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Earl W. “Sodie” Hirsch

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Earl W. “Sodie” Hirsch

Birth
Batavia, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA
Death
12 Feb 1965 (aged 56)
Saint Petersburg, Pinellas County, Florida, USA
Burial
Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA Add to Map
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Funeral services will be held at Plymouth next Friday, February 19, 1956 for Earl W. Hirsch, 56, a well-known resident of Plymouth, who died early Friday, February 12, 1965 at St. Petersburg, FL.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church with the Rev. G. A. Karpinsky, associate pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plymouth Woodlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Wittkopp Funeral Home from 2 p.m. Thursday to 11 a.m. Friday and then at the church.
Mr. Hirsch, whose home was at 202 Elizabeth Street, was stricken with a heart attack while spending the winter months in Florida. He had been under a doctor’s care for a heart ailment for several years.
He was a former Plymouth alderman, worked in various places as a meat cutter, worked as a salesman for the Cudahy Packing Co. and operated Turner Hall for many years.
While in semi-retirement, he was personnel manager for Stokley Foods and assisted Cleveland Container Co. and Rathbun Feeds. He was well known as superintendent of all Sheboygan County Fair Association concession stands, a position he held for 17 years.
He was born at Batavia, January 6, 1909, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hirsch. After graduating from Plymouth High School, he attended Marquette University in Milwaukee.
Mr. Hirsch was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department and the Popal River Hunting Club.
He was married April 4, 1933, at Marion, IN, to Helga Wriedt. She died February 20, 1952. On December 3, 1956, he was married at Hubbard, IN, to Alma Hecker.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Glen (Janice) Wolter, Milwaukee; two sons, James of Perth Australia, and Lt. Vern H. Fox, Fort Smith, RI; a grandchild, and one sister, Mrs. George W. Andrews, of St. Petersburg, FL and Marion, IN.

The Sheboygan Press

Contributor: Wayne Beisser (46955579)
Funeral services will be held at Plymouth next Friday, February 19, 1956 for Earl W. Hirsch, 56, a well-known resident of Plymouth, who died early Friday, February 12, 1965 at St. Petersburg, FL.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. at St. John’s Lutheran Church with the Rev. G. A. Karpinsky, associate pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plymouth Woodlawn Cemetery.
Friends may call at the Wittkopp Funeral Home from 2 p.m. Thursday to 11 a.m. Friday and then at the church.
Mr. Hirsch, whose home was at 202 Elizabeth Street, was stricken with a heart attack while spending the winter months in Florida. He had been under a doctor’s care for a heart ailment for several years.
He was a former Plymouth alderman, worked in various places as a meat cutter, worked as a salesman for the Cudahy Packing Co. and operated Turner Hall for many years.
While in semi-retirement, he was personnel manager for Stokley Foods and assisted Cleveland Container Co. and Rathbun Feeds. He was well known as superintendent of all Sheboygan County Fair Association concession stands, a position he held for 17 years.
He was born at Batavia, January 6, 1909, the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hirsch. After graduating from Plymouth High School, he attended Marquette University in Milwaukee.
Mr. Hirsch was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church, the Plymouth Volunteer Fire Department and the Popal River Hunting Club.
He was married April 4, 1933, at Marion, IN, to Helga Wriedt. She died February 20, 1952. On December 3, 1956, he was married at Hubbard, IN, to Alma Hecker.
Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Glen (Janice) Wolter, Milwaukee; two sons, James of Perth Australia, and Lt. Vern H. Fox, Fort Smith, RI; a grandchild, and one sister, Mrs. George W. Andrews, of St. Petersburg, FL and Marion, IN.

The Sheboygan Press

Contributor: Wayne Beisser (46955579)


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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/81451225/earl_w-hirsch: accessed ), memorial page for Earl W. “Sodie” Hirsch (6 Jan 1909–12 Feb 1965), Find a Grave Memorial ID 81451225, citing Woodlawn Cemetery, Plymouth, Sheboygan County, Wisconsin, USA; Maintained by Chad (contributor 47588466).