Block, Katherine Louise

John married Anderson, Karen Diane [Group Sheet]

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Birth:
Details of the birth are not known at this time.

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Birth:
Details of the birth are not known at this time.

Melvin married Ploeger, Marolyn Elisabeth [Group Sheet]

Grover married Shannon, Joyce. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Details of the marriage are not known at this time.

Louis married Ahring, Ida. Ida died Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet]

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Married:
Details of the marriage are not known at this time.

Other Events:

• Baptism: 10 Jul 1904, Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA

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Birth:
The spelling of the surname in the archives of the church in Holstein, Missouri changes around the beginning of the 20th century from Plöger to Ploeger. The exact time of the change varies considerably from family to family and it is not unusually to find both forms existing almost simultaneously.

Baptism:
Roy's baptism is recorded in the archives of the German Evangelical Immanuels Church in Holstein, Missouri (known since 1957 as Immanuels United Church of Christ). The sponsor was "Friedrich Ploeger, Sr."

Buried:
Roy was buried in the cemetery associated with Immanuels United Church of Christ.

Died:

The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Roy F. Ploeger from an unidentified source.

Roy F. Ploeger, 85, of Hermann died Friday 25 May 1990. He was born 3 June 1904 in Holstein, Missouri to Robert and Elizabeth (Steffen) Ploeger. He was married to Mabel Hanke in Holstein on 19 June 1926. He was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles in Hermann, Missouri. Roy is survived by his wife, Mabel, daughters Mrs. Melvin (Marolyn) Block of Montgomery City, Missouri and Mrs. Albert (Eileen) Baumstark of Festus; sister Helen Schroeder of Dallas, Texas and eleven grandchildren and fifteen great grandchildren. Funeral services were held 29 May at the Toedtmann-Grosse Funeral Home in Hermann. Burial was in the Holstein Cemetery.

Roy married Hanke, Mabel Amoena 19 Jun 1927, Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA. Mabel was born 4 May 1906, Bernheimer, Warren County, Missouri, USA; died 4 Aug 1993, Hermann, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA; was buried 7 Aug 1993, Holstein, Warren County, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet]

Other Events:

• Baptism: 17 Jun 1906, Pinckney, Warren County, Missouri, USA
• Confirmation: 28 Mar 1920, Pinckney, Warren County, Missouri, USA

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Baptism:
According to an obituary, she was baptized at St. John's Evangelical Church.

Confirmation:
According to an obituary, she was confirmed at St. John's Evangelical Church.

Buried:
Mabel was buried in the cemetery associated with Immanuels United Church of Christ.

Died:

The following is a transcription supplied by Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts of an obituary for Mabel Amoena Hanke Ploeger which she reported appeared on 25 August 1993 in the Montgomery Standard.

Mabel Amoena Hanke Ploeger of the Frene Valley Nursing Home, Hermann, Missouri, died 4 August 1993. She was born 4 May 1906 at Bernheimer, Missouri the daughter of William and Elizabeth (Saak) Hanke. She was baptized 17 June 1906 at St. John's Evangelical Church at Pinckney and confirmed in the same church 28 March 1920. She was united in marriage to Roy Ploeger in June 1926. She is lovingly remembered by two daughters, Marolyn and husband Mel Block of Montgomery City, Missouri and Eileen and husband Albert Braumstark, Jr., of Treloar, Missouri and Tracy Lichtenberg and Gertrude Jett of Washington, Missouri. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a brother Milton and three grandchildren. Mabel lived much of her adult life in Rhineland, Missouri where she was the switchboard operator for fifteen years. Quilting and sewing were favorite past times for her. A funeral service of worship was conducted at Immanuel Church of Holstein, Missouri on 7 August 1993 with the Rev. Don Deeker officiating. Interment was in the Immanuel Church Cemetery. Arrangements were by the Lichtenberg Funeral Home of Marthasville, Missouri.

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Married:
Some report that the marriage took place in the German Evangelical Immanuels Church in Holstein, Missouri, but the published marriage register of that church fails to record any wedding on this date, or any marriage for two people with these names between 1923 and 1930.