OBITUARY - "Watertown Daily Times", Aug. 18, 1938 - Fred C. Krohmer Dies; Funeral To Be Saturday Fred C. Krohmer, 210 Jones street, died last evening at his home. He had been ill for some time and for the past three weeks was confined to bed. He was born February 2, 1867, in Watertown, at the same place where his death occurred last night. His parents were Mr. & Mrs. Gustave Krohmer. His father was a Civil war veteran, serving four years in the army and in the fall of 1868, following his return, moved his family to New Lisbon where Mr. Krohmer grew up.
Mr. Krohmer was a cigar-maker by trade and also spent about ten years in the logging and cranberry industry in Wisconsin. He also spent a decade in farming and for several years lived in Chicago. In 1925, at the request of his aunts, the late Mrs. Caroline Meinhardt and the late Mrs. Anna Roth, he and his wife returned to Watertown to care for them in their declining years. In recent years, Mr. Krohmer had worked here, his last place of employment, prior to his illness, being with Arthur E. Gehrke.
His sole survivor is his wife, the former Louise Halverson. Out of a family of six children, Mr. Krohmer was the first to pass away, the survivors being three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Frieda Reynolds and Miss Louise Krohmer, New Lisbon; Mrs. Edward Meredith, Mauston; George Krohmer, Iron Mountain, Mich., and Gustave Krohmer, New Lisbon.
The funeral will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Nowack funeral home, the Rev. Arthur E. Schwarze, of the Moravian Church officiating. Burial will be in Rio, Wis. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturday up to the time of the service.
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Mr. Krohmer was a cigar-maker by trade and also spent about ten years in the logging and cranberry industry in Wisconsin. He also spent a decade in farming and for several years lived in Chicago. In 1925, at the request of his aunts, the late Mrs. Caroline Meinhardt and the late Mrs. Anna Roth, he and his wife returned to Watertown to care for them in their declining years. In recent years, Mr. Krohmer had worked here, his last place of employment, prior to his illness, being with Arthur E. Gehrke.
His sole survivor is his wife, the former Louise Halverson. Out of a family of six children, Mr. Krohmer was the first to pass away, the survivors being three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Frieda Reynolds and Miss Louise Krohmer, New Lisbon; Mrs. Edward Meredith, Mauston; George Krohmer, Iron Mountain, Mich., and Gustave Krohmer, New Lisbon.
The funeral will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Nowack funeral home, the Rev. Arthur E. Schwarze, of the Moravian Church officiating. Burial will be in Rio, Wis. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturday up to the time of the service.
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OBITUARY - "Watertown Daily Times", Aug. 18, 1938 - Fred C. Krohmer Dies; Funeral To Be Saturday Fred C. Krohmer, 210 Jones street, died last evening at his home. He had been ill for some time and for the past three weeks was confined to bed. He was born February 2, 1867, in Watertown, at the same place where his death occurred last night. His parents were Mr. & Mrs. Gustave Krohmer. His father was a Civil war veteran, serving four years in the army and in the fall of 1868, following his return, moved his family to New Lisbon where Mr. Krohmer grew up.
Mr. Krohmer was a cigar-maker by trade and also spent about ten years in the logging and cranberry industry in Wisconsin. He also spent a decade in farming and for several years lived in Chicago. In 1925, at the request of his aunts, the late Mrs. Caroline Meinhardt and the late Mrs. Anna Roth, he and his wife returned to Watertown to care for them in their declining years. In recent years, Mr. Krohmer had worked here, his last place of employment, prior to his illness, being with Arthur E. Gehrke.
His sole survivor is his wife, the former Louise Halverson. Out of a family of six children, Mr. Krohmer was the first to pass away, the survivors being three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Frieda Reynolds and Miss Louise Krohmer, New Lisbon; Mrs. Edward Meredith, Mauston; George Krohmer, Iron Mountain, Mich., and Gustave Krohmer, New Lisbon.
The funeral will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Nowack funeral home, the Rev. Arthur E. Schwarze, of the Moravian Church officiating. Burial will be in Rio, Wis. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturday up to the time of the service.
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Mr. Krohmer was a cigar-maker by trade and also spent about ten years in the logging and cranberry industry in Wisconsin. He also spent a decade in farming and for several years lived in Chicago. In 1925, at the request of his aunts, the late Mrs. Caroline Meinhardt and the late Mrs. Anna Roth, he and his wife returned to Watertown to care for them in their declining years. In recent years, Mr. Krohmer had worked here, his last place of employment, prior to his illness, being with Arthur E. Gehrke.
His sole survivor is his wife, the former Louise Halverson. Out of a family of six children, Mr. Krohmer was the first to pass away, the survivors being three sisters and two brothers, Mrs. Frieda Reynolds and Miss Louise Krohmer, New Lisbon; Mrs. Edward Meredith, Mauston; George Krohmer, Iron Mountain, Mich., and Gustave Krohmer, New Lisbon.
The funeral will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Nowack funeral home, the Rev. Arthur E. Schwarze, of the Moravian Church officiating. Burial will be in Rio, Wis. Friends may call at the funeral home on Friday from 3 to 9 p.m. and Saturday up to the time of the service.
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