Surnames: Neumann, Boettcher, Lutaz, Hocke

----Sources: Scrap book one: by Elsa Lange Hardrath & Dorthaleen Edwards Hardrath

Contributed by Halbert "Bud" Hardrath

Neumann, Frederich Sr. (8 Feb. 1895 - 1962)

Frederich Neumann, 67, Withee, died of complications Friday at the Stanley Victory Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at St. John’s Lutheran Church. The Rev. Otto Boettcher of Greenwood will officiate and burial will be made in Riverside Cemetery.

Friends May call at the Hoeper and Kraut Funeral Home in Owen.

Mr. Neumann was born Feb. 8, 1895 in Russia. He was married to Sothia Lutaz in 1925 in Romania. They came to the United States in 1951 and settled in Chicago. In 1952 they moved to Withee and operated a small farm. He was a member of St. John’s Lutheran Church.

He is survived by his wife; a son, Frederich Jr., Curtiss; two daughters, Mrs. Roland (Elsie) Hocke, Curtiss; and Miss Clara Neumann, Chicago; four grandchildren, four sisters and a brother in Germany.

**Another spelling in the article used for Neumann was Neuman.