Fred was born June 25, 1881 in Cortland, Nebraska.
In 1917, he and his wife, Mertal, were living at 2101 O, Havelock, Lincoln, Nebraska. He was working as a grocery clerk in the Basket Store.
By September 12, 1918, he was a store manager for a Basket Store at 108 N. 9th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. That day this slender man, of medium height, with brown hair and eyes, walked into the Omaha WWI draft registration office. He and Mertal were living at 6411 Maple in Omaha.
Later, he was active as a member of Benson International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Lodge and the Omaha Meat Dealers Association.
Fred C. Wolf, 91, of 7300 Graceland Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, passed away.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Pearl; 3 sons: Robert, Dale and John; 2 daughters: Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, Mrs. William (Lauramae) Ronne, all of Omaha; two stepdaughters: Mrs. Charles Brewer, Los Angeles, CA; Mrs. Hubert Lacy, Alexandria, VA; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren.
Funeral 10am Saturday, Kremer Funeral Home. Interment: West Lawn Cemetery.
Kremer Funeral Home in service to the family.
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From obituary printed in the Friday, August 20, 1971 Omaha World-Herald p. 48; National Archives; internet sources; family sources; cemetery records Note: Basket Stores were an early discount grocery chain, begun in Nebraska. Basket Stores started in 1908 in Lincoln, Nebraska. It expanded to over 70 stores and included stores in Iowa and perhaps Kansas by 1920. There was a buyout by W. D. Williams of the chain started by J. R. Burleigh and Clarence S. Alvord. Burleigh and Alvord moved from Lincoln to Omaha and then to St. Joseph as they spread their chain.
Basket Stores met all of the criteria of a "groceteria" or early discount grocer: self-service, no credit, no delivery (or at least not free), clearly labeled prices, direct purchase from manufacturers, etc.
Basket Stores seems to have lasted into the 1940s but it is unclear what finally happened to it.
While research Seattle's Groceteria stores. Through happenstance, one of the Groceteria branch managers' father had a grocery in Omaha, Nebraska until about 1914. An ad that mentioned the father's store also listed several Basket Stores. I started digging into it because Groceteria's founder Alvin Monson was from rural Nebraska. He stated that he had inspiration from a few other discount grocers but didn't name them. I assumed they were A&P and perhaps grocers in California. But Monson lived in Lincoln, Nebraska for a year from 1912-1913 attending UNL.
There was a 1913 lawsuit indicating that Basket Stores truly was a discount grocer prior to A&P--Source: website Groceteria, contributor roket » 30 Dec 2017
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In 1917, he and his wife, Mertal, were living at 2101 O, Havelock, Lincoln, Nebraska. He was working as a grocery clerk in the Basket Store.
By September 12, 1918, he was a store manager for a Basket Store at 108 N. 9th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. That day this slender man, of medium height, with brown hair and eyes, walked into the Omaha WWI draft registration office. He and Mertal were living at 6411 Maple in Omaha.
Later, he was active as a member of Benson International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Lodge and the Omaha Meat Dealers Association.
Fred C. Wolf, 91, of 7300 Graceland Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, passed away.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Pearl; 3 sons: Robert, Dale and John; 2 daughters: Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, Mrs. William (Lauramae) Ronne, all of Omaha; two stepdaughters: Mrs. Charles Brewer, Los Angeles, CA; Mrs. Hubert Lacy, Alexandria, VA; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren.
Funeral 10am Saturday, Kremer Funeral Home. Interment: West Lawn Cemetery.
Kremer Funeral Home in service to the family.
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From obituary printed in the Friday, August 20, 1971 Omaha World-Herald p. 48; National Archives; internet sources; family sources; cemetery records Note: Basket Stores were an early discount grocery chain, begun in Nebraska. Basket Stores started in 1908 in Lincoln, Nebraska. It expanded to over 70 stores and included stores in Iowa and perhaps Kansas by 1920. There was a buyout by W. D. Williams of the chain started by J. R. Burleigh and Clarence S. Alvord. Burleigh and Alvord moved from Lincoln to Omaha and then to St. Joseph as they spread their chain.
Basket Stores met all of the criteria of a "groceteria" or early discount grocer: self-service, no credit, no delivery (or at least not free), clearly labeled prices, direct purchase from manufacturers, etc.
Basket Stores seems to have lasted into the 1940s but it is unclear what finally happened to it.
While research Seattle's Groceteria stores. Through happenstance, one of the Groceteria branch managers' father had a grocery in Omaha, Nebraska until about 1914. An ad that mentioned the father's store also listed several Basket Stores. I started digging into it because Groceteria's founder Alvin Monson was from rural Nebraska. He stated that he had inspiration from a few other discount grocers but didn't name them. I assumed they were A&P and perhaps grocers in California. But Monson lived in Lincoln, Nebraska for a year from 1912-1913 attending UNL.
There was a 1913 lawsuit indicating that Basket Stores truly was a discount grocer prior to A&P--Source: website Groceteria, contributor roket » 30 Dec 2017
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Fred was born June 25, 1881 in Cortland, Nebraska.
In 1917, he and his wife, Mertal, were living at 2101 O, Havelock, Lincoln, Nebraska. He was working as a grocery clerk in the Basket Store.
By September 12, 1918, he was a store manager for a Basket Store at 108 N. 9th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. That day this slender man, of medium height, with brown hair and eyes, walked into the Omaha WWI draft registration office. He and Mertal were living at 6411 Maple in Omaha.
Later, he was active as a member of Benson International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Lodge and the Omaha Meat Dealers Association.
Fred C. Wolf, 91, of 7300 Graceland Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, passed away.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Pearl; 3 sons: Robert, Dale and John; 2 daughters: Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, Mrs. William (Lauramae) Ronne, all of Omaha; two stepdaughters: Mrs. Charles Brewer, Los Angeles, CA; Mrs. Hubert Lacy, Alexandria, VA; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren.
Funeral 10am Saturday, Kremer Funeral Home. Interment: West Lawn Cemetery.
Kremer Funeral Home in service to the family.
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From obituary printed in the Friday, August 20, 1971 Omaha World-Herald p. 48; National Archives; internet sources; family sources; cemetery records Note: Basket Stores were an early discount grocery chain, begun in Nebraska. Basket Stores started in 1908 in Lincoln, Nebraska. It expanded to over 70 stores and included stores in Iowa and perhaps Kansas by 1920. There was a buyout by W. D. Williams of the chain started by J. R. Burleigh and Clarence S. Alvord. Burleigh and Alvord moved from Lincoln to Omaha and then to St. Joseph as they spread their chain.
Basket Stores met all of the criteria of a "groceteria" or early discount grocer: self-service, no credit, no delivery (or at least not free), clearly labeled prices, direct purchase from manufacturers, etc.
Basket Stores seems to have lasted into the 1940s but it is unclear what finally happened to it.
While research Seattle's Groceteria stores. Through happenstance, one of the Groceteria branch managers' father had a grocery in Omaha, Nebraska until about 1914. An ad that mentioned the father's store also listed several Basket Stores. I started digging into it because Groceteria's founder Alvin Monson was from rural Nebraska. He stated that he had inspiration from a few other discount grocers but didn't name them. I assumed they were A&P and perhaps grocers in California. But Monson lived in Lincoln, Nebraska for a year from 1912-1913 attending UNL.
There was a 1913 lawsuit indicating that Basket Stores truly was a discount grocer prior to A&P--Source: website Groceteria, contributor roket » 30 Dec 2017
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In 1917, he and his wife, Mertal, were living at 2101 O, Havelock, Lincoln, Nebraska. He was working as a grocery clerk in the Basket Store.
By September 12, 1918, he was a store manager for a Basket Store at 108 N. 9th Street in Omaha, Nebraska. That day this slender man, of medium height, with brown hair and eyes, walked into the Omaha WWI draft registration office. He and Mertal were living at 6411 Maple in Omaha.
Later, he was active as a member of Benson International Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) Lodge and the Omaha Meat Dealers Association.
Fred C. Wolf, 91, of 7300 Graceland Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, passed away.
Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Pearl; 3 sons: Robert, Dale and John; 2 daughters: Mrs. Elizabeth Reynolds, Mrs. William (Lauramae) Ronne, all of Omaha; two stepdaughters: Mrs. Charles Brewer, Los Angeles, CA; Mrs. Hubert Lacy, Alexandria, VA; 13 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren.
Funeral 10am Saturday, Kremer Funeral Home. Interment: West Lawn Cemetery.
Kremer Funeral Home in service to the family.
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From obituary printed in the Friday, August 20, 1971 Omaha World-Herald p. 48; National Archives; internet sources; family sources; cemetery records Note: Basket Stores were an early discount grocery chain, begun in Nebraska. Basket Stores started in 1908 in Lincoln, Nebraska. It expanded to over 70 stores and included stores in Iowa and perhaps Kansas by 1920. There was a buyout by W. D. Williams of the chain started by J. R. Burleigh and Clarence S. Alvord. Burleigh and Alvord moved from Lincoln to Omaha and then to St. Joseph as they spread their chain.
Basket Stores met all of the criteria of a "groceteria" or early discount grocer: self-service, no credit, no delivery (or at least not free), clearly labeled prices, direct purchase from manufacturers, etc.
Basket Stores seems to have lasted into the 1940s but it is unclear what finally happened to it.
While research Seattle's Groceteria stores. Through happenstance, one of the Groceteria branch managers' father had a grocery in Omaha, Nebraska until about 1914. An ad that mentioned the father's store also listed several Basket Stores. I started digging into it because Groceteria's founder Alvin Monson was from rural Nebraska. He stated that he had inspiration from a few other discount grocers but didn't name them. I assumed they were A&P and perhaps grocers in California. But Monson lived in Lincoln, Nebraska for a year from 1912-1913 attending UNL.
There was a 1913 lawsuit indicating that Basket Stores truly was a discount grocer prior to A&P--Source: website Groceteria, contributor roket » 30 Dec 2017
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