Mary "Mamie" Feuchtwanger

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Cass City Chronicle
Friday, August 7, 1942

Mrs. Samuel Lenzner

Mrs. Samuel Lenzner died at her home at 1226 Hubbard Avenue, Detroit, Sunday morning. Funeral services were held at the Hamilton Funeral Home in that city Tuesday morning by the Rev. Tracy Pullman and the remains were brought to Cass City where they lay in state at the MacPhail & Keehn Funeral Home for a short time before the burial service at Elkland Cemetery, conducted by the Rev. Stanley P. Kirm of Cass City.

Mamie Feuchtwanger, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Feuchtwanger, was born in Tallahassee, Florida, on December 12, 1862. She came with her parents from Saginaw to Cass City in 1876 and taught in the rural schools of Greenleaf township before her marriage to Samuel Lenzner on February 4, 1886. They moved to Detroit in June, 1886. Mr. Lenzner passed away in that city in August, 1926.

Mrs. Lenzner was a member of the Church of Our Father, corner of Cass and Forest Avenue, Detroit, a life member of Sampson Chapter, O.E.S. and a past matron of Hayward Chapter, O.E.S.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Edgar G. Braun, of Detroit, with whom she made her home; a son, Col. Delmar Lenzner, of Fort Monroe, Virginia, and a grandson, Edgar Braun, Jr., a student at Wayne University.

Besides the immediate family, those who came from out of town to attend the burial service here were Mrs. W.S. Gillies and the Misses Chrystal and Marian Read of Detroit and Dr. and Mrs. Grey F. Lenzner of Bad Axe.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Summer 2007)

(Research):Census Information:

1930 Census
Michigan, Wayne County, Detroit Ward 14, Precinct 2
Enumerated April 10, 1930
ED 82-414 SD 20th Sheet 8B
Hubbard Avenue
1226-49-44
Braun, Edgar G Hd O $20,000 M W 34 M 26 NY Canada German En
g Canada German Eng Attorney at Law Law
Braun, Ruth L Wf F W 37 M 29 Mich NY Florida
Braun, Edgar G Son M W 5 S Mich NY Mich
Lenzner, Mamie Mother-in-law F W 67 Wd Florida Germany Germany
Murn, Bertha Servant F W 52 S Mich GermanyBerlin Germany Berlin Servant Private Family

Mary married Samuel B. Lenzner on 4 Feb 1886 in Tuscola County, Michigan. Samuel (son of Christian Oscar Lenzner, Sr. and Susanna Catharina Striffler) was born on 30 Jun 1861 in Lancaster, Erie County, New York; was christened on 4 Feb 1886 in Tuscola County, Michigan; died on 20 Jul 1926 in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan; was buried on 23 Jul 1926 in Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Delmar S. Lenzner was born on 17 Sep 1888 in Michigan; died on 30 Nov 1961 in Hampton (Independent City), Virginia.
2. Ruth H. Lenzner was born on 11 May 1892 in Michigan; died in Feb 1976 in Albany, Albany County, New York.