The funeral for Gerhard Goetze, a retired longshoreman, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Caldwell's Colonial Mortuary. Burial will be in River View Cemetery.
Mr. Goetze died of complications from heart arrhythmia Friday in a Portland hospital. He was 89.
He was a former credit union board member for the International Longshoreman's & Warehouseman's Union Local 8. He had been a member of the local since 1942.
During the 1930s he was a business agent for the International Woodworkers of America. He was an organizer for the union in the 1930s and 1940s after working in mills in the Portland area. For several years before the Great Depression slowed construction activity, Mr. Goetze operated his own plaster-and-stucco business.
He was born July 14, 1902, on a dairy farm south of Cornelius. He attended the Blooming Elementary School and St. Peter's Lutheran School near Cornelius.
He moved to Portland in 1922. He and his late wife, Eva, were married in 1923. She died in 1985. They attended the Portland Foursquare Church.
Mr. Goetze is survived by three sons, Jack of Portland, Floyd of Eugene and Earl of Sunnyvale, Calif.; two daughters, June Quincy of Red Bluff, Calif., and Janet Goetze of Portland; sisters, Anna Boge of Cornelius and Emma Scott of Winchester; 24 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, June 21, 1992]
Mr. Goetze died of complications from heart arrhythmia Friday in a Portland hospital. He was 89.
He was a former credit union board member for the International Longshoreman's & Warehouseman's Union Local 8. He had been a member of the local since 1942.
During the 1930s he was a business agent for the International Woodworkers of America. He was an organizer for the union in the 1930s and 1940s after working in mills in the Portland area. For several years before the Great Depression slowed construction activity, Mr. Goetze operated his own plaster-and-stucco business.
He was born July 14, 1902, on a dairy farm south of Cornelius. He attended the Blooming Elementary School and St. Peter's Lutheran School near Cornelius.
He moved to Portland in 1922. He and his late wife, Eva, were married in 1923. She died in 1985. They attended the Portland Foursquare Church.
Mr. Goetze is survived by three sons, Jack of Portland, Floyd of Eugene and Earl of Sunnyvale, Calif.; two daughters, June Quincy of Red Bluff, Calif., and Janet Goetze of Portland; sisters, Anna Boge of Cornelius and Emma Scott of Winchester; 24 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, June 21, 1992]
The funeral for Gerhard Goetze, a retired longshoreman, will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Caldwell's Colonial Mortuary. Burial will be in River View Cemetery.
Mr. Goetze died of complications from heart arrhythmia Friday in a Portland hospital. He was 89.
He was a former credit union board member for the International Longshoreman's & Warehouseman's Union Local 8. He had been a member of the local since 1942.
During the 1930s he was a business agent for the International Woodworkers of America. He was an organizer for the union in the 1930s and 1940s after working in mills in the Portland area. For several years before the Great Depression slowed construction activity, Mr. Goetze operated his own plaster-and-stucco business.
He was born July 14, 1902, on a dairy farm south of Cornelius. He attended the Blooming Elementary School and St. Peter's Lutheran School near Cornelius.
He moved to Portland in 1922. He and his late wife, Eva, were married in 1923. She died in 1985. They attended the Portland Foursquare Church.
Mr. Goetze is survived by three sons, Jack of Portland, Floyd of Eugene and Earl of Sunnyvale, Calif.; two daughters, June Quincy of Red Bluff, Calif., and Janet Goetze of Portland; sisters, Anna Boge of Cornelius and Emma Scott of Winchester; 24 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, June 21, 1992]
Mr. Goetze died of complications from heart arrhythmia Friday in a Portland hospital. He was 89.
He was a former credit union board member for the International Longshoreman's & Warehouseman's Union Local 8. He had been a member of the local since 1942.
During the 1930s he was a business agent for the International Woodworkers of America. He was an organizer for the union in the 1930s and 1940s after working in mills in the Portland area. For several years before the Great Depression slowed construction activity, Mr. Goetze operated his own plaster-and-stucco business.
He was born July 14, 1902, on a dairy farm south of Cornelius. He attended the Blooming Elementary School and St. Peter's Lutheran School near Cornelius.
He moved to Portland in 1922. He and his late wife, Eva, were married in 1923. She died in 1985. They attended the Portland Foursquare Church.
Mr. Goetze is survived by three sons, Jack of Portland, Floyd of Eugene and Earl of Sunnyvale, Calif.; two daughters, June Quincy of Red Bluff, Calif., and Janet Goetze of Portland; sisters, Anna Boge of Cornelius and Emma Scott of Winchester; 24 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
[The Oregonian, June 21, 1992]
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