Sprenger, Louis Sr. 1881 - 1971

SPRENGER, WATERBURY

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 11/19/2011 at 11:59:43

Louis Sprenger, Sr., longtime Akron resident of this community passed away Saturday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Marvin Mass in Sioux City.

Louis Sprenger the son of Karl and Christina Sprenger, was born October 15,1881 in Witchendorf Saxony (Germany). In 1883 he and his mother, and 2 sisters and brother joined their father in Cincinnati, Ohio who had come to America the preceding year. In 1884 the family moved to Beloit, Kansas where Lou's father had answered an ad for a tailor his vocation. Soon afterwards the father purchased a farm and because of his total lack of knowledge of farming was forced to hire a man to show he and his son how to farm. Leaving home at 20 Lou found work in the harvest fields and lumber camps. In May 1911 he married Florence Waterbury, establishing their home in rural Akron. To their marriage three daughters and one son were born. Mrs. Sprenger died in 1929.

Louis was a member of the Lutheran Church, Beloit, Kansas. He was a 62 year member of Freedom Lodge and a 58 member of Sioux City Consistory. Lou was a devoted family man, his love of gardening was second only to his family, as friends and family will attest.

Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. George (Ida) Stove and Mrs. Marvin (Florence) Moss both of Sioux City and Mrs. Embert (Helen) Klemme of Akron and one son Louis, Jr. of Sioux City. Two sisters, Mrs. Finley (Hattie) Harlow, Beloit, Kansas, Mrs. John (Minnie) Lingwall, Sidney, Nebraska; one brother, Alfred Sprenger also of Sidney; 12 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were 3 brothers and 2 sisters.

Funeral services were held Tuesday, May 4, 1971 at the Schroeder Funeral Home, the Rev. John Elliott of 1st Baptist Church, Sioux City, officiating. Masonic graveside services and burial was held in Riverside Cemetery. Active casket bearers were grandsons, Norvin Moss, William and Robert Stone, Dallas and Ronnie Klemme and Louis Sprenger, 3rd. Honorary Bearers: Bud Jammerthal, Larry and Garry Klemme, Johnny Winquist and Floyd Baber.

Memorials have been established in Mr. Sprenger's name at the Crippled Children's Hospital and School in Sioux Falls, S.D. and Shriner's Crippled Children's Hospital, Minneapolis.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, May 6, 1971
Akron, Iowa