When Alma C. Eliza Kettler was born on August 18, 1885, in New Bremen, Ohio, her father, Albert, was 25 and her mother, Lizzie, was 21. She had one sister, Bertha, who died at the age of eleven from lung fever (pneumonia) when Alma was fifteen, and one brother, Walter, who was fourteen years younger than her.
She married Frederick John Niemeyer on September 27, 1906, in her hometown of New Bremen, Ohio. Shortly afterwards, they moved to Monroeville, Indiana where Fred ran a department store with his brother, Cornelius, and a friend, John Heinfeldt, and Alma tended to the home. They had three children: Frederick, Carlton and Betty.
In 1923, after business dwindled at the store, they moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where Fred started his own insurance company. Alma was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the St. Lukes Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, a church which Fred helped to establish.
She died of a heart attack at 11:50am on April 8, 1946 at her home on 319 Kinnaird Avenue, Fort Wayne , Indiana, at the age of 60. Services were held three days later at St. Lukes Lutheran Church, and Alma was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
She married Frederick John Niemeyer on September 27, 1906, in her hometown of New Bremen, Ohio. Shortly afterwards, they moved to Monroeville, Indiana where Fred ran a department store with his brother, Cornelius, and a friend, John Heinfeldt, and Alma tended to the home. They had three children: Frederick, Carlton and Betty.
In 1923, after business dwindled at the store, they moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where Fred started his own insurance company. Alma was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the St. Lukes Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, a church which Fred helped to establish.
She died of a heart attack at 11:50am on April 8, 1946 at her home on 319 Kinnaird Avenue, Fort Wayne , Indiana, at the age of 60. Services were held three days later at St. Lukes Lutheran Church, and Alma was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
When Alma C. Eliza Kettler was born on August 18, 1885, in New Bremen, Ohio, her father, Albert, was 25 and her mother, Lizzie, was 21. She had one sister, Bertha, who died at the age of eleven from lung fever (pneumonia) when Alma was fifteen, and one brother, Walter, who was fourteen years younger than her.
She married Frederick John Niemeyer on September 27, 1906, in her hometown of New Bremen, Ohio. Shortly afterwards, they moved to Monroeville, Indiana where Fred ran a department store with his brother, Cornelius, and a friend, John Heinfeldt, and Alma tended to the home. They had three children: Frederick, Carlton and Betty.
In 1923, after business dwindled at the store, they moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where Fred started his own insurance company. Alma was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the St. Lukes Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, a church which Fred helped to establish.
She died of a heart attack at 11:50am on April 8, 1946 at her home on 319 Kinnaird Avenue, Fort Wayne , Indiana, at the age of 60. Services were held three days later at St. Lukes Lutheran Church, and Alma was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
She married Frederick John Niemeyer on September 27, 1906, in her hometown of New Bremen, Ohio. Shortly afterwards, they moved to Monroeville, Indiana where Fred ran a department store with his brother, Cornelius, and a friend, John Heinfeldt, and Alma tended to the home. They had three children: Frederick, Carlton and Betty.
In 1923, after business dwindled at the store, they moved to Fort Wayne, Indiana where Fred started his own insurance company. Alma was a member of the Ladies Aid Society of the St. Lukes Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, a church which Fred helped to establish.
She died of a heart attack at 11:50am on April 8, 1946 at her home on 319 Kinnaird Avenue, Fort Wayne , Indiana, at the age of 60. Services were held three days later at St. Lukes Lutheran Church, and Alma was buried in Greenlawn Cemetery in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
