Was Resident of San Jose for Half Century, Born in Hanover.
Funeral Services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon for Louis C. Gripenstraw, for 51 years a resident of Santa Clara County, at the Funeral Home of Curry, Gripenstraw and Darling. He died at his home at Lawrence Station on Wednesday.
A native of Hanover, then a free city, Gripenstraw came to America with his parents at the age of 10 years. His mother and twin sister died during the voyage and were buried at sea.
The family settled first in New Orleans and later went to Cincinnati and then to Illinois. As a young man Gripenstraw fought in suppressing guerilla warfare in the Civil War. Fifty-eight years ago Mr. and Mrs. Gripenstraw were married and seven years later came to California.
Gripenstraw was employed at the San Jose Woolen Mills for 30 years. He was an ardent prohibitionist and a member of the German M.E. church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Rosena Gripenstraw; and the following children, Carrie McIntosh, Mrs. Alice Scholl, Mrs. Lydia King, Dora Patton, Mrs. Esther Jacoby, John, Henry, Fred W., L.A.F. and W.G. Gripenstraw. Interment services will be private.
Was Resident of San Jose for Half Century, Born in Hanover.
Funeral Services will be held at 2 o'clock this afternoon for Louis C. Gripenstraw, for 51 years a resident of Santa Clara County, at the Funeral Home of Curry, Gripenstraw and Darling. He died at his home at Lawrence Station on Wednesday.
A native of Hanover, then a free city, Gripenstraw came to America with his parents at the age of 10 years. His mother and twin sister died during the voyage and were buried at sea.
The family settled first in New Orleans and later went to Cincinnati and then to Illinois. As a young man Gripenstraw fought in suppressing guerilla warfare in the Civil War. Fifty-eight years ago Mr. and Mrs. Gripenstraw were married and seven years later came to California.
Gripenstraw was employed at the San Jose Woolen Mills for 30 years. He was an ardent prohibitionist and a member of the German M.E. church.
Surviving are the widow, Mrs. Rosena Gripenstraw; and the following children, Carrie McIntosh, Mrs. Alice Scholl, Mrs. Lydia King, Dora Patton, Mrs. Esther Jacoby, John, Henry, Fred W., L.A.F. and W.G. Gripenstraw. Interment services will be private.
Family Members
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John C. Griepenstroh
1860–1928
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Annie Caroline Griepenstroh McIntosh
1862–1931
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Henry Louis Griepenstroh
1863–1937
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Alice Katherine Griepenstroh Scholl
1865–1941
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Lydia Margaret "Lydia" Griepenstroh King
1869–1949
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Dorothy Marie Louise "Dora" Griepenstroh Clawson
1874–1961
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Frederick William Gripenstraw
1878–1955
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Louis Arthur Franklin "Laf" Gripenstraw
1880–1955
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Wesley Oliver Gripenstraw
1885–1963
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Esther Henrietta Gripenstraw Gott
1892–1985
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