Auglaize County, Ohio

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Auglaize County Death Records

Last Name: Meckstroth

First Name: Edward Henry

Father's Name: Ernst Meckstroth

Mother's Maiden Name: Anna Lutterbeck

Spouse's Name: Hilda Kettler

Death Date: December 18, 1948

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Source: St. Marys Evening Leader

Additional: New Bremen, O., Dec. 18, Edward Henry Meckstroth, 61, died of complications at his home in Lock Two last evening at 6:15 o'clock. He had been ailing for three years and bedfast for the past two months. Funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 2 o'clock fom the Gilberg & Hegemier Funeral Home with the Rev. E.H. Bassler officiating. Burial will be in the German Protestant cemetery. Mr. Meckstroth was a native of New Knoxville, born on July 4, 1887. His parents were the late Ernest and Anna Lutterbeck Meckstroth. On January 8, 1914 , he married Hilda Kettler who is left to mourn his passing with six children, Earl , Reuben, Norman, Mrs. John (LaRue) Dicke, all of New Bremen, and Ralph and Roland, at home. There are six grandchildren, a brother George Meckstroth of New Knoxville and a sister, Mrs. Henry Ziegler of Dayton, also surviving. Prior to his illness, Mr. Meckstroth was employed at the Good year plant, St. Marys. He was member of the St. Paul Evangelical and Reformed church



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