Obit for Albert Otto Wilhelm Lawrenz - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma 

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Source: THE KINGFISHER FREE PRESS, Monday, January 17, 1944.


A.O.W. LAWRENZ Of Okarche Dies.


Last rites were held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the St. John Lutheran
church in Okarche for Albert Otto Wilhelm LAWRENZ, who died Wednesday,
January 12, at his home in Okarche at the age of 80 years, 7 months
and 28 days.

Mr. LAWRENZ had been in ill health for several years, although he was
up and able to perform his duties until January 7, when he suffered a
paralytic stroke.

Albert Otto Wilhelm LAWRENZ was born May 14, 1863, at Kutzer, Province
Regenswald, Prussia, in Germany, where he spent his childhood and
youth. At the age of 25 he came to America in March, 1888, and
settled at Echo, Minn., and there in 1891 he was married to Miss Anna
ZINKE.

They came to Oklahoma in 1900 and settled on a farm west of Okarche,
and to this union 11 children were born. Mrs. LAWRENZ died in 1914
and two sons, one of whom died in infancy, and Richard, who died three
years ago, also preceded their father in death.

In February, 1920, Mr. LAWRENZ was married to Mrs. Wilhelmine SHAW,
and one son born to this union died in infancy.

Mr. LAWRENZ resided on the farm until several years ago when he
retired and moved to Okarche.

Surviving with the widow, are Emil LAWRENZ of Hemmingford, Nebr.; Mrs.
Lydia KELM of Stewart, Minn.; Miss Olga LAWRENZ of Minneapolis, Minn.;
Fred LAWRENZ of Dallas, Tex.; Alfred LAWRENZ of Arizona; Miss Hattie
LAWRENZ of Los Angeles, Calif.; William LAWRENZ, of Okarche; Ewald
LAWRENZ of Oklahoma City; Mrs. Gertrude KAPONIS of Louisville, Ky.;
and two step-daughters, Mrs. Gwendolyn THOMPSON of Columbia, S.C., and
Mrs. Ione BRENNEN of Council Grove, Kans.

Rev. Paul HOYER officiated at the church service and in the Lutheran
cemetery where burial was made.