LOCAL CONTRACTING ENGINEER SUCCUMBS
Services to Be Held This Afternoon
Funeral services for Joseph Bader, 50, contracting engineer and resident here for the past 20 years, who died at the Marine Hospital Sunday morning, will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon from the funeral home of Malloy & Son, thence to St. Patrick's Church. Rev. John S. Murphy will officiate and interment will be in the Old Catholic Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be H. V. Tranan, T. H. Holtheuser, Frank Pfister, George Perussina and two members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
Mr. Bader was well known among the Galveston marine fraternity. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and of the Modern Woodmen of America and the local Woodmen of America and the local Raymond C. Paul Post No. 880 of the V. F. W. will have military ceremonies at his funeral.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Gussie Bader; a daughter, Miss Annie Dunn Bader of Galveston; a son Joseph Bader Jr., of Galveston; five sisters, one a nun, Sister of Divine Providence of Natchitoches, La.; and four living in Germany; an aunt, a nun at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, and other relatives. He was born in Seeburg, Germany, Aug, 31, 1881.
Notes: Joe Bader came to the United States in 1902 when he was 21. On September 28, 1903 he enlisted in the US Navy where he learned English. Joe served on the USS Kearsarge and was discharged September 27, 1907.
By 1910 he was a blacksmith who owned his own shop in Kendall, Tex. On January 16, 1911 Joe married Gussie Agnes Dunn in San Antonio. Together they had a a daughter, Annie Dunn, in Kerrville, TX and a son, Joseph Claude, in Galveston.
Joe Bader was an automobile salesman who made his own cars and a firetruck currently in the Comfort, TX museum. He was a blacksmith and horseshoer. Eventually, he became a machinist for his own company Vulcan. The company employees worked on the big ships that docked in Galveston. He lost a fortune during the Great Depression. Afterwards he was employed by E. M. Benz & Co. Joe continued to work until two weeks before his death. He died from kidney disease and pneumonia at the US Marine Hospital in Galveston.
Note: The original application for headstone has the state "PA" added after the application was signed by Gussie Dunn. It is in red ink whereas her application is in black. Joe Bader was not affiliated with the state of PA.
Services to Be Held This Afternoon
Funeral services for Joseph Bader, 50, contracting engineer and resident here for the past 20 years, who died at the Marine Hospital Sunday morning, will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon from the funeral home of Malloy & Son, thence to St. Patrick's Church. Rev. John S. Murphy will officiate and interment will be in the Old Catholic Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be H. V. Tranan, T. H. Holtheuser, Frank Pfister, George Perussina and two members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
Mr. Bader was well known among the Galveston marine fraternity. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and of the Modern Woodmen of America and the local Woodmen of America and the local Raymond C. Paul Post No. 880 of the V. F. W. will have military ceremonies at his funeral.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Gussie Bader; a daughter, Miss Annie Dunn Bader of Galveston; a son Joseph Bader Jr., of Galveston; five sisters, one a nun, Sister of Divine Providence of Natchitoches, La.; and four living in Germany; an aunt, a nun at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, and other relatives. He was born in Seeburg, Germany, Aug, 31, 1881.
Notes: Joe Bader came to the United States in 1902 when he was 21. On September 28, 1903 he enlisted in the US Navy where he learned English. Joe served on the USS Kearsarge and was discharged September 27, 1907.
By 1910 he was a blacksmith who owned his own shop in Kendall, Tex. On January 16, 1911 Joe married Gussie Agnes Dunn in San Antonio. Together they had a a daughter, Annie Dunn, in Kerrville, TX and a son, Joseph Claude, in Galveston.
Joe Bader was an automobile salesman who made his own cars and a firetruck currently in the Comfort, TX museum. He was a blacksmith and horseshoer. Eventually, he became a machinist for his own company Vulcan. The company employees worked on the big ships that docked in Galveston. He lost a fortune during the Great Depression. Afterwards he was employed by E. M. Benz & Co. Joe continued to work until two weeks before his death. He died from kidney disease and pneumonia at the US Marine Hospital in Galveston.
Note: The original application for headstone has the state "PA" added after the application was signed by Gussie Dunn. It is in red ink whereas her application is in black. Joe Bader was not affiliated with the state of PA.
LOCAL CONTRACTING ENGINEER SUCCUMBS
Services to Be Held This Afternoon
Funeral services for Joseph Bader, 50, contracting engineer and resident here for the past 20 years, who died at the Marine Hospital Sunday morning, will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon from the funeral home of Malloy & Son, thence to St. Patrick's Church. Rev. John S. Murphy will officiate and interment will be in the Old Catholic Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be H. V. Tranan, T. H. Holtheuser, Frank Pfister, George Perussina and two members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
Mr. Bader was well known among the Galveston marine fraternity. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and of the Modern Woodmen of America and the local Woodmen of America and the local Raymond C. Paul Post No. 880 of the V. F. W. will have military ceremonies at his funeral.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Gussie Bader; a daughter, Miss Annie Dunn Bader of Galveston; a son Joseph Bader Jr., of Galveston; five sisters, one a nun, Sister of Divine Providence of Natchitoches, La.; and four living in Germany; an aunt, a nun at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, and other relatives. He was born in Seeburg, Germany, Aug, 31, 1881.
Notes: Joe Bader came to the United States in 1902 when he was 21. On September 28, 1903 he enlisted in the US Navy where he learned English. Joe served on the USS Kearsarge and was discharged September 27, 1907.
By 1910 he was a blacksmith who owned his own shop in Kendall, Tex. On January 16, 1911 Joe married Gussie Agnes Dunn in San Antonio. Together they had a a daughter, Annie Dunn, in Kerrville, TX and a son, Joseph Claude, in Galveston.
Joe Bader was an automobile salesman who made his own cars and a firetruck currently in the Comfort, TX museum. He was a blacksmith and horseshoer. Eventually, he became a machinist for his own company Vulcan. The company employees worked on the big ships that docked in Galveston. He lost a fortune during the Great Depression. Afterwards he was employed by E. M. Benz & Co. Joe continued to work until two weeks before his death. He died from kidney disease and pneumonia at the US Marine Hospital in Galveston.
Note: The original application for headstone has the state "PA" added after the application was signed by Gussie Dunn. It is in red ink whereas her application is in black. Joe Bader was not affiliated with the state of PA.
Services to Be Held This Afternoon
Funeral services for Joseph Bader, 50, contracting engineer and resident here for the past 20 years, who died at the Marine Hospital Sunday morning, will be held at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon from the funeral home of Malloy & Son, thence to St. Patrick's Church. Rev. John S. Murphy will officiate and interment will be in the Old Catholic Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be H. V. Tranan, T. H. Holtheuser, Frank Pfister, George Perussina and two members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars post.
Mr. Bader was well known among the Galveston marine fraternity. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States and of the Modern Woodmen of America and the local Woodmen of America and the local Raymond C. Paul Post No. 880 of the V. F. W. will have military ceremonies at his funeral.
He is survived by his wife Mrs. Gussie Bader; a daughter, Miss Annie Dunn Bader of Galveston; a son Joseph Bader Jr., of Galveston; five sisters, one a nun, Sister of Divine Providence of Natchitoches, La.; and four living in Germany; an aunt, a nun at Our Lady of the Lake College in San Antonio, and other relatives. He was born in Seeburg, Germany, Aug, 31, 1881.
Notes: Joe Bader came to the United States in 1902 when he was 21. On September 28, 1903 he enlisted in the US Navy where he learned English. Joe served on the USS Kearsarge and was discharged September 27, 1907.
By 1910 he was a blacksmith who owned his own shop in Kendall, Tex. On January 16, 1911 Joe married Gussie Agnes Dunn in San Antonio. Together they had a a daughter, Annie Dunn, in Kerrville, TX and a son, Joseph Claude, in Galveston.
Joe Bader was an automobile salesman who made his own cars and a firetruck currently in the Comfort, TX museum. He was a blacksmith and horseshoer. Eventually, he became a machinist for his own company Vulcan. The company employees worked on the big ships that docked in Galveston. He lost a fortune during the Great Depression. Afterwards he was employed by E. M. Benz & Co. Joe continued to work until two weeks before his death. He died from kidney disease and pneumonia at the US Marine Hospital in Galveston.
Note: The original application for headstone has the state "PA" added after the application was signed by Gussie Dunn. It is in red ink whereas her application is in black. Joe Bader was not affiliated with the state of PA.
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PENNSYLVANIA
BLACKSMITH
US NAVY
