CLARENCE BARYENBRUCH

Undersheriff Baryenbruch Dies After Suffering Stroke
Taken Ill at Sheriff's Office On Wednesday
Manitowoc-- Undersheriff Clarence Baryenbruch, 47, of 1024 South
Eighth St., sheriff of Manitowoc County from 1948 through 1952,
died unexpectedly of a heart stroke at the Holy Family Hospital
shortly after 10 o'clock Wednesday night.
Baryenbruch, named undersheriff by Sheriff Lester Nichols when
the latter took office last January, was questioning some boys
in the sheriff's office earlier in the evening about petty thefts
in the county when he was stricken. Moved to the hospital by
ambulance, he died two hours later.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the First
German Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Rev. ? H. Koeninger will
officiate and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Managed Oil Station
He was born in the town of Newton in 1906, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Baryenbruch. He married Miss Ann Pleuss in 1929. He managed
an oil station for the Streich Oil Company at Tenth and Franklin
Streets for a number of years and for nearly eight years was a
guard at the Manitowoc Shipbuilding , Inc., during the submarine
program in World War 11. The Last two years he was chief of the
guard force.
Baryenbruch served as undersheriff during the term of former
Sheriff Arthur Truttschel and also served several years as a
deputy sheriff. He was elected sheriff in 1948 on the Republican
ticket and was renamed to a second two year term in 1950.
Ineligible to run for a third term under state statutes, he was
named undersheriff by Sheriff Lester Nichols following the election
and assumed his new duties last January.
Since then he had been doing much of the investigating work connected
with the sheriff's office and assisted in calls to accidents with the
sheriff and the county traffic officers.
Wife 3 Sons Survive
He was a member of the County Sheriff and Deputies Association, the
state organization, Iznak Walton League, Manitowoc County Fish and
Game Protective association, Barbershop chorus and the Seagulls.
Surviving are his wife; three sons, (private); three brothers,
Arthur of Spring Green, Wis., and Walter and Herbert of Manitowoc;
four sisters, Mrs. Clara Valleskey of Collins, Mrs. Marvin Mueller
of Manitowoc, Mrs. Rudolph Jaehnig of Two Rivers and Mrs. Hattie
Haupt of Manitowoc Rapid.
Friends may call at the Urbanek and Schlei Funeral Home after Friday
noon. The casket will be moved to the church at 10 a. m. Saturday.
Manitowoc Herald-Times, Thursday, November 12, 1953
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[d. 11-11-1953/age 47 yrs.]