John Moellenberg (1861 – 1942)

John Moellenberg was born in Germany on March 30, 1861. Sometime prior to 1890, John Moellenberg married Adele Barmann. They welcomed their first son, Frank Moellenberg, on August 30, 1891. בתוך 1893, ג'ון, Adele and Frank immigrated to the United States and settled in St. לואיס.

לג'ון ולאדל נולדו ילדים נוספים לאחר שהגיעו לסנט. לואיס. Henry Moellenberg was born on March 22, 1895. My stepfather Ernest Charles Diaz’s mother, מארי Moellenberg, was born on October 30, 1896. Their last child Annie Moellenberg was born in February 1903. באופן טרגי, she died months later in August 1903.

Tragedy struck again on November 22, 1904, ב 6 אני, when Adele Moellenberg nee Barmann passed away at 40 years of age from an unknown disease. A year later, John married Wihlemina Lansing.

John and Wihlemina had one child, Johanna Moellenberg, who was born on March 30, 1907. Prior to his death in 1942, Johanna and her two young sons lived with John and Wihlemina.

John found himself fearing for young Marie’s life in 1910. During a routine vaccination at the Carondelet School, a young boy named William Kunz died after receiving a vaccination. Other children fell ill to the point of death. Marie was one of the children sickened by the vaccinations. She told authorities, who investigated the doctor, who vaccinated all the children with the same needle. Fortunately for the family and Dad, Marie pulled through.

בחודש יולי 4, 1922, John was working in his Standard Oil filling station, when two robbers entered, made him lie on the floor and took his safe key from him. The men then emptied the safe and fled. Although shaken up by the experience, John was unharmed.

בתוך 1941, John also buried his son Frank, who served in World War I with distinction and had an American Legion Post named after him. A year later on August 15, 1942, John Moellenberg passed away at 81 years of age from heart disease and bowel obstruction. John was laid out in his beloved St. Boniface Church in Carondolet before being interred at St. Peter and Paul Cemetery.

From Germany to St. לואיס, John led a full life and left a large family.

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