GUSTAVE BOHRER, 81, OF CROWN AVENUE IS DEAD; BURIAL TO BE SATURDAY
AGED SOUTH SCRANTON RESIDENT WAS RETIRED EMPLOYE OF LACKAWANNA RAILROAD SHOPS.
One of South Scranton's oldest and mostly widely known residents, Gustave Bohrer, 1001 Crown Avenue, was taken by death yesterday afternoon at the family home after an illness. He was eighty-one years old.
Mr. Bohrer was a native of Germany and came to this country as a young man. He had been employed at the Keyser Valley Shops of the Lackawanna Railroad prior to his retirement.
The deceased was a member of the Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Workingmen's Society.
Surviving are his wife, the former Bertha Lenz; seven daughters, Mrs. Edward Bennett and Mrs. Ernest Engelhardt, Scranton; Mrs. Charles Braunwell, Weehauken, N. J., and Louise, Charlotte, Anna and Bertha, at home; two sons, Gustave Jr. and William C., Scranton, and eight grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon with a prayer service at the home at 2 o'clock and additional services at 2:30 o'clock in Trinity Church. Rev. Braynard Kurkowski will officiate. Burial will be in Dunmore Cemetery.
Published in The Times-Tribune on February 14, 1946.
GUSTAVE BOHRER, 81, OF CROWN AVENUE IS DEAD; BURIAL TO BE SATURDAY
AGED SOUTH SCRANTON RESIDENT WAS RETIRED EMPLOYE OF LACKAWANNA RAILROAD SHOPS.
One of South Scranton's oldest and mostly widely known residents, Gustave Bohrer, 1001 Crown Avenue, was taken by death yesterday afternoon at the family home after an illness. He was eighty-one years old.
Mr. Bohrer was a native of Germany and came to this country as a young man. He had been employed at the Keyser Valley Shops of the Lackawanna Railroad prior to his retirement.
The deceased was a member of the Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church, the Knights of the Golden Eagle and the Workingmen's Society.
Surviving are his wife, the former Bertha Lenz; seven daughters, Mrs. Edward Bennett and Mrs. Ernest Engelhardt, Scranton; Mrs. Charles Braunwell, Weehauken, N. J., and Louise, Charlotte, Anna and Bertha, at home; two sons, Gustave Jr. and William C., Scranton, and eight grandchildren.
The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon with a prayer service at the home at 2 o'clock and additional services at 2:30 o'clock in Trinity Church. Rev. Braynard Kurkowski will officiate. Burial will be in Dunmore Cemetery.
Published in The Times-Tribune on February 14, 1946.
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