BERTHA MUELLER BUNKE
FOURTH NATIVE WHITE CHILD IS DEAD AT AGE 83
Mrs. Bunke’s Funeral Will Be Held Saturday At The Lutheran Church
Mrs. Bertha Mueller Bunke is dead.
Two Rivers’ fourth native born white child, and a member of one of the most
prominent families in the early history of the city, died in her eighty-fourth
year at her home on North Jefferson street at 11:15 o’clock Wednesday night.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock from the
Wiebusch & Klein chapel and at two o’clock from St. John’s Lutheran church of
which she was a devout member for many years. The Rev. W. G. Haase will officiate.
Interment will be at Pioneers’ Rest cemetery. The body will remain in the funeral
home.
Mrs. Bunke, nee Bertha Mueller, was born in Two Rivers at the foot of 16th street,
opposite the old Niquette ___, on November 13, 1849. She was a daughter of the
late Edward and Johanna Mueller who immigrated to this country from Chemnitz,
Saxony, Germany, in 1849. Her father, a chemist in his native Chemnitz, founded
the first brewery in Two Rivers soon after his arrival here, which later was
operated by his sons, Richard E. and Edward, brothers of Mrs. Bunke, and still
later passed down to the Richard E.’s sons, Charles E. and Edwin R. Mueller. The
plant passed from the Mueller family early in 1915, after more than 65 years of
operation and prominence.
Mrs. Bunke’s father, who saw a brewing plant expand to one of the largest and best
known along the west shore, also took an active interest in civic affairs, holding
the town chairmanship in 1860 and in 1867.
Husband Dead
The well known late resident was married to Fred Bunke, also a native of the
southside of the city in 1889, and he preceded her in death thirty years ago.
Survivors are three nieces and three nephews. They are two sons and a daughter of
the late R.E. Mueller, Charles E. and Edwin R.Mueller, both of this city, and Mrs.
W. S. Bremer of Milwaukee, and two daughters, and a son of the late Edward Mueller,
Mrs. John Denhof of Detroit and Mrs. William Kettering of Lamont, Ill., and Lewis F.
Mueller of Chicago.
She was also a niece of the late Frederick Borcherdt, editor of the old Manitowoc
Pilot, who died while serving as United States counsel to Italy during President
Grant’s Administration.
Manitowoc Herald Times, February 23, 1933 P.9
FOURTH NATIVE WHITE CHILD IS DEAD AT AGE 83
Mrs. Bunke’s Funeral Will Be Held Saturday At The Lutheran Church
Mrs. Bertha Mueller Bunke is dead.
Two Rivers’ fourth native born white child, and a member of one of the most
prominent families in the early history of the city, died in her eighty-fourth
year at her home on North Jefferson street at 11:15 o’clock Wednesday night.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock from the
Wiebusch & Klein chapel and at two o’clock from St. John’s Lutheran church of
which she was a devout member for many years. The Rev. W. G. Haase will officiate.
Interment will be at Pioneers’ Rest cemetery. The body will remain in the funeral
home.
Mrs. Bunke, nee Bertha Mueller, was born in Two Rivers at the foot of 16th street,
opposite the old Niquette ___, on November 13, 1849. She was a daughter of the
late Edward and Johanna Mueller who immigrated to this country from Chemnitz,
Saxony, Germany, in 1849. Her father, a chemist in his native Chemnitz, founded
the first brewery in Two Rivers soon after his arrival here, which later was
operated by his sons, Richard E. and Edward, brothers of Mrs. Bunke, and still
later passed down to the Richard E.’s sons, Charles E. and Edwin R. Mueller. The
plant passed from the Mueller family early in 1915, after more than 65 years of
operation and prominence.
Mrs. Bunke’s father, who saw a brewing plant expand to one of the largest and best
known along the west shore, also took an active interest in civic affairs, holding
the town chairmanship in 1860 and in 1867.
Husband Dead
The well known late resident was married to Fred Bunke, also a native of the
southside of the city in 1889, and he preceded her in death thirty years ago.
Survivors are three nieces and three nephews. They are two sons and a daughter of
the late R.E. Mueller, Charles E. and Edwin R.Mueller, both of this city, and Mrs.
W. S. Bremer of Milwaukee, and two daughters, and a son of the late Edward Mueller,
Mrs. John Denhof of Detroit and Mrs. William Kettering of Lamont, Ill., and Lewis F.
Mueller of Chicago.
She was also a niece of the late Frederick Borcherdt, editor of the old Manitowoc
Pilot, who died while serving as United States counsel to Italy during President
Grant’s Administration.
Manitowoc Herald Times, February 23, 1933 P.9
BERTHA MUELLER BUNKE
FOURTH NATIVE WHITE CHILD IS DEAD AT AGE 83
Mrs. Bunke’s Funeral Will Be Held Saturday At The Lutheran Church
Mrs. Bertha Mueller Bunke is dead.
Two Rivers’ fourth native born white child, and a member of one of the most
prominent families in the early history of the city, died in her eighty-fourth
year at her home on North Jefferson street at 11:15 o’clock Wednesday night.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock from the
Wiebusch & Klein chapel and at two o’clock from St. John’s Lutheran church of
which she was a devout member for many years. The Rev. W. G. Haase will officiate.
Interment will be at Pioneers’ Rest cemetery. The body will remain in the funeral
home.
Mrs. Bunke, nee Bertha Mueller, was born in Two Rivers at the foot of 16th street,
opposite the old Niquette ___, on November 13, 1849. She was a daughter of the
late Edward and Johanna Mueller who immigrated to this country from Chemnitz,
Saxony, Germany, in 1849. Her father, a chemist in his native Chemnitz, founded
the first brewery in Two Rivers soon after his arrival here, which later was
operated by his sons, Richard E. and Edward, brothers of Mrs. Bunke, and still
later passed down to the Richard E.’s sons, Charles E. and Edwin R. Mueller. The
plant passed from the Mueller family early in 1915, after more than 65 years of
operation and prominence.
Mrs. Bunke’s father, who saw a brewing plant expand to one of the largest and best
known along the west shore, also took an active interest in civic affairs, holding
the town chairmanship in 1860 and in 1867.
Husband Dead
The well known late resident was married to Fred Bunke, also a native of the
southside of the city in 1889, and he preceded her in death thirty years ago.
Survivors are three nieces and three nephews. They are two sons and a daughter of
the late R.E. Mueller, Charles E. and Edwin R.Mueller, both of this city, and Mrs.
W. S. Bremer of Milwaukee, and two daughters, and a son of the late Edward Mueller,
Mrs. John Denhof of Detroit and Mrs. William Kettering of Lamont, Ill., and Lewis F.
Mueller of Chicago.
She was also a niece of the late Frederick Borcherdt, editor of the old Manitowoc
Pilot, who died while serving as United States counsel to Italy during President
Grant’s Administration.
Manitowoc Herald Times, February 23, 1933 P.9
FOURTH NATIVE WHITE CHILD IS DEAD AT AGE 83
Mrs. Bunke’s Funeral Will Be Held Saturday At The Lutheran Church
Mrs. Bertha Mueller Bunke is dead.
Two Rivers’ fourth native born white child, and a member of one of the most
prominent families in the early history of the city, died in her eighty-fourth
year at her home on North Jefferson street at 11:15 o’clock Wednesday night.
Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon at 1:45 o’clock from the
Wiebusch & Klein chapel and at two o’clock from St. John’s Lutheran church of
which she was a devout member for many years. The Rev. W. G. Haase will officiate.
Interment will be at Pioneers’ Rest cemetery. The body will remain in the funeral
home.
Mrs. Bunke, nee Bertha Mueller, was born in Two Rivers at the foot of 16th street,
opposite the old Niquette ___, on November 13, 1849. She was a daughter of the
late Edward and Johanna Mueller who immigrated to this country from Chemnitz,
Saxony, Germany, in 1849. Her father, a chemist in his native Chemnitz, founded
the first brewery in Two Rivers soon after his arrival here, which later was
operated by his sons, Richard E. and Edward, brothers of Mrs. Bunke, and still
later passed down to the Richard E.’s sons, Charles E. and Edwin R. Mueller. The
plant passed from the Mueller family early in 1915, after more than 65 years of
operation and prominence.
Mrs. Bunke’s father, who saw a brewing plant expand to one of the largest and best
known along the west shore, also took an active interest in civic affairs, holding
the town chairmanship in 1860 and in 1867.
Husband Dead
The well known late resident was married to Fred Bunke, also a native of the
southside of the city in 1889, and he preceded her in death thirty years ago.
Survivors are three nieces and three nephews. They are two sons and a daughter of
the late R.E. Mueller, Charles E. and Edwin R.Mueller, both of this city, and Mrs.
W. S. Bremer of Milwaukee, and two daughters, and a son of the late Edward Mueller,
Mrs. John Denhof of Detroit and Mrs. William Kettering of Lamont, Ill., and Lewis F.
Mueller of Chicago.
She was also a niece of the late Frederick Borcherdt, editor of the old Manitowoc
Pilot, who died while serving as United States counsel to Italy during President
Grant’s Administration.
Manitowoc Herald Times, February 23, 1933 P.9
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