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Koelsch Funeral Home: Koelsch Funeral Home: October 12, 2010 : 7622 W, Greenfield Ave. Tudor Revival-styled funeral home, designed by Raymond Dwyer and built in 1937 with air conditioning and a sound system - advanced for the time. [153] 96
Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, clad in limestone with slate shingles, with two round-capped chimneys and one ridge dormer. Starke was a brother of the builder, and manager of the Milwaukee Tug Boat line. [51] [52] 43: Milwaukee County Home for Dependent Children-Administration Building
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]
The case marks the second time in recent years that Milwaukee funeral home operators have been charged with fraud. Former funeral home owner Jimmy D. Davis Jr. was charged in September 2021 with ...
Memorial contributions can be made to Friendship Circle of Wisconsin, at 8649 N. Port Washington Road in Fox Point.
Solomon Juneau, co-founder of the City of Milwaukee and its first mayor; Philipp Jung, early brewer whose business was acquired by Pabst Brewing Company; Matthew Keenan, local politician who helped to establish the Old Soldiers' Home; Edward Keogh, 37th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly, represented Milwaukee in the Assembly for 13 terms.
Tom Daykin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel December 28, 2023 at 3:05 AM Bruce Street just west of the Interstate 94 overpass is part of a neighborhood with heavy industrial uses that a new city plan ...
A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...