Grey Franklin Lenzner

1899 - 1961  (62 years)

• Name	Grey Franklin Lenzner  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	10 May 1899	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	2 Nov 1961	Caseville, Huron County, Michigan   [2]
  Burial	Colfax Cemetery, Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan   [2]
  Notes	His registration card for the First World War listed him as age 19, and a student. His nearest relative was shown as Franklin Lenzner of Cass City. Grey was listed as Tall, with a slender build, black hair and gray eyes. Roll 1682901. Cass City Chronicle Vol. 23, No. 46. Friday, June 8, 1928 Page 1 Dr. Grey F. Lenzner (pictured), graduate of the Kirksville College Osteopathy and Surgery, is expected to arrive in Cass City tomorrow to visit at the home of his father, Frank Lenzner, before locating permanently. During his stay in Cass City, Dr. Lenzner will give Osteopathic treatments at his home, one block south of the Chronicle office .-Adv. Cass City Chronicle Thursday, November 9, 1961 Page Six Former Resident Stricken Thursday Final rites were held Monday, November 6, for Dr. Grey F. Lenzner, 62, Bad Axe ospeopathic physician, at MacApline Funeral Home, Bad Axe. Dr. Lenzner died of a heart attack Thursday night, Nov. 2, at a cottage near Caseville where he was vacationing. A graduate of Cass City High School, he set up practice in Bad Axe in 1928 after graduating from Kirksville College of Osteopathy. He was born May 10, 1899, in Cass City. He married Miss Laura Jaus on October 25, 1940 at Geneva, Ohio. Surviving are his widow and a sister, Miss Gladys Lenzner, Cass City. Officiating during the service were Rev. John Safran, Detroit, and Rev. Joseph D. Ryan, pastor of the Bad Axe First Presbyterian Church. Burial was at Colfax Cemetery. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Summer 2007)
  Person ID	I12030	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

  
  

  Father	Franklin H. Lenzner,   b. 30 May 1859, Lancaster, Erie County, New York d. 5 Nov 1940, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 81 years)
  Mother	Anna Bell Hamill,   b. Abt 1865, Gennesee County, New York d. 23 Jan 1902 (Age ~ 37 years)
  Marriage	31 Dec 1891	Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F9401	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Laura May Jaus,   b. 16 May 1907, Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan d. 7 Apr 1987, Sandusky, Sanilac County, Michigan (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	25 Oct 1940	Ohio   [3, 4, 5]
  	Cass City Chronicle November 1, 1940 Miss Laura Jaus and Dr. G.F. Lenzner married Dr. G. F. Lenzner of Bad Axe, son of Franklin Lenzner, of Cass City, and Miss Laura Jaus, daughter of Fred Jaus, also of Cass City, were quietly married Friday, October 25, at Geneva, Ohio by Rev. Roy J. Striffler. (Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Summer 2007)
  Family ID	F5037	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Jul 2013

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 10 May 1899 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Marriage - 25 Oct 1940 - Ohio Death - 2 Nov 1961 - Caseville, Huron County, Michigan Burial - - Colfax Cemetery, Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S487] Ancestry.com - U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918. [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, Thursday, November 9, 1961 (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. 162 (Reliability: 3). [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). [S653] Cass City Chronicle, P.O. Box 115, Cass City, Michigan 48726, Published continously since 1899, archived from 1899 through 2005 at http://newspapers.rawson.lib.mi.us/chronicle/, November 1, 1940 (Reliability: 3).