Services held Tuesday at the Lutheran Church

Funeral services for Rev. H. H. Kellerman were held at the Lutheran Church Tuesday at 3 p.m. Rev. Kellermann was a resident of Vero Beach for 21 years and was well known to many business and professional people in town. He was in the citrus packing business for a long time was also a director in a local bank at one time.

He passed away early Saturday morning from heart failure on his 68th birthday. Services were held at the home by the Rev. C. W. Mueller and the body lay in state at the church from 2 till 3 o’clock.

Promptly at 3 o’clock the organist of the church, Miss Bernice Meyer, opened the service playing “One Sweet, Solemn Thought” by R. S. Ambrose, while the local pastor and five other pastors from the East Coast marched into the church. After singing of the hymn, “Nearer, My God, To Thee”, the Rev. Dallas Gibson of Ft. Lauderdale read a prayer, followed by Rev. F. Graef of West Palm Beach reading a Scripture passage. Then the Rev. Graef, H. H. Hartmann of Delray Beach and Arlo Mueller of Miami Beach sang three verses of the hymn, “Abide With Me”. The Rev. C. W. Mueller delivered the address basing his remarks on the subject, “The Disciple of the Burning Heart.”

The latter part of the service consisted of the delivery of a massage [sic] from the Florida Pastoral conference by Rev. H. H. Hartmann, the reading of the obituary by Rev. A. Mueller, and a concluding prayer by Rev. W. Meyer of Lake Worth. All the pastors then formed an escort of honor as the body was born to Crest Lawn cemetery, where it was interred.

The active pallbearers were Charles Kutz, J. B. Tipping, H. W. Prange, H. Grumbach, G. O. Roti, and W. Klingsick. Honorary pallbearers were: R. Niedner, H. W. Meyer, Fred Krueger, Wm. Brasch, Elmer Danberg, E. H. Graul, Axel Hallstrum, Wm. Hensick, John Johnson, Edward Klingsick, Louis Klingsick, Wm. Orth, Sr.

Rev. Kellermann was born in St. Louis Mo., on Nov. 9 1872, the son of Conrad Kellermann prominent builder, civic and church leader. He attended Concordia College in Milwaukee, Wisc. and the Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary in St. Louis, from which he was graduated in 1896. Entering the ministry of the Lutheran Church of the Missouri Synod, he served the following charges, Little Rock, Mo., Pine Bluff, Ark., Cape Giradeau, Mo., West Ely, Mo., Knoxville, Tenn., and Vero Beach, Florida. In 1904 he was granted a year’s leave of absence, and traveled extensively in Europe with his father.

In 1919 he made his home in Vero Beach, and has been active in community affairs. He was for nine years president of the Vero Indian River Producers Association. He was also vice-president of the Indian River Citrus Sub-Exchange, and a director of the Florida Citrus Exchange. He was a director of the Farmer’s Bank of Vero.

In 1896 he married Miss Wilhemina Eberlein of Shawano, Wisc.

He leaves to mourn his departure his wife, Mrs. H. H. Kellermann, five sons, Rev. Conrad Kellermann of Miami, Herman W. Kellermann of Tampa, Fred W. Kellermann of New York, Luther W. Kellermann of California, and Edwin H. Kellermann of Vero Beach; besides three daughers, Mrs. M. Mattmuller of Vero Beach, Mrs. Norman Skeels of Miami, and Mrs. S. D. Pepper of Ohio. He also had many grandchildren and one great grandchild.

Source: Vero Beach Press, Friday, 15 November 1940.