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Obituary, Mrs. Emma Bertha Kriewaldt

12 Friday Oct 2012

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Mrs. Emma Bertha Kriewaldt of Brinkworth, whose death has occurred after a long illness, was well-known in South Australian Lutheran circles. She was 76. The wife of Rev. E. Kriewaldt, who was parson at the Lobethal Lutheran Church from 1895 to 1910, Mrs. Kriewaldt was born in America and arrived in South Australia in 1895. Her husband, who died in 1916, was President of the Lutheran Church of Australia from 1910 until his death. Mrs. Kriewaldt leaves four sons — the Rev. E. Kriewaldt, of Brinkworth,  Mr. M. C. Kriewaldt, a solicitor, of Adelaide, and two sons in New Guinea.

Source: The Advertiser (Adelaide, South Australia), Wednesday, 29 December 1948, page 6

Extract from Emma’s diary: Eberleins celebrate holidays

09 Tuesday Oct 2012

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An extract from Emma Eberlein Kriewaldt’s diaries:

“[Father] saw to it each year that we children had a tree and when mother sometimes protested because she was already so overloaded with household cares and duties, he simply said that he would trim the tree himself and that settled the manner. Mother was silenced and we had our tree and papa did not trim it either.

The same way at Easter time. We always had our colored eggs and how pleased father was when he could take his little flock out to the barn and watch them hunt their Easter eggs. How he used to laugh when one of the youngsters discovered his nest which he had carefully prepared out of moss and leaves several days before, discovered it, and full of beautiful eggs. I honestly believe that he enjoyed it more than us. Dear Father! And now he is resting these five years beneath the sod.”

Source: Emma Eberlein Kriewaldt’s diaries, entry for 20 December 1901, on pages 124-125 of the transcription prepared by Ernie Kriewaldt.

Extract from Emma’s diary: Dolly Eberlein and Gus Pludeman get married

09 Tuesday Oct 2012

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Aug. 3, ’92

Dear Diary: — Darling, darling, forgive me for not writing to you for so long. I have been very busy all this vacation and I suppose I owe you an account of it all.

… Now comes the strangest part of my story. Dolly [1] is going to be married in four weeks! Gustav vene, vidi, vici — Dolly! I believe she loved him all along but wouldn’t let on or how could she make up her mind to marry him so quick! She used to be so defiant and irritable when even his name was mentioned and now since he has come she is as quiet as a lamb — queer — queer — queer — will wonders never cease? I ask myself morning noon and night. How she used to scold me when I sat in with Emil alone in the parlor and boast about what she would do and now she is up to that trick herself. Just think Cousin Bull [2] is going to marry Emilia [3] my oldest scholar and there is going to be a double wedding. I am on the verge of distraction when I think of it all. …

Sept. 7, 1892.

Dear Diary: — The wedding is over and done with and Dolly is now Mrs. Pludeman. We had quite a few friends invited and I had to work like a trooper. So did Emil. Everything passed off very nicely with only a small chivari. …

Source: Emma Eberlein’s diary, as transcribed by Ernie Kriewaldt.

[1] Nathalie Eberlein, daughter of John Frederick Eberlein and Catherine Goerner
[2] Wilhelm Schenk, son of Catherine Goerner’s sister Maria Barbara
[3] Ameilia Wilhemina Pludeman, sister of Gus Pludeman

Rev. Kellermann Taken By Death Early Saturday

08 Monday Oct 2012

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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.