Edmund Wilhelm Giesbert was born in Germany, the son of Julius and Amelia Dewes Giesbert. He was a professor of art at the Chicago Art Institute, University of Chicago and a known artist of portraits and still life.
Edmund married Miss Frances Proudfoot on January 29, 1929 in Chicago, Ill. The couple were the parents of Frederick Julius Giesbert (1920-1979) and Edmund Francis Giesbert/Ed Gilbert (the actor) (1931-1999).
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"Edmund W. Giesbert
THREE OAKS- Friends of Edmund W. Giesbert, 78, of Harbert, who died at 11:55 p.m. Thursday at the Shoreham, Terrace Nursing Home, St. Joseph, may call from 3 to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Connelly-Noble funeral home here. Memorial services are to be held later at the University of Chicago, Chicago. Mr. Giesbert was a retired professor of art at the Chicago Art Institute at the University of Chicago.
He was born in Germany on June 1, 1893. He was married in Chicago on Jan. 29, 1929, to Frances Proudfoot, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Frederick J., of Normandy, France, and Edmund F., of Beverly Hills Cain.; six grandchildren; and two sisters, and a brother, all of Neuwied-on-the-Rhine, Germany. Mr. Giesbert had been a resident of Harbert since 1941, coming from Chicago." From The South Bend Tribune, November 13, 1971, page 3.
Edmund married Miss Frances Proudfoot on January 29, 1929 in Chicago, Ill. The couple were the parents of Frederick Julius Giesbert (1920-1979) and Edmund Francis Giesbert/Ed Gilbert (the actor) (1931-1999).
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"Edmund W. Giesbert
THREE OAKS- Friends of Edmund W. Giesbert, 78, of Harbert, who died at 11:55 p.m. Thursday at the Shoreham, Terrace Nursing Home, St. Joseph, may call from 3 to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Connelly-Noble funeral home here. Memorial services are to be held later at the University of Chicago, Chicago. Mr. Giesbert was a retired professor of art at the Chicago Art Institute at the University of Chicago.
He was born in Germany on June 1, 1893. He was married in Chicago on Jan. 29, 1929, to Frances Proudfoot, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Frederick J., of Normandy, France, and Edmund F., of Beverly Hills Cain.; six grandchildren; and two sisters, and a brother, all of Neuwied-on-the-Rhine, Germany. Mr. Giesbert had been a resident of Harbert since 1941, coming from Chicago." From The South Bend Tribune, November 13, 1971, page 3.
Edmund Wilhelm Giesbert was born in Germany, the son of Julius and Amelia Dewes Giesbert. He was a professor of art at the Chicago Art Institute, University of Chicago and a known artist of portraits and still life.
Edmund married Miss Frances Proudfoot on January 29, 1929 in Chicago, Ill. The couple were the parents of Frederick Julius Giesbert (1920-1979) and Edmund Francis Giesbert/Ed Gilbert (the actor) (1931-1999).
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"Edmund W. Giesbert
THREE OAKS- Friends of Edmund W. Giesbert, 78, of Harbert, who died at 11:55 p.m. Thursday at the Shoreham, Terrace Nursing Home, St. Joseph, may call from 3 to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Connelly-Noble funeral home here. Memorial services are to be held later at the University of Chicago, Chicago. Mr. Giesbert was a retired professor of art at the Chicago Art Institute at the University of Chicago.
He was born in Germany on June 1, 1893. He was married in Chicago on Jan. 29, 1929, to Frances Proudfoot, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Frederick J., of Normandy, France, and Edmund F., of Beverly Hills Cain.; six grandchildren; and two sisters, and a brother, all of Neuwied-on-the-Rhine, Germany. Mr. Giesbert had been a resident of Harbert since 1941, coming from Chicago." From The South Bend Tribune, November 13, 1971, page 3.
Edmund married Miss Frances Proudfoot on January 29, 1929 in Chicago, Ill. The couple were the parents of Frederick Julius Giesbert (1920-1979) and Edmund Francis Giesbert/Ed Gilbert (the actor) (1931-1999).
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"Edmund W. Giesbert
THREE OAKS- Friends of Edmund W. Giesbert, 78, of Harbert, who died at 11:55 p.m. Thursday at the Shoreham, Terrace Nursing Home, St. Joseph, may call from 3 to 1 p.m. Sunday at the Connelly-Noble funeral home here. Memorial services are to be held later at the University of Chicago, Chicago. Mr. Giesbert was a retired professor of art at the Chicago Art Institute at the University of Chicago.
He was born in Germany on June 1, 1893. He was married in Chicago on Jan. 29, 1929, to Frances Proudfoot, who survives. Also surviving are two sons, Frederick J., of Normandy, France, and Edmund F., of Beverly Hills Cain.; six grandchildren; and two sisters, and a brother, all of Neuwied-on-the-Rhine, Germany. Mr. Giesbert had been a resident of Harbert since 1941, coming from Chicago." From The South Bend Tribune, November 13, 1971, page 3.
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