AUGUST SPECHT (d. 1951)
August Specht of Mishicot is Dead.
Mishicot – In ill health for the past year, August H. Specht, 78,
widely known Mishicot furniture store operator and embalmer, died
at his home in the village early Saturday morning.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Specht Funeral
Home, the Rev. Edward Zell, pastor of St. Peter Lutheran Church,
officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in the Mishicot
public cemetery.
August Henry Specht was born in Gibson, Manitowoc County, in 1873.
Assisting his father on the farm until young manhood, he married the
former Ida Kunz of Branch in 1903. After their marriage, Mr. Specht
learned the casket-making trade at Reifs Mills and then took a
position with the Northern Casket Company at Fond Du Lac. A few years
later, the family moved to Los Angeles where he worked for the Los
Angeles Casket Company for several years.
Leaving his trade, Mr. Specht moved his family to Morense, Ariz.,
where he was employed at a copper smelting company for four years.
He returned to the county in 1921 and became a painter and decorator
at Mishicot.
In 1927, after graduating from a Chicago embalming school, he took
over the furniture and undertaking establishment of the late William
Mueller at Mishicot, now operated by his son Paul, and retired from
active business in 1945.
Mr. Specht was affiliated with the Wisconsin Funeral Directors and
Embalmers Association for many years and served as secretary-treasurer
of the Mishicot Public Cemetery Association 15 years.
Besides his wife, Mr. Specht leaves a daughter, Mrs. Elliot Zander,
of Brillion; and two sons, Wilton of Racine and Paul Specht of Mishicot;
a brother, Theodore Specht, of Tacoma, Wash.; and eight grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Specht Funeral Home, Mishicot, from 7 p.m.
Sunday to the time of services.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, August 4, 1951.
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Note the birth year on the gravestone is different than in the obit.
August Specht of Mishicot is Dead.
Mishicot – In ill health for the past year, August H. Specht, 78,
widely known Mishicot furniture store operator and embalmer, died
at his home in the village early Saturday morning.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Specht Funeral
Home, the Rev. Edward Zell, pastor of St. Peter Lutheran Church,
officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in the Mishicot
public cemetery.
August Henry Specht was born in Gibson, Manitowoc County, in 1873.
Assisting his father on the farm until young manhood, he married the
former Ida Kunz of Branch in 1903. After their marriage, Mr. Specht
learned the casket-making trade at Reifs Mills and then took a
position with the Northern Casket Company at Fond Du Lac. A few years
later, the family moved to Los Angeles where he worked for the Los
Angeles Casket Company for several years.
Leaving his trade, Mr. Specht moved his family to Morense, Ariz.,
where he was employed at a copper smelting company for four years.
He returned to the county in 1921 and became a painter and decorator
at Mishicot.
In 1927, after graduating from a Chicago embalming school, he took
over the furniture and undertaking establishment of the late William
Mueller at Mishicot, now operated by his son Paul, and retired from
active business in 1945.
Mr. Specht was affiliated with the Wisconsin Funeral Directors and
Embalmers Association for many years and served as secretary-treasurer
of the Mishicot Public Cemetery Association 15 years.
Besides his wife, Mr. Specht leaves a daughter, Mrs. Elliot Zander,
of Brillion; and two sons, Wilton of Racine and Paul Specht of Mishicot;
a brother, Theodore Specht, of Tacoma, Wash.; and eight grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Specht Funeral Home, Mishicot, from 7 p.m.
Sunday to the time of services.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, August 4, 1951.
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Note the birth year on the gravestone is different than in the obit.
AUGUST SPECHT (d. 1951)
August Specht of Mishicot is Dead.
Mishicot – In ill health for the past year, August H. Specht, 78,
widely known Mishicot furniture store operator and embalmer, died
at his home in the village early Saturday morning.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Specht Funeral
Home, the Rev. Edward Zell, pastor of St. Peter Lutheran Church,
officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in the Mishicot
public cemetery.
August Henry Specht was born in Gibson, Manitowoc County, in 1873.
Assisting his father on the farm until young manhood, he married the
former Ida Kunz of Branch in 1903. After their marriage, Mr. Specht
learned the casket-making trade at Reifs Mills and then took a
position with the Northern Casket Company at Fond Du Lac. A few years
later, the family moved to Los Angeles where he worked for the Los
Angeles Casket Company for several years.
Leaving his trade, Mr. Specht moved his family to Morense, Ariz.,
where he was employed at a copper smelting company for four years.
He returned to the county in 1921 and became a painter and decorator
at Mishicot.
In 1927, after graduating from a Chicago embalming school, he took
over the furniture and undertaking establishment of the late William
Mueller at Mishicot, now operated by his son Paul, and retired from
active business in 1945.
Mr. Specht was affiliated with the Wisconsin Funeral Directors and
Embalmers Association for many years and served as secretary-treasurer
of the Mishicot Public Cemetery Association 15 years.
Besides his wife, Mr. Specht leaves a daughter, Mrs. Elliot Zander,
of Brillion; and two sons, Wilton of Racine and Paul Specht of Mishicot;
a brother, Theodore Specht, of Tacoma, Wash.; and eight grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Specht Funeral Home, Mishicot, from 7 p.m.
Sunday to the time of services.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, August 4, 1951.
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Note the birth year on the gravestone is different than in the obit.
August Specht of Mishicot is Dead.
Mishicot – In ill health for the past year, August H. Specht, 78,
widely known Mishicot furniture store operator and embalmer, died
at his home in the village early Saturday morning.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Specht Funeral
Home, the Rev. Edward Zell, pastor of St. Peter Lutheran Church,
officiating. Interment will be in the family plot in the Mishicot
public cemetery.
August Henry Specht was born in Gibson, Manitowoc County, in 1873.
Assisting his father on the farm until young manhood, he married the
former Ida Kunz of Branch in 1903. After their marriage, Mr. Specht
learned the casket-making trade at Reifs Mills and then took a
position with the Northern Casket Company at Fond Du Lac. A few years
later, the family moved to Los Angeles where he worked for the Los
Angeles Casket Company for several years.
Leaving his trade, Mr. Specht moved his family to Morense, Ariz.,
where he was employed at a copper smelting company for four years.
He returned to the county in 1921 and became a painter and decorator
at Mishicot.
In 1927, after graduating from a Chicago embalming school, he took
over the furniture and undertaking establishment of the late William
Mueller at Mishicot, now operated by his son Paul, and retired from
active business in 1945.
Mr. Specht was affiliated with the Wisconsin Funeral Directors and
Embalmers Association for many years and served as secretary-treasurer
of the Mishicot Public Cemetery Association 15 years.
Besides his wife, Mr. Specht leaves a daughter, Mrs. Elliot Zander,
of Brillion; and two sons, Wilton of Racine and Paul Specht of Mishicot;
a brother, Theodore Specht, of Tacoma, Wash.; and eight grandchildren.
Friends may call at the Specht Funeral Home, Mishicot, from 7 p.m.
Sunday to the time of services.
Manitowoc Herald Times, Saturday, August 4, 1951.
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Note the birth year on the gravestone is different than in the obit.
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