Individual Notes
Note for: Frederick William Klukas, 26 May 1884 - 19 Jul 1943 Index
Nickname: Fred
Occupation: Barber/Railroad Brakeman
Event: Goodbody's Ivy Chapel, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Type: Arrangments
Date: 19 Jul 1943
Place: Lemon Grove, San Diego, CA, US
Event:
Type: Location
Date: 23 Jul 1943
Place: Transfiguration Chapel, Sec. 1D
Event: Requiem Mass at St. Joseph's Cathedral, San Diego, San Diego, CA
Type: Funeral Held
Date: 23 Jul 1943
Place: San Diego, San Diego, CA, US
Event: 548-12-3906
Type: SSN
Burial:
Date: 23 Jul 1943
Place: Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego, CA, US
Individual Note: BURIAL
Interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery Masoleum in San Diego, CA. He isin the
Transfiguration Chapel. Go in the main entrance, 1st R, 1st R again,he's on
the right about the third row up from the floor.
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Obituary:
(Received August 22, 1998 from mom in a stack of clippings, no datesor other details)
KLUKAS--Frederick William, July 19, husband of Theresa Rose Klukas,father of Frederick A. and Albert P. Klukas and Mrs. Arlene R. Taylor,3 grandchildren. Friends are invited to recitation of the rosaryGoodbody's Ivy chapel, Thursday afternoon at 4:30. Requiem mass St.Joseph's cathedral Friday morning 9 o'clock. Interment Holy CrossCemetery.
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Wisconsin Vital Records Indexes, Pre-1907 Birth Index, Marriages, andDeath Indes.
Name: Frederick W Klukas
Birth Date: 26 May 1884
County: Milw
Reel: 0154
Record: 001393
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Died in the Paradise Valley Hospital, National City, San Diego County,CA. Died from Uremic Posioning (Kidney Failure). No dialysis in 1943.
u·re·mi·a n. A toxic condition resulting from kidney disease in whichthere is retention in the bloodstream of waste products normallyexcreted in the urine. Also called azotemia. --uremic adj.
Individual Notes
Note for: Theresia Rose Niedermeyer, 14 Jan 1890 - 4 Mar 1988 Index
Nickname: Theresa
Occupation: Housewife/Grandmother
Census:
Date: 13 Jun 1900
Place: Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, US
Census:
Date: 26 Apr 1910
Place: Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI, US
Event: Conrad Mortuary, Lemon Grove, San Diego, CA
Type: Arrangments
Date: 4 Mar 1988
Place: Lemon Grove, San Diego, CA, US
Event:
Type: Location
Date: 7 Mar 1988
Place: St. Mary Madeline Chapel, Sec. 3D
Event: Requiem Mass at Santa Sophia Catholic Church, Spring Valley, San Diego, CA
Type: Funeral Held
Date: 7 Mar 1988
Place: Spring Valley, San Diego, CA, US
Event: 560-32-9592
Type: SSN
Burial:
Date: 7 Mar 1988
Place: Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego, San Diego, CA, US
Interred in the Masoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery, San Diego, CA. Sheand Frederick are located in approximately the same place in seperatewings. They are: (He) Go in the main entrance - 1st R, 1st R again, onthe R. (She) Go in entrance, 1st R, then 2nd R, on the right. She'sin the St. Madeline Sophie Chapel. He's in the TransfigurationChapel.
PERSONALS
SS# 560-32-9592.
When we were all growing up, grandma was always there for us. So whenshe passed away, it was our turn to be there for her.
When Theresa Rose Niedermeyer Klukas was laid to rest, she was carriedby her grandsons and one great grandson. We were:
Charles Lyle "Chuck" Taylor Jr.
William Andrew Klukas
Eugene Warner Klukas
Paul Joseph Klukas
Robert James Klukas
Charles Lyle Taylor III
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On the humerous side:
A short time after my maternal grandfather died in July 1943, mygrandmother was concerned that she hadn't purchased "a place" forherself, when her time would come. So she purchased a COMPLETE burialpackage, with all of the bells and whistles. This elaborate packagecost her $300 in about 1943/44. Well, to make a long story short,grandma lived until 1988. And the package that she bought, well theyHAD to stand behind it. So grandma's fancy funeral cost $300. Today,they wouldn't even stick the key in the ignition of the hurse for$300. Mom and I have laughed about that time and time again how theover priced funeral home got "clipped" at their own game. The packagethat she bought included the crypt, the hurse, two mourners cars,three motorcycle police escorts, the works The morning that we wereto bury her, one of the mourners cars even came to mom's house andpicked us up at the front porch. Dad's funeral wasn't even thatelaborate. Mom simply couldn't afford it.
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Frederick William Klukas was a Milkman in Milwaukee, WI when hedelivered milk at the (Doctor's) office building where Theresa worked.That's how they met. Theresa was working for an Orthopedic Doctor.
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Mom (Arlene) went to visit grandmother everyday at the care facilitywhere she was staying. They would visit and mom would help grandmaeat her ice cream, and grandmother would have a small glass of milkwith a straw. For as long as I can remember, grandmother LOVED icecream. Mom said that she was usually in about the same condition andstate of mind.
Mom said that when aunt Kate died, not knowing how grandmother wouldtake it, she was reluctant whether to tell her or not. Afterdiscussing it with me, we decided that she should tell her. Mom saidthat grandmother seemed relieved when she found out that her sisterKate had passed away. Mom said that from this time on, she justwatched grandmother fade away. I guess that she figured she'd stuckit out long enough to make sure everything she could control in lifewas concluded, and that there was no need to hang on any longer. Momsaid she just gave in, and let death overtake her. Four days latershe was in a coma, and eight days after Kate had died, Theresa joinedher, and so ended the life of one of the sweetest persons that everlived. Looking back, I only wish I'd become interested in doinggenealogy before her demise. Grandmother took a vast library oflifetime experiences and knowledge to the grave with her.
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Name: Theresia Niedermeyer
Birth Date: 14 Jan 1890
County: Milw
Reel: 0167
Record: 000016
Wisconsin Vital Records Indexes, Pre-1907 Birth Index, Marriages, andDeath Indes.
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April 2, 2002
Looking back, even though grandmother has been dead some 14 years now,somehow she is still helping me with the genealogy. A short timeafter I became interested in doing the family history, in 1991, atmother's suggestion, I called Esther Louise Klukas Rasmussen. Shesent me a sheet of paper, that was unmistakably in my grandmother'shandwriting, it contained all the pertinent information of mygrandmother's nativity family. That was the first time.
The next time was at Christmas 1996 or 1997, one of the years that wedid not go out to California for Christmas. My cousin Louise EstherKlukas Pearce, usually has a Christmas party for the "family." Atsuch a party at the time mentioned above, my cousin Robert came to mymother and placed a shoe box in her lap. My mother was busy chattingwith another person there, and my cousin Robert said, "Aunt Arlene, Ithink that you should look in the shoe box." Mom kept on talking. SoRobert said it again. This time my mom looked in the shoe box, andalmost gasped at what she saw. Then Robert said, "since Charles isdoing the family history, I think that he should have these." Mygrandmother and her family were the only ones that left Milwaukee andwent west. So when anyone had a baby, got married, died and wasburied, etc., someone in Milwaukee would clip the article from thenewspaper and send it to her. The shoe box was a genealogists dream.A gold mine with an untapped vein. It was full of newspaper clippingsof births, marriages, deaths, funerals, etc. spanning at least a 75year period or more. Grandma was instrumental again, as my motherdidn't know that the shoe box even existed.
Several of those clippings lead me to the burial places ofgrandmother's aunts, some of the Pfeifers. Another told of ChristinaDusold Pfeifer, celebrating her 80th birthday. This haunted me forthe longest time. They were enumerated in several censuses livingright next door to Andrew Niedermeyer, grandmother's father. Whywould someone send her a news clipping of a neighbor? Turns out,William Pfeifer, her husband, was Ernst Pfeifer's brother. She wasliving right next door to her niece, Louisa Pfeifer Niedermeyer. Ofcourse Louise was already deceased by this time, so was Andrew, thebirthday was in 1930 I think that grandmother's sister Kate (Franke)played a large part in keeping grandmother posted with thoseclippings.
I don't know how she's managing to pull it off, but these are at leasttwo occasions that grandma has helped me from the "other side." Ifeel that should something happen to me, future readers of thismaterial should be aware of how I acquired and came by some of theleads that took me to some positive conclusions and wonderful familyconnections.
Thank you grandma. You'll always be loved and missed.
CLTj
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Twelfth Census of the United States: 1900 - Population
D39: E.D. 75, P.19, Twelfth Census of the United States: 1900 -Population, Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA: 13 Jun 1900.
1910 Federal Census, 10th Ward, Milwaukee, Milwaukee County,Wisconsin, Supervisor's District: 4, Enumeration District: 95, Page:11B / 304B, Line: 74.
Age given as 20, Single, born Wisconsin. Father born Austria, Motherborn Wisconsin. Occupation: none given.