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Submitted: 12/17/10 • Approved: 1/9/13 • Last Updated: 1/12/13 • R429681-G429681-S3
Born September 17, 1896Loren, Illinois.
Died Dec 11, 1973 Baxter County, Arkansas.
Daughter of Herman Friedrich Simon Franzmeier & Anna Sophia Kemmitz Franzmeier.
Married Alfred Max Gerstenberger, September 10, 1919, Baxter County, Arkansas.
The Baxter Bulletin
December 20, 1973
Mrs. Gerstenberger,
retired school cook
Services were conducted Saturday at the Roller Chapel for Mrs. Anna Christine Gerstenberger of Route 2, Mountain Home. A longtime resident of
this area and a retired lunchroom employee of the Mountain Home Junior High School, Mrs. Gerstenberger, died Tuesday of last week at her home in the Oak Grove community.
Born Sept. 17, 1896, at Loren, Ill., she was the daughter of Simon and Anna Kemnitz Franzmeier. She moved to Baxter County from Oklahoma in 1917, and
was married here on Sept. 10, 1919, to Max Gerstenberger.
Surviving are her husband, of Route 2, Mountain Home; two sons, Harold of Des Moines, Iowa and Alfred of Pasadena, Tex.; two daughters, Mrs. Maxine Tillman of Cotter and Mrs. Myrtle Tish of Iowa City, Iowa; three brothers, Lloyd Franzmeier of Madison, Wis., Walter Franzmeier of Milwaukee, Wis., and Albert Franzmeier of Houston, Tex.; 15 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Pastor Eldon Winker officiated at the funeral. Interment was in the Oak Grove Cemetery under the direction of the Roller Funeral Home. Pallbearers
were Akin Doak, Robert Tipton, Carl Cody, Mont Tracy, Jimmy Baker and Blaine Huey.
(Photo courtesy of Vera Reeves)
Contributed on 12/17/10 by maxparnell
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