Wedding Wednesday - Victor Wm.Hengel & Wilhelmine C. Lommel

24 Nov 1927

Victor William Hengel (b. 28 Nov 1904, d. 24 Nov 1965) married Wilhelmine C. Lommel (b. 29 Sep 1900, d. 20 Apr 1972) on 24 Nov 1927  at 7:00 at Immaculate Conception Church in Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minnesota.  They were my wife's maternal grandparents.

Wedding Wednesday – a great way to display those old wedding photos or scan wedding invitations and announcements! Suggested by Carol of Reflections from the Fence and in use by several genealogy bloggers.  (Blurb shamelessly stolen from Thomas McEntee at Geneabloggers!)

Funeral Card Friday - Joseph P. Lommel

Joseph P. Lommel funeral card inside view

Joseph P. Lommel was a major patriarch of my wife's maternal line.  This gentleman and his wife Anna Friedrich, subject of an earlier Funeral Card Friday post, raised a total of seventeen (17!) children.  They lived in St. Cloud, Minnesota for a large portion of their lives.  I will cover Joseph in more detail in a future post.  Here's the artwork for Joseph's funeral cards:

You'll note there appear to be two duplicated panels.  The Christ figure on the left of this last example is also the same as the one on the right side of the second example.  The Mary figure in the 2nd and third examples is also identical.  And again we can see oodles of symbolism from every piece of art.  If any of you are art historians, I'd love to hear explanations of these cards' symbols!  And if you have any inside information on how these cards were designed and/or selected, I'd love to hear that as well.  Let me know in the comments below...

Funeral Card Friday is a genealogy meme created by Dee Welborn of Funeral Cards & Genealogy and has been an ongoing series in the Geneablogger community.  If you're interested in funeral cards, I strongly recommend you visit her blog!

Sunday Obituary - Edmund "Shorty" Lommel

St. Cloud Daily Times, 23 Oct 1979

Lommel

  Edmund C. "Shorty" Lommel, 75, 312-14th Ave. N, died Tuesday at St. Cloud Hospital.

  Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. John Cantius Catholic Church with the Rev. Lawrence Torborg officiating. Burial will be in Assumption Cemetery.

  Friends may call after 3 today at Daniel Funeral Home. Loyal Order of the Moose will meet at 7 tonight at the funeral home followed by parish prayers at 8.

  Mr. Lommel was born Jan. 12, 1904, in Albany to the late Joseph and Anna (Friedrich) Lommel. He married Mildred Willenbring July 24, 1928, in St. Mary's Cathedral. He was employed as an automobile mechanic 47 years by Tenvoorde Motor Company and later by Bernick Bottling Company. Following his retirement in 1966, he was employed part-time by St. Cloud Park Department. He was a member of St. John Cantius Parish and Loyal Order of the Moose.

  Survivors include his wife; sons and daughters, Robert and Donald, St. Cloud; Lois D'Luhy, Kensington, Md.; Mrs. Stephen (Sharon) Kettells, Richmond, Va.; sisters and brothers, Sally, St. Cloud; Gilbert, South Haven; Mrs. August (Gertrude) Meyer, St. Paul; Mrs. Ray (Johanna) Weismann, Minneapolis; Mrs. Ray (Rose) Uberecken, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Herschel (Anna May) Kiebert, Meridan, Idaho; Dr. Jerome Lommell, Madesto [sic], Calif., and 11 grandchildren.

  He was preceded in death by seven brothers and sisters.

  Pallbearers will be Conrad Kloskin, Victor and Virgil Hengel, LeRoy May, Tom Lommel and Don Schwegmann.

Edmund C. "Shorty" Lommel's obituary is included in the scrapbook I received in a recent Treasure Chest Thursday.  Edmund was my wife's grandmother's brother, and an older brother to the creator of the scrapbook in question.   This is a very good obituary!  It contains birth and marriage dates, spouse's maiden name, residence and occupational information for the deceased.  It also gives first and last names of survivors, including female spouses.  Also included are church and fraternal organization memberships.  Very informative compared to many I have seen.

I have now done the initial digitization of the entire scrapbook using my digital camera as I discussed in Part I of my Tech Tuesday article on Digitizing With Cameras.  I used the technique I discussed of cleaning up the image to get the best possible image for use in my OCR software.  The resulting text you see above came out of the software error free. At that low error rate of a few or no errors per conversion, it's well worth the time spent cleaning up the image to avoid transcribing it all manually.


 
Sunday’s Obituary – if you have obituaries of family members and ancestors, consider posting them along with other information about that person as part of Sunday’s Obituary. This is an ongoing series developed by Leslie Ann at Ancestors Live Here.

Wordless Wednesday - Lommel Ladies

Wordless Wednesday – a great way to share your old family photos! Create a post with the main focus being a photograph or image. Some posters also include attribute information as to the source of the image (date, location, owner, etc.). Wordless Wednesday is one of the longest running “memes” in the blogosphere and is an ongoing series at GeneaBloggers.