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LAFRENZ, Henry 1869-1945

LAFRENZ, PAULSEN, WATTERS, BUCHMEYER

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 9/25/2012 at 23:52:32

[Waterloo Daily Courier, Tuesday, July 17, 1945, Waterloo, Iowa]

HENRY LAFRENZ
DIES; A FORMER
HUDSON MAYOR

Longtime Secretary and
Manager of Creamery
Business There.

Hudson, la.—Henry Lafrenz, 76, former mayor of Hudson, and secretary of the Hudson Creamery, now the Cooperative Dairy association, died Monday of a heart attack at Pine River, Lake Ada, Minn., where he had gone July 8 for an outing with his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Claude Buchmeyer of Des Moines.

Mr. Lafrenz had suffered from high blood pressure for sometime. The body will arrive Wednesday and be taken to the O'Keefe & Towne Funeral Home at Waterloo pending arrangements.

Mr. Lafrenz was elected secretary and manager of the Hudson creamery in 1909 and held the position continuously with the exception of two years until 1939, when he resigned because of ill health.

He assisted in directing the business from a small plant to one of the leading creameries in the state. A modern building was erected in 1929 at a cost of $35,000, and improvements have continued to be made, the latest being an administration building on Eldora road, costing $7,000.

Mr. Lafrenz was mayor of Hudson for eight years.

He was born Mar. 14, 1869, in Halderslen, Germany, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lafrenz, Sr,

He married Miss Margaret Paulsen of Halderslen Aug. 20, 1888, in Cedar Falls, and the couple celebrated their 50th anniversary in 1938. Both had come to this country the month before their marriage.

In 1889 they came to Hudson and Mr. Lafrenz worked in the creamery a year before going on a farm two miles south of Hudson. They moved to Hudson in 1909, purchasing the McNally property south of the city park, which was later plotted into lots. In that same year he was made secretary and manager of the creamery.

Mr. and Mrs. Lafrenz had a cottage at Pine river and had spent part of their summers there since 1918. After the death of Mrs. Lafrenz in September, 1942, Mr. Lafrenz continued to go there for a month's fishing with his son, Harry E., of Hudson.

Surviving besides Harry are two other children, Mrs. Lee Watters, Hudson, and Mrs. Buchmeyer; also four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. Two grandchildren, Harry, Jr., and Donald Lafrenz are in the service.


 

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