E F Lautner's obituary, Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan

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E. F. Lautner - March 26 1969 - Unknown Paper

SAN ANTONIO,  Tex. - E. F. (Dutch) Lautner, 65, former Monroe
resident and operator of the old Monroe Steam Laundry, died
yesterday morning in his hime in San Antonio.

Private Episcopal services will be at 2 p. m. tomorrow in
Porter Loring Chapel, 323 S. Mc Cullough, San Antonio.  Burial
will be in Arlington Cemetery in Washington, D. C.

Memorials may be made to Trinity Episcopal Church, Monroe, or
to the Society for Crippled Children.

Born Jan. 16, 1904, in Traverse City, he graduated from the
University of Michigan in 1926.  He married Mildred Burck,
also a University of Michigan graduate, and they lived in
Monroe from 1929 until 1960.

He had operated the Monroe Steam Laundry at E. Front and
Macomb Sts.,  now the site of a city parking lot, from 1946
until it closed more that a year before Mr. Lautner left
Monroe.

He went to Verdon, France, in 1960 as a U. S. Civil Service
manager of the laundry and drycleaning establishment at the
Army base there.  Later he had a similar post in Hawaii,
returning to the United States last August after suffering a
stroke.

During World War II  Mr. Lautner held the rank of captain in
the Army while managing laundries at various large military
installations.

He was a member of Monroe Lodge 27, F and AM, and of the
Moslem Temple Shrine in Detroit.

Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Robert Griswold of
Clifton Springs, N. Y.; a sister, Miss Elsie Lautner of
Traverse City; two brothers, Robert Lautner of Traverse City
and Ernest Lautner of Florida and two grandchildren, Jan and
Stephen Griswold.