other Groups * delegation and the band will be under the direction of Edgar All state roads will converge^ Kundman. Miss Mary Keating on Madison for the inauguration.; will also accompany the party. of Wisconsin's new governor,* Julius P. Heil, on Monday of next! In recognition of the signal week, Jan. 2, and the capitol city* honor which has come to the will he packed with enthusiastic * north shore, Hell's home town well-wishers gathered there to* newspaper, the Whitefish Bay participate in the pageantry andt Herald, has chartered a special to see the induction of a new re-< car on the governor's train. Close gime into state public offices. . Xl friends and business associates Whitefish Bay will be amply 5 will be on board the special car represented on Jan. 2 because* and will march in the triumphal this' inauguration holds a special*; parade. This week's issue of the Whitefish Bay Herald is dedicat interest for the residents of that : village inasmuch as the majority! ed to Mr. Heil's inauguration and of voters throughout the state j the best wishes of the entire or chose a Whitefish Bay man, Jul-, ganization are extended to him in ius P. Heil, as their governor for] this issue. the next two years. ' '>: Perhaps the largest contingent;! to attend the inauguration cere monies next week Monday will be the members of the three Boy ? Scout troops, Nos. 7.2, 134 and \ 400, and the entire Whitefish Bay\ 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 '* 5S Bay Fireman Is Voters Turn to fjKfy Whitefish Bay Injured in Fall ^4TZX(L ^J^VtAAl^L Mon. Afternoon for New Pilot / Damage to Home Estimat North Shore Ballots Fall ed at $1,500; Cause of on Republican Soil in Blaze Unknown Record Vote Tuesday Voters of Wisconsin turned^ to William Hoppenrath, 10,21 E. the north shore Tuesday and^elgr Henry Clay street, Whitefish vated one .TnHna P fr^n nf Bay, a member of the Whitefish | 1oThe high* Bay fire department, is in serious i^ireflsr'W'i..ip '. highest condition at Columbia hospital as position within their power * to a result of v injuries sustained award in thest^ when he was thrown from the With a commanding Majority, roof of a blazing home at 1,218 that was evidenced with the re E. Henry Clay street, to the flag ceipt of the ve?y first election re stone walk below, a distance of turns, Hell continued to pile up a more than 20 feet, Monday after yote that bore evidence of a great noon. trust put in his ability as a po According to Fire Chief Henry tentially strong chief .executive. Asen, the accident occurred when ! While the Heil vote of the pressure was applied to a hose north shore may have been partly which Hoppenrath was holding ae because of a neighborly feeling he stood on the roof of the burn t toward a fellow townsman, the ing home. The pressure caused traditional Republican tenor of the hose to swing wildly and the area vote was reflected in i Tuesday's balloting. Whitefish Hoppenrath lost his balance and J was thrown to the ground. Bay, 'the home town of Julius P. J Heil, gave him a total of 2,933 The fire was discovered by {votes with a scant 405 for La neighbors at 2:05 p. m. Monday Follette and 66 for the Demo and the Whitefish Bay fire de cratic candidate, Harry W. Bol partment was called immediate ens. Shorewood, with its rela ly. An electric clock which had tive claim for neighborhood rec stopped when wire leading to it ognition, gave Heil 4,609 votes as had burned off showed the time against 757 for La Follette and as 1:10 p. m., and Chief Asen 184 for Bolens. concluded that the fire had been .burning more than an hour be Fox Point gave Heil 414 votes, fore the firemen were called. The La Follette 26,' and Bolens 5, firemen were able to confine the while River Hills voted 167 for •flames to a smail section of the Heil, 20 for La Follette and 7 for | attic where it originated. The Bolen. i cause of the fire is still unknown In the senatorial race, Alexan •although it is believed that de der Wiley of Chippewa Falls was fective wiring may have started by far the principal choice of the the blaze. The estimated loss was north shore with Shorewood cast $1,500, which was covered by in ing 3,991 votes on the Republi surance. The house is occupied can ticket, 675 for Ekern, Pro by John Kelly and his family, and gressive, and 8 56 for F. Ryan is owned by H. Hoelzer, 944 E. Duffy, Democratic incumbent. Sylvan avenue. . • Whitefish Bay voted 2,59,2 for Wiley, 339 for Ekern and 42C for Duffy. The Fox Point vote for United States senator was ////7//ftf 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. sena tor. ti/io/in$ Editor's Note: This is the third of i series of articles on village officials Retires Hunting and fishing , are the fa vorite recreations of the man who is October! responsible for the protection of Whitefish Bay residents, and their • Patrolman Orval property r— Chief of Police George Meister Named Police ifflWiTjiH| Hage. '' * '' : \ *; *• • » Y ' - *-;* * , iMx! The chief also likes a good foot Lieutenant { , Y * ball or baseball game. But hunting and fishing have an irresistible ap Police Chief George H. Hage Quits'Siiburbli peal for him and beckon him every .resigned Monday night. His res }< ' .. «,'Y"L ' ?-'"' ' -% year to tne north woods. He likes to! ignation, effective Oct. 1, was hunt deer, rabbits,, ducks and other accepted by the village board School Board- game. '"' > > > "with regret.*' -/• * , ' • j >4 Hage was 60 years of age this A resident of the village since De-i month and has been head of Nelson Hall Disagrees cember, 1923, Chief Hage has beeh? the police department for 22 at the head of the village police de years. He was appointed Police With partment since May 1, 1927. He en : Chief May 1, 1927 to succeed the" joys his work because something dif {late Thomas Callahan, the J3ay's Voters on Bonds ferent happens every day. "You nev ! first police chief. Callahan Nelson C. Hall^ director of the er know what to expect," he declares, l served but one year. Whitefish Bay school board and a v. Before coming to Whitefish -Bay,; board member since 1934, has re Department Grew signed because of Tuesday's refer Chief Hage lived in Depere, Wis. He •\ At the time Hage became chief served five years with the United endum vote which rejected a bond of the Bay police force it con issue for construction of a new States shipping board during the sisted of two motorcycle patrol World war. Whitefish Bay elementary school men. The department now itj-r, in the town of Milwaukee. In a let- j He is married and has three chil eludes 13 members; ter to Mrs. T. J. Kuemmerlein, dren — a boy who is a senior in Hage will retire to Spider- board secretary, Hall explained his ; Whitefish Bay High school, a girl Lake, along the Manitowich Wa position as follows: "The Whitefish In the eighth grade of Henry Clay ters, Wis., an area in which he Bay voters by an overwhelming jchool, and another boy in the sixth has spent numerous vacations majority have effected a funda grade of Cumberland school. His hunting and fishing. This sum mental change in the long range home is at 4921 N. Cumberland bou mer he started building an all- school building program which I levard. year round home on his Spider cannot conscientiously endorse. In Lake property. The home is not justice to these voters, I feel that yet completed. my place on your board should be 'Injiio' I-UAA^ Anniversary in May held by one who is in accord with When Hage observed his 22nd the decision of the majority. Here anniversary with the police with isjmy. resignation, effective 1Q force last May he was presented days from date, which will allow a with a huge bouquet of flowers reasonable time for appointment of fey police; officers and village my successor," *f hall personnel. - •? Hall's letter.was dated Septi27l Hage will retirte on a pension; He said he delivered'it to Mrs. of approximately? half of hitf! Kuemmerlein after the board meet $350 a month salary. V ,.' ing Wednesday night.v Orval Meister, 4790 N. Shef Hall declined to discuss the let field ave., was, named police ter further! He said he believed it lieutenant by the board to sucf stated all that he had tajsay. Hall lives at 6166 N. Kent 'a$jft 111 ceed Lieut. Arthur F. Priebe; Whitefish Bay voters rejected trie Meister has been on the police proposed $362,000 bond issue by force, since 1940/ 2,518 to 815. At the same time they approved a $280,000 bond is sue for an addition to the Cumber land school, 2,653 to tjf%, Tl\£i board had* urged appro\$_$Qf WQP| f&XaJtcP bond issues. * \ • """ 5 J . . ; {ZA&TJ At 95, cop tops 'em all located to the rear of the old Village Hall, derly conduct," he said. By Mimi Bird on the southwest corner of N. Marlbor-, Hage recalled the village acquisition in ost roads were dirt, the departme ough Dr. and E. Lexington Blvd. Target the 1930s of the land for Buckley Park, the nt had only two men, and the practice took place in a basement room. small park south of Big Bay Park. "It Msqua d car was a Chevy coupe, "Any responsible person could bring his should have been named 'Employee's when George Hage became Whitefish .22 rifle or pistol and ammunition there Park,'" he said. "They (the Village Board) Bay's second police chief. and practice," Hage said. "We had a lot of didn't have any money appropriated for The year was 1927. good times down there seeing who was this purchase. In order to pay for it they Now 95 (96 in September), Hage best." Later, when the library moved into took it out of our hide. They cut me back recently returned to live in the North the room, target practice continued at the $100 a month, cut all village employees Shore, with a son and daughter-in-law in Whitefish Bay Armory in the afternoons. salaries back except for one who was an River Hills. elected official. They wanted the park Appearing remarkably robust, he suf age said the Whitefish Bay Police land right then instead of waiting for it. fers only a light hearing loss and dimin Department was the first police They reluctantly gave us the money owed ished eyesight. His memory is remark H department in Milwaukee County us the nextffety:" T|i2a**v ^ page 3 THE HERALD AUGUST 29, 1085 fc Xj^OLHJL. *K- CrfLoA^A^U 3: 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. HAUPTZ^ Color adds dash, class at Fashions at Large By Kathryn Esser Haupt said. "It's their store." A place where finding bigger sizes isn't a he tall Victorian house at 130 chore, she said. W. Silver Spring Dr. has been Many women have been loyal T the location of Fashions At customers for many years. As their Large for 14 years. It is a small shop lives changed, so did the store. Now, that specializes in clothing for the the store carries a wide selection of bigger woman. business apparel including Pendle Walking into the shop the first ton suits from the Large Women thing you will notice is the rainbow line. of colors. "This is my influence," said Over the last few years, Ms. Haupt Joe Anna Haupt, the owner. "When I and her staff have helped coordinate bought the store last year, this was interview outfits and business war one of the first things I did; the other drobes for clients who have been out was to carry swimwear all year of the work force for years and want long." advice with updating and completely She lives at 614 E. Beaumont Ave., changing their way of dressing. Whitefish Bay. Large women have to get away Many women have come to depend from wearing neutral colors all the on Fashions At Large for fashionable time, said Ms. Haupt. "It's a trap garments in bigger sizes that com that needs to be overcome." bine classic styles, good quality and, That is why the clothes are in many cases, natural fibers. displayed in a way that does not "Women love coming here," Ms. 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^ OWNER OF FASHIONS AT LARGE, 130 W. Silver Spring Dr., (Continued on next page) ' ' 17,, fhtjJ Xf&fgl Business Buying is one aspect she enjoys r (Continued from preceding page) most, she said. She generally goes to this country are a size 16 or larger, the Chicago Merchandise Mart sev she said. eral times a year to choose clothes "One shouldn't worry over a figure for the upcoming season. Then there problem, everyone has at least one," are the salespeople who bring sam Ms. Haupt said. "I want people to ples into the store. "It is more feel good about themselves, to get on realistic to see the clothes where with their lives." they will be sold," Haupt said. Haupt was manager of the Elm Big sellers this holiday season Grove Fashions at Large store before were shiny, silky-looking tops with becoming owner of the Whitefish skinny-legged bottoms. This spring, Bay shop. 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He wrote to begin by July applications for community development block grants in 1975 and 1977, and for a By Mary Schuchmann He is a past president of the Port federal recreation grant for development of Washington-Saukville United Way; chair Michael Harrigan, village administrator a nature preserve in 1978. in Saukville and formerly assistant village man of the finance committee of Immacul ate Conception Parish, Saukville; and past He also supervised technical studies on planner in Shorewood, has been picked as garbage carts, market research on land the new village manager in Whitefish Bay. secretary and member of the board of directors of the Saukville Lions Club. development and a plan to use citizen help He succeeds David Weis, who resigned in creating a comprehensive plan for the in January for personal reasons. In Shorewood, he was president of the Shorewood Men's Club in 1978-79. village of Shorewood. The Village Board will formally approve Harrigan is married and has two sons, HarriganV appointment at its meeting ages 7 and 2. Monday, April 2. He will be paid $35,000 a Harrigan said Tuesday he was year. "extremely excited about the opportunity" Harrigan, 33, has served as the first full- in Whitefish Bay. "I'm anxious to get on time administrator in Saukville, an the job." He plans to move to Whitefish Ozaukee County community of 3,500. , While the position means personal Bay, he said, regarding residency as "essen Before coming to Saukville in 1979, he professional advancement, Harrigan said it tial" to being a good administrator. worked for six years in Shorewood, with also means taking what he regards as "one Whitefish Bay trustees finalized their the title of management assistant, com of the best jobs in the state." choice of Harrigan in a closed session held munity development. He expects to start in Whitefish Bay after Monday night's committee meeting. He holds a bachelor's degree in political about July 1. Because his current employer During the open committee meeting, science from Marquette University, and gives a 90-day notice to employees, Har j Trustee Ralph Knoernschild questioned 1 the search process for a new manager, has five credits remaining in work on a rigan said it was only fair that he do the 1 master's degree in urban affairs at the same, allowing Saukville the chance to charging that details of the search were not University -of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He find a replacement before he leaves. kept confidential. also attended Northwestern Junior College, If a successor_is found before July 1, he He said that, at one point, his Sterling, Colo. (Knoernschild's) opponent for village will come to Whitefish Bay earlier than president, F. Patrick Matthews, knew more planned. about the progress of the search than h In the next three months, he said, he as an elected official. plans to learn as much as he can about Whitefish Bay and spend some time with Despite being told that the matter would local officials "so I'll be ready to go.M be discussed later that night in the closed Harrigan said it was premature for him to session, Knoernschild pressed on, insisting speculate on what kind of challenges he he was going to get to the bottom of what will face in Whitefish Bay. he called a "leak" on the Village Board. He He said the North Shore suburb differs mentioned the name of a candidate for the from Saukville in its stage of development. job. As a rapidly expanding community, Sauk Other trustees reacted angrily, accusing ville "has the growing pains that Whitefish Knoernschild of disclosing personnel in Bay did in the 1920s and 1930s," he said. formation that was reserved for closed ses Bradley Hoffmann, chairman of the sions. Village Board's Personnel Committee, There followed an emotional exchange which handled the village manager search, between Knoernschild and several said Harrigan comes to Whitefish Bay trustees. "with the highest qualifications." Hoffmann said Tuesday that Knoernschild "embarrassed the board by Said Hoffmann: "He is highly his discussing personnel matters in thought of by people he has worked for and public." with. He got some outstanding plaudits Knoernschild "acted unprofessionally," from some Shorewood trustees, and his Hoffmann said. "He doesn't understand peers in the Grafton-Saukville area gave the professional way in which a manage ment person is selected." him high recommendations." In a telephone conversation Tuesday, Hoffmann said Harrigan helped to create Knoernschild said he was willing to forget a financial turnaround in Saukville, enab the Monday night clash. "It's time to look ling the community to balance its budget ahead," he said. 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." 0&\ H 7X. £( «. 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 Founder Dies spent, He iestablUshed an armature ! ! winding plant on the north side and Henr!y R."-Kih^ sW; ' also establji hed a plaint manufac turing autdmohile lam pa. Both of t ! ;;dehI^:Stricken|at His them ,were successful. { Collector of Antiques For more 1han 50 years Mr. King's broej6tH Park; Place greatest hobby was to collect an £Uj .-.- | • .• • ltiques . He*, vas said to have one. of l.'King, 75, the first presl- jthe finest .|collQctions n the state, j dent of the Milwaukee Athletic club', IAmong the i irticles in. 1 he collection I founded 61! years ago, and} for many iiwere a Pcrsi m shawl, n ore than 300 i years a member Wears old, vf'iich he obialncd.nearly ' ot the printing JtfO years! ago; a copy of the .Bible Arm of ./King, •Pauperum. (Uible W the Poor - Man. f Fowle & Cramer, jwhich' wis,p-intefl fron plates made died suddenly lin 1534, and of wtfich h> copies have Wie dnesday neen known to be printed since, and rHfcht ,at his Ithree conesi from' the sjacred cedars ^home, 348 ; Park of Lebanon ^jfrom'whlcl k the timbers •place. Although of King Solojmonfs temble were 'cut. j'he« had been in *.. For man^ years tor. King was a [poor health for vestryman jdf Sti, Jam JS* , Episcopal church. I Hd formerly played the i-some time, he ! t j,had not -been thlmes there! ,. ; i Survivingjlkini are a d wghter, Mrs. {'•seriously ill, and ! j the heart attack Helen King Ott; two sons, Harry (; which he j: suf ^Juneau Kingl Chicago, md Paul Ju- fered Wednesday jneau King,! [Milwaukee, and three! was unexpected. grandchildren, Jane E izabeth Ott, Mr. King was, H.RlXing , pbhn Mbrrow King anc Marian •;Ju ! able to vote! in . f , neau King, I jfthe primary election Tuesday. ;. j. I Funerar services will be held at i It was around a corner taple in the the undertaking rooms of Fred C, [old Noble restaurant in the fcasemfenjl Fass # Son,! 730 Third st., at 2 p. m'i.; 'of the Mackjbuilding at E. >Vater si Saturday. Burial will >e in Forest jand E. Wisconsin av. that Mr. King Home cemetery. /and,two frierids originated [the ldep i Besides the old Light -iorse squad (of a; Milwaukee Athletic cjub. jThci ron and the,. Athletic club. Mr. King friends were Atty. John M. W. Pratt| was a memb ?r of I the Old Settlers) 313 Summit av., and the late| Charlel' club in Milw mkee for many years.4 W.-Norris. This was in November1 He was a native of Troy, N. Y., but' 1878. After several public mhetings was brought to; this ci^y when he had been called to arouse interest. was only 5 v£ars old '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 dedi cation 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. Re 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- C3 m. Case of the missing ex-sheriff »/»/tv Bay lawman vanished with $20,000 more than 80 years ago By Amy Rabideau Silvers back for Christmas and we had the baby's Christ of The Journal Staff mas tree waiting for him in hopes he would arrive at the last moment, but he didn't come .... I am Whitefish Bay — He was the black sheep of sure he will be here sooner or later." ! Whitefish Bay. But he was never seen again. He was Fred Isenring, one of the area's most Body never found prominent citizens at the turn of the century. The stories continued to make the papers for And, one day, he disappeared. weeks. A headline in The Milwaukee Journal on It was later learned that an estimated $20,000 in Jan. 10, 1900, declared: "Isenring Books Spirited funds he was responsible for as Milwaukee Coun Away." The story called the disappearance of an ty sheriff were unaccounted for. old trunk in the sheriffs office, which may.have contained Isenring's missing records, "a profound Even today there are no answers on what may mystery." have happened to him. A Whitefish Bay historian, The trunk later turned up, without the most- Judy Kloman, has been as fascinated with the wanted records, and had probably been taken by questions as Isenring's contemporaries were. Isenring's friends, Kloman said. After all, at one time or another in the 1890s, Later that month, Isenring's brother told The Isenring was Milwaukee County sheriff, the first Milwaukee Journal that the family believed he village president of Whitefish Bay and the vil was dead. He said Isenring had been despondent lage's representative to the County Board. He also for a long time and might have taken his life the was manager of the posh Whitefish Bay Resort Fred Isenring day before he was to have appeared in court. His and developed three subdivisions in Whitefish body was never found, however. Bay. Does Kloman thinks Isenring committed sui "He had a really good name and was much be cide? loved," said Kloman. "He and his first wife were He left office in 1897 but failed to file financial reports for at least 18 months. "I don't buy that he was depressed," she said. leaders in the community. He started out as a very "Not any guy who could hold off the authorities respectable citizen." Finally, after repeated delays, the County Board made a formal request for the district attorney to for a couple of years. He was a hustler." She speculates that the troubled economy of the "One of the rumors is that family or business day began Isenring's problems. He owned the investigate the matter. Papers were served on Is enring, ordering him to appear in court. He did associates did him in," she said. "There must have equivalent of about eight city blocks in the village been such embarrassment and humiliation over so and probably bought them at the boom prices of not. An order was issued for the former sheriff's arrest only days before Christmas in 1899, but by many months, not to mention the financial prob the early 1890s. lems. He fell from grace. It was an embarrassment "By 1898, there was a depression," she said. that time he had disappeared. "Maybe he thought he could make it up as any One school of thought is that he's down at the "The bottom fell out of the real estate market. But bottom of the lake somewhere." he still had to pay taxes at the higher value." embezzler would," said Kloman. "I don't think, basically, he was a dishonest man but that he Yet another is that Isenring may have simply \ Money from sheriff's sales wasn't very smart or didn't think things through moved and started a new life. Rumors persisted in He also may have incurred bills from his daugh far enough ahead." the months after his disappearance that he had ter Mary's hospitalization for "rheumatism." She At the time, his second wife told a local news fled to Puerto Rico, Alaska or even south to start a later died in 1904 of tuberculosis, then considered paper that her husband, then about 45 years old, wine business. a disease caused by filth and a source of shame, had said he was going to Fond du Lac on business. "Maybe he just got on a train and never came and probably never had rheumatism, said Kloman. "He did not tell me whom he was going to see back," Kloman said. "It was easy to get lost then. The missing money was from the sheriff's sales or what the nature of his errand was," she was He could step off a train and change his name. Isenring conducted after he was elected in 1896. quoted as saying. "We were sure he would come Nobody knows what happened to him." w. %s 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. m & Bay man has seen years of life, taxes: rates, values rise every Whitefish Bay resident by Robbins added that Wisconsin By BARBARA ISAACS name, as he once did. remained a state with reasonable of The Journal staff . "* And he sometimes wishes he' "There was a time when tax rates. f Whitefish Bay'— Meivin ; ' could pay 1938 taxes instead of ' they were building too "Given what you get for what Immekus paid $177 In property ' " 1980s taxes. 59 : many houses. But! guess you pay, you get a hell of a deal, taxes on his house at 5011 N. *- When Immekus built Ms home that's progress.55 , he said. "The typical homeowner IdlewildAve.ml938.iHepaid . more than 50 years ago, It was - likes to complain about taxes, but $2,575 in property taxes on the'.' „, assessed at $5,800, at about 40% — MeMn Immekus ' ask him what he wants to give up same house for 1987.> of fair market value. In other as far as services." • " The light-brown brick Dutch ;- * • words, its resale value was about * colonial has been nicely $14,500. Today, the home is If you took the village's entire Village Manager Michael maintained, but it is basically the assessed at more than $74,300, at tax levy and assessed value Harrigan said Whitefish Bay had same house in which Immekus has 90% of market value. So his home separately and calculate the raw excellent services for the money. lived for a half-century. . i is now worth about $81,700. inflation effect on the numbers, He said he had a sense that village "Many other things have changed Of course, inflation has played both sets of figures still run about residents wished taxes were lower, during those years, some related , the major role in how times have three times higher than inflation. but that overall they were satisfied to property taxes and some not changed. One 1938 dollar was Why? with what they were getting for Immekus, like most homeowners, equal to $8.11 in 1987, according The most important reason the the money. \ r. \ has paid his taxes willingly, if not to the US Labor Department total assessed valuation went up That would be true of immekus. always happily. - ->/ Bureau of Labor Statistics. from the 1930s to the 1980s is that "What are we going to do?* So the Immekus house, if ^They take good care of us the bulk of the village was built in here," he said. ^They have good Immekus said. "We've got to pay inflated from its 1938 value, should the last 50 years. Those vacant them/, :,,, \,, ,. , . be worth $117,595, if it followed rubbish collection, good fire and lands of Immekus' memory are police." The 86-year-old man has lived inflation. worth much more now that they - in Whitefish Bay since 1907, and Although Immekus built the if have houses and other buildings on Immekus grew up in the house he has never really considered . house in 1936, he didn't pay taxes them. ;;\ next door to his current home, in living anywhere else* on it until 1938. The first two The rise in value of some older | a house that is one of the oldest in ( The changes in the area still years' taxes were forgiven under properties, especially in desirable : /the village. The area during his startlehim. •" r: y, \ Z a federal program designed to locations like Whitefish Bay, also childhood was largely farmland "I liked it better when it was :;" stimulate home building and jobs has outpaced inflation, said Michael and woods, joined by dirt roads. * . 5 during the Depression, Y more open, * he said, sitting near Robbins, an assistant professor in He attended Fleetwood Avenue ; These days, such tax breaks are ; the natural brick fireplace in his;; the department of real estate and School, the village's first school, - living room. "There was a time : just a memory , Immekus said. urban land economics at the which served fewer than 150 grade when they were building too many :•.*. Taxes are figured per $1,000 of University of Wisconsin-Madison. school students while he was there. houses. But I guess that's ... real estate's assessed value. In Robbins said that local The school was destroyed by fire^ progress.* " :f '1987, the rate was $34.66 per governments needed more and ' \Inl918, In 1938, about half of thefc ..'*\ ,-)t $1,000, which put Immekus' tax more money to operate because village's 4,500 lots were still \ ; V> bill at slightly more than $2,575, rising costs affected them, too. *;){ .Since about half of the taxes Z z; vacant. Jn 1987, just 19 of them ?-!*£ It is Indeed more than his 1938 tax Wages of municipal workersrose ; collected from most residents goes,; remained. Z-/i. ,;;'-£:?$"" bill of $177.01, but the tax rate more than inflation, as their ' toward school districts, taxes rose • In 1922 he was hired as a- '?*%?*:' even in 1938 was $30.53 per standard of living improved. Fringe rapidly as populations exploded Z mechanical engineer for the J y'Ziy- $1,000. Since then, inflation, but benefits and higher insurance costs . after the two world wars. More V nal photo by Patrick Murphy-Racey village, and in 1936 he and his wif6 also a general increase in the cost also help make employes a more people needed more services, and.' Augusta built their home. He :: Y of government, has caused tax bills expensive necessity than they were they especially needed more >me since t936 sometimes wishes he still knew ^ Y to creep up. during, the 1930s, he said. schools. , ; > ±\: Q. ir%z'-tftt i Z*3 ,i SV: Td get home a 2 a.m. and have to be up at His life was 5 a.m." Village employee 1 Jffisto^ In 1921, Whitefish Bay advertised for Whiter Melvin Joseph' teaftetos \8egto':' z two engineers, a civil and a mechanical. his life before autonibbtos and im? One of village's oldest "Thirty-two people applied for the deditwil&menwalk^ , jobs," he said. 'Torn Buckley got the civil started to work for the village of residentsZdies at age 92 engineer job, and I got the mechanical Whitefish Bay iwfwsci: He- iw!u»* tsg^c^y^ c ^' one." 20 years old, ^ %';w wV$%-*R*-> Os In 1929, he married Augusta Wald- At his funetal^ By Maureen Dietzel Merfens vogel, who was from northern Wisconsin. liceman said, i&el As a child, Melv» ouov^n numenos, pic In a 1929 wedding photo Immekus is pic tured with sister Vera, moved to Whitefish tured with his bride Augusta. He began Bay in about 1907. working for the village in 1921, retiring in 1964. y Business in Person . . . Banker's Many Hobbies Show Him as a ^Methodical Vellow1 ern structure, occupied about a year ago. Every 0, K. Johnson Appreciates Or where he can point to good arrangement and provision for future expansion. der in Gardening, Exercise and Orland Keith Johnson was born on New Year's day, 1904, on a farm near Beaver Dam, at Whitefish Bay State Bank one of five children. His parents, from Vermont and of English descent, moved to Milwaukee. By LOREN H. OSMAN In 1922, he was graduated from Washington Of The Journal Staff high school. For a banker, 0. K. Johnson can provide as During vacations, Johnson worked at Stein- many surprises as anyone in the business. meyer's grocery store, a now vanished N. 3rd You might, for instance, meet him at 6 a.m., st. institution which catered to the food whims pedaling a bicycle on the quiet streets of White- of a more leisurely Milwaukee. It was a fine fish Bay. place for a young man to pick up habits of Or find him stooping to pick a scrap of paper conservatism and hard work. His first job was off the lawn of the Whitefish Bay State bank. filling telephoned orders. Applying himself, Or engage him in a discussion on the merits he soon was promoted to "dumb waiter, boy," of Bibb lettuce, which he raises. which meant sending down orders from the This is not to say that banker Johnson gives second floor. cause for alarm as a nonconformist. Once you He Cleaned the Place at Night know the man, his hobbies appear as exten sions of his orderly philosophy of life. "This was considered a position of trust," said Johnson. What makes more sense to a financial man Then a fellow employe recommended him to than a few vegetables, utilizing the back yard? Joseph M. Wolf, president of the North Avenue Isn't a neat lawn an asset to the business? As State bank. Johnson went to work there as to bicycling, it has helped Johnson, at 55, keep a bookkeeper for $65 a month. ; his 5 foot 10 inch figure at a trim 165 pounds. His life course now set, Johnson put to work j Bank is an Example of His Careful Planning the business principles he has used ever since. ' "I am," Johnson summed up, "a methodical "I tried to learn all I could about my job," T " related Johnson. "But I also learned what I is spacious, air conditioned office, John- could about other jobs. I soon was given an traced his upward climb, which brought opportunity as a relief savings teller. With the co the presidency of the suburban bank, help of banking courses I was taking, I got presidency of the Independent Bankers' asso into much more of this." ciation and numerous posts in other organiza Johnson was not above the menial part of tions. banking. When the janitor took sick, he got The bank itself at 177 E. Silver Spring dr. is out the brooms and mops without being told testimony to Johnson's purposeful outlook. He and cleaned the bank at night. had a hand in planning the studiously mod- With the start of his banking career, John son 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 instru ments and commercial law. Even now, Johnson has not relaxed his train ing. 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 shift ed 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 pre siding 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 arrange ments," 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 —Journal Staff banks. Method is watchword of O. K. Johnson (C^ HE three sons of Mr. and Mrs. Otto R. Kuehn, 968 Circle dr., TWhitefish 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 m- Klode's Welfare Post Is Protested Resigns to Sell By Women's Clubs Land to Say' Federation Rallies Klode Then"Re-elect- dd Village President, for Battle on Friendly Suit Shows Appointment The village of Whitefish Bay. was without the services of its president, By ISABEL MC DONALD Frank O. Klode, for a few hours two ; weeks ago so Sentinel Staff Correspondent CLUBS' ACTION that a land deal SHEBOYGAN, Oct. 10— between the vil lage and a cor Organized protest against the! poration owned appointment of Frank C and'operated by OMITS KLODE Mr. Klode. could Klode, Milwaukee, as director be successfully of the new state public wel consummated. fare department was brewing Women Merely Asked Mr, Klode's in the forty-third annual conven temporary resig tion of the Wisconsin1 Federation to Reaffirm Merit nation as presi dent and trustee of Women's clubs which opened System Support i of the village here today. The federation num was.revealed in bers more than 350 clubs. « ^ ~, _, circuit court A committee, named in the'meet SHEBOYGAN, Wis., Oct. 11— F. C. Klode Tuesday in a ing on American citizenship and (Special)—No mention of the ap suit to test the validity of the trans legislation, was charged with pur- pointment of Frank C. Klode of Mil action. At a board meeting Nov. 5 suin gthe matter further, with the waukee to the directorship of the Mr. Klode resigned and G. W. Van possible view to asking the dele Derzee was named temporary presi gate ,body to go on record against new state welfare department was dent. When the deal was completed the appointment* Klode was chos contained in the resolution which Mr. Klode was again elected presi en yesterday in unanimous action reached the floor of the forty-third dent. - i,.-n - • by the new state public welfare convention of the Wisconsin Feder The transaction involves a large board. tract of park land on the lake shore ation of Women's Clubs Wednesday east of Shore drive and north of BLAST APPOINTMENT afternoon. Belle av., owned by the Fidelity Real Purpose of the committee, as In compliance with a long stand ty Co., in which Mr4 Klode is inter voiced by Mrs. Harold Peterson, ing policy of the federation, the ested. The land was offered to the village for $103,000, payable over a Milwaukee, who brought the mat resolution submitted for considera ter into the open, is to investigate 26-year period. The offer was ac facts concerning the appointment tion merely reaffirmed the principle cepted.^ > . and to consider the advisability of of the merit system instead of deal The realty company agreed to the r th£ federation's formally protest ing with a specific condition. The transaction only on 'the condition that the deal would be tested in ing it. statement will come up for action She and other opponents of the court and consequently a declara appointment maintain the new di by the delegate body tomorrow. Dis tory judgment was asked Tuesday. rector does not possess the qualifi cussion from the floor will be al The price of the land was the same cations demanded by the* bill which as that fixed by condemnation com lowed under federation rules then. missioners from which award the created the position. They are in The appointment, rought by many village appealed several months ago favor of the federation's recom individual members, came up in a but subsequently withdrew the ap mending to the public welfare meeting on legislation and Ameri peal.; * ;:,,...'• Y'; - . .board that it reconsidered the ap- can citizenship yesterday. Mrs. x pointmeny'so the head may be one Harold Peterson of the Shorewood having recognized professional and Woman's club declared the appoint scientific training required by law.", ment was illegal inasmuch as the Serving with her are Mmes, Leon new director was unqualified for ard Evans, Sheboygan, state chair the job. The opinion was echoed man of American citizenship; W, T. by others off the convention floor. Malone, Menomonie, and George After conferences between a com lo-t(-iW Strom, Milwaukee* mittee chosen at that meeting and the resolutions committee, the re sulting suggested action was one ID-lt-tW reaffirming belief in the merit sys tem, approving consideration of all candidates for state appointive of fices on a basis of training and fit ness and urging members "to apply the same standards to all candi dates in public office," ^Thursday, June 4, 1942 WHITEFISH BAY HERALD :Village'^Is-v^bIy.^Managed hy President and Boa¥~ OROVER F. KNOERNSOHHiD— ,' Y'AS a hobby, Knoernschild con-1 President verts discarded materials into Ae a graduate of the "Bchool of beautiful and useful articles. He I hard knocks/' Grover F^ Knoerns- has built and furnished an office! , child has responded to the knock * in the basement of his home at ing of opportunity. 5101 N. Cumberland blvd. as one of his projects. From junk heaps, When he was a young lad he : he collected marble slabs from attended grade school in Milwau which he has constructed a marble 3cee, where he was born in 1890. floor. liater he took a course at the A pulp container pervious to Bpencerian Business school. The air and Impervious to water is an Test of his education he acquired invention of Knoernschild's. He the hard way—-by experience and is secretary-treasurer of the com* tolght school where he * studied pany which manufacturers his v3aiathepiatiC8 and public speaking. product. „. "1 deliberately traveled from Ralph, tie knoernschildR1 son, ?3ob to job learning and studying was graduated from the Milwau the problems of help and labor/*' kee University school in 1941, and rKnoernsehild said. "I worked as J la now engaged in industrial work i bank messenger, and in the* to» qualify himself for the position credit department ot a depart- of a personnel director. On May J tment store. As assistant superin 21 he enlisted in the naval air tendent and bookkeeper X studied corps;!: J mining and the separation of min Graduating from Holy Angels ting products at a Grant county academy last spring, Marlon! • •(Wisconsin) separation plant." '• He also learned the trades of a baker and a confectioner. In Knoernschild has just completed 1 910 Knoernschild associated her first year in the liberal arts himself with the Prudential Insur course at Marquette university. I ance Company of Newark, N. J., Concerning the trustees, the' whose local office is at 110 E. president says be is satisfied that \7'^- "Wisconsin ave. From the ranks ot Whitefish Bay is governed by men bookkeeper and cashier he has of the finest caliber, each success w risen to the position of assistant ful in his own line of endeavor manager for the state of Wiscon and Berving the village unselfish sin. K ly. His ambition is to maintain For the past eight years, these standards and that officials Knoernschild has been a member- shall never hold office, if he can of the board of trustees in White- prevent it, for selfish motives or fish Bay. for any personal aspiration or "During my second term as a gain. trustee I was elevated to the ^presidency by my fellow trustees mtter the death of *' the itormer o m^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, To formulate the policies of Knoernschild expresses his appre Whitefish Bay, seven men are hension by saying, "My greatest elected by the people to act in concern is the laxity shown on the their behalf. The village presi part of the people in governmental dent, Grover Knoernschild, is the matters, best described by their chairman of the board of trustees laxity in exercising one of $he which 1B the policy-forming body greatest privileges which they of the village. Paul Stever, Hib have—the exercise of franchise." bard Greene, Charles Ray Mc By virtue of his position as vil Callum, Clarence Post, R. C. Zim lage president, Knoernschild is merman and Ray Hiller are the commander of civilian defense In present village trustees. Whitefish Bay. In addition to this, he was appointed deputy chief air raid warden of Milwaukee coun ty. •,,• , w -* /./ Honored trustee recalls debate that made splash By Mary Schuchmann Knoernschild said. The debate raged for months, he said, in public and Ralph Knoernschild was honored Monday night for in private. 30 years of service as a Whitefish Bay village trustee. At a public meeting at Henry Clay School, he Knoernschild was first elected to the Village Board recalled, a well-to-do resident argued against the pool, in 1953, and has been re-elected 10 times since then. saying that if a person wanted a pool, he should build From 1973 to 1976, he ,was also a member of the one in his own backyard, not at public expense. Whitefish Bay School Board. He is a candidate for village president in the spring That, the resident said, was what he had done for his election; own children. Asked to recall his most interesting experience as a Knoernschild said at that point, the late Glenn Elliott trustee, he talked of what he called "the great swim (a former village trustee who was "skilled in debate ming pool debate" of the early 1960s. and sharp of tongue," according to Knoernschild) He said the Village Board had set aside funds over leaped to his feet and shouted: "What I want to know the years to build an outdoor, public pool at Cahill is, how do I get to be one of your kids?" Square, but opposition developed about the time the That remark, Knoernschild said, "brought down the board was ready to advertise for bids. house." Knoernschild said some residents felt it was a fri (The pool issue was later put to a referendum, where volous use of money, while Cahill Square neighbors it was defeated by a narrow margin, and ultimately "foresaw all sorts of racket emanating from the pool," scrapped by the village.) Ralph Knoernschild THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL Thursday, January 3,1985 ccenS%^^^«WL£33Lmsa»tE Northern Milwaukee County mx£iy At our service /te^/ir Knoernschild has been at it for 33 years Ze?M JJeiMZfl <&-*l&<~/9e6> Si, r Ralph and so has thercommunity * : Hatfield said* "There'a Really not o mudh has been written and, * much a person can say at a time like said about Ralph Knoerns fthat Schild's affection for Whitefish j "I was surprised that he had done Bay and its people. Anyone In the I it, I thought it was a pretty heavy ; village who has never heard of him is . j sacrifice. He has dedicated his life to } probably a newcomer* ; the village,* .* Few people, however know why Said Knoernschild; "I feel the time Knoernschild, 65> "is not seeking is right for other individuals to have ' what would have been an unprece ; the opportunity to share their; lives dented 12th term on the Whitefish with the village. Bay Village Board. It has to do with, "I intend to stay involved through i his fondness for Whitefish Bay and : civic activities. 1 want to. continue his hope for its future. ' serving on committees and shoul* It also tells you everything you . dering my share of the responsibil i need to know about Ralph Knoerns ity. Others can now serve the child. : honored position of village trustee. I On Monday, Jan, 6, the day before wish them well.* candidates were required to file their Knoernschild, who has been a nomination papers, the village held , resident of Whitefish Bay since he its first monthly meeting of 1986. At was 10, also said he will continue to the meeting Knoernschild take time to view village matters announced he was all set to run for first-hand, if he is asked. • another three-year term. Through the years, personal However, the next day he changed involvement has been his trade his mind, His decision, he said, was mark. Whether it was traffic or based on his respect for a younger parking problems or concerns about trustee, Michael Hatfield. aesthetics, Knoernschild has made it "Mike and I had a chat at the a point to check things out for board meeting and he said yon himself and seek citizen input. t know, we might have competition/ * Knoernschild recalled. His direct approach to municipal government was soem- At that time Hatfield and thing his father, Grover, a former Knoernschild were the only candi Whitefish Bay village president, dates who had indicated they would > handed down to him, he said. run, for the two available seats. Thai was really his whole back- There was always the possibility ground and his basis for knowing that a third candidate would file on I people, enjoying people, getting to the last day, however. know their views and seeing how If this happened, Knoernschild they felt." t knew there was a, chance one of the His father's close friends, who two would lose his board seat. , were also public servants, also Knoernschild didn't want to see influenced his style. He mentioned* Hatfield, a first-term-trustee, leave * the late Roland Steinke, a former the board* Milwaukee County Circuit Court In 1984 another trustee was in a Judge, and Wisconsin Supreme similar position and lost, Knoerns* I Court Justice, Joseph Shinners, a child explained. former Milwaukee County Sheriff Knoernschild said he did some and Alexander Wiley, a former thinking at home after the board United States Senator. . meeting. "My wife (Maureen) and I "During their term a politician ; discussed this and I thought about was somebody to be looked up at,* it I said that I respect Mike, He's Knoernschild said. "The word politi : done an excellent job on the finance cian was a good word then.* committee, getting the budget in From these men Knoernschild order and really keeping taxes gained an appreciation for clean down." government, honesty and sensitivity Knoernschild decided that night to toward people. Those qualities were step down if a third candidate a "guiding light* to him, he said. entered the race. He delivered his "I wanted to do my part in nomination papers to the village government," Knoernschild said. "1 clerk on Tuesday, Jan. 7 but he left think the world was good to me and I the document that declared his owed something to my community. candidacy with his attorney. Rather than take something out of When a third candidate (David it, I wanted to put something back Belfus) appeared, Knoernschild into it.* never delivered that paper to the -To Knoernschild, putting some j clerk, thing back meant staying in touch It was a tremendous ges- with those he served. "That is my i ture, especially for a man who has {philosophy and I've always had that served on the board since 1953. philosophy," he said, That fact was not lost on Hatfield; I « 4 who admitted he was at a loss for ) "You cannot know how the ; words when he heard of Knoerns-^ -village runs unless you have the I child's decision, * fthe job has meant so much to ; ^Q^fnwtf on &*9« 7|; W- \ \ v Trustee lifts hand, not heart, from village committee with citizen representa (Continued from page 3) work as chairman of the village's "That is my dream," he said. tion is being formed to help in the health committee, a job considered Knoernschild, who served simul closeness to people and get their review process. to be a menial assignment. taneously on the village and school input. I'm a very strong supporter of The people of Whitefish Bay have The editorial listed Knoernschild's boards from 1973 to 1976, has been a that. responded positively to what contributions to village health. They frequent critic of school district *Tm on the street, I get out and Knoernschild calls his common- included his proposal for a housing spending. A favorite target has been look. I watch the parking. Ill go out touch approach. "I have people say to ordinance to regulate apartment the size of the school administration. there twice and three times a day me, *Mr. Knoernschild, you don't maintenance and his attempts to "There are too many in the admi just to see what's happening. remember me but we had some monitor the cleanliness and upkeep nistration for the number of stu "I really get involved in govern problems on our block. You were the of businesses. dents in the district," he said. ment, I get involved in Whitefish only one to come down and see and "He need do none of these things "It's been my argument, it's been Bay." try to help us.' and could twiddle his thumbs largely my discussion." Knoernschild doesn't believe all "But that's our responsibility, content to make routine reports," the the current village trustees share his even though some of the other editorial read. "But this is not the He said he would welcome an philosophy of governing. Knoernschild way.. .He is giving an advisory role to the village board but He sharply disagrees with those outstanding example to all officials he doesn't expect one. who feel he relies too much on in the North Shore that no assign He bristles at any suggestion that other's opinions and not enough on ment is so small that it can't be his stepping down as trustee signals his own.. 'Hove broadened and made fruitful." his retirement. "I'm a busy man, I've "Sometimes you have to make a Knoernschild's energies have also got a business to run," said Knoerns decision that's unpopular," he ack Whitefish Bay' been evident outside the village hall. child, a partner in , North Shore nowledged. "But at least give (peo He has helped organize two festi Realty. ple) the chance to have the input." vals that raised money to send Knoernschild feels the village Ralph Knoernschild Whitefish Bay High School music He remains philosophical board made a mistake last year groups to Florida and Austria. And about his loss to F. Patrick Matth when it didn't consult with mer trustees don't think so. They think this year as in years past, he was a ews in the race for village president chants and apartment dwellers, sponsor of the University of Wiscon two years ago. "What's to be is to be," they're policy-makers, but somebody a when revising the garbage collection has to be.. .they've got to look to sin-Madison band concert in White- he said. It was God's will." system. somebody for answers, right or fish Bay. "In July (1985) we should have wrong. . • He admitted he sometimes thinks discussed this with them," he said. With his long tenure as he's letting people down by. not a "That's what I'm there for." village trustee nearly at an end, I voted for the new system, but by During his years of public service, running again. "Since I've then (November) it was a lost cause. Knoernschild is acting like anything annoucned I wasn't running I can't Knoernschild has had a hand in the but a lame duck. He continues to I know that's a poor attitude to take. planning and development of the tell you how many people say to me, I should have stood up and said no, speak up at committee and board What are we going to do without North Shore Water Commission, the meetings. even though it was unanimous to go fire station, village hall, library and you?' ahead with it." He is also outspoken about issues Cahill Square. of concern to him. "Then I think that life will go on. Knoernshcild has been Yet he seems to take the One of his biggest worries is It's a good feeling to have people instrumental in making sure the greatest pleasure in what some may easing the erosion problems along think that much of you. same thing doesn't happen in the consider lesser matters. the Lake Michigan shoreline. He "I love Whitefish Bay and I'm village's review of proposals for the A 1968 Whitefish Bay Herald said he will continue to work for a happy that I've been able to give part renovation Df the business district. A editorial lauded Knoernschild for his resolution of the problem. of myself to it." (£>£& M&L*&£ <£ ~ £4 -/ iy KduEGPR Longtime residents reflect on suburbs i. removed in the 1920s, when, as Krueger piijjt it, "people started to get fancy." j Whitefish Bay "Just before the [stock market] crash; in Krueger, 78, is a lifelong Whitefish Bay 1928, there was a land boom," Krueger said. At resident, and has spent the last 50 years at 5045 the time, his parents farmed 15 acres along £. N. Woodburn St. His parents raised vegetables Hampton Ave., where Catholic, Lutheran and at two farms in the village. Baptist churches are now located. "I remember the railroad tracks used to run Krueger said his father had paid $6,000 for right by, and bums would try to steal the, the land, and sold for $1,500 an acre. The vegetables,* Krueger said. The Chicago and developer "wanted to give him a land contract," North Western Railway tracks, which paral Krueger recalled. "He said, *Pay cash, or Jou leled what is now N. Marlborough Dr., were 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 neigh bors 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;" Journal photo by Jeffrey Phelfcs i 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. @ \ 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-grand mother 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. FASS BALISTRERI FUNERAL HOME 3601 N.Oakland Ave., Shorewood 964-1291 fi5\ ?f $ M By Mary Stong leaveo mark on village ~ On the eve of leaving office In April 1984, when he took He said that before deciding not to seek t was a last-minute move, F. Patrick another three-year term, he considered Matthews said of his surprise decision (hell step down when the new village office, Wliitefish Bay was facing a lot of president is sworn in next month) Matth challenges, he recalled. The Village Board constricting his village activities while I in January not to seek re-election as still holding the office. "But I'm just not village president of Whitefish Bay. He has ews has a few regrets of what might have was struggling with a proposal to use held the village's top elected office since also been done. garbage carts for trash collection. The made that way," he said, adding that he 1984. "I would have liked to have seen full village manager and village assessor had did not like the idea of working less than consolidation of our fire department with recently vacated their positions, and Jbhe~job really required. "This thing has? ; He had his nomination papers ready for taken-me- 50 to 100 hours a naonth£ filing, he said. "I didn't really make the another — probably Glendale's. I think taxpayers were still recovering from a 32 that will come," he said. percent village tax increase. depending upon what's going on."? •'••""'J § decision until the last day," he explained. In his new life, he will cut back a little" I The up-in-the-air approach was very He noted that a North Shore fire consolidation was discussed in the mid; Neighbors near the Heritage (now M&I) from the 65-70 hours a week he currently j different from Matthews' six-year adrnin- Bank were up in arms over a proposal for spends on his law practice and community i istration, which has been characterized by 1980s but was put on the back burner shortly after Norman Wichman was hired a 52-car parking lot behind the bank. service. He will remain a director of the j careful planning and decisive action. The They filed a lawsuit to block the move. taxation section of the State Bar of end result, everyone agrees, has been as Glendale's fire chief. On April 2, Wichman will start as acting fire chief of In 1985 the village did its first borrow Wisconsin, and on the board of directors substantial accomplishments. ing to replace equipment and undertake and as general counsel for Second Harves Asked to name the achievements during Whitefish Bay. "By virtue of the work that we had all special projects. Up until then, Matthews ters of Wisconsin. his years in office, Matthews lists long- said, a *^>ay as you go" policy had been in Putting his accumulated knowledge of range planning, stabilization of the tax done, going to this alternative was rela tively easy for us. We'd done all the place. municipal law to work, his law practice at rate and a reduction in the number of Since 1983, village tax increases have Weiss, Berzowski, Brady & Donahue has village personnel. examination, all the work back three years ago," Matthews said. been limited to single-digit hikes. "We've | expanded to include more and more Those actions, Matthews said, "will done well on it, but it's a result of a lot of \ municipal, land use and zoning work. stand the village in good stead for a long Matthews says he has thoroughly hard work, and a lot of preparation, and a Matthews and two partners are also time to come." enjoyed the team effort that is part of local lot of attention by everyone here on the involved in building a 100-unit apartment In a more visible way, Matthews points government these days. "The greatest board," Matthews said. complex in Butler. to the renovation of Klode Park, the pleasure of the last six years was working Some items remain on his wish At home his wife, Patty, is ready with largest public works project ever done in with all of the people that are involved. some non-municipal, residential projects Whitefish Bay, and East Silver Spring On the Village Board, everybody has list. One is reconstruction of Lake Drive. to occupy her husband's free time. "She's Drive. Each cost more than $1 million. really pulled their weight. We have "There are no curbs left on most of Lake got three spiral binders all set up," he His leadership is readily acknowledged. probably 60 to 70 people who serve on a Drive," he reminds you. He sees the quipped. _____ "Pat's a very demanding person," said volunteer basis on behalf of the commun project as a mid-'90s event. Village Manager Michael Harrigan, ity. "I'd like to see our Department of Public This year will mark the first year j adding that the two have become close "I've learned that we have an awful lot Works in a single, modern state-of-the-art t neither ofthe Matthews will work on or be ' personal friends over the past six years. of well-qualified, very committed people facility rather than divided now between in the Fourth of July parade and enter- "He has very high expectations of himself within our community." two facilities, neither of which gives the , tainment. Pat and Patty Matthews have and the staff and the community. He lets One of the few disappointments Matth men everything that they need," he said. been the spirit behind the growth of the you know right up front what they are." ews said he has had in the last six years is He'd also like to see more cooperation village celebration. (Patty Matthews On the flip side, Harrigan said, "Pat has the cost to residents of the Milwaukee among business people in Whitefish Bay. recalls the 1984 parade: "Three cars, no a positive attitude about life and people. Metropolitan Sewerage District's deep- "There have been some awfully good music, not a sound, and Betty Jo Nelsen He's a very caring person." tunnel project. He sees the project as efforts in the past four or five years in on her bike. They asked us if we could As part of a dogged attention to detail, solving "what is basically the problem trying to pull that business community provide our own car." ! Harrigan said Matthews was good about together, and Fd like to see them con tinue," he said. For the next five years, she was in i follow-up and about responding person- occasioned by Milwaukee's and Shorew- charge of either the parade or the | ally to citizen contacts. ood's lack of foresight to put in separated a "And a sense of humor," Harrigan sewers." As for his own future, It11 be entertainment. "Now people don't leave family, law practice and golf in that Whitefish Bay for the Fourth of July," continued. "You've got to get that in He said the recent settlement of the there." He said Matthews' injection of FLOW dispute may not help Whitefish order," he said. A combination ofthe press Patty Matthews said. humor into board discussions often helped Bay. "I have great scepticism that that of his law practice and a desire to spend Thinking ahead to life outside the stimulate dialogue among trustees. money will ever come back to the benefit more time with his family contributed to village fold, Pat Matthews said, "It's a "He's really done a tremendous job as ofthe village of Whitefish Bay residents," his decision not to run. little difficult to realize I will now be able village president," Harrigan concluded. he said. ~^—_ to watch a parade." JUJL M^y^P - s/^f//f?e> Mo#/\No "^W^m [Old^WhitefiiOaySetfl^^%« Remembers When Lake Drive, Was In Bad Shap| [Y &*r J. Morano Paid Dime^inflf ^ • W;Retiirhed*l^^^ Passing Uhlein tlqrne iV 1910, MrV^Moratto'-rWufne^ll •: At Toll Gate Roa4.t;S|||?|id | Milwaukee •••> andr;re-established;^hji| ^#"^f| 'fruit.'..business.,; •Heifurnlsbedf|ip "Lajte Drive was called Withcomb ; Itncomb^p^ 'for the scattered -MnhabintantsSIb inhabintantsfi)! | Avenue then. The street car;'; ranS-y'F Shorewood and Whitefish/Bay. ;:HeS about every hour or so, and the ;;$ remembers'that back .in 1910 LakeJ tracks lay in the middle/ of a gravel ;^| Drive was like a mud-hole somewhat road," reminisced Joe Morano as he || 16&**<** Z(<^^ZZ _ resembling No-Man's Land, full ;ofe r hurrying watched the street shell holes. And there wasiaYtolJt past his house at 156- Lake ViewYi>S mi mi i. urn '" ••»•••• '•••' *> ..-v. ;.•••&$! -gate theniy-• " • y-yyk7yyiyM £,£Ouu<) Avenue.' }y •- -%• •"• •• ^-•YV-YY.-Y^I i. "Every day,'*, he} said, ''I! .would|| s A long time has passed since the ||^ pass the toll gate: intfront^of-^he^ Morano's- moved to Whitefish 'Z.Ba y gi kerman^ Uhlein housed andSwo^ldj,| They are among the earlyysettlers.i have to pay ten cents' toll befor^mjfj H21even' years ago they bought tries r$k horse and wagon could^get thrqugh||| Oregor frame house,.»one of • the flrsfe **'" W1 ^ake I>rive IUlle$ H6rse|^|^r' built in the Bay, located on ttejeopl % 'inZ 1913 ; Mrv^Mor|no^mjp p^ ^y\oZt <^zij^x^\ . hereof Lake y lew !and Lakel I)r1tm^ : ^Eigfit days afte'r-Soufc^wieddingMj^ y,: • ^i^ew 'Houses Thcn^|||Si§ related, ,"iny horseSfelf;!iiitoYbrie|$#p ; s "I didn't like it .a t .nrBt A saidtMrs*. . ^™-! , the holes on Lake Drive;.---....- ;I;;had^;Jti(j(.^Iiad^t^| Morano. "It; was so lonesome/* ^u^| haye n pulled out and a weekllateriSS itoday they are surrounded on Yall)S||| died of blood poisoning." •&#.$#0$$" sides |>y neighbors and Mrs. Morano 'And that was my wedding •;p\7_ says she "likes it very much now/' m U to ytJDu^JZy^*^* e^-hz^«z^ j Z&&< &> — m yt^w^wwgpaww^i^^ //?5/ kLD V^ J. ]• O'Leary Surprise Party Celebrates Golden Wedding Anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Julius Leu This is tho fifth of a series of arti- t clos on Whitefish Bay officials. Surrounded by a bevy of guests, One of the busiest persons in among them children and grandchil .Whitefish Bay right now is John J. dren, Mr. and Mrs. Julius Leu, 5020 YO,Leary, village assessor, who is also North Richards street, celebrated' assistant treasurer. Kept at the vil their golden wedding anniversary lage hall every day and on most Saturday evening. Novel entertain nights by his duties of keeping post- ment served to recall to the couple f ed on real estate sales and studying the day fifty years ago when they prices, at present he finds himself were married. . k very much occupied receiving tax Dressed in old-fashioned wedding payments. >- clothes, Mr. and Mrs. John' Gores Mr. O'Leary has been assessor emanated the bride and bridegroom since he was first elected to the po sition in April, 1930. He moved to of 1881. The guests danced to the Whitefish Bay and built his home in music of an accordion. Masters of Mach, 1926. He waa married in his ceremony at the party, which was home June 30, 1926^ He has four given as a surprise, were Walter hoys, two of whom attend St. Moni Gores and Fred Liebenthal. ca's school and two of pre-school age^ The guests were Messrs. and Mr. O'Leay confesses he finds him-? Mmes. E. Machleith, G. Schrieber, self pretty busy to find much recre Granville, John Gores, Joseph Leser, ation outside of his job. "I am at the Gustave Koch, Waupaca, Rudy Off, village hall most evenings," he said. Wausau, Frank Liebenthal, Walter "I like to spend my free evenings at home with my family, or go out oc Gores, William Mohr; Mmes. John casionally with Mrs. O'Leary to card Mohr, William Leu, George Leu; parties or socials." Mr. O'Leary's Misses Elsie, Ida, and Agnes Schrie physical recreation, he confided, Is ber, Granville, Miss Adelaide Mohr; •working around the house. Messrs. Anthony Leser, Gordon Mohr, All tho tax-payers of Whitefish Henry Schrieber, Walter Schrieber,' Bay know Mr. O'Leary, meeting him Herman Geipfel, William Koepfler, once a year between May 1 and June Otto and August Schrieber, Arthur 30, when assessments are made, and Beil, Robert Kruecke, and Frederick they consider him, one and all, to be Liebenthal. a fair and competent assessor. Y Mr. O'Leary has been doing ap The grandchildren present were praisal work continuously since 1919. Lois Off, Virginia and Dorothy Leu, As a "side recreation" he now serves Lucille Gores, Frederick Liebenthal. as secretary of St William's court Others were Paul Leser, Robert No. 1062, C. O. F., and as chairman Koch, Margaret Leser, Emma and of the credit committee of the St. Doris Koch. i Monica church credit union. I Wo °ZZ>7 c*ZL v. M~4* > I Ww Cfttuuu) -TAad»- W> *«•*» vAvilxu*^> jLfc Wufc. VW O. eSU*2y. t* Om^J^Xi- o^otAi* vr-^ taWl uiUH~ TTP^O^. Y. («$' Letter from Mrs. Olive M. (Scheife) Lowry to Minri Bird whatever was in season. Later, when I was in my teens Feb. 22, 1984, regarding photographs of the old and we had moved from the grocery store to the hard Scheife home (Carl and Caroline's) on site of present ware store on Silver Spring and Consaul Place, Dad 6220-6226 N. Lake Drive: sold the property "up on the hill" to a Mr. Boelke. (I think his 1st name was Emil) and Mr. Boelke (sp.) RpgarrHrig the* pnVf-irrgg ypn g^nf- The picture,with built a new home there. So maybe the house on the out the enclosed porch on the front, and with the picture could be a part of the old house moved to" little girls sitting on the steps, I am sure is the that northwest corner of the lots. It looks to me house where Carl Scheife and his wife, Caroline like it might very well be a part of the original (Schumacher) Scheife, my grandparents, lived, i Can house belonging to Dad and Mom. Later, ,Mr. Boelke remember those steps leading out from the large sold the property and I think to Mr. Schroeder. (Yes kitchen & the house faced the lake (Lake Michigan). I he did.) ' had never seen the house after the enclosed porch was added nor the larger home shown on the separate I remember so well driving up on Sunday to see my pictures. grandparents (Carl & Caroline Scheife) with Grace (the (The larger home was one built by Charles and horse pictured on page 10 of the brochure), hitched f Cora Roberts 1912.) to the carriage, or as we used to call it, The Buggy" *fy father and mother, Lewis F. Scheife and Mary Jane This, I Hope, will help you a bit with putting things Consaul Scheife, di^ own a home directly south of the together on your (I think) really interesting project. road showing a driveway and a house across the road and behind a telephone pole. But this house was Olive M. Lowry 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 (Note: Mrs. Lowry thought the picture of her parents was in the commercial fishing business with a Charles early home on the site of 6220-26 and lot just south Langschwager at that time. It was before I was born of here, was in the northwest corner of the land. in the hone above the grocery store picture in the I believe she felt this way because of the dirt road brochure on page 10 (of the 75th Anoiv. "WFB brochure) and telephone pole in front of the house on the -:\o -. and also the news clipping you enclosed with the picture. However, the picture was taken standing far brochure. back in on the property and the house in question was really in the middle of the Scheife property and When Dad discontinued the fishing business and moved close to the lake bluff. Therefore, I believe this to the grocery store, he sold the fishing business house was Lewtfand Mary Jane (Consaul) Scheife1 s home and rented the house'to Peter Schaefer (or Shaver) on his parents property.) . 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 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. Ck-VHJL. 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One of tlie most Important men in the Whitefish Hay school sys For aix years Charles Ray lie- tem is the superintendent of ium haB served as a trustee of schools, G\ L. MuJrliie, of 5 701 N. Utefish Bay. At the present Kent ave. .ae he acts as the leader of the Born in Black River Falls, Wis., personnel And publicity commit he attended Oshkosh State Teach tee. He Is a member of the hoard ers college, Marquette university of health and the public utilities and the University ofi Wisconsin. committee. Hie term expires In At these schools he won the fol 1944. lowing degrees: Ph.11., L*L.13., and Born In Milwaukee in 1894, he M.R. His first position was in a Attended the 18th Ward school, rural school in Jackson county; now known as the Maryland Ave. later he taught in Hillbert, Poli school. Riverside high school waa ter and Odanah, all situated in known as East Division when Mc Wisconsin. Callum went there. For three < Mr. Mulrine, who has been years he attended Cornell. with the Whiteftah Bay system This trustee is the president ot for over 25 years, finds much en the McCallum General Insurance joyment in his young son, Peter, Co.. Inc., with offices at 226 E. and daughter, Mary Ann. When' Michigan St., Milwaukee. not with them, he spends his time /In 1919 McCallum .married "Es walking and playing golf. ther Worden. The McCalluma have When asked where he plans to two sons: CharleB Uay, Jr., .20, be this summer, the superintend and Sammy, 16. Sammy attends ent stated, "The best place to Country Day school of which his spend a vacation is right here in father is a member of the hoard Whitefish Hay!" 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 cam paign and is a member of the Co lumbia 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, Mc Callum enjoys the fellowship of others. It Z£): fJL£RE&l $-«&*-&$ Today's wedding cakes look better, taste better ; By Priscilla Ahlgren Spring Dr. 50 years ago. . Cakes then weren't nearly as elaborate as "You don't see that so much anymore," Now 82 years old, Mrs. Remus still works they are now, said Mrs. Remus. Pound cake she said. "If people, take their cake home, Choosing one's wedding cake used to be at the bakery on a regular basis, but recalls was definitely in vogue, often accompanied usually it's wrapped in a napkin." one of the simplest decisions a bride and . with ease the store's earlier days. by a small groom's cake much like a holiday groom had to make. According to Mrs. Remus, the Bay Home fruitcake. "Now, fruitcake is much too ex If the elegance of individual cake -. It was generally tall, white, topped with a Bakery quickly became known for its wed pensive/' she added. boxes is no longer the rule, there's one wed miniature bride and groom, and had the ding cakes, and despite lean times during Years ago, the serving of wedding cake consistency of a dry, heavy pound cake. One ding cake tradition that's still going strong. • was pretty much lice every other. It's the custom of saving the top tier of the *- Not anymore! wedding cake for a couple's first annivers Today's bride and groom can choose from ary. "That's still a very important thing to among dozens of different combinations of "Couples out to dinner on their first anniversaries many young couples," said Mrs.-Remus. cake and filling flavors, scores of shapes And how does wedding cake taste one and styles, and a wide variety of caketops. sometimes spot me in the same restaurant They always year later? "Ours tastes very good," she Icing is tintecT to match bridesmaids' said, speaking with authority. "It freezes , dresses and can be trimmed with fresh fruit want me to have a piece of their cake, and send some over beautifully." - \ or flowers. Grecian pillars, fountains, and She should know, for it turns out that on champagne glasses add elegance and ro to my table." • ~ - more than one occasion she's been invited mance to even the smallest of cakes. to share that all-important top tier,_ In short, wedding cakes have become real —Hannah Meredig Remus specialty items, and local bakers take great "Couples out to dinner on their first an-' pride in their ability to offer personal, in niversaries sometimes spot me in the same dividualized service. the Depression, the orders kept coming. differed too, said Mrs. Remus. Once the restaurant," she said. "They always want Even the rationing of sugar during the official photographer had a shot of the me to have a piece of their cake, and send I- Someone' who has watched this war years didn't stand in the way of some newlyweds cutting into the lowest tier, the some over to my table." trend evolve over the years is Hannah customers, she recalled "I remember one cake was whisked away to the kitchen, Years ago, Mrs. Remus used to help with Meredig Remus, who with her first husband customer who saved up the sugar for her where caterers would pack individual serv deliveries. Those w,ere the daysJ)efore por- William Meredig opened the Bay Home wedding cake, and brought it in to us," she ings into tiny cake boxes for wedding guests -{Continued on page 5) , Bakery and Delicatessen at 423 E. Silver said. > . to take home. •CO FA fd^JrMj 6,-/7-/??£ WJMed^^ JUn^i- Found NursesT rainingi Helped Through 20 Years in Bakery 1 If it hadn't been for her nurses training, Mrs. Hannah Meredig Remus, co-founder and ownerof school and Whitefish Bay high the Bay Home Bakery. 423 E. school. Hans was tutored in the Silver Sparing dr., admits she art of baking by his mother and could not have survived the dad. Herbert went to bakery rigors of 20 years in the bakery school irf Chicago. It was there, business. That is the age of the he learned to make the ribbon bakery this week. ' candy and flowers with which She was young, skinny and vf* r"~" " • • ' -' • — ' '••"•• . healthy and well trained as a nurse to meet all life's vicissi he topped his step-brother's wed tudes when she and her first ding cake. ! husband opened sho^u In the Youngest Master Baker Rhineland hospital in which she The boys' father in his day was trained, nurses were taught, the youngest master baker in the belief in themselves and given Rhineland. the assurance they could do any The German breads and rolls thing they willed, provided they^ he turned out at the Bay Home were willing and determined to bakery soon won the new* store workior it. wide patronage. From the start As a nurse she was trained to and up until World War II, the long hours. Bakery around^ the bakery made deliveries of break clock hours she met in stride. It fast rolls and sweets • to Bay was nothing for her to be homes. The delivery wagon awakened from sleep in wee would start on its rounds at morning hours to offer relief or 2 a.m. To have bakery goods take over because someone failed ready, the store would be open to show up or the delivery 24 hours a day. wagon, perhaps broke down and "It was so quiet on the street she was needed in store or in those days," recalls Mrs.f bakery. Remus, "The village had many) Laugh Over Incident open spaces and empty fields. Years later when the White- Our store seemed so isolated. fish Bay bakery was well on its How quiet the winters were and way to success, she and her hus how unbroken the snow would band used to chuckle over his be We knew everybody would mother's doubts— "If she could come into the store. They were only see," they would laugh. more than customers. We knew Mrs. Meredig Remus never how many children they had, went back to the profession for their good fortunes and bad . . . which she was trained, but her it isn't that way now. The vil nursing skills were often put to lage is built up. On a Saturday use. It was she who washed out we ring up a thousand or more wounds and gave aid in case of sales. Impossible to know each accidents about the bakery, she customer intimately. But we re who nursed the children in their member the old timers who've illnesses; she who gave helpful become grandparents and their and sought after advice to the children who in some instances early residents of the village are parents." and neighbors when sudden ill When Bay Home bakery was nesses or accidents took place in opened, a garage stood across the their families. street. Also on the street were "Mama," her two sons chant, Brand's meat market, a drug "was always about when some store, Klanns, Wilke's hardware one needed her." store, now Weidlers and a gro- Learned New Business ceryvstore. 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'Both boys attend Richards - 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.roll or doughnut. Milk men also stopped on cold morn ings 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 pre vails 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 fre quent 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 basket ball 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^ Twentieth Anniversary—the Bay Home bakery 423 E used all over the world. Silver Spring dr., founded by Hans Meredig #and his wife Some of the cutlery is in use ^Z^SSm^ has never moved from^t. l«*boi^ at the Bay Home bakery, which the two decades but has grown considerable in size. It was so well combines the traditions onened when Herbert, shown decorating the wedding cake of! a family with a promising was ^oTSs old. Hans Meredig and the boy's mother, Mrs future and also joins the . old Hannah Meredig Remus, are shown decorating smaller cakes. world with the new. ?he ffve tiered cake wili deck the wedding table of the Mere- "Mama, see this rose," Her? dS step brother, Kurt Remus, who will be married April 15. 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." v\©\ Mixter ties bow By Mary Schuchmann When Henry Mixter challenged the local political order to run for Whitefish Bay on memories * village president 18 years ago, he was eyed as a newcomer. The Mixters were married in 1950. Like Although he had lived in the village for scores of now-well-established Whitefish 12 years, his New England accent gave Bay families, the couple started out in the away his Boston roots. His political ap Whitefish Bay Townhouses (128 E. prenticeship was a single year as village trustee. ' Chateau, Mixter recalled). In that 1966 election, Mixter defeated They moved to their home at 4517 N. fellow trustee George Ernst in a hard- Murray Ave. in 1954. \" fought race, 2,458 to 2,051. Mixter, now 63, has run unopposed every A stop sign propelled Mixter into' time since then. local politics in 1965. "It's really a simple » (At a Village Board meeting several years story," he said. "A group of us from our ago, a woman was overheard asking a com neighborhood went to the Public Safety panion: "Is Henry Mixter like one of those Committee asking for stop signs at Glen- f Supreme Court justices, is he going to be dale and Murray. We told them people , around forever?") were whistling through that intersection. * Next month he will put away his gavel "We had all the figures, we counted up for good. He is not seeking re-election. the number of children in the neighbor Later on, he will retire from his job as hood, we made a good case," he said. materials manager at the Falk (Corp., and Their request, however, was turned he and his wife, Claire, will move to New down. "We were all upset," he recalled. Hampshire, where they will build "our "At a neighborhood gathering at first and last house" in the small town of Christmas, we got to talking about it. I said North Hampton, just a few miles from the Atlantic Ocean. to people, if you'll back me, I'll run for ; trustee." According to Mixter, "Claiire says They did, and he did. (And the stop sign she'll give me two years and I'll probably was eventually approved.) be back (in local government) in some Mixter campaigned for village president Y way." in 1966 on the need for more involvement While sorfle people may disapprove of in Milwaukee-area affairs. He pushed also ^ Mixter's style of handling village affairs for most cost-effective government and • (he can be heavy-handed and over-bearing, long-range village planning. He en- 7 they say), few question his dedication. couraged subdividing some large estates on "'• His trademark bowtie has probably the east side of N. Lake Dr. as a way of i, achieving better use of the land and in chaired more than^a thousand meetings in creasing village revenues. the past 18 years. That 1966 race aroused high interest. A He served as the first chairman of the In candidates' forum at the Whitefish Bay . tergovernmental Cooperation Council, a Woman's Club featuring Mixter and fellow monthly roundtable for suburban officials. trustee Ernst attracted more than 400 peo ple, according to a newspaper clipping. For another 10 years, he served as secretary Mixter's lack of opposition in the years of the group. that followed means one of two things, he Mixter calls those "extra-curricular ac speculated: "People don't know what's % tivities." He explained: "They come with going on, they don't care, or they're the job (of village president) i£ you are satisfied." " going to take, your responsibilities seriously." He concluded: "I hope it's the latter." "There's a part of Henry that people Mixter was born in Boston, spent two don't know," said Claire Mixter. years at Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology in business and engineering, then • "He's a very, very sensitive, joined a ship-building firm during World marshmailow kind of a person. He's the War II. one who cries in movies and cries when he In 1948, he attended a wedding in Mil sees his children. He puts on a real good waukee. "I liked the looks of it here and so show to cover that up." I stayed," he said simply. 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 ex plained. Cm r The times she has seen him with gavel in In 1971, the Mixters were auctioned off hand, "I was so unhappy, watching the as maid and butler in a benefit for school tough side of him. activities at Whitefish Bay High School. "Years ago, we, served on a board Another 1971 clipping shows Mixter clear together, and I Was unhappy working with ing the sidewalk in front of the Village Hall him. He runs a good meeting, he's with his own snowblower during a strike by members of the Department of Public organized and efficient, but that's not the Works. person I know. Barely recognized behind a fluffy beard "I see him coming in the door and giving and tall cap, Mixter, in another newspaper , me a big kiss and asking if I've heard from clipping, is shown playing St. Nicholas for • any of the kids. I've learned it's best not to a Christmas event at his church. 3-*9-/19/ see the other side of him. Over the years, Mixter has opposed "He cares so much, he will drop anything metropolitan government but encouraged to help. He just does thing, he sees some metropolitan cooperation. He has made his thing that needs to be done, and he does it. presence known well beyond the village He just has this feeling that he ought to be borders. doing something that's worthwhile. I don't think a lot of people see that side. He's "I'd like to think I've changed quite a guy." some of the attitudes of some people about .;/- She paused, then acknowledged that her Whitefish Bay," he said. "At one time we view may be biased. "I happen to think he's were looked on as the Gold Coast, a com wonderful," she said, smiling. "I don't munity of the wealthy, powerful and in know how 1'n^ ever going to roast him (at fluential. I feel I showed them I put on my the April 17 dinner in Mixter's honor). pant one leg at a time, just like everyone Everything I want to say is complimen- j else." tary." . .:.. / His reward for service, Mixter said, "is the satisfaction of trying to do my best for In shepherding the village, Mix 18 years, A lot of people criticize govern ter said he has relied on delegating ' ment but never do anything about it. I tried ' authority to others. Calling it "a basic rule to take on that responsibility in Whitefish of government," Mixter said: "You give Bay village government. I'd like to think it people authority to do their job, and then v has been reasonably well executed." you hold them accountable. It's one of my t In response to criticism of the Village philosophies. It's the same in a corporate Board's handling of several recent issues, structure, and it's true even in this small . Mixter said public opinion does not bother , village, even though it's difficult for some [ him. y people to understand.'! [ "Even though I'm criticized," he said, "if 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 \ I feel that I have acted in the best interests tongue." < Y v j • • • of the village from my point of view, Reflecting on his years in office, Mixter ; weighing all the information available to mentioned the passage of a controversial me, my conscience is clear. I can live with open-housing ordinance in 1967 (more it. • Y •''". *••• "Z than 750 people attended a hearing on the "One thing I've learned is that you can't agonize over decisions, you have to make a matter) and construction of the Village decision and move ahead. You can't go Hall in 1970. back and rehash, unless there's new infor The cunrent Chapter 220 state legislation mation. You've got to move on. That's promoting voluntary school transfers bet what I do in business and that's what I've ween the city and its suburbs "was con tried to do in the village. ceived, in my opinion, in Whitefish Bay," Mixter said, when a group of School Board His wife shares Mixter's view of and Village Board members sought an himself. "He feels so deeply but he doesn't alternative to the so-called Conta plan that let things bother him. He doesn't lay awake would have merged several area School nights worrying," she said, adding, 'Tv al Districts. . . ways said I have Henry's ulcers." Also during his years in office, Mixter In future years, Mixter predicted that said, the Building Board was given new residents' expectations of village services life, and Whitefish Bay provided the may clash with their ability to pay. leadership for a highly successful cable As a maturing community in need of television ordinance. replacement parts, Whitefish Bay will have upcoming capital expenses like those in On the North Shore consortium developing communities, he said. that led to the ordinance, Mixter said: "It's "The crunch has started," Mixter ob pretty good when you can get seven sets of served. "There will have to be changes in officials to agree on anything." A Mixter family scrapbook chronicles Z the way some things are done." some of the events of the last 18 years. If 8 probably little known today that Mix Campaign literature used in 1966 showst ter once had a passion for sports cars. "Not that Mixter's bowties have a long tradition. the driving, the cars themselves, the On a 1967 newspaper photo, Mixter is mechanical parts." explained his wife. shown cutting the ribbon on a new parking . He officiated at road races and was lot west of the Heritage Bank. 'public relations head and magazine editor tor the Sports Car Club of America. The magazine "was pasted up in our base- m , ment," Mixter said. HDcr&R 'Marshmallow' roasted lay honors retiring By Mary Schuchmann When Claire Mixter described her hus band 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 Setting the tone for the roast, an There were some irreverent but good- was more than a glimpse of the soft, non elaborately-accented French "Fifi" ap | natured pokes at recent village controver- public side of retiring Whitefish Bay peared with a singing telegram proclaiming i" sies such as garbage carts and parking lots. Village President Henry Mixter. that "Old Mixters never die." The Whitefish Bay Retired Men's Club The "marshmallow" showed through. She persuaded "Henri" to join her in a jj sent a message welcoming Mixter to their In the pre-dinner social hour, a woman few chorus line steps. ; ranks. His tenure in office, they said, "will with a camera was overheard to say she As "Mixt-master" for the night, Mosby j be best remembered for the large increase wanted to photograph Mixter with his got in his licks at Mixter. Of those attend- j\ in property taxes." special friends, and was going to identify ing, Mosby said, "14 percent came to say \ About taxes, Mixter and the Village the friends by those he hugged in greeting. good-bye, 86 percent came to make sure ;; Board, Mosby said: "Never have so many The woman and her camera were kept you were leaving." i owed so much to so few." busy. ' When Mixter had a chance to speak in a Referring to Mixter's reputation as a Sprinkled among the roasting "counterattack" to his roasters, he pulled heavy-handed leader, Mosby said Mixter words were citations of appreciation from out a huge red polka-dot bowtie. He put it presiding at a public hearing "is like the Milwaukee County Board, Wisconsin on and wore it for the rest of the evening. General Custer entertaining the Indians." state legislature, Gov. Earl and President In a fond tribute to his wife at the end of An ode to the "King of the Bay" was sub- Reagan. his remarks, Mixter gave her a sack of mitted by John Mann, president of the •S Mrs. Mixter had her turn at the marshmallows. ~ Shorewood Village Board. Among the < microphone. Lamenting earlier that she lines: "To find a president who's done could not give a fitting roast ("everything I more good, you'd have to look as far as want to say is complimentary"), she spoke The farewell party, called the Shore-wood." lixt-Grill," attracted more than 250 peo- with warmth about 18 years in local a. Held at the Bavarian Inn, it was co- Radio personality Larry 'The Legend" politics. sponsored by the Whitefish Bay Founda Johnson was one of the official roasters. She remembered their first election tion and the Whitefish Bay Woman's Club. Although a Whitefish Bay resident, night, when a backed-up incinerator filled Johnson acknowledged he had never met their home with smoke. She told of the un Part of the ticket price was designed for a nerving times when a squad car delivered village playground fund set up by the Mixter. He had hoped once for a confronta the weekly village mail. Whitefish Bay Foundation. More than tion, he said, when he was picketing the $1,300 was raised for the fund, according to Village Hall on behalf of disgruntled l (Once, she said, a squad car startled their Wade Mosby, president of the foundation Whitefish Bay firefighters, "but you (Mix son and his date by pulling them off to the and chairman of the roast. ter) came in the back door. side of the road—only to hand over official With balloons and streamers every In a reference to Mixter's conservative village correspondence.) where, the evening had the excitement of approach to government, Johnson told of a Another time, Mrs. Mixter recalled, her an election-night victory celebration, not letter received from officials in North husband was called out of bed at 2 a.m. by a the solemn ceremonies of a retirement get- Hampton, N.H., where the Mixters plan to resident upset with a clogged sewer drain. together. retire. Mixter responded, she said, but later took A "Mixter for Bay President" cartop sign, North Hampton welcomes Mixter, a form of revenge. When he finished .the salvaged from Mixter's first campaign in Johnson said, quoting: "We enjoy living in job, she said, he rang the man's doorbell and announced: "Your public servant, sir." 1966, was visible outside in the parking lot. .e. the past too." Identical signs lined the walls inside. Johnson was among the men who Given a chance to reply, Mixter told the Mixter's bowtie trademark was carried sported bowties for the occasion. He said crowd, "There have been many, many peo out in hundreds of construction paper ver he looked up the word in the.dictionary ple involved in our life." sions used as decorations. Pulling out a baseball-style cap with E and found it was "a piece of men's fashion Falk Corp. emblem, Mixter thanked hif Sportscaster Jim Irwin, another that went out in the 1950s." roaster, spoke to the gathering by tape employer of 36 years for allowing him tc recorder because of an unexpected broad - spend company time in public service. "It's important that companies like Fall cast duty. continue to support the activities of peoph Said Irwin on tape: "It is said that the in politics," Mixter said. quality of the man is reflected by the As parting gestures, Mixter tied an Irish speakers at the roast. Obviously, you have green bowtie on Matthews—and presentee not made much of an impression." the marshmallows to his wife. 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. ISH) tt>F& M^SL(J YIUVLC ./9t? SOON the day-to-day activities of Whitefish Bay village government will be memories for Henry Mixter. R (Staff photo) M.ATTHZUJS Village president, trustee sworn in By Mary Schuchmann Knoernschild said he would not fight the F. Patrick Matthews was installed Mon appointment but "I want to note for the day night as the new village president in record that I am dissatisfied." Whitefish Bay. He replaces Henry Mixter, He questioned whether Matthews' ap who has retired after 18 years as president. pointment "was the last finagle before About 20 people witnessed the installa midnight." tion ceremony. The event was recorded by Matthews made no response to several cameras, including Mixter's. Knoernschild's comments during the meet Also installed as village trustee was ing but said afterward that Knoernschild's Phyllis Ernest, who was elected this spring statement "was not entirely accurate." to her first term on the Village Board. She There have been "some exceptions" to 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 the committee rotation pattern, he said. for trustee in the April 3 election. Matthews said he tried to match commit She replaces Thomas Goss, who stepped tee assignments "with the strengths and down after serving for 18 years on the abilities that each member could bring to board. their respective duties." Retaining his seat on the board was Thomas Churchill, who has been a trustee His choices, he said "will fit well since 1975. with what I hope to accomplish in the com At Monday night's Village Board meet ing year." ing, Matthews' first official duty—commit Zoning is likey to be key village issue in tee appointments—was criticized by the months to come. trustee Ralph Knoernschild, who was Mat In addition to the controversial rezoning thews' opponent in the recent election. last month of four properties on N. Kent Knoernschild said he thought he was in and N. Shoreland avenues for a parking line to be chairman of the Zoning, Parks lot—a decision currently being challenged and Buildings Committee, but was in Circuit Court—the Village Board has assigned to head the Public Safety Com been asked to approve a rezoning of the mittee. University School Milwaukee campus on N. Santa Monica Blvd. for use by the Mil Bradley rloffmann was named as waukee Jewish Federation. chairman of the Zoning, Parks and Build An official request for rezoning of the ings Committee. USM site is expected to be presented to the Knoernschild said it was the board's Village Board in the next few weeks. practice to rotate committee chairmanships A rezoning may also be requested by the so that trustees moved from one post to the Whitefish Bay School Board for the? Lydell other in a set pattern. School building on N. Lydell Ave. The school is scheduled to be; closed as" an attendance center at the. end of the "Normally this is the way it has been 1984-85 school year because of declining done," Knoernschild said. enrollment. The School Board is currently He continued: "I don't know if it was seeking alternative uses for the property. oversight or intentional, but this year was , Some of the uses 'could require a zoning my opportunity to be chairman of Zoning, change. j 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." Id FA /4&uUd REMINISCING at the farewell roast for retiring Whitefish Bay Village Presi McGovern, 8084 N. 62nd St., Brown Deer. Loewi is president of the Bayside dent Henry Mixter were (from left) Mixter and his wife Claire, 4517 N. Mur Village Board; McGovern heads the Village Board in Brown Deer. ray Ave.; Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Loewi, 9621 N. Lake Dr., Bayside; and Earl t/-Zfi~JQSf o lY ' IV She 'II give us the (fire)works this year ByMimiBird together to celebrate with them, flag displayed in fireworks on the and a tradition began. lawn of her home. Mrs. George T. Meyer, the first This year, in appreciation of her lady of Whitefish Bay's Fourth of When the Meyers built 50-year contribution to the village, July fireworks display, is planning their home next to Klode Park 50 Mrs. Meyer has an invitation to something bigger than ever this years ago, the celebration con ride in the morning parade in an year. tinued for their children, relatives antique car with Village President „. Next week's fireworks, on Thurs and friends. F. Patrick Matthews. day, July 4, will be the family's Because of their location next to 50th annual display in the village. the park, it was only natural that Several years ago, two of Bowing to her children's wishes, it nearby residents (and, soon, their her grandsons from Atlanta, Ga., will be her last. friends) came to watch. came for a Fourth of July visit and "This year's fireworks will be decorated a surrey to ride in the The event has grown to such village parade. This year they will lovely, better than ever, and I'm magnitude over the years that the including a special addition," Mrs. be here again, but only as park—particularly the hillside— observers. Meyer said last week, in a sparkly, has become jammed with specta secretive way. tors from all over the North Shore. A warm, giving lady, Mrs. Meyer Her children, grandchildren and, Many people feel the Meyer fire said she'll miss the Fourth's fire all 12 great-grandchildren will join works rivals Milwaukee's lakefront works if the village or a group her for the occasion. She still show, held the night before. doesn't continue the event after "doesn't know where Fll hang this year. She declines to tell the them all," since so many will be After her husband's death cost of her holiday project. staying with her at her home on 13 years ago, Mrs. Meyer decided N. Shore Dr. to continue the fireworks tradition Asked about the future ofthe . The Meyer display began 64 because, she said, it had meant so fireworks, Matthews said he is 5^ ^ years ago on N. FarWell Ave., much to him. "determined to see that our village . when Mr. Meyer set off fireworks She hasn't changed the format of has fireworks." ^ from the porch ofthe couple's first the show over the years, and The fireworks begins at dusk at "^ (^ home. Friends began to gather always ends it with the American Klode Park. •>& NP °* ^ A f A ~* o II© ' vr rz-r*** *>*v>,J?r?r£'%-*•; *"••;' •y - - & ,- - f- ? • ."* * -**; ./T\ " $?"• By Shirley Stevens " very good but tended to be bony. My he designation of Jack Pandl's brother and I pulled the bones out Whitefish Bay Inn, 5200 N. Celebrating its 70th year in 1985, Pandl's with pliers, a very tedious task. TLake Dr., as a Milwaukee Then, people ate whitefish like it County landmark last November Whitefish Bay Inn is now a Milwaukee County was going out of style. should come as no surprise to the "Since then, most restaurants now patrons who have been dining there landmark. remove the bones. However, our for years. restaurant still sells more whitefish The green and brown wooden than any other place in the city," he building with white trim has the said proudly. quaintness and charm of another an existing restaurant from a man In his enthusiasm to learn more them very close, or by boat. about the area, Jack Pandl checked era. It stands basically the same as it "At Grand Ave., presently Wiscon named Bently. was well over 70 years ago, with only with the Whitefish Bay library and sin Ave., a boat called the TBloomer Pandl relates, "There was a big found a packet of old photographs slight interior and exterior remodel Girl' docked in front of what is now barn in the back, buggies, stables for ing. The floor plan is identical. which showed the various buildings the Marine Bank, on the Milwaukee horses, and a chicken coop. My in the Whitefish Bay Resort area. The owner, Jack Pandl, who River, and then brought the passen father knew there had been a big resides just west of the restaurant, When the old armory in the pictures gers to the resort, which was run by drop in business but he decided to looked familiar, he discovered the explain^^Thafs why it was dec the Pabst Brewery. There was a take a chance on the area coming lared a landmark" buildings were really the old Wel dance pavilion, tables, chairs, a back He bought it cheap. come Park and Jefferson Hall build Pandl, a treasure trove on White- lovely beach, and people sat and fish Bay history, noted that the "His place became known ings. They had simply been moved to ; drank their beer and watched the a different location and were being neighborhood was once the site of Ferris wheel which was the first as a restaurant where people could the famed Pabst Whitefish Bay get good sandwiches. Gradually, the used by the army for drills. In those steel one of its kind. Previous to this days, it was cheaper to move build Resort. "People would come from all one, all the Ferris wheels were site did make a modest comeback over the county to spend a day here and our business increased. ings rather than tear them down and wooden." construct new ones. to swim, eat, drink, and dance. Right With the advent of the automobile, "When my father died, my mother across the street from my place was did the cooking and then my brother The original buildings were even prosperity declined at the resort. tually razed and the present-day Welcome Park. Another popular People drove in but soon drove out to and I learned it from her. In 1967, recreation site was Jefferson Park, my mother passed away and my armory is now on the site. new places they had never seen, Visitors to the restaurant at the location which is now Henry such as Port Washington. Soon, brother and I ran the restaurant." Clay (Community Center);Z'ZzJ His brother, George, later opened often contribute additional informa business decreased, attendance tion to Jack Pandl's fund of history. "On a busy Sunday, as dwindled and some of the recrea his own restaurant in Bayside. "We pioneered the serving of Railroad buffs come in and talk with many as 15,000 people would come tional facilities closed. him about the engines that used to in by horse and buggy on the toll It was at this time, in 1915, that whitefish," Jack Pandl said. "It was t road, or railroad which brought Pandl's father decided to purchase a plentiful Lake Michigan fish and (Continued on page 5) 1X>£6 {4vudL$ %***.. J if,/?*? t* 0*y Flavored with history! '(Continuedfrom page 1) , . Michelowski, a German panorama bring groups into Welcome Park painter. , Boat enthusiasts discuss early Lake Panorama artists were all Ger Michigan ships: ; mans who migrated to this area, /In the small dining area off the Pandl said. Their paintings were back entrance, there are many often 50 feet high and 300 feet long, paintings and photographs showing the length of a football field. old Whitefish Bay Resort. There are pictures of both Jefferson Park and Despite the German decor, Welcome Park. Also in the collection the Whitefish Bay Inn serves pri " are charming paintings by Whitefish marily American fare. "We have Bay: resident Mercedes Ballam. weiner schnitzel, of course," Pandl Resort scenes, the old metal Ferris said, "but most Milwaukee restaur wheel, and the "Bloomer Girl" are ants serve that. Our one German some of her artworks that enliven specialty is the German pancake the room. Several original postcards which is quite spectacular looking. which were sold to tourists at the It's a huge puff pancake made with resort area are also on display. flour and eggs. Photographs of Jack Pandl's "We have specials on a weekly parents on their wedding day hang basis but we try to keep our menu in large oval frames on the wall. standard with about 35 to 40 items Historical brochures, published by on it. We find it is easier that way to the Wisconsin Historical Society are insure freshness and better prepara available at the restaurant. "They're tion." packed full of information and are a Throughout the years, the real buy," Pandl says. "They even restaurant has played its own part point out that, in the old days, if you in the lives of the people who have wanted to start a pottery business, eaten good food, enjoyed the interior this location was Ythe best to begin decor, the bird feeders and flowers because the clay was good and outside the windows, and the overall abundant." ambience. Jack Pandl replies, with a twinkle Within the restaurant, in his eye, 'Well, we've always tried along with the fragrance of good to maximize the pleasantness of the ' food, are many antiques that Pandl dining experience. People often come has collected appropriate to the up to me and say that the restaurant German theme. Mounted on the has been part of some special paneled walls is his collection of beer occasion in their lives. Someone will steins. A unique ceramic figure of a confide that she remembers receiv woman, imported . from Germany, ing her engagement ring in my perched on a stag's horns, hangs restaurant. above the bar. •'-<--••••: "Or, they tell me they'll never In the room adjoining the N. Lake forget the anniversary celebration Dr. entrance, hangs a painting they had here. We like to feel we've A COLLECTION OF STEINS is prized by Jack Pandl, owner of Pandl's entitled "Three Gnomes Examing been part of memorable experiences Whitefish Bay Inn. Antiques and historical memorabilia provide the decor Fruits of the Hunt" by Herman in people's lives." - for the 70-year-old restaurant. (Staff photo) to FA Af&udUl %/u<. ,Z > i Majoring in buslnesa admlrils^f tration at the University, of Wis consin trained Post for his pres ent position as general agent for 1 the Provident Insurance Company h in Milwaukee. Beta Theta Phi and the Uni versity club claim this Bayite as «. member. In 19 3 S he waa the president of the Milwaukee chap ter of the Life Underwriters as c sociation. 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 for mer national guardsman, Post served three years «s a member of the fifth cavalry. U-l-lU*- r 11 m- m TUCKED INTO A RESIDENTIAL neighborhood on N. Lake Dr., Pandl's Whitefish Bay Inn flavors its fare with history. The restaurant, opened in 1915, was recently named a Milwaukee County landmark. (Photo by Bernice Kiedrow) (jifA &>ULZS£ ^-4^ /I*? 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 congratula M tions. Pagels . . . Only two other village em (Continued from Page 1) J ployes, Halsey Rapp and Melvin t Marlborough dr. in Pagel's Immekus, have longer service Erwin L. Pagels boyhood was also the right of records with the village. way for the Lake Shore railroad. Pagels became building inspec Later, when he was in the village tor for the Bay in 1927, five hall as an employe, all conversa years after' the first Whitefish tion of necessity had to cease Bay building code was written. when Lake Shore trains thun At the time: th£ late^Frahk'O} f dered by. As a boy, Pagels often f Klode and the late Thomas picnicked in Whitefish Bay park, Buckley were village president north of Henry Clay st to Lex and village commissioner, re ington ave. To this site many spectively. picnickers came every week end There were a couple of police on the lake excursion steamer men then, Pagels recalls, but no from Milwaukee. Sidewalks in fire department. Every night the those days, were made of plank. foremen would load half a dozen The first concrete walks in the hand fire extinguishers on village were laid by Pagers Pagel's pick-up truck for any father, William Pagels, for whom possible emergency. young Bill was named. . Another Anniversary In addition to plans and're On June d Pagels will cele ports for the 75 homes now un brate another, anniversary. He der construction in the Bay, and Mrs. Pagels will observe Pagels has in his desk a copy of their 23rd wedding anniversary the 1927 Whitefish Bay direc , and later this month will drive tory, the first one compiled and to Madison to see their son, Bill, edited by Mrs. Edward J. Schleif graduate from the University of (old address) 1880 Oakland ave. Wisconsin, where, he majored in u This directory vhas been edited > psychology.r^^e1 family hope'lfo " for man*v years now by the ' get in a little vacation together Whitefish Bay Women's club. « before Bill reports for service. T Prior tp his service with the f There is little about White- Bay, Pagels was an electrician fish Bay that Pagels does not and wired many homes in Shore- know. The house in which he wood, ^ Wbitefish Bay and Fox wa$ born and spent his boyhood Point. When he became building was located about 90 feet from jand electrical inspector the only « his present home. It burned large building on E. Silver down in 1908. Spring dr. was the Powell build \ The Bay school he attended ing on E. Silver Spring dr. and : was in the now village owned N. Diversey blvd. The top year ; triangle bounded by N. Idlewild in building during his 25 year ave., W. Birch ave., and N. Marl borough dr. ^(It is here the pro posed village libarry may be located). (Continued on Pajare 16) &. came, td^Whiief^ ^d4W4|ttkh^ye one ot* str^et&Weije mostl£fairtfwagon pngina|, ^Mpro^countef i roads., Henry Clay was paved .Their new^t6*r%^$& serh on but one side of the street— self service and credit quit* the side their store was lo a lot of excitement at it$%pen* cated on. The pavement ex ing for. there '^as no such a tended* from the curve to the thing as a self-service store in center of the street. the village. Pieper8\also was From the start they ran a the biggest store in the*v4llage. pseM-—*-i, credited delivery type of store One < of the redsons the^ and so became familiar with pers became so popular, wl ers Sell Store to Become Inventors the wagon type roads. At one their many customers YW4 time road conditions were so their fair play during war iirm rough, that a young husband, shortages. They tried to trem who.found it impossible for his all customers alike.Becaus^ car to travel through the mud, they had close personal con^ called upon them to take his tact with-all those who shopped; expectant wife to the hospital in their store they were in' ai in the store truck. position where they could he Cash and Carry fairer than they Could have When the war came along, been where they did not know the Piepers stopped delivery those who patronized v their and changed to cash and store/ -. 7 ' ' ;A::-r. v ' carry. ' They become one of The Dobrushkens, who li the first stores in the county purchased Piepers, form to carry a frozen foods line had a store in Milwaukee Mr, and Mrs. Pjeper George E. and Ruth A. Pie- the Nellie Jones store. Nellie per turned their store key over Jones was a favorite shop in to Mr. and Mrs. John Dobrus,h- the early days of,the village. ken at the close of the day, In 1928, the Piepers moved April 30, but when they to 627 E. Henry Clay st., in the locked the door of the grocery building built by Schultkins store at 601 E. Henry Clay St., pharmacy and now occupied they did not lock themselves by Schwartzmans. , into retirement. - Ten years later, the Piepers Far from that! They are built their own stofe at the deep in plans of what to do Henry Clay address. They will with their leisure. The plans continue to live in the apart will include some traveling but ment above the store. already they are busy with in "Art" Will Stay ventions. Even before they During their 28 years as gave up grocering they had Whitefish -Bay grocers, the sold one of their patents to the Piepers have always enjoyed Electrolux Corp. Also they a close relationship with their have patented an attachment customers. They leave some for a vacuum cleaner wlrich of themselves behind, even will make it possible to clean though they will no longer be cotton carpets without snag behind the counter, for "Art," ging them. the clerk whom everyone calls Here for 28 Years by his first name, will stay on. The Piepers have operated "Art" has been associated stores in Whitefish Bay for 28 with the Piepers for many years. They opened their first years. store March 1, 1927, at 809 E. The Piepers grew up with Henry Clay st. This had been the1 village. When they first W) (A lie m LastoftheRabes Move From, ; Roland RabejQuits, °ay; Settled Here in1848 ;j the first time in 102 years Cut Down Possessions Police Force^si afish Bay is without a Rabe. The Misses Rabe have been |*iisie and Charlotte, the last of finding it difficult to move all 'the family to live*in the vil the furnishings and dear keep After 11 Years *#* lage moved from the old home sakes of a ten room house into After 11 years on the White- stead at 4856 N.»Woodruff ave., one with five rooms. fish Bay police force, Roland j Wednesday, to a smaller home By selling and giving away Rabe was resigned to become a at 3979 N. 27th st. furniture they finally had their farmer. He and his wife, with John David Babe* grandfather belongings down to five room their three children, Roland, 14; to Elsie and Charlotte, came size ' ' Ronald, 8, and Ruth, 4, will soon from Germany in 1848 and re 200 Year Old Chest move to their 180-acre farm* in ceived a 15 acre land grant from One of the pieces they moved Fredonia, Wis., to realize a the U. S. government at what with them is a small black wal dream of many years. ;n >• is how Santa Monica ? blvd and nut chest that is 200 years old. E. Henry Clay st. It was here It belonged to their great grand One hundred and. sixty-five that the girls' father, Charles, father. Grandfather Rabe acres of the completely equipped was born. brought it to America with him. farm are under cultivation and Second Land Grant : It was ori the door of this chest the brick house has every con When Charles Rabe was 11 that he did all his figuring for venience to be found in White- years old, his father, took up lancli deals lie made. The mark- fish Bay. ; another land grant on the site J oin|g are still on the door, which The retiring police officer is\ where the Rabe home has since opens up on a series of shelves. truly a native son, having been stood. Charles Rabe married The door locks with a small key. born in his father's farm house j Lisette Burchard of fox Point In all these years the lock still at N. Woodruff st. and E. Hamp works and the key never once ton rd. His father, Charles in 1881. He brought her to the? was lost. Rabe, at 89, has lived in the Bay Woodruff ave. home. It was The Rabe sisters admit it was longer than any other resident; here that" their nine children . he has spent all of his life on the difficult to uproot themselves, f ( were born; here that they cele but as Elsie, the one who teach Rabe homestead at 4856 N. brated their 60th wedding anni es piano, gave a last fond look i Woodruff st * * versary in 1941. T about the big house, remarked: ' Rabe joined the Whitefish Bay n December of that year Mrs. "This house was built for police force Sept. 1, 1935; pre-, * died. Mr. Rabe died in children, it should be the home yious to that date, he had been >mber, 1947, at the age of for a family with children." employed *or three years by the At the time they celebrated Both sisters commented about village, first in the, department vueir last wedding anniversary, jUie^jfr^ : of public works, then as a spe all their children were living. cial officer. From 1935 to Jan- Son Died in War iuary, 1, 1944, he was on night Since then two have died. Gil- duty, then was assigned to day berti who had been with the ma duty, and for the past year and rines for 17 years was killed a half he has been the special during World War IL HuWa died XC.FJ. /k**Jbd friend of all the Richards school four months after her mother. children who four times *a„.day ; All of the 6ther children are, cross the intersection'of Day ave>5 living in Milwaukee, Elsie and and N. Lake dr. under his pro j Charlotte are the only ones un tection. married. The other children are ' Chief George Hage and Lt Al ; Arthur, Mrs. Leon Oteelberger, fred Hennei praised Rabe's rec- (Wilhomene), Mrs. Jack Kasper (Rose), Rudolph and Roland. , ord as a police officer very high- The latter was a former White- ify- and expressed^regretat his fish Bay policeman. [resignation. . •^.v.,Y--lH^ff Incorporated Village 1 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 rest less 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 an other son and daughter but rles was the eldest. All have tm t Repriut From The Milwaukee Journal I Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rabe of helped incorporate Whitefish Bay £856 N. Woodruff ave., the oldest as a village. Mr. Rabe was then toiarried couple in Whitefish Bay named the village's first street |in point of residence, are eelebrat- commission. The village had two ling their sixtieth wedding anni through streets at the time. versary today, Thursday, at their Among those who will help in •home. Seven of the nine Rabe the celebration are Charles Bauer, children—two boys are in the who was best man when the service—will be on hand for the Rabes were married, and Mrs. occasion. Paul Luedtke, who was the brides f In 189,2 Mr. Rabe and his wife maid. (were among the residents who ZlO Frf fi&uUj Jm*-* *-\ /#// T^^^Vy^JbV ,: &&W* . >&ZwA< •*•$;'.* ^-° ?". Z&Z?i zZ^lZZiM%7yZuiutyZ 'Pioneer Couple ofyBagr' Looks Ahead to^ Gala Day l , The old nickelplated base burner sons. Two of the sons are'in the stove in the Rabe living room at service and may not be able to get here, but the others will be on hand. 4856 N. Woodruff av. has witnessed The old base burner stove, which many a joyous family event/ but has faithfully served tne old couple none such as the one which will be for many years, has been polished held there, Thursday. up for the occasion until its nickel Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rabe, the surface gleams like a mirror. The oldest married couple in Whitefish house which the Rabes occupy was Bay in point of residence, are going built long before the days of fur to' celebrate their sixtieth wedding naces, and the old base burner has anniversary in their old house on the place of hVihor in the living room. Thursday. Friends, old, and new, are Aided Village Incorporation , expected to troop in. In 1892 Mr. Rabe and his wife were There will be Charles Bauer, who among the residents who helped in was best man when Charles Rabe corporate Whitefish Bay as a. vil and his wife, Lisette, were married lage. Mr* Rabe was then named the in'the log church near the Port village's first street commissioner. Vtfashington rd. Mt&'Paul Luedtke, The title was a dubious one, Mr. who was the bridesmaid then, will Raba, recalls, because -the: village also attend/- v; • had only two through streets at*the . William Lindwurm, who gave Mr. time — what is.now Sa^ita Monica Rabe'a father his first job when he blvd. and Lake drive. Then'.the. came over here frc^; Germany; p^ JRabes donated; land so the village^ 1849, is long dead,>bf#YMr. Lfrid- could build what is now Woodruff ^urnVf ^daughter/;; RoSfc,. WbWrah, $v„ and !Mr. Rabe had three ihbre^or *WSfi*C tffciftand to congratulate the lessjthrough streets undeVhis; juris Rabes and\{ish them many more, diction. \ " Z** years of hapfcjjmfcs. Nine Children in Family Then there are the nine. 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Grade 10: Christian Ahrens, Liran Amir, Jill Archer, Karen Bell, Peter Brumblay, Jennifer Cannon, James Jr. Cerny, Elizabeth Connors, Daniel Copps, One of theearliest homes in Whitefish Bay, the Rabe homestead, is now the home at Zachary Corrigan, Amy Farah, Kevin Filo, 4856 N. Woodruff Ave. Jacob Fisher, Stephanie Fisher, Joseph (Photo courtesy of Helen Grabowski) Fritsch, Nell Gonring, Erin Grambow, Sa- mantha Griffin, Gabriel Gross, Michael Halloran. Sarah Hansen, Shelby Haschker, Alicia Early resident nurtured, Hawley, Andrew Hawley, Andrew Heck, Bradley Herzing, Nicole Johnston, Patri cia Lawrenz; Robert LeGrand, Kathleen Linehan, Lenbr Marquis, Jeffrey Martin, preserved village roots Kathleen Matthews^ Adam McKinney, Jon Meyers, Kimberly Miller, Jennifer Ninne- Just in time tor the start of White- years later he bought 15 acres on man, Jason O'Brieh; MadeljbueOlseh, Eve fish Bay's centennial celebration, the what is now North Woodruff Avenue. lyn Perry, Aricfretvl^ great-granddaughter of one of the Arthur Rabe was born there in 1886. area's early settlers has stepped for He graduated (in a class of four) froin jen, Shenita Ray, David Roseny Alba San tiago, Christopher Scanlon, John Seelman, ward with historical materials com the village's first school, which was >as B. Smith, Lindsay Stein, Bethany piled by her father. located across from present library. >son, Ann Upton, Danielle Wac|e, Helen Grabowski, the great- The original Rabe farmhouse was Zuege. V.Y; ;:7y.Vv\::V^./;;' granddaughter of John Rabe, who ar replaced in 1913 by a home moved to rived in what is now Whitefish Bay in the site, now 4856 N. Woodruff Ave., Grade 11: Cecilia Azcueta, James 1856, has offered to the Whitefish by Charles Rabe, John's son and Ar Barry, Christopher Bauman, Joel A. Bay Historical Society a collection of thur's father. Brown, Michelle Brown, Sara Champley, early plat maps, old photos, memora Charles Rabe and his wife were Elizabeth Dietz, Michael Doehler, Brian bilia and carefully typed written re among the residents who helped in Duffy, Sarah Dwyer, Amanda EUis, Wil ports gathered by her father, Arthur corporate the village of Whitefish liam French, Tina Girard, Timothy Gra Rabe. Arthur Rabe was John Rabe's Bay in 1892. Charles was the village's ham, James Hirsch, Justin Hsiang, Ste grandson. first street commissioner (probably phanie Hsu; Kregg Janke, Kevin McSor- Arthur Rabe was born in Whitefish not a big job, considering the village ley, Mark Ninneman, Greggory Peterson, Bay in 1886. He moved to Milwaukee had only two through streets at the Anne Post, Mehul Pujara, Jeffrey Regan, in 1910 but never lost his affection for time). David Rieszi Rebecca Rogers, Aaron the village, his daughter said. Helen Grabowski said her father "My father lived and breathed was a good friend,pf another lpcalhis-- Y,Saj^ v : ti : -T0»arnT'WiS^ Whitefish Bay, she saldr^Heioved it tory^buff^ the\ MiM^(^6WBW^S%t ' there. He was proud ofthe Rabe fam Fox Point. Buttles, the son of early Grade 12: Amin Afsari, Eilon S. Amir, ily's place in Whitefish Bay history." settlers in that area, wrote exten Sara Armstrong, Barak Babcock, Gitte Arthur Rabe died in 1981 at the sively about the history of that Sook Basse, Danielle Belfield, Jonathan age of 96. His daughter has worked community. Brooks, Jennifer Brown, Bridget Carey, off and on over the last 10 years put The two of them would argue by Jason Carter, Katie Churchill, Julie Clap- ting together her father's historical the hour," Grabowski said of her pier, Sarah Connors, Bridget Cookson, Eli materials. father and Buttles. "They would try zabeth Curtis, Julie Dick, Kathleen Far- "He was a man who had a lot of re to get it all straight, such things as rell, Katherin Germanotta, Jeremy Hal- cords," she said. She wants to donate what street was where. Mr. Buttles comb, William Hurd. the materials to the Historical Soci and my Dad seemed to think it was all Amy Jablonka, Sara Kain, Christophe ety in her father's memory. "It be such very important material. I Kindschi, Annette Krauss, Marika Lang, longs in Whitefish Bay," she said. called them Mr. Fox Point and Mr. Karen LaVetter, Scott Lazovik, Timothy The Rabe homestead was in what Whitefish Bay." Lynch, Steven McSorley, Asia Muham is now the 4800 block of North Wood Arthur Rabe lived with his mad, Christopher OToole, Sarah Reis, ruff Avenue. John Rabe first came to daughter and her husband for 25 TJ*^ather Roberts, Jennifer Roberts, Tho- the area in 1856 and bought property years. He spent countless hours on Ross, Dimple Ruparel, Joseph at what is now the southwest corner the historical project, Helen Gra te, Carrie Seelman, Yohei Shimada, of East Henry Clay Street and North bowski said. "He was in there typing Silbermann, Jessica Speich, Robert Santa Monica Boulevard. Twenty all the time," she said. ~^mmetz, Joshua Stoeveken, Thomas Swietlik, Kelly Trimble, David Ungerman, Carmen Thea Vranken, Sanuel Wallace, Rachel Williams, Scott Willson. JL-*. Windows depict history fe, Y YY^,,. 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 limits of Whitefish Bay. Her FaveBta wsre Gillian. Hsajy and Ruth shcvle? Oesssul who.sane to &llwsu&e& in 164? from f$L«a©t Ohio and settled ©a a S6 aero fara on tha sits rnci^ bounded by Santa Monica Boulevard, Silver spring Road j. Lake Klohlg&a and (Elliott's t*xm on north) the Oonsauls bought this 36 acre tract from a Mr« lipaeonb. OB it WEB a leg house where the eoupfc© Red© their boas©, and also a small frame house where Vv. Consaul*® father and mother llwd until tiieir deaths* Mrs* Sohelf© says life in tfce early days was not difficult, 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 their stock and eatt 1©* Some grain was eent to the pierren mill for grinding and later on grinding was done st the Bander Mill* Mr* Consaul had bean a first eleae shipbuilder in the last, so had no difficulty in securing work during the winter at the old Wolf and Davidson Ship yard on the ifenotslnse Biver in Milwaukee* %is work, together with the pound fishing op©ratione they carried on in the Bay, produced ample cash incase for their needs, while the farm provided a ©eisfort&bl© horn and a great plenty of vegetable, fruits berries and meat* It the tlaa© the ^onsauls moved to the &ay there were but three jiwrtean families living in the vicinity - the Charles %©rta, feeir son-in-law Sylvester Abbey and Humphries* The Averts had a fart?: in fte ncrth aad of the present village, the Abbeys lived in a rented house €na the %erta farm, and Hr* Huispbries, a gardener by trade, lived on sfcat is now Sylvan Avenue and later moved to New York. Mrs* %heif© says the Abbeys were gone for two years on a trip brr covered wagon to Plkefs peak, during the "jM&es Peak or Bust Days*** if ter their tm return to 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* Buttles, who for 50 years was Clerk of the Town of Milwaukee and whose sister carried Paul Juneau, a eon. of Solomons Two of the daughters of this.couple, **nm and Marion Juneau mere married to Henry King and Jsmss >rc©ee, partners In th© large &llwaukes printing' concern of King, Fowl© and SseGee* The lings and lie Owes built Identical houses of glazed tile 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 finest in the district* Mrs* Sehelfs retains a clear recollection of the Indian °car© of 1868, a story of which she wrote for the Milwaukee journal* She also told the following incident that occurred wh« she was a young girl* One day a neighbor came running to their h083© aaach excited over having seen a wild cat on his farm* 'Kir* Ccnssul pulled on his boots, took down the gun fmw over the door, and rounding up other neighbors similarly arased, chased the wild eat until they lost it in the woods, and without getting close mough to shoot* During Mrs* Scheife9s childhood there were no churches closax* than Milwaukee m& she had to mXk dally to the school then located'on port Washington ioad about a half mils north of Silver spring Boad* Later, the Town School district was divided with one school located on port Washington ^oad near the ^rean Tree Road and ftm other, call ad the Lindwer® aohool on fee Port &&,shingtaa Ba&d near the golf links in the present Lincoln park* Tier© was no high aa ®pl closer than Milwaukee* V for recreation they had frequent parties, birthday and anniversary celebrations and an occasional trip to the city for an evening at the theatre. The German set also held picnic3 and dances at t^e several taverns located on Port Washington *Wd* *8- As the modern fishing laws were enacted, which would have forced them to set their 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 his store and bom© on Silver Spring load at Lake Drive, a site new occupied by the Whitefish Bay pharmacy and Erausefs Grocery. Here Mr* ^cheife conducted his store for 8 years when he gave up that business and started up a hardware store on Silver Spring Boad in vfeich business he continued until 1980^ $ten he retired. Mr* Scheife was the second treasurer of the village, being elected to that office fcr the years 1893 and 1894. ^gain in 190$ he was elected ^reasux*er and his encumbancy lasted for 15 years until his retirement from active business life* During the years Mr. ^cheife spent in the grocery business he was Postmaster of Whitefish Bay, which position carried ?dth it more honor than profit. He says that many months he received as much as 60 or 70 cents remuneration, or the sum total ofthe postage stamp cancellation of the office. Mr. and Mrs. Scheife are still hale and hearty, physically and mentally and are a fine example of health and longevity induced by clean living in a salubrious clinmte. h ..... Carl- . - •••••. : 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, im m*r JAUNTS WITH JAMIE Long Career Remembered ARTHUR A. R A B E was the workers at Geuders. My born 87 years ago in White- first official job was auditing fish Bay when that communi the books of the kitchenware ty was little more than woods firm. and farms. While not as spry "I spent 15 years with the as he used to be (and who AFL and made several trips is?), the old gentleman is still to Washington, D. C. My job was helping with organizing, nimble of mind. Memories auditing and appearing in come bubbling up like foam court. I retired 15 years ago on beer. at the age of 72." No, Rabe did not attend a IN 1909, RABE married one room school. "My first Florence Creed. She worked school on Port Washington for the Pere Marquette Trans Rd.," he said, "had two portation Co. Rabe met and rooms, one for the boys and fell in love with her when she one for the girls." came into O'Neil's to order AFTER TELLING about paint. They had six daugh the Pabst Whitefish Bay Re ters, four of whom are still sort, described in some detail living. The oldest is Mrs. Tuesday, Rabe skipped to the Charles H. Kestermeier, who retired in July, 1972, as ad turn of the century when he ministrative assistant to attended Hoffman's Business Francis McCormack, clerk of College at 3rd and State Sts. courts. "I finished my business Sister Mariana, a Daughter courses in 1903," he said, of Charity, is at St. Mary's "and got a job as office boy Hospital, Daly City, Calif. with the O'Neil Oil and Paint Mrs. Andrew G. Magruder Co. on E. Water and Detroit lives in San Jose, Calif., and Sts. I was with this firm for Helen, the youngest daughter, 20 years and was purchasing Mrs. Phillip Grabowski, is a agent when I quit to become public Health nurse who lives president of the National at 4920 S. 14th St. Her father Paint and Varnish Co. We resides with her. had seven stores scattered about the city. But each time During our interview, Rabe we opened a store, a compet showed me a picture of a ing firm opened one next Christmas gathering at the door and undersold us. This old Whitefish Bay home firm prospered and we went stead. There were 27 rela broke. I lost my life savings. tives in the group from babes in arms to grownups, repre- "I went to work for Geu- sen-ting four generations. der, Paeschke and Frey Co., "My mother," said Rabe, manufacturers of kitchen- "known to everyone as ware, as a laborer. After 10 'Grandma Lisette/ was a years, I became interested in great cook and we raised the American Federation of most of the food on the Labor and helped to organize farm." !&£ 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. ($4 (A) A century ofpeacefulconcerns (Continued from page 1) considers herself a Democrat, but has not be better than the past. We must rent events programs on television. > never been involved in grassroots continually go, on to a better life." Her favorite is the MacNeil Lehrer time, Mrs. Roberts was outspoken in campaigning. She can recall, Report. "It's so comprehensive," she her opposition to the Vietnam War. however, being a staunch supporter of She spends a good part of said. Last year, in her winter home of Robert LaFollette and the Progressive each day with books, continuing to The day she was interviewed she West Palm Beach, Fla., she was Party in 1924. read extensively in the fields of had watched Nancy Reagan's televi honored by the local branch of the 1 philosophy, politics and biography. sion appearance on behalf of drug Women's International League for She has conflicting thoughts about "I often read far into the night," she education. She approved of the First Peace and Freedom. prospects for the future. She continues said. Lady's involvement, she said, but she Mrs. Roberts said she is not able to to marvel at the technological Emerson is one of her favorites. "I wasn't sure she wanted that men- explain—even to herself—her indepen achievements of the 20th century ("I feel he is supreme," she said. Her 1981 tioned in a newspaper article. "I don't dent spirit and the depth of her convic think about it every night when I go to Christmas greeting used quotations want my name associated with the tions. She noted that her father bed"), but despairs oyer the lack of from Emerson, including the words: president's," she said. brought with him an anti-militarism world" harmony. "If things are ever to move upward, Asked to explain, Mrs. Roberts said: when he came from Germany to the "There is a point I want to make," someone must be ready to take the "I think history will show (Reagan) to United States.. Her mother, born in she said. "Despite all our comforts we first step, and assume the risk of it." be one of our poorest presidents. He . England, was always interested in have acquired so much, yet the The night before she was inter doesn't follow through. There is so politics, she said. security of life is something we don't viewed; she had picked Plato off the much he is neglecting." have, is not with us at all. We have bookshelf for her evening reading. "I Two weeks ago, Mrs. Roberts went While she believes strongly fallen short here. hope that doesn't sound smart- to the ballet. This week she was plan in the need for a world court to work "I thought the progress of peace alecky," she said. ning to attend a local political function out nonmiiitary solutions to interna would be farther along than it is," she Her eyesight could be better, she for a visiting presidential hopeful.. tional conflicts ("like a Supreme said. "People still don't understand said, "but I manage because (reading) ("I don't want you to say who it is, I" Court for the world") she supports the '. the stupidity of war. I can't say enough is important to me." She recently may not support him, I haven't made efforts of the United Nations. against war, the stupidity of war." began to supplement her reading up my mind yet," she said.) "It has accomplished a lot, people glasses with a magnifying lens. "It's If she were able, she'd still be part of i don't realize how very helpful it has Yet she chooses to be optimistic. not easy (to use) but it's terribly the activist parade. "If I could just get ~ been," she said. She is a long-time "Every once in a while I do get dis helpful," &he explained. "There was a out, I'd go to every meeting I could," member of the World Federalists couraged, when terrible things hap time when I thought I couldn't read she said. Association, a national group promot pen, when I think of how things should anymore. This has been a new discov At age 99, soon to be 100, her con ing world organization. be, but I feel we cannot despair, we ab ery." ' tribution of heart and mind will cer She has a strong interest in politics, solutely must not think the future can She watches mainly news and cur tainly suffice. Page 3 THE HERALD OCTOBER 20.1983 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 foot ball 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 reaso nably active, which enables me to enjoy our lake cottage and fishing up north." , JRose a|sp takes pleasure in music j programs, reading and bird watching. --»—<*» *.T •*«•_ JU. tiouuJ f- ?- eg- (°& \ 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 Uni versity of Wisconsin where he se cured his U. A., and the University of Minnesota, where he acquired a Ph.D. ' Three years ago, which was be fore 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 avoca tional pleasures In reading and 'collecting a quartz-type mineral. However, due to the tact that he will be a counselor at Camp Lin coln in Minnesota this summer, he 'fill find the majority of his time {occupied. \ "I am happy to he in the vil lage," Dr. Reichert said In closing) the interview. "It Is a> pleasure to work with such intelligent peo- y^yyywy /7)eredZ f r 0$, JPetenwill rock, 'down between] the Yellow and, iWisconsin Bay Street Superintendent Rapp rivers; /,...,*,. ••* 'YAJ5|> jr.* z Purely ' a family, Jman^he intends to have some time for To Retire After 35 DPW Years his nine f grandchildren. : He ^Superintendent of Bay is confident, will be able to has . two daughters,' Betty , Streets Halsey T. Rapp,. 4714 accommodate tin cans along Bork, a bookkeeper who lives « N, Berkeley blvd., will retire with garbage, etc. , in Wauwatosa and /Mildred on his 65th birthday Jan. 30. When Rapp moved into the Messer, a Glendale housewife, He has been with the depart village, Montclaire ave^ was whose husband Is a Glendale, ment of public works since then known as Irma ave.; policeman. .+ . - - %> \ J922, a year after he moved Lake dr. was through; Santa into Whitefish Bay. Monica was not a through street; the southern part of It was in the spring of 1921 the village, in parts, was still thatv Anna and Halsey T. in the Town of Milwaukee. Rapp moved to the village, Dirt Roads Ijle well remembers that he , Most of the roads were and Anna brought the village dirt. Today all are either con population up to 999 and thai crete or stabilized roads and their baby made it an even the rusticity of road ditches, for the most part has been 4; A great many changes have given over to curb and gutter. dfccurred in the Bay's depart From the start of, his em ment of public works in the ployment with the ' village, last 35 years, said Rapp. Rapp was in charge of some When he first joined the de department. For " the - last partment, garbage and refuse twenty years, it has been; as were collected by a contract street superintendent. He how or; This was changed within has 46 men under him. ; a year of his joining the de Working in various parts of partment and soon Whitefish the village »he often recalls vBay was making all its own early incidences, Y In * some collections. t ,_ • ' (work, at Day ave. arid Santa Colleotion? in the early days | Mdnica^h?dL TonT Monday he -weremostly ashes. Now there recalled ' the time he grew ;are;;almost no ashes. Today's wheat on this* land, just out of curiosity. Much of White- j collections are, about 75 per fish Bay was farm land, 35 ^ cent cdmbustibles. In another years ago. ; i ten ; years, Rapps believes When he retires) Rapp plans ; that everything will be burned to divide his time between his for sanitary reasons, so that home here and his 40~ acres the # Aty^ZAz HB^z^^^PP^MfM^Zl^h. ^vi:. Vw Present Watch to Retiring Street Superintendent Country Day Alumni f Honors Head Janitor Special^ honors were paid to Raymond"L. Ritzier, 6275 N. San ta 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. Ritz ier 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, direc tor of the junior school's music department, played the piano for the singing of school songs. Retiring Superintendent of Bay Streets Halsey T. Rapp, 4714 N. Barkeley blvd., was presented with a framed reso lution 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 ikzUfLff tfzff ** <^yu M>^ ~]/y(LAA JLAAJ^ /%&yZZ&ZZ£i&A-4 . m M SCHULTZ Village reaped what he sowed By Jacqueline Lehatto "Most of that work (tree removal) Said Shultz: "After the storms in the summer, you have to clear the n the 41 years Ron Schultz has been contracted out the last 20 the tree in progress. Schultz seemed years,* Schultz said. "We were streets. After one storm two years more relaxed. And he had a big grin trimmed trees and planted flow ago it took three days to clean up. I ers for the village of Whitefish taking out up to 200 trees a season." on his face. I Schultz was the one to paint the "X* guess I had enough," he added, It was clear he had enjoyed his Bay, he saw a lot of changes. on the trees that could not be saved. shaking his head. In 1948, trees were cut by men career in the village. "It had to be "At first it bothered me," he He is proud of the flowers he good, to spend 40 years here," he using handsaws and swinging from planted every spring. The garden ropes and saddles. When Schultz, admitted. "After a while you just said. That is three-quarters of my turn your head away. They were spots are one item on the village life. It is hard to let it go." 62, retired as head forester last beautiful trees. All the mailmen budget residents don't seem to mind, month, he was supervising men in enjoyed our village, it was in the he said. "The people like the flow hydraulic aerial trucks using chain- shade all the time." ers," he noted, "They keep calling for saws. more and more every year." Schultz was interviewed last Pointing to the flower beds up and week—appropriately, in Klode Park- Schultz said he doesn't hold much down the bluff at Klode Park, he %t*d£ Tto> 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 Wis consin 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. Isen ring worked at Schuster's. Mildred married Lester Eifler and moved to Manitowish Waters, Wise, where she lives, as does her daughter. m # Grandma Schober will be 90 Friday; Crochets without Specs and Helps About House Mary Isenring Schober will be Xttany changes have taken *90 years old Friday. A slim little place since her birth. Some of lady, with lots of auburn hair, the changes were wrought by fringed with gray, she plans to members of her own family. Her cut her own birthday cake, and brother, Fred, opened the White- perhaps do a little crocheting and fish Bay resort, which drew "helping about the house. She^ people from all over the coun lives with her daughter, Mrs.' try. Later it became known as William Hoppenrath, 1021 E. the Pabst-Whitefish Bay resort. Henry Clay st. < >* 4 It covered vast acres, fronting The house in which she now on Lake Michigan and afforded lives is not too far from the a variety of entertainment, and the best in music. It was ja won derful place for a holiday. A nephew, Wynand G. Isen ring, 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 oppor tunity to talk about the past, for which she has a font of mem- ories, on her birthdayM for her daughters, Mrs. Hoppenrath and Mrs. Walter C. Mann, 5112 N. Her hobbies kre * crocheting, Elkhart ave., have arranged an which she does without glasses, open house in her honor at the and reading, which she does Hoppenrath home. A son, Gallus solely with the aid of a magni Schober, Milwaukee, will also fying glass. No spectacles for \)e on hand for the open house. Grandma Schober! Another son died during the flu| She is a member of Divinity epidemic of 1918. He was then Lutheran church. 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- site on which she was born in a raths. log cabin on what now is E. Day ave. She has six grandchildren and She was born to Mr. and Mrs. eight great grandchildren, and is Fred Isenring, Oct 26, 1861. For a Gold Star Grandmother as her a short while she lived in Chi grandson, Warren Thomas cago, but most of her life was Ramey, a bomber pilot was lived in the village* killed in Germany during World War II, Although Mrs. Schober was never one to belong to organiza tions 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, O gentle lady whom Carl Schober married. Margaret S^z^War : ^er-.^rJ#r-::po^ti^n: ^ . >nni&$w$ ^gftM«JnU''H4M^ (jq^nt, .Mititlsl| ^nt^ pWn^f^lV^JKI! ^ m) Sullivan, John (Jack) 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. fi'Thn e 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 drive way 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 de pression, 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 (page 1 of 8) 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 -2- 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 Ave nues 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.) -3- fe 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 burned^^^^^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. m\ -A- Xu,(AHZ yl^eX^^-^*--. 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 ex tend 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 land fill practices. -5- 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>*< *.% 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. Ro land 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 \A7tnA -6- •#• Qr^eA Attt^M^v^. 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. -7- 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. 0 yb 7td£. •& AICC^ fact ^m< -8- v£-z^. 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 1937•(^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 Do minican 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 1. (page 1 of 6) 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 north west 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. Afi^&k Jittsilusx^ ~ 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 announc er 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, 3. 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 Geil fuss; 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 Blvd. "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 main tenance 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 4. y^e^zi^^^^ years old or older. 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 be gan. 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. u Jf-J . -"V > *' /* /;,; „>«•>* * .s 'yM£t %(&• < • f PAUfc 8TC>VKR--^ni»te© 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> '3y 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 Wil liam 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 Michi gan State university this month, but due to the draft will he un able to continue his law training at the ^present time. Virginia is a junior it the same school. ' f. : At the present time Stover is an attorney-at-law connected ;%ith stover .v*ni Stover in theo Wells ^J'tThpse:-#no'-"wii'- their *5w*s" at schppl ;are eligible to membership Jn|th>.^^fcj^^ W^WA. ^' ' ' VILLAGE OFFICIAL—William Staffeld, a Whitefish Bay village •M^m. employe for more than 40 years, was a marshal at the time this > neit fdui^yeSri|..;. . photo was taken. He was street commissioner at the time of his k Later •'.'£<*> spent fours* years in death, on Oct. 1, 1933. His parents, who signed the village incorpor i the United States attorney's office ation papers, operated a farm on the site of the present National and worked in the Milwaukee Guard Armory, 1225 E. Henry Clay st. His daughter, Mrs. Vera county^ district attorney's office Cross, lives at 915 E. Lexington blvd. for another four years with Wil liam Zabel; The Stovers have two children, WF6 /4&LfU (m Whitefish Bay Trustee Hands j Bay Officials Plan ! P ' A'Z$ sP — X 5R SCHROEDER. TWO important business interests art v In December, 1899, his brother William, who ha associated vk """ jviderice of the ability and progressive spirit of Wa with his father in the real estate and insurance but>. ^, died, and Schroeder, who heads Chris. Schroeder & Son Company of Milwaukee. it was necessary that some one should go to the father's assistance. He is also president of the Schroeder Hotel Company, controlling a W^ltejL^broeder, then nineteen years of age, sold his paper and chain of ten important hotels in four different states of the Middle became a partner in the firm of Chris. Schroeder Son & Company. West. His discernment and keen perception of business opportunities His progress since^tnat time has been notabfer-iir lOlSy when one which he readily utilizes have given him place among the outstanding of Milwaukee's largest hotels was erected, he sold bonds, believing : business men of Milwaukee, his native city. it to be a safe investment, but when the hotel failed to operate with He was born May 19, 1878, and is of German lineage, his parents profit he took over the management because he felt responsible to liajpng been Christian and Amelia Schroeder. The father was born those who had become bondholders • through him. Again he proved July 12,1841, in Stettin, Germany, where he-was reared and educated. the soundness of his judgment and the Hotel Wisconsin became the After crossing the Atlantic he came to Milwaukee and was first largest and the finest in the city of Milwaukee, and it constituted employed in connection with the packing industry. He entered the Walter Schroeder's initial step in hotel ownership and management. real estate, loan and insurance business in 1885, his sons joining him When the pride and largest of the Schroeder Hotels chain, the in the venture, and continued in that field of activity until his death, Schroeder Hotel, Milwaukee, was finally finished and about to be which occurred January 20, 1915, when he was seventy-four § years opened, two prominent doctors told Mr. Schroeder on the very day of age. He had become widely known as a sagacious business man of his gala opening that he would either go to the hospital that very of unquestioned integrity, who carried forward to successful com afternoon or not live through the day, so he packed his bag and went, pletion whatever he undertook by reason of his unfaltering industry January 18, 1928. and determination. One by one he has opened other hotels until today he owns On the 19th of December, 1865, Christian Schroeder married valuable hostelries in Madison, Green Bay, Fond du Lac and Wausau, Amelia Gleisberg, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Gleisberg, and Wisconsin, also in Duluth, Minnesota, Benton Harbor, Michigan, and to them were born nine children: Frank, now deceased, who married Wabash, Indiana, until altogether the Schroeder chain covers ten Ida Schulz; Edward, a real estate man, who wedded Josephine Uhrig; excellent hotels in the Middle West. Amelia, Arthur, Anna and William, all deceased; Walter, Ella; and In the meantime, Mr. Schroeder continued in the business estab Amanda, now the wife of Dr. Harry J. Heeb. The father of this lished by his father and is today the president of the largest in surance agency in Wisconsin, now conducted under the name of family was a member of the Old Settlers Club, the Masonic fraternity Chris. Schroeder & Son, Inc. That he has greatly developed and and Grace Lutheran Church, and his life was ever guided by high promoted this business is indicated in the fact that when he joined and honorable principles that made him a man whom to know was to the organization they represented only three fire companies and esteem and honor. His sonsf Edward and Walter, and his daughters, today they have the agency for twenty of the largest insurance com Ella and Mrs; Heeb. are still residents of Milwaukee. panies of the country and handle fifty-seven varieties of insurance Walter Schroeder completed his grade school studies at the age coverage. of fourteen years and then announced his wish to start out in busi ness, 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 work ing 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. •'< ' . • ' .? ^ rr CtJdrtlNG TJP—The Whitefish Bay villw Blvd., who settled in the urea in IK<>6\ and board cut a cake at its regular mevUni;- in whose general store at Sil\er Sprint; p-'ltaki and a s.ort of fish trap rigged with * nets. When it was thought a suf ficient 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 prob ably make necessary the purchase of a steam fishing tug, the busi The first grocery store in Spring rd. and N. Lake dr. on the; ness was, discontinued, and Lewis (Whitefish Bay was owned and present site of the Whitefisli Bay; Scheife, in 1892, entered the gro run by Lewis Scheife on E. Silver pharmacy. :; - : ••;•••• i cery , 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 hard ware 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 re tirement 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 remunera tion, or the sum total of the post age stamp cancellation of the of fice. 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. Berk eley blvd. Mrs. Scheife passed away in December, 1941* t. te SCiAeiFZZ Celebrating life at 90 By Mardee Gruen "I had a baby recently and had taken my children for a short walk She may not be the "Little Old !^^-^>w^«TOr»!Vi£. one afternoon. When we got home I Mrs. Ardellini attributes much of r Lady from Pasadena" but she surely found my grandmother waiting for is the spry, spirited 90-year-old the family's closeness to her grand- ?f us on the front step. And I live on mother. "We may not see each -| from Shorewood! 74th St. in the city. She had taken Longtime North Shore resident other often, but just her being keeps j the bus from Shorewood just to us together."., ,: ] Ruth Scheife, of 1700 River Park come and see how we were doing.*' Ct., Shorewood, celebrated her 90th That baby, at age two weeks, was birthday recently amid 60-plus She also told of the family ) adoring relatives. All of her five ' Christmas party held at her grand- r children were on hand to usher, in the youngest at the family celebra mother's apartment which has ] the new decide as the family reu tion. become known as "grandma's par- I ty.M "It's a potluck supper and you '] nion was held at the Bayside home Mrs. Ardellini has very strong of her daughter and son-in-law, Bea can tell that she has taken special i feelings for her grandmother whom time to concentrate on the names of 'f and Fred Zahn, 1007 E. Glenbrook she termed to be almost like a Rd. the great-grandchildren because 1 "monument." she knows they won't understand if * she calls them by the wrong name." : Welcoming the guests were 90 "As I grew up she's always been balloons decorating the outdoor around for me. I never think of her pool in the yard and 90 cupcakes ar not being here. She's taught me to Mrs. Scheife has great regard for ranged to form one big cake. always do what I feel a need to do. the youth of today and admits that . Mrs. Scheife's other children in- , And, if I make.a mistake—I tried people just get used to changes in elude Jane Hirsch, Oconomowoc; i and had faith in what I believe." life as you go along day to day, Edith Haug, Esconitio, Calif; Rick Scheife, Houston, Texas, and Jack She, too, is cognizant of her "I hope these changes are all for ; Scheife, Palatine, 111. grandmother's ability to be self- the best. Many things of today are no better than they were in the Mrs. Scheife also boasts of 14 ' sufficient and even called her stub- • "olden days." Some things are too grandchildren and 17 great-grand , born when it comes to her obses extreme now, but I don't really ob- . children. All but three grand- 1 sion with exercise. "I'll offer to pick ject and I'm all for the youth of to children attended the recent ~ ; * her up in my car and she always day. "celebration. : -^ *--" ^ refuses." She and her late husband, Alvin "I've seen many changes in my Scheife, were longtime Whitefish She lives alone in the River Park lifetime and the world is so; Bay residents. Her father-in-law, ] different now. But the changes have Louis Scheife, was a past village j been gradual and you can adjust to treasurer and one of the founders of • Apartments and sometimes par anything if you want to," she Whitefish Bay. takes in the social activities offered offered. " ,; in the housing complex for the "He owned most of the land what i / elderly. And so four generations gathered [ is now Silver Spring. He farmed the to share the joy each individual had ; land which was nothing more than "I just keep going. You have to felt exude from this special lady. a horse trail," she recalled. .What a nice birthday present. Mrs. Zahn also remembered •' catching the train for downtown at take the good with the bad and keep what's now Silver Spring Dr. on doing as much as you can," Scheife offered as her secret to good "My mother still loves to sew and health and longevity. cook. And get her exercise. She walks to Kohl's and takes the bus to She remembered as her children Bay Shore Mall. She insists on being were growing up their house was UFA tfadUL so independent, despite my attempt always filled with young people to curtail her," Mrs. Zahn revealed. and she's still involved and in &-a$- /?sA An avid sports fan, Mrs. Scheife terested in the happenings of her and several friends brought home a children, grandchildren and great-' winner from the Brewer game grandchildren. which they attended last Thursday. "I enjoy everything. I'm not old- fashioned in any way," she said. Granddaughter Laura Haug Ar dellini confirmed that fact as she reported a recent visit from her grandmother;, ^ mt\ toCH€(Fe TWO-WEEK-OLD Andrew John Ardellini of Milwaukee got experienced cuddling from his great-grandmother, Ruth Scheife, of Shorewood. Mrs. Scheife was celebrating her 90th birthday recently at the home of her daughter, Bea Zah, 1007 E. Glenbrook Rd., Bayside. [•• (Staff photo by Gary Dineen) copA tfau>ed ,'vY\SYYXV Honor Louis Scheifes at Big Golden Wedding Celebration Wednesday Old Bay Resident, Two glorious gray haired persons Retires to 'Loaf who come honestly by the title of "old Whitefish Bay residents/' be One'of the oldest residents of cause they have lived there steadily Whitefish Bay, Henry Scheife1 for more than three quarters of a 75, whose Mediterranean siyle century, yesterday marked a mile stone in their lives. home at 5933 N. Berkeley blvd. They are Mr. and Mrs. Louis is erected witliin four blocks of Scheife, whose friends and relatives the former site of the old farm gathered at a dinner in the home of where he was born, will retire their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. Aug. 1 after 49 years with the and Mrs. A. W. Scheife, to honor Transport Coi He is superin them at their golden wedding cele tendent of the Oakland division bration. . ~~ The affair was a complete sur of the company. prise to these alert old timers who Born in the Town of Milwau have given abundantly of themselves kee when the Bay area was to Whitefish Bay's civic growth. Mrs. farmland, Mr. Scheife moved to Scheife was a Miss Consual,—whose Milwaukee in 1898. In 1936 he name has jbeen perpetuated there in answered a blind ad offering the naming of a street and whose earliest recollections deal with a Bay property for sale and moved quick move ber family made when back to his childhood haunts. an Indian scare came up in 1862. "I knew that land, top and She was four years old then and her bottom," he said reminiscently.; parents had a four day old baby. Yet, "It wasn't a 'blind' ad for me." in an article she wrote for a news In his Whitefish Bay home, paper a few years back, she depicted where he lives with his daugh her family's pioneering spirit of mov ter, Mrs. Lillian Kellogg, is a ing that whole family into Milwaukee along the trail which has since be priceless antique bedstead-r-a come Lake drive. Mr. Scheife for wedding gift presented by Solo niany years was treasurer of the vil mon Juneau to Mr. Scheife's lage, and still likes, in his daily walks late wife's grandfather. with a third generation family mem ber, 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. For the last six years, they have been living in the home with their? •£tttt-<_ son and his f.amily where yesterday's, celebration for 25 persons was held.t fr*Ajp') cJLd GLAUTLZJL- A<^*ZpL m Seniors get! "r share of jovin' from; "', .the oven.: , RICH BREAULT , v1''.' Senior Feature Writer • ',•',• -' • •; ome days,'Thea Nugent-is in the chicken delivery S business. Some days it's roast pork. Other days it's beef stew.'- s \ , '»• • • • i, , Nugent is a' driver' for* Home'' Delivered Meals, a program,of the Antelope Valley Committee on Aging (AVCOA). i ; AVCOA began 13 .years ,ago> in a back room of the Salvation' \riny building oivBeech' and, Kettering in Lancaster. The pro1 ^ram is subsidized by Los An- |*eles! County as part of a federal >rogram, on,aging\and super vised-by-. 5th District Supervisor' Michael Aritonovich. } ,-\-, ,,t,' Presently, AVCOA. provides in V ? of 1,6U0 meals for se:' ii( ars old and older) per ve - ibuted at three1 differ ent i. -ohs ih the Valley y the • \ntelope Valley Senior Center'i n Lancaster •''.the Palmdale Se- lior Center and this Pearblossom Chamber of. Commerce.. Trans portation to the centers., is.-also • ' • • i '" ." .t. - j' popSIDDLE/valleyt ivailable. . Y< >. .':, •. i'..,'« 7 \y^ HOME-DELIVERED MEALS driver Thea Nu- , /program^ is jSponsored by^the* Antelope Va ; .The meal program is not. a gent, left brings lunch to 100-year-old 'Auntie ;• Committee on Aging and subsidized by, Los [poverty program, though no one - Margaret' Schi;nz during her delivery rounds. The ' ^gelesCpUnty. .. ;'. ' ' |i s turned away because of inabil In addition''to bringing her ?•.() ity to pay the suggested ,doriation clients, meals, Nugent will pick; *m> ){' $1.25.' To allow poorer/seniors up newspapers from their drive-; him 'the old geezer'. .". , jv.-';,,],;^ . ;o maintain; aUeyel of; dignity] ways, bring in the rnail, pet theirV "I've got pretty good people, on lonations are- put in envelopes)' animals — little extras that go a !i ; my route light:, now.'It .can. get hen collected.:/ . • Z \ '\ depressing when, yoii/see ^hem long.way. Remembering their, 1 For eligible seniors unable to birthdays is also important. : •';',; get sicker and sicker eacH day -, At«A 1$ VW. travel to onef of the three centers} "Sometimes, she's .the- only, and know>therejs, nothing, any- • Home Delivered Meals deliver^ person I'll see all day," said 100-,!. •body can do. .^^^Vl^^^^'^IVt j uxmt 1,000 meals weekly; Th^' year-old Margaret:Schinz;:speak ' r ""Many .of these seniors'; are suggested donation for- these ing pf Nugent.{^'Sunday,t|;.had; 'stubborn and they'll hang in! meals is $1.50 per meali;;,:•• •; < I riot ^ /.Y i 103rd birthday a red, Zrl Y>1 white and blue party By RICHBREAULT have all of you here to honor Senior Feature Writer me," Schinz told the crowd of LANCAGTFP - "Auntie" well-wishers. "I was simply hop Margaret Siegfried Schinz, cele ing to have a little cake and ice brated her 103rd birthday Fri cream at home with a few of my day with red, white and blue bal friends. I never expected this." loons, a color guard and ice Schinz received recognition cream and cake for 300 people at from Bob Coyne of VFW Post the Senior Center in Lancaster. 7283 and Auxiliary, a plaque The surprise birthday party presented by Lancaster Mayor was given by the Antelope Val Arnie Rodio and a proclamation Z{fi ley Committee On Aging from Fifth District Supervisor 'tin (AVCOA). Mike Antonovich. 1 ** For Schinz, the oldest surviv Among those seated at the !%! ing World War I nurse, it was head table were Schinz' nephew RON SIDDLE/valley press both a day of remembrances and and niece, Jerry and Mildred A CENTURY PLUS - Margaret Schinz, celebrated her a day to remember. Rounds of Garland, Texas, World 103rd birthday Friday at the Senior Center in Lancaster, "It's such a big surprise to See BIRTHDAY on A8 with some help from Thea Nugent and about 300 guests. -mi \rf//€r//9?. 1917 and were waiting for you From A1 soldiers to come. We waited a War 1 veteran Larry Linegnr whole year. I was beginning to and his wife Peggy of Lancaster, wonder what was taking you so 1 iltJi^ijLckA , ?/ AAh ,9 rZA Jl^&C-Ct&AZ and Bob Ortiz, service officer for long," Schinz said. the Los Angeles County Office of Follow a standing ovation for AiJj ^^Y l£yyy^z<^/iJLCt^' ^-IOL**^ Veteran's Affairs. the birthday girl, pinnist Sue "All our veterans need to be Cook nnd ringer Jerri Wil?on of recognized for their contribu fered a George M. Cohan medley tions to their country and their - "Yankee Doodle," "Grand Old communities," Ortiz said. "Much Flag" and "Over There." of our emphasis now is finally And of course, a chorus of being placed on the women who "Happy Birthday." %$&m?y served in different capacities "1 don't know if 1 can take during war. They are certainly many more of these (birthdays)," deserving of any recognition Schinz said. "It's hard when you they receive," cnn't really take care of yourself Linegar, 94, wearing his anymore." World War I Doughboy tunic, re cited a poem about Kaiser Wil- Schinz thought for a second, helm being turned away by the then smiled. devil, and then thanked Schinz "But, I'm already n -half-day for her efforts during tho war. on my way to 104. vSo you never "We arrived (in France) in know." Anlt*li»|M> V.ill«7 IVn«, hlil.iy, An^tist U, t'Wt CI 's-feet of sunshine' hits 103 .tiree oldest 7 pray and I sleep a surviving nurse lot At my age that's from World War I about all I can do. I By RICHBREAULT Senior Feature Writer feel like every one of Today, "Auntie" Margaret Siegfried Schinz may have a lit those 103 years. I was tle trouble blowing out all the candles on her birthday cake. No doing pretty good until matter, at 103, she's already had plenty of her wishes come true. about four years ago, The a diminutive, white- haired, birthday girl is the oldest then I crippled up, r surviving American World War I nurse. She was born Aug. 13, don't get around so 1890, in Milwaukee, Wis., where her family operated a bakery. much any more.' She moved to Lancaster 23 years ogo and resides by herself in a - Margaret Siegfried Lancaster mobile home park. Schinz, "I pray and I sleep a lot," said Schinz, sitting up in her easy 103 years-old chair. "At my age that's about all I can do." workinrking around children. -*w. , Schinz smiled and giggled, FFollowino g her retirement | masking the discomfort of her fromm nursing in 1948, Schinz |~ arthritis and heart condition. boughtight. a 5-acre ranch in Iowa, I "I feel like every one of those but: pumift. heVi*»rr retiremenr*»fir*»m*>ntf planrtlnnsa onnn ' 103 years," Schinz said. "I was the back burner for a short time doing pretty good until about after being asked to be the nurse four years ago, then I crippled at a local school. up. I don't get around so much "I've always been one to any more." help," Schinz said. "That's just Schinz can shuffle only about DANA PETERS/vafley press my nature. People depended on . tb- ^eps before having to sit DOESN'T LOOK IT - Margaret Siegfried years. Much of the Lancaster resident's me." >e gets her weekday Schinz says she feels every one of her 103 life revolves around religion. Move to AV I N vered by Life Nutri- In 1970, Schinz was asked by \ j me health aide visits time, she wore a pair of high Schinz said, were soldiers sick her nephew, the late Dr. Vincent ^~" ^ week. heel shoes and puffed her hair so Because of her from diseases contracted during Rounds, a retired Lancaster pe three years, I've mostly she would meet the 5-foot mini the voyage from the United diatrician, to move to the Ante been sitting in this chair. I'd like mum height requirement. States. lope Valley. to get out of it more - to go to The nursing profession was cheery and caring Once U.S. troops began fight Once in Lancaster, Schinz my church. To visit with my quite different back then, Schinz ing in 1918, Schinz's unU. started continued her bedside manner, friends. To see the kids swim recalled. disposition, the treating the wounded. After be caring for -a-terminally-ill rein ming," said Schinz, pointing in "Doctors were on a pedestal. If ing stabilized at the base hospi tive. . the direction of the park's recre you were sitting down writing or soldiers she treated tal, the wounded were put Rounds passed away shortly ation area. charting and a doctor would aboard ships for the return tHp after Schinz celebrated her "But here I sit. My hearing walk in, the nurses would have gave her the title of home. 100th birthday at a party organ has deteriorated and my eyes to get up, give them a seat and When she talks about her ser ized by Rounds for family and have have been failing me. I wait on them," Schinz said. 'Five Feet of vice in France, Schinz remem friends. don't hear the clock, the dogs "That's certainly not happening bers one soldier in particular. "Now Vincent isn't around to next door or strange noises at now. And nurses couldn't ques Sunshine/ "As I walked by his cot, he visit, but I still have ladies from night - so I guess it isn't all tion a doctor's orders even told me that his blanket was the church who come over and bad." though she may know the pa heavy and was making his feet say the rosary with me and tient better than the doctor." chasers. The convoy split up and Schinz's eyes brightened and the boats all took different too hot. He wanted me to take it friend? who check in fa see how she giggled OP.CC more. Then her During World War I, Schinz routes." off his legs,'' said Schinz. "When I'm doing,*' Schinz said. eyes dulled slightly and her was one of 25 Red Cross nurses I lifted up the blanket I saw his The centenarian begins each voice took on a more serious in a special expeditionary de Aboard ship, the nurses were legs were gone." day by watching a Catholic Mass tone. tachment of nurses sent to required to carry life preservers Because of her cheery and recorded on videotape and a lav 'I've been a nurse almost all France in 1917. She crossed the wherever they went. Because of caring disposition, the soldiers minister at Sacred Heart Church my life and I'm used to taking Atlantic on the S.S. Finland, a her small stature, Schinz's is she treated gave her fhe title of comes to her mobile home one** a care of people, not people taking small ship which was part of an sued life preserver was so long it "Five Feet of Sunshine." week to give her communion. care of me," Schinz said. "As a 18-ship convoy under the com prevented her from bending at Schinz attributes her long life nurse, I always wanted to make mand of General John J. Per- the waist. On the move to prayer. the patients fool comfortable. To shing. "I was so short, they ended up Schinz served at St. Nazaire "I'm not so sure how many I bring a little sunshine into their During the trip, the convoy giving me a little child's preserv* until October 1910, almost a more birthdays I have left, but \ lives." was attacked by German subma er," Schinz said. year after the armistice. After let's just say I'm well-prepared to rines. Once in France, Schinz and returning from Europe, Schinz see the Lord," said Schinz. t Talcs of war "We (the nurses) heard a big the other emergency nurses were resumed her job with the Mil After 103 years, is there any In 1914, Schinz graduated 'boom' and we all ran onto the sent to Vannes to ready a small waukee Health Department. She thing Schinz would like to from St. Mary's Hospital School deck," Schinz recalled. "Then hospital there to treat the in later became the nurse of Butler change in her life? . of Nursing in Milwaukee. Grad they ordered us to quarters. jured. She was then assigned to County, Iowa, for two years. "I really can't think of any uation wasn't a problem, qualify WThen we woke up in the morn the Army Nurse Corps and sent Schinz was married briefly, thing special," said Schinz. "I ing for admission to the school ing, all the other boats were to a hospital at St. Nazaire. but did not have children. Still, only wish I could have been a lit was. At 4-foet 10-fnchcs at the gone except for our (submarine) Many of the first patients, she spent most of her career tle bit taller." : -^\x||fl§| #* T^ 71 PP. Xft Board stamps business, By John Myers It was a matter of formality Monday night when the Whitefish Bay Village Board met and approved several items honors Tetzner which had already passed through com mittee action. In a brief report Village President F. The board formally approved stop signs Patrick Matthews noted that special for intersections that have had more than legislation concerning the deep tunnel its share of accidents in recent years. Stop rock introduced during the October ses signs will be installed on E. Birch Ave., sion ofthe state Legislature was not acted both at N. Hollywood Ave. and N. , on. Berkeley Blvd., probably within three "The issue remains unresolved," Matth weeks. ews said. "It will stay unresolved until at In other traffic action, the board approved more no-parking restrictions at least January or February when the Cumberland School and at the athletic Legislature can act on it." field at Whitefish Bay High School. As their last official action of Also approved Monday night was a 60 the evening, village trustees presented cent per hour pay increase for the village's outgoing village Clerk/treasurer Lois acting garage superintendent and fores Tetzner with a framed copy of a resolution ter. The agreement was tentatively acknowledging her contribution to White- approved in closed session Oct. 18. fish Bay over the last 31 years. Tetzner began working for the village The board set Monday, Nov, 11, on June 1, 1954. She was named deputy at 7:30 p.m. as the date for a public clerk in 1964 and became village clerk in hearing on zoning changes requested for 1968. Tetzner is retiring at the end of this the Milwaukee Jewish Federation for its month. ^^ new complex on N. Santa Monica Blvd. Bay clerk ready to close books on long career 8y AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS of The Journal staff , 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 Tetz ner 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. Journal photo Why is she quitting at 62? Whitefish Bay's clerk-treasurer, Please see Clerk. Page 7C n Lois Tetzner's, is ready to retire to,>//?/# Y V % V. ' \% \ Y \ v TdTzvZZ HMriMMMMMMMu She also meets the public. ner sits at her desk. It is piled with "There's a grumpy one here and boxes and trays of neatly paper* Clerk there," she said. "Usually someone clipped bundles, all bearing her local* Frpm Page 1 who's late with a bill and they're ly famous signature. "I have been working for 45 years mad at themselves for forgetting. No Still in place is the potholder that and that's enough," she says matter- matter what you say, it's not the declares "This Is No Dress Rehearsal. of-factly. "I'm sick of working." right thing. The best thing to do is This Is IT!" She put it up to let people Sick of working? Since when do Just smile and say nothing." know "I mean business." There also people say things like that upon retir is a china bank of a woman in a rock Some dealings with the public can ing chair labeled "Retirement Fund" ing. be unexpectedly funny, though, like 'it's not that I'm lazy and that I that Tetzner put by her desk for the a tour of her office by a group of funofit. dofi't like to work," Tetzner replied. local Girl Scouts last year. "But I'm thinking I'd like to be lazy. "I think there's a $1.58 in there A lot of my friends are retired. A "We were In the clerk's office now," she said. A7 couple of my friends sent me a post vault and I showed them the volumes "I'm looking forward to some lei card from a [senior citizen] seminar of Village Board minutes back to sure time that I don't have now," at the Hyatt Regency and said, 1892. One little kid asked me what Tetzner said. "My house needs lots of 'YOu're not old enough yet'" will happen when you die. I think attention, and I like yard and garden While the mechanics of the Job of she thought I had been here since work. I want to travel around the clerk-treasurer may have changed in 1892 and that I had kept all those world. I want to visit family and recent years — the advent of the minutes. friends. computer, for example — the duties "Another kid fingered the dust on "The first day I'm not working, haven't. the shelves and asked, 'Doesn't any I'm going on the county transit bus The office handles a host of village body dust in here?' and ride wherever it goes. I Just functions. Elections, bookkeeping, "And, it so happens nobody does, thought that would be kind of fun. payroll, tax bills, water bills, licens with the vault closed at night," Tetz The girls here think I'm crazy, but I ing, Village Board agendas, minutes, ner said. haven't ridden on the bus in years and correspondence. Tetzner is re SQ in the few days left before Bar and years. I Just want to be free, and sponsible for supervising the office bara C. Patin, now Fox Point's depu that's how I'll feel. Free like a butter- staff. ty clerk-treasurer, takes over, Tetz fly." Nov. 14, 1936 Whitefish Bay — Sweeping into Wrttf* ^W> ^ M Gold Coast territory, US Prohibition' agents raided the residence of Al Tusa, man about town, in Whitefish Bay. m c A 60-year-old murder remains ^. If Si By Amy Rabideau Silvers of The Journal Staff 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 couple lived *ra th%-tour-sto^ apartment building --*• the first apartment building built in White- local newspapers, ponce received a tip from The murder of the Whitefish Bay woman by her hus fish Bay — at what is now 1700 E. Chateau PL, said businessman Jacob Donges, referred to as "the band remains one of the saddest and most gruesome Judy Kloman, a Whitefish Ba^historian who has re hatter" in news stories, that his caretaker had cases ever in the area. searched the murder case; seen Tompkins in the Lion's Den. y Even then it was called "one of the most gruesome in Tompkins was described in news stories as a real es 1 It was "where he buried the mutilated body of the history of the northwest" because of the nature of tate operator. He hatf^to^ Milwau the mother of his children with the white birch the murder: The victim was strangled, then beheaded kee Normal School. trees and awe-inspiring cliffs overlooking Lake and buried nude to niake identification difficult; her head "He [Tompkins] actually began to build it illegally Michigan as his only witnesses," read one newspa and clothing were burned. without a building permiv' Kloman said. 'The village per account. was really pretty peeyed at hjm." ? f s. v\ , "Slushy day" , The case was particularly sad^becauseMe womai^ 42 7 So, too, were r^idiei}^^^^ maintained -,"We left in the sheriffs car to look for the — after years of physicaLabujse and threats agains£r&r • that apartments werelna^r^o^atiBlhihe neighborhood. body," said Pitrof. "It was a slushy day, and there life during their 12-year marriage ^'d|b^/':t6"i'so^*ftr^.. "Before the murder, even happened, a picture of was snow. I remember it vividly. vorce her mentally ili^usband and J>egra anew Iife^ith;^ ^"t took a branch and scraped the ground 'cause their twb children.; ?! the apartment building ran in the paper," she said. Tompkidb won his legal battle to finish the build there was a mound of dirt like there might have Her husband, E. Ray Tompkins, was found to be beejra grave there," £e said. "I found her body "paranoiac" and "incurably" insane. He was confined ing. • Y '••-.'•"• ZZ7Z . •• '-Y,. M y After the murder and the subsequent revela tlfere on the morning of Dec. 8, 1923 After it until his death at age 70 in 1964. He. died at Central State was discovered, it was found that she had no Hospital, a mental institution at WaupuiL tions about atf affair by Tompkins and his brutality to his wife, some residents took it as fur head." , - Diary secrets Tompkins; who was at the scene when the body ther evidence of just how inappropriate an apart wis foundi was ordered to help uncover the body The case was also unique in that, unknown to anyone, ment building in the area was, Kloman said. and dip! so calmly, newspaper stories said. He first the victim had kept a diary the last two years of her life, . Later investigation showed that it was in a ga recording in detail theincidents with her husband. rage apartineht at the building that Tompkins "Many things the diary did not reveal," read one choked ^Swife to death and decapitated her be protested his innocence but, later that day, admit fore drjvfng the body to the Lion's Den, a remote ted committing ;the murder. He also admitted to~an area then about two miles south of Port Washing- j^w$pa|HBr account of theia^.**These are secrets which 4 affair with a former student, whom he called his Wr^TV>hipkins earned with her to?the grave, Written • i&ir AZ:x.y^ . •><;••••• Z^'••:..•: - '. 'Z- "soul mate" and his "ray of sunshine." &t^.)the ^li^e'T^k'in;:'a\'cdde the woman had devised, f- Daughter's report v "Puts some one between us and expected me to ^ea1r|n&eyeuto Z The case, at least officiaily, beganDec. 6, 1923, be happy," wrote Mrs. Tompkins in her diary. ke^fiidden iromall the world." ^^^v Y . whien.the Tompkins' 10-year-old daughter called "Can't keep anything from me. Tells me about his love affairs, etc.... [He says] Can't work without Lrv^mapartm^ . ,.;' her aunt, upset when Tompkins appeared glad that his wife had not returned home the night be inspiration, these girls give him inspiration ^Threatened me lately," she wrote in the black-cov- j fore. Mrs. Tompkins was then reported missing by "Taunted me all morning about not wanting a ered notebook. "Threatened to break a chair over my"..* ':xe\s&esiy:yZAy7AZyZ-:-7.-Z,[ -.--[, divorce. I told him I was going down [to see a head. Allhe could do to keep from doing something to-be- 1 George Pitrof, 85, then a police reporter for the lawyer] in the afternoon, Which I did. Then I was sent off to the pen.. ;••>.He petted me and loved m^ then Milwaukee Sentinel, remembers: "Of course, they reprimanded and abuse&for going to a lawyer.... , told me very calmly that if it weren't for the children he Y [police! grabbed himnght away. They searched God give me the strength to hold out a little longer would murder me.... It is a dark future to think that we the furnace in his apartment building, looking for .. / a lawyer ... God give me the strength to hold can't go Anywhere or see anyone, and yet he goes and ^ her body. Of course, they didn't find it." out a little longer...." - sees whom he pleases all the time;. '.^ t. After stories of the woman's disappearance ran /Cw^'tP. *k ~y^y^ (p*^) &) §81* ••^•'-J'JB.'^V' ••'• Ml "it Iff • «) Boss"'*» •J=r-e II2 Y "si s ° 5 - a^ 2 • .+•*. kS'g'li flu <3- § 31 o •§ IP til! 24 MS i«§ 3 gm.2 o * S* si^fffl- S £ -.9 g « AM c 0< ° b 3.3 cjS.a- 3'S If 11*"*s.sa. £ 8*3 : 3\s I They never did explore it together. His mother died somenow l was living m tne atmosphere "When thiSrfp£porter found him Monday evening, in 1973. It wasn't until 19 yea^4ter that Johnson, she had created," he now says. "I tended to be remorse and j| ence had their fingers at his throat driven by something he couldl put his finger on, I and about his heartstrings " began to explore the story alone. Looking at those reports now, from 70 years away, It's been therapeutic, let's grandson Robert Johnson said: "There was a lot of OHNSON now lives outside Washington D.C., put It that way — my own purple prose here. Yet if you look at the facts, there was where he works at Gallaudet University for the a lot to be purple about." Jhearing-impaired. While he is not deaf, Johnson, personal self-healing' Justice was swift then. It took less than two weeks as senior research editor at the university's research for five psychiatrists — "alienists," probers of the mind institute, edits articles on hearing impairment. the one who brooded about our family." His were called then — to declare Tompkins insane. He remembers talking one day with a friend about brother, he says, told Johnson he wasn't going Zander was among those who rode with Tompkins the past, about how people can learn about themselves to waste his time with indecipherable problems. from Milwaukee to the hospital for the criminally by looking backward, and suddenly he was seized with a "But Fm also named after my mother's insane (now called Dodge Correctional Institution) in need to find out about Edward Ray Tompkins. Continued brother, and I think [with his death] I became Waupun on an overcast day that finally was stabbed by kind of my mother's confidant emotionally, sunlight near Slinger. So on microfilm at the US Library of Con without fully understanding what it was all "This day is a good deal like my life," Tompkins said. gress, Johnson sought out copies of old Milwau about. kee Journals and Sentinels to read, as spell "A little sun here and there and lots of clouds." "She was a sad person. When I grew up, my bound Milwaukeeans had almost 70 years He put his hand on Zander and pointed to the sky. parents used to talk about how the Depression "Zander, see that sun? The sun always will come out. before, of the horrible killing of Ora Belle was the sad times and now that they had things, The clouds can't last forever." Tompkins. He was fascinated, but at the same they were happy. The trouble was, I never But they did. Despite his oft-stated belief that he time he felt lightened by what he was learning. noticed the happy part." He felt, he said, that he was on the edge of his would be cured and sent home, Tompkins never was "More recently, now that I have this expla life's great adventure. free again. He died at the hospital in 1954. nation, I found [a new psychiatrist]. I went to His search blossomed further when, about see him, not that I was concerned but just to get the same time, he also acquired from his father, UT young Robert Johnson knew nothing of that, confirmation. The explanation is, look in the who had remarried and moved to California, a only that his grandfather had had the flu. He newspapers. Let's go back to 1923. These B was 17 before he opened the door to his moth large box of his mother's memorabilia. er's secret again, and the only reason he learned any It was a treasure trove for a man looking events, even without knowing the details, had a thing then was that he provoked her into talking. backward. There was correspondence from the profound influence on my life. He had been to see the movie "West Side Story," War Department about his Uncle Robert's dis "I don't know. Life's a soap opera, I guess. then the rage. He was taken by the love story's sorrow, appearance, which introduced him to the man You have to turn in to the early episodes to find poignancy, sadness and beauty and told his mother she he had been named for but had never met. out what it's all about, and that's what I did. should see it, too. She told him she could never see a There were old photos of his grandparents and "My mother's life wasn't ruined. She was film like that. his mother as a child. able to create a life, in spite of all of this. But And there was another envelope. it's kind of like being a survivor of the holo "I couldn't understand that," he said. "I opened it up," he said. "Bingo. There were caust. She not only witnessed a lot of abuse [as The next day he persisted in asking her why she all these letters written to my mother from a child], but then just knowing what the result wouldn't see a movie like "West Side Story." "She said, Edward Ray Tompkins. In one of them he was was and having to go on and live a life was 'Well, it's so sad.' Somehow, I got her exasperated expressing gratitude because she had sent a tough. Her life was not destroyed, but it was enough to explain." photograph of herself. He said, 'You look just as damaged. There were two reasons, she said. beautiful as your mother did.'" "Then mine was pretty well interfered with, First, Robert, her only brother, had disappeared in At that moment, Johnson, too, saw his too, because I ended up inheriting this sense of the war. The second reason was that her father had mother in a new light. gloom and pessimism and lack of joy, but I killed her mother. She was not sure how — everyone AS JOHNSON discovered his grandfather didn't know why. It's kind of like you inherit had tried to spare her details when she was young — /\ through these letters, and at the same half the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. There was but she thought maybe with an ax. 11 time was reintroduced to his mother, this missing part, in a sense. It's a strange case. "That kind of left me speechless," Johnson said. "I her lifelong melancholy finally made sense. So I got the emotions, but I didn't know why." didn't question any more why she didn't want to see a did the sadness he had drawn from her like Knowing why has changed everything. tragic film. breast milk. He had wondered, growing up, why "It's been therapeutic, let's put it that way — "That was the very first time, at that point, that I he had had a difficult time in relationships and my own personal self-healing," he said. "Many knew he had killed her. I think that [my mother] in handling adulthood. Surprisingly, psychia times I wished I could bring my mother back ^~ygretted telling me the instant she did it... because we trists he had consulted had not inquired in from the dead and say, 'Now I understand.' I'm ^*4ent right back to not talking about it. We didn't have detail into his family past. much more sympathetic toward her." • *" ^iS'any discussion about what she had just said. We just CO-') zy And he also sympathizes with his grandfa ther, all horrible history aside. From the letters and his other research, Johnson also is looking for: Johnson, who has one of his grandfather's MURDERER • Information about or ways to contact the watercolors above his desk, has come to know children of William Derivan, who was the guard Tompkins as a troubled but talented man. was said to be polite but not interested in in charge of Tompkins' ward at Waupun. rehabilitation programs. OHNSON intends now to write a book Tompkins reportedly confided in Derivan. Johnson would like to find any surviving about his grandfather and Johnson's • Information on the now-gone Edgewater writings of Edward Ray Tompkins, especially search for his past. Although It has been Apartments, where the crime occurred. The J unpublished books that he referred to in his address was given at the time as 136 Luther St., 39 years since his grandfather died, Johnson letters — one supposedly called A Murderer's has found some retired guards from the hospital near the intersection of Oakland Ave. and Lake Prayer for Mankind — and any other existing Dr. Johnson is not sure exactly where that in Waupun who remember Tompkins, and records on Tompkins' case, his health or his Johnson is looking for others. The guards told would be, since there is no longer a Luther St. time at the Waupun hospital, once called Cen • Information on the Inspiration Girl, Flor Johnson that Tompkins was intelligent and tral State Hospital. spent much of his time writing and reading. He ence Witmeyer. l r Ms- ' U)Zs. fA> A MURDER IN THE FAMILY By Dennis McCann and shook her head in exasperation," he said. He pressed her. What was wrong? Mama? OBERT Johnson inherited his mother's A man learns his She finally told him. The letter was from her melancholy, the profound and weighty grandmother was the father. R shroud of sadness she wore her whole "Oh," Johnson said, surprised. "Your father. life. He didn't know why she was so sad, not for victim of a grisly Oh. So he's still alive?" many years. She hid it from friends, but John "She said he was in a hospital. I said, Ts he son saw it, a gloomy air of mystery that was murder that shocked sick?' She said he went into this hospital in beyond his understanding. He absorbed her Wisconsin because he caught this flu during a unhappy aura as if it were his birthright, or Milwaukee in the '20s 1919 epidemic. So, well, that was a way of burden. saying something that was sort of true. His older brother took after their father, less he accepted it. Beyond the odd relationship, his "I guess 8-year-olds, at least the type of troubled and intrigued by family mysteries, less family moved around a lot and sometimes his 8-year-old I was, took that and said, 'OK, he interested in opening doors to see what secrets mother would get mysterious letters, which she had the flu — had the flu for 40 years, or they hid. Robert, however, wondered, but at read silently and kept to herself. whatever.'" least as a child he accepted his mother's mien as Johnson, now 48, was in the third grade in It was years before he learned the truth, that he accepted that his family was not like every Pensacola, Fla., the day he got his first peek his grandfather actually had been hospitalized one else's. behind the door that hid her heart. for committing one of most wildly grisly and His mother had grown up with an aunt and "I recall one day my mother got the mail and sensational murders Milwaukee has ever seen. uncle whom he and his brother called "grandma there was a letter from this person. My mother Teacher, developer and dreamer, Edward and gramps," and while that wasn't quite right, sighed loudly and kind of collapsed into a chair Ray Tom^^^^^^^^^unately, also insane. ^" " Continued MURDERER HE melodramatic movie "Flames of Passion" "I wanted her to understand the great American was playing at the Princess Theater on Dec. 7, Edward Tompkins was not insane all his life, but he crime," he wrote later. She would not read it. Perhaps to 1923. "Flaming Passion" was at the Garden and certainly was on that December day in 1923 when he his credit, Tompkins recognized his mental instability T "The Scarlet Lily," a "story of sacrifice fanned by the strangled his wife, decapitated her with a butcher knife, and vowed to correct it. On the other hand, he blamed breath of scandal," was showing at the Miller. burned her head in the furnace, buried the rest of her his wife for much of it. In the newspapers, the real-life sacrifice of Ora Belle body on a cliff overlooking Lake Michigan and went There were separations. By 1923 Tompkins had Tompkins roared as if fanned by a tornado. The home to continue his life. found a new companion in Florence Witmeyer, a young Milwaukee Journal and Milwaukee Sentinel seized the That was Robert Johnson's inheritance, too. woman he had met at Normal School. Ora Belle knew. She had hired a detective, who found the pair in an HE killing of Ora Belle Tompkins took Milwau story the day her headless body was discovered on a illicit love nest in another apartment in the Whitefish kee like a storm of sensation. Matrimonial cliff south of Port Washington and didn't let go for murder is almost as old as matrimony, and the Bay building he had developed. T Ora Belle decided on divorce, explaining in a letter to several weeks until Tompkins — escorted by three newspapers of the 1920s loved such tales. her husband's parents that she would seek control of reporters — was taken to the hospital for the criminally But Tompkins was not just another husband from insane and closed away for life. across the tracks with a snoot full of moonshine whisky, Tompkins' considerable real estate holdings to provide for her and the children. If Tompkins refused, she Milwaukee expected no less, for the city was mes a temper too quick and a weapon too near. He was a merized by the horrid deed. man of some prominence. would have him charged with adultery, which at that time could have sent him to jail. The largest crowd in Milwaukee ever to gather to see He and Ora Belle, who had met during college in She said she had moved into a new apartment at the a murderer filled the streets in front ofthe county jail to Peoria, had come to Milwaukee in 1912. He was a Edgewater and felt safe. But she wasn't. When Tomp- watch Tompkins walk to court. More than 4,000 mor teacher at what was then Milwaukee Normal School, bidly curious Milwaukeeans traipsed through the city and he was a real estate developer. He had built the morgue to view the headless body of poor Ora Belle, one Edgewood Apartments in Whitefish Bay and had grand after another proclaiming, "Oh, Isn't that horrible!" plans for more and bigger buildings that would turn Others surrounded the killing site in Whitefish Bay, the that still young suburb into an inviting residence for the most adventurous sneaking in to see the infamous young and upcoming. He also was a watercolorist, a furnace. cabinet maker and prolific writer of correspondence. And police reported a spate of complaints from He truly had suffered the flu in 1919. It was a serious women whose husbands had threatened them with illness then, and Tompkins had to be hospitalized. It beheadings. was then that he exhibited his first bouts of mental Tompkins' every utterance was published. So were illness. his letters and those of Ora Belle that preceded — and The marriage produced four children, two of whom occasionally predicted — her violent death. Witmeyer survived infancy: Mariorie, who became Johnson's — dubbed the "Inspiration Girl" by the papers — was mother, and her brother, Robert, for whom Johnson eagerly sought out for interviews (she was later convict was named, who died in World War II while piloting a ed on a morals charge for her relationship with Tomp mission over Italy. kins), and even the celebrated killer himself freely gave But the marriage also produced much pain and jailhouse interviews. turmoil for Ora Belle and frequent episodes of mental "What manner of being is E. Ray Tompkins — and physical abuse..The danger was real enough that madman or devil, genius or lunatic?" wrote Journal she feared for her life, and doctors who had examined reporter Harry R. Zander in the florid style ofthe day. Edward Ray Tompkins feared for her, too. Edward Ray Tompkins (right) is shown with his "What manner of demon is it that perches on Tompkins wanted a submissive, unquestioning wife parents, his grandmother (sitting at left) and his Reason's throne, shooting black darts from cell to cell of wife, Ora Belle, who sits holding daughter Marjorie. and he did not have one. He chafed at her questions, a husband's brain, as he severs the thread of a life he which he viewed as attempts to control him. He refused has loved? to invite friends or relatives to their home, or dance kins found the letter, he saw his life being turned upside with her, even though she enjoyed and needed such down. The next morning, while the children were in social contact. Once he found and gave her a magazine school, he ended hers in spectacular fashion. article on naggi'/ Wife's Slayer ti Reopens Case E^Ray?Tompkins,' j Held ; Insane," Asks i Court for, Rehearing {«. ' *' . ^V "-* ? ^ E. Ray Tompkins 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. Thurs day, 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". A 60-year-old murder retnains Bay's most gruesome 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 WJ^ ^2^ L Ray Tompkins, was found to be Ozaukee County. "paranoiac" and incurably" Insane. He was confined The murder of the Whitefish Bay woman by her hus- ^ his death at age 70 in 1964. He died at Central State band remains one of the saddest and most gruesome Hospital, a mental institution at Waupun. „ cases ever in the area. ' ;.;.-. Di ^^ *''.,', < * '•'•••:'' 77 -77 '' '• > • , /' ' V'Y ' •' "' . ' v ' ' ' , ' newspaper account of the day. "These aire secrets which Mrs. Tompkins carried with her to the grave, written ' • T-' "Slushy day" into the little book in a code the woman had devised, "We left in the sheriff's car to look for the fearing even to spread her secrets upon a book which she body," said Pitrof. "It was a slushy day, and there: r kept hidden from all the world." was snow. J remember it vividly. * % Lived in apartment "I took a branch and scraped the ground 'cause there was a mound of dirt like there might have^ "Threatened me lately," she wrote in the black-cov been a grave there," he said. "I found her body ered notebook. "Threatened to break a chair over my there on the morning of Dec. 8, 1923. A. After it head. All he could do to keep from doing something to be was discovered, it was found that she had no < sent off to the pen He petted me and loved me, then head." • \— told me very calmly that if it weren't for the children he Tompkins, who was at the scene when the body would murder me..;. It is a dark future to think that we was found, was ordered to help uncover the body can't go anywhere or see anyone, and yet he goes and and did so calmly, newspaper stories said. He first sees whom he pleases all the time...." protested his innocence but, later that day, admit The couple lived in the four-story, 16-unit apartment ted committing the murder. He also admitted to an building — the first apartment building built in White- affair with a former student, whom he called his fish Bay — at what is now 1700 E. Chateau PL, said "soul mate" and his "ray of sunshine." Judy Kloman, a Whitefish Bay historian who has re "Puts some one between us and expected me to searched the murder case. be happy," wrote Mrs. Tompkins in her diary. Tompkins was described in news stories as a real es "Can't keep anything from me. Tells me about his tate operator. He had formerly taught at the old Milwau love affairs, etc [Heisays] Can't work without kee Normal Schools inspiration, these girls give him inspiration "He [Tompkins] actually began to build It Illegally "Taunted me all morning about not wanting a without a building permit," Kloman said. "The village divorce. I told him I was going down [to see a was really pretty peeved at him." lawyer] in the afternoon, which I did. Then I was So, too, were residents in the area, who maintained reprimanded and abused for going to a lawyer. 1.. that apartments were inappropriate in the neighborhood. God give me the strength to hold out a little longer "Before the murder even happened, a picture of ... a lawyer ... God give me the strength to hold the apartment building ran in the paper," she said. out a little longer.. i. " Tompkins won his legal battle to finish the build Asked release ing, Y Moments after his confession, Tompkins still After the murder and the subsequent revela expected to be released. "I'd like to spend the eve tions about an affair by Tompkins and his physical j ning at home with the children," he was reported brutality to his wife, some residents took it as fur- • as saying. "A deputy sheriff might remain in the ther evidence of just how inappropriate an apart neighborhood — I wouldn't object to that. Maybe ment building in the area was, Kloman said. I could take them down to some hotel for supper." Later investigation showed that it was in a ga Instead, he was soon hospitalized for mental rage apartment at the building that Tompkins observation. Authorities said he not did not seem choked his wife to death and decapitated her be to realize the gravity of the crime, fore driving the body to the Lion's Den, a remote "What good will it do society to send me to an area then about two miles south of Port Washing insane asylum," he declared, according to one ton. newspaper account. "Of course, I realize that you Daughter's report have a public sentiment to contend with, but then The case, at least officially, began Dec. 6,1923, a fine or probation will satisfy that. That will when the Tompkins* 10-year-old daughter called leave me free to become a useful citizen and to her aunt,_ upset when Tompkins appeared glad take care of my children." that his wife had not returned home the night be One person who had tried to help Mrs. Tomp fore. Mrs. Tompkins was then reported missing by kins was B.B. Rowley, an "alienist," then the term relatives. for psychiatrist, said Kloman. George Pitrof, 85, then a police reporter for the "I used to hear him abusing her ...," said Row Milwaukee Sentinel, remembers: "Of course, they ley, who had lived below the couple in a building [police] grabbed him right away. They searched in Shorewood and had tried to have Tompkins the furnace in his apartment building, looking for committed the year before. her body. Of course, they didn't find it." After stories of the woman's disappearance ran "When I brought Tompkins to the hospital, I in local newspapers, police received a tip from told those in charge that he was a dangerous luna businessman Jacob Donges, referred to as "the tic and that he would kill his wife if released," hatter" in news stories, that his caretaker had Rowley told a prosecutor after her death. "The seen Tompkins in the Lion's Den. following morning the hospital telephoned me that It was "where he buried the mutilated body of Tompkins was to be released [on a technicality]." tne mother of his children with the white birch trees and awe-inspiring cliffs overlooking Lake But the questions about his release the year be Michigan as his only witnesses," read one newspa fore came too late to save the woman who, ac per account. cording 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, One wonders how they felt when hearing about the murder! (December 1983) {4*UrJU*4- ZZ_. more man DV 1UVXJ.W U%M and numerous^ ^inmercial sites, was responsible for much of Milwaukee^ '^*g*&&A •*';-. ;- :•• *~*Z. '$A It was a colorful time andone of stark contrasts. And, in 1936, when the Scottish Rite Masons With "Silent Cal" Coofidge at the head of Ameri acquired the Wisconsin Consistory at 790 N. Van ca's body politic and Jack Dempsey in its heart, the Buren St., Milwaukee, Tullgren was hired to remodel country was roaring back to normalcy. Although it it. „ - : 7'-, Z-A-.7. was difficult to the break the World War I-bred habit Tullgren also designed the Whitefish Bay High of summary action, the nation was beginning to relax. School, 1200 E. Fairmount Ave., and the Northwest It was a time of bathtub gin and racoon coats, the ern Hannah Fuel Co. Building, 2150 N. Prospect Charleston, jazz, mah-jongg, crossword puzzles, Ave., Milwaukee; <. Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino. Among the residential buildings designed by TuB The twenties, a restless and uncertain period, was gren is the Hathaway Apartments, 1830 E. Kane also a decade of general prosperity for Americans. .Place, Milwaukee. The ultimate in modern design Aided by a prime interestrate below 4 percent, Ameri when it was buth in 1931, the square monolith has can cities eApaioiced anunprccertenfrri growth, both many details typical of the art-deco era. Through use physically and commerdafly. of dark panels between the windows, Tullgren gave Architecturally, thccomrasdngarritudesofthetime the nine-story structure greater height. The panels, or : manifested themselves in the simultaneous prolifera stripes, and the structure's foundation are black, tion of skyscrapers and movement to the suburbs, glazed terracotta. The Hathaway* entrance mantel, America was growing upwai d and outward. •. ^ with its multi-faceted arch* is faced with black glass. -i Responsible' for much of Milwaukee's upward Bhimmatfri art-deco numbers flankthedoo r way. * growth was the achUectural firm of Martin TuBgren Between 1930 and I9JT, the TuUgren-designed k. Soor Co. Throughout Shot cwoocf, Whitefish Bay, Armory Courts Building was constructed at 4001-15 and Mirwrakee's Yaukeelliil, Jtmeautown* and Pros- . Oakland Ave^ Shorewood. Now,called the North pect Avenueareas are examples of wort done by the, Shore Apartments and the North Store Bank, the firm in Ael92fti«d»30r. K ^ ^ - ; ^ j | former Armory Courts Buikfmg took itt original name Martin T\iBgrcn died ttt1922.1 r was under the crea^ ^from a >toiocaJOuard Horse Calvary Armory that tive guidance of his son; Herbert W; Tullgren, that the ~3u&cccBpied thft she. Low icStf, art-deco ornament firm attained its greatest and most sigmficaitt success. decoratei the hmtding's pavifious, cornice, and the Upon his death in 1944, Tullgren was eulogized as : pofiihed-granite ein^ance mantel on the east side of **one of the most widely known architects ra Wiscon- ; fthestrnctur^'^'^'-'iY -_'.(:*;;^*tr^v-^. sin." His local legacy includes over fifty apartment One erf ^©waukee's most spectacular and signifi THETWELYE SIXTYApartment, 1260 S. Proved Ave. irai&mgs ao3'ttumer^^ sites, many of ;S cant structures of the 1930** the Twelve Sixty Apart : INTERIOR.OF THE Hathaway Apartment*. WOE. them compact, immatureskysaapcis. Some of Tull-/ * ment, 1260 N. >rospect Ave., was designed by . Tuflgrcn. Built m 193fr byTIarry Grant, the former Kane Piace (above). „ ^ ^.,rAz gren's structures were influenced by the modem move- •"-;. mem and some containdetails reminiscent of the owner and publisher of the Milwaukee Journal, the Italian Renaissance. .. buikfing has 32 apartments, eight on each floor, and %?sk Tullgren'scommera the S 1/2- two penthouses.Tullgren designed each suae with two storr First Wisconsin Garage Building, 746 N. Water floors connected by a stairway. f-^Sf.v wriich, when finishedi n 1929V was called "one of According to "The Heritage Guidebook" of land .;£-*>-; >£i\ hthe most efficient multi-floor garages in the country." marks and historical sites in southeastern Wisconsin, -£*-!- ."-'•• .-i^i&S^/*-".'* ii^rC'-VcJA: - In 1925, TuSgren designed the Watts Building, 761 Tullgren designed the building's elevators to stop at N. Jefferson Su^ one of the finest examples of orna every other floor (1, 3, 5, 7 and 9) so that die upper- mental terra cotta architecturein*the city of Mil levei bedrooms in each apartment would be isolated waukee. The two-story building is still occupied by its from public corridors, thus offering maximum quiet. i A.\w '- builder, George Watts & Son Inc. Each unit has two bay windows, one in the dining room, and a solarium connectedto a bedroom. v n^J-- WEEK OF SEPTEMBER 9.1985 THE BUSINESS JOURNAL Magmne MILWAUKEE • PAGE5 THE SHORECREST HOTEL, 1962 N. Prospect Ave. (above). Tullgren also was responsible for designing two front. The four corners of that floor were illuminated prestigious Milwaukee addresses, the Astor Hotel, 924 by electric harbor lights atop the terra cotta pinnacles, E. Juneau Ave., and the Shorecrest Hotel, 1962 N. and for years served as a visual landmark for boaters Prospect Ave, on Lake Michigan. Within its walls* the Shorecrest When completed in 1925, the Astor was considered also housed an upholstery shop, tailor shop, beauty to be one of the finest hotels in the Midwest. Its prox salon, barbershop, and pharmacy. imity to the lake bluff gave it the early title "Astor-At- The ShorecfSst Hotel as it exists today was not com- The-Lake." ..}•••• .?-,pieced-until $29. The east structure, completed in On July 1, 1924, Shorecrest Realty Co. broke 1924, fronted'on what was then called Hathaway ground on what was to become the Shorecrest Hotel. Place (now Summit Ave.). The hotel was doubled in It was the avowed purpose of Shorecrest Realty to capacity in 1928, when a $400,000 west tower addition erect a structure that not only embodied the most sig extended the new front to North Prospect Avenue. nificant architectural advances of the time, but also The first floor of the original exterior is highlighted captured the elegance and high fashion that character : with glazed terra cotta ornament, including spiral, ized the twenties. The hotel was built to appeal to twisted columns supporting arches that are decorated Milwaukee's social elite. ^ ^^y...£**.. ^ ^-~«.- ^.with griffins. ^ : In designing the Shorecrest, Tullgren had to account •'r -Even before the completion of the west tower, the for the fact that it was to be builtona_bhiff sixty feet Shorecrest had been home for many of Milwaukee's above Milwaukee's lake front and as such would be ^business and social elite. In 1926, for example, over a -: exposed to-driving winds and i^ off the lake. At ^ dozen company presidents and their families lived ^nine-stories, the Shorecrest was :Ooe of the earnest fijtfacre including the Pabsts, -Uihieins, Conrads, and high-rise devdopment'son the iakcbhiff.yyrggt - yQffistCTsem. The roster of guests who have stayed at r Tullgren designed the stnicttaL^^ built Xfcfcca^ uil^^ A -.-•/ ^}:*£>r ^j^tyBsdcall^ Tuilgren^tr^ committed to making the &v^£sesex vmg. the charm da&atyiaf the ^Shorecrest Vuixigynr^ test - %iNirccrar ov£^ '"of.time. For that reaso^bc^ tbnsidera&e energy and expense; Although- the hotel ity and rectilui^^ .has not often changed hands, commitment to the pres- • meat* ***cb V^|fc^^a^^TOp«^rityUn ervation of aspfendid testimony of T98r*$ architecture; ; commerda£ archffa^e^JLnd ^d? later jmflgrnmt has varied - • ^ /:>-*i^:>-*^-.~- * hisownwork. —w-t^. :•;: :Z^^^^'t^A:-z "*-'" When its present owner, Joseph Balistrieri, pur* INTERIOR OFTHETWELVESixty Apartment, 1260 N. instead, Tullgren choactQ pimctuate tiie.btLilding's chased the Shorecrest in 1971, there were signs of neg PraspectAve. -.•--.•..-;• •••.: >, Y verticatity^en^ the lect. Some of the wrought iron and terra cotta exterior with tenu cotta and cogjper ornament, including the harbor lights, had been noteworthy is the termco^OTament of modified removed. The rooftop ballroom and restaurant had Moorish design that defines the hotel's first and sec been gutted; the commercial occupants of the hotel ond floor facade and its balcony pinnacles* were gone. Tullgren also placed considerable emphasis on the Immediate measures had to be taken if the Shore amenities the Shorecrest would offer. In its day, the crest were, to survive. What has transpired over the ballroom and restaurant located on.the top floor of past fourteen years has not only assured that the the east wing was the most elegant in the city, offering Shorecrest will endure, but that it will remain histori its guests a magnificent, panoramic view of the lake cally significant. ~ .- 'AGE 6 WEEK OF SEPTEMBER o. 1985 MILWAUKEE ^/U^ .^tiru^^J^, FORMER WHITEFISH BAY OFFICIAL FINED AFTER RAID A. A. Viall And Four Companions Caught in Police Net on Disorderly Charges THu.4 We*. /.A* ^^U£ 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 jus tice's court by Judge Harold Wil liams. 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 ^ XL* tW ^f , , 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 JAiUA- 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." File lHaasa®* K. ELLIS June 15/ 1938 Words 460 W. H. VQmyHN- Village Clerk The oldest employee of the Village of Whitefish Bay in point of service, is W.H.Volkmann, Village Clerk• ^looted as a part-time clerk in 1916, he succeeded himself until January lf 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 o!f his present term, in 1940, he will have served the village in the capacity of Village Clerk, for twenty-four years. I During his term of office he has seen the village 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 unsolicited commendation from the Wis consin 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 thw worjk, installed by him, will be of Inestimable value to those who may follow in office. Born at ftatertown, Wisconsin, on November 10, 1873, he attended grade and high schools, as well as the Northwestern University there. After completing his schooling, he served his apprenticeship as a printer on the ttWatertown Gazette,"a.Bemocrati'c weekly paper. In the fall 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 printer, joining Milwaukee Typographical Union No. 23, the card for which he still carries. With the advent of type-setting 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. -2- He enlisted with Company"!* First Wisconsin Volunteers for service during the Spanish-American War, being stationed at Jacksonville, 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 his return from the war, Mr. Volkmann was married at Milwaukee, on Dec. 31, 1899, to Zella Sanger, who was born at Boscobel, Wisconsin, January £2, 1879,, het parents later having moved to Wauzeka, Wisconsin. Mrs. Volkmann died on Sept. 3, 1935, leaving besides her husband, three children, Harriet, $>om Oct. 7* 190X'}, Drusilla, ^January 23, 1912/and William, (June 17, 1920\ Mr. Volkmann has resided in his present home, at 4611 N. Bartlett Avenue, since August 1, 1908. He is a member of the Whitefish Bay Community Church, and also its treasurer, is affiliated 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 politician, baaring his return to office strictly upon merit and performance. xhat he has been returned to office year after year is a very good indication of how amoh the residents of Whitefish Bay appreciate the high quality of his work and hie personal integrity• \W Volkmann Not To W. Volkmaim Seek Re-election if 17/it is' A. Editor's Note—This is the second as Bay Clerk of a series of articles on Whitefisli Bay village officials. William H. Volkmann a n - From the standpoint of length of jounced this week that he will village service, William H. Voikman, not be a candidate for re-election ! clerk, heads the list of Whitefish Bay as clerk of Whitefish Bay at the officials. First elected to the post in spring election. He has been the April, 1916, Mr. Voikman has com village clerk for 30 years. pleted nearly 19 years of service. He told of his decision in*!* Four men have filled the village letter to Dr. Frank E. Drew,: president's chair while he has trans president of the village. He cribed minutes at the clerk's table: wrote in part; the late Dr. A. J. Richter, Herman "Ills--with feelings of pro-> Uihlein, Frank C. Klode, and the found regret that I sever these present president, Harold W. Con ties, which to me throughout the nell. past years have at all times been Mr. Volkmann's duties include the most pleasant. I feel that in liv- j registering of voters, the preparing ing up to the letter of the law j of poll lists, the preparing , of the as set forth under the Wisconsin j monthly and annual reports of the Municipal Retirement Act, I can village's financial condition, the rec do no different. However, I wish ording of village board proceedings, to thank each and every one of you for making it possible,! as an the filing of communications and re elected official, to participate in ports—in fact, the keeping of all the benefits to be derived from village records, which he does with the Wisconsin Municipal Retire with an efficiency that has won him ment Fund." •'.!•'* praise from many quarters. The special assessment card index system Jan. 1, 1945 the village board installed by Mr. Volkmann, giving an voted to put the village clerk immediate answer to any question and treasurer under the retire regarding outstanding improvements ment fund along with other viU on any piece of property in the vil lage employes. Volkmann's re lage, last year was commended tirement pa# will be about $110 specially by the Wisconsin tax com a month. His present salary is mission. $250 a month. Certified to Office Mr. Volkmann's favorite recre- When the village board heard tion is reading, of which he does ail of Volkmann's decision the kinds. He also enjoys an occasional members unanimously voted to drive or motion picture. certify him to the office in the He is married and has two daugh event he should decide to con ters, one a teacher in Richard's tinue to seek the office in the street school and the Qther a gradu coming election. ate of Wisconsin Sta>te Teachers' col "My personal gratitude and lege, and one son, a freshman in the the vote of confidence of the vil Whitefish Bay high school. His home lage board in certifying you is at 4611 N. Bartlett avenue. should be a great satisfaction to you, Bill," Dr. Drew replied in a letter to Volkmann, "because l//i>/!13? 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 apprecia tive 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 rfiW/w ~H*^7 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. 2m 'M i -< I *&^ :\> $itpl16fflfr?J'A ; fs. Wolff Lights Single Candl^*1 ks Welcome to Her 81st Year! Mrs. J. Louis Wolff, 4819 N. Cumberland blvd., celebrated Y her eightieth birthday last Friday with two parties: the first for many of her friends i who now live in the Protes tant 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 Mil waukee as Lucy Edmunds in 1905 to become the YW s re ligious work director. She had previously taught School in Illinois and was a graduate of the Illinois State Normal uni versity at Bloomington, 111. Three and a half years after her arrival here, Lucy Edmunds became Mrs. Jonn Louis Wolff and set up house keeping 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 pur chase, they had the land plat ted and retained only their home site. ,., The WoHfs had four cbd- Jdren, Richard Edmunds Wolff, 6a civil engineer m Seattle, —Herald Photo y»^flyTWM^w*'^iffiww Wash.; Mrs. Howard (Betty) Bauman, West Bend; Halhe,; riage. She was long' active in who is the wife of Dr. Robert; PTA work and the Milwaukee Dew, Kalamazoo, Mich., and county Council of Church the late Lt. jg Justin Louis; Women. She was president of Wolff, who lost his life in 1942 the State Council of Church when the destroyer Ingraham Women for &A years. She is was blown up in Nova Scotia. a charter member of the Solo All the Wolff children, were mon Juneau chapter, DAR graduated from Henry Clay and of the W h i t e f i s h Bay, school. The two oldest gradu Woman's club. ated from Shorewood high Whitefish Bay has changed school, for Whitefish Bay was considerably in the last forty; without high school facilities years. In the early days, the> then; the two youngest from Wolffs knew everyone in the Whitefish Bay high school. # village —now it's impossible,; Mrs. Wolff's activities in Vistas have narrowed with education and religious work the building up of the village, did not cease with her mar- no longer can one see for — — —~ll blocks from a window; but progress is not disturbing to Mrs. Wolff. She is fond of her many neighbors and the flow ers from their gardens to c beautify her h o m e , on her birthday attest to the love and esteem with which. they re gard her. *» ' ' < yy I I.HTT j-.mf, i, ini *,«»,• 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, at E* Lexington boulevard and*!*. <%tm£ HMO 5109 N. Santa Monica boulevard. Marlborough drive, next to the It marked the tenth anniversary village hall. After he married Ida Of his service with the Whitefish MaschmanVof Colgate, Wis., in Bay police department. On Mar. 1911, Mr. Weber built his own. 1, 1927, Mr. Weber started work home on N. Santa Monica'boule for the Bay as a switchboard op vard, and there he pursues One erator in the village hall. He now of his favorite hobbies, the ra,is- , is desk sergeant, treasurer of the Ing of vegetables. Baseball is an-i Bay Policemen's Protective asso other pet pastime of his. ;r ciation and oldest employe on the force in length of service. . Air Transport Test > ". When Mr. Weber joined the The Webers, who will observe force, Tom Callahan, the Bay's their twenty-sixth ..wedding anni first police chief, was head of the versary on Mar. 26, have two department. In May of that year sons, Lei*oy and Edward. The George Hage succeeded him as young men operate a filling sta- chief of police and has held the tion at NH Santa Monica boule office ever since. vard and E. Henry Clay street, following in the footsteps of their liaises Vegetables father, who used to run a filling Not only a veteran on the po station at Ni. Lake drive and Silv lice force but also an oldtime res er Spring road before he became ident of the Bay is Mr. Weber. a member (of the Bay police force. Away back in 1897, when he was One of the boys, Edward, 23, just a lad of 11, his parents mov just passed an air transport test ed from the south side out to the for a transport pilot's license. Ed wide open spaces that were White- ward has been flying for about fish Bay, in order that they might three years and has high ambi go into the gardening business. tions—he hopes to become an air- . The poultry and vegetables line aviator some day, A police which the Weber family raised badge, rather than aviator's found a ready market in the fa wings, still signify sufficient ex mous Whitefish Bay resort which citement for the elder Mr. Weber, was then in , its heyday on the however. * property now owned by Julius ' t Heil and Herman Uihlein on N. Lake drive. Homestead Still Stands 3/ 0>FA /ofauubJ ^/W I I— * \ i „ >OiLK€ Crocking guardian: Bay man cared for 'his kids' J* 19 ByJOEGAROFOLI yiyfo- of The Journal staff Whitefish Bay — Phil Perlson knew better than to throw snowballs near "Emil's Corner'' while he was iM?tz 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 Wilke, Emil H. friend," recalls Perlson, now 27. "It Mon. Sept. 26,1988. Age 92 yrs. was kind of a status symbol. Lifetime resident of Whitefish Bay. Beloved husband of the "But that doesn't mean we didn't late Ozabeth M. WHke. Dear throw snowballs four corners down." father of Wiiam E. (Nancy) of Ephraim, Wl. Devoted grandfa You see, Emil's Corner, really the ther of Ric, Tom (Jenirve) and intersection of N. Ardmore and E. Scott (Marilou). Further sur vived by 4 great grandchildren, Hampton Aves., was not just another other relatives and friends. * village corner. And it will continue to In state Wed. Sept. 28, from 4 to remain special to residents who 8 pm at the funeral home. Graveside service will be held remember Emil H. Wilke, a school Thurs. at 10 am at Holy Cross crossing guard there for 21 years, Cemetery. MEET AT THE who died of heart failure while trim CEMETERY. ming his hedge Sept. 26. He was 92. SCHMIDT & BARTELT 106 W. SILVER SPRING DR. "He used to line us up before we'd WWTERSHBAY . 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 father ly in kind of a clownlike way." To make sure Emil was not for gotten, Whitefish Bay students con tributed money to buy a plaque for Journal photo by Tom Lynn * him when he retired in 1976. The plaque remains at the corner. A plaque at Emil's Corner, at N. Ardmore and E. Hampton Aves. in Whitefish When Emil finally did retire, it Bay, honors former crossing guard Emil H. Wilke was a shock for many residents. The senior Wilke, who lived in One of his kids, Philip Perlson, Samuel Perlson, Philip Perlson's he'd be out in the cold so long, his school. They remembered Emil eyes watering, nose dripping. I'd ask Whitefish Bay for 60 years, worked used to grab an extra brownie or two father, remembers calling the police standing outside until the last pupil in a family grocery store business, from home to give to Emil. station one September morning got inside school, telling the principal him to come in and warm up, but then at Bay Shore Mall as a custodian "I don't know if he ever ate them, because a stranger was at the corner that a pupil might be having some before becoming a crossing guard. helping kids cross the street. home problems if a pupil came to he'd say, 'Nah. I gotta get back out but it didn't matter," Perlson said. "Emil must have retired very qui school crying one day, flagging down there out there and watch my kids.'" "Even when I went to Whitefish Bay etly in June," Samuel Perlson said. drivers who ran the stop sign and Emil always called them "his" "He'd always be telling me about High School, I would walk the other "Because when I called the police giving them a gentle earful. kids. His only child, William E. his kids, and how he might have had way just so I could go by his corner- station, 1 got some lieutenant whe "A red face, that's what 1 think of Wilke, 61, who lives in Ephraim in a couple close calls. He was grazed and shoot the breeze for a few min said, 'What's with everybody* when I think of Emil," said Saul Door County, suspects that his father by cars several times while watching utes." They're all calling about about Eichenbaum, former principal of was lonely after his wife, Elizabeth, them," William Wilke said. Emil.' " Cumberland Elementary School. died when she was 51. He thinks that Residents knew they would mi& "He'd be redder than a beet because his father's adopted "kids" might the way Emil knew everybody's have filled that void in his father's name, and remembered it even when life. ^/sjudents had graduated to the high 0 <, ZEIN 6B THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL Sunday, August 31, 1986 company, he decided to audit a few ! Other pieces suggest an affinity courses at UWM — among them, for nature, reflection and contempla money and banking and, in the sum tion. mer of 1985, clay modeling under the But always these alabaster evi- f dences of his absorbing new profes- Shaping a new life tutelage of Narendra Patel, a profes sion bespeak hope, faith and opti sor. **> mism. He soon discovered an affinity forr Burt Zien turns to art in retirement working with three-dimensional "Friends have asked me," he said, "if I expect to live forever. The an the public for the benefit of the Uni By JAMES AUER swer is, 'Yes.' I never think of age. versity of Wisconsin — Milwaukee shapes — first in clay, then, at the It's an exciting way to visit the Journal art critic School of Fine Arts. suggestion of Patel, in alabaster. world." Actually, Zien's debut as a sculptor "I found myself creating some During most of his 73 years, Burt — he will be showing 10 pieces in thing of my own for the first time," Zien did his best to shape the world alabaster, plus a few figurative Zien said a few days ago. by challenging the status quo across works in clay — is intended to draw "I began working with rock in a broad range of social issues. attention to the role of the university August 1985, when Narendra gave He spearheaded the presidential in the community and to encourage me a small piece of alabaster and a bid of John F. Kennedy, fought for formation of a support group for the chisel. Since then, it has been an civil rights, defended the Tennessee UWM art department. important part of my life." Valley Authority against attacks Robert ffickok, dean of the UWM Like many other active people ffjufk en* h f4)o\ m 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 com^ m unities—teachers, parents, chil-v* dren—-not only in} one field butf - 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 School 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. ~' E lit M & EDITION Your Official Local Newspaper 1 Section, 67th Year, No. 27 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) (CNI photo by Jeff Watson) 5v ffcMd ZA& Surprise party celebrates resident's 90th birthday Lawrence has lived almost all her 90 years in the She lives in family home built same house on North Idlewild Avenue. The house, built in 1859, had belonged to her grandparents, in 1859, recalls bygone days then her parents, then to Lawrence and her husband. With her grandson there now, five generations of By Maureen Dietzel Mertens the family have lived in the house. Lawrence remembers the Whitefish Bay of long One ofWhitefish Bay's oldest residents was hon ago. She remembers the day when the village ored last month. schoolhouse burned down. It was where Old It happened when Vera Lawrence's daughter, Pat Schoolhouse Park is now. Cronin, invited her to come over on a Saturday "We were out playing in the cow pasture and we afternoon. saw the fire, and I said, 'Oh, the school is burning/ "Well pick you up. Mother." Cronin had said. That was our last semester before graduation. So Lawrence looked forward to seeing her daughter and family. But little did she know, she was going to we finished up over at the armory on Henry Clay." be the guest of honor at a very special party. That day was Lawrence's 90th birthday. When Donees ot school they arrived at Cronin's house, Lawrence saw a house full of friends and relatives. Lawrence went to dances at Henry Clay School "I was so surprised." Lawrence said. There must with her Mom and Dad. have been 50 people there. Cousins and grandchil "Dad had to carry a lantern so we could see. dren, my brother, nieces and nephews. I never, There weren't any sidewalks, and it was so dark you never expected it. No one had said anything. Not couldn't see anything. You can't imagine how dark even the little girls." it was," she said. The girls are Lawrence's granddaughters, Mary Her family shopped for groceries at H.P. Soren- Bridgid, 11, and Margaret Ann, 9. Her grandson, son's General Store on what is now North Holly Tony Lawrence, 19, lives with his grandmother. wood Avenue, she recalled. He's studying police science at MATC. But he didn't "Nothing was packaged then," she said. "They say anything either. had to weigh everything — sugar, flour. He had Cronin's Aunt Kathleen was there. She's 83. And sausages hanging up inside the store." Leone, her cousin. She was 90 a few months ago. And of course, Lawrence's brother, Melvin Imme But when they needed a lot of things, her mother kus. He's 92 and lives next door. He was honored at would order it from Steinmeier's on Third Street, the Whitefish Bay centennial last year as the village and it would be delivered in a horse-drawn wagon. resident who has lived longest in the community. Vera Lawrence remembers going to the Whitefish Bay Resort on Sundays. Planned for months There was a band and we'd have ice cream cones, they cost a nickel, and Cracker Jack. Every Cronin had been planning the party for more one went," she said. than three months and intended to have it even Her father worked for Willmen's Bros, as a though she had just moved into a new house on Between them, Vera Lawrence and her grandson, lithographer. East Hampton Avenue. Tony Lawrence, represent the third and fifth gen "Mother packed a sandwich and maybe an apple "But I really wanted to have the party," she said. eration to live in one of the village's oldest houses, for his lunch, and he'd take the street car and go to "We had friends from way back, including some on North Idlewild Avenue. Lawrence celebrated work." neighbors from the old days." her 90th birthday last month and was honored at a When she was 12, Lawrence had appendicitis at "The cake was just beautiful," Lawrence said. "I surprise party. tack and became critically ill. couldn't get over that cake. It had, 'Happy Birthday, (CNI photo by Marny Malin) "It was a very bad case. They took me to a little Vera' written on it and then all the names, 'mother,' hospital. North Side Hospital on Fifth and Cherry, 'grandmother/ 'aunt/ 'cousin/ 'friend/ It was just and then I got pneumonia and the stitches on my beautiful. And It was delicious, too. All the food was side came open. I was there for three months, from excellent." 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. The 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. Tom 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 Sa turday 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. The 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. The only way to get to Milwaukee was on Oakland Av enue. 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„ .•„ Hn Rav 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 Asheville.N.C. 28804 FORE V„.-"' FORERUNNER OF THE SKATEBOARD BROOM HANDLE ORANGE CRATE 2X4 Wf SEPARATED ROLLER SKATE THIS REQUIRED A 2 X 4, AN ORANGE CRATE, A BROOM HANDLE, A ROLLER SK^TE ( SEPARATED FRONT FROM BACK) ABOUT 10 NAILS AND A TUNA FISH CAN (FOR A "HEADLIGHT ) and off yon go! MADE ENOUGH NOISE ON THE SIDEWALK TO DRIVE MOTHERS MAD ! JUST ABOUT EVERY BOY UNDER AGE 15 HAD ONE. \^y: m Octogenarian Tells of Life in Early Bay ( by &ay 'tapp 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. continued 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.. ••• , ' •'.:.* i . . . ., 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 that had occurred in Whitefish Bay. • €•• ^ZZ^ - 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 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 re maining 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 In corporation 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 (page 1 of 3) ( ^^ 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 gentle man. 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 (m (page 2 of 3) 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.) (page 1 of 3) (£fa) 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 north west, 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. ii\ (page 3 of 3) ^K^Mtei^ 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 jogged a little north of that street. .-^ (&ZZ (page 2 of 3) ^"ZA 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) t JAU^ dA^ dd ttJtf te>*^) v& (page 3 of 3) 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 G)' 2. 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.) Mimi Bird May 1985 V ' ^^fm^^wi . :^^vvc>^*^B^^ '% "* w~ k^x^-^'xy^^Aywwy^'^--\ f S V " ^K?WC5i^ Annette Roberts — ^-• '>•;::" ,A ^'. 's;j t.ii«^i^*»,»a£iHf»li v t 4 ^ /i -^ ^ ;< -. -^ • ^$^%sMy%Ay%" ~*VA '" ^ ; ~£ * "%*$» " - $*•*-+ ^ i'-,'* '*8fcp<. r A'i * can fill a lifetime By Mary Schuchmann (Mrs. A. D. Robertson), another daughter Roberta (Mrs. J. Martin As her 100th birthday approaches in Klotsche) lives in Tucson/Ariz. December, Annette Roberts might be There are eight grandchildren and expected to .dwell on the past. Her 12 great-grandchildren. •;'"'t-"ftp'\:l years of efforts on behalf of women's* Active first in the struggle to give rights and peace have given her ex women the right to vote, international periences and acquaintances enough events focused Mrs. Roberts' atten to fill a couple of lifetimes. Section 2 - The~tteraid tion on peace. She recalls being stun She was a feminist and a pacifist ned by World War I. «v long before those words were unlocked • "It was a tremendous jolt, I felt such Thursday, October 20,1983 from the dictionary. despair," she said. "I would walk up But the Whitefish Bay woman lives - and down, feeling that people weren't : very much in the present—and thinks concerned about what was happening. a great deal about the future. ..I couldn't think of anything else, I felt Her thoughts are getting^ more so alone. It was the thing that opened ,. difficult to express, her words are a , my eyes to what must be done in the little slower, yet her keen mind and future." _ . outspoken concern for the world are She was on hand in Washington, D.C. > still fiercely evident. Her spirit has not in 1915 when Jane Addams organized been limited by the calendar. the Women's International League for . In May of this year, she wrote a let Peace and Freedom. f/Mrs. Roberts ter to the editor of a local daily paper founded th£ Milwaukee chapter of the < on the topic of nuclear weapons and group, and is still a member. ' % war. She made no mention of her 99- Through her peace work, she met year-perspective on world affairs. George Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Another of her letters appeared two Russell, Norman Thomas and Eleanor years ago—this one on the need for a Roosevelt. world court. The morning ofthe Herald interview She traveled to peace con last week, she and her daughter had a ferences in Europe seven times. In $5 wager on an item of current events 1937, at a conference in Paris/she and trivia. Mrs. Roberts won. a friend were asked to—and did— "We're' always having bets like smuggle French money into Hitler's that*"; said her daughter, Joan Germany to help a group of anti-Nazis Robertson, 6226 N. Lake Dr. leave the country. ~ The two have an honest, forthright As a member of a prominent, relationship. There is no pampering on largely conservative Milwaukee either side. When her daughter family, Mrs. Roberts was frequently challenged Mrs. Roberts to defend a alone in her views in the early years. political view expressed during the in Typical of the times, her husband did terview, the older woman looked at the not fully approve of her many involve reporter and smiled. "See what hap ments, she said. pens when you have children?" she "He tolerated my work," she said. | recalled with a smile, "but he was not very enthusiastic." Her family history has to be In later years, her daughter said, coaxed from Mrs. Roberts. She is her father grew to understand and sup more comfortable talking about ideas port her mother's activism. "Their and world events. minds and their philosophies came Born in Milwaukee, she grew up in a together," she said. , T Humboldt Ave. neighborhood, at Despite her worldwide view, Mrs*- / tended Milwaukee Downer College Roberts was also active in local and Hamilton Institute in Washington, affairs. She was one of the first two D.C. She was married in 1904. women elected to the Whitefish Bay She and her husband, Allan Roberts, School Board (in 1933), and was a started as summer residents of member of the University of Wiscon*. Whitefish Bay, in a lakefront sin Board of Visitors in the 1930S. , farmhouse cottage very near her pre She was honored in 1965, at the age sent N. Lake Dr. home. They moved , of 81, by seven Milwaukee peace permanently to the village in 1929. organizations. In an interview at that Roberts died in 1947. In addition to her daughter Joan (Continuedon page3).\ XA* I- ZrZ§i T & ' fill & 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. i0v 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. l°>9 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 con sequences 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 Episco pal 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 (page 1 of 2) &'#0 Funkhauser 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.) yiuM^i fet*~ (paee 2 of 2) 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 (page 1 of 4) *~x^> 8 ^A ^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 step father, 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 Col fax 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 apart ment 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 build ing and asked Mr. Immekus if he would help move a trunk from the apartment to Tomp kins' 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. (page 2 of 4) yi^ (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.) (page 3 of 4) (M^ 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 sub division. 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 (M (page 4 of 4) 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 sur plus 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^ Pase 1 of 2 ' ^ 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 mis placed 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 Ruth Elizabeth Shouler and William Consaul Ida Ann Papa's parents Mary Jane Susan Sophia Caroline Schumacher and Karl Scheife Frank (Children of William and Ruth Elizabeth Shouler Consaul) 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 Page 2 of 2 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 Anniver sary 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 up stairs. 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 grand father 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 uncomfor table. 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 Episco palian. 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. Every one 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. Page 1 of 2 Ajj^ 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 Marl borough, 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 hand writing 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 'ityXtkzZAt. «* page2of2 ntdbtft. uJtu.cSU ?uruu^.d '^Lu^juub RJLV 4 J&x. £OA-O»/U Cuxn/VLO.^ 4- urcLocnrv S-a/Ux. 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QLK^6 0 H^oA nrrKx*^* c /\x-6a- ^ ^ i ^ * ^ Jd,v^ l/iJC R^tJ^xU, ^w^tfaudeUAXft' ^cfc*wu> -takLxA. -iM >vtx, o-LdUx> ^-LUjut QJUmA. * rrxoj^. ^ Kr> ux> ^i. -W^OA^ xx^ xlcu ^^AAUdoui^ *j hxcXu.u,^ %-WUu-i JCU W P A ^^i xxx XL xUuu, XXJ^J Uiuwva xxx XVJL U dW iicJJ,. ^V^^CXIWJJ /urt^ tu^^cuxWixx aC ^ U"a^> ^<^ ddiiMrUj vY^a^^ ^ l^vxi^aj^J ^W^-r^ l^^JL * ->U/> Ua,d iUo^ uc^JL cdJU xxx, x£ u^Uck^ ««4JJU/*^J • M 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 (Mf •i&fiun^ Z 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 *".E. corner of Honry Clay and Woodruff. (2) 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, Ml right. Mr? took the ointment air1 put it all over my back, put gauze over that and put taon al) H (3) 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, fcfttwAt.-- cV~W£ i^"Aj /* (4) 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. Mw. ^MlMZAf^XL iS-0£*M^ 7& (5) 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. (6) 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. rm, [}U.^^AO^ <^«UUL**g I^Ol^A^ (7) 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 jfci (fafjuttrfi* ^+<-*^><$ &*u^ /£ (8) 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 1918, near th™ Kryzch's farm. Kryzch»s farm was just north (&£)' ^pi^TL ^a&+ (9) 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 ^ (10) 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 ad 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 fajgUtM^ks S^^CA^^ /tlzia^J^ (11) offered money for them, but I'm saving them for my granddaughter, who loves dolls. I combed their wigs so many times. I remember when they opened the new siiool (Henry Clay), every week-end there was danoss in there. Everybody's family carhe, they served lunch and had a good time, 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. %.*& r / 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. /2m 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 stand ing, 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. \TL\lWA (additions 12/87) '0\ r u A a k 5 J&L &> OBITUARIES TAKEN FROM MILWAUKEE NEWSPAPERS 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 non existent! 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 Wauwa tosa. 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. zU 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 Ceme tary. This was a newspaper clipping cut out with no date on it! The scrapbook said the clippings were from 1902 to 1908. # ^rSEZ&Aor'.,..r^^r^\^ OBITUARIES OF SOME FORMER WHITEFISH BAY RESIDENTS 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 in scription 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. ,:»• .rj v:fj .' /'..' Peach Dates FOREST &QJJE CEMETARY \ 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 UNION CEMETARY - MILWAUKEE Schindhelm, Philip- buried5/22/1889 Lot 13, blk. 4, Sec. 14 Timpel, Ernst - buried 1/23/1911 - lot N5, blk. 6, Sec. 21 (Union Cem. doesn't keep birthdates!) yn X. Y »;,. V • " . A \ • .'YYU. A '>••.-• Y> •.. • -. V^.v. .. M.. - & jm> *5fl ^Co-eSuL JOLACSI^A^ Z1A~0*KS ALAjt Jd)aZtjL^ c3yuO&^~- AlZSjfJ- zth &A UA^U^Z ZCAAAJL CXAZJ^ZCAJLA^ a-**- czJui- cAtiZb^ wi ~tot~£y '-Au^A-ip ^C*A-, zcLccy c^ QZK d^ZZ^ ^ M&>> Backman, Walter C Age 12 of 404 Clover Rd Venice, FCFrt. June 25,1982. Mr. Back- E FVi^^^rB'A^tH ;E1 man had been a salesman for Burghardt Sporling Goods hi 1 M»waukee, a veteran of World Aged 'Bay Woman War I and a member of the Mlnocojua Masonic Lodge Ito. . I "DiesFollowingOperation 330 of Wisconsin. He leaves Ns wife Zetis. There wi be no 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 be fore. She had been living with her grah&son, Vern K. Boynton, a civil engineer in Milwaukee. !*;'' * 1 Mrs. Briggs was a native of Hart wd^e jtaAxJU^ /? &o '^ 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^ iJ^fW\ Andrew Baehr ^Yy': t Funeral services were, held Tues ^jjpV Funeral services for ;;Andrew day at 10 a, m. at the Fass funeral V -.Baehr, 4821 N*. Berkeley tboule- home, 3601 N. Oakland avenue. The j, - vard£:who died Friday^ -Feb*-.26,. ^remains were taken tot Washburn, " were: held Tuesday> at 8:RQ» a. m: Wis., for interment. — ; \¥;^ 0 from-.the Dobratz funeral 'home, b' ^ 3514 N. Port Washington' avenue, „ Y * to Santa Monica Catholic church;^ 5635- N.' Santa ,Monica4 boulevard.; r "Mr, Baehr, who was '71^ is* sur iy vived by his wife, Rose Uausmann| Baehr; four daughters; Martha Chanman, Louise Ruzycki,* Rose •and" Ruth; two sons-in-law \ and five, grandchildren. '."f^r V-*v^< BAEHR: Rose\ years, beloved mother of Rose, Martha , Chapman, I^oulaa Ruzyckl and ^Ruth BT«^p fi'*'.|JT5B4<„ Baehr, also survived by 2 sliw-Jn-law, B grandchildren, 1 sister and 2 brothers. John C.JBackman Funeral Tuesday, May'vflth, at 8:30 aYm., from the Dobratt Funeral Home, 3514 N. Port Washington av. Services at St .Funeral services were held at 2 Monica's church, at 0 a. m. Interment p..m. Monday at the* Philip J. Holy Cross. In state after 3 p. m., Sun day. I' Y • v •• • ^ Weiss chapel, 1901 N. Farwell avenue, for John C. Backman, 806 E. Beaumont avenue, \ who died Saturday at Columbia hospi- taj following an operation. Burial was in Valhalla* cemetery* 7r, *A resident of Whitefish Bay for 3fr years, Mr. Backman was born in* Sweden and came to the Unit ed'States 66 years ago. He was Beckmann, Ernest J. employed in the United States -, Fri.May16,l986.Age87.Belov- s ed husband of Myrtle A. (nee lighthouse service for many years, JuRen). Dear father of Thomas retiring about 20 years ago. (Anne) Beckmann and PhyWs ' Survivors are the wife* Mrs. (Erwin) Mlelke. Also 1 sbtertn-*, law, 5 grandchildren, 3 great* Maria Carlson Backman; two . orandchudren, nieces, nephews Hi daughters, Mrs. Hugh G. Hoffman .» other relatives and friends. Visi of- Chicago and Miss Eva, Back* tation at the funeral home Sun, man,, and a son, Walter-C. Back- May 18, 5-7:30 PM. Funeral , .Service 7:30 PM. Entombment -' Wisconsin Memorial Memori als to Friendship Vilage Ufe. , Care Fund appreciated. .Past, : President ofn Whitefish Bay Mens dub. v KRAUSE FUNERAL HOME . 7001 W.BROWN PEER RD, ? 9S\ - \, '* Buckley Rites "-:A::;:%J:KZ^A& " Held Wednesday Funeral services for Thomas" F. Buckley, 40, of 4856 N* Bartlett ave nue, were held Wednesday morning at St. Monica church. Mr. Buckley died last Saturday, a victim of pneu monia, ,-; -''"•- yAz> , * --''/ Mr. Buckley had served as village engineer of Whitefish Bay since 1921 and took fin^ active part in;the. de velopment of the village. :. ;; ; <• $ Two sons^Thomas^ jr.r and Edward* survive. M^jj/^^^eU^ Gold Star Frank Becker '40, son of Mr* Mrs. Stella Bykowski and Mrs. Frank Becker, 5621 N. Mrs, Stella Bykowski, 62i, Bay Ridge Avenue, was killed died Easter Sunday" afternoon in* in action when the first wave of the home at 913 E. Hampton rd.,f Marines landed on Iwo Jima, on in which she lived for; more than 3F^rj?uary J8. zZ ff/30 years. ' / '' • i Private T?ecker, who was at She had been ill with the fh£ Pearl Harbor when it was at for the last several weeks. Sun-* tacked, was in the fifth division day was her first day up. She; of the Marines. He went into the joined her family for a fewi Marines in October of 1940, and hours, before she suffered the' has been active ever since. heart attack, which caused her Frank took part, in baseball death. and volleyball while in high Mrs. Bykowski is survived by school, and also played in intra her husband, John, an employe mural baseball and tag football «;, of the village of Whitefish Bay, in 1939. * 3ft five daughters, Mrs. Hedwig g?/ Plazkowski, Mrs. Eleanor Ma- £ < shock, Mrs. Margie Neuens, Mrs. Lientenant Oscar W. Berssen- Bernice Litke, Wausaukee, Wis.; brugge, Whitefish Bay graduate Jt^Bernadine and $ son, John Jr.; in 1934, and son of Mr. and Mrs. ^.nine grandchildren, two sisters, WilliamE Berssenbrugge, ^ three brothers; four sons-in-law, Mount Carmel, Illinois, was of "one brother-in-law/ and* three ficially declared dead, JBS-as . o.f ;$isters-in-law. March 29. 1944. | < Funeral services were held Lt. Berspenbrugge entered the Wednesday ,at St.?'.? Monica's Naval Reserve as an Aviation church;. Interment was in Holy Cadet in January 1941, and was :Cross * cemetery. St. Monica's commissioned at Pensacola Air- Ladies society, of which Mrs. station in October 1941; as a •ykowskiwwas a,member, held PBY Catalina B'omber pilot. He a vigil af The Schramka funeral .was shipped to Pearl Harbor in parlors Tuesday evening. Mrs. December of 1941 and later to Bykowski was also a member of Perth, Australia, in March, 1942. the Third Order of St. Francis. In Australia, he was attached to Fleet Airwing 10. . He was on patrol duty in the Indian Ocean, when he was re Z-4 ported missing with the entire Bertschy, Adelbert (Del) crew of nine on March 28, 1943. Formerly of Shorewood Feb. M, 1988. Ape 91 years. Beloved A search was made for two days husband of Luefla (nee Jenz). without any results, so after a Pear father of Nancy (Robert) year. Lt. Berssentougge was_ de . Lldecker, Wllmette, It and A v< Adelbert (Dorothy) .Bertschy, clared dead." ~* ~^-~- -*.,.. Peoria, IL. A sister, Alice Ka- He was active on the football dish, Milwaukee, 6 grandchll- dren and 2 great grandchildren squad for four years, and re also survive. Funeral mass 10 ceived a major award in his am Thurs. at CHRIST EPISCO- • PAL CHURCH, 5655 N. Lake Of. senior year. As a Freshman and Interment Valhalla Memorial Sophomore, he was interested in Park. In state 4 to 8 pm Wed. volleyball, skating, soccer, and at' PASS FUNERAL HOME, 3601N. Oakland Av. Memorials basketball. ^During his Senior , to Sti John's Home of Mftwao- year, he went out for track and ""• kee or Christ Episcopal Church In lieu of flowers appreciated. baseball. - Member of McKinley Lodge ' No. 307 F & AM, Wisconsin . Scottish Rite, Tripoli Shrine and .Milwaukee and Central States '., Numismatic Societies. :',^y .' -JW been. jpanion he had ever been, never ily. "Mr. Buttles was a native of ra word of discontent, but patient "The dead may not know of ,Milton, Pa.,; but came to Miil- mnder all his afflictions, ever the beautiful words spoken over ^ waukee county in 1843. During recounting his blessings and re their bier, or of the tributes his early life he was a civil engi turning thanks to the Supreme paid to their memory and time neer and was employed on the .Ruler for all the blessings he alone can remove the sting enjoyed. In his life and death first steam railroad of any con-^ caused by their departure, but sequence in this country, the he was certainly an example ! such evidences of the esteem in Baltimore & Ohio. After com .worthy to be emulated by all which they were held while liv ing to this county he settled men. ing is a balm to the bruised north of Milwaukee, then noth "The funeral services were hearts that are left behind." " ing but an Indian village, and held at the family home at Fox he was employed in surveying Point, conducted by the Rev. H. Mr. Buttles died in the third what is now the Prairie du J. Veltman, of the First Dutch home he built. His first home Chien division of the Milwaukee Reformed church of Milwaukee, was a log cabin, no longer stand Road. The first rails laid in who gave a glowing eulogy of ing. The other two homes still Wisconsin were spiked down to the life, character and public stand on the Bradley rd. The a grade that had been staked services of the dead pioneer. home he died in is located at 820 out by Mr. Buttles, and his sur The remains were conveyed to W; Bradley rd. and is now occu veying instruments, used then, Forest Home cemetery, Milwau pied by his daughter-in-law, Mrs. were treasured keepsakes until kee, for interment, and there Anson M. Buttles, sr. Her hus his death. laid to rest until the great day band died Nov. 3, 1942. Impaired Hearing when, we are told, all will be "In 1853, on account of im united in* the great beyond. paired hearing, he gave up his Sons Were Pallbearers business as an engineer and set "The last offices for the dead tled on the farm near Fox Point, were performed by members of where he has lived for 53 years, the family as was requested by honored, respected and loved by Mr. Buttles during his life; his all who knew him. four sons, A. C. Posson, his son- Mr. Buttles was clerk p;Lthe in-law, and G. A. A. McGee, act foTO-ttf ^waufrfe, MM%&™, ing as pallbearers. Eleven Children foLBB. ffiMg and^c^tyjimer- "The deceased is survived by irpendent of school^jtdr^jour his Wife, four sons and seven jyea^s. in^lTodE which offices he daughters: namely Cephas But served the people honestly and tles, Lewiston, Mich.; A. M. I faithfully; leaving a record for (Continued on Page 7) '*• ^^; ^.":- "~>, "Y"% Zf-AyyAzz **fc^«^?i».m&r FAiiEWELL TO:^yij|$^SiM$1l; ilSllBlSI? ^-:Y;-vr;:Y •::;;;YY;-,;:^ Jligh^Sd^ol':^ spirit that is aliw ;;glow5:;;;ffro^ ; •: £e 1 IOWSY; that^:^I: :';h ;:: dvainp i 6n sh i pv;:n\e'e ti : : ' [def0:at^ 7A.y^ yyz7i:yyy7z ;;: 'guide staf^ ;;,::Yt^;'y;lsY : : :::vI;; :1vave ;Yleariied:';:t X:'d£a:fe^^ ^ere^interest £bbok^ 11 . *,.*«4B«»»v»»»jfrw—?«*•»«.- * •*•**¥»« *l/Lff0.l?t$ , ^» .^MT^.-Brr-'** »*"»«'« v. O BIT U A RIES ^2 S|5 Monsignor John J. Barry f Pastor of St. Monica's Church from 1947 to that led to the construction of Dominican High 1974, Monsignor John J. Barry died Nov. 14 at School. I UJOH r St. Mary's Hospital after a brief illness. He had Following his retirement, Msgr. Barry LU « .<5 51 been a resident of The Milwaukee Catholic assisted at Old St. Mary's Church and the Z Home. Milwaukee Catholic Home. y Born in Chicago, he graduated from St. Msgr. Barry is survived by two sisters, Marie A Francis Seminary and was ordained in 1924. Hentzen, of Fox Point, and Margaret (John) Z H* also received a Ph.D. in English from Foti, of Whitefish Bay; a brother, Richard A&>«. Marquette University. (Althea) Barry, of Whitefish Bay; and a sister- 3 =>> c '/ ' Msgr. Barry taught English at Cardinal in-law,. Margaret Barry. He was preceded in CD"*, . . f Stritch, Mount Mary and St. Norbert Colleges, death by a brother, James Barry. as well as in many Milwaukee schools. 'A concelebrated Mass of the Resurrection When he came to St. Monica's Parish in 1947, was offered Nov, 18 at St. Monica's Church. the congregation worshiped in a white frame Interment took place in Holy Cross Cemetery building. He later oversaw the construction of Chapel. In lieu of flowers, memorial contribu the present church, convent, rectory and grade tions or Masses are suggested to St. Monica's school. Church or Propagation of Faith. Schmidt & He was instrumental in the donation of land Bartelt Funeral Home served the family. Elsa von Briesen (f?Z Elsa von Briesen (nee Kronshage), a other relatives and friends. • • Preceding her in death was her hus former resident of Whitefish Bay, died band, attorney Ernst von Briesen. '. Dec. 27. She was 80. Memorial services were held Friday at Surviving are her children, Ernst (Mar garet) of Dallas, Texas, Elsa of San' St. John's Tower Chapel. Francisco and Jon, New Jersey; and her Memorials may be made to the Milwau sister, Hilde (Edward) Dictfurgis, Phoenix. kee YWCA; Carleton College, Northfield, Also surviving are a sister-in-law, Martha Minn.; The Ridges, Baileys Harbor; or to von Briesen, Lynchburg, Va.; a brother-in- charity. •"• law, attorney Ralph (Dorothy) von Fass Funeral Home, Shorewood, pro Briesen, Milwaukee; five grandchildren; vided the arrangements. : '; . 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 H^^^-^ < and dear grand nieces and nephews, other rela tives 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 Former police chief ales of cancer 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 FonnerWrnteflshBay Police Chief Alex law enforcement officer, a local Wftorian, or the Whitefish Bay Foundation, Inc. or the Sryfeller and a poet He.f edto ehter charity of your choice. Bonnie was the Public Boeder died in his sleep last weekend af Health Nurse of Whitefish Bay for 32 yrs. drawings and contests, A few mofrths ter a two-year battle with cancer. He was SjWwm a Chevrolet. Camarojjn a SCHMIDT a BARTELT / t> HEIDEN&LANGE 74. 106 W. Silver Spring, Whitefish Bay He was a member of the department for 36 years; serving as chief from 1974 to Clerk Cathy Frahcione. "I had a spfHpot 1980 >and as publics safety director from in mv heart for him," . . .,••,..••. \ . • , 1980 until his retirement in 1982. Boeder lived Iril^hlteflsh^ay. Fi^eral >:^ : '//JB^jer is remembered as a dedicated arrai^^mepts we.perid^i^y - - •"-*» :^ '#/;x^ / f THE MILWAUKEE JOURNAL IARIES la ~3o-/99¥> Longtime Bay chief Boeder follovved law to the letter By LAWRENCE SUSSMAN parents throughout the commu of The Journal staff . nity about topics such as safety and drug and alcohol use. The expression a "cop's cop" Boeder was named police •— often used to describe out chief in 1974, and in 1981, he standing police was the village's public safety officers — was director, overseeing both the Po more than just lice and Fire Departments; v He a cliche for ftwv retired in 1982. mer Whitefish In 1960, Boeder was honored Bay Police as the outstanding officer i^ijfee Chief Alex H. field of youth and community Boeder. welfare by the Wisconsin Juve Just ask his nile Officers Association, He [at daughter f so Served as president of that Boeder, who organization. died off cancer BOEDER Before joining the Police De Oct. 23 at his partment, Boeder was in the Ar home at 74, believed everyone my during World War It and was should follow the letter of the stationed in Tunisia, Algiers and law — even his own family Italy, his daughter said. members. After he retired, Boeder con Robinl^Sage, of Wauwatosa, tinued to stay active, LaSagb remeriAerSt6nce ^getting a park said. He spent his time swim ing tick$%;Whitefish Bay and ming,,fishing and writing feature •going t&sh^clad, who ;wa$ a articles and opinion pieces^$he lieutejiant at thet^me, to ask for said. Several of his^artic^lwire -alittfe leniency.' •published in The'^||^k^e "He. just lobked at me and Journal. He also''^-w^^8py said, *Pay it,' " she recalled. about writing or callin^pilliti- "Never once another word... If cians if he wanted to get Sortie* it was a law, you couldn't get thing off his chest. z around it." "He did make his opinion^ Upholding the law is some known," she said. "If tolS< thing IBpeder did for 36 years in strongly about jsomethii^fe^fd Whitefph Bay. He joined the de write about it or make a Caliph •. partment in 1946, was promoted In addition to LaSage, Bpelef to sergeant ip 1949 and became is survived by his wife dif 56 a lieutenant in 1950. As lieuten years, Edna; two other daugh ant, Boeder also served as the ters, Jill Bemett of North Oaks, village's part-time juvenile offi Minn., and Pamela Boeder of cer and for nearly two decades Madison; and a sister, Edna he gave talks to students and Kania, of Greenfield. w ; Ran for Offices *?' r And then to get the offices of street commissioner and justice of the peace on the ticket, Rabe became a candidate. In each in stance, s he resigned "shortly Grandpa Rabe Dies; Children after being elected. His. object had been to get the office on the ticket. Appointments could Pool Funds to Buy Bouquet always be made after the office Charles Rabe, 89, who was Mr. Rabe was born in 1857 on was recognized, he said. "grandpa" to all the children on the south-west corner of Henry Retired 25 Years Agio Woodruff ave., died last Thurs Clay st. and Santa Monica Mr. Rabe continued to farm day at 4856 N. Woodruff ave., blvd. His mother died when he the homestead up to a quarter the home in which he had lived was 11 years old. With his of a century ago. Retiring, he for 75 years. father and brother he moved to sold all the land but his old Funeral services were held the farm on N. Woodruff ave. home-stead. As each new house Monday afternoon at the Heiden His father died 38 years ago went up on Woodruff ave., in & Lange funeral home, 3116 N. and his brother, Henry, died 18 the years that followed, he 3rd st., with the Rev. Richard years ago. would be on hand to help with Jesse of Luther Memorial MJarried in Fox Point the landscaping and with tools. church, officiating. Herman He had all the paraphernalia. Kelbe brought a string quar Mr. Ralbe married Lisette Burchard, whose parents had Wheel-foarrows, picks and shov tette to play at the last rites for els, left over from farming, his old friend, who was so fond settled at Port, Washington and Dean rds., in St. John's Luth were there to use and he was of music that he even enjoyed generous in loaning them out. listening .to someone practice eran church, Fox Point, in 1881. scales. To them were born nine chil Children of the new families dren, seven of whom survive. started calling him .grandpa. Son With Marines Mrs. Rabe died six years ago, Many were the toys he mended Three of his nine children sometime after she and her for them and much was the studied music. Gilbert, who was husband had celebrated their gentle counsel he gave. Yet he killed in a train accident at sixtieth wedding anniversary. never intruded upon the chil Gallup, New Mexico, in 1943 School Far Off dren. ; played clarinette with the U. S. When the Rabe children came Children Shared Sweets Marine band. He had been with of school age they had to Ever since he suffered a the Marines for 16 years and trudge miles to school. The only paralytic stroke last March the was returning to the West school thereabouts was one lo children of the street have coast, after a thirty day fur cated on what is now the Lin lough at home when the acci coln park golf course. Mr. Rabe taken turns coming to sit with dent occurred. He had seen himself had attended the little him and talk over the events service in the Pacific. school, which used to stand on that are important to. youth and His eldest son, Arthur, plays the cemetery at Port Washing age. They brought him flowers violin, and a daughter, Miss ton rd. tmd Silver Spring dr. from time to time and shared Elsie Rabe, plays and teaches In those days Indians often their sweets with him. In heart, piano. came to call at the school and he remained as young as the The other sons and daughters watch the children at their youngest of them. surviving are Miss Charlotte; lessons. The children and teach The bouquet of baby mums Mrs. Whilemine Otzelberger and er gave the friendly Indians that rested on his coffin, along Mrs. Rose Kasper; Arthur and apples. And then one day came with a spray from the family, Rudolph, all of Milwaukee, and the big Indian scare. Every as funeral services were con Roland of Random Lake, Wis. body moved out. The Rabe ducted Monday, that was from Incorporate Village family found out there was no the children of Woodruff ave. With his father, John David truth to the scare rumor by the Without prompting from their Rabe and other old settlers, Mr. time they had reached Atkin elders, the Children pooled thair Rabe helped incorporate the son ave. They returned home money, to buy the bouquet for Village of Whitefish Bay in at once. "grandpa." 1891, and became its first street But it probably was the re commissioner and first justice membrance of that scare that of the peace. 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 is Vs jc %'«w^wi incorporation., fc>I p\ ZAZA 7'yP^::Z^m7/SM \ WHITEFISH BAY HERALD ' Page 6 - Friday, Nov. 14, 1947 H tMm -.stem-war* t-ifv^."** Funeral sel^ izZ Luedtke, Hilder T for Els.e Rabe May 2, 1988. Age 79 years. (Nee Rlsberg). Dear mother of -. Mrs. Anna ML Roth Doris Luedtke Thorsen of Flori da, Harofd Luedtke of Florida ' Mrs. Anna M. Roth, 62,! wife of on Thursday ' and Charles.(Mary Catherine) Adolph F. Roth, piano teacher, Luedtke of Georgia; $ grand- died Tuesday at her home at 4850 '. children; 3 sisters, Isabelle Funeral services will be Thursday Litscher, Esther Wedel, and < N. Bartlett ave., Whitefish Bay, for Elsie M. Rabe, 85, of 251§ E. Oaire Risberg Moffeti Other where she had lived for the past Newberry Blvd., who died Monday relatives and friends. Funeral < 25 years, Before residing in Wed. May 4 at 5 pm at Fox « ofcancer^j^j/^v-^ •• .^ -A y-^ Point Lutheran Church, Inter Whitefish Bay Bhe lived in Mil ment Valhalla. Instate at the . waukee for 15 years. Rabe, whose father was one of the church Wed., *$ pm. Memorial founders of the Village of Whitefish £ to Alzheimer's Research Fund . Survivors are her husband, , appreciated. Adolph; a daughter, Mrs. Ger Bay,* was a piano teacher for 46 years. Until last June, she taught stu HE1DEN 8. LAHGE trude Peterson; a son, Herbert v SCHMIDT AND BARTELT x B. Both, Atlanta, Ga.; a sister, dents In their homes in Milwaukee WHITEFISH Bay '; Mrs. Emma Lupinski; a brother, and the North Shore, suburbs. She Richard Barby, and three grand lived in Whitefish Bay intii 1950, children. when she moved to Milwaukee. She Funeral services will be held was a member of Luther Memorial Friday at ,2 p. m. at the Fass .Chapel. chapel, 3601 N, Oakland ave. Bur ial will be in Union cemetery. 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 Fofmeryillage N.91St • f"V • •••' Trustee uMtf. A former •"* trustee of White- fish Bay, Adolph F. Roth, 72, 4850 N. Bartlett ave., col-; ^TfyTy^W^ lapsed suddenly of a heart B%Z tack on ^Monday and was pro Obituary nounced dead on entrance at Services for Allan J. Roberts,!1 ^ the County Emergency hospital.* 16226 N. Lake dr./ were held' ; Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at the Philip | today, 1:30 p.m. at the Fass J, Weiss home. Burial was in funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland Forest Home cemetery. Founder ave. • ;••'•*' -'^' and president of the Roberts Co., Mr. Roth was a Whitefish"\ one of Wisconsins largest fire* and casualty insurance agencies,, Bay resident since 1917. He ? was born in OconomoWfOc arid Mr. Roberts died Oct. 22 at St. came to Milwaukee a® a boy. Mary's hospital. He was 65. f He was instructor, of, music all He was director of the White- his life and'was a graduate of fish Bay State bank and a for-? the Royal conservatory/of mer director of the Milwaukee Music hi Leipzig,:^ Qdmany; He Rotary club. A thirty-second de taught piano. gree Mason, he belonged to the Survivors include a son Her- Wisconsin consistory, Tripoli shrine and Darhascus Blue lodge. bert B. Roth, a daughter, Mrs. shrine ana uamascus DUAV WU6V. Gertrude Peterson and a sister, Active in civic groups most of / / Mrs. Olga Seebach, all of Mil his life, he had aided several lol3( /^^/^ waukee. He was a member of needy university students after ' / j ' t I / the G*U.G. G^rmania and the his son, Allan, jr., was killed in an accident while a student fraternal order of Eagles* at the University of Wisconsin, j Mr. Roberts is survived by his '• u/v/ffsVy, ;•; 0 wife, the former Annette' Jacobs, and two daughters, Roberta, wife ':?y\/&Z$7Nf!WA7'i. of Dr. J. Martin Klotsche, pre sident of Mil waukee State Teachers college, and Mrs. Joan Robertson of Tampa, Fla. A- "ft\ *» He was Tooking Ibrwar'd to his retirement and to this* end was having a home built at Winter Park, Fla., a suburb Whitefish Bay Mourns of Orlando. His plan was to work part-time as an engineer consultant. , With his wife, the former Mrs. Phyllis F. Rhue, Death of Ralph Cahill I he had been living at 1609 N. Prospect ave. Up until a,few years ago, • Governmental Officials and Village Employes J Mr. Cahill was known as the village commissioner. He wasl Attend Funeral Services for Bay Manager V| appointed to this assignment in 1933. Prior to coming to Officials of north shore communities, members of the ?1 Whitefish Bay, Mr. Cahill was Committee of 21, representatives of the Milwaueke Metro-/! • a member of the Milwaukee politan sewer commission, and many residents of Whitefish Icity engineers' staff and chief Bay, paid their final respects to Manager Ralph H. Cahill, {engineer and designer of the 64, as he lay in state Sunday at the Weiss funeral borne, 1901 7!( $3,000,000 Riverside pumping N. Farwell ave. Funeral services were held Mondaysjnorn-/~ station. ' ' v<- - • ing with the Rev. Roscoe Graham conducting the rit^s andi Appointed by Governor preaching the funeral sermpnigj He was appointed' to the Mr. Cahill, who was sched--M sewerage commission in 1946 uled to retire- as \ Whitefish by Governor Goodland and Bay's village manager Nov,, served on the commission 30, died Friday at,St. Mary's A ever since* He was also plan hospital, following .a heart at-.;> ning to retire from this body. t tack. He had been in appar- J | Mr. Cahill was one of the^ ent goo'd health Thursday and J*1 vleven members on the Com- had attended the double head-^ 4 er Braves' ball game at the:%; toittee of 21 representing the County stadium Thursday eve-O! suburbs. The county and city ning. also each have seven mem bers on this committee, en "Mr. Cahill's death is > gaged in metropolitan studies. really serious loss to good f Mr, Cahill was Whitefish f government in so far as Mil- ;, m Bay's chief planner and waukee county and the*stale^ 'during most of his years at is concerned/' said Hubert - V Whitefish Bay was also the O. Wolfe. Shore wood's vil village engineer. He was lage attorney, who worked ihe chief administrator -: of. with Cahill on the Commit- ^ 1 the village, responsible t% tee of 21, the League of Wis- j| the elected board of trus cpnsin Municipalities and in -Z tees. other governmental en-, r? Born in Sioux City, la., Mr.. deavors. t \ • i •;*, Cahill came to Milwaukee ; Wolfe recognized Cahill as. ^ with his family at the age of an able administrator, not only -, 9. In studying engineering at in the field of local govern- -1 the University of Wisconsin ment and municipal law but ir he followed in the footsteps of also as engineer and member ', his engineer father. He was of the Metropolitan sewerage , graduated from the university commission. ' in 1913 and served as an ar tillery officer in Europe dur "He was well founded in all . ing World War I. administrative and municipal ' He returned to Milwaukee affairs," said Wolfe. "His to work in the. city engineer's field was much broader than i* office and in 1926 earned a f just that of village govern- 3 master's degree in civil en ment. His views on»the Met-'r$ gineering at the University of ropolitan sewerage. commis- J [ WlTEFISH BAY HERALD : Wisconsin. He left his job sion . r e s u lt e d in excellent ;i with the city engineer's office Page 4—Thurs., Aug. 16, 1956 progress by solving, many /! to become associated with his/; sanitary problems in the/*f father and brother in the firm j northern part of the county, y of Charles A. Cahill & Sons,; "He was a devoted public A consulting engineers. j servant and we in government J Came to Bay in 1933 / I will surely miss him for years--I He, remained with the firm j to come." ., .,, \ J until Whitefish Bay invited, him to beborrie its commis-j Village President Tom'I sioner. and engineer; To bet-> r Hayes told the Herald "that I ter serve the' village he tookj He married Mrs/;Rhue, who "With the death of Ralph Ca-/| several courses offered by thej ™ an,, English teacher. at hill, Whitefish Bay has lost.ari International Association of: Whitefish Bay s c h o o 1 s, in f ^l- 'His first wife had died valuable and trustworthy serv- . ' it ->* * f • %t). f. 16. {4&i&zd frbltZ* dLAsJl—A' DEATHS "He was one of the nicest guys John Callahan you'd ever want to know," his wife, Former Bay trustee Eunice, said. Said his son Sean, of Wauwato Services wili be Wednesday for sa: "He always put his children John (Bill) Callahan, who was ahead of himself. There's nothing ; chairman ofthe Whitefish Bay Fire that he wouldn't do for his kids of • and Police Commission for 15 his family.* ; , • . .$ \ years, a Whitefish Bay Village Callahan is also survived by two -' Board trustee and a former Mar other sons, Michael of Milwaukee quette University track star.* and Thomas of Whitefish Bay; a Callahan died of cancer Satur daughter, Kathleen Cablentz of day at his Whitefish Bay home. He River Hills; and a sister, Sally Mc- was 73. Cormick of Arlington Heights, 111. Callahan headed the Fire and Visitation will be from 5 to 7 Police Commission from 1970 to p.m. Wednesday at St. Monica's 1985 and served on the Village Congregation, 160 E Silver Spring Boarxl from 1964 to 1969. :;: ;; Dr., Whitefish Bay, followed im He was the director of industrial!' mediately by the funeral mass. 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 special ^) CXik' I"-°Y*Y.e,* *!- *'-'!""! '"•T.fwrT ^t^ifw^WiWi.;;! lam^ieur' rdirainaitics, Mn:»-™ ..ednesday Iforriukny years^jtookraftttVe;|p^ri j liu^the Wisconsin iPlayers.Me|was; \ tone ot ithe sponsors o£- th^.ahnual I jB. ay Village ;!"Presrdl^nt:. fGridiron dinners of thellVfil^au- r kees Bar association—those/iocca-. <", j YH<£ld "lyiany "Fromlnent *-.flioiis for twitting fellow;, barris *'>' Positions < ters. Ho never took an-active % , * J T '%' I s V * part in the public ' ear-burning. Metropolitan Milwaukee [will * process, but he always could be iremenlber llj»e w'laje -Harold : W. found behind the'scenes .chuckling fcConneftl^whp pdied^Suhd^y * nighH EaUthe witty barbs,, many of which £k&$olu nfbiai hospital, f or I For St. Monica's Pastor church seemed stupendous. • Parishioners Hold , Such. challenges fired Father { /Vigil Tuesday Night Dietz'. imagination. He looked 4 about the village and found a i* Parishioners for whom he piece of farm-land with barn had worked and built since and farm house. A builder of 1923 paid their final respects buildings as well as of souls, he to Father Peter Dietz; 69, as converted the barn inlto a rustic he lay in state all day Tuesday chapel. The farm house he used and Wednesday morning at St. as a parish house. Monica's church. Father Dietz died Saturday following a lin Builds School gering illness. Four years later when, the They came singly and in parish had increased to 100 groups to pass along his bier families, ground was broken for and to say a prayer for him, a parochial school and a bell who had established St. Mon tower was added to hold the ica's parish and watched it bells— Monica, Mary, Law grow from a unit of 30 to more rence and Peter— given to than 800 Catholic families. Father Dietz by the Mayor of Present too were other vil Cincinnati, Ohio. Father Dietz lage officials and business men had brought about the amicable and officials of various civic settlement of the firemen and clubs— all came as final tribute policemen's strike in Cincinnati. to the man who took keen in terest in every issue of local The foundation for the new government. church was laid and tempo From all parts of the Mil rarily fitted for-immediate use waukee archdiocese and~other in 193a* "WhenY thft?churc^ diocese came clergy. Also to finally completed, the play come were labor leaders and area for school children will be others whose cause he had enclosed on three sides by the espoused in an energetic life present school, its projected time* addition and the new church. All buildings are Romanesque Brother Says Requiem in style of the Lombardic architecture, which Father Dietz Father Frederick *C. Dietz, so admired. The fir trees which Maryknoll, N. Y., celebrated grow on the parish grounds, the solemn Requim High Mass (Continued on Fafce 8) for his deceased brother at 11 o'clock Wednesday. Father F. C. Dietz is assistant general of the Maryknoll fathers. Cwfa«eJ «* >V'(p^ - The Most Rev. Moses E.' Kiley, archbishop of Milwau kee, 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 C^L^^^t^^ (jpAtJLj!^^ M^ph•~* *•** .: .,-*** -«*-w* d$ pital after a short illness had Obituary lived in Whitefish Bay all her life. She was born on a site, Funeral services for Mrs. now in Klode park. Her Lillian Dickmann, 76, 5113 maiden name was Grams. N. Woodruff ave., will be ShewaT IT m^mBeF THTTfce held at 2 p.m. today at Divin ladies' guild of Divinity ity Lutheran church. The church. body was at tjie Dobratz fu Her survivors are three neral home, 3514 N. Port daughters, Mrs. Alma Was- Washington ave., from 2 p.m. luk, Mrs. Norman Otto and Wednesday to 10 a.m. today Mrs. Meta Schultz; seven Local Pioneer and at the church at noon. sons, George, Edwin, Arthur, Burial will be in the Town Herbert, Carl and Raymond, of Milwaukee Union ceme all of Milwaukee; and Ray Resident Dies tery. mond of Sheboygan; four sis H\ Mrs. Dickman who died ters, Mrs. Elsie Czerwan, W: Monday at Deaconess hos- Mrs. Anna Becker, Mrs. Hul- Mrs. Jane Dedrick Succumbs da Hageman and Miss Hattie I at Age of 94 Years Here Grams, and a brother, Fer-1 on Saturday dmano! Grams. ' 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 : John Dedrick b^r daughter. Mrs|7n Philip Sohns, ftl 2 John H. Dedrick, 75, died of E."( ^^^wuiMe^^_!!sne was born on* a heart kttack at his home, 4223 ter fathers ¥0 acre farm, which was near the present site of Estabrook N. Newhall si, March 14. Mr. park and E. Capitol drive. This farm Dedrick was a retired mail car was purchased for $2.50 an acre by rier with a 40 year record of ser Mrs. Dedrick's father, Thomas JSare. vice. He entered the postal ser after his arrival here irom ' ireanav vice after serving in the Spanish Mrs. Dedrick, the eldest daughter l American war. in a family of eight children, often i Mr. Dedrick was a member of told how her father hunted wild the Kenwood Masonic lodge and game and shot deer near the farm. IN. She was born Aug. 17, 1841, and the Knights of Pythias. , when she was nine years old, a small He is survived by two sons, log cabin was erected on the site of Daniel W., Hartford, Conn., and the present SlioVer/ood High school John H., Boston, Mass.; two sis grounds. She entered as a third ters, Mrs. Addie Meyer anrJJJ^rg. grade pupil, t\s her earlier education Phillip Sohns, both of Milwau had been provided by her mother. kee/ arid* aJpJother Phil Dedrick Day of Shopping ' When she was four, the city of also of Milwaukee. Milwaukee was incorporated. When Services were held March 18 1 she was nine the first school was at the Fass funeral home, with built. . burial at Wanderers' Rest ceme ,, A day of shopping in Milwaukee, tery./ "• ••£-''•• «H: :v' • • ; > r J f was an event in the early life of Mrs. Dedrick. The farmers either ; drove to town in ox carts down a rugged road, or they went on foot along an Indian trail. Dobregowskf, Daniel T. The old farm has been split. Part Dec 28,1988. A$e 71 yrs. Resi dence Whitefish Bay. Beloved of it forms a corner of Estabrook husband of Kit Young Dobro park, part is used as a railroad gowski. Dear father of Paul G. thoroughfare, and part is now a and Ellen L Dobrogowski. Step residential section. A three-acre plot Whitefish Bay Man father of Cynthia (Roy) John son, Monica (Brian) McKen facing E. Capitol drive is still own-» Dead of Monoxide ney, Bradley Young and Randall ed by the family, and now a niece of Young. Brother of Rudolph Dob Mrs. Dedrick/ Mrs. Walter Brandt,, ; Alfred paniels, 65, of 5519, N. Lake rogowski. Uncle of Anne Olson lives there in a house built by Mrs. and Phillip Dobrogowski. Fur 'Dedrick's brothers. It is surrounded drive, was found dead of carbon mon ther survived byofher relatives oxide Monday in his car in his garage. and friends. Mass of Christian by fruit trees, part of the original Burial at Holy Family Church, orchard. He was believed to be despondent over N. Wildwood Ave. at E. Hamp {Services on Tuesday financial troubles. ton, Whitefish Bay, Sat. 11 am Mrs. Dedrick had lived here all : Interment St. Mary's Cemetery Z Mr. Daniels formerly a cigar manu Elm Grove. In state at the her life- Her husband, John Dedrick, facturer, was a salesman at a brewery, church Sat. at 9:30 am If d* a miller, died about 30 years ago. sired, memorials may be made Her youngest sister, Mrs. Sarah His body was found by his wife, Char to Daniel T, Dobrogowski Schol Shuinan, Milwaukee, is the only arship Fund care of Marquette lotte, who called Whitefish Bay pol University. member of her father's family still ice. They attempted to resuscitate him FEERICK FUNERAL HOME surviving. She also leaves four sonsy 962-8383 Benjamin of State college, Pa.; without success, -fi^i/u t W//9f/fJ3 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 ()AZZZ7tJL<^^ ^ ,in the town of Milwaukee Union ^cemetery, , _( , 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., • i.. / J ••.'"• ABE-RITTER-LARSEN BROS. W. VILLARD AVE. AT N. 37TH ST. j« m i t & l Boo H WESTBEt, .,.u . Elitzer, William J. ^ Sun. Oct. 5,1986. Age 83. Belov 15 Death Notices | ed husband of Meta (nee Otto). Dear Father of Warren (Nan Farley-arley, IIrm a E. cy). Grandfather of Brooks Onwf Whitefisi h Bay, July IZ, 1988. (Mlcaela), Great grandfather 89 yrs. Wife of the late of Grace. Brother of Elsie Philip S. Fartey. Dear mother of (George) Maier. Also other rel Paul (Mary) Farley, Whitefish atives and friends, visitation at Bay and Jean Ewert, TNens- the funeral home Tues. Oc*.7,4- vllle, Wl. A brother in Oregon 9 pm. Private family services. Carl (Florence) Weber, 4 Retired vice Chairman of grandchildren, 4 great grand Brotherhood Maintenance of children, brothers and sisters- Way Employees, Chicago & in-law and other relatives also Northwestern Railroad. survived NOT IN STATE, prl- vate family services to be hekt *N.umn'«; Memorials to the charity of your choice In leu of flowers appreciated 65 yr. resident of r Whitefish Bay. Member of The i, First Church of Christ Scien tists, Boston MA. FASS FU- l NERAL HOME, SHOREWOOD. Eichfeld, Leona R. Serving the farnHy. ' Formerly of Whitefish Bay at Menash«,Wt,0ct.l7,1988.Age 85 years. Wife of the late W. Kenneth Eichfeld. Mother of •^r* the late William K. Eichfeld Survived by a sister Eleanor * Fetfman, Edward D. ST. Brenkus, Menesha, a grandson * Age 80 of Shawano, formerly of Milwaukee, Kenneth Woldt, a great gran- ; passed away Sun. Jan. 7,1990 in Shawano. He daughter Nicole Woldt, a niece was born Oct. 20, 1909. Son of the late E.J. Joan (James) Jensen, Appteton • Fellman and Sarah (Helm) Fellman of Milwaukee. and other relatives. NOT IN •• He was the former Chief Executive Officer and STATE. Memorial services 4 < Chairman of the Board of the Phenlx Manufac* pm Sat. at FASS FUNERAL luring Co. of Shawano. Mr. Fellman was a signifi HOME, 3601 N. Oakland Av., cant contributor to the establishment ofthe Shorewood. Friends may call ; Roundy Memorial Baptist Church of Whitefish from 3 p.m. Sat. i«ntH time of Bay and was a member of the First United service. Retired Oerk-Treasur- • Presbyterian Church of Shawano. Survivors are er of Whitefish Bay. Memorials . his wife of 53 years Marjory (Stevens) Fellman; to charity of your choice In leu : sons Edward D. (Carolyn) Fellman Jr., William S. of flowers appreciated ' (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. Fu-. 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 PlclcT fda (nee Rabe), wlclow ol! the late Charles Pick, beloved mother of Mra. Min nie Pick, Mrs. Emma Reichert. Mrs. Mary Vetter, George, Alfred and Mrs. Ella Poe- ger, died Saturday, Apr. 1, at the age of 81 jiwi qjawi; •?/ years; also survived by 3 sons-in-law, 2 daughters-in-law, 1 brother, 9 grandchil l^\eV dren and 7 great-grandchildren.. Funeral Tuesday, Apr. 4. at 2 p. m., from the resi- dence of her son-in-law, Louis Reichert, (\ 2753 N. 23d St., to Evangelical Lutheran Em- J maus church, N. 23d and W. Hadley sts.} Interment Town Milwaukee Union ceme- Eifler, Mildred AgPrecedee 93, do fin St deat. Germainh by hus, formerlt y of Milwaukee. Thurs, '•_ '•_ z '•• $y^A«o a^J /ZLi J«J«*Zfi>~ ^f Edward J. FellmahJDied Suddenly Monday Night tf/»//f3/: Funeral services were held at 2:00 olock.; this.? Thursday j afternoon at /t,Hold Masonicf the Fass funeral home;;3601 North Oakland avenue, for Edward J. Fell V man, 68,f presidentjor the -Phenbc Funeral -.RitesJ company, manufacturers of millwork. if Interment was in Forest Home ceme for F.Fischer! tery. Mr. Fellman died very suddenly at his home1 at^"641.8i North Lake fa "•'•"••• , ••'•— • ,• . . •• •••• "I drive, vWhitefis^V;Ba^;'foiia Monday Born in Bay Territory He) night. ••> f:"- ^V^^^^S^^^'^H , * Born in Hanover, Ont.^Mr. Fell Z*"Told Many Stories ofY^f man had lived in Milwaukee for, 42 VY '" '' First Settlers • ZZ years. He was active hr the affairs of • • ••; : ^_ • •• • • .:••••: 1% the First Baptist church, having Masonic funeral rites for Frank "C«i served as chairman of the board of i trustees for 23 years. He .was past r Fischer, who could have laid claini president of the Wisconsin Baptist 'to being one of the first white chil- league, a member of the board of z dren born in Whitefish Bay, will be I trustees of the Wayland academy, I held Saturday at 2 o'clock under the [Beaver Dam, and V' member of the | auspices of the Palmer lodge, F. &• S f Milwaukee Rotary clubi^ ^ ZA7' 7 I tA. M. Burial will be in Union ceme-j He is survived by {his ;wife Sarah ; A teryy: A-l. -\..y. A"- ';•"• 7 - A two sons, '• Judson LeRoy,' and:; Ed ward D„ of Milwaukee;* three broth |; \Mr. Fischer died Tuesday morning ers, Dr; G, H. of Milwaukee, Dr. Al |i at vhis fhome, ^804 E A Lake Bluff' bert of Chicago/' and Dr= H 1° /13f f&uOJ WPA /MM Mrs. Minnie Geilfuss I Member of a pjkmeer White- H iZO j [ ^ (J3 ^OBITUARIES fish ;Bay family, Mrs. Minnie / ' Geilfuss, 64, died Unexpectedly iM^t: A LU„ ^ n J Sunday at the home of • hex iVh & H&uUji j Carl Robert Gether son-in-law and daughter, Mr. j Carl Robert Aether, 88, a retir-. * and Mrs. Cassius Lemke, 3724 ed business man and real estate ! W. Good Hope rcj. Her-husband agent who was closely associated Fred, died in 1921. ^ with the growth of Whitefish Bay,; Funeral services were helt died Sunday at his home, 4645 N/ Wednesday afternoon at the Fas* Bartlett ave., followinga long ill-k chapel with burial in Valhalli ness, , . •';$ cemetery, • .- A'Z-: -Y. :.%X :>. . z Mr. Gether came to Milwaukee I Mrs. Geilfuss' father^ the lat| from St. Louis in the late '70s and" Charles Sturm, was a county sii had established his home here pervisor for years. She is sur vived by Mrs. Lemke; two sons since. He founded the Gether Electrotype Co., which he later AlfreterT Mrs.d and* Ann, Cara lJacobi Geilfuss, St^Lou; a sisu — sold. For many years he operated Mo., and > a brother, Bay Resident Dies at J| the Gether Piano Co. at what is Sturm, Milwaukee >i now N. Seventh st. and W. Wisr I Home; Rites Sunday! consin ave. {n aiding the^develon- ?•. Miss Louise Grams,ZZ5965 ;3$ ld Lake drive, died'Wednesday, Aug! gtggt:oQaggft?fi Iay>,4.v iii£ 18, at the age of ^4 years; ^Fun| fnat Mr. Gether laid a portion of erai •services were held' Sunday^ af street car track at his own ex 2 p. m. at the ^DobratzYSfunerat pense as far as Day ave. which he home, 3.514 -N,;". Port Washington; later sold to the street railway avenue. : Burial^ was:- in*' JJniotf company. The incident took place cemetery. ;^ AzZA- "ZZAAAZZ: A AAff during his fight for transporta Survivors A, are • seven "? listers| tion for the area, In 1933 he at Mrs. Minnie'-Nermann;-1;* Mrs.^'LUjf tracted attention by organizing a Han Dickmann j : MrsA Alvina/ Zip} cooperative residence building Pioneer Resident , / ; ,„-, —^-^-—' ' »*~:Z7AZ\»\:*L'A7:7l venture in Whitefish Bay, which : included little capital and five un- Is Buried Wednesday,, _ fel, Mrs. Elsie' Czerwan, Mr£%n^ • employed skilled tradesmen. The nie Beckerv , Mrs./Hulga Hagemah ' enterprise had the approval of the « S04 and Miss Hattie* Grams, and Aa ! brother, Ferdinand^*Gr,a ms/j state industrial commission. He Mrs, Anna Grams, 82, widow of' f-?m$\ j retired from all active work about Fred Grams, a pioneer Whitefish Bay 110 years ago. Surviving Mr. Gether are his , farmer who settled in the village long wife, Mabel Carter Gether; a before its incorporation, died Sunday ^l^jWf . #e*W daughter, Mrs. Marvin Wallach; at her home, 5955 N. Lake drive. She Highland Park, 111.; a son, R. Cnr- had been ill a year, never fully re i ter Gether, and three grandchil- covering from a fractured hip suf-. : dren, Joan Wallach, Highland fered in a fall. Park, and Robert Carter Gether. \z Mrs. Grams* husband died 20 years Funeral services were held I ago. ;. She is survived by eight daugh Tuesday at 11 av m. at the Weiss ters. Mrs. Minnie Numann, Miss chapel, 1901 N. Farwell ave., un der the direction of Kenwood Louise Grams, Mrs, Lillian Dickmann, lodge 303, F. and A. M., of which rMrs. Alvina Zipfel, Mrs. Elsie Czer^ he was a member. Burial was. in Copied from: SHOREWOOD RADIO, 5/27/1927. (forerunner of the WFB and Shorewood Heralds) \ I \ v \ \ v V N r ; Last Rites Monday ' r^"" For Mrs. J. Geerlings {Double .Rites Held S A ' | ) ; Funeral services were held Mon | Monday tForA Geerliiig^ y : day afternoon at the Thomas Jones 7" - ' > " Y: ' —/ —'YY •'"" '. '-'^ & Qlson funeral home, 1820 E. North Double rites were held Monday for] avenue, for Mrs. Tillle M. Geerlings, Mr. and Mrs. John Geerlings, 6822-j 54,. of 5822 N. Shore drive, who was N. Shore drive. Mrs. Geerlings was killed in an automobile accident near instantly killed in an automobile ac Philip, S. D. She was on a vacation cident at Philip, S. D.,; July 26, and her husband was injured. Her* body trip with her husband, John Geer /UJ^M^CAL. A lings, an employee of the Wisconsin had been in the vault of the Thomas, News. Interment was in Forest Home Jones & Olson funeral home awiiting cemetery. ' his recovery. Mr. Geerlings requested that the .funeral of his wife b£ de- Surviving, besides her husband, are f layed until he was able to attends v^t two brothers, Oscar* Muellter, Chicago, |A sudden ^relapse/however, broughtf and George W. Dueller Milwaukee, lhis death Saturday: A A n ' ' 'ff and three sisters, Mrs. Corrine Sou- The services took place at the Im| ders, Preston, Minn.,-; Mrs. Emma manuel Presbyterian church. Inters Coles, Seattle, Wash/and Alma-;M.uel- J ment was in Forest, Home cemetery^ ler;TMUwaukee.Y' --..XZA | Y ^:y'-iy'--^m-AA• A^ A: •• A> v* IX-, Y^., Y&A^-$ ti ^ZAZyZZ^;-. * ^Z9 il£( A¥mZZt'^ JU*yr *J sxaz V?. sM^te &Lc*e . GRAMS: Louis*, 5955 N. Lake dr.. Wednes gg, Scr day, Aug. 18, aged 64 years, beloved sister Goecks, Martha AA. Frl. Aug. 7,1987. Age 91 years. of Minnie Neumann, Lillian Dickmann, Al- (Nee Meseberg) Jan. 11, 1987, vina Zipfel. Ferdinand Grams, Elsie Czer Husband of Violet Gregg. Fa- ^ wan, Annie Becker, Hulda Hageman and age 89 yrs. Beloved wife of Ben ther of Mrs. Jane (William) Hattie Grams; also survived by nieces and C. Goecks. Dear mother of Ber Schowalter, Princeton, NJ. ' nephews. Services Sunday, Aug. 22, at 2 nard (Loretta) Goecks, Pearl Grandfather of Katherine, p. m., at the Dobratz Funeral Home, 3514 Morett and Jan (Ray) Rozek, 9 Mary and David. Services at St. N. Port Washington av. Interment town grandchildren, 3 great-orand- John's Home Chapet, 1840 N. Milwaukee Union. In state after 10 a. m. Saturday. chikjren, 2 sisters Hilda Kiehnau Prospect Av. Tues. at 10 am. at>d Agnes Hahm. Also survived Private Interment Forest Home by other relative* and friends. Cemetery. Not In state. In Ueu Funeral Tues., Jan. 13 at 7:30 of flowers If desired, memorials P.ITL at the funeral home. Inter to St. John's Home Chapel pre- ment Graceland. In state Tues. , «. ferred. Weiss Funeral Home. 4-9 p.m. [*$> ff 6-5122 Serving the Famfly. HEIDEN8.LANGE SCHMIDT &BARTELT 106 W. SILVER SPRING WHITEFISH BAY SfcjUl+t^JkJl Geraty, Genevieve M. (Nee Lemke) of Whitefish Bay. Born to eternal life June 9, 1990, age 79 years. Beloved wife of the late Arthur t. Geraty. Dear mother of M. Michael Geraty of St. Louis, Thomas H. (Barba ra) of Menomonee Falls, the late Timothy and Kathleen (Donald) Drum of Bayside, also sur vived by 7 grandchildren. 1 great-grandchild, nieces, nnphews, other relatives and friends. A memorial mass will be held Tues.-June 12, at 4 p.m. at ST. MONICA'S CHURCH. The family will receive friends following the mass. Interment Wed. June 13 at 11 a.m. at St. Patrick's Ceme tery, Rochelle, IL. In lieu of flowers memorials may be given to St. Mary's Hospice. Member ana founding member of St. Monica's Churcr Ladies of Charity and Whitefish Bay and Shor wood Women's Club and Seniors. Also a met ber of Lakeshore Contract Bridge Club, aa Ronald McDonald House Volunteer. SCHMIDT & BARTELT WHITEFISH BAY v\W did not regain consciousness 'school and athletic affairs! ..Another daughter,, |Iay liis wife, theiormer Barpn- He /was Whitefish B4 ( y Dr. Gute Dies ess Fredericka von Redlich of (xutb y/a$,killed at tha age; health commissioner from I) .11 in an ? automobile accide Chicago, was in Columbia hos to 1943, when he entered J pital recovering from an oper- in Waukesha county; That $ t Age 58 navy in World War II to set; in 1940*' . .. kZ: 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 of the Milwaukee County As Fox Point's health commi Columbia hospital after a sociation of Suburban Health sioner since 1933. stroke. It was the third stroke Commissioners, a vice presi Born in Milwaukee Feb. 2' he had suffered. The first one dent and director of Whitefish 1897, Dr, Gute was graduate, in December was slight. A Bay State bank and one of its from the old Milwaukee N second stroke occurred in Feb organizers, a founder and a mal school, now Wiseoru ruary. He was stricken Sun past president of the Whitefish State college* in 1919! and to day noon at his LaBelle (Ocon- Bay "Meet' Your Neighbor" his medical training at tl omowoc) home, Islandale, and club, and was interested in 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 CRAMS: Louise, 5955 Nfc Lake dr., Wednes Gregg, Scranton H. day, Aug. 18, aged 64 years, beloved sister Goecks, Martha M. Frl. Aug. 7,1987. Age 91 years. .of Minnie Neumann, Liilian Dickmann, Al- (Nee Meseberg) Jan. 11, 1987, - Husband of Violet Greog. Fa-! vina Zipfcl. Ferdinand Grams, Elsie Czer- wan, Annie Becker, Hulda Hageman and age 89 yrs. Beloved wife of Ben ther of Mrs. Jane {William) Hattie Grams; also survived by nieces and C. Goecks; Dear mother of Ber Schowalter, Princeton, NJ. nephews. Services Sunday, Aug. 22, at 2 nard (toretta) Goecks, Peart Grandfather of Katherlne, P. m., at the Dobratz Funeral Home, 3514 Morett and Jan (Ray) Rozek, 9 Mary and DavW. Services at St. N. Port Washington av. Interment town grandchildren, 3 great-grand John's Home Chapet, 1840 N. Milwaukee Union. In state after 10 a. m, children, I sisters Hilda Kiehnau Prospect Av. Tues. at 10 am. Saturday. and Agnes Halm Also survived Private interment Forest Home by other relatives and friends. Cemetery. Not In state. In leu Funeral Tues.,,Jan. 13 at 7:30 of flowers If desired, memorials pm at the funeral home. Inter to St. John's Home Chapel pre ment Graceland, In state Tues. ferred. Weiss Funeral Home. 4-9 pm 1 # #6-5122 Serving the Family. HEIDENS.LANGE -...•• SCHMIDT 8, BARTELT 106 W. SILVER SPRING WHITEFISH BAY ytHuL^^tA yU*At> 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. (Barba ra) of Menomonee Falls, the late Timothy and Kathleen (Donald) Drum of Bayside, also sur vived 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 Ceme tery, 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 mem ber of Lakeshore Contract Bridge Club, and , Ronald McDonald House Volunteer. .SCHMIDT & BARTELT WHITEFISH BAY n~pfif* 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 Mrs. A. Heyer Harttand. Further survived by W grandchWdr en, 5 great-grand- children, other relatives and friends. Memorial services Sudden Heart Attack Causes Thurs. 7pm at the Plymouth United Church of Christ, 2717 E. ; Death of 74-Year Old Hampshire In Milwaukee. K de sired memorials may be made Bay Woman - to the Plymouth United Church of Christ or The Whitefish Bay Women'sOuo. Funeral services were held Satur FEERKX FUNERAL HOME day for Mrs. Augusta \ Donsing 9624BjjT_ Heyer, 74, who died Dec. 4 at her home, 4723 N. Cramer st. A sudden heart attack was the cause of death. Haupt, Elizabeth M.^ i Services were held at the home (Nee Marks). Dec.53,19W. Of and at the Bay Shore'- Evangelical i Grosse Polnte, Ml. Residency Lutheran church, with* burial in '. Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of Forest Home cemetery. Rev. Paul B. > the late OeoroeD. Dear mother * of George R."l^a>o^ Bishop was in charge. ' -•• son, k% Bzebtth (Dr. PWIto) Mrs. Heyer's death occurred < Hessburg of Grotse Polnte three years after that of her hus band, Henry Heyer, a well-known I Daughter! Of Charity, St. Vte V cent De Paut CNcagaJL Also furniture manufacturer, She is sur i! survived by B orandchwren/8 vived by one son, jGtflbert Heyer, and 1 greatgrandchildren, nieces and two daughters, Arabelle Heyer, and nephews, other relatives and Mrs. Hazel Papenthien, friends. Mrs. Heyer was born in Town f Funeral services Wed„ 0ec.tt Vat 11 AM at ST. MONICA/S {Lake, Wis., July 27, 1861. She had x CHURCH where Mass Of Chris- been active for many years in tihe i? tian Burlat win be celebrated to Ladies guild of the Bay Shore state Wed at Hm Church from Evangelical Lutheran church. 10 AM until time of Mass. Inter ment Holy Cross Cemetery. H < desired, masses or memorials may be given to St. Monica's Church. v \ SCHMIDT 4BARTELT WHTTEFtSHBAY ^_ 'JJL &jiclZbuijh^3>t^ f^AjiZoeJJ7^(A>Pit 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. Auto Crash Fatal 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 to Bay Old-Timer chief in 1927, when Whitefish Bay had about 700 residents. Under his administration, the department was one of the first in Milwaukee County to \\ The funeral of Hans Huber, 63, monitor homes while residents were on vacation, said his son, Donald C, of *4913 N, Newhall street, who w^ls in Milwaukee. After Hage retired from the department in 1949, he continued stantly ,killed in an automobile ac 1 his career as a master plumber. Hage also is survived by a daughter, Pauline cident last Saturday, .wfts held T McCormick of Tustin, Calif., and another son, George A., of Milwaukee. , [Wednesday from the Brigden f une/al jhome. interment was % made in the f : [Evergreen cemeteryV'^7;Y.x";,' ', '*'AZ I Mr. Huber was onepf^e pld-tim- Hage, George H. Former Chief of Police of Whitefish Bay. Passed •ers of Whitefish Bay, having lived away Frl. Sept 8, 1989 at the Masonic Health out here for the last thirty years* He| Care Center at Dousman at the age of 99. Survived by 2 sons George A. (Dorothy) Hage. - fwas deeply interested in the growth Donald C. (Estella) Hage Doth of Milwaukee, 1 iOf the village and served as trustee* daughter and son-in-law Pauline and Clem Mc Cormlck, Tustin, CA; 3 grandchildren, and 4 in 1910 and 1911. He was a member* reat-grandchildren, Private funeral services will of the school board in 1914. *"';' I ge held Wed. at 1:30 PM at Ryan Funeral Home, 305 N. 10th St., DePere. Memorials to Masonic The services were conducted by the \ Health Care Center, Dousman, Is appreciated. Rev. A. F. Nussbaumer, chaplain of ftl^e Eagles, who was a close friend ?for the past twenty years of the de« i i ?ased 4&imA%&*i r^Lcc^; ,/A/7f/93^AZ ;-TEFI.SH BAY HERALD r Survivors ar«,**e* hi**•s« wifeT»«.~/. t,«.e«w^ three sons, Harry; J./Francis W^amd! H. Hayes, Stricken Suddenly, John Robert Hayes; Ave sistws^iss Mary Hayes, who retired as • vice principal of the Detroit, Street schoo<| ! Dies Unexpectedly at Home after,teaching 40 years; Mrs^Ele nore Whalen of Sheboygan/* Mr ; .\t ''/':"", "—•—'—*—-——— Emma Colburn of Sprague, Vf&ah'M Funeral Serviced Were Con sin and received his law education Mrs. Anna Trinwith of GermantownJf at the University of Wisconsin, where and Mrs. Cecelia Vincent of Denver*; ducted at St Monica's he graduated from the law school. Col., and two brothers, vEugene; Church Tuesday Morning He was an attorney here for manjr Hayes and W, A. Hayest r years. tm . Funeral services for , Harry j. About 30 years ago he was promi Hayes, 624 E. Day ave., member of nent in semi-pro baseball. He was a the law firm of Hayes and Hayes, member of the Milwaukee branch of were held Tuesday at 8:30 a. m. at the Knights, of Columbus. the residence and at 9 a. m. at St. Moving to St. Paul about 18 years Monica's church. Burial was in Holy ago, Mr,. Hayes, practised there for Cross cemetery. about eight years. He returned to Mr. Hayes, a brother of W. A. Milwaukee 10 years ago to enter the Hayes, prominent railroad attorney, firm of Hayes and Hayes. died suddenly at his home Saturday He aided in the brganization of the following a heart attack. Whitefish Bay bank in 1930 and was Shortly before being stricken Mr. its president at the time of his and Mrs. Hayes had taken a walk, death. Five years ago he organized and had retired to his study where the credit union of £ft. Monica's he was reading a legal document. church. During the last Ave months Moved to St. Paul he was in, the legal department of the Mr. Hayes was born in Wiscon- works progress administration for Wisconsin. He was a {former member of the Pere Marquette council, Quar ter Century club and the Whitefish Bay Men's club. Name Survivors His father was Henry Hayes, who was a member of the Wisconsin legis lature during the Civil war and a clerk of the district court in Pond du L»ac, Wis,t county many years. Hayes, Tom E. Of Whitefish Bay. Died Dec. 22, 1992, age 82 W«^WHm wH Bi ^ years. Beloved husband of the late Evelyn B. ? WW WwniiBl 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 Kristin «s 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. PinelawnMemi FEERICK FUNERAL HOM time Pres|den£9Wrie, . 2025 East Capitol Drive, Shore v ' desired, mem<$*&_ 962-8383 v Society appreciated, 'V-fftf •^ In the early 1970s; when Wi| Eryin.E. Heyer liam Liebman decided to live else* Grocer where, he and Arthur had a falling \ what they needed to do to stay ih out. The disposition of their jointly A business"*J -V *•' *:' Services wiK be held Wednesday acquired collection was the subject flv\ z HeyeOtnd^his brother, Alfred, for grocer Ervin E. Heyer, a grocery of legal action. opened the Heyer Clothing Store ih chain store owner in the Milwau In the end, most of their Chi Thiensville in the mid-19o0s. But kee area since the 1940s, who died nese trade porcelains went to the £. Ervin Heyer, missing the grocery of heart failure Saturday at Colum Elvehjem Museum of Art in Madi irbusinessr opened the Green Tree bia Hospital in Milwaukee. He was son, along with four French wall Market in Glendale in 1967. H^ 79. sconces. and "Michael, who were partners, Heyer, who was born and raised Other Liebman gifts included , < sold that business in 1987. ^ \ in Minnesota, was 20 when he rare books to Marquette Universi I; r Heyer is survived by his wife of passed through the Milwaukee area ty; china and silver to the White 1 and decided to stay, said his daugh House; Lowestoft china to the Mil 54 years, Julia; two sons, Jerome, ter, Barbara Franczyk. He worked waukee Art Museum; French can ^ of California, and Michael of in a grocery at N. 3rd St. and W. delabra to the State Department; ^Thiensville; four daughters, Barba North Ave. in Milwaukee before antique china to the Executive Res ra; Franczyk of Shorewood, Karen opening the Shore Drive I.G.A. idence in Maple Bluff; American H; Daneman of Fox Point, Mary grocery on E. Silver Spring Drive silver to the Paipe Art Center, Osh- * Reinhart of Texas and Judy Bitler in Whitefish Bay in 1943. kbsh; and photographs to the Mil C;of California; a brother, Alfred of I Thiensville; 21 grandchildren; and ;, He sold that store in 1954 and waukee County Historical Society. ; moved to Thiensville to open a Together and individually, the p three ^reat-grandchildren/ !' Sentry store. He bought another brothers also sponsored many cul ^Visitation is set for 4 to 8 to Sentry at N. Teutonia Ave. and W. tural programs, musical presenta night at Schramka-Densow Funeral Good Hope Road in Milwaukee in tions as well as art history lectures. r Home, 423 N. Main St., Thiens- 1961 and sold both stores two v^le. The rosary will be said at 7 years later. Heyer was semi-retired Survivors include a sister-in-law, p.m. The funeral mass is at 11 a.m. for the next few years, acting as a Pauline (Robert) Liebman, and a i Wednesday at St. Cecilia's, 138 consultant for small-store owners nephew, Robert, both of Milwau Buntrock Ave., Thiensville, with who were having problems, said kee. ; ' • •' • , »•• ^entombment to follow at Holy Heyer's son, Michael. Wednesday's private service will 7 Cross Cemetery, 7301 W. Nash St.,' "He was a consultant, but he be at St. Mary's Catholic Church, r Milwaukee. *' * was paid very little, if anything," Lake Forest. A reception will fol The family suggests memorials Michael Heyer said. "He would low at the Liebman home in Lake to the St. Cecilia-St. James School work with people, showing them Forest. Foundation. fZfa m, 'y^^^t^Y'' 'p^": ym^mygm^p'^^m^•• Angelo Hoffmann Dies; Headed Firm i$ 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 \ /Shorewoo. Edgewoodd Ave Hospital, , 2316 E. Whitefish Bay* ;; ; ,VvU \ Hoffmann,, of 4850 N. Oak- Memorial serviced will be : land Ave., Whitefish Bay, had at 3 p.m. Saturday at May* worked all his life for .the flower Congregational * family business at 117 R Jef Church, 2500 W. Brown Dee£, ferson St. It was founded by Rd., River Hills. , ; ; u his father, Louis, in 1887, : The body will be cremated He joined * the. firm after serving in the US Army Air Force 1 in France^ In World' War I: He became president I */¥//?77 ' in 1953 and chairman in .;. 1965. '..-'. Hoffmann was a former; ;- Whitefish Bay Village Board / member, past president of the. i National Association of Sheet; Orville W. Gesell Wi-ti "He was a very respected prin^ 'Metal Contractors and mem- j clpal who ran a good-quality ber of the Alonzo Cudworth j Services will be held Fridaw.y for school," said Harold Rose, former 7 American Legion Post No. 23 j principal of Whitefish Bay High Orville W. Gesell, the first princi School, who worked with Gesell for 50 years. 1 pal of Whitefish Bay's Cumber 4 Survivors include his wife. Vj land School and the retired prin from 1£>33 until his retirement. ; ", * cipal of Henry Clay School. * Rose called Gesell a patient Gesell, 87, died Tuesday at his principal who was liked and re Whitefish Bay home, ,: r7w»i£ spected by teachers and students \ , at Cumberland and Henry Clay. Gregg, Violet Durand A graduate of what is now the < July 25? 1991. Age 92 years. Wife of the late , University of Wisconsin — Mil f Gesell's nephew, Robert Prinz Scranton H. Gregg. Mother of Jane (William) ,; Sehowalter of Champaign, IL Grandmother of *: waukee, Gesell was the first prin ; of Cedarburg, said, "He often Katharine (Richard) Lescn, Mary (Jeffrey) Raser \ cipal of Cumberland, 4780 N^ talked about a lot of his kids who and David Sehowalter. Great-grandmother of , 1 Stephen Raser. Sister of Ralph uurand and Olive ' "* Marlborough Dr. The school, went on land accomplished * good „ Ttiemer. Not in state. Memorial service 1:15 p.m. which then served kindergarten I things.*? n-i* -** Ah$,^f&4ZzZiZ ' m at St. John's Home Chapel, 1840 N. Prospect . through eighth grade, now is Ave. Private Interment Forest Home Cemetery, If,. • desired, memorials to St. John's Homo or Cumberland Elementary School 1 Visitation will be from 7 to 9 American Cancer Society preferred. and serves kindergarten through I p.m. ^Thursday at Fass Funeral PHILIP J. WEISS iNC.-MEQUON V < fifth grade. . Y , r (f.. I Home, 3601 N. Oakland Ave., Serving the Family ' ' 241-8085 1 - Shorewood. Services will be at 11 He later became principal 01 j a.m. Friday at Wisconsin Memo- Henry Clay, whose building at J I rial Park Family Center Chapel, 1144 E. Henry Clay St. now hous-1- I' 13235 W. Capitol Dr., Brookfieid. f es Whitefish Bay Middle School, and stayed there until retiring in "Gesell has no immediate survi- the late 1960s, J |vprs*r %y T fv\ - - ik 1< .M Goldsmith, Cora M. i r Gesell, Orville w^pTfWW^^ {nee Clasmann), Dec* 18, 1990 age 91 years 1 of Whitefish Bay, Apr. 23,'1991 age 87 years. ;J Beloved wife of the late F.W. (Biff) Goldsmith i«i Beloved husband of the late Carolyn Gesell. Y4| Dear mother of Nell (Hugo) Heyns, Slydell, LA si Survived by a sister-in-law Nellie Brown, nieces, wf Fred W. (Janet) Goldsmith, Mequoh, Wf and Anr •.» and nephews Betty (Stanley) Nymczk, Joannj.H} Goldsmith, tenants Harbor, ME. Dear grand ,; Morhaffey, Robert (Roma), John (Margaret) and ? * mother of Chip, Becky, Heidi, Gretchen anc James (Betty Jane) Prinz, other 1 relatives ,and ihj Gerrit Heyns, Gina (Heyns) Castle, Katrina •• friends. Services 11 AM Fri at WISCONSIN ' > H- (Heyns) Houren, Gwen, Barbi and Will Goldsmith . MEMORIAL PARK fAMILV CENTER CHAPEL, ivj -urther survived by 2Vz great grandchildren. Ma ••; 13^35 W, Capitol Or. Friends may call at the ^ norial services 3 p.m. Fit, Dec. 28,1990 at St. . funeraf home Thurs. 7-9 PM. Memorials to Unit-'%% John's Home Chapel. Memorials to American* y ed Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay appreciat- 7i Field Service or St. John's Horn* appreciated.' ed. Mr. Gesell was the first principal of Cumber- 'ft PHILIP J. WEISS INC. ; 276-5122 land Grade School .and. the retired principal of ' Henry Clay Grade School, botH of Whitefish Bay. Y' FASS FUNERAL HOME ,v f 3601N. Oakland Ave \ ^ f f - Shorewood \$ 3#L i r- 3/4 <&$ ©HI IS T * '(8#t^RliIil 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 ac creditation, she was a dedicated volunteer of the , Milwaukee Public Museum and an active mem ber 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, Ft 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 Satur day, 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 Milwau kee Public Museum, SCO W. WeJte, Milwaukee, Wi 53233. . FSERfCK FUNERAL HOME S32-S3--J3 MEMORIAL SEPY/ICE Jacqueline AX'hite Knight May 18, 1950 - January 7, 1997 Christ Church in "Whitefish Bay January 11, 1997 4:00 pm w 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 '3/£) GIFT? TO THi £*§®0WMg*ir T-mm »Piiiiiiffi.i In memory of Jacqueline W. Knight: - The Museum lost a dear friend Memorials received through February 6. 1997 this January-with the passing of Jackie Knight'at the age of 46. Richard & Susan Batcheider - Kenneth & June Naeser A committed docent and volunteer, John F. & Kathleen Becker Denise L. Nelson iililiiifflii Lawrence L. Biesiadny James & Eloise Paloucek Jackie was a leader and driving Charles C. &1ielen H. Bradford Mr. & Mrs Charles B. Price. Jr. force of many Museum projects. Man* C Buchaklian Jacqueline C Purdy Man' C Corcoran Mary Ellen" & DaudTSampe James & Barbara Copeland Slier Schachamever Jackie's intellectual curiosity inspired her td-piirsue iier interests in Vivian-Corres Rosemary Selep Mr & Mrs John A Creech Janet S short the sciences with the Museum's Botany and'Science Media depart Mr. & Mrs. Thomas R. Crehore Dons C Shouse ments;.' Her love of botany was clearly evident as she conducted 0. B. Davidson ,& Ed.Tapley ' Dorothy Singer Mr. & Mrs Trenton Davison Mr. &Mrs WVP. Sitterley - research with-Carf Taylor Ph.D., Botany curator, that resulted in the Jonn P. Debbink David & Y\ onne Smith "Greening of the Lands" brochure.* Felician Sisters Nancy T Sommer Linda N Findley Carol L .Stephenson Lillian Hall Fisher Jack T Thompson: M.D Her recent work with the" Membership department resulted in the Leonard & Diana Goldstein Linda F Townzen creation of Clue Grew for member families. Due to her attention , Dr Robert B Gordon & .Staff Mr <* Mrs Fiedenck B Svhia Z Grossman Wachs Jr lo detail and tireless work habits, she encouraged the program to - Gordon ik Grace Gunnlaugs^on Dr & Mrs. Maxwell Wemgarten grow from a single idea into a benchmark of Museum quality \Ir» & Mrs Sheridan Harris* Jack^C Jane Weintrauh Paul & PhiLu Haye^ " ^ Jeanne M Weinei v within one year.. - Virginia W Jiayssen \\ heaton Franciscan-Sen ices Patricia- B. Hemecke . - Frank & Audrey W'ickert Susan & John Hooglund Sondiu Wmnik < * As* a longtime docent- Jackie conducted training sessions and Virginia T^ Irvin Richard & Diane Wrght ' presented a host of tours. Recently, Jackie was determined to bring Noral & Joyce Jacobs Mi & \h- Edgar B Young Madeline Knight & Nana Milto'n & Mur-Lee Zilis- back the Museum-Ginkgo tree-(displaced due to construction)'and Knight Gamer led the/docents in the acquisition of a new Ginkgo tree that was Edward J. Kohl planted on Museum grounds last-fall. Marge Konet & Family Man- S. Korenic „ Michael Kreuser Familv JacK-V determination, drive and spirit inspired all who worked Frank &* Rosemary Kulaszeuicz J Jane- ^ Larry Lindgren - withfher. The commitment she displayed for the Museum'was . Loui>e K. Linn unparalleled and was founded in -her love of education. Jackie, Ingnd & La^\ MacCabe ' Mam <£. Allen Manho -volunteer.-friend and mother, was a-great person who will be Mildred H McGaughe\ missed by all. Jim & Jan McKenna "Michael j. & Sue H Miller Sarah A. Morns ' 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 f W\ E«jBasr»"»s^fl t mi ?*J ^CLfJU £u« Qxiy ZpaA& . Ujr&ay f&AB*J^ rfauJlZz tZfrs 1 •*# .-.-—,.—• AZ~~'~'~ *'** ' *"' *>Q'^^g HtW*****'^.-^-^ 1 Immekus, Augusta > ImmekOSTOTplff (Nee Waldvqgel) Born to Eternal Life Sept. 13. 1990. Age 8f years. Of Whitefish Bay. Beloved "'le Wafc%mei) Born tor- wife of Melvin. Dear mother of Robert (Lucila), lay John (Irma) and Melvin Jr. (Julie). Grandmother n i*. o.PBf f L John (Irma) am loberUCuc'ila), . of Mary, Paul, William, Michael, Daniel, Laura, of Mary, Paul, Wynand Isenring and Edward. Preceded in death by 1 sister and 2 and Edward. Pn brothers. Also survived by 3 brothers, 3 sisters, brothers. Also. epiitaumbs (Continued from rage 1) other relatives and friends.""^. other relatives _ t»y f sister and 2 Funeral services Mon., Sept. 17 at the funeral >*te»$i3igstararjLO serv- . home at 11:30 a.m. to HOLY FAMILY CHURCH Funeral- seMetaA^^Suaf U7t rer for A. Weigell and Son. at 12 noon where Funeral Mass will be offered. ' The Isenring home is at 1036 Visitation Sun. at the funeral homeJrom 4-8 p.m. Visitation Sllh^t M4nlrWnMfM^fi%^ was a and Mon. from 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. with a vigil B. Lexington blvd. Funeral serv Service at 6 p.m. Sun. Entombment Holy Cross ices were held Wednesday at 2 p. Cemetery. •" Y ;• civic affairs for'three generations* m. at the Fass Funeral home,« z HEIDEN&LANGE' , "; ^^^B&G&I^^M^^noon after being 3601 N. Oakland ave., under the SCHMIDT &BARTELT auspices of Silver Spring lodge/ 106 W. Silver Spring Dr. Whitefish Bay disease. During hlu 20 years of F. and A. M., of which Mr. Isen service he never.had any opposi ring was a member. Burial was in i tion for the office, He "Was born Graceland cemetery. in Whitefish Bay and attended Honorary pallbearers were Vil schools there, and also attended lage President Grover F. Knoerns the old evening normal school. La child, Village' Commissioner ter he taught school for a time at Ralph H. Cahill and, the .members Brown Deer. He served six years of the board of trustees of the as assistant superintendent of the village. ,., lVli -'•... Y •- old county poor farm. In 1910 he The survivors, are. Mr. Isen became the secretary and treas ring's wife, Gussie; a son, War urer of A. Weigell and Son, Inc. ren; a grandchild;-two brothers, Mr.'Isenring served as a trus Archie and Gary, Milwaukee* and tee on the Whitefish Bay village three sisters, Mrs. Gladys De board for two years from 1918 Somer, Orville, Calif.; Mrs. Hepp- to 1920 until he was elected treas worth Kearby, Oconto, Wis., and urer in 1920. He carried on with Mrs. Alice, Dedi, Milwaukee. ' this duties as treasurer in addi tion to his private work until last January, when because of the de velopment of the village, the serv ices of a full time treasurer were deemed ' necessary and Mr., Isen ring resigned his position from (Continued on Page 12) #/**//??/ Obituary &• Johnson, O.K. Services were held Wednes Jan. 5,1992, Age 88 years. Residence Whitefish day at the Fass funeral home Bfl for Mrs. Augusta Isenring. 72, y *> » z . - -< :; ;<• - V; Funeral Services for O.K. Johnson, Sr., former 535 W. Calumet rd., who died President of the Whitefish Bay State Bank (now. •, Sunday at her home. Mr. part of M & I Bank), will be held at the United . Isenring, a former village Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay, 819 E. Silver ; trustee and treasurer of White- Spring Dr. at 1:30 PM on Thurs. Jan. 9, 1992. ' The Family will receive friends after the service. : fish Bay,, died in 1941. I in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the • Mrs* Isenring was a mem United Methodist Church of Whifefish Bay. ; ber of the First Church of k Y;;.,.", : . ; •• . .• ••• •.• •-. '-. -<-i Christ, Scientist, Whitefish Mr. Johnson was instrumental in the growth of ' Whitefish Bay State Bank from 1937 until his Bay, and is survived by a son, retirement in 1966. From 1933 to 1937 he was a: Warren, Glendale, and a broth Special Deputy Commissioner of Banking in Wis* Hospital He S of your choice prefer PHILIP J. WEISS INC. 276-5122 Immekus, Melvin J. Sr. atmem Ed ward. Further survived bva ii 7.15 p.m. Entombment Holy Cross CemeteTJ S9ttM42T&BARTELT 106 W.SHver Spring Dr. Whitefish Bay M Services Are Held for Roy L. Kruecke Hot Lunch Organizer & Funeral services for Roy 1*. Kruecke, 39, 5075 N. Santa Dies; Lived in Bay Monica . boulevard, Whitefish Bay, were conducted by Kenwood for Half Century lodge No. 303, F. and A. M., at , Funeral' services for lyirs. 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Feeriek Anna KJnop, Whitefish Bay resi Funeral chapel, 2025 E.Capitol dent for1 over 50 years, were held drive. Burial was in Wisconsin Saturday afternoon aj; the home Memorial park. of her son, Alfred Knop, N. Mr. Kruecke was found dead in Lake dri Mrs. Knop diedf last bed Friday noon at the Loraine Wednesday as the result of a hotel, Madison. He had gone stroke. , ; , ( there on Wednesday on a busi Mrs. Knop was one of the or ness trip. The coroner attribut ganizer^ of hot lunches for ed death to a heart attack. school children. This was started - Mr. Kruecke was Wisconsin by the Mothers club, which was representative oil the Dudley the forerunner of the P. T. A., Lock corporation, Chicago, and in which she continued as an ac- president and treasurer of the itive member. United Plumbing & Heating Sup ply company, Milwaukee. He was I Mrs. Knop was also active in iborn in Milwaukee and was grad church work. When she first uated from West Division high .came here/'she attended a Meth- school. iodist church. Later, she helped Survivors are his wife, Anna- j to found the Community church. 'Still later she became a member mae; a son^ Robert; his father, 1 of the Lake Park . Lutheran Robert, and two sisters, Mrs. Hil church, and several years ago da Roska and Mrs. Howard Kort- she transferred her membership sehl, all of Whitefish Bay. 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 [Mrs. John Kindl//^ from Germany. She lived in St* v Paul, Minn., until her marriage ['.-' i .Y 'Dies ."VEarlyYToday to Richard Knop of Milwaukee, T 1- , \" *- \v >..n.i:> • r.....v«" .', • '"'V;, ^» who died 18 years ago, The t Mrs. John Kindler, >28 B. Silver J&nops; .* purchased~-some • ^land- Spring drive, died early today at her fronting the present N. Lake dr, (hj>me. She had been ill for three in 1891. Up until a few months 7 K 1 ago, Mrs. Knop lived in her jjjrears, . \ v;, ' -* \ "-" • \ ,/ ^ house on that site. Her son's res * Funeral services will be held at idence is also en that land*z* v, ihe home and the Bay Shore church Besides her son9 Mrs. Knop is jSfiturda?. The Weiss funeral home survived by a daughter, *Mrs. IwiU have charge. 7; \ » ; 1 Ernest Jetisen of N.. 21st st., and &< Surviving besides her husband are six grandchildren. ,- >' ;three children, Norman, Alice and JMertle; one'grandchild; and a sister, Miss Minnie Gorstadof Milwaukee., ?/* Mrs. Fred Krueger (Lena Jaeger) di.ed Wax 26, .19 43. She had lived in Whitefish Bay for the past 35 years. Burial was in Graceland Cemetary. rm Klode, frank C . . ^ DEATHS Of Bayside. Thurs. July 17, WJ6 age 73 years. Husband of Ihe late Louise L. Klode. Father of Frank C Klode Wisconsin — Madison football games Frank C Klode. Brother of Jim Klode, AnnapoBs, MD. Further Funeral services for Frank C. on the weekends. During World War survived by nieces, nephews, ; Klode, former president of Klode II, Klode served as a naval officer. other relatives and friends, He returned to the family business Services 12 noon Monday at Furniture Co., will be at nopn Mon Fox Point Evangelical Lutheran day at Fox Point Evangelical Luther after the war and served as company Church, 7510 N. Santa Monica president from 1963 to 1977. Klode Blvd. interment Graceland an Church. Cemetery. Friends may cal at i Klode, of Bayside, died of a heart Furniture Co. went out of business in the church after UAMMw; attack Thursday at home. He was 73. 1979. day. Memorials to Fox Point Survivors include a son, Frank, of EvangeKcal Lutheran Church or Klode graduated from Milwaukee J American Cancer Society pre Country Day School in 1931 and the Whitefish Bay, and a brother, James, ferred. Mr. Klode was presi of Annapolis, Md. dent of Klode Furniture. Weiss University of Wisconsin — Madison, Funeral Home, 27*5122 serving where he was class president, in Visitation at the funeral home will thefamBy. 1935. be from 11 a.m. Monday until the After graduation, he worked for time of the service. two years as a radio sportscaster for Burial will be at Graceland Memo 4 NBC in New York and was NBC's rial Cemetery, 6401 N. 43rd St. backup announcer for the Hinden- The family suggested memorial f /9S>4 - ^ burg disaster in 1937* contributions to the American Cancer 3*V He joined* Klode Furniture Co. in Society or Fox Point Evangelical 1938 and broadcast University of Lutheran Church. s^-rWsr Kruse, Hugo E. May 29, m, age 89 years; oe- Adelaide E. Kohlmetz loved husband of the late Es ther; step father of James (Eu Adelaide E«. Kohlmetz, 95, of Colonial Manor Mrs.. Kohlmetz belonged to St. Robert's, nice) Undemann and the late •"^ J.0*** Undemann; Retirement Home, died of pneumonia May 3. Parish and was a member of St. Anne's Society \ arandchfidren, great grandchil She was preceded in death by her husband, and the ^Itar Society. She formerly belonged to, * dren, nieces, nephews, other Arthur, and her son, William Kohlmetz. She is the Home & School Association. ::"*h relatives and friends. Complete survived by three daughters, Marion Kow- funeral Mon. June 2nd at 7 p.m. Funeral services were held May 6 at Feerick^ at Memorial Lutheran Church. alsky> of Milwaukee, Ruth Johnson, of Shore- Funeral Home* followed by a Mass of Christian * Interment Evergreen, m state wood and Carol Jeray, of Wauwatosa; a Burial at St. Robert's Church. Interment tookf at the church Mon. 4-7 p.m. Me daughter-in-law, Lois Kohlmetz; two sons-in- place in Holy Cross Cemetery.-Memorial J morials to the church appreci law, Jerome Johnson and Robert Jeray; a ated Retiree of me Borden Co. contributions are suggested to St. Robert's** sister-in-law, Amanda Richter; 19 grandchil Parish, Mount Mary College, Marquette Uni-^ HEIDEN&LANGE dren; and 10 great-grandchildren. versity High School or Dominican High School. ^ SCHMIDT &BARTELT WHITEFISH BAY M (Shirt J evtflMavlJ '^strictrand a EvlLutf 7m) /Whitefish Bay Ex4VesidentMIl! Community Church Sec-Treas. Dies Dies Following Amputation :f Frank C. Klode, former presi- * • Z The Rev. James M; Buxton J r dent of . Whitefish Bay and a • officiated at the funeral services! ; powerful figure in state govern-, .Monday afternoon for-William ment, died Sunday. His body was A. Xilatte, 71, secretary-treasur f buried Wednesday in Graceland I cemetery following services at er of the Whitefish Bay Com-' i the Fass chapel and at .Lake munity Methodist church of | V Park Lutheran church. which Rev. Buxton is pastor. Mr. Klode died unexpectedly ; Services were held at the Feer-' '. at St. Joseph's hospital, where . ick Funeral home, E. capitol | he had seemed to be recovering, dr., with interment in Wander* from i a leg amputation on Jan,, ers* Rest cemetery. 26. The operation had been per Mr. Klatte lived at 716 E. Day | formed t6 check gangrene de jave., for 34 years, moving here! veloped from diabetes. Death iwhen the north limits of the Bay \ was caused by a pulmonary em : were largely in woodland andi bolism. Had he lived he would \ farms. He was born In Milwau-1 have been 78 on Feb. 13. kee. He was clerk of the Mil-1 The former village president, j waukee county civil court fort whose home was at 6036 N. Lake 34 years until his retirement two J dr-, is survived by his wife, the (years ago, and secretary of the! former Emily Tom, whom he !Milwaukee Bar association for' married in 1885; a son, Emil R, | the last two years. He died Fri-I Klode; a daughter, Mrs. August jday, at St. Mary^s hospital after Mueller, and four grandchildren. Jan illness of several months, He was born in a village near. j For several years Mr. Klatte] Stettin in the province of Pome- lalso served on t)ie school board j rania in Germany on Feb. 13, land the village board. j 1866, and had but a meager for-;: j Besides his wife, Florence, he | jmal schooling. He came here ', lis survived by three sons, Corp. with his parents at the age of 1 Richard in Australia, Lieut. Wil-I 12. ! Jliam in England,'and Staff Sergt | The next morning he started 1 Charles in Ohio; a daughter,! on his way to amassing a fortune |Mrs, Merrill Kline, Berlin, Wis., by cutting swamp willows grow-; | and two sisters. :ing near the river and with his, Kteist, Frank F. July 3,1988 age 99 years. Be- ; father weaving them into large j loved husband of the late LHan butcher baskets. He sold these (nee Wussow). Dear father of f Franklin (Adefne). Fond grand- • downtown for $55. He cut wil ' father of Peter (Janine). M lows and wove baskets .until ,theJ Great-grandfather of Steven, Brian, Kevin vnd Ju*e. Funeral .cf,(tfi second year. Back in Milwaukee !| SCHMIDT 8, BARTELT he became a teamster and later \\ WAUWATOSA a shipping clerk, ano} then a store ^ salesman. Soon he was running A the store and the C. W. Fischer p AMELIA KLODE, widow of Frank C., Furniture Co. became the Klode i died July 20, 1950; burial in Furniture Co., whose president - Graceland Cemetary, Son Emil R. now is his son, Emil R. Klode. and dau., Mrs. August C. Moeller He was also associated with the . survive. She was 87 years old, Water Edge Realty Co-, at Eagle River, the Badger Chair & Fur born in Germany. niture Co., which during his presidency had a contract to pur Reprint from WFB Herald chase th output of the Milwau 7/21/1950 kee house of correction furni ture factory. In Whitefish Bay his name will live on in Klode park, named for him. ," " y , '• 111' •'-•:;.'•• "!,•••«i;::,,; •• - uiw»*,\hmL V x u.arnig: Klauck, Vera I. ^ Mar. 2*, 1988. Of Whitefish Bay. Age 85 yrs. (nee Lee). Beloved WZBecause ^f'Ws'"Invaluable * wife of the late Edmund. Dear Whitefish Bay Board 1 mother of Robert Klauck (and 'contributions and meritorious special friend Dorothy). Dear Honors Frank Klode | services to his state, county and | grandmother of Edmund village, his fine example of use* < Klauck, Debra (Anthony) Har A moment of silence was, ob ris and Tammy, Uon) Hahn. served by the Whitefish Bay vil- ful and constructive living and Further survived by 3 great public service, and the love in grandchildren. Dear sister of . lage board at its meeting Mon which he iS held in this village; Esther Weeks of CA., Keith day night in honor of Frank C. (Helen) Lee and Earl (Rober now, therefore, be, it ta) Lee, all of AZ. Special aunt Klode, former president. Resolved, by the village board of Marilyn and Donna. Further The board also adopted the survived by other nieces and of the Village of Whitefish Bay, nephews, relatives and friends. following resolution: [Wisconsin, that this resolution be Funeral services Tues., Mar. 29 It was with a heavy heart that spread upon the minutes of its at 9:30 am from the funeral the people of Whitefish Bay home to ST. MONICA'S meeting and that a properly at- j CHURCH at 10 a.m. where learned of the passing of its pio tested copy thereof be sent to his mass of Christian buria) wl be neer citizen and official, Frank offered. In state Mon. at the widow, his life-long counsellor funeral home from 4 untH 9 pm C. Klode, on Feb. 6, 1944. and companion. with a parish wake service at 5 A poor immigrant boy of 13, p.m. Interment Sts. Peter and Paul Cemetery, Kefl, Wl. he came to Milwaukee county HEIDEN & LANGE ; without position or education. SCHMIDT a\ BARTELT " By his own tremendous energy z[/off9p Y, 106 W. SILVER SPRING \ and enterprise, his keen, sound WHITEFISH BAY and decisive judgment and com mon sense, he rose from his I^Cn^iXd humble beginnings to become a successful man of business and a trusted public officer, adminis trator and adviser in his own I Knauer,RuthM. , . village and county and in the II Daughter (Nee Baehr) June 8,1983. Age * state of Wisconsin. His life was of Rose 69 m. Beloved wife of Howard characterized by useful and con- P.knauer.r^atMotherofD^ (Hausmann) ane and Richard IRedean) i structive work, by plain, demo- Knauer Sister of Louise .Rui- / cratic living, wholesome family and Andrew life and unbounded sympathy, Baehr. kindness and help for the poor and unfortunate. His home was ''SSuOWfe 4217 W Fond ever a haven for the troubled SStac Ave. Entombment Wis- and heavy-heatred. He was iorSn Memorial Park. In state frank, open-hearted and gener-r 3%% Two Cousin Priests Assist With Y&- Requiem Read at St. Monica Church V,.-; • Son of Milwaukee. Pioneers Invented, ' FiberJ^H j Product Manufactured from Pulp; Active in\K,-'"tf Many Fund Raising Events ' %Alr$'$*| 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 President 9 Years *r r | iea's church. Burial was in Holy • Mr. Knoernschild died late 'jj Cross cemetery.; * - Friday at l}js home,, 5101 *N*J The Rev. John J* Barry, pas Cumberland; blvd. He had been f tor of S(t.» Monica, was the cele ill for some time. ', ''•>':'• ZZ>A brant at the Solemn requiem/ President of Whitefish t Bay ;rf He was assisted by t^e Rev. Au-; for nine years, 1936-45, Mr.' i tettQtwer* Ifciioefhtfehilfl* gust Zoeller, rector of theTRe- Knoernschild was originally demptorist seminary at Ocono- •elected to the board of trustees moWoc, as deacon and the Rev*5 in 1934. He was elected prest ^ William Knoernschild as sub- ident at the death of Harold .' deacon. Also assisting were the W. Connell.'' •' z>['-> ^'-v**?'^ Rt. Rev. Msgr. Farrel P. Reilly, bounty Park Gifi : * t] pastor of St. Robert's, the Rev. Mr. Knoernschild was active;\ Francis Knoernschild and the in forming the Big Bay subdivi-, Rev. William Weishar. i.he Rev. sion and during hi^llag^t>re^ Knoernschilds are cousins of the idency instigated'*aH transaction^ former village president. by: which Robert H; Uihlein do-1 Pall Bearers nated the lake front site, known ;j 7-M-M? Pall bearers were Joseph J. as Big Bay park, to the iouhty. ;' Moser, Joseph J. Schinners, Paul When the World War: II: war Stenger, Donald Kletzien, Wil memorial was erected at Buck-; liam C. Weishar and Fred Le- ley park he had Senator Wylie viash. | come to dedicate it at a cere-: Among those comev to say mony that drew thousands. ; farewell to a citizen who had Born in Milwaukee, Mr.,« served his community and his Knoernschild was educated in g cliurcET were members of the Milwaukee public schppls and^ Holy Name society of St. Mon- ; at Spencerian Busihess/coHegeA ica and St. Roberts churches. 7 under Professor Herbert > Sjjen- •{ He was a past president of tbep cer, originator of the system*of . St. Robert's Holy Name society/ ; schools- which were .fbundect in I The Holy Name men kept a vijgil; < various parts of the couiitjfyi; He j at the funeral chapel Sunday also attended nightvi classes^. ;in| evenings— ,."<*.*-•« v" *<^^^y*y^ business administration/ at Mar-4 Also to come were Knights of * quette university. v~His^ father A Columbus, Kiwaniang, Rotarians, was Jacob Knoernsqhild^ wjho*j came to America with ^s^par^J Interprofessional' club, members, v f 1 followers of the arts and. busi ents in 1851 oh an old time Wlsif ness associates. v: y '•• 'r-7';z47: ^ ing vessel/: His mothejrf^tary{| was also a child of earlyjj^ilrli waukee Settlers. >. Y * A^^M^M (tevd^u^ C^n^4^i^d "pyxjz^^o^^ Y3^^' , The former yillage president'!'* He "was secretary-treasurer' early work-a-day life, was one - and a director of the Pulpro- cess Co.* which he helped to |5 PeathNotksi"^ of frequent job changes. But] Loke!, Clarence W. they were deliberate. He learned^ found in 1930. The company Nov. 25,1986 age 75 yrs. Belov-! and studied the problems of help 1 manufactures paper, cellulose ed husband of Dorothy (nee^f and plastic flower containers. Gerke). Dear father of Linda s and labor, working as a bank ? and Donna Loke. 1 grandson,! messenger in the credit branch v He invented a fiber product Ryan Loke. Brother of Liie which this company manufac Sievers, Lawrence Loke and of a department store. As an** Edgar Loke. Also survived by assistant superintendent and; tures from pulp and which is other relatives and friends. In used in many ways. state at the Funeral Home Sat. bookkeeper he studied mining J 124pm. Member of Unitarian His interest in converting dis Church. Retired Instructor at tand the separation of mining carded material into usefulness MATC •..'.' y ! products at a Grant county, Wis., and beauty is evidenced in/ his HE1DEN&LANGE j separation plant. He also learned home. An office he built in the SCHMIDT 8.BARTELT to be a baker and confectioner. basement has a floor of marble 106 W. SILVER SPRING slabs which he collected! from WHITEFISH BAY All this gave him a wide range ! of knowledge of human nature junk heaps. and of business methods—both -He was intensely interested in • of which were invaluable to •art, and intellectual activities, him. serving for two terms as presi Under the most trying cir dent of the Seven Arts society. cumstances, he always kept He was chairman of the St. Jo , his feelings veiled. He was seph's hospital board when the • nevet^ruffled. Always his tem- building was opened/ He; had: per and his speech had an been a commander in the fund even tenor. When he wished, raising drive for the hospital. he put drama into his words. He had been a deputy grand Mr. Knoernschild's father was knight in the Knights of Colum one of the organizers of the bus, was a member of the board Light Horse. Squadron of the of the Sterling Savings & Loan state militia,' called out by the assn. and was a former member governor to subdue the riot of of the Milwaukee Athletic club, 1886. He remained a member of the Interprofessional club, Ki- the squadron for eight years/He wanis and Rotary clubs. Several was also a member of the first Community fund drives also board of fire and police commis found him active. sioners, was a member; of the ; board of election counselors, Interested in Politics which preceded the board of Politics held his interest. In Larkin, Velma F. "Dixie" Y several judicial elections, he Joined our Heavenly Father 4 Sept 15,1986 at the age of 86. chairmaned political clubs, sup Formerly of Whitefish Bay and aldermen. ' He represented the porting Municipal Jud^e Her Tucson, AZ. Beloved wife of the bert J. Steffes, Circuit Judge late F. L "Bud" Larkin. Dear ninth ward of Milwaukee both mother of Barbara (Dick) as a counselor and alderman and Roland J. Steinle and the late; •. Propheter of Random Lake and was a member of the school Justice Chester A. Fowler of the Dennis (Mary) Larkin of Grand Rapids, Ml. Loving nana of Dona board from).. 1875 to 1880. A state supreme court. When Jo , (Brian) Peterson, Claire (Kev Entered Insurance Field seph Shinners ran f or mayor and in) Graham, JuHa and Marerv sheriff, it was Mr. Knoernschild Larkin. Adoring great nana of Grover Knoernschild entered Derek. Fond sister of Irene, the insurance field, in which he who headed his campaigns. w , (Brad) Wines of Sarasota, FU remained for the rest of his life The late Mayor Carl Zeid- Further survived by other rela tives and friends. Visitation on March 16, 1910. He joined ler appointed Mr. Knoern from 7 to 9 pm at the funeral Prudential Insurance Co., of schild a deputy air raid war . home Mon. Sept. 22. Services which he became assistant state den for the county. He, also from Church of Jesus Christ of A Utter Day SaJnti, 120 E. Para manager. At one time he served commanded the civilian air dise Dr., West 6en& Tues. Sept. as secretary of the Milwaukee defense in Whitefish Bay and 23 at 1 pm Entombment Wash ington County Memorial Park, Life Underwriters and was was a member of the civilian ParaolseDr.atsJithAv. J chairman of the Business Prac defense corps of the county. ^ SCHMIDT FUMERAL HOME > tice Council of the Milwaukee His wife, Florence M;.' (Ander : A Golden Rule Funeral Home ' Association of Life Under son), whom he married in 1917, 629 Cedar St, West Bend writers. > 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. m\j AidedFrintln^ Pr/ogrew $ #$ iKAlthletic Club'7, IfWhile with the King, Fowled* Ora™ P n\et Co/years ago, Mr.f King was$| l Founder Dies f pioneer^in establishing new processed XKini ;t.i$the printing and engraving indusj ^row King Wed §?£#* in Milwaukee/ He, jputlnto htej ^Jiesdfty ;S« Henry R.jKing Sud- jg^-stiop the first half tone > engraving! r Ef/; plant inUthe, city, ;thevfirst photo! .SatTitdfty,'; Sept;^ 30»> a^ *pi- -jn#;^Jtttjcj'iin iJdenly Stricken at His BrT'g^vure. jpfant/ and'' the Iflrstvcolbjq P C 7 photogravure plant. I These nrocesses;^ Home on^Park Place g& virtually .changed ,the character 'or u N s |f Henry R. King/75, the first presl* |f;;t$e entire industry. '*<'* > '" j clent of the Milwaukee Athletirj club, M.'V^bout five years ago Mr. King dl-U founded 5J years ago, and for many Mn vided all his property ampng his legal' J , years a member jfr/Mira and "started out in 5 life" all J of the printing ^l/over again, despite his* age/* * Since j firm of King, p\ then he has earned;every dollar he^ \ !#*^% Fowle & Cramer; I: silent. He established an armature died suddenly sf } Wednesday 'winding plant on the north side and I E^Y^ 1 night at his home, 348 Park also "established a plant manufac-, place/ ' Although during automobile lamps. ^ Both of* 1^^ p he had been in ' * SS^^^^fc.*'''" & them were successful.^ - V poor health for r sill ^ some time, "he 5, : Collector of Antiques JP||§ had not been A For more than g^earsjfr/Klng*sj seriously ill and greatest hobby was to collect an 0J WPJH the heart attack* tiques. He was said to have one of] which' he suf [the finest collections in the state. ^ 'i,y * fered Wednesday t - waSj unexpected. [Among the articles in the collection? YJrnm ' were a Persian shawl more than 300] ?**' 'MHW Tf Kind Mr- KinS WaS S/^r*'^ .. able to vote in I the primary election Tuesday. ,' "i years old, which he obtained /nearly j '* '\ht was around a corner table in the 60 years ago^a copy,of the Bii?le| ,'old Noble restaurant in the basement Pauperum, Bible of the Poor Man$ •V of'the Mack building at E.' Water st. which was printed from plates made' * and % Wisconsin av. that Mr. King in 1534, and of which no copies have . i' and two friends originated the idea been known to be printed since, and J No'f a Milwaukee Athletic club. The three cones from the sacred cedars intends were Atty. Johtf M. W. Pratt, of Lebanon, from which the timbers 313 Summit av., and the late Charles t fr of King Solomon's temple were cut. ,W. Norris. This was'*in' November,, , For many years Mr., King was a 1878/ After several' public. meetings vestryman of St. James' Episcopal had been called to arouse interest, I church. He formerly played the chimes there* ,f . . . ' V ty ttfte club was established on Mar. 31, 1 1879.. < ••' - . ' * Surviving him are a daughter, Mrs* Helen King Ott; two • sons, Harry >- ,Mr. King and Mr* Pratt and eight Juneau King, Chicago, and Paul Ju<> other charter members of the club neau King, Milwaukee, and three held a golden anniversary dinner in grandchildren, Jane Elizabeth' Ott, 1929 at the present club building at John Morrow King and Marian, Ju^ Mason st. and Broadway.; * v u ? neau King. * ' ?z , { <«;; , AA (191 Ernest A. Jensen Ernest A Jensen of Markesan, formerly Jacksonville, Fla.; two sisters, Ada Gra of Whitefish Bay, died July 25 at age 96. ham of Menld Park, Calif., and Eva He was preceded in death by his wife, Hansen of Milwaukee; and a brother, Otto Estelle (nee Siebert) and his first wife, of Portage. Elsa (nee Knop). By Jensen's request, cremation He is survived by a daughter, Helen A. arrangements were by Wachholz Funeral Jensen of Kingston; a son, Dr. Eric R. of Home, Markesan. ® J Obituaries v Klann, Harold W ,. William C Klatte ^ William C. Klatte, 55, a Lake Mills insurance agent and f r- mer Milwaukeean, died at Co lumbia hospital Saturday after FHend* may <;aU from 3torS'VSj r| suffering a heart attack wh e visiting relatives here. ! Mr. Klatte, who until four years ago lived at 4610 N. She field av., Whitefish Bay, w s born in that suburb. He was graduated from Shorewo d lasal, Joseph P.ftet. Fir e Chief ^f Whitefish Bay, March 6,1993, age 81 years, high school and attended t e leloved husband of the late Gertrude E. Dear old Milwaukee State Teachers ather of DuWayne (Patricia) Kasal. Loving college. randf ather. of Roger, Patricia (Peter) Lunde, fynthia (Peter) Sheperd and Joseph. Great- He was a member of the randfather of Natasha Sheperd. Brother of Kasal, Joseph P. Ret. Fire Chief Masons, the Wisconsin Con jorothy Rounds and Ruth (Ray) Kroening. Fur- Of Whitefish Bay, March 6, 1993, age 81 years. [ier survived by other relatives ahd friends.,. •'• . Beloved;husband of the late Gertrude E. Dear sistory, Tripoli Shrine, YMCA Jer Mr. Joseph Kasal's request a private family father of DuWayne (Patricia) Kasal. Loving Businessmen's club and tie Imeral service was held at the funeral home witn randfather of Roger, Patricia (Peter) Lunde, jurial at Wisconsin Memorial Park. gynthia (Peter) Sheperd and Joseph. Great Lake Mills tongregational grandfather of Natasha Sheperd. Brother of church. SCHMIDT &BARTELT Dorothy Rounds and Ruth (Ray) Kroening. Fur HEIDEN&LANGE ther survived by other relatives and friends. - He was an army captain n fl/hitefish Bay £«r • '^nthe P* Per Mr. Joseph KasaPs request a private family World War II. funeral service was held at the funeral home with Survivors are his wife, burial at Wisconsin MemorialPark. SCHMIDT & BARTELT Jayne, three sons, Richard O., HEIDEN&LANGE William.C. and Owen W., a d Whitefish Bay S*' '^ the P^ 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 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, ^Kathryn 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, fol lowed 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. dor Julius Leu V Former Trustee of Whitefish Bay Died Friday of a Heart Attack f S> z Funeral services for Julius Leu, a former trustee of Whitefish Bay* will be held at 2 p. m. Monday at Tabor Evanggli- > - --\ cal ^church, ,N. 8th st. and W. Keefe av., with M+: burial in Union cemetery. Mr. Leu, 78, died Fri day at his home, 5020 Santa Mon ica blvd., White- fish Bay, after a heart attack. Mr. Leu came to Milwaukee from Germany with his parents 74 years ago, and had lived here Julius Le 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; /three daughters, Mrs. Frank Lieben thal and tylrs. Walter Gores [of M. ^Vaukee and Mrs. -Rudolph Of\ ' IWausau, Wis.; five grandchi. Ijlmd two great-grandchildren/ •;;;: Vera Lawrence fire/' she said in a 1993 inter ;;! Loved Whitefish Bay view. "That was our last semes ter, so we finished up at the ar ,' Vera Lawrence, one of mory on Henry Clay/' Whitefish Bay's oldest lifelong All his adult life, her brother, Residents, died last week at 92. Melvin Joseph Immekus, lived Lawrence, Vera ;;!; Born in 1903, Lawrence grew in a house he built next door to (Nee Immekus). Born to Eternal Life March 27, hers in the 5000 block of N. Idle- 1996 at the age of 92, Residence Whiter ;iip in a Whitefish Bay that no Beloved wife of the late James A. Dear mother of longer exists, in a farmhouse wild Ave. He died Jan. 1, 1994, Patricia M. (David) Cronin. Loving sister of. the late Melvin Immekus. Treasured ^andmother of Surrounded by cornfields. She also at the age of 92. Anthony James Lawrence, Man/iBridgtd Cronin Her husband, James A. Law and Margaret Ann Cronin. Further survived by -spent almost her entire life in other relatives and friends. .,„,*.. » that home, which had been rence, died in 1974. Visitation Fri., March 29 from 5 PM until 7 PM at Holy Family Catholic Church on the corner of ;Gwned by her grandparents. "She was a caring person/' N. Wildwood and E. Hampton in Whitefish Bav '-Built in 1857, it was the oldest said her daughter. "She would followed by Mass of Christian Burial at 7 PM. |_house in Whitefish Bay, accord want everyone to know how Entombment Mon. 10 AM Holy Cross Cemetery. SCHMIDT &BARTELT ing to her daughter, Patricia much she loved Whitefish Bay. William R. Feerick Assoc. Cronin. For her, there was no other I Whitefish Bay 964-3040 *7 She attended school at the place." Old School House, the first in, In addition to Cronin, Law the village; and .remembered rence is survived by Cronin's the fire that destroyed it in 1918. husband, David, and three •'We were out playing in the grandchildren. cow pasture and we saw the Services were Friday. £3£ m I 2 t o & 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, Mohr, Gladys A. ; nephews, other relatives and friends. Jan. 28, 1991, age 78 years. Loving sister of * ; Visitation Sat Nov. 16 at the Funeral Home from, Aubrey (Vera), the late Gordon (Bertina), the late f ' 2 PM until time of Funeral Services at 3:30 PM. Luster (Frieda}, and the late Donald (Delores). * Private Interment Valhalla. Memorials to Divinity Dear niece of Miss Adelaide Mohr. Further sur- h Divine Charity £v. Lutheran Church appreciated. vlved by 9 nieces and nephews, other relatives ' and friends. * SCHMIDT &BARTELT Funeral services Thurs. Jan. 31 at 7pm at ME- „ HEIDEN*UNGE MORIAL LUTHERAN CHURCH, 7701 U. GREEN I 106 W. Silver Spring Dr. Whitefish Bay 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. | Mohr, Little Ai , Apr. 21.J991. Age 97 yrs. Beloved mother of the t SCHMIDT &BARTELT '* 7 late Evelyn Hoars, Dear grandmother of Sharon HEIDEN&LANGE !i Pollack of Tucson, AZ and Robert (Lynn) Hoefs. 964-3040 Whitefish Bay :\ 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 Ser ft vices 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. . SCHMIDT &BARTELT HEIDENALANGE 964-3040 Whitefish Bay Gladys A. Mohr -^~— Whitefish Bay native Gladys A. Mohr, 78, (Delores). *• ^ ti died of a stroke, Jan. 28, after a long struggle A funeral service was held Jan. 31 at V with Parkinson's disease. Memorial Lutheran Church. A private inter-j She previously did volunteer work at the ment followed at Graceland Cemetery.- t| Veteran's Hospital and worked at the former George Fredericks and the White House Memorials may be made to Memorial. Engineering Company. Lutheran Church or Wisconsin Lutheran Child.{ Her brother, Aubrey (Vera); nine nieces and . and Family Services/' ^ '*'$ AA' •. *v zZyy^ Ah nephews and her aunt, Adelaide, survive her. - Schmidt & Bartelt, Heiden & Lange Funeral She was preceded in death by her brothers, Home, Whitefish Bay, assisted the family with Gordon (Bertina), Luster (Frieda) and Donald arrangements. • AWS^SC' Nirschl, Viola M. (Nee Sell) born to Eternal Life Dec. 23,1990 agecj&j 88 years of Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of tneui 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 ^ Off, Arthur G. James, Benjamin and Abraham. Further survived •&' Age 67 yrs. Nov. 13, 1991. Beloved father of t by other relatives and friends. Funeral Mass Fri>% Arthur L. (Sue) Off. Dear step-father of Russell Dec. 28 at 11 a.m. at HOLY FAMILY CHURCtf $ Retter, Sandra Schmidt, and Donald (Cheryl) 4849 N. Wiidwood. In State at the church from 10 Reiter. Brother of Dorothy Hoelz. Special friend , a.m. until time of service. Interment Evergreen „ of Joan Heder. Further survived by grandchll- Cemetery.^ • • \ % ^ < -^f^ff , dren, other relatives and friends. Services Frl. 8 ' p.m. at the funeral home with Rev. Dean Phillips >• 7'Z- SCHMIDT & BARTELT'' 'i' Z fjg jty J officiating, in state Fri. at the funeral home from .... HEIDEN&LANGE ~w^*^'J? 4 p.m. until services. Interment Graceland. Art 984-3040 /M. Tc whitefish Bay was an employee of Tews Lime and Cement Co. for30yrs. | JELACIC FUNERAL HOME 5639 W.Hampton Ave. 466*2134 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. _____ .&fe> Mohr, Adelaide L. of ,.*,,. _ay. Beiovea'wno v. ».,w .„«, ,«.., rence. Dear mother otBalph (Pauline). Loving . grandmother- of nu W71. ,ugdiaBsms4 rtiemljerfoW^A^^o^wW' 6f«Safb^ , JoaroholQJ'apprgcilt- bituary ChurcWh %^;CW4( yo^r cholera.—*^,u August C. Moelier . 'I '<&i * ?SCHMIDTIWRT|LT" {- ' RARTELTYA W I Funeral services for August C. | Moelier, 603-6 N. Lake dr., who •died Saturday at Columbia hos pital following a major opera tion, I were held Tuejsday at the ;Fassr.funeral home. The Rev. I John Fedders of Lake Park Lutheran church officiated. Burial was in Graceland ceme tery. 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 cor porate and probate work. His son-in-law, Emil Hokanson, who went into partnership with him Mohr, Bertina about a year ago has been main- (Nee Krueger) Feb. 7, 1994, age 89 years ol Whitefish Bay. Beloved wife of tne late Gordon. Dear mother of John (Jeanne). Grandmother of M O h iji -iQ^it^; s Erin and Lisa. Further survived by sister Marga ret 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 JfP.t&Wfine, choice appreciated. rpotiats to SCHMIDT & BARTELT HEtDEN & LANGE ^preiSia^adetic clubs, Wisconsin 106 W. Silver Spring Dr. Histoqg^^^fi^B^^Yington Park ZoologiHBiDEr^(fcft^s and Lake 106 Fffi^fit^ftan churffif^Hg^vas a director of the Wisconsin club and the Dairymen's County club of Boulder Junction, Wis. His wife, Helen Klode Moelier, two daughters, Mmes. Emil and Arthur Hokanson, a brother and three sisters survive. 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- i al ChapeL Life long resident of Whitefish Bay. j SCHMIDT&BARTEUT? , HEIDEN&LANGE M 06 W; Silver Spring Whitefish Bay X FT He wteiriiamed public safety director in 1982. In that job, he headed the Police and Bay safety director Fire Departments in the village. Myszewski also was active in many orga nizations. He was president of the Milwaukee County Association of Fire Chiefs and past Myszewski dies at 45 president of thek Milwaukee County Law ^ Enforcement Executives Association. .. \ By ROBERT M. RIEPENHOFF He served oithei Milwaukee County and ANNE BOTHWELL Board committee that coordinated: efforts to • of The Journal staff bring the county wide 911 telephone system into operation earlier this year. : c ^ • \K Whitefish Bay — Whitefish Myszewski once told reporters that he Bay Public Safety Director Alan traveled to different police departments 4 N. Myszewski died early across the country on his vacations to exam- ** Wednesday, apparently of a ine their 911 systems. r 'Z7774A I blood clot to the lung. "Beyond any doubt, without^ Alan"' . He was 45. * J Myszewski, Milwaukee would not have 911 "It's a stunning loss for us today," County Supervisor Thomas A. Bailey personally and certainly as a said. "He brought the idea to me severalyears community," Village Manager ago.* Michael Harrigan said Wednes Cooperation between police and fire day. "We are going to miss him greatly." departments in North Shore communities is Myszewski called for a rescue common, and Myszewski is partly responsi squad at 4:45 a.m. Tuesday, com , Alan N. Myszewski ble for that cooperation, his colleagues said. plaining of a pain to his left side, This year, he was instrumental in pushing a Wauwatosa Fire Department He died at the hospital about 2 through a plan for joint'dispatching among spokesman said. •> a.m. Wednesday, Harrigan said. Glendale, Shorewood and Whitefish Bay. He Myszewski served for 20 also headed a committee that was working to He was transported by the years with the Village of White- revamp radio communication equipment in rescue squad from his home in fish Bay and came up from the several North Shore communities. \ n } Wauwatosa to St. Joseph's Hos ranks of patrol officer, Harrigan "I considered him a friend and a col pital. At that time, rescue work Said. ••• ^Y-': ;.-.;• league," said Fox Point Police and Fire Chief ers suspected a possible kidney . Gerd J. Hodermann. "I'm shocked and sad stone/ dened. 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 Myszewski, Alan N. Chief % professional skill and ability." DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC SAFETY, VILLAGE OF WHITEFISH BAY. Born to eternal life Nov. 29, ! A 1962 graduate of Pulaski High School, 1989, age 45 yrs. Beloved husband of Janice < Myszewski received a bachelor's degree in (nee Defter). Dear father of Adam Dean. Dear son of Mrs. Paula (the late Harry) Myszewski. liberal arts from Marquette University in Dear brother of Mlchele (Thomasj Tiffany. Dear 1979. .'•'••• > • ;••.••'".. )•;.'- son-in-law of Raymond (the late Virginia) Delker. Myszewski is survived by his wife, Janice, Further survived by nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends. and a son, Adam, a student at the University of Minnesota; ,y; v 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 En forcement Person of The Year Award for 1986. SCHMIDT &BARTELT HEIDEN&LANGE 106 W. Silver Spring, Whitefish Bay f2 h&i feH3 ;fltomseiiBnmav.'"^'Mr* s : 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 <~co*3>4- *~i&uyf ^iiA^t^L . Henry Marsh Henry Marsh, 79, pioneer road contractor of Milwaukee, died at tractor,*Henry Marsh. ?** his home at 5625 N. Consaul A daughter, Mrs. Ruth *E. Nel place, Whitefish Bay, at 5 p. m., OBITUARIES r\ Sunday after a lingering illness. son, survives. His father, Mantle Marsh, came to Milwaukee from England Mrs. Susan S. Marsh when Milwaukee was but a small Funeral services for Mrs. village and with his brothers or ganized one of the first road Susan S, Marsh, 83, who died building firms in this vicinity. Saturday morning at her home, The grading of Humboldt avenue, 5625 N. Consaul pi., were held part of the Lake park district, Tuesday at the Fass chapel with and Mitchell street. were among burial in the Town of .Milwau-; some of the jobs completed by kee Union cemetery. this firm. ,, , '* Mohr, Donald L. Mrs. Marsh was one of the , Nov. 20, 1990, age 65. Beloved husband of ( Henry Marsh * wasx born at an oldest residents of Whitefish •/ Delores. loving father of Alice (Daniel) Holton, f Bay. Her father, William E. Janice and Dale. A loyal companion of Shannon. Brother of Aubrey (vera), Gladys, the late Gor- - jkddress of what is now known as Consaul, owned a farm in the don (Bertina) and the lata Lester (Frieda). Be m. Pleasant street and N. Hum- region and the street on which loved nephew of Miss Adelaide Mohr. Further fboldt avenue. He attended the she liyed was named for him* ' survived by 4 brothers-in-law, other relatives and Cass street school and in early If IOI ivo. She was the widow of a con-v Visitation Frl. Nov. 23 from 4 PM until time of /tanhood joined his father in the service at 7 PM at the funeral home. Interment contracting business. He retired Sat. 10 AM meeting at Wisconsin Memorial Park , from active work about 25 years Family Center. Memorials to the charity of your ago, but had followed woodwork choice. SCHMIDT ABARTfLT - - ., \ ing as a hobby since that time. HEIDEN&LANG He is survived by his wife, Su 106 W.SHver Spring Whitefish Bay san S., and one daughter, Mrs. i • _ Ruth E. Nelson. j;•;'Thursddy/May 24, 1945 *i)CdUd Funeral services were held from the Fass funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland avenue, at 2 p. Obituary m., Tuesday afternoon, the Rev. Marshall Day of Christ episcopal William A. Meredig ,church, Whitefish Bay, officiat ing. Burial was in Union ceme- Funeral service's were held itery in Milwaukee township. j 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, Han nah; two sons, Sgt. Hans W., with the army in Germany, and Herbert; a sister, Mrs. Martha Stalter; his father andHwo sis ters in Germany and a brother in Brazil/ ' < vwwnwwww W- Herman F.Mohr^ty^^ fity h .fla Services; for ' Herman F. fga- Mohr, 50, manager of a north T"Ei£tJ^yKEE JOURNAL Friday, January 4, 1985 side restaurant, were held at •• 1:30 p.m. Satur* day at the Hei- den ; & Lange funeral home, Hannah Meredig, > 3116 N. 3rd st. Burial was in Pine lawn Me-* Bay Home Bakery | morial park. M r. Mohr, of el 3284 N. Oak S) co-founder, dies land av., died Thursday at St b1?t Funeral services will be held Monday for Hannah Mer Mr. Mohr Mdwl . hospi-th wik . tal,Y;where he si edig, who founded the Bay Home Bakery & Delicatessen had been under treatment since * in Whitefish Bay with her husband, William, 52 years suffering a heart attack a week J ago. • • v . •.;"•: , /;: Meredig died Thursday at St. Mary's Hospital. Her son, * He had been manager of Sol- Si Herbert, said she had been taken there Sunday, suffering ! l/s* restaurant, 3226 N. Green Jt from flu and dehydration. She was 84. Bay av., the last 28 years. He Although Herbert Meredig had taken over operation of also was a rnember of the Mil- the bakery at 423 E. Silver Spring Dr. three years ago, waukee Moose lodge. his mother continued to be active in the business. "Christmastime was her last hurrah," Herbert Meredig Survivors are his wife, Doro thy? two daughters, Vicki Lee said. "She came down one day and took a look at the new and Sherry Ann, and a son, decorations and new lights and commented that it looked ^fM^t home; a sister like Tiffany's in New York." . Miss Mildred Mohr, and a She spent much of her time at the bakery that she and brother, Verner, both of Mil re her husband founded, even after she retired from owner waukee, ship 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, Mere dig 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 contin ued 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 Ceme tery, 6400 W. Burleigh St. 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 Christo pher. 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 rel atives and friends. Visitation Mon., July 29 at HOLY FAMILY CATH OLIC 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. SCHMIDT &BARTELT GUARDALABANE & AMATO 964-3040 Serving the Family (S&) AZ< r -*>*tV~K,-->*3 ^ "'T7^ Mohr, Gordon W. nr Of Whitefish Bay. Nov. 14, 1989. Age 80_yrs. }• Beloved husband Bertina (nee Krueger). Dear :- father of John (Jeanne) Mohr. 2 grand-daugh 10 TZIDAY, MAUCH *. 1820 ters. Brother of Aubrey (Vera), Gladys and Don ald (Dolores) Mohr, 1 aunt, Adelaide Mohr. Also chopping wood* For this fie received; survived by other relatives and friends. Funeral Thurs. Nov. 16 at 8pm at the funeral home." 50 cents a day. Two.cords/of woods Entombment Wisconsin Memorial Park. In state Hariri Pioneer, was a day's work. | Thurs. 4-8pm. Member of Luther Memorial Cha pel and Whitefish Bay Seniors. Memorials ap Served in Civil War preciated. During the Civil war Mr. Morn* | P. Mohr, Dies served in the Wisconsin infantry | HEIDEN&LANGE He returned to his farm life in the' SCHMIDT « BARTELT fettled Here When town of Milwaukee after the war. \ 106 W. Silver Spring Whitefish Bay Up until a few days before his- f»Wild Beasts Roamed death Wednesday he enjoyed smok-: ing his pipe; * * - Mr. Mohr is survived by six sons/ 5' Town of Milwaukee a daughter. 31 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren. Y Philip Mohr, one of the oldest ^ct- Funeral services^will be held Sat Fall Fatal to ^ llcrs in the town of Milwaukee, cl&d urday at 2 p. m. at tho undertaking •Wednesday morning at the home ,ftf parlors of A. F. Dobratz & Son, 1552 Mohr; Dies his son, Fred Port Washington av., and burial will Mohr, in Graii be in Union,cemetery, town of Mil ville.' He was 9| waukee, v~z "" ••A At Home Mr. Mohr was3 born in Ger- many, June 5,; 1837. When he: was 5 he came to, this country with- his parents. The family came directly to. the town of Mil waukee and set- tied.* on' an 80* acre farm, part of which is now Whitefish Bay. r FMlipMOhr roamed the ^oods and Mr. Mohr's father shot a fax and other prowling beasts that - frightened his son, Philip. ,•> As Philip grew up he himself hunt Fred Mohr* .78,: of 6747, N: ed and helped his father bring farm .• Range Line rd.,. a lifelong 'produce and wood to the market in resident of the area, sustain Milwaukee. The city hall square was ed a f&tal; head "Injury Fri Jtoe market scene. day, September 5, Zwhen he fell down a > flight of stairs ^ . Ityde in Ox Cart . at his home. Glendale po- ; m The trip to'the-market was made . lice answered the rescue &i an o$en drawn cart/ It was neces- call. He was pronounced dead . eary to cross the Milwaukee river at on arrival.": Funeral services & spot ih what is now Lincoln park were held Monday at Christ and the river was forded. Memorial . Lutheran church, \ As a young man Philip purchased 3107 W. Thurston ave*, with 37 acres of his father's farm and mar- burial in Graceland: ceme r;ed. Then for a few winters he lived tery* •' • in the lumber camps' in Michigan, Mr. Mohr, a truck .garden er, had been active ' in th Took over business loss it's going to b^. from parents who "They're remembering all the funny things and the nice opened it in 1932 things. Nobody has had an un BY TOM HELD happy thing to say about him." of the Journal Sentinel staff Meredig was the type of per son who would give rides to his "He was kindness personi employees when he thought the fied." roads were too icy for them to That's how Herbert Mere- drive themselves. And he al dig's friends, relatives and em ways found time for a little con ployees will remember the versation to go with his confec kind-hearted baker who filled tions. his customers with sweets and "I'd want to close the store smiles. and he'd be standing there in Meredig died of a probable the doorway talking," Graf re heart attack Friday in his apart membered. ment above the Bay Home Bak Sandra Meredig said her fa ery, the oldest business on East ther gladly devoted his life to ' Silver Spring Drive. He was 65. the store and the people it Meredig's parents, William brought to him. His employees and Hannah, started the bakery and his customers were part of in 1932. Herbert took over the his family, she said. bakery some years later and de voted himself to improving his "He never thought bad about business and the lives of almost anybody," Sandra Meredig said. everyone he met. "He walked into a place and he "He was like a friend of ev knew everybody, and he would erybody's," said Rae Graf, the give them hugs." shop manager who referred to Meredig is survived by San her boss as "kindness personi dra and a son, Rick; fied." Visitation will be held Tues "The people on the street are day from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Feer crying," Graf said. "They're sad. ick Funeral Home, 2025 E. Capi They're so sad, and what a great tol Drive. '*****.» Mohr, Gordon W. Of Whitefish Bay. Nov. 14, Beloved husband Bertina (nee Krueger). Dear J father of John (Jeanne) Mohr. 2 grand-daugh- | 10 TtWAYiMAnCH S,J!93!). ters. Brother of Aubrey (Vera), Gladys and Don- * aid (Dolores) Mohr. 1 aunt, Adelaide Mohr. Also chopping wood** For this fte received survived by other relatives and friends. Funeral Thurs. Nov. 16 at 8pm at the funeral home. 50 cents a day/'^Twa. cords of wood! Entombment Wisconsin Memorial Park. In state arrri Pioneer, was a day's work, \ Thurs. 4-8pm. Member of Luther Memorial Cha pel and Whitefish Bay Seniors, Memorials ap Served in Civil War preciated. ; During the Civil war Mr. Montf j? P. Mohr, Dies served in the Wisconsin infantry.- HEIDEN&LANGE He returned to his farm life in the SCHMIDT &BARTELT .ettled Here; When town of Milwaukee after the war. 106 W. Silver Spring Whitefish Bay Up, until a few days before his :;^,Wild Beasts Roamed death Wednesday he enjoyed smok-' ing his pipe;, ; * , .*.-,- ? * ;• ;f Town pf Milwaukee:' Mr. Mohr is (survived- by six; sons? ^daughter, ,31 grandchildren and 2% m.JJ)V w•wy^^'fl^'fe < '"yffis • & , *• r . ., ^>-^ zz'^z great-grandchildren: !jf/ , - \.' * ^ •k Philip Mohr, one of the;$Td$tosftt? Y Funeral seryic«tovili be held Sa& mi ,|iers in the town of Milwaukee, 4tfd urday at 2 p. in- at tt*e; undertaking ;|yednesday morning at the homeV* parlors of A. F, Dobrat£& Son,'1552] HMbhr;';;Pie^&i|i: his r80H,UFr^d Port Washington av,, and burial Willi i Mohiw, in GrarV be in Union, cemetery,; town bt'WU •' - - * Afi&? ^m^itfai ville.: He was 9$ waukee* r ; Mr. Mohr wa& •qy.sffv bor;h:in Ger< ma 1837, was 6" he came tol (} this his parents, The family came directly *to the town of Mil waukee and-, set-, tied?orR an 80- acre^ farm, part of which is now. Whitefish' Bay. Wild; animals Philip Mohr roXmed the ^oods and Mr. Mohr's father shot a mr and other prowling beasts that lightened his son, Phijip*; > As Philip grew up he'himself hunt 'Fred Mdtei%78^W';«47S:«r, «ki and helped his father, bring farm * Range lineAt&iZt aVlifelong produce and wood to the market in resident of the area* sustain* Milwaukee. The city hall square was ed a f&tel head ~ injury Fri Hie market scene. > , •; - •• day, September 5, when he fell down a flight of stairs Y| Rode in Ox Cart at his home. Glendale po 1 iThetrip to the market was made lice answered the rescue '^i an oxen drawn cart. It was neces- call. He was pronounced dead ; Clara; two daughtjers, Mts. ^ CkviA. C/<7(&&h<&X) YUriA. 3Sb :SMS^0-^^P$PW^^^WWl County School Officials Joined Bay School Faculties in Tribute to Mulrine * In ill health for more than a School Supt. Dies year, Mr. Mulrine took a leave of absence last September. E. J. in 1930 and a master of educa Of Heart Ailment Zeiler has been the acting prin tion degree in 1940. cipal since then. Superintendent Murline was a County school officials and With Schools Since 1917 member of St. Monica's Church, the faculties of Whitefish Bay Mr. Mulrine came to White- the! Knights of Columbus, 'the public schools gathered in St. fish Bay in 1917 to be the prin- * National and Wisconsin Educa Monica's church Monday morn cipal of the only school in the tion assns., the American assn. of | ing to attend funeral services for village. It was a frame building Clifford L. Mulrine, superintend- School Administrators. He was a on Marborough dr., Idlewild and director of the Wisconsin School ent of Whitefish Bay public Fleetwood pi., the triangular schools, who died Thursday of a plot now destined to house the Administrators assn. and anKor$ heart ailment at St. Mary's hos ' village library. Besides his ad pital. ganizer and merhber of * iftfe ministrative work, Mr. Mulrine Suburban Administrators' assnu County School Superintendent taught in the upper grades. His wife, Virginia, a son) Michael Keyes was one of the There was no high school in the Peter^ and two daughters, Mary pallbearers. The others were village. Ann and Susan, pupils in the members of local school staffs, , The school burned down in Whitefish Bay schools, survive. picked for the offices they held. 1918 and was replaced by Henry The family lives at 5701 N. Kent They were Michael Cienian, Clay, which opened in 1919. ave. Also among the survivors president of the School Masters Within ten years, Whitefish Bay are a brother, J. J. Mulrine, . club; Wallace Zastrow, president had 'two more grade schools, Black River Falls, and two of the Whitefish Bay Teacher's Cumberland, 1928, and Richards, sisters, Mrs. Herbert Pekel, assn. Principal Orville Gesell of , Cincinnati, O.; and Miss Maude l 929i High school classes were Henry Clay school, the principal ., started in Richards in 1930 and Mulrine, Madison, a former Mil-; who had served -the longest in 1932 were transferred to the waukee school teacher;. A .'* under Mr. Mulrine's administrar 'present high school. In the build •'*••'• "; * ^ • tion; Principal Harold Rose of ing of all these schools, Mr. Mul- the high school and E. J. Zeiler ; rine led the way and directed of the superintendent's office. r the planning. Honorary pallbearers included Born at Black River Falls, Dr. T. J. Jenson, Shorewood : WiSV Mr. Mulrine was trained school superintendent; Dr. J. D. A as a teacher at Oshkosh Normal Logsdon, Shorewood high school 7 school, now Wisconsin State eol- principal; Milwaukee School -, ? lege, Oshkosh. He continued his Superintendent Harold S. Vin 7 education when he moved to cent, Dr. William Lamers, W. W, h Whitefish Bay, enrolling at Mar- Theisen, Walter S. Nichols and ! quette university, •, earning a T. J. Kuemmerlein of the Mil j! Bachelor of Laws degree in 1923, waukee school superintendent's office; E. G. Kellogg, West Allis ?4,a bacb^W ?f philosophy degree school superintendent and George Carlson, principal Nathan Hale high school; Waukesha school Superintendent R. ' H. Hein, Wauwatosa school super intendent Harley Powell; West Milwaukee School Superintend ent Mathew Bartley; Greendale School Superintendent John Ambruster; and South Milwau kee 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 stu dents 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^ Former MU coach Nagle dies at 73 ByRICKBRAUN Sentinel staff writer Jack Nagle, who coached the Mar quette 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 Decem ber 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 War riors went 24-3. Marquette lost the opening game of Nagle's second season before win , i ning 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 Jack Nagle the NCAA Tournament, winning two ; games before losing in the final of into the Wisconsin Jiigh School Bas 4 ketball Coaches Hall of Fame, the Eastern Regional to Iowa. Nagle also was an English teacher The Warriors finished 13-11 the in his years at Whitefish Bay and next season and lost in the first won the- district's Teacher of the round of the NIT. Marquette went Year Award in 1973. 10-15 and 11-11 in Nagle's final two seasons. His record at Marquette was "Jack's going to be sorely missed 69-55. no doubt about that," said Don Laine, "He was a very kind, gentle man," who took over for Nagle last season. said Terry Rand, who led Marquette "1 know every year kids came back in scoring in all, three seasons he to visit with him during their played under Nagle. "And he took a Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks, very personal interest in the players. and they enjoyed him immensely as a One of the players got married, and it person and a coach. I know the kids was a big thing for Jack to partici are really going to feel bad about pate and give advice and help every body. He was a fine individual, a nice As a basketball player, Nagle was family man." a standout at Shorewood High After four years as coach of the School, from which he graduated in junior varsity boys basketball team 1936. He earned a scholarship at at Whitefish Bay, Nagle became head Marquette and played as a reserve in coach of the boys varsity team from 1939 and 1940. 1962 to 1973 and then coached the girls basketball team from 1973 until V Nagle is survived by his wife, last December. Maude, three sons —• Charles (mar ried to Bonnie), William (married to Nagle compiled a 604-245 record Christine) and James (married to jn his years at Whitefish Bay. Uuirie) — and five grandchildren. He was the first person inducted 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. L 2s£) 353 John Pandl, Whitefish Bay I Inn Proprietor, Dies Fall Down Stairs Fatal To Well Known Figure Prange, Mabel F. if In Village (nee Filter). Born to Eternal Ufe Mon. Jan. 30,1989, age 81 yrs. Beloved wife of the late I John Pandl; 51, proprietor of the . Leonard H. Prange. Dear moth er of Beatrice (Albert) Hepfner fWhitefish Bay. Inn, died Wednesday , and the late Monte Prange. knight at 10:30 at St, Mary's hospital MotheMivJaw of Susan Prange. Sister of Esther PraPrangei . Also ^following an accident at his restaur- survived by 5 grarandchMreni , 7 * ant at about 6:45* He lived at 1306 great grandchildren, other rela : ; tives and friends. Et Henry Clay, street*/ ? *?•/•".. I *'\* I, ; Mr. Pandl went to his restaurant Visitation Frl. Feb. 3 from I, from his hornet in search of an electric 4:00pm until 7:00pm Services at ZWASKA FUNERAL HOME ^fuse." In the search he lost his bal- 4900W.Bra<*eyRd " ance and fell down the cellar stairs* Pastor David R. Seager of St. ]i He was rushed to the office of Dr. John's Lutheran Church offk* £ Edwin Gute and then to* St. Mary's atina Private Interment Grace* land Cemetery. In lieu of flow I hospital, where it was discovered, that ers memorials to Si. John's : he was suffering from a broken wrist Lutheran Church appreciated. 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-Hun garian 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 Praefke, Irma E. ; Funeral services will be held Sat| (Rata) May 6th, 1986. Of Lu ) urday morningifrpm the Fred C. Fass: ther Manor. Age 88 yrs. (nee Kuetemeyer). Dear mother of \ k Son funeral home, 3601 N* Oakland Marten (Richard) Curtfs„Step- f. avenue, at7 8:80 and at! St. Monica V . mother of Alen Praefke of l Washington. Sister of Meta • church at 9. /"Interment will be iiv Dassow and Adele Splerlng. 'Holy Cross,cemetery. J5?j>A'A A*%i% Dear grandmother of WHam (Jean), Thomas, James, and John Curtis, Suzanne (Stan) l Westbrook, Richard (Trudy) \ Rahn and Gloria (Richard) Al len. Further survived by 4 . great-grandsons, other rela tives and friends. Complete fu* „„ Ki neral services Frl„ May 9th at •? 7:30 pm from the funeral home , with the Rev. Harvey Wangerin ^ officiating. In state Frt, at the , . funeral home from 4 pm untt * time of service. Interment Val- \ , hala Cemetery. If desired, me- ^ morials may be given to ST. ^ JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH GLENDALE SCHMIDT & BARTELT > HEIDEN8.LANGE s 106 W. SILVER SPRING" \*t; ,, ;\WHrrp:|SHBAY,^ r;^ ' •, v^/^Vt ^;~ •. v. A^A%>-$ m Obituary Mrs. Louisa Pagels (p/itftWI Funeral services for Mrs. Louisa Pagels, 87, 4341 N. Mor ris blvd., were held Wednesday at the Heiden and Lange mor tuary. Interment was at the To Hold W^ M. Peteri fi Town of Milwaukee Union cem etery. Mrs. Pagels is survived by two r sons-in-law, one daughter-in-law pi; Fttperal^servicV\^ ^William/* M| and three grandchildren. 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^ Tay A": f(Mr, Peters was widely known bjS residents of the north and northwest] sides, having operated a tailor shop] ,WS?ATEMON;9-11AM. * FEERICK FUNERAL HOME a>25E.Captto (AT) I i (A \ %5S &*• ^! ?7 19M M&fyears. Beloved husband of ft' Gladys (nelehTtensW Dear lather olBeverlv ' Sunday February 17,1991 : ~ *^ Rabe, Lvdia E. N Sept. 8,1990. Beloved wife ot the late Roland. '"? Dear mother of Roland (Pattie), Ronald (Jean), DEATHS Ruth (Don) Cavanaugh, Roberta (Terry) Jahik, ' wlty Lutheran Church. 50 year member, ot ,,'*t- Renee (Bruce) Jacobs and Rick. Further^ sur \ /iamtitters Local No. 801.-.,. vived by other relative^ and friends. In .state Leo S.Rice Tues. Sept. 11 from 5 to 8:30 PM and Wed. from SCHMIDT &8ARTELT 12:30 until time of service at 1 PM at the fUnoral HEIDEN&LANGE' 'ffl home. Interment to follow at Valhalla Memorial WhlteltshBay 106 W. Silver Spring eal estate broker •V, ' FEEWCI ciiMPRALHOME 862-W83 \ K \~*"kUA*fJ tt~2tf*Mga I, Mountain Climb Fatal To Robert D. Shawl 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 re ceived here. A member of the U. S7 diplo matic 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. 36*i Bay Boy Drowns Bay High School (Continued from l»asr© l) him to the surface, but by the Boy Is Drowned time Kelley reached the , scene, Seefeldt was exhausted. Kelley kept both boys afloat for a time, Monday Evening but lost his grip on Ravenscraft. Kelley and Seefeldt were rescued Attempted Rescue by Five ] by the two boys in the boat. During the attempted rescue, Companions Fails When ! carried on in the dark, Knoerns They Are Exhausted child had summoned a deputy sheriff and a doctor, who sh6rt- fflen E. Ravenscraft, 17, 4838 ly arrived on the scene, ordered "F== N. Newhaii street, Whitefish Bay, the boys to the shbre and began drowned.in Army lake near East his search for Ravenscraft. The )• Sunjdaffil,May^9.f j d3JI Troy, Walworth county, on Mon vtmmmma* day night of this week. Valiant body was recovered after a short efforts by five of his companions time. Ravenscraft had either suf failed to save him and only the fered a stomach cramp or was ArK6Dert?,Jr,, timely arrival of a deputy sheriff caught in the weeds at the bot l^i^A prevented a multiple tragedy. tom of the lake. Ravenscraft, a recent graduate m , Glen Ravenscraft was the son y *r<~ '' ' A' ' x&Z\>i from the Whitefish Bay high of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Y. Ravens school and an outstanding ath craft. ^He was'an all-conference Youth Riding Motorpycl^ lete, had gone to the Army lake basketball player and*a member r cottage of William Sigler, 707 E. of the Whitefish Bay high school Collides. With kti|ri; Briarwood place, with his com: football and track teams. Near,Lake Geneva'H*^ panions intending to Spend a few Funeral services will be held days of his vacation there and to! Allan J. Roberts, jr., 10, son of Mr, from the Dobratfc chaptel, 3514 N* and Mrs. Allah J. Roberts, 6236,N* paint the cottage. Accompanying Porth Washington avenue, Friday him were Hugo A. Vogt, jr., 825' Lake drive, died Saturday afternoon afternoon at 2 p. mi, with inter at the Walworth E. Silver Spring drive; Joseph! ment in Union* cemetery. county; hospital Kelley, 6320 N. Berkeley boule*! from a skull frac- vard; Douglas Devos, 5129 N»J ture, suffered Woodburn street; Ralph Knoerns*: when his motor- child, 5101 N. Cumberland! boule cycle collided vard, and Henry Seefeldt, 5902 with an automo , W. Washintgon boulevard. bile on Highway f According to reports of the ac 12, two .miles cident, Ravenscraft, a good swim north of ,Lake Geneva; - |i: » mer, rowed out on to the lake a t Mr. Roberts Ls distance of about 150 feet, pulled president of the off his shirt, placed his wallet on Roberts Co., in- the seat of the boat and then surance brokers.! jumped in the water. He immed Mrs. Roberts is.1 iately called for help, but assist x active in Milwau«y siadent at tf. of ,W^VV^f ola Wiedmann, Dora Bortz, Lydia and El- * mer Runge, also survived by five broth*. < Roberts <#as a freshman at, the crs, 7 grandchildren, brothets-in-law. sis University ot.Wisconsin and a mem* ters-in-law. eons-in-Jaw and i daughter-in- * law. Funeral Wednesday, July 14i at 1:30 . ber of Chi N. Port Washington av„ to St. Peter's Lu- i theran church, Range tine rd,< River Hills.* Milwaukee University school before Interment Graceland. » <-' <" ' 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| 3€e Annette Roberts A longtime peace activist and women's rights more acceptance as society's views changed, leader, Annette Roberts, died Feb. 1 in Tucson, She was still writing letters to local and Ariz., from complications of age. She was 102: national officials when she was 100. •» ,* - &.•*•> She had lived in Whitefish Bay since 1929; During World War I, World War II and the IZ: before that, she and her husband, Allan, had Vietnam War* she was a pacifist. , " - « had a summer home in the village. Mrs. Roberts was also involved in the ' She crusaded for peace before the peace suffrage movement as well as other women's Y movement was fashionable. ,, issues. As a married woman and a mother, she • Mrs. Roberts* father, William Jacobi, founded won the right to vote. She supported birth' \ the German-American School, now the Univer control long ago, when some of jts advocates )v 7 sity School Milwaukee. V were forced to leave town. - r '' She was one ofthe organizers ofthe Women's She was in Tucson to spend the winter with International League for Peace, and Freedom, some family members. During her stay, Mrs. and one of 38 women who witnessed the 1920 Roberts became interested in the plight of that birth of the group in Washington, D.C. - > city's poor and hungry. She donated a generous s ^ Her interest in peace was just beginning at amount of money to help the hungry, and went ' age 21, when she married. However, her on a television show to discuss their plight. husband and his family weren't particularly Mrs. Roberts is survived by two daughters, ',. interested in her views. ; \ '•'•>'" Roberta Klotsche, of Tucson, and Joan Robert- Throughout her life, Mrs. Roberts continued son, of Whitefish Bay. - 7 X" *''' er interest in the peace movement, finding Funeral arrangements are pending. ^3 Y ? "/> t»M^ 1\ Longtime peace activist Annette Roberts dies at 102 Annette Roberts, a longtime Mil waukee peace activist and women's rights leader, died Saturday in Tuc son, 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 Wil liam 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 Washing ton, D.C. She was one of the league's organizers. ; :? * Married at 21, just as her interest Annette Robertsv in peace was beginning, Roberts at first found little sympathy for her "She was active'up to yesterday views from her husband, Allan, and afternoon," her daughter, Roberta his family. But she continued her in- Klotsche, said Saturday from Tucson.; terest in the peace movement After arriving in Tucson to spend '* throughout her life, and found more the winter with family members, < acceptance for her ideas as society's Roberts became interested in the , views on the subject changed. At age plight of that city's poor and hungry, : 100, Roberts was still writing letters her daughter said. She donated a to officials in Washington. Roberts generous sum to help the hungry and was a pacifist in World War I. World went on a television show to discuss War II and the Vietnam War. their plight, Klotsche said. She also was involved in women's Roberts is also survived by another issues, including the suffrage move- daughter, Joan Robertson of Milwau * ment. Roberts won the right to vote kee. Mrs. Klotsche is the wife of J. as a married woman and mother, and Martin Klotsche, former chancellor supported birth control at a time of the University of Wisconsin — when some of its advocates were Milwaukee. forced to leave town. Roberts worked for her beliefs to Funeral arrangements were pend the very end of her life. ing. • A A , fy?~/'zry/< 361 \''//////S/'Y/JS. DEATHS Rose, J. Harold Born to Eternal Life May 26,1992. Age 85 years. J. Harold Rose Residence Whitefish Bay. Beloved husband of Marion C. Dear father of Nancy (Bernard) Stankewicz and Jean (Dave) Hamann. Loving Retired principal grandfather of Greg, Todd and David Stanke A memorial service for J. Har wicz; Michael and Scott Hamann. Further old Rose, Whitefish Bay High survived by other relatives and friends. School principal from 1945 to Mr. Rose was a former teacher and principal of 1967, will be held Monday. Whitefish Bay High School from 1933-1972. Rose died of heart failure Tues Memorial services Mon., June 1, 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church of Whitefish Bay. day at the Bradford Terrace Con Interment private Platteville, Wl. Memorials ap valescent Center. He was 85. preciated in memory of J. Harold Rose to the Whitefish Bay Public Education Foundation, c/o Marion Rose, who was married Charles E. Moelier, 5265 N. Santa Monica Blvd., to Rose for 51 ]h years, said her Whitefish Bay, Wl 53217 or the United Methodist husband ran a tight ship at the high Church of Whitefish Bay. school. FEERICK FUNERAL HOME 962-8383 "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 per sonnel 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. (3®). •-••- " •- ———r^ : " • y.yi, jv •. ^ • r-r^ 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 grand Lov no grenatatner oi J«" cw \wu«v/ ""X'XX, children Joseph S. and Mandy C. Harris. Other JSd Wrlcla (Richard) Ballo.'^JB^fmSSSi relatives and friends also survive. Complete ser- dren, other relatives and friends also survive . vice 2 p.m> Sun. at the funeral home. Private interment Wisconsin Memorial Park. Friends 43rd St. Friends may call at llM^uMliram 10 may call noon-2 p.m. Sunday. Memorials to the , charity of your choice appreciated. AM Wed. until time of services. MmMrtatotom FASS FUNERAL HOME _ American Heart Association InL«SLS!JK22 3601 N. Oakland Ave. 964-1291 Siegel, Lois A. ^v Sohns, Geraldine S. (nee Malmon) Nov. 19, 1991. Age 59, Of Fox * 1 Point. Beloved wife of Martin. Dear mother oi'M Passed away Aug. 19, 1991 at her residence. Elizabeth Siegel, Shorewood; Robert Siegel, W She Is survived by 2 sons, Richard J. Sohns of Brown Deer; and William (Lauren) Siegel of ; AshevHIe, NC, Carl W. Sohns of Oak Ridge, TN, Whitefish Bay. Fond sister of Diane (Bud) - 1 sister Bernice Knem of Milwaukee. Wife of the Schwartzbach of Glenco, IL and the late Arthur late Carl Benjamin Sohns who died In 1984., Malmon. Loving grandmother of Adam Church, . Native of Milwaukee formerly of Whitefish Bay,*' Andrew Siegel and Alexander Foshaoer. Also before moving to AshevHIe, NC 20 yrs. ago. She survived by nieces and nephews. Private ser was past President of the AshevHIe Symphony vices and entombment Thurs, at Spring Hill Cenv Y Guild, active member of the AshevHIe Art Muse-» etery. Not in state. Memorial contributions to the urn, vetust Study Club, Civjtan International and \ x Milwaukee Alliance for the Mentally III or the a Volunteer at St. Joseph's Hospital, AshevHIe. American Cancer Society appreciated. Memorial contribution may be maae to any of the above organizations. Thos. Shepherd & Son .j GOODMAN-BENSMAN ' ;• Funeral Directors, serving the family. WHITEFISH BAY FUNERAL HOME 4750 N.SANTA MONICA BLVD t-ZZ fX Obituaries MrS. Roy Strickler •Of; 4841 N. «G u m berland blvd., Whitefish B ay, aged 71. Of heart at tack Wednes day in her home." Chair man of the Whitefish Bay election board from 1948 to 1963 and active Mn. Strickler in civic affairs for 40 years, 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 hus band 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 DIV CHARITY LUTHERAN CHURCH, 900 E K Clay from 10 a.m. until time of the corr funeral services at 11 a.m. Private interment SCHMIDT & BARTELT HEIDEN & LANGE 964-3040 WhitefisrrBa'yJ John Schindhelm Mrs, Louise Schinleber Funeral services for John* A resident of the village off Schindhelm, 83, who was bornJ Whitefish Bay for the past 72; and brought up on a farm which," years, Mrs. Lroulse Schinleber, 80,! included the property on which died at the home of her daughter,) IWhitefish Bay High and Henry .Mr«i^W»B^^llIUUaajo#< ,5745 N,{ iciay Grade schools now stand, |ShOjretettd-:*Vfe^^ (were held Wednesday afternoon Pm**Z Sohltiljeb^r ^^boim^ir from Heiden & Lange Funeral Chicago and came: to Whitefish home with burial in the Town Bay at the age of eight, . ;^ of Milwaukee; Union cemetery. ? He died Sundays She*is survived by a daughter^ He was a director of the Green Mrs; B. S. Willman; two, sons; Walter Rhodes, Harland/Iowa, Tree school for 50 years and a and Oris'Rhodes, Wichita, K&n.J member of the Old Settlers club. and one brother, Walter Arnolds! Until seven years ago he ope Chicago, 111. ' . '/M rated a barber shop and a piano and sewing machine shop near Funeral services were held in i Northbrook, 111., at 2 p. m. Tues-1 his home on the Port Washing day, Jan. 20, with burial in North-4 ton road. jj_tf (f"% ! field cemetery, Northbrook, 111.1 The Fred C. Fass and Son Co;* were in charge. Amanda Schleif WHITEFISH BA3ffHERALDS3 Amanda SchleifJZJ Thurs., April 7,^L046^|!ag^ll| V, u fci-L - Y- ' ' •- ' - . • v" • - • k Dies at 75; -ZA'h „., f , * r* (Continued from. Page, 1)^ -; \ . j> vyzz^X?^ . Motion ; requeuing ;JVillage; finance department, winning a Cornniissioner to n^gotfete/^oyl Services Friday ;i citation on the third war loan, winning first place in '193&%if and a certificate of member the Herald Travel- Club-contgatf Memorial services for! Mrs J ship in the ^United |States Serve This took^her on; a ? oruisef to| Amanda Schleif, 75, resident of. ice corps. A ( '..• , ^ jr the Carribean/ :^A: V„ /'^Pl the Bay the past 2.7 years who! Home Campaigner Husband Died in 1938^ died Tuesday at Margo hos-j < Another honor came to her (pital will be held at 4 p.m*] when President'Herbert Hoover Affiliations of Mrs.; Schieif,| .Friday in Plymouth Congre- \ appointed her to the Better whose husband Dr. E.', Schleif $ Rational church* She,lived atl Homes campaign. She was in died in 1932, include: honorary? 4850 N, Oakland ave. ;3£f December 19, 1940 Bay Incorporator Mrs. Mary Jane Consual Scheife, 81, a pioneer resident' of Whitefi&h Bay, who Dies at Age 91 j was a child when Indian scares drove her ; ' Funeral services for Lewis F. parents to seek the safety of the village of Scheife, 91, postmaster of White- Milwaukee, died early Monday at her . fish Bay from 1890 to 1900* horned 6055 -N. Berkeley blvd., Whitefish whp died New Year's day, will Bay, after a short illness* * . bejheld Friday at 1:30 p. m. at Mrs. Scheife was, tjo.rn in a house of logs on a farm in Whitefish Bay on what is now t the Dobrats funeral "\ home/ N. Silver Spring dr., about 100 feet east of Port Washington ave. * Burial N. Lake dr. On Sept 3,. 1862,, she and will be in .Union cemetery, ; three sisters were playing the yard of their ,^/Mr, Scheife had been in popr home when two men on horseback gallop- f health for some time. His home ed up crying that ''the Indians are com ;was at 5055 N, Berkeley blvd. ing/' Hastily a few clothes were tied in, •He was one of the original in sm$U bundles, her mother and a 3 day old , corporators of the Village of baby brother were put into a bed in the J Whitefish Bay, coming to this back of a wagon and the family set off for country from Germany with his %MiQ^l^i Mtf the home of an aunt in Milwaukee. parents as an infant. His parents settled on a farm in the area DEATHS Carl Schober Dies At Age of 78 Years nx \xyfz>\ 'yy~ < ' .->/>-. >yyz ^n^^yzy^ Funeral Services Were Held WHITEFISH BAY HERALD Tuesday;, Was Lithogra Pioneer Dies Thurs., Dec. 24, 1953, Page 3 pher for Ten Years Near Home short times in Chicago and * Funeral services for Carl Schober, \ Milwaukee. Much of her mar- 78, 1034 E. Meadow place, were held 1 Where Bom Tuesday at the Dobrata funeral home, Iried life she lived in the 3514 N. Port Washington avenue, Schober home on N. Kimbark burial was in Evergreen cemetery. pi. Her husband, Carl Scho He died Friday at St. Mary's hospi ber, died more than 15 years tal. ago. He had been one of the Up to his retirement 10 years ago, oldest lithographers in the Mr. Schober had been a lithographer country. for 50 years and was one of the or-, Her nephew, Wynand G. ganizers of the Lithographers' union, I Isenring was treasurer of local No. 7. A native of. Austria, he Whitefish Bay for 18 years. came here 5 years ago. He died more than ten years He is survived by his widow, Mary; |ago. three children, Willa Hoppenrath, Jo Mrs. Schober was born Oct. seph Ramey and Gallus Schober, and 26, 1854, as third oldest child seven grandchildren and two great in the family* More than a grandchildren. I^CUA** +/*>/f//f37& I dozen years ago, she went to live with one of her daugh ters, Mrs. William Hoppen rath, 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. . Funeral services for Grand She was active almost to ma Schober (nee Isenering), the end of her life. Two years 92, member of an early pip [ago! she baked her own birth neer family, were held Mon day cake .and had a merry day afternoon. Nov. 30, at the time with friends who came Dobratz Funeral home, 3514 to call that day. She also con j tinned with her hobby of N. Port Washington rd. with]Jcrochetin g almost to the end.. Steffen; William F. * the Rev. EL R. Blackewell, She never used glasses. Not] Sept. 28,1985. At the Lutheran pastor of Divinity Evangelical even to read and she was an Home for the Aging, toe At the Lutheran church officiating. age of 91 yrs. Beloved father,of ardent reader. To help what Dorothy '(the tote Gtew) Mrs. Schober died Friday. if ailing eyesight she had, she Ltodemann and Wfflam W. used a magnifying glass. (Marilyn) Steffen, i grandchlK Grandma Schober's mother dren, 7 great grandchildren, came to America with her Brother of Gertrvd Sampe, sis- brother and his family of ters4Maw, brothers-in-law, nie seven children. They left a ces, nephews, other relatives ' and friends. Funeral services beautiful home in Holland to i Wed. eve., Oct. 2 at 6:45 pm at come to live in wilderness) i the LuMm Home for the Ag- and in a log cabin and to help I tog, Inc., 7500 W. North Ave. In* expand new frontiers. It was | ferment Graceland. to state 1 from 4 pm Wed. until time of in a log cabin at the foot of 1 services. Member of Gospel Day ave. that Grandma Scho i Lutheran Church. Memorials to ber was born Mary Isenring. \ the Church or the Lutheran Her mother had married Gal-| { Home appreciated.' *•>" las Isenring, whose familyj , HARDER FUNERAL HOME 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] <^>$X**S JvrfUfc 1 Albert F. Steffen ' Fall Causes Death I j Albert F. Steffon, 71, a lifelong ?- I resident of Milwaukee county, died M of Mrs. Schroeder last Saturday at hi3 home, 531 E. Day ave., Whitefish Bay, He was [Fractures Leg on Nov. 13 a retired Chicago and North West and Dies Monday at St. ern road sectlor worker. Surviving Joseph's Hospital are his wife, Bertha,' nee Klein* •> , • « A'" hammer; a son, Alvin; a daugh ,' In good health before fracturing ter; Mrs, Mkhel Thomson;' three her left leg in a fall at her home Noyi ,13, Mrs. Amalia Schroeder, wi brothers, August, Frank and Hen- dow of Christian Schroeder, founder ryyVand; a sister, Mrs.- Louisa of the Chris Schroeder and Son com Voeks. Fuftoral rite* were held'at pany, died Monday at St. Joseph's 2 p. m. Tuesday at the Dobratz hospital. She had celebrated her nine \ehapel, 3514 N. Port Washington tieth birthday in August at the home of her son, Walter, well known hotel rd., with burial in the town of Mlb head and now president.-of the Chris waukee Union cemetery. 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 daugh ter, Mrs. Harry J. Heeb, 6180 N7 Lake drive. For over 70 years, she was a member of the iGrace Luther an church.;.. , Besides her son, Walter, and daugh ter, Mrs. Heeb, she is, survived by another daughter, Miss Ella Schroe^ Whitefish Btfj^Womah* der; another son, Edward, president of the Edward Schroeder Realty and* ^Die«;.A^Sh^lli|K Loan company; two grandchildren* Mrs. Edna Sehiek and Mrs.-August A Mrs* Amelia Schroeder jSchuck^for. P. Mack jr., .and three great-grand many years an active member of the children. First Church of Christ, Scientist/ser-^ Funeral services were held Wed n"g as a reader there, died on Mon nesday afternoon at the Fass chapel, day at her home, 524 E. Day avenue, 3()0.1 N. Oakland avenue, the Rev. Whitefish Bay. She had been ill less William Sauer, pastor of the Grace than a week. She was born in Mil* Dutheran church officiating. Burial waukee. Because of her great love was in Forest Home cemetery. Cor children, Mrs7 Schuck was par ticularly interested Jin the church Sunday school. *A :ZAZ ; ^v;^^' \. She is survived- by" 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 [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 Schroeder, Melvin W. | (Harry) Lelker, Alvin (Marie) f i Born to Eternal Life Sat. Aug. 12,1989, age 80 * and Norman (Hazel) Sonntag. . years. Preceded In death by his wife Gertrude. v Grandfather of James (Pame Beloved father of Dr. Robert (Marcia) Schroeder. la) and Robert Kovach Jr. Fur- , Dear grandfather of Dawn Marie. Dear brother of 7' ther survived by 2 great-grand* William, Lester (Eileen) and Curtis Schroeder. children. Complete services at Further survived oy nieces, nephews, other rela the funeral Home Mon. 7 P.M. tives and friends. Funeral services Tues. Aug. 15 . Private Interment Wisconsin at 10 a.m. a•t th" e FUNERA-«.»ir-p»A«L HOMEUf\k»c . IntermenInformantt • Memorial ParK. Retired White- , Lincoln Memorial Cemetery. Friends may call fish Bay police officer. Mon. 4-8 p.m. Mr. Schroeder was a member of IN STATE MON. 4 PM. • North Shore Congregational Church. FEERICK FUNERAL HOME , FRANZEN, JUNG, KAUFMANN & WEIAND w 2025 E Capitol Dr. Shorewood LEE & KOESKE ASSOCIATES West Appletqn Ave, at North 76th St. im *^f^TC?|$ Mrs. M. Scheife; North Shore | Pioneer, Buried on Thursday Lewis Scheife . Mrs. Mary Jane Consual Scheifo, 81, a pioneer resident of White- Is Dead at 91 fish Bay;4who was a child when Indian scares drove her parents Whitefish Bay Pioneer to seek the safety of the village of Milwaukee, died early Mon Was a Postmaster, Vil day at her home, 5055 N, Berke lage Official ley blvd., Whitefish Bay, after a Lewis F. Scheife, one of the origi short illness, \ Stumpf, Charles J. nal incorporators of the village of Mrs. Scheife' was born in/a , Born to Eternal Life Nov. 0, 1988. Age 91 years. Residence Whitefish Bay and active in the af house of logs on a farm in White- Milwaukee Catholic Home. For fairs of the vil fish Bay on what is now Silver merly of Whitefish Bay. Hus lage for many band of the late Bernice (nee years, d i e d Spring dr., about 100 feet east of vebber). Father of Joan (Rob- . ert) Zimmerman and the late Tuesday. He was N. Lake dr. On Sept. 3, 1?62, John Thomas Sfumpf. Father" 91. Mr. Scheife she and three sisters were playing Waw of Anne Stumpf, brother had suffered a of John Stumpf, brothertn-tow long illness. Hisr in the yard of ^their home when of Ruth, Elizabeth, and Lulsa Vebber. Grandfather of Frank, home was at two men o»n horseback galloped up Daniel, Lillian, and Bernice 5055 N. Berkeley crying that "the Indians are com Stumpf and Patricia Zimmer Mvd* Whitefish man. Further survived by ing." Hastily a few clothes were great-grandchildren, nieces, ay,A.He was tied in small bundles, her mother nephews, other relatives and f brn in Get- w friends. . . many and came and a 3 day old baby brother were Chart* was a former owner of to this country put into a bed in the back of a The Stumpf dothJng store In with his parents ; wagon, and the family set off Milwaukee. as an infant His for the home of an aunt in Mil Mass of Christian Burial Frl., 10 parents were am. at The Milwaukee Catholic early farm set waukee.' V ^ -; 7 .. .' \..,. Home, 2462 N. Prospect Ave. tlers in the area ; The old Lake rd,* now N. Lake Visitation at The Catholic Le*U F, Scheife thatyip n***? Home, Fit from 9 am t» time S& dr., was then a narrow traU of mass. Interment Holy Cross ifishBay. He operated a fish- through the woods, with only a Cemetery. Memorials may be iti£ business under his name there made to The Milwaukee Catho fat many years. He was postmaster few log houses between Silver! lic Home or the charity of your of Whitefish Bay from 1890 to 1900. Spring dr. ^nd the middle of Lake choice. He operated the postpffice in com FEERICK FUNERAL HOME park, where there was a largo 962-8383 bination with a grocery store under •house and a picnic ground popular his name. From 1900 to 1920 he ran, >with Milwaukeeans: a hardware store, also under hisj § The Indian scare only lasted name, on the Silver Spring rd. im Whitefish Bay. rtwo days.; Then the Indians, who He served several terms ajs treas had been camped near Qedarburg, urer of the village. He was also started^fbf Green Bay and tho on the board of trustees of White- Consual family returned home. fish Bay for several years. He was Mrs. Scheife also used to recall a member of the Odd Fellows. feeing Union /soldiers marching Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. through the streets of Milwaukee Olive Lowry, Portland, Ore., and two on their way to flflght in the Civil waukee; a, brother, Frank Consu sons, Waldo, Downey, 111., and Alvin. r ,; : Services will be at 1:30 p. m. Fri war. - . '•' ** ' < * al of Me 1k;l* i*****! IP I Whitefish Bay School Wl Architect Dies at 54 Herbert W. Tullgren, who de signed 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 39c, w few days ago,'for a * vacation> in Texas. '.-•>. OBITUARY He was & member of trie family, pioneer settlers of Milwaukee, Herman A. Uihlein who have been connected with' the brewing Companies here for yeafs. Herman A. Uihlein, 55, of 5270 At one time he was.a director of N. Lake dr., Whitefish Bay, an the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co., in executive of the Ben Hur "Manu which he still had an interest at facturing Co., prominent as a real the time of his death. He was, estate dealer and a patron of mu also connected with a real estate firm and a manufacturing enter sic and the arts,, died Friday at prise at Fond du L»ac. San Antonio, Tex. Mr. Uihlein was born here, the Death was caused by a cerebral son of Henry and Helene Uihlein. hemorrhage, according to word He was a graduate of Cornell uni received by the family Friday versity in mechanical engineering, night. He had left Milwaukee a and then studied law for two years at the Columbia university, law school. He had • always dis 3/4 *//*** played an intense interest in mu1- sic, and his. generosity was cred ited with making possible the Mil waukee Philharmonic orchestra. He had been a member of the Chi Psi college fraternity; the Wisconsin club; the Milwaukee Athletic club; the American So ciety of Mechanical Engineers and the Society of American Automo bile 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. (3*3) X j Il4f i ^ A> Z\ \v>- 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 Tues day, were conducted this afternoon at 2 p. m. from Fass funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland avenue. Burial was in Wisconsin Memorial Park ceme tery. She was 59 years old. \ Mrs. Volkmann, the wife of Wil liam 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 hus band, 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 Fow ler of Gary, InoV, Mrs. Edna Willis of Rhame, N. D„ and Mrs. Winifred Dl Vail of Mlddleton, Wis. 1% J*/ Lived Here Since 1915 Z f :He'left off riewspapering to I Bays Former 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 Clerk Dies f longer a printer, he retained £ his membership in the Milwau- | kee Typographical union, being At Age 76 ! a member for almost 60 years. | Ten years previously he had*vm*-^_r, mfH | moyecV to his^ own home at! 4611 N. Bartlett^v^Helwas| // £"• William H, Voikman ^Vpart time clerk from .1910, tot 1925."';.;,y:Ai>yZZA^ZAA07Z^ Served Village for , I^'"His private life included mar> 30 Years triage to Zella Sanger of Wau- zeka, Wis. They were married William H. Volkmann, 76, Dec. 31, 1899 in the parsonage who had been Whitefish Bay's < of the Methodist church, which village clerk for 30 years, re stood where the Schroeder ho tiring in, 1946, died Monday at tel now rises skyward. Mrs. Veterans hospital, i/Wood, Wis. i Volkmann died Sept. 3, 1935. \ He had been ill $ for several jj..Of this marriage there ; were; \ years. • I two • daughters and a Ison: Mrs. Funeral services were held '•'• Harriet M. Hagerty, 105 E. v Wednesday evening by the i Green Tree rd., Mrs. Drusilla Hugh McGrath camp, Spanish Morgan, Shawano, Wis., and } American War Veterans at y. William K. Volkmann, Sans Fred C. Fass & Son Co. funeral home, 3601 N. Oakland ave., Jose, Calif, He is also survived and the following day under by two sisters, Mrs, Dora Jeschke and Miss Hilda 'Volk 7 masonic . auspices.v -by..:.„ Silver I Spring lodge. Interment was^ in mann, Madison, Wis. ;_.Z I Wisconsin Memorial park. ^A'A^Z 'Past Master Zy'-'" Until his retirement,' Volk A 32nd degree mason, Volk mann had come to he an in- mann was long active in ma ' stitutlon in the village. Retiring sonic work. He was a past mas at 72/ he served as jclerk under ter of Silver Spring Lodge 337, t eight.'" presidents: \ Frank C. F. & A.M., a member of the Klode, Dr. A. J. Richter, H. A. Wisconsin Consistory and Trip : Uihlein, Edward L. Tracy, Har- oli temple, a veteran of the \ old Knoernschild and Dr. Frank Spanish American War, Fra '- E. • Drew. Klode /served as ternal Order of Eagles, Mod ;.. president from 1914r1918 and ern Woodmen of America and \ again from 1924-1934. the Whitefish Bay "Meet Your. It was on a single- vote that Neighbor" club. Volkmann became the village's In announcing his decision to part-time clerk when the popu- retire four years ago, Volk- \ lation was but slightly more ~m¥rin * wf 6£e * tfie" V&fage^lroard than 500 and the tax rate, as follows: $10.56. He secured ' 83 votes, * . "It is with feelings of pro \ his opponent 82. found regret that I sever these Watched Bay Grow ties, which to me throughout During 30 years behind the the years have at all times been clerk's desk he watched White- most pleasant. I feel that in fish Bay grow to a population living up to the letter of the df about 11,000, almost 20 times law set forth under the Wiscon the 1910 census. Its tax rate sin Municipal * Retirement Act, tripled and the year before his I can act no different. However, retirement the rate was fixed I wish to thank each and every at $32.19—including schools. one of you for making it pos An old newspaperman, facts sible, as an elected offical, to participate in the benefits to and figures were always grist ** to his mill and kept the crow's be derived from the Wisconsin WHITEFISH BAT WEiRArn Municipal Retirement fund." feet of advancing years from •>»aw-16 - Frl.. July Ti: 1950,1 leaving their mark upon his Under Pension Plan genial face. Born In Watertown, The village board put the ; Wis., in 1873, he came to Mil village clerk and treasurer un waukee in 1891 to become a der the retirement fund along { printer with the Milwaukee with other village employes I Journal, then located on Mason Jan. ; 1, 1945. His retirement I st., opposite the old Sentinel pay was about $110. His pay • building. He moved with the had been $250. . The village Journal to the Montgomery board had unanimously voted '7 building, Michigan and Mil- j to certify him for office, despite z waukee sts. his , age, should he decide to seek re-election. He was deeply // appreciative of this. . ^A~J >AZZ ^'-A^A'x.:^ ,. A • •' k •••••'."•' •'••••••'* w A fill I f ^ He 'left off newspaperlng to Center1 job printing "with the "i'S. E. Tate Printing Co., re s' maining with this firm until i Dec.'31, 1925. Even though no I longer a printer, he retained lies J his membership in the Milwau- 5 kee Typographical union, being i a member for almost 60 years. i •'• Ten years previously he hadrvvmr-c^^v^r—^^ At Age 76 imoved Vhis own home at 4611 ,N. Bartlett w#^M-- ^part-time clerk from 1910. toi 1925. -v^r^r'^^ 9 William H; Voikman |l f^'His" private life Included mar> . Served Village for iriage to Zella Sanger of Wau- ? 30 Years •; • zeka, Wis. They were married Dec. 31, 1899 in the parsonage William H. Volkmann, 76, ,of the Methodist church, which who had been Whitefish Bay's stood where the Schroeder ho village clerk for 30 years, re tel now rises skyward. Mrs. tiring in, 1946, ^ed Monday at . Volkmann died Sept. 3,, 1935. Veterans hospital, VX\ 7i completed two years of pre- [Whitefish Bay Lieut. medical work at the University of Wisconsin when he enlisted I Listed Dead by Navy for naval reserve training at Northwestern university* He was IY:'.-'V , • ''A-''_ married April, 1942, to Annette i Reported missing in action on Helen Vogel, daughter of the AU Aug. 23, 1942, Lieut, (j.g.) Jus bert Vogels, 3160 N. 52nd st.; tin L. Wolff, son of Mr. and Mrs. who now lives in Sail Diego/, Louis Wolf, 4819 N. Cumberland Calif. -•> - >\r_ ^ : .--; * blvd^, has now been listed as Besides his wife and parents," dead by the navy department. he is survived by a brother; Lieut. Wolff was communica Richard E., of Seattle, Wash., tions officer . of the destroyer and two sisters, Mrs. Beety Bau- Obituary A I U.S.S. Ingraham which sank man, West Bend, and Mrs. Rob when it was rammed by a tanker ert Dew, Cleveland, Ohio. • - 1 J. Louis Wolff, 90, .former during a heavy fog. The destroy pwner of Gillett & Co., died er had been ordered to the aid ot. Oct. 12th at his home, at 4819 a distressed merchant ship. N*. Cumberland blvd. ^ , { Lieut. * Wolff > was born in( * Born in Eagle, Wis., he ar Whitefish Bay, Feb. 17, 1920,| rived here as a child ahd was and was graduated from the lo-^ a member of Westminister cal high school in 1937. He had UzAJUbd Presbyterian church. > t His son, Justin. L., was tilled in service as a com munications 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 Mon day at the Feerick funeral lome, 2025 E. Capitol dr., Burial was in Pinelawn ceme- ^S^P^HfS? W'H%lit*z :••••••' George L* Weber 5 ; George L Weber\ 65, for -40 i° I n/its'7 (jears a resident of Milwaukee county, died Sunday at his home, 828 E. Glen avenue Funeral ser tytuubd vices 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 mem ber 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 \^LuA4vf/^^fi'/:zZzA '.3& \ V Whitefish Bay Neighbors 1 Waldner, Louis, ^ ^ I "th2yb J^n0nf9a/9i^r^ Be,oved husband of/ m? Jatl^nna Waldner. Dear father of Hflma ; Menard) Carabajal and the late George (CarS) i JftSiST*?? ^ 9 grandchildren, 8 great grand- Found Dead in Hoijies • 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 Demmon Westover, 74, Mrs. B. A. Marlett Shoe Service in Whitefish Bay. ' ay SCHHAMKAfUNErtALHOIvlE 7 '., i Succumb to Natural Causes; Coronet 7841 W. Appleton Ave; -•£<*•. Goes From One House to the Next Two neighbors in Whitefish Bay, the lake to the home of his son, who had bid each other the time Thomas R. Westover, on Birch of day often, were found dead av. Surviving are another son, Clai within- a few minutes of each other ence; two sisters, one brother and Tuesday. Both deaths were ftfom a grandchild,. natural causes. Z . Mrs. Mariettas home originally They were Demmon Westover, 74, was in Minneapolis. She came to of 805 E. Birch av./and Mrs. Mar Milwaukee 11 years vagp following ion Marlett, 46, of 817 E. Birch av. her marriage to MrV Marlett. Sur Mr. Westover collapsed and died viving besides. her husband are at his home. Dr. Edwin B. Gute, three sisters in Minneapolis. health commissioner of Whitefish Bay who had pronounced him dead, j 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 I yu^) .^a^^ 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. Mar lett dead. The coroner's deputies followed him to the Marlett home. Both bodies were taken to the Heiden & Lange undertaking es tablishment 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 £» fa *//?*/ 3$$ 1>«3 and proprietor occupations were listed for • Family Income. The median family in-yh^ 51.7 percent in 1950,45.7 percent in 1970 and come in Whitefish Bay increased from \jOo 49.9 percent in 1980. $6,074 in 1949 (1950 census) to $32,198 ih 1979 Salesworkers made up 16.9 percent of the (1980 census). Report outlines Whitefish Bay work ffirce in 1950, and 15.5 Of the 4,371 family income units in 1979, percent in 1980. x 933, or 21.3 percent had incomes of $50,000 or A dramatic increase occurred, however, 1 more. Approximately 68^ percent ot in the number of Whitefish Bay women \ Whitefish Bay families had incomes of working outside the home during that j $25,000 or more in 1979. period. Between 1950 and 1980, that number 1 (Until the 1980 census, the top income aging of village increased 176 percent, from 15 percent of all \ category in census reports was $25,000 or female residents in 1950 to 40 percent in more.) ••'*••• - creased, the proportion of children has 1980. By Mary Schuchmann 1 v • Education. Whitefish Bay residents dropped. In 1940, ,the age group from 0-19 During the same period, the number of were better educated in 1980 than they were The aging of the suburbs is clearly docu years comprised 36 percent of the village Whitefish Bay males in the labor force re 30 years before. s . •• mented in a report on Whitefish Bay's population; in 1980, it was 29.9 percent. mained about the same. In 1980,52.6 percent of the population had changing population presented to the School More striking, perhaps, is the increase in • Housing. The number of rental housing completed four or more years of college; in Board last week by Superintendent of the older age category, mentioned earlier. units in Whitefish Bay has increased ; 1950, the figure was 29.6 percent. Schools Lee Rieck. Both trends have meant an increase in the steadily since 1950. ..'-'•• The percentage of residents who did not In 1940, senior citizens (those 60 years of ' median age in Whitefish Bay. Between 1950 In 1980, 1,060 rental units were listed for finish high school decreased from 23.2 to 6 age and older) made up about 6 percent of and 1980, the median age of female resi Whitefish Bay, compared to 464 in 1950. ; percent during that time. ^ the village population of 9,651. Forty years dents increased from 33.6 to 36.9 years of According to the census information, the ; • Mobility. Whitefish Bay residents ap later, in 1980, that same group comprised age. For males, the increase was from 32.8L median monthly rent was $270. Rieck said j pear to be slightly less mobile than 20 years 19.7 percent of the village's 14,930 residents. to 33.9 years. school officials had expected that figure to ago. According to the data, 31.8 percent of Those comparisons—and many more- The 1980 census reported 790 widows and be higher. j Whitefish Bay residents had lived in the^ are based on Rieck's detailed study of U.S. 109 widowers living in Whitefish Bay. The number of owner-occupied homes in- j same house for five years or more. In 1970, census information -for the years 1940 • Minority Population. Since 1950, the creased from 3,691 in 19504o 4,440- in1980. j the figure was 34.3 percent, and in 1950, it j through 1980, done as a part of thef district's black population in Whitefish Bay has more TheT median value of single-family homes was 36.1 percent. ; i long-range planning studies. than doubled, yet it still remains a very quadrupled during that time, from $18,904 in Age shifts. Increases in single-family small percentage of the total count (47 per^ 1950 to $81,500 in 1980. households, separations and divorces, ren sons—less than .4 percent in 1980), Rieck The largest jump in value occurred dur tal housing, minority residents, working noted. ing the last decade, when the median price wojnen. Decreases in household size. Little The census data for the past 30 years more than doubled (from $31,300 in 1970 to i change in the kinds of jobs held by village shows a larger percentage gain for residents. All those statistics are included Hispanics and those listed simply as $81,500 in 1980). in Rieck's report. "other" in census records. The number of Total housing units increased from 4,272 Rieck told the School Board his study residents of Spanish origin increased from 2 in 1950 to 5,588 in 1980. X turned up "nothing particularly surprising" in 1950 to 79 in 1980. • Household Size. Whitefish Bay's aging about the characteristics of Whitefish Bay. The category called "other" increased population is reflected in a significant j • •- "Most of us could have predicted what we from 5 to 140 in that 30-year period. change in household size over the past 30 \ found," he said. Rieck said it was not clear whether the in years. The data "helped confirm many of the crease represented actual gains or simply The number of one- and two-person house- | things we suspected," he said. "It helped us more sophisticated census-gathering tech holds increased 188 percent between 1950 j to document many ofthe things we felt were niques. and 1980, while the number of four- and five- happening." • Marital Status. In 1980, about 16 percent person households decreased by 25 percent. If anything, Rieck said, the numbers pro of school-age children in Whitefish Bay The average household size in Whitefish vided by the census tables showed some lived in single-parent households. The num - Bay in 1980 was 2.7 persons. population trends were even stronger than ber included 259 households with a female i In the last census, 19.2 of Whitefish Bay's > believed. as the head, with no husband present, and 36 5,515 occupied housing units were one-per As an example, he cited the increase in headed by a male with no wife present. son units. Another 34.9 percent were two- the percentage of older residents in No figures are available for comparison person units. Whitefish Bay. "We all knew what was hap with earlier years, Rieck said, because cen pening," he said, "but we didn't know the sus data on household type was not col extent to which it was happening." lected before 1980. Among the statistics presented to the • Employment. No significant changes in School Board: the occupations of Whitefish Bay residents • Population. Whitefish Bay's population were evident in the past 30 years, according lecreased 18.8 percent between 1960 and to the report. 1980, while public school enrollment Professional, managerial, administrative leclined 24.9 percent. As the number of older residents has in tf
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