GEORGE KROEHNKE, a brother of the late Walter Kroehnke of this city, died in a Milwaukee hospital Sunday morning, where he had submitted to an operation for ulcers of the stomach June 6. The body was returned to his home in Wabeno Monday, where funeral services were held in Ambrose church Tuesday, With Rev. H. Halinde officiating. The remains were conveyed by hearse to New Holstein, the home of his birth, Tuesday afternoon where burial took place in the Catholic Cemetery.
George Kroehnke was born in New Holstein Jan. 1, 1879. He spent his boyhood in that city and was identified with its Turnverein, memories of which connection he often rehearsed with satisfaction in later life. In his young manhood he worked for a time in this city, at Forest Junction and at Hilbert. He took a course in telegraphy at an Oshkosh school and in 1895 obtained a position with the Milwaukee road as a station employee. His first service in this capacity was done at Saukville where he spent three years. Later he was transferred to Elkhart Lake and from there to Hilbert where he remained only a short time.
In 1902 he severed his connection with the Milwaukee road and took a position on the North Western line at Windy, Mich. From there he went to Iron Mountain to serve as station cashier for two years. His next charge was station agent at Vulcan which position he occupied ten years. He left Vulcan for Brillion, where he spent eight months when in 1915, he received the appointment as agent at Wabeno There he served the North Western road until the time of his death.
Mr. Kroehnke married Miss Josephine Albrecht at Saukville August 4, 1903, a union in which the resulting congeniality and happiness was ever conspicuous.
Mr. Kroehnke was all his life a lover of the outdoors. He was an excellent marksman who never failed to get a thrill out of the sport of hunting, whether in pursuit of deer, rabbits or birds. He was equally addicted to fishing and in late years found much of his summer recreational pleasure in casting for trout. The health building qualities of these activities appealed to him no less than the sport itself.
His favorite indoor pastime was to be found around the billiard table in his own attractive home at Wabeno. His zeal for the game led to the development of skill which placed him in the forefront of local competitors. But success of failure in work or in play never married the uniformly fine, genial, gentlemanly qualities of George Kroehnke’s demeanor.
He enjoyed excellent health up to last winter when an attack of illness required him to leave this work for several weeks. A subsequent X-ray examination reveiled a condition which he was advised, could be remedied only by a operation or a severe course in dieting over a long period. He choose the former alternative with fatal result. Several days before the end came he sensed its approach and exhibited a spirit of resignation and a freedom from fear or worry about the impending crisis which impressed those in attendance on him as remarkable.
Mr. Kroehnke is survived by his wife; one brother, Oscar Kroehnke, of Ottawa, Ill.; four sisters, Mrs. Victor Lewis, Lorraine, O.; Mrs. G. Eilts, White River, S. Dak.; and Mrs. Joseph Leonard, New Holstein. His death is the fourth in the family in a period of less than a year. His sister, Mrs. Alice Piper, died June 23, 1930; a brother, Walter, died in this city a week later, June 30, and his mother, Mrs. H. Kroehnke died Nov. 30.
Chilton Times – June 18, 1931
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George Kroehnke was born in New Holstein Jan. 1, 1879. He spent his boyhood in that city and was identified with its Turnverein, memories of which connection he often rehearsed with satisfaction in later life. In his young manhood he worked for a time in this city, at Forest Junction and at Hilbert. He took a course in telegraphy at an Oshkosh school and in 1895 obtained a position with the Milwaukee road as a station employee. His first service in this capacity was done at Saukville where he spent three years. Later he was transferred to Elkhart Lake and from there to Hilbert where he remained only a short time.
In 1902 he severed his connection with the Milwaukee road and took a position on the North Western line at Windy, Mich. From there he went to Iron Mountain to serve as station cashier for two years. His next charge was station agent at Vulcan which position he occupied ten years. He left Vulcan for Brillion, where he spent eight months when in 1915, he received the appointment as agent at Wabeno There he served the North Western road until the time of his death.
Mr. Kroehnke married Miss Josephine Albrecht at Saukville August 4, 1903, a union in which the resulting congeniality and happiness was ever conspicuous.
Mr. Kroehnke was all his life a lover of the outdoors. He was an excellent marksman who never failed to get a thrill out of the sport of hunting, whether in pursuit of deer, rabbits or birds. He was equally addicted to fishing and in late years found much of his summer recreational pleasure in casting for trout. The health building qualities of these activities appealed to him no less than the sport itself.
His favorite indoor pastime was to be found around the billiard table in his own attractive home at Wabeno. His zeal for the game led to the development of skill which placed him in the forefront of local competitors. But success of failure in work or in play never married the uniformly fine, genial, gentlemanly qualities of George Kroehnke’s demeanor.
He enjoyed excellent health up to last winter when an attack of illness required him to leave this work for several weeks. A subsequent X-ray examination reveiled a condition which he was advised, could be remedied only by a operation or a severe course in dieting over a long period. He choose the former alternative with fatal result. Several days before the end came he sensed its approach and exhibited a spirit of resignation and a freedom from fear or worry about the impending crisis which impressed those in attendance on him as remarkable.
Mr. Kroehnke is survived by his wife; one brother, Oscar Kroehnke, of Ottawa, Ill.; four sisters, Mrs. Victor Lewis, Lorraine, O.; Mrs. G. Eilts, White River, S. Dak.; and Mrs. Joseph Leonard, New Holstein. His death is the fourth in the family in a period of less than a year. His sister, Mrs. Alice Piper, died June 23, 1930; a brother, Walter, died in this city a week later, June 30, and his mother, Mrs. H. Kroehnke died Nov. 30.
Chilton Times – June 18, 1931
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GEORGE KROEHNKE, a brother of the late Walter Kroehnke of this city, died in a Milwaukee hospital Sunday morning, where he had submitted to an operation for ulcers of the stomach June 6. The body was returned to his home in Wabeno Monday, where funeral services were held in Ambrose church Tuesday, With Rev. H. Halinde officiating. The remains were conveyed by hearse to New Holstein, the home of his birth, Tuesday afternoon where burial took place in the Catholic Cemetery.
George Kroehnke was born in New Holstein Jan. 1, 1879. He spent his boyhood in that city and was identified with its Turnverein, memories of which connection he often rehearsed with satisfaction in later life. In his young manhood he worked for a time in this city, at Forest Junction and at Hilbert. He took a course in telegraphy at an Oshkosh school and in 1895 obtained a position with the Milwaukee road as a station employee. His first service in this capacity was done at Saukville where he spent three years. Later he was transferred to Elkhart Lake and from there to Hilbert where he remained only a short time.
In 1902 he severed his connection with the Milwaukee road and took a position on the North Western line at Windy, Mich. From there he went to Iron Mountain to serve as station cashier for two years. His next charge was station agent at Vulcan which position he occupied ten years. He left Vulcan for Brillion, where he spent eight months when in 1915, he received the appointment as agent at Wabeno There he served the North Western road until the time of his death.
Mr. Kroehnke married Miss Josephine Albrecht at Saukville August 4, 1903, a union in which the resulting congeniality and happiness was ever conspicuous.
Mr. Kroehnke was all his life a lover of the outdoors. He was an excellent marksman who never failed to get a thrill out of the sport of hunting, whether in pursuit of deer, rabbits or birds. He was equally addicted to fishing and in late years found much of his summer recreational pleasure in casting for trout. The health building qualities of these activities appealed to him no less than the sport itself.
His favorite indoor pastime was to be found around the billiard table in his own attractive home at Wabeno. His zeal for the game led to the development of skill which placed him in the forefront of local competitors. But success of failure in work or in play never married the uniformly fine, genial, gentlemanly qualities of George Kroehnke’s demeanor.
He enjoyed excellent health up to last winter when an attack of illness required him to leave this work for several weeks. A subsequent X-ray examination reveiled a condition which he was advised, could be remedied only by a operation or a severe course in dieting over a long period. He choose the former alternative with fatal result. Several days before the end came he sensed its approach and exhibited a spirit of resignation and a freedom from fear or worry about the impending crisis which impressed those in attendance on him as remarkable.
Mr. Kroehnke is survived by his wife; one brother, Oscar Kroehnke, of Ottawa, Ill.; four sisters, Mrs. Victor Lewis, Lorraine, O.; Mrs. G. Eilts, White River, S. Dak.; and Mrs. Joseph Leonard, New Holstein. His death is the fourth in the family in a period of less than a year. His sister, Mrs. Alice Piper, died June 23, 1930; a brother, Walter, died in this city a week later, June 30, and his mother, Mrs. H. Kroehnke died Nov. 30.
Chilton Times – June 18, 1931
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George Kroehnke was born in New Holstein Jan. 1, 1879. He spent his boyhood in that city and was identified with its Turnverein, memories of which connection he often rehearsed with satisfaction in later life. In his young manhood he worked for a time in this city, at Forest Junction and at Hilbert. He took a course in telegraphy at an Oshkosh school and in 1895 obtained a position with the Milwaukee road as a station employee. His first service in this capacity was done at Saukville where he spent three years. Later he was transferred to Elkhart Lake and from there to Hilbert where he remained only a short time.
In 1902 he severed his connection with the Milwaukee road and took a position on the North Western line at Windy, Mich. From there he went to Iron Mountain to serve as station cashier for two years. His next charge was station agent at Vulcan which position he occupied ten years. He left Vulcan for Brillion, where he spent eight months when in 1915, he received the appointment as agent at Wabeno There he served the North Western road until the time of his death.
Mr. Kroehnke married Miss Josephine Albrecht at Saukville August 4, 1903, a union in which the resulting congeniality and happiness was ever conspicuous.
Mr. Kroehnke was all his life a lover of the outdoors. He was an excellent marksman who never failed to get a thrill out of the sport of hunting, whether in pursuit of deer, rabbits or birds. He was equally addicted to fishing and in late years found much of his summer recreational pleasure in casting for trout. The health building qualities of these activities appealed to him no less than the sport itself.
His favorite indoor pastime was to be found around the billiard table in his own attractive home at Wabeno. His zeal for the game led to the development of skill which placed him in the forefront of local competitors. But success of failure in work or in play never married the uniformly fine, genial, gentlemanly qualities of George Kroehnke’s demeanor.
He enjoyed excellent health up to last winter when an attack of illness required him to leave this work for several weeks. A subsequent X-ray examination reveiled a condition which he was advised, could be remedied only by a operation or a severe course in dieting over a long period. He choose the former alternative with fatal result. Several days before the end came he sensed its approach and exhibited a spirit of resignation and a freedom from fear or worry about the impending crisis which impressed those in attendance on him as remarkable.
Mr. Kroehnke is survived by his wife; one brother, Oscar Kroehnke, of Ottawa, Ill.; four sisters, Mrs. Victor Lewis, Lorraine, O.; Mrs. G. Eilts, White River, S. Dak.; and Mrs. Joseph Leonard, New Holstein. His death is the fourth in the family in a period of less than a year. His sister, Mrs. Alice Piper, died June 23, 1930; a brother, Walter, died in this city a week later, June 30, and his mother, Mrs. H. Kroehnke died Nov. 30.
Chilton Times – June 18, 1931
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