Wayne County MI Archives Obituaries.....Doemer, Anthony February 1924
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Detroit News - Feb 7, 1924
Candyman Beloved by Children is Dead

Anthony Doemer Kept Store 19 Years on Michigan Avenue

Anthony Doemer, for almost a score of years known as "The Candyman" to the 
children of three schools, is dead.  His burial was to take place today at Mt. 
Olivet Cemetey with services this morning at Holy Trinity Church, Sixth and 
Porter streets.

For 19 years Mr. Doemer was the proprietor of the confectionery store at 1061 
Michigan avenue, a site he selected as conveniently on the route of children 
attending the three schools, Holy Trinity, Houghton and the old Wilkins 
School, now the High School of Commerce.  Boys and girls, now men and women, 
patronized his counters probably every day of their lives, certainly on the 
days that pennies were available.  On week days his store was "on the way to 
school" and on Sundays it was the stopping place of many youngsters' afternoon 
walks on the avenue."

Until the illness three years ago that resulted in his death, Mr. Doemer made 
his own candy and ice creams.  He always refused to augment his stock by 
buying from wholesalers and during the war, when sugar was scarce, he 
curtailed his trade rather than sell the "manufactured kind."

Mr. Doemer, who was 67 years old, died early Monday of a heart attack.  He is 
survived by his wife, Anna, and four sons, Anthony, Raymond, Edwin and Elmer.  
He was born in Detroit in 1856, on the site of the present Receiving Hospital.



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