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Otto Bock (1881-1942) —
of Colorado.
Born in Milwaukee, Milwaukee
County, Wis., February
21, 1881.
Lawyer;
justice
of Colorado state supreme court, 1939-42; died in office 1942.
Lutheran.
German ancestry.
Died in Denver,
Colo., August
15, 1942 (age 61 years, 175
days).
Interment at Crown
Hill Cemetery, Wheat Ridge, Colo.
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Charles Boettcher (1852-1948) —
of Cheyenne, Laramie
County, Wyo.; Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo.; Leadville, Lake
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Kölleda, Germany,
April
8, 1852.
Republican. Hardware
business; co-founder and vice-president, Great Western Sugar Co.;
co-founder and president Ideal Cement
Company; vice-president, Brown Palace Hotel
Company; real estate
investor; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Colorado, 1916
(alternate), 1928.
German ancestry.
Died, in his suite at the Brown Palace Hotel, Denver,
Colo., July 2,
1948 (age 96 years, 85
days).
Entombed in mausoleum at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Claudius Kedzie Boettcher (1875-1957) —
also known as Claude K. Boettcher —
of Denver,
Colo.
Born in Boulder, Boulder
County, Colo., January
10, 1875.
Republican. Packing
business; banker;
major in the U.S. Army during World War I; chairman, Denver and
Intermountain Railway;
president, Brown Palace Hotel;
director, Great Western Sugar Co.;
director, Denver Dry Goods
Co.; vice-president of several electric
utilities; delegate to Republican National Convention from
Colorado, 1936
(member, Committee
on Rules and Order of Business), 1944.
Episcopalian.
German ancestry.
Died in Denver,
Colo., June 9,
1957 (age 82 years, 150
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Gustavus Adolphus Finkelnburg (1837-1908) —
also known as Gustavus A. Finkelnburg —
of St.
Louis, Mo.
Born near Cologne, Prussia (Köln, Germany),
April
6, 1837.
Republican. Lawyer;
served in the Union Army during the Civil War; member of Missouri
state house of representatives, 1864-68; U.S.
Representative from Missouri 2nd District, 1869-73; candidate for
Governor
of Missouri, 1876; U.S.
District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri, 1905-07;
resigned 1907.
German ancestry.
Died in Denver,
Colo., May 18,
1908 (age 71 years, 42
days).
Interment at Bellefontaine
Cemetery, St. Louis, Mo.
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Frank William Howbert (1858-1945) —
also known as Frank W. Howbert; William Frank
Howbert —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Clarinda, Page
County, Iowa, October
26, 1858.
Republican. Civil
engineer; El
Paso County Clerk, 1888; U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue at Denver, Colorado, 1897-1913,
1921-32; delegate to Republican National Convention from Colorado, 1928
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization).
German ancestry. Member, Knights
of Pythias; Woodmen of
the World; Freemasons.
Died, from pneumonia,
in Denver,
Colo., December
5, 1945 (age 87 years, 40
days).
Interment at Fairmount
Cemetery, Denver, Colo.
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Irving Howbert (1846-1934) —
of Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo.
Born in Columbus, Bartholomew
County, Ind., April
11, 1846.
Republican. Banker; El
Paso County Clerk, 1869-79; member of Colorado
state senate, 1882-86; delegate to Republican National Convention
from Colorado, 1888
(member, Committee
on Permanent Organization), 1912;
Colorado
Republican state chair, 1894-95.
German ancestry. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., December
21, 1934 (age 88 years, 254
days).
Interment at Evergreen
Cemetery, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Ethel Merman (1908-1984) —
also known as Ethel Agnes Zimmermann —
Born in Astoria, Queens, Queens
County, N.Y., January
16, 1908.
Republican. Actress;
singer;
performed, Republican National Convention, 1956.
Female.
German and Scottish
ancestry.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., February
15, 1984 (age 76 years, 30
days).
Cremated;
ashes interred at Shrine of Remembrance Mausoleum, Colorado Springs, Colo.
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Relatives:
Daughter of Edward Zimmermann and Agnes (Gardner) Zimmermann;
married, November
15, 1940, to William Smith; married, December
18, 1941, to Robert Daniels Levitt; married, March 9,
1953, to Robert Logan Forman Six; married, June 27,
1964, to Ernest Borgnine. |
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article — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Lydia Baird Muncy (1902-1996) —
also known as Lydia B. Muncy; Lydia Low
Baird —
of Detroit, Wayne
County, Mich.; Monument, El Paso
County, Colo.; Ann Arbor Township, Washtenaw
County, Mich.
Born in Marine City, St. Clair
County, Mich., February
10, 1902.
Socialist. School
teacher; Socialist Labor candidate for Presidential Elector for
Michigan, 1964;
Socialist Labor candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1968.
Female.
Scottish,
English,
and German ancestry.
Died, of malignant
lymphoma, in Glacier Hills nursing
home, Ann Arbor, Washtenaw
County, Mich., May 1,
1996 (age 94 years, 81
days). Her body was
donated to the University of Michigan Medical School.
Cremated;
ashes interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, St. Clair, Mich.
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George Schneider (1823-1905) —
of Chicago, Cook
County, Ill.
Born in Pirmasens, Germany,
December
13, 1823.
Republican. Newspaper
editor; delegate to Republican National Convention from Illinois,
1856,
1860;
U.S. Consul in Elsinore, 1861-62; U.S.
Collector of Internal Revenue at Chicago, Illinois, 1862-66; banker;
Republican Presidential Elector for Illinois, 1880.
German ancestry.
Died in Colorado Springs, El Paso
County, Colo., September
16, 1905 (age 81 years, 277
days).
Interment at Rosehill
Cemetery, Chicago, Ill.
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