Wayne County MI Archives Obituaries.....Doemer, Anthony 1924
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Detroit News  February 7th, 1924
CANDYMAN BELOVED BY CHILDREN IS DEAD
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Anthony Doemer Kept Store 19 Years On Michigan Avenue

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

For 19 Years Mr. Doemer was the proprietor of the confectionary 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 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 candies 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 his four sons, Anthony, Raymond, Edwin, and 
Elmer.  He was born in Detroit in 1856, on the site of the present Receiving 
Hospital.



Additional Comments:
Anthony Doemer married Anna Mertz on the 8th of June, 1887 in Detroit 
Michigan.  He was the son of Peter Anton Doemer (Spelled Dömer in German) and 
Anna Elisabeth Doemer (nee. Rueenaufer)  Peter died at the old Herman Keifer 
Hospital in 1865 when Anthony was about nine years old.  Anthony was born July 
5th, 1856 and died February 4th, 1924. 

Peter brought his wife and first two children to Detroit from Foerde, 
Westfalia, Prussia on June 22nd, 1852 from Antwerp, Belgium on the Belgian 
ship "Maria" landing in New York and making his way to Detroit.   Peter was 
the son of Johann Peter Doemer, a master tailor, and Aloysia Wuesthoff.

Anthony was the fifth child of Peter and Elisabeth.

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