This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Drews Gartman Mueller Spude Wagner Strosheim Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/2FC.2ACI/1722 Message Board Post: Sheboygan Press, Mon, Oct 23, 1939, p2 Henry Drews is Summoned Sunday; Rites Wednesday Henry Drews, 81, died Sunday morning at 9 o'clock at his home, route 3, Sheboygan. He was born Sept. 15, 1858, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. He came to this country in 1880 and on Nov. 24, 1889, married Ottilia Gartman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Gartman. He was a member of Immanuel Lutheran church and was employed as a teamster and fireman at the Art Furniture company for 25 years. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the South-West Funeral home, the Rev. Edward Krause officiating, with interment in Lutheran cemetery. The body can be viewed at the funeral home from tonight at 7 o'clock on. Survivors are his widow; five daughters, Mrs. Theresa Mueller, Mrs. Carlos Wagner, Mrs. Barney Strosheim, city; Mrs. Walter Spude, Sturgeon Bay, and Miss Viola, at home; six sons, Ferdinand, Val, Fred, Arno, Harvey, all of Sheboygan, and John of Milwaukee; 24 grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, and his father-in-law, August Gartman, city. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Funeral - Sheboygan Press, Thurs, Oct 26, 1939, p6 Funeral Services For Henry Drews Held Wednesday Funeral services for Henry Drews, who died at his home on route 3, Sheboygan, Sunday morning, were held Wednesday afternoon at the Southwest funeral home. The Rev. Ed. Krause, pastor of Immanuel Lutheran church, officiated and interment was made in Wildwood cemetery. Pallbearers were Harold and LeRol Mueller, Gottlieb Goldman, Milton Theumer, Edgar Burhop and Frank Kuaker. A mixed chorus of the church, comprised of Marion Kroll, Mrs. Paul Roech, Ray Marquardt and Roland Schoening offered several vocal selections. Out-of-town persons attending the services included Mr. and Mrs. John Drew, their son, Gale, and daughter, Pearl, and Mrs. Resch, all of Milwaukee; Mr. and Mrs. Walter Spude, their daughter Jacqueline, and son, Walter Jr., Sturgeon Bay. Floral tributes were offered by the Wisconsin Ice and Coal company of Milwaukee, by the employees of that company, by the board of directors of the Credit Union; by the Women's Relief corps No. 11, and Hill Brothers, Sheboygan.