Mike Koch, 80, of Rt. 1, Mishicot, a lifelong resident of the Mishicot area, a farmer for 36 years and a former insurance underwriter, died early Sunday morning at St. Mary home, Manitowoc, where he resided for a month.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Lambert Funeral Home and at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Mishicot. Officiating will be Bishop Mark Schmitt, assisted by the Rev. Michael Koch, a son, and the Revs. David Koch, grandson, Earl Brouchard, Donald Feller and John Hemphner. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Mishicot.
Mr. Koch was born on the homestead farm in the Town of Mishicot, May 4, 1893, son of the late Michael and Anna Leonhard Koch. He attended Holy Cross Parochial School and St. Norbert College, DePere. He was secretary-treasurer of Holy Cross Cemetery Assn., Mishicot, for 41 years and served for 10 years insurance agent for Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. He was a member of Holy Cross Name Society. He married Thoede Stoneman at Mishicot Nov. 9, 1914.
Besides his wife he leaves seven daughters, Mrs. Lester Mach, Mrs. Earl Martin and Mrs. Dorothy Basten, of Two Rivers, Mrs. T.A. Gorny, of Villa Park, Ill., Mrs. William Boring, of Streamwood, Ill., Mrs. Edward Geiger, of Kaukauna and Mrs. Richard Ploeckelman, of Rt. 1, Mishicot; three other sons, Vincent, of Wausau, DePaul, of Milton, Pa., and Aloysius, of Rt. 1, Mishicot, and a foster son, Elmer Koch, of Rt. 2, Two Rivers; a sister, Mrs. Eva Kadow, of Englewood, Colo.; 40 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren.
Friends may call at Deja & Martin Funeral Chapels, Two Rivers, from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, where a memorial service will be at 8 p.m. The casket will be removed to the Lambert Funeral Home at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Herald Times Reporter, Monday, March 11, 1974 P.18
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FAMILY/PARENTING GUIDE
Twins oldest living of babies born at Manitowoc hospital
Baptized at Holy Family, Koch brothers, now 84, had not been expected to live
By Joanne Flemming
Compass correspondent
Thanks to an appeal in "The Compass" earlier this year, Holy Family Memorial Hospital in Manitowoc has located the oldest living baby born in the hospital. As an added bonus, that honor goes to twins.
Vincent and DePaul Koch were born on Feb. 27, 1915. Now 84, DePaul lives in Menasha and Vincent lives in Sheboygan Falls. Their parents were Michael and Phoebe Stoneman Koch of Mishicot.
According to Vincent, his father, Michael, 21, was a farmer and Phoebe, 20, was a housewife. Their home was an 80-acre farm near the present-day Fox Hills. His mother was hospitalized about two months before their birth because she was sick during her pregnancy, Vincent added.
Dr. C. M. Gleason delivered the boys 10 minutes apart. Vincent, weighing four pounds was born a 7:30 p.m. Four and a half pound DePaul came at 7:40 p.m. Because the babies were so small and not expected to live, Sr. Vincentine, the delivery nurse, decided to baptize them. The parents hadn't picked out names yet, so Sr. Vincentine, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity which sponsors the hospital, named them after her patron saint. The oldest became Vincent and the ymungest, DePaul.
Phoebe remained hospitalized for another two months before she took her children home.
Vincent said that there is no record of the bill for their stay."How Father paid (it), I don't know but he paid everything."
Vincent and DePaul were the first of 11 children , and the oldest of four boys. One of the other two is Fr. Michael Koch, who serves as chaplain for the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother in Oshkosh. The Kochs also adopted a first cousin, Elmer, after his mother died.
Mary Jane Geiger, the twins' younger sister, remember the family as "being real close (if) one needed help, we all helped each other."
"Dad was a motivator," Vincent said. "He motivated everybody."
Besides farmily, Michael sold Catholic Knights' insurance and even s sponsored a baseball team.
Mary Jane recalls her mother as easygoing and hardworking. "She never complained. She said,
"We all have our crosses to bear in life. Never grumble about the cross you have to carry." She also credited her ability to raise her 12 children to her devotion to Mary.
Fr. David Koch, pastor of St. Margaret Mary Church in Neenah, says his father, DePaul, likes to reminisce about life on the farm. The priest has heard him describe how wind whistled through the cracks in he house in winter. He talks about the fun times as well, like sleeping in the barn in summer.
Vincent and DePaul attended Holy Cross School in Mishicot. Their sister remembers their mother calling them "regular renegades." When asked what she meant, Phoebe replied: ""when they were in school, you couldn't tell them apart, and they'd drive the teachers out of their minds. They were in so much mischief."
The boys later attended Mishicot High School But before they could enroll, Vincent said they and other Catholic school students were required to take tests at the courthouse.
Two other Koch children were in the same high school class with the twins: Elmer and Eva, their oldest sister. All four graduated in 1933. The three boys played basketball in high school.
Vincent and DePaul went to work inn a dairy. Later, at 22, Vincent managed a grocery store. The two held similar jobs all their lives. DePaul worked 45 years as a plant manager for the same company in Wisconsin and other states. Vincent ended up as an occupational manager with McKesson Corporation.
DePaul and his wife, Bernadette, had seven children, all born at Holy Family. Vincent and his first wife, Rita, had six. The first five were born at Holy Family, the youngest was born in Sheboygan. Rita died a year later. Her sister, Eileen was a nurse and helped out with the children. Vincent later married her.
Sr. Donna Koch, who works at the Norbertine Spirituality Center in DePere, calls her father, Vincent, "a man of great faith and trust in God.' He still enjoys delivering weekly homilies to his children, she added.
Mary Jane says that people can now tell the twins apart by the personalities. She described Vincent as "happy-go-lucky" and DePaul as more serious.
DePaul summarized his philosophy : " I take life as it comes. If there is joy involved, we enjoyed it. If there is sorrow, we go along with it, too"
The Compass, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Nov. 5, 1999 p. 4-A
Contributor: GornyLuka (48643104)
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Lambert Funeral Home and at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Mishicot. Officiating will be Bishop Mark Schmitt, assisted by the Rev. Michael Koch, a son, and the Revs. David Koch, grandson, Earl Brouchard, Donald Feller and John Hemphner. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Mishicot.
Mr. Koch was born on the homestead farm in the Town of Mishicot, May 4, 1893, son of the late Michael and Anna Leonhard Koch. He attended Holy Cross Parochial School and St. Norbert College, DePere. He was secretary-treasurer of Holy Cross Cemetery Assn., Mishicot, for 41 years and served for 10 years insurance agent for Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. He was a member of Holy Cross Name Society. He married Thoede Stoneman at Mishicot Nov. 9, 1914.
Besides his wife he leaves seven daughters, Mrs. Lester Mach, Mrs. Earl Martin and Mrs. Dorothy Basten, of Two Rivers, Mrs. T.A. Gorny, of Villa Park, Ill., Mrs. William Boring, of Streamwood, Ill., Mrs. Edward Geiger, of Kaukauna and Mrs. Richard Ploeckelman, of Rt. 1, Mishicot; three other sons, Vincent, of Wausau, DePaul, of Milton, Pa., and Aloysius, of Rt. 1, Mishicot, and a foster son, Elmer Koch, of Rt. 2, Two Rivers; a sister, Mrs. Eva Kadow, of Englewood, Colo.; 40 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren.
Friends may call at Deja & Martin Funeral Chapels, Two Rivers, from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, where a memorial service will be at 8 p.m. The casket will be removed to the Lambert Funeral Home at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Herald Times Reporter, Monday, March 11, 1974 P.18
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FAMILY/PARENTING GUIDE
Twins oldest living of babies born at Manitowoc hospital
Baptized at Holy Family, Koch brothers, now 84, had not been expected to live
By Joanne Flemming
Compass correspondent
Thanks to an appeal in "The Compass" earlier this year, Holy Family Memorial Hospital in Manitowoc has located the oldest living baby born in the hospital. As an added bonus, that honor goes to twins.
Vincent and DePaul Koch were born on Feb. 27, 1915. Now 84, DePaul lives in Menasha and Vincent lives in Sheboygan Falls. Their parents were Michael and Phoebe Stoneman Koch of Mishicot.
According to Vincent, his father, Michael, 21, was a farmer and Phoebe, 20, was a housewife. Their home was an 80-acre farm near the present-day Fox Hills. His mother was hospitalized about two months before their birth because she was sick during her pregnancy, Vincent added.
Dr. C. M. Gleason delivered the boys 10 minutes apart. Vincent, weighing four pounds was born a 7:30 p.m. Four and a half pound DePaul came at 7:40 p.m. Because the babies were so small and not expected to live, Sr. Vincentine, the delivery nurse, decided to baptize them. The parents hadn't picked out names yet, so Sr. Vincentine, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity which sponsors the hospital, named them after her patron saint. The oldest became Vincent and the ymungest, DePaul.
Phoebe remained hospitalized for another two months before she took her children home.
Vincent said that there is no record of the bill for their stay."How Father paid (it), I don't know but he paid everything."
Vincent and DePaul were the first of 11 children , and the oldest of four boys. One of the other two is Fr. Michael Koch, who serves as chaplain for the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother in Oshkosh. The Kochs also adopted a first cousin, Elmer, after his mother died.
Mary Jane Geiger, the twins' younger sister, remember the family as "being real close (if) one needed help, we all helped each other."
"Dad was a motivator," Vincent said. "He motivated everybody."
Besides farmily, Michael sold Catholic Knights' insurance and even s sponsored a baseball team.
Mary Jane recalls her mother as easygoing and hardworking. "She never complained. She said,
"We all have our crosses to bear in life. Never grumble about the cross you have to carry." She also credited her ability to raise her 12 children to her devotion to Mary.
Fr. David Koch, pastor of St. Margaret Mary Church in Neenah, says his father, DePaul, likes to reminisce about life on the farm. The priest has heard him describe how wind whistled through the cracks in he house in winter. He talks about the fun times as well, like sleeping in the barn in summer.
Vincent and DePaul attended Holy Cross School in Mishicot. Their sister remembers their mother calling them "regular renegades." When asked what she meant, Phoebe replied: ""when they were in school, you couldn't tell them apart, and they'd drive the teachers out of their minds. They were in so much mischief."
The boys later attended Mishicot High School But before they could enroll, Vincent said they and other Catholic school students were required to take tests at the courthouse.
Two other Koch children were in the same high school class with the twins: Elmer and Eva, their oldest sister. All four graduated in 1933. The three boys played basketball in high school.
Vincent and DePaul went to work inn a dairy. Later, at 22, Vincent managed a grocery store. The two held similar jobs all their lives. DePaul worked 45 years as a plant manager for the same company in Wisconsin and other states. Vincent ended up as an occupational manager with McKesson Corporation.
DePaul and his wife, Bernadette, had seven children, all born at Holy Family. Vincent and his first wife, Rita, had six. The first five were born at Holy Family, the youngest was born in Sheboygan. Rita died a year later. Her sister, Eileen was a nurse and helped out with the children. Vincent later married her.
Sr. Donna Koch, who works at the Norbertine Spirituality Center in DePere, calls her father, Vincent, "a man of great faith and trust in God.' He still enjoys delivering weekly homilies to his children, she added.
Mary Jane says that people can now tell the twins apart by the personalities. She described Vincent as "happy-go-lucky" and DePaul as more serious.
DePaul summarized his philosophy : " I take life as it comes. If there is joy involved, we enjoyed it. If there is sorrow, we go along with it, too"
The Compass, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Nov. 5, 1999 p. 4-A
Contributor: GornyLuka (48643104)
Mike Koch, 80, of Rt. 1, Mishicot, a lifelong resident of the Mishicot area, a farmer for 36 years and a former insurance underwriter, died early Sunday morning at St. Mary home, Manitowoc, where he resided for a month.
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Lambert Funeral Home and at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Mishicot. Officiating will be Bishop Mark Schmitt, assisted by the Rev. Michael Koch, a son, and the Revs. David Koch, grandson, Earl Brouchard, Donald Feller and John Hemphner. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Mishicot.
Mr. Koch was born on the homestead farm in the Town of Mishicot, May 4, 1893, son of the late Michael and Anna Leonhard Koch. He attended Holy Cross Parochial School and St. Norbert College, DePere. He was secretary-treasurer of Holy Cross Cemetery Assn., Mishicot, for 41 years and served for 10 years insurance agent for Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. He was a member of Holy Cross Name Society. He married Thoede Stoneman at Mishicot Nov. 9, 1914.
Besides his wife he leaves seven daughters, Mrs. Lester Mach, Mrs. Earl Martin and Mrs. Dorothy Basten, of Two Rivers, Mrs. T.A. Gorny, of Villa Park, Ill., Mrs. William Boring, of Streamwood, Ill., Mrs. Edward Geiger, of Kaukauna and Mrs. Richard Ploeckelman, of Rt. 1, Mishicot; three other sons, Vincent, of Wausau, DePaul, of Milton, Pa., and Aloysius, of Rt. 1, Mishicot, and a foster son, Elmer Koch, of Rt. 2, Two Rivers; a sister, Mrs. Eva Kadow, of Englewood, Colo.; 40 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren.
Friends may call at Deja & Martin Funeral Chapels, Two Rivers, from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, where a memorial service will be at 8 p.m. The casket will be removed to the Lambert Funeral Home at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Herald Times Reporter, Monday, March 11, 1974 P.18
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FAMILY/PARENTING GUIDE
Twins oldest living of babies born at Manitowoc hospital
Baptized at Holy Family, Koch brothers, now 84, had not been expected to live
By Joanne Flemming
Compass correspondent
Thanks to an appeal in "The Compass" earlier this year, Holy Family Memorial Hospital in Manitowoc has located the oldest living baby born in the hospital. As an added bonus, that honor goes to twins.
Vincent and DePaul Koch were born on Feb. 27, 1915. Now 84, DePaul lives in Menasha and Vincent lives in Sheboygan Falls. Their parents were Michael and Phoebe Stoneman Koch of Mishicot.
According to Vincent, his father, Michael, 21, was a farmer and Phoebe, 20, was a housewife. Their home was an 80-acre farm near the present-day Fox Hills. His mother was hospitalized about two months before their birth because she was sick during her pregnancy, Vincent added.
Dr. C. M. Gleason delivered the boys 10 minutes apart. Vincent, weighing four pounds was born a 7:30 p.m. Four and a half pound DePaul came at 7:40 p.m. Because the babies were so small and not expected to live, Sr. Vincentine, the delivery nurse, decided to baptize them. The parents hadn't picked out names yet, so Sr. Vincentine, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity which sponsors the hospital, named them after her patron saint. The oldest became Vincent and the ymungest, DePaul.
Phoebe remained hospitalized for another two months before she took her children home.
Vincent said that there is no record of the bill for their stay."How Father paid (it), I don't know but he paid everything."
Vincent and DePaul were the first of 11 children , and the oldest of four boys. One of the other two is Fr. Michael Koch, who serves as chaplain for the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother in Oshkosh. The Kochs also adopted a first cousin, Elmer, after his mother died.
Mary Jane Geiger, the twins' younger sister, remember the family as "being real close (if) one needed help, we all helped each other."
"Dad was a motivator," Vincent said. "He motivated everybody."
Besides farmily, Michael sold Catholic Knights' insurance and even s sponsored a baseball team.
Mary Jane recalls her mother as easygoing and hardworking. "She never complained. She said,
"We all have our crosses to bear in life. Never grumble about the cross you have to carry." She also credited her ability to raise her 12 children to her devotion to Mary.
Fr. David Koch, pastor of St. Margaret Mary Church in Neenah, says his father, DePaul, likes to reminisce about life on the farm. The priest has heard him describe how wind whistled through the cracks in he house in winter. He talks about the fun times as well, like sleeping in the barn in summer.
Vincent and DePaul attended Holy Cross School in Mishicot. Their sister remembers their mother calling them "regular renegades." When asked what she meant, Phoebe replied: ""when they were in school, you couldn't tell them apart, and they'd drive the teachers out of their minds. They were in so much mischief."
The boys later attended Mishicot High School But before they could enroll, Vincent said they and other Catholic school students were required to take tests at the courthouse.
Two other Koch children were in the same high school class with the twins: Elmer and Eva, their oldest sister. All four graduated in 1933. The three boys played basketball in high school.
Vincent and DePaul went to work inn a dairy. Later, at 22, Vincent managed a grocery store. The two held similar jobs all their lives. DePaul worked 45 years as a plant manager for the same company in Wisconsin and other states. Vincent ended up as an occupational manager with McKesson Corporation.
DePaul and his wife, Bernadette, had seven children, all born at Holy Family. Vincent and his first wife, Rita, had six. The first five were born at Holy Family, the youngest was born in Sheboygan. Rita died a year later. Her sister, Eileen was a nurse and helped out with the children. Vincent later married her.
Sr. Donna Koch, who works at the Norbertine Spirituality Center in DePere, calls her father, Vincent, "a man of great faith and trust in God.' He still enjoys delivering weekly homilies to his children, she added.
Mary Jane says that people can now tell the twins apart by the personalities. She described Vincent as "happy-go-lucky" and DePaul as more serious.
DePaul summarized his philosophy : " I take life as it comes. If there is joy involved, we enjoyed it. If there is sorrow, we go along with it, too"
The Compass, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Nov. 5, 1999 p. 4-A
Contributor: GornyLuka (48643104)
Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Lambert Funeral Home and at 11 a.m. at Holy Cross Catholic Church, Mishicot. Officiating will be Bishop Mark Schmitt, assisted by the Rev. Michael Koch, a son, and the Revs. David Koch, grandson, Earl Brouchard, Donald Feller and John Hemphner. Burial will be in Holy Cross Cemetery, Mishicot.
Mr. Koch was born on the homestead farm in the Town of Mishicot, May 4, 1893, son of the late Michael and Anna Leonhard Koch. He attended Holy Cross Parochial School and St. Norbert College, DePere. He was secretary-treasurer of Holy Cross Cemetery Assn., Mishicot, for 41 years and served for 10 years insurance agent for Catholic Knights of Wisconsin. He was a member of Holy Cross Name Society. He married Thoede Stoneman at Mishicot Nov. 9, 1914.
Besides his wife he leaves seven daughters, Mrs. Lester Mach, Mrs. Earl Martin and Mrs. Dorothy Basten, of Two Rivers, Mrs. T.A. Gorny, of Villa Park, Ill., Mrs. William Boring, of Streamwood, Ill., Mrs. Edward Geiger, of Kaukauna and Mrs. Richard Ploeckelman, of Rt. 1, Mishicot; three other sons, Vincent, of Wausau, DePaul, of Milton, Pa., and Aloysius, of Rt. 1, Mishicot, and a foster son, Elmer Koch, of Rt. 2, Two Rivers; a sister, Mrs. Eva Kadow, of Englewood, Colo.; 40 grandchildren, and 17 great grandchildren.
Friends may call at Deja & Martin Funeral Chapels, Two Rivers, from 3:30 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, where a memorial service will be at 8 p.m. The casket will be removed to the Lambert Funeral Home at 8 a.m. Wednesday.
Herald Times Reporter, Monday, March 11, 1974 P.18
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FAMILY/PARENTING GUIDE
Twins oldest living of babies born at Manitowoc hospital
Baptized at Holy Family, Koch brothers, now 84, had not been expected to live
By Joanne Flemming
Compass correspondent
Thanks to an appeal in "The Compass" earlier this year, Holy Family Memorial Hospital in Manitowoc has located the oldest living baby born in the hospital. As an added bonus, that honor goes to twins.
Vincent and DePaul Koch were born on Feb. 27, 1915. Now 84, DePaul lives in Menasha and Vincent lives in Sheboygan Falls. Their parents were Michael and Phoebe Stoneman Koch of Mishicot.
According to Vincent, his father, Michael, 21, was a farmer and Phoebe, 20, was a housewife. Their home was an 80-acre farm near the present-day Fox Hills. His mother was hospitalized about two months before their birth because she was sick during her pregnancy, Vincent added.
Dr. C. M. Gleason delivered the boys 10 minutes apart. Vincent, weighing four pounds was born a 7:30 p.m. Four and a half pound DePaul came at 7:40 p.m. Because the babies were so small and not expected to live, Sr. Vincentine, the delivery nurse, decided to baptize them. The parents hadn't picked out names yet, so Sr. Vincentine, a member of the Franciscan Sisters of Christian Charity which sponsors the hospital, named them after her patron saint. The oldest became Vincent and the ymungest, DePaul.
Phoebe remained hospitalized for another two months before she took her children home.
Vincent said that there is no record of the bill for their stay."How Father paid (it), I don't know but he paid everything."
Vincent and DePaul were the first of 11 children , and the oldest of four boys. One of the other two is Fr. Michael Koch, who serves as chaplain for the Sisters of the Sorrowful Mother in Oshkosh. The Kochs also adopted a first cousin, Elmer, after his mother died.
Mary Jane Geiger, the twins' younger sister, remember the family as "being real close (if) one needed help, we all helped each other."
"Dad was a motivator," Vincent said. "He motivated everybody."
Besides farmily, Michael sold Catholic Knights' insurance and even s sponsored a baseball team.
Mary Jane recalls her mother as easygoing and hardworking. "She never complained. She said,
"We all have our crosses to bear in life. Never grumble about the cross you have to carry." She also credited her ability to raise her 12 children to her devotion to Mary.
Fr. David Koch, pastor of St. Margaret Mary Church in Neenah, says his father, DePaul, likes to reminisce about life on the farm. The priest has heard him describe how wind whistled through the cracks in he house in winter. He talks about the fun times as well, like sleeping in the barn in summer.
Vincent and DePaul attended Holy Cross School in Mishicot. Their sister remembers their mother calling them "regular renegades." When asked what she meant, Phoebe replied: ""when they were in school, you couldn't tell them apart, and they'd drive the teachers out of their minds. They were in so much mischief."
The boys later attended Mishicot High School But before they could enroll, Vincent said they and other Catholic school students were required to take tests at the courthouse.
Two other Koch children were in the same high school class with the twins: Elmer and Eva, their oldest sister. All four graduated in 1933. The three boys played basketball in high school.
Vincent and DePaul went to work inn a dairy. Later, at 22, Vincent managed a grocery store. The two held similar jobs all their lives. DePaul worked 45 years as a plant manager for the same company in Wisconsin and other states. Vincent ended up as an occupational manager with McKesson Corporation.
DePaul and his wife, Bernadette, had seven children, all born at Holy Family. Vincent and his first wife, Rita, had six. The first five were born at Holy Family, the youngest was born in Sheboygan. Rita died a year later. Her sister, Eileen was a nurse and helped out with the children. Vincent later married her.
Sr. Donna Koch, who works at the Norbertine Spirituality Center in DePere, calls her father, Vincent, "a man of great faith and trust in God.' He still enjoys delivering weekly homilies to his children, she added.
Mary Jane says that people can now tell the twins apart by the personalities. She described Vincent as "happy-go-lucky" and DePaul as more serious.
DePaul summarized his philosophy : " I take life as it comes. If there is joy involved, we enjoyed it. If there is sorrow, we go along with it, too"
The Compass, Green Bay, Wisconsin, Nov. 5, 1999 p. 4-A
Contributor: GornyLuka (48643104)
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