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Last Name: Katterheinrich
First Name: Byron A.
Father's Name: Wesley Katterheinrich
Mother's Maiden Name: Flora Settlage
Spouse's Name: Anna Maurer
Death Date: February 24, 1954
Cause of Death: Heart Attack
Death Location: Auglaize County OH
Source: St. Marys Evening Leader
Additional: New Bremen, Feb. 25—Byron A. Katterheinrich, age 39, farmer and cement tile manufacturer residing northwest of New Bremen on the Clover Four Road, was found dead of a heart attack at 10:15 p.m. Wednesday. His lifeless body was found by Luther Hirschfeld and Lawrence Meckstroth on the New Knxoville-New Bremen road, a quarter mile west of New Knoxville near the Arthur Eschmeyer farm, as they came along west-bound in their automobiles. Two of his children, Peggy and Joe Katterheinrich, who were found shortly afterward in the Katterheinrich automobile near the Walter Althoff farm west of the Eschmeyer farm, said the car had run out of gasoline as they were enroute home from a New Knoxville Methodist church meeting and that their daddy had started to walk back to New Knoxville for fuel. Death was determined due to a heart atack in a post mortem performed at St. Rita's hospital, Lima, where Mr. Katterheinrich's body was removed in the Gilberg and Hegemier invalid coach. Mr. Katterheinrich was born June 3, 1914, in Washington township, a son of Wesley Katterheinrich and the late Flora Settlage Katterheinrich. On June 19, 1938, he married Anna Maurer who is left to mourn his death with three three children, Douglas, a freshman in New Bremen high school. Peggy, a fifth grader and Joe a second grader; his father and stepmother, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Katterheinrich, New Knoxville, three sisters, Mrs. Bernard (Frances) Brady, Mrs. Ferd (Jennie) Meckstroth and Mrs. C.R. (Olga) Stienecker and one brother, Melvin Katterheinrich, all of New Knoxville. He was a New Knoxville councilman for two years and a was a member of the offical board of the New Knoxville Methodist church in which he was very active. Some years ago he lost a hand in a grain elevator accident but he had not permitted the amputation to handicap him. He was in business with Woodrow Piehl operating the New Knoxville Cement Tile company, and was widely known throughout the community. Funeral services are arranged for Saturday at 1:30 p.m. at his late residence west of 66 on the Clover Four road and at 2 p.m. at the New Knoxville Methodist church. The Rev. Gilbert D. Heaton will officiate. Burial will be made in Schwaberow cemetery. His body will be removed Friday morning from the Vornholt Funeral Home to the residence where friends may call at any time until the funeral.
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