Dane County WI Archives Photo Tombstone.....HAMBURG, John H. Jr. And Maxine E. ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/wifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Erin Proctor Proctor37@charter.net March 9, 2007, 9:46 pm Cemetery: Albion Prairie Cemetery, Albion, Dane Co., Wi. Name: John H. Jr. And Maxine E. HAMBURG Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/wi/dane/photos/tombstones/albionprairie/hamburg7501gph.jpg Image file size: 76.0 Kb HAMBURG, John H. Jr. 26 Apr 1908- 27 Sep 1963 Son of John H. Sr. and Frieda HAMBURG. Married Maxine E. CIEBELL on 03 Jan 1932 Obit is from the Edgerton Reporter, Edgerton, ROck CO., Wi. Thursday, October 3, 1963: SERVICES FOR JOHN HAMBURG HELD AT CENTRAL LUTHREN Funeral services were held Tuesday in the Central Lutheran Church for John H. Hamburg. He died unexpectedly Friday at the airport in Santa Fe, New Mexico where he was to attend a commitee meeting of the National Association of Secondary School Principals to plan the national convention of that organization to be held in Chicago next February. Mr. Hamburg recieved state and national honors during his teaching career in Edgerton which spanned thirty-three years. He was presently the principal of the Delavan-Darien High School. Mr. Hamburg was sixth vice president of the National Association of Secondary School Principals and represented the region consisting of Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming on the executive commitee of the association. He was elected at the annual convention in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in February of this year and had as his aim to assure representation of the small high schools on this commitee. The funeral services were conducted by Pastor V.O. Aronsen, pastor of the Central Lutheran church and Pastor Joseph R. Hestenes former pastor of Central Lutheran for seventeen years who returned to give the sermon. Pastor Hestenes stated that we as Christians are provided with the inner equipment for life. This equipment is inner strength, faith, love and the power to understand, so that life may be a part of the fullness of God. He stressed that we should be ever mindfull of the vertical dimension which is our relationship with God rather than the horizontal dimension which is man's relationship with man. "It is through the vertical dimension, the pastor said, that we obtain God's love and comfort in time of need and crises." The church was filled as faculty members of the Edgerton and Delavan-Darien high schools, delegations from the student body of the two schools, the school boards, the Rotary Club which Mr. Hamburg was past president, educators, former students and friends gathered to pay their respects to him. The high schools at Edgerton and Delavan-Darien were closed at one p.m. Tuesday in memory of Mr. Hamburg. Long active in educational circles, Hamburg has been President of the Wisconsin Council for Social Studies in 1946, and served as Treasurer of the Wisconsin Sivision of Audio-Visual Instruction, 1948. He was President of the Southern Wisconsin Education Association 1953-1954; President of Wisconsin Association of Secondary School Principals, 1958- 1959 and has served as head of it's contests and activities committee for several years. He was a member of the Govenor's Committee on Children and Youth 1959-1960, and a member of the State Legislature's Interim Committee on Education, 1960-1961 and participated in the Encyclopedia Brittanica Film "New Tools For Learning". Part of which was filmed here in Edgerton. He was the author of two curriculam pamphlets on Audio-Visual materials in the social studies field and has written courses for the United States Armed Forces Institute and has served on its Textbook Evaluation Committee. He was currently serving on the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction's Curriculum Guiding Committee which reviews all guidance materials before publication. Hamburg was a member of the Wisconsin Education Association, National Council for the Social Studies, and a past president of the Edgerton Rotary Club. John Hamburg was born April 26, 1908 at Baraboo, Wisconsin and recieved his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Lawrence College, his Master's Degree from the University of Wisconsin and had additional graduate work in Education. He was married January 3, 1932 to the former Maxine Ciebell. He began his teaching career in Edgerton in 1930, and served as assistant superintendent from 1945 to 1956, Junior-Senior High Principal from 1956-1957 and Senior High School Principal from 1957 until his resignation at the close of the 1963 school year to accept a position as principal of the Delavan-Darien High School. He is survived by his wife, Maxine, a daughter, Mrs. James Morris (JoAnn), Detroit, Michigan; his mother, Mrs. John H. Hamburg, St., Baraboo; and two grandchildren. Pallbearers were; Ray Anderson, Delavan; Richard Bice, Stanly Ore, Russell Bauer, Leman Rood, and Marvin Thostenson, all of Edgerton. The School Board of the Delavan-Darien high school were honorary pallbearers. HAMBURG, Maxine E. 07 Feb 1910- 06 Sep 1967 Dau of Fred W. and Lucy (ORWIN) CIEBELL Married John H. HAMBURG, Jr. on 03 Jan 1932 Obit is from the Wisconsin Tobacco Reporter, Edgerton, Rock Co., WI. Thur 14 Sep 1967: MRS. JOHN HAMBURG Services were held Saturday in Delavan for Mrs. John J. Hamburg, 57, of Ill Cummings St. Delavan, former Edgerton resident and widow of John J. Hamburg, principal of the Edgerton high school for many years. Mrs. Hamburg died unexpectedly Wednesday, September 6, 1967 in Lakeland Hospital where she had been a surgical patient for two days. The former Maxine Ciebell was born in Dane County on February 7, 1910, and was the daughter of Fred and Lucy Orwin Ciebell. She lived most of her life in Edgerton. Her husband died unexpectadly September 27, 1963, at the Santa Fe, N.M. airport, upon his arrival there for a meeting of the executive comittee of Secondary School Principals. Mrs. Hamburg was a member of Luther Memorial Church, Delevan. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Jo Ann Morris, Troy, Mich; two grandchildren; her father, Fred Ciebell, and a brother Wesley, both of Edgerton; a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Halverson, Janesville. The services were held in Luther Memorial Church, with graveside burial service in Albion Prairie cemetery, rural Edgerton. 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