Lydia Striffler b. 20 Nov 1874 Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan d. 7 Mar 1957 Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana: Strong McLemore Ancestry

1874 - 1957 (82 years)

Name	Lydia Striffler [1, 2]
Birth	20 Nov 1874	Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan [1, 3]
Gender	Female
Death	7 Mar 1957	Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana [1, 2, 4]
Burial	Moore Cemetery, Moore, Fergus County, Montana
Notes	Moore Resident Dies in Billings Mrs. Lydia Zinnecker, 82, resident of Moore nearly 28 years, died of a heart ailment at 1:37 a.m. Thursday in a Billings hospital. She entered the hospital Wednesday night. She had been visiting two weeks in the home of a daughter, Mrs. Harry Miller of Billings, Rt. 3, when she became ill. The body was taken to the Creel Funeral Home in Lewiston where funeral services at 3 p.m. Saturday will be conducted by the Rev. Raymond Ginther of the Moore Presbyterian Church. Burial will be in Moore Cemetery. Mrs. Zinnecker was born Nov. 20, 1874, in Cass City, Mich., daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Striffler. She was married to George Zinnecker in Cass City Nov. 22, 1893, and they lived in Michigan until 1912. They then went to Starkweather, N. D., where they lived four years before moving to Garfield county. They lived there until 1929, when they moved to Moore in Fergus county. Mr. Zinnecker, a carpenter, died in Moore Feb. 15, 1955. Mrs. Zinnecker was a member of the Presbyterian Church. Surviving Mrs. Zinnecker, besides the daughter in Billings, are two other daughters, Mrs. George Steinar of Gary, Ind., and Mrs. Hal Lucas of Superior, three sons, L. F. Zinnecker of Moore, Henry Zinnecker of Long Beach, Calif., and Dr. Kenneth Zinnecker of Columbus, Ohio; 22 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.
Person ID	I12720	Strong Family Tree
Last Modified	17 Aug 2014

Father	Jacob Striffler, b. 31 Mar 1819, Kirberg, Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine, Imperial Territory Of Alsace-Lorraine, Elsa?-Lothringen, Germany d. 24 Sep 1895, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 76 years)
Mother	Luise "Louisa" Benkelman, b. 14 Sep 1833, Schneiderhof, Waldhausen Parish, Welzheim, Jagstkreis, W?rttemberg, Germany d. 22 Oct 1910, Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan (Age 77 years)
Marriage	Abt 1853	Lancaster, Erie County, New York [1, 5, 6]
	BonnieMargaret Jacobs wrote that Bob Benkelman had a copy of their marriage certificate from Lancaster, Erie County, NY. They were married by Reverand Christian Knapp, who had moved from W?rttemberg to Lancaster to head a Reformed congregation. Louisa and Jacob had seven children in total, only three of whom survived into adulthood.
Family ID	F1783	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family George Henry Zinnecker, b. 14 Jul 1871, Ionia County, Michigan d. 14 Feb 1955, Moore, Fergus County, Montana (Age 83 years)

Marriage 22 Nov 1893 Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan [1, 2]

The Striffler-Benkelman Broadcast, Vol. 7, September 4, 1944, noted that Mr. and Mrs. George Zinnecker of Moore, Montana celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in California at the home of his sister, Mrs. Grover Blades, on Nov. 22, 1944.

The STRIFFLER-BENKELMAN BROACAST-1964 reported that Helene Striffler Lucas of Superior, Montana; Catherine Zinnecker Miller of Billings, Montana, Henry Zinnecker of Long Beach, Calif. and Kenneth Zinnecker of Columbus, Ohio were all planning on attending the 1964 Striffler-Benkelman Reunion in Cass City.

Children

	1. Louise M. Zinnecker, b. 2 Jun 1895, Owendale, Huron County, Michigan d. 24 Nov 1958, Gary, Lake County, Indiana (Age 63 years)
	2. Leonard Fred Zinnecker, b. 1 May 1897, Grant, Newaygo County, Montana d. 12 Mar 1995, East Helena, Lewis And Clark County, Montana (Age 97 years)
	3. Frank Zinnecker, b. Aft 1897, Michigan d. Bef 1910, Michigan (Age 11 years)
	4. Helena Zinnecker, b. 6 May 1901, Owendale, Huron County, Michigan
	5. Kathryn Zinnecker, b. 13 May 1905, Brookfield Township, Eaton County, Michigan d. 28 Mar 1999, Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana (Age 93 years)
	6. Henry George "Hiene" Zinnecker, b. 24 May 1908, Owendale, Huron County, Michigan d. 25 Sep 1989, Oceanside, San Diego County, California (Age 81 years)
	7. Dr. Kenneth C. Zinnecker, b. 2 May 1916, Starkweather, Ramsey County, North Dakota d. 15 Mar 1997, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio (Age 80 years)

Photos

Zinnecker, George and Lydia (Striffler)
George and Lydia were married on 22 November 1893 in Cass City

Family ID F3072 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 11 Jul 2013

Event Map

	Birth - 20 Nov 1874 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
	Marriage - 22 Nov 1893 - Cass City, Tuscola County, Michigan
	Death - 7 Mar 1957 - Billings, Yellowstone County, Montana

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Photos

Striffler, Lydia ca 1900's
Wife of George Henry Zinnecker
B. 1875 Michigan D. 1957 Montana

Carole Benkelman reports that on the back of this photo in very light scribbled pencil it says: "Lydia, sister of Sol and Sam Striffler."

Sources

[S492] Peck, Edward Arthur THE TEN BENKELMANS WHO EMIGRATED TO AMERICA Ca. 1850s AND CERTAIN OF THEIR DESCENDANTS, 1982.
[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. 156a (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. 156a, instead has DOB as 20 Nov 1875 (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 29, September 2, 1957 (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/, October 28, 1910 (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. 151 (Reliability: 3).