Dora S. Krapf

1888 - 1941  (53 years)

• Name	Dora S. Krapf  [1]
  Birth	3 May 1888	Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	12 Jul 1941	Evergreen Township, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2]
  Burial	Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
  Notes	Cass City Chronicle August 15, 1919 The Week's Doing, Page Eight Miss Dora Krapf returned from Detroit Saturday evening and will remain here indefinately with her father, Jno. Krapf. Cass City Chronicle Friday, July 18, 1941 Necrology Miss Dora S. Krapf Miss Dora S. Krapf, R.N., 53, died Saturday, July 12, in her home in Evergreen Township. Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Monday in the Angus McPhail residence. Rev. Stanley P. Kirn, pastor of Salem Evangelical Church, officiated and interment was in Elkland cemetery. Dora S. Krapf, daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Krapf, was born on a farm one mile west and two miles north of Cass City, on May 3, 1888 and spent most her her life in or near Cass City. She is a graduate of Grace Hospital, Detroit, and for some time was employed there and also did private nursing until her health began to fail. She returned to Cass City to care for her uncles, Joshua and Elijah Fisher, until her death. She is survived by her sister, Mrs. Preston Allen, of Detroit. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Spring 2007)
  Person ID	I6061	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	John Krapf,   b. 10 Jan 1861, Greenfield, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin d. 24 Feb 1920, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 59 years)
  Mother	Eveline Fisher,   b. 3 Apr 1867, Wickware, Tuscola County, Michigan d. 30 Jul 1919, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 52 years)
  Marriage	15 Oct 1885	Caro, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 3]
  	They were married by Pastor H. Voelker, with John J. and Louise (Krapf) Gallagher witnessing their vows.
  Documents		Krapf, John marriage to Eveline Fisher, October 1885 They were married in Tuscola County, Michigan by Pastor H. Voelker, with John J. and Louise (Krapf) Gallagher witnessing their vows.
  Family ID	F3104	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  Birth - 3 May 1888 - Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Death - 12 Jul 1941 - Evergreen Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Burial - - Elkland Township Cemetery, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982. [S595] Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, (Family Publication, published sporadically to record family milestones in connection with the annual Striffler-Benkelman Family Reunions, with Vol. 1, Number 1, published Sept. 7, 1936. Issues on file at the Rawson Memorial Library in Cass City, Michigan include Vol. 5 (1941), Vol. 7 (1944) and Volumes 8 (1945) through Vol. 28 (1968). Issues published from 1961 through 1964 were not assigned volume numbers, and 1963 appears to be missing. Xeroxes of the existing issues were also made by Melinda McLemore Strong in 2007. According to a article published by the Cass City Chronicle on August 6, 1981, commemorating the Fiftieth and Final Striffler-Benkelman Reunion, the final issue of the STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROADCAST appears to have been Volume 28, published in 1968.), Volume 5, September 1, 1941 (Reliability: 3). [S1610] Jacobs, BonnieMargaret McDonald "The Family Benkelman" Unpublished Manuscript, 276 pages, October 1981 Version, (Copy owned by Barney Benkelman, Helena, Montana; which he xeroxed and sent to Melinda McLemore Strong in San Antonio, Texas), p. 138 (Reliability: 3).