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Albert P. Foehr

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Albert P. Foehr

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26 Nov 1928
Murphysboro, Jackson County, Illinois, USA
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Albert Foehr, resident at Division and 22nd Streets, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Foehr, living at 16th and Pine streets, expired in St. Andrew's hospital early Monday morning following an operation Thursday night for a mastoid abscess. ...

Mr. Foehr was one of the most popular young men of Murphysboro and was for years a locomotive fireman for the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co.

The deceased married Mrs. Alice West, nee Alice Patrick, esteemed daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Patrick, 535 North 15th street, this city. A daughter of her former marriage, Mrs. Jessie Carr, who with Mr. Carr are just now staging a series of home talent plays in Virginia, as professional vaudeville performers, cannot get here until late Wednesday, it is stated by relatives.

Immediate survivors are the widow, the parents, and his brothers and sister, John, Walter, Ed and Clara.

Among other organizations, deceased was a member of Murphysboro Lodge 572, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he was very active in Lodge affairs, and of the Brother of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. He was a World War veteran and member of Paul Stout Post No. 127 of the American Legion.

Big, jovial, a man with many friends and who made new ones where he went, "Al" Foehr will be missed at home and everywhere up and down the M. & O.

Source: The Daily Independent, Monday, November 26, 1928
Albert Foehr, resident at Division and 22nd Streets, son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Foehr, living at 16th and Pine streets, expired in St. Andrew's hospital early Monday morning following an operation Thursday night for a mastoid abscess. ...

Mr. Foehr was one of the most popular young men of Murphysboro and was for years a locomotive fireman for the Mobile & Ohio Railroad Co.

The deceased married Mrs. Alice West, nee Alice Patrick, esteemed daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Patrick, 535 North 15th street, this city. A daughter of her former marriage, Mrs. Jessie Carr, who with Mr. Carr are just now staging a series of home talent plays in Virginia, as professional vaudeville performers, cannot get here until late Wednesday, it is stated by relatives.

Immediate survivors are the widow, the parents, and his brothers and sister, John, Walter, Ed and Clara.

Among other organizations, deceased was a member of Murphysboro Lodge 572, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, in which he was very active in Lodge affairs, and of the Brother of Locomotive Firemen and Engineers. He was a World War veteran and member of Paul Stout Post No. 127 of the American Legion.

Big, jovial, a man with many friends and who made new ones where he went, "Al" Foehr will be missed at home and everywhere up and down the M. & O.

Source: The Daily Independent, Monday, November 26, 1928


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