Frank Joseph GOEPFRICH

11 AUG 1887 - 16 MAR 1968

• BIRTH: 11 AUG 1887, Pamhagen, Burgenland, Austria
• DEATH: 16 MAR 1968, Three Rivers, St Joseph Co , MI

1.  Leo R GOEPFRICH

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[N22506] Frank Joseph Goepfrich

BIRTH 11 Aug 1887
Pamhagen, Neusiedl am See Bezirk, Burgenland, Austria

DEATH 16 Mar 1968 (aged 80)
Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, MI

BURIAL
Riverside Cemetery
Three Rivers, St. Joseph County, MI
MEMORIAL ID51363231

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Frank is from Pamhagen (Hungarian: Pomogy), Burgenland (in the district of Neusiedl am See), Austria.

Burgenland is the eastern-most and least populous state or Land of Austria. It consists of two Statutarstädte (towns with a charter) and seven districts with in total 171 municipalities. It is 166 km long from north to south but much narrower from west to east (only 5 km wide at Sieggraben).
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Indiana South Bend Tribune, Obituaries; Saturday, March 16, 1968.
Frank Joseph Goepfrich, 80, Rt. 3, Long Lake, Three Rivers, Mich., died early today in Three Rivers Hospital, where he had been a patient for 2 1/2 weeks. Mr. Goepfrich was born Aug. 11, 1887, in Panhagen , Austria, coming to the United States as a child. He attended schools in South Bend. For many years he was an employee of Singer Manufacturing Co., South Bend. On May 11, 1909, he married Louise E. Beck in South Bend. She preceeded him in death. They had lived in South Bend until 1950, when they moved to Three Rivers. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frank Strasser of West Covina, Calif.; four sons, Francis and Edmund, both of Three Rivers, and Leo and Raymond, both of South Bend; 16 grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, including Mrs. Mary Resnik of South Bend, and a brother, Rudolph, of South Bend. Friends may call at the Halverson Funeral Home, Three Rivers, after 1 p.m. Sunday. The rosary will be recited there at 6:30 p.m. Sunday. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday in Immaculate Conception Church, Three Rivers, with Rev. LeRoy White, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery, Three Rivers.
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Family Story:
From a letter written on 10 July 1983 by Rose Goepfrich Schneider, Frank's niece:
. ". . . Frank followed in his dad's footsteps and worked and retired from Singers. He married Louise Beck and they had five very healthy children, raised on the farm near Lydick. Where, for many years we enjoyed our early reunions and spent a few vacation days each summer. There was Francis, Leo, Edmund, Raymond, and finally Veronica, who couldn't help being a tom-boy. Uncle Frank died in 1968 and Louise in 1966." (Source: Jim Stevens, family historian.)