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Noblewoman of Lindenstamm

Schnizer, Johanna (I623)

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Pfaundler, Maria Brigitta Ephrosina (I686)

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Nurse, lived with Hugo in the Bronx, NY. Returned to Austria in mid-1960's. Bob Flack meet Lydia only once when he helped Hertha Eisenmenger remove Hugo's ashes from under Lydia's bed to be spread over the Atlantic before she moved back home. Before then, Bob was unaware of his biological grandfather, having grown up with Ernst Weber in that family role.

Alber, Lydia (I89)

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NY Times Obituary - June 22, 1989
James M. Flack, 75, Textile Executive, Dies
James Monroe Flack, a retired textile industry executive, died of a heart attack on Monday at a Moscow hospital. He was 75 years old and lived in Tryon, N.C.
Mr. Flack, who was on a tour with his wife Hertha, was a founder of Indian Head Inc. and its vice chairman when he retired in 1975.
He had been a director of Textron Inc. and had been with the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey. He had also been principal of the Shaw (Miss.) High School.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Karen Bonnell of Montvale, N.J., and Suzanne Young of Boulder, Colo.; two sons, James, of San Francisco, and Robert, of Watertown, Mass.; two sisters, Ruby Stringer of Baton Rouge, La., and Ann Heard of Merritt Island, Fla., and 10 grandchildren.

Flack, James Monroe I (I4)

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NY Times Obituary 8/29/1950

HUGO E. EISENMENGER, ELECTRICAL ENGINEER

Hugo E. Eisenmenger of 2400 Morgan Avenue, the Bronx, retired electrical engineer who was a rate expert with the Consolidated Edison Company of this city for many years until his retirement, died yesterday in Northern Westchester Hospital, Mount Kisco, N. Y., where he had been a patient since Aug. 10. He was born in Vienna seventy-four years ago.

Educated in Austria and Germany. Mr. Eisenmenger did his first important work for the North German Lloyd Steamship Line as an operator of marine engines from 1898 to 1906.

From 1907 to 1909 he was, in Khartoum, building an electrical plant for the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. The next ten years he spent in Tokyo, as a representative of a German electrical firm

Then he came to the United States, and for two years was the assistant to the chief of the National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company at Nela Park, Cleveland, and while in this post traveled extensively throughout the world. He joined Consolidated Edison in 1921.

Mr. Eisenmenger wrote "Central Station Rates in Theory and Practice" and many articles in technical journals.

He leaves his second wife, who was Lydia Alber of Mount Vernon, N. Y., at their marriage in 1940; two daughters of his first marriage, Mrs. Hertha E. Flack and Mrs. Greta Neelsen, and four grandchildren.

Eisenmenger, Hugo Emil (I21)

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C. Norman Kraus, Professor Emeritus of Religion, ordained Mennonite minister, author of books on church history, theology, peacemaking, and social justice, and a lifelong Christian disciple whose teaching took him to countries in Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America, died April 6, 2018 at the age of 94. His family said the cause was congestive heart failure.

Early on Kraus developed an interest in history and religion, particularly that of his Anabaptist faith. He attended Eastern Mennonite College and graduated from Goshen College in 1946 with a bachelor?s degree in Bible. After teaching history at Eastern Mennonite School for several years, he returned to Goshen in 1949 to pursue a seminary degree and teach at Goshen College in the Bible Department. In 1953 he completed a Masters in Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary, followed by a PhD in Religion from Duke University in 1961. He taught at Goshen College for thirty years, founding and directing a Center for Discipleship program there in 1971 that focused on helping students and lay Christians explore effective discipleship across disciplines and vocations.

In 1980 Norman Kraus and his wife Ruth accepted an assignment from Mennonite Board of Missions to work with the Mennonite churches in Japan. After 18 months of language study in Tokyo, the couple moved to Sapporo, where Kraus lectured and taught for 6 years while also writing a two volume Christology, Jesus Christ Our Lord: Christology from a Disciple?s Perspective and God Our Savior: Theology in a Christological Mode, published first in Japanese and later in English. Among his more recent publications are: An Intrusive Gospel: Christian Mission in the Postmodern World (1998); Using Scripture in a Global Age: Framing Biblical Issues (2006); On being Human: Sexual Orientation and the Image of God (2011); and The Jesus Factor in Justice and Peacemaking (2011).

Born February 20, 1924 in the Warwick River Mennonite Colony, Kraus was raised in the farm village of Denbigh, Virginia, now a part of Newport News. The experience of growing up in a pioneer Mennonite community, whose northern, Pennsylvania-German, pacifistic culture was radically at odds with the martial, post-Civil War ?English? culture of the surrounding Virginia community, profoundly affected his world view. It became his life?s quest to understand the church?s mission of peace and justice and to explore how the visible church could manifest the teachings of Jesus. Kraus taught a model of the church as a ?community of the spirit,? and ?an authentic movement at the grassroots level to promote the personal-social goal of God?s kingdom on earth.? His books The Community of the Spirit (1974) and The Authentic Witness (1979) are among his most widely read.

In 1958, Kraus wrote Integration: Who?s Prejudiced, one of the first public attempts by the Mennonite Church to address its own implicit biases. Raised in the ?Jim Crow? South, he knew firsthand the ?brand of racial attitudes? his church community brought to its involvement with the segregated black community. As he wrote in 2013, revisiting his childhood in the Warwick River Colony, blacks were neighbors and fellow workers on the farm, but ?the intimacies of friendship were strictly limited by the cultural system, no matter what happened in a private setting.?

In Goshen, Indiana, where he settled in 1949 and strict segregationist codes were still the law, he began to take on a role as educator, reporter, protestor, and advocate for racial equity and social justice. Though he never considered himself an ?activist,? while living in Durham, North Carolina from 1959 to 1961, he joined black students at a Roses? lunch counter sit-in and was in the courtroom to support fellow Duke students arrested in the protests.

In 1963 at the request of Mennonite Central Committee, Kraus spent six weeks in Georgia and Tennessee helping leaders better assess whether and how to engage in the nonviolent student movement. There he joined a young Julian Bond for conversation and a cup of coffee and interviewed Ralph Abernathy, who memorably told him that the church?s light had turned out to be a tail light. When Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, Kraus was asked to lead a march from Goshen College to downtown Goshen and gave the memorial address.

Norman Kraus married Ruth Smith in 1945, and raised a family of five children: Yvonne, Jo Anne, John Norman, Bonnie, and Robert. After his stint in Japan, he retired from Goshen College, moving back to his home state of Virginia to settle in Harrisonburg where he continued teaching part-time, writing, and occasionally preaching. In Harrisonburg, he served as interim pastor at Community Mennonite Church in 1990-91, was a member of the Park View Mennonite Church, and more recently worshipped with the Shalom Mennonite Congregation.
In 1997, Norman lost Ruth, his companion of 52 years to leukemia. In 1998 he married Rhoda Short Hess, who survives him. He is also survived by his five children and their spouses, eight grandchildren, and three great grandchildren. They grieve the loss of his earthly presence while celebrating the great gift of his long, fruitful life. A memorial service will be held on April 28 at 3:00 pm at the Community Mennonite Church, 70 S. High Street, Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Kraus, C. Norman (I123)

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Daily Press
June 10, 1997

RUTH S. KRAUS

HARRISONBURG ? Ruth S. Kraus, 77, of 1210 Harmony Drive, died Saturday, June 7, 1997, at her home in the afternoon.

She was born Nov. 24, 1919, in Lima, Ohio, and was the daughter of the late Perry and Susanna Brenneman Smith. She was baptized at the age of 11 in the Salem Mennonite Congregation and remained an active member of the Mennonite Church. She studied Bible and music at Goshen College. She married Norman Kraus on May 16, 1945.

A wife and mother, she worked as an office manager and bookkeeper at the Burkholder Dairy in Newport News, as a bookkeeper at the Durham, N.C., Public Health Department and as a secretary in the registrar?s office at Goshen College.

She was an active member of her church congregation teaching Sunday school and summer Bible school. She was active in the WMSC by helping with the local migrant program and teaching nutrition courses to women in a poverty-stricken area in the city of Goshen. She also served with the Oaklawn Psychiatric Center Women?s Auxiliary and the Assembly Mennonite Congregation, of which she was cofounder and charter member. She, along with her husband, made a number of teaching and pastoral missions abroad. She and Norman served with MBM for seven years in Japan; she was the treasurer of the mission from 1982 to 1987.

She moved to Harrisonburg in 1988 after her retirement and was an active member of the Park View Mennonite Church and helped with various local volunteer work.

She is survived by her husband, Norman Kraus of Harrisonburg; five children, Yvonne Forman of Hasting on Hudson, N.Y., Jo Anne Okamoto of Yonkers, N.Y., John Kraus of Greensboro, N.C., Bonnie Connelly of Sparta, N.J., and Robert Kraus of Chapel Hill, N.C.; one sister, who is the last of five siblings, Clara Dangler of Continental, Ohio; and eight grandchildren.

Mrs. Kraus will be cremated at the Kyger & Trobaugh Funeral Home Crematory in Harrisonburg. Interment will be private.

Smith, Ruth (I124)

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WADE HEARD MERRITT ISLAND Wade Coleman Heard, 84, a retired broker with Trafford Realty in Cocoa, died Sunday, Jan. 30, at Indian River Center in West Melbourne. Mr. Heard was born in Itta Bena, Miss. He came to Brevard County in 1949 from Eglin Air Force Base. He was a 23-year veteran of the Air Force. Lt. Col. Heard was a member of St. David's by the Sea Episcopal Church in Cocoa Beach. Survivors include his wife, Ann Heard of Merritt Island; son, Hampton Heard of Cocoa Beach, Melinda Koethe of Seattle; sister, Sarah Heard of Santa Ana, Calif.; and one granddaughter. No calling hours are scheduled. Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at St. David's by the Sea Episcopal Church. South Brevard Funeral Home in Melbourne is in charge of arrangements. Donations may be made to The Boggy Creek Gang, 30500 Brantley Branch Road, Eustis, FL 32736 or to a charity of choice.

Clipped from Florida Today, 02 Feb 2000, Wed, Page 39

Heard, Wade Hampton Coleman (I9)

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Francis R. Hodge
December 17, 1915 - April 6, 2008

Francis R. Hodge, 92, died at home in Austin, Texas, on April 6. Dr. Hodge was a Professor Emeritus of the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of Texas at Austin. He was both feared and loved by his undergraduate and graduate students as an exceptional and dedicated director and teacher, with an eye to the intricacy of human emotion and experience. During his tenure at the University and summers at other institutions, he directed over 55 plays by such playwrights as George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, and Eugene Ionesco.

In selecting plays, he "always tried to pick plays that matter" plays of conscience, morality, and human fragility fraught with irony and humor. Along with his colleagues in the drama department set designer John R. Rothgeb, costumer Lucy Barton, and lighting designer David Nancarrow, among many others, he tuned the craft of stage production to a fine art. Later in his career he chose to concentrate his efforts on the work of his graduate students and oversaw the production of 150 student-directed plays. As a classroom teacher he taught acting and directing at both undergraduate and graduate levels, History of the Theatre, Dramatic Literature, Theatre Research, and Technical Theater. His students are dispersed to theatres around the world.

He is the author of Yankee Theatre: The Image of America on the Stage, 1825-1850; six editions from 1971 - 2005 of a text entitled Play Directing: Analysis, Communication and Style; and a travel memoir, From America to Elsewhere. He wrote numerous articles for educational theatre journals, and served as editor for the American Theatre Journal. He participated on many faculty committees; and with great joy spent five years on Coach Darryl Royal's Athletic Council for the University of Texas football team.

During the last years of his professional life, he worked on a book about theatre audiences entitled The American Theatre Unbound. It contains a long chapter on the theatrical nature of spectator sports. In 1972 he was elected Fellow of the American Theatre Association, and is included in Who's Who of the American Theatre. In 2006 he received the E. William Doty Award, which is granted annually to individuals who have distinguished themselves professionally and who have demonstrated extraordinary interest in the College of Fine Arts of the University of Texas.

As a true Renaissance man, he sketched his way through years of travel throughout the world, leaving behind 50 small books filled with insightful drawings. He was trained as an airplane mechanic during his three years of service in the US Army Air Force and continued to repair things throughout the rest of his life - literally stitching or wiring them together rather than replacing them. His early Eagle Scout experience made him an avid camper and he and his family explored most of the National Parks during their VW bus years. He played the piano and accordion by ear.

Francis Hodge was born in Geneva, New York, and was educated at Hobart College in Geneva. He obtained his PhD in theatre at Cornell University. His two sisters, librarian Muriel Hodge, 98, and math teacher Helen Hodge Hofer, 94, live in Pittsford, New York. He taught at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and at the University of Iowa, before coming to Austin in 1949.

His wife of 65 years, Beulah Wiley Hodge, holds degrees in theatre and was his most attentive supporter and critic. Her own work in educational television is still remembered by her many Central Texas fans, who watched hours of her show "People and Ideas: Conversations with Beulah Hodge". The pair retired to Austin's Westminster Manor in 2003 where Beulah continues to reside. Their only child, Betsy Hodge Flack, is a landscape architect and lives in San Francisco with her husband Jim Flack. Their two sons, Andrew Flack and Bardin Flack live in San Francisco and Kona, Hawaii, respectively. The neighbors on Bluebonnet Lane in South Austin where Beulah and Fran lived for over 50 years have continued to show their love and support. Phyllis Rothgeb Schenkkan as friend and "other daughter" has been irreplaceable.

Contributions may be made to the Francis Hodge scholarship fund through the Department of Theatre and Dance, University of Texas at Austin, 512-232-5301. A gathering of friends and family will take place in the Chapel at Westminster Manor, 4100 Jackson Ave, on April 14 at 3:30 pm. Obituary and guestbook online at wcfish.com

Hodge, Francis R. (I233)

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Published in the Montgomery Advertiser from Apr. 10 to Apr. 11, 2012

ARRINGTON, Mary Black of Montgomery died on Saturday April 7, at Jackson Hospital. She was born in 1925 in Memphis, Tenn., raised in Brownsville, Tex., and married in 1945 to Richard Henry Arrington Jr., of Montgomery, who preceded her in death. She is survived by her five children, Molly Jones of Conway, Ark., Lucy Arrington of Cambridge, Mass., Pauline Anders of Fairhope, Ala., Richard Henry Arrington III of Montgomery, and Laura Steers of Annapolis, Md., as well as 10 grandchildren, Henry, Mcmillan, Thomas, and William Arrington, Dunn Jones, Maryevelyn Jones, Betsy Sunada, Jesse Flack, Laura Lee, and William Anders; and nine great-grandchildren. She was a long-time member of St. John's Episcopal Church and was also a member of Tintagil, the Montgomery Garden Club and the Montgomery Junior League. Services will be held at St. John's Episcopal Church on Wednesday April 11, 2012 at 11 a.m. followed by a private burial in Oakwood Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandsons and James Edwin Beck III. Rev. Robert Wisnewski will officiate.

Black, Mary Burnett (I65)

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Eugene Feinblatt, 78, key city figure, dies

Adviser to mayors played major role in Baltimore revival
Rafael Alvarez

THE BALTIMORE SUN - 17 Jul 1998

Eugene M. Feinblatt -- one of the legal architects of modern Baltimore who described himself as "part of a dying breed known as a generalist" -- died of heart failure Wednesday at the North Charles Street home where he had lived since suffering a stroke several years ago. He was 78.

"My father had an enormous intellect that combined a very analytical mind with a very practical mind," said John Feinblatt of New York. "He also had an extraordinarily open mind that embraced people for all their differences. This made him very successful as a lawyer and an adviser to politicians."

Mr. Feinblatt -- a founding partner of Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander -- counseled Baltimore mayors from Thomas D'Alesandro Jr. in the early 1950s through William Donald Schaefer, whose tenure ended in 1987.

Along the way, he drafted legislation that created the city's Urban Renewal and Housing Commission. He later headed that agency, which developed Charles Center, the Inner Harbor and subsidized housing for the poor. His faith in the city's turnaround was demonstrated in the late 1970s, when he became one of the original Federal Hill homesteaders, living there until his stroke.

He taught law at the Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health and the University of Maryland; negotiated the sale of City Hospitals to Johns Hopkins Hospital; was special counsel to the Maryland Stadium Authority during the building of Oriole Park at Camden Yards; and was a behind-the-scenes pilot of state health care reform when Mr. Schaefer was governor.

"He was an outside lawyer that a politician would go to because of his brilliance, and a very nice man besides," said Mr. Schaefer, who joined Mr. Feinblatt's firm after leaving the State House in early 1995. "Every once in a while, his firm would be employed by the city or state on special matters, but most of it was pro bono. For me, he did everything for free."

Born in New York City in 1919, the son of a social worker and a schoolteacher, Mr. Feinblatt arrived in Baltimore at the beginning of the Great Depression, when his father was named director of the Levindale home for the elderly near Pimlico.

Around the family dinner table, young Gene -- with no clue that he would someday be a lawyer -- developed his zest for social issues.

"My interest in social issues probably comes from those days," he said in a 1988 profile. "They were a topic of conversation around the house, and I guess I absorbed it all by osmosis."

The president of his senior class at Forest Park High School -- later Vice President Spiro T. Agnew was a classmate -- Mr. Feinblatt earned a degree in philosophy from the University of Virginia. Of his enrollment in the university's law school in 1940, he said, "I had no idea what a lawyer did."

During World War II, he enlisted in the Army while awaiting a commission from the Navy. He eventually became an ensign aboard a 110-foot, wooden-hulled submarine chaser commanded by the future beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Over the years, the friend of Jack Kerouac and the confidant of Mr. Schaefer kept in sporadic touch by mail.

After his discharge, Mr. Feinblatt studied finance and labor law at Harvard and returned to Baltimore in 1947 in search of a law firm. The first two where he was interviewed turned him down because he was Jewish. A Jewish attorney turned him down because Mr. Feinblatt didn't know enough people on the street as they walked downtown.

Simon E. Sobeloff, later a U.S. solicitor general and federal judge, hired him as a protege and introduced him to politics Baltimore-style through Little Italy's Tommy D'Alesandro. When Mr. Sobeloff, a labor adviser to Mr. D'Alesandro, moved to Washington in the early 1950s, he left Mr. Feinblatt to carry on.

"It was like being drafted into the big leagues right out of high school," Mr. Feinblatt recalled.

Walter Sondheim, a senior adviser to the Greater Baltimore Committee and a longtime friend, worked on downtown development issues with Mr. Feinblatt from the late 1950s.

"He wrote the ordinances that put the urban renewal agency together -- in that sense he helped form the basis for Charles Center and the Inner Harbor," Mr. Sondheim said. "He felt strongly about his public role but as a citizen, not as an employee of government. And his conclusions were carefully worked out."

Perhaps Mr. Feinblatt's last great achievement was in the field of health care. As chairman of the Maryland Hospital Association, he wrote the law creating Maryland's Health Services Cost Review Commission and in 1988 was tapped to chair the Governor's Commission on Health Care.

House Speaker Casper R. Taylor Jr., a Cumberland Democrat, credits Mr. Feinblatt with helping him craft health care reform during the Schaefer administration. Those laws -- copied by other states -- helped to lower health care costs in Maryland from above the national average to below it.

"We're still ahead of the curve, thanks to Gene Feinblatt," Mr. Taylor said. "He had that quiet confidence of anyone who knows his superiority, but he also had the beauty of humility."

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. today at Baltimore Hebrew Congregation, 7401 Park Heights Ave., Baltimore.

Survivors include his wife, the former Lois Hoffberger, whom he married in 1983; a second son, Eric Feinblatt, also of New York; three stepchildren, Larry Blum of Cambridge, Mass., Jeff Blum of Bethesda and Patty Blum of Oakland, Calif.; and 10 grandchildren and step-grandchildren.

Mr. Feinblatt's marriage to the former Marjorie White ended in divorce in the late 1970s.

Donations may be made to the Eugene M. Feinblatt Family Stroke Project, c/o Cynthia Steele, the Neuropsychiatry and Memory Group, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Osler 320, 600 N. Wolfe Baltimore 21287.

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OBITUARY Anelle Swetman Jones - 7/29/27 - 9/17/09

RUSTON, LA - Funeral service for Mrs. Anelle S. Jones, age 82, of Ruston will be held Saturday, September 19, 2009 at 11:30 AM at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel in Ruston. Officiating the service will be Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy and Rev. J Carl Gregg. Interment will follow at Pines Memorial Cemetery in Ruston under the direction of Kilpatrick Funeral Home in Ruston.

Mrs. Jones was born July 29, 1927 and passed away September 17, 2009.

Mrs. Jones was a member of the Northminster Church - Monroe, LA. She was preceded in death by her parents: Emory Swetman and Ruby F. Stringer; 2 brothers: James Robert Swetman and Roderick Emory Swetman; and her husband: Judge Fred W. Jones, Jr.

She is survived by daughters: Sherryl J. Tucker and husband Robert of Baton Rouge, Denise J. Wiltcher and husband Thomas of Amarillo, TX; granddaughter: Megan A.Wiltcher of College Station, TX; daughter: Michelle J. Barker and husband Mark of Ruston; granddaughter: Lauren A. Barker of Ruston; grandson J. Ryan Barker of Ruston; sister: Barbara S. Meyer of Houston TX; nephew: Warren Meyer; nieces: Gretchen Manias and Kirsten Wrinkle; nephews: Clay Swetman and Sean Swetman; aunt: Ann Heard and Sister-in-law: Bettie Jo Franklin.

The family would like to thank the caring sitters: Roshawna Amos, Virginia Brantley Diana Pritchard and Agape Hospice.

Pallbearers will be Judge Robert G. James, Robert E. Shadoin, E. Joseph Bleich, S. Price Barker, Ben Humphries and Glenn Theis.

Honorary Pallbearers will be Harry Napper, Barney Sumrall, Roy Wiltcher, and Craig Henry.

Visitation will be from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM (service time) on Saturday, September 19, 2009 at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel in Ruston.

Memorials may be made to the Louisiana Baptist Children's Home Monroe, LA or to Northminster Church, Monroe, LA.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.kilpatrickfuneralhomes.com Kilpatrick Funeral Home

Ruston, LA 318-255-2832
Published in Shreveport Times on Sept. 18, 2009

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OBITUARY Roderick Swetman 6/17/1938 - 12/2003

Roderick E. "Rod" Swetman was born June 17,1938 to Ruby Mae and Emory Goss Swetman in Poplarville, Mississippi and grew up in Rayville, Louisiana where he lettered in football and won a NROTC scholarship to Tulane University. At Tulane he belonged to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity and graduated in 1960 with a Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering. Upon graduation he served his country as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps at Marine Corps Supply Center, Barstow California and with the First Marine Air Wing at El Toro, California until 1963.

He came to Corpus Christi and was employed by Celanese Corporation in Bishop until 1972 when he left to become the Project Manager for First City Bank for the conversion of the Driscoll Hotel into an office tower. After the construction, he remained with First City and their successors as Vice president and Building manager until his retirement in 1995.

Rod loved the outdoors and was an avid hunter, fisherman and with his wife, Helen, enjoyed competitive skeet shooting. He was a member of the Corpus Christi Rotary Club where he was a Paul Harris Fellow. He served on the Board of the Children's Heart and Health Institute of South Texas. He was a member of the King's Men and served as Lord High Steward of the Household, member of Corpus Christi Pistol Rifle Club; Sponsor, Ducks Unlimited, Gulfcoast Conservation Assn.

He is survived by his loving wife and partner of 43 years, Helen; two sons, Roderick Clay Swetman of San Antonio, Sean David Swetman of Rockledge, Florida, three grandchildren Theodore Clay (T.C.) Swetman, Alexa Swetman, Mackinziee Swetman and two sisters Mrs. Randall (Barbara) Meyer of Houston and Anell Jones of Ruston, Louisiana.

Visitation will be from 6:00 P.M. to 9:00 P.M. Sunday December 21, 2003 at Seaside Memorial Chapel with a Rosary at 7:00 P.M. Sunday. Funeral services on Monday December 22 at 1:00 P.M. at Most Precious Blood Catholic Church interment to follow at Seaside Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Heart Association.

Published in Corpus-Christi Caller-Times on Dec. 22, 2003

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OBITUARY University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Francis R. Hodge passed away on April 6, 2008 in Austin, Texas, at the age of 92. Hodge was a professor emeritus in The University of Texas at Austin Department of Theatre and Dance and served as professor of directing from 1949-1979. He was presented the College of Fine Arts E. William Doty Award at the college's spring commencement in May 2006. The award was established in 1995 and is the College's uppermost recognition given to individuals of distinction in their fields and/or have demonstrated extraordinary interest in the college.

Among his many scholarly contributions, Hodge supervised more than 100 master's thesis productions and contributed in an editorial capacity to the Educational Theatre Journal and the Journal of Speech. He is also the founder of the American Society for Theatre Research, an organization for theatre scholars that promotes theatre as a field of serious scholarly study and research. Hodge was also a member of the College of Fellows of the American Theatre Association. His published works include: Play Directing: Analysis, Communication and Style, Innovations in Stage and Theatre Design and Yankee Theatre: The Image of America on the Stage, 1825-1850, the latter for which he received the Golden Anniversary Book Award from the National Communication Association.

Hodge received his bachelor's degree in English and history from Hobart College, and his master's and doctoral degree in theatre and drama from Cornell University. While teaching at The University of Texas, Hodge developed the Demonstration Laboratory. The "Dem" Lab was a weekly meeting open to all Theatre and Dance students that encouraged students to present new works to each other. The lab was very popular, but ended after Dr. Hodge retired, due primarily to lack of space for the volume of students who attended each week. In 1984, the Francis Hodge Endowed Scholarship in Drama supporting outstanding directing majors was created in his honor.

Hodge, Francis R. (I233)

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Occupation "Salesman" on death certificate

Clapp, Caleb Augustus (I272)

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Occupation illegible, but starts with ?Bau? so his occupation was some type of builder

von Gubers, Johann Jakob (I677)

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On abt 18 Jul 1891, John Franklin Lucas's wife Frances died in childbirth with Louella Lenora "Nora" (according the "Chapter's, Ann Heard's family history).
It's likely that Caroline Lucas helped raise her brother's 7 children, to the point that Nora's children considered her their grandmother, apparent when James M. Flack listed Caroline as Nora's mother on her 1975 death certificate. Amazingly, Caroline had 10 children of her own with William H. Mangum. There's no evidence that John Lucas re-married.

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Lucas, Caroline (I297)

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Pastor in Dietenheim

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Pastor in Heiterwang AT, a municipality in the district of Reutte in the Austrian state of Tyrol

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Pfaundler made contributions in all facets of pediatric medicine. He was particularly interested in the diathetic (hereditary and/or biological predisposition to a disorder) aspects of disease. Another focus involved "social pediatrics", stressing the importance of nursing, education, hygiene and psychological concerns when dealing with children. In his later research he was concerned with issues such as genetics and natural selection.

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Pfaundler was active in several scientific societies and also served as Rector of the University of Innsbruck in 1880. He was an avid mountain climber and photographer of mountain landscapes, for which he received a silver medal at the 1901 International Photographic Exhibition, as well as an early enthusiast of the Japanese game of Go on which he published a book in 1908.

Other interests included ecology and the carrying capacity of the earth and advocacy of an artificial international language for use in the scientific literature. Indeed, in 1914 he published a photographic lexicon in Ido, a simplified version of Esperanto. He died in Graz in May of 1920 at age 81.

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Philosophy degree holder
Died as a lancer

Escherich, Anselm (I898)

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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Pfaundler, Jakob (I101)

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Portrait is available

Family: Georg Friedrich Escherich / Theresia Zumbusch (F280)

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Possible birthdate: 29 July 1622 - difficult to distinguish with "June" on original tree

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Possibly born in Mindelberg, very likely referring to Mindelburg Castle, west of Mindelheim. Germany. See here for more information: https://www.doatrip.de/en/germany/bavaria/mindelheim/mindelburg-castle.html

Högin, Anna Maria (I651)

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At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld.

Pfaundler, Sebastian (I98)

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Privy councilor

Pfaundler, Carl (I610)

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Privy councilor in the Treasury in Vienna

von Escherich, Eduard (I936)

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Probationary attorney [This person sat on a court, but without any voting rights] in Feldkirch
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Feldkirch in Austria or Feldkirchen in Bavaria

Pfaundler, Dr. Juris Georg (I981)

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Professor

Müller, Grethe (I43)

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Proprietor of the Rose Inn in Lienz

Pfaundler, Ignaz Franz Alois (I560)

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Provincial government secretary and treasurer

von Pfaundler, Anton Aug. (I691)

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RANDALL MEYER 1923 - 2012 OBITUARY

Randall Meyer, adored and cherished husband, father and grandfather, passed away on the morning of Friday, the 7th of December 2012, at his home in Houston. Randall Meyer was born in Mt. Union, Iowa, on the 19th of January 1923. Randall graduated from the University of Iowa in 1948 with a Bachelor of Science with Highest Distinction in Mechanical Engineering. Randall married Barbara Don Swetman of Rayville, Louisiana on the 29th of November 1958, and raised a devoted family of three children, Warren, Gretchen and Kirsten.

Randall was a respected and revered businessman who began his almost forty year career with Exxon upon graduation from college, as a mechanical engineer in Exxon's Baton Rouge, Louisiana Refinery, where he served in a variety of technical and managerial positions prior to moving to Houston in 1961 in the company's Supply and Transportation Department. In July, 1966, Randall moved to New York City as Executive Assistant to the President of Exxon Corporation. He returned to Houston in 1967 as Senior Vice President of Exxon Company, U.S.A. and became President in 1972. In 1976, Randall became CEO and remained in that position until his retirement on February 1, 1988.

Randall was a dedicated community leader and was extensively involved in many areas, including the petroleum industry, general business, public service and community organizations. Among his many civic, state and national contributions, Randall served as Chairman and member of the board of directors of the Greater Houston Chamber of Commerce, board member and Director Emeritus of the Greater Houston Partnership, board member of HL&P and Houston Industries, Chairman and member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Founding Director of the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Outreach Corporation, member of the board of directors of Methodist Hospital, Trustee of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, member and honorary member of the board of directors of the American Petroleum Institute, member of the board of directors and Chairman of the National Resources Commission of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, Founding Member and Chairman of the board of directors of the Forum Club of Houston, and Director of the Houston Symphony. He also served in various capacities in his many years working with the United Way, including Southwest Regional Chairman of the National Corporate Leadership Program of the United Way of America and member of the Advisory Board and Division Chairman of the National Opportunity Campaign for the United Way of the Texas Gulf Coast. Randall was a proud member of several professional societies, including Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Omicron Delta Kappa and Pi Tau Sigma.

Randall was an impassioned proponent of higher education and the importance of combining a liberal arts education with professional preparation. He worked very closely with the University of Iowa and its College of Engineering throughout his career and post retirement in both advisory and fundraising capacities. In appreciation for his tireless dedication to his alma mater, the University bestowed many honors upon Randall, including Distinguished Alumni Award for Achievement in 1979, Distinguished Visiting Executive, College of Business Administration, in 1987, 1992 and 1993, and Distinguished Engineering Alumni Academy Member in 1996. After retirement, Randall continued his work for the University of Iowa and the College of Engineering as a member of the Campaign Steering Committee and the Development Council. He also served the University as member and Vice President of the board of directors of the University of Iowa Foundation. Locally, Randall served as Chairman of the Campaign for TSU and as a member of the board of directors of Texas Southern University. Of course, as a father, he was particularly dedicated to the education of his three children and devoted countless hours, as such, to the Kinkaid School in many capacities, including Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and member of the Board of Trustees, Chairman of the Kinkaid Capital Campaign, Chairman of the Evaluation Committee, member of the Executive Committee and Life Trustee. As his children moved on so did his devotion. Randall enthusiastically dedicated himself to Princeton University as Chairman of the Princeton Parents Committee and Founding Chairman of the Princeton Parents Association, as well as member of the Annual Giving Committee, the Corporate Campaign Committee and the Parents Association Executive Committee.

In his free time, Randall loved to escape to the outdoors and was blessed to be able to divide his time, post retirement, between his home in Houston and his "heaven on earth" - his ranch in Wyoming. He loved fly fishing, dove hunting and simply being in the natural majestic surroundings of the mountains. Randall Meyer was preceded in death by his parents, Carl Henry and Edythe Stuck Meyer; his three sisters, Virginia Harrington, Miriam Pike and Barbara Barnes; and his brother, Warren Henry Meyer.

He is survived by his loving and devoted wife of 54 years, Barbara Swetman Meyer; their children, Warren Meyer and his wife, Kate, of Phoenix, Arizona, Gretchen Meyer Manias and her husband, Bill, of Houston, and Kirsten Meyer Wrinkle and her husband, Geoff, of Charlotte, North Carolina; and grandchildren Nicholas and Amelia Meyer of Phoenix, Arizona, Andrew and Hayden Manias of Houston, and Alex Wrinkle of Charlotte, North Carolina. Randall's family wishes to acknowledge and express their unbounded appreciation for the care extended to Randall by his tireless and loving caretakers, Janith Moses, Erika Chatman, Janet Bourne and Kenya Hamilton.

A memorial service is to be conducted at four o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday, the 19th of January, at Geo. H. Lewis & Sons, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston. Immediately following the service, all are invited to greet the family during a reception in the adjacent grand foyer. Honoring Randall as his honorary pallbearers are his five grandchildren: Nicholas Meyer, Amelia Meyer, Andrew Manias, Hayden Manias and Alex Wrinkle.

In lieu of customary remembrances, and for those desiring, the family requests with gratitude that memorial contributions in Mr. Meyer's name be directed to the The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, P.O. Box 4486, Houston, TX, 77210-4486.

"Our father was the embodiment of the American success story - he rose from humble beginnings, was first educated in a one-room school house in a small farm town in Iowa, survived polio as a young child and worked tirelessly to put himself and his siblings through college. He was continually guided by and practiced his strong Midwestern values of honesty, loyalty, respect, faith in God, dedication to hard work and the duty to give back to the community. Greater than all of the successes of his career, are these values, as well as the love and unfailing support that he and our mother have passed on to their children and grandchildren."

Published in Houston Chronicle from Dec. 8 to Dec. 16, 2012

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Phawdler, Philipp (I821)

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Received the title of nobility with the title "von Hadermur" on 9 Nov 1910

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Regional court judge

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ROSEL HOFFBERGER SCHEWEL OBITUARY
Baltimore Sun on Oct. 1, 2017

Rosel Hoffberger Schewel, a native of Baltimore, passed away peacefully surrounded by family on September 28, 2017. With her death, Lynchburg, Va. lost an extraordinary citizen-a philanthropist, teacher, scholar, mentor, political activist, founder, board leader, and a champion for public education, racial justice and the rights of women.

Rosel's first and deepest commitment was always to her family and friends. She and Elliot Schewel shared a loving marriage for 68 years. While raising her family, Rosel also had a distinguished career as a special education teacher and later as an Associate Professor of Education at Lynchburg College, falling in with a group of exciting young scholars. Perhaps unique in American education, Rosel not only served on the faculty of the college but chaired its board of trustees as well. On top of her professional career, Rosel's civic involvement was remarkable.

Her Park School high school yearbook bears this inscription beneath her photograph: "An iron fist in a velvet glove." Nowhere was her iron fist more in evidence than in her first civic involvement in Lynchburg as a Girl Scout leader. As president of the local Girl Scout Council in the early 1950s, Rosel insisted that the new scout camp, Camp Sacajawea, allow black and white scouts equally to attend. Some board members resigned in protest, but Rosel persisted and succeeded. Rosel's specialty was founding and building institutions. At the end of her life, she said that her proudest achievements were helping to found the Lynchburg League of Women Voters in the early 1950's, the Women's Resource Center in the 1970's, and Beacon of Hope in the 2010's.

Rosel was a feminist and proud of it. When local women formed a group to recruit and fund women running for office, they named it "Rosel's List." Rosel was the first woman to serve on the board of Virginia Baptist Hospital, the first woman to serve on and chair the board of Lynchburg College and the first woman to serve as president of Agudath Shalom Synagogue. The great cause of her final years was Beacon of Hope, the non-profit she cherished whose mission is to enable all of Lynchburg's high school graduates to get a post-secondary education.

Rosel was a graduate of Hood College, received M.Ed. and Ed.S. degrees and an honorary doctorate from Lynchburg College. She is survived by her husband, former Sen. Elliot Schewel; by her children, Steve and his spouse Lao Rubert, Michael and his spouse Priscilla Burbank, and Susan and her spouse Lizzy Schmidt; and her grandchildren, Laura Schewel, Elias Schewel, Abraham Schewel and his spouse Lauren Lee, Benjamin Schewel and his spouse Keri, and Solomon Schewel. She is also survived by a newborn great-grandson just born to Ben and Keri-Elliot Daniel Schewel.

Funeral services for Rosel will be conducted by Rabbi John Nimon at Agudath Shalom Synagogue at 11:00 am on Monday, October 2. In lieu of flowers, Rosel requested donations be made in her name to Beacon of Hope, P.O. Box 1261, Lynchburg, Va. 24505. Tharp Funeral Home & Crematory, Lynchburg, is assisting the family. To send condolences please visit tharpfuneralhome.com.

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S. Glanz intm. [unclear what this abbreviation means], a field surgeon, Childless

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Sadie Karpa was a single mother to her son Maurice Tobias. She was married to Irving Tobias (not absolutely sure of his first name) but he left his wife and son when Maurice was two years old. He was never heard from again for the rest of Sadie and Maurice's life. Sadie owned and ran a liquor store on Pennsylvania Ave in Baltimore, Maryland. I remember her letting me work behind the counter and push the cash register buttons at six years old (she probably would be arrested for letting a minor sell alcohol now!).She owned a home on Garrison Blvd in Baltimore and lived there, along with her mother Miriam and her brother Max until her passing in 1964. She never remarried. She had the help of her brother and sister's in helping raise her son. She owned a second home in Miami Beach Florida.

I was very young when she died so unfortunately I do not know very much about her other than she raised a wonderful son who was always about family. I wish that I had gotten to know her better.

Nancy Tobias Sall
24 July 2023

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Schoolteacher in Vienna

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Schwandorf, a city in Bavaria, Germany and a historical map: https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/20768091

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Secretary for the Princely Schwarzenberg administration and treasury

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Senator in Walldüren, an alternate spelling of Waldrün, a town in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. See here for more information and a historical map: https://www.meyersgaz.org/place/21067002

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Shopkeeper in Reutte AT

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