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Grey Franklin Lenzner

Male 1899 - 1961  (62 years)


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  • Name Grey Franklin Lenzner  [1, 2, 3
    Birth 10 May 1899  Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Nov 1961  Caseville, Huron County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Burial Colfax Cemetery, Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  [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 Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Nov 1940, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 81 years) 
    Mother Anna Bell Hamill,   b. Abt 1865, Gennesee County, New York Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Jan 1902 (Age ~ 37 years) 
    Marriage 31 Dec 1891  Ontario, Canada Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F9401  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Laura May Jaus,   b. 16 May 1907, Elkland Township, Tuscola County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 7 Apr 1987, Sandusky, Sanilac County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Marriage 25 Oct 1940  Ohio Find all individuals with events at this location  [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
    Link to Google MapsBirth - 10 May 1899 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 25 Oct 1940 - Ohio Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 2 Nov 1961 - Caseville, Huron County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Colfax Cemetery, Bad Axe, Huron County, Michigan Link to Google Earth
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  • Sources 
    1. [S487] Ancestry.com - U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.

    2. [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).

    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).

    4. [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).

    5. [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).