Honolulu County HI Archives Obituaries.....Rohrig, Hermann A.  February 9, 1948
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UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER, 1948

ROHRIG RITES AT 4:30 TODAY

 Services will be held at the Lutheran church on Beretania St. at 4:30 o’clock 
this afternoon for Hermann A. Rohrig, 68, retired Honolulu manager for Albers 
Bros. Milling Co., who died in the Queen’s hospital at 11:50 p.m. Monday.*
 Internment in the Nuuanu cemetery will be private. The family requests that 
no flowers be sent, but that persons desiring to pay tribute to Mr. Rohrig’s 
memory may send contributions to the Lutheran church building fund. Williams 
mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements.
 Mr. Rohrig, whose home was at 2146 Kamehameha Ave., is survived by the widow, 
Mrs. Johanna K. Rohrig; a daughter, Mrs. Herbert M. Richards, the former 
Leilani Rohrig; a brother Oscar Rohrig, and a sister, Mrs. Auguste Ward, in 
Germany; a niece, Miss Helene Wolters of Honolulu; four grandchildren, and 
several other nieces and nephews.
 Mr. Rohrig, came to Hawaii at the instance of his uncle, the late Paul 
Isenberg, a noble in the days of the monarchy and a leading figure in the 
sugar industry of Kauai and elsewhere in the Islands, and remained here to 
make his home.
 Born on Oct. 29, 1879, in Linden, Hanover, Germany, the son of Wilhelm and 
Anna Rohrig, he was graduated from the college of Linden.
 He arrived in Honolulu on June 26, 1901, and became timekeeper at the Lihue 
Plantation Co., Kauai, remaining there for two years. He then went to Hilo as 
bookkeeper for the Hawaii Mill Co., and returned to Kauai in 1905 as 
bookkeeper for the Koloa Sugar Co.
 Two years later he was appointed manager of the Lihue store, Kauai, where he 
remained until 1919, when he resigned to become Honolulu manager for Albert 
Bros. Milling Co. He retired last Dec. 31.
 He married Johanna K. Sohlman on July 30, 1907.
 Mr. Rohrig had been treasurer of the Hawaiian School of Religion, and 
president of the Lutheran church council for many years. He was a member of 
the Outrigger Canoe Club, Honolulu Rotary Club and Honolulu Chamber of 
Commerce.


Additional Comments:
*Monday noted as February 9, 1948.


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