Thurston-Pierce-Lewis County WA Archives Obituaries.....Zenner, John E. "Capt." Or "Cap" November 10, 1930 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wa/wafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Michelle Zenner michellezenner@yahoo.com October 27, 2009, 11:26 am TENINO Thurston County Independent. Tenino WASH. Vol. IX, Friday, November 14, 1930 J.E.Zenner Passess Away at Olympia Former Tenino Publisher Dies of Paralytic Stroke at Age of Seventy-nine Death on Monday morning took John E. Zenner, former Tenino newspaper publisher, at St. Peter's Hospital. Paralysis of the throat proved fatal after a stroke Saturday evening. He had been in fairly good health up until his last illness. After the stroke he regained consciousness for only a short time. The funeral was held at 9:30 Wednesday morning in the chapel of St. Peter's Hospital, and burial was made at Calvary cemetery Olympia. Members of the Tenino Eagles lodge acted as pall-bearers. Mr. Zenner was born in Germany on May 7, 1851, and came to Buffalo, N. Y. when a youth.( 3 or 4 yo) He came west about thirty years ago, and worked as a printer in several towns on the Coast. In 1919 he came to Tenino from the State Printing Office, and became a partner with L. W. Miller, to publish The Tenino News. A year later (1920) he assumed full control and published the paper until 1923 when he retired. Several months ago he went to live at the hospital where some minor ailments were cared for. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Helen Z. Berg, of Buffalo, and Sister Ewalda of Saint Agnes Academy, Alliance, Nebraska; a sister Sister Mary of Saint Anne of Rochester, New York. Deceased was a member of Olympia Aerie F. O. Eagles and of the Catholic Church. (Saint Michaels) Additional Comments: See also URLS: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~washingtonparish/blog/obits/Zenner _JE.pdf http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~washingtonparish/blog/obits/johann zenner1930.txt File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wa/thurston/obits/z/zenner12ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/wafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb