City Official, Guehlstorf, Is Dead, Was 56

Harry J. Guehlstorf, 56, of 2823 36th St., Edgewood Place, city
treasurer and deputy city clerk since 1942 and a past master of Two
Rivers Lodge No. 200, F & AM, died at 6 am Wednesday at Two Rivers
Municipal Hospital, where he had been a patient since stricken with a
heart stroke at his home October 19. Mr. Guehlstorf had been in failing
health for the past two years but continued at his duties until stricken
with a heart attack on July 29.
Masonic funeral service will be 2 pm Friday at Klein and Stangel Inc.,
Funeral Home, under the auspices of the Two Rivers Masonic Lodge with
Past Master Heber Clayton directing the ceremonies both at the funeral
home and at the graveside at Pioneers' Rest Cemetery.
Mr. Guehlstorf was born May 13, 1902 at Manitowoc, son of the late Henry
and Sophie Scheffler Guehlstorf. Attending the Manitowoc Public Schools
he was graduated from the old Washington High School there with the
class of 1920. During his high school years and a short while later he
worked at the Manitowoc Savings Bank.
After five years of employment as a billing clerk for the Chicago &
North Western Railway at Manitowoc, he took employment April 30, 1930
with the Two Rivers Municipal Utilities, first serving as a meter reader
and later as a billing clerk. In 1942 under the late City Manager, John
Hoffman, he became city treasurer and deputy city clerk.
Mr. Guehlstorf was elected worshipful master of the Two Rivers Lodge No.
200 F & AM in 1947 with which organization he was a member. He was also
affiliated with the Barney G. Lyman, Chapter No. 116, Royal Arch Masons
of Two Rivers.
Besides his wife, the former Gladys Elliott, whom he married July 20,
1925, at Menominee, Mich., he leaves a son, Cortland of Two Rivers; two
sisters, Mrs. John Jordan and Mrs. Edmund Zigmund of Manitowoc and a
brother, Karl of South Milwaukee. Friends may call at the funeral home
after 2 pm Thursday.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Wed., Oct. 29, 1958 page 2
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