OLIVER R. MCMULLEN

Oliver McMullen Dies in Michigan
Oliver R. McMullen, 74, veteran retired marine contractor and head of the
McMullen and Pitz Construction company here for years, died Tuesday at Stambough,
Michigan. In recent years he was engaged in the summer resort business at Fay
Lake, Wis.
Funeral services for Mr. McMullen will be held at the Frazier Mortuary chapel at
2 pm Saturday. The Rev. Paul Blaufuss will officiate and interment will be in
Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. McMullen was born at Claybanks, Wis. In 1876 and married Lillian Peterson
there in 1902. He was connected with U.S. Government engineers in harbor
construction work on Lake Michigan. In 1907 he moved to this city and became
associated with the late Arthur Pitz in the McMullen and Pitz Construction company.
This marine firm built Eighth and Tenth Street bridges in this city and did dock
work for numerous private companies along both shores of Lake Michigan. He retired
from the company in 1926 and moved first to Long Lake in Florence County where he
acquired much lake frontage and built several cottages.
Survivors are his wife; three sons, Walter and Ronald of Florence, Wis., Oliver Jr.
of Milwaukee; eight daughters, Mrs. Robert Wells, Mrs. Donald Altmeyer of Sheboygan
Falls, Mrs. Melvin Auman of Fay Lake, Mrs. Philip Gehloff of Florence, Mrs. Robert
Beaver of Evanston, Ill., Mrs. Clark Bjerke of Culver City, Calif., Mrs. Lee
Beyersdorff, enroute to Germany and Miss Shirley McMullen of Rockford; two brothers,
Charles of Gardenia, Calif., and George of Temperance, Mich.; 26 grandchildren and
six great grandchildren.
Friends may call at the mortuary after 11 am Saturday. The body is lying in state
at the funeral home in Florence, Wis., today and Friday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Thurs., Aug. 10, 1950 page 7
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[d. 08-08-1950 at Iron-Stambaugh, MI/age 74 yrs./
cause: heart block-myocarditis hypertension]