ERNEST GEROLD LORENZ SPEH (d.1959) was President and Director of Sales for SPEH MONUMENT COMPANY of St. Louis, founded by his father FRANZ XAVIER SPEH (1851-1931), a native of Sigmaringen, Germany, who learned the monument and stonecarving trade as an apprenticed family craft going back to the 1600's. UNCLE ERNST remained a bachelor for most of his life until he married Speh Monument Company's secretary/treasurer VIRGINIA FARBER SPEH in the mid-1950's.
Among his notable commissions were the FABICK Family Monument and the KRIEGSHAUSER Family Monument at Resurrection Cemetery; work on the August Jahn Turnverein Monument at Forest Park; and with his brother LEO (VP of SPEH MONUMENT COMPANY on Gravois Avenue and married father of five girls) the torch at the SOLDIERS MEMORIAL in Downtown St. Louis. Both brothers, along with their third brother ALBERT were involved in the development of today's Sunset Burial Park in Affton and Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, MO, which date from the 1920's. ERNST was very popular socially and religiously, holding offices in the SCHWABEN German Singing Society, the German Cultural Society, and serving as Grand Knight for the Rosati Council Knights of Columbus. ERNST also served as President of the St. Louis Monument and Memorial Dealers Association, with the late Mickey Carroll (a performer and monumentalist) serving as Vice-President. ERNST and VIRGINIA were the first home buyers in the elite "Forest Haven Estates" subdivision in South St. Louis County (Grantwood, MO), and ERNST served on the Grantwood Village Board of Trustees. UNCLE ERNST and AUNT VIRGINIA for many years hosted the SPEH Family Reunion at their beautiful home on Julia Dent Drive, whose lavish backyard and ornamental plantings awed many who visited from nearly three generations of the family! Stone features fabricated by the SPEHS include the Baptismal fonts at Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Agatha and other churches, church and cemetery statuary, the birdbath at Julia Dent, and the famed pink rest bench which is now in the School Sisters of Notre Dame Motherhouse Cemetery in Lemay, where LEO and IDA's daughter, SR. RUTH SPEH, SSND, is buried.
Among his notable commissions were the FABICK Family Monument and the KRIEGSHAUSER Family Monument at Resurrection Cemetery; work on the August Jahn Turnverein Monument at Forest Park; and with his brother LEO (VP of SPEH MONUMENT COMPANY on Gravois Avenue and married father of five girls) the torch at the SOLDIERS MEMORIAL in Downtown St. Louis. Both brothers, along with their third brother ALBERT were involved in the development of today's Sunset Burial Park in Affton and Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, MO, which date from the 1920's. ERNST was very popular socially and religiously, holding offices in the SCHWABEN German Singing Society, the German Cultural Society, and serving as Grand Knight for the Rosati Council Knights of Columbus. ERNST also served as President of the St. Louis Monument and Memorial Dealers Association, with the late Mickey Carroll (a performer and monumentalist) serving as Vice-President. ERNST and VIRGINIA were the first home buyers in the elite "Forest Haven Estates" subdivision in South St. Louis County (Grantwood, MO), and ERNST served on the Grantwood Village Board of Trustees. UNCLE ERNST and AUNT VIRGINIA for many years hosted the SPEH Family Reunion at their beautiful home on Julia Dent Drive, whose lavish backyard and ornamental plantings awed many who visited from nearly three generations of the family! Stone features fabricated by the SPEHS include the Baptismal fonts at Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Agatha and other churches, church and cemetery statuary, the birdbath at Julia Dent, and the famed pink rest bench which is now in the School Sisters of Notre Dame Motherhouse Cemetery in Lemay, where LEO and IDA's daughter, SR. RUTH SPEH, SSND, is buried.
ERNEST GEROLD LORENZ SPEH (d.1959) was President and Director of Sales for SPEH MONUMENT COMPANY of St. Louis, founded by his father FRANZ XAVIER SPEH (1851-1931), a native of Sigmaringen, Germany, who learned the monument and stonecarving trade as an apprenticed family craft going back to the 1600's. UNCLE ERNST remained a bachelor for most of his life until he married Speh Monument Company's secretary/treasurer VIRGINIA FARBER SPEH in the mid-1950's.
Among his notable commissions were the FABICK Family Monument and the KRIEGSHAUSER Family Monument at Resurrection Cemetery; work on the August Jahn Turnverein Monument at Forest Park; and with his brother LEO (VP of SPEH MONUMENT COMPANY on Gravois Avenue and married father of five girls) the torch at the SOLDIERS MEMORIAL in Downtown St. Louis. Both brothers, along with their third brother ALBERT were involved in the development of today's Sunset Burial Park in Affton and Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, MO, which date from the 1920's. ERNST was very popular socially and religiously, holding offices in the SCHWABEN German Singing Society, the German Cultural Society, and serving as Grand Knight for the Rosati Council Knights of Columbus. ERNST also served as President of the St. Louis Monument and Memorial Dealers Association, with the late Mickey Carroll (a performer and monumentalist) serving as Vice-President. ERNST and VIRGINIA were the first home buyers in the elite "Forest Haven Estates" subdivision in South St. Louis County (Grantwood, MO), and ERNST served on the Grantwood Village Board of Trustees. UNCLE ERNST and AUNT VIRGINIA for many years hosted the SPEH Family Reunion at their beautiful home on Julia Dent Drive, whose lavish backyard and ornamental plantings awed many who visited from nearly three generations of the family! Stone features fabricated by the SPEHS include the Baptismal fonts at Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Agatha and other churches, church and cemetery statuary, the birdbath at Julia Dent, and the famed pink rest bench which is now in the School Sisters of Notre Dame Motherhouse Cemetery in Lemay, where LEO and IDA's daughter, SR. RUTH SPEH, SSND, is buried.
Among his notable commissions were the FABICK Family Monument and the KRIEGSHAUSER Family Monument at Resurrection Cemetery; work on the August Jahn Turnverein Monument at Forest Park; and with his brother LEO (VP of SPEH MONUMENT COMPANY on Gravois Avenue and married father of five girls) the torch at the SOLDIERS MEMORIAL in Downtown St. Louis. Both brothers, along with their third brother ALBERT were involved in the development of today's Sunset Burial Park in Affton and Resurrection Cemetery in Shrewsbury, MO, which date from the 1920's. ERNST was very popular socially and religiously, holding offices in the SCHWABEN German Singing Society, the German Cultural Society, and serving as Grand Knight for the Rosati Council Knights of Columbus. ERNST also served as President of the St. Louis Monument and Memorial Dealers Association, with the late Mickey Carroll (a performer and monumentalist) serving as Vice-President. ERNST and VIRGINIA were the first home buyers in the elite "Forest Haven Estates" subdivision in South St. Louis County (Grantwood, MO), and ERNST served on the Grantwood Village Board of Trustees. UNCLE ERNST and AUNT VIRGINIA for many years hosted the SPEH Family Reunion at their beautiful home on Julia Dent Drive, whose lavish backyard and ornamental plantings awed many who visited from nearly three generations of the family! Stone features fabricated by the SPEHS include the Baptismal fonts at Our Lady of Sorrows, St. Agatha and other churches, church and cemetery statuary, the birdbath at Julia Dent, and the famed pink rest bench which is now in the School Sisters of Notre Dame Motherhouse Cemetery in Lemay, where LEO and IDA's daughter, SR. RUTH SPEH, SSND, is buried.
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