Southampton County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Zehrbach, Louis E., 1946 

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LOUIS EDWARD ZEHRBACH

FORMER FRANKLINITE IS KILLED BY FALL ON SOVIET RUSSIA DAM

   News had been received by relatives here of the death of Louis E. Zehrbach, 
occasioned by an accidental fall while Mr. Zehrbach was engaged in his work on 
the installation of a hydro-electric turbine on the Deieperestrol dam in 
Soviet Russia.  Mr. Zehrbach was a former Franklin resident, working with the 
R.C. Motor Company for several years, later going to Newport News where he was 
employed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, and had gone 
to Russia earlier in the year where he was chief erection engineer in charge 
of four shipyard employees from Newport News who were in Russia to install 
hydro-electric turbines.  He died from a fall into a turbine pit while on duty.

   Mr. Zehrbach married Miss Aileen Bryant, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. 
W.E. Bryant of Como, who survives him with two daughters, Mrs. Fred Atwell of 
Arlington and Miss Jean Page Zehrbach of Hampton.  Mrs. Zehrback had two 
brothers here, Ernest and Johnnie Bryant.

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BURIAL SERVICES FOR L.E. ZEHRBACH HERE SUNDAY AT 4 P.M.

   L.E. Zehrbach, a former resident of Franklin, who was accidentally killed 
in Russia December 26, 1946, will be buried here Sunday.  The body will arrive 
in Hampton today and funeral services will be held in Central Church in 
Hampton Sunday at 2 o’clock p.m. and burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery 
here Sunday at 4 o’clock p.m. with Masonic rites at the grave.


Louis Edward ZEHRBACH, formerly of Franklin, chief erection engineer, 
accidentally killed 26 Dec 1946, Deieperestrol dam, Russia, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 211*), Franklin, 
   26 Jan 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 3, 1947, p. 1 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 14, 1947, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His in-laws are buried in Section 2, Plot 56: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His father-in-law's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 25, 1930, p. 5) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653w3ob.txt 

His mother-in-law's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 4, 1944) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653w2ob.txt 


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