Mrs. Frank Holtgraver, 87, died in Washington, D.C. Her daughter, Mrs. James Murphy, with whom she had been making her home, arrived here Sunday morning with her body, which lay in state at the Mair funeral home all day Sunday. Many relatives from Topeka, Kansas City, St. Joe and Leavenworth were present and the rosary was recited. Over 30 took dinner at the Burris cafe.
Funeral services were held Monday morning at Mooney Creek and burial was beside her husband, who died 30 years ago.
Published in The Nortonville News (Jefferson County, Kansas), March 20, 1942.
Theresa Ploeger was born October 13, 1854 in Lüchtringen, Westphalia, Prussia (now Germany) to parents Philip and Josephine Herdes Ploeger of that village. On July 8, 1871 her mother Josephine, then 50, daughter Theresa 16, and son Albert 18, arrived in New York aboard the ship 'Rhein' which sailed from Bremen. It is believed her father Philip went to America on a different ship, likely earlier. The family located to Leavenworth, Kansas where her father Philip was a stone cutter, brick mason and later became a fire brick and clay work manufacturer in Leavenworth, according to the 1879 city directory.
Theresa married Frank Holtgraver and they had ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. They lived for many years in Winchester, Kansas.
Theresa's brother Albert Ploeger moved to Oklahoma in 1889, then to Idaho in 1910. Their parents Philip and Josephine moved to Oklahoma with Albert and his family and they are both interred there at Seward Cemetery near Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Mrs. Frank Holtgraver, 87, died in Washington, D.C. Her daughter, Mrs. James Murphy, with whom she had been making her home, arrived here Sunday morning with her body, which lay in state at the Mair funeral home all day Sunday. Many relatives from Topeka, Kansas City, St. Joe and Leavenworth were present and the rosary was recited. Over 30 took dinner at the Burris cafe.
Funeral services were held Monday morning at Mooney Creek and burial was beside her husband, who died 30 years ago.
Published in The Nortonville News (Jefferson County, Kansas), March 20, 1942.
Theresa Ploeger was born October 13, 1854 in Lüchtringen, Westphalia, Prussia (now Germany) to parents Philip and Josephine Herdes Ploeger of that village. On July 8, 1871 her mother Josephine, then 50, daughter Theresa 16, and son Albert 18, arrived in New York aboard the ship 'Rhein' which sailed from Bremen. It is believed her father Philip went to America on a different ship, likely earlier. The family located to Leavenworth, Kansas where her father Philip was a stone cutter, brick mason and later became a fire brick and clay work manufacturer in Leavenworth, according to the 1879 city directory.
Theresa married Frank Holtgraver and they had ten children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. They lived for many years in Winchester, Kansas.
Theresa's brother Albert Ploeger moved to Oklahoma in 1889, then to Idaho in 1910. Their parents Philip and Josephine moved to Oklahoma with Albert and his family and they are both interred there at Seward Cemetery near Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Family Members
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Frances Elizabeth Holtgraver Murphy
1876–1967
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Benjamin Phillip Holtgraver
1878–1965
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Mary Holtgraver
1881–1881
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Katherine Holtgraver
1881–1882
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Frank Holtgraver
1882–1882
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Theresa Katherine Holtgraver Polley
1887–1978
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Martha Holtgraver Vance
1890–1973
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William Joseph Holtgrave
1892–1977
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Dorothy "Dora" Holtgrave Beland
1895–1968
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Edward Andrew Holtgrave Sr
1896–1982
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