Friedrich Wilhelm Buerkle

Other Events:

• Name: William Buerkle
• Passport: 23 Apr 1910, Allen County, Indiana, United States; applied for
• Residence: 23 Apr 1910, Payne, Paulding County, Ohio, United States
• Newspaper: 13 Mar 1919; The Payne Reflector and Press Review (Payne, Ohio), 13 March 1919, p5

Notes:

Passport:

Naturalized Citizen
State of Indiana, Allen County
23 April 1910
Certificate 25885
William Buerkle, accompanied by Mary Jane Buerkle, my wife, born Paulding County, Ohio, 26 April 1859. I was born at Merfingen, Baden, Germany, 25 April 1851, I emigrated to United States on Saxonia, from Hamburg, 25 May 1866. Resided 44 years in the United States, first 10 years at Sandusky, Ohio, then at Payne, Ohio. Naturalized before the Probate Court of Erie County, Ohio at Sandusky on 7 October 1872. Residence Payne, Ohio, occupation farmer. I am about to go abroad temporarily, and that I intend to return to the United States within four months.
Signed William Buerkle
23 April 1910
Description of Applicant:
Age 59, Stature 5' 9", Forehead high, Eyes brown
Nose regular, Mouth Face long
Old Passport 21936 dated 25 April 1900 and approved

Newspaper:

Miss Bertha Buerkle spent last week with her brother, Fred Buerkle and family and grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Shelley of Columbus Grove, Ind. She reports Grandma Shelley slowly recovering.

Friedrich married Mary Jane Shelley on 11 Jan 1891 in Paulding County, Ohio, United States. Mary (daughter of Francis A. Shelley, Jr. and Lucinda Myton) was born on 26 Apr 1859 in Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio, United States; died on 20 Sep 1936 in Leipsic, Putnam County, Ohio, United States; was buried on 24 Sep 1936 in Payne, Paulding County, Ohio, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Name: Dessie Irene Buerkle

Notes:

Died:


OBITUARY
—Desa Irene "Dessie" Buerkle, 96, formerly of Ottawa, Payne, and Findlay, died at 10:50 p.m., Monday, October 20, 1997, in St. Francis Home, where she had resided since 1990.
—She was born in Payne, OH, September 22, 1901, the daughter of William and Mary Jane (Shelley) Buerkle. She had never married.
—Several nieces and nephews survived.
—The last of 15 children, she retired in 1983, as a self-employed music teacher, after more than 25 years of teaching piano and guitar lessons in Ottawa and Tiffin. Prior to teaching music, Miss Buerkle had been an art teacher in Chicago, IL, and during the early 1920's, she was employed as a registered nurse for 6 years.
—She received a degree in liberal arts from St. Francis College, Joliet, IL, in 1938; received her bachelor of fine arts degree from the Chicago Art Institute in 1945 and later studied music at Heidelberg College.
—The author of two books, "Miniatures," was published in 1984 by the Hubbard Publishing Co. of Defiance. The subject matter of this book was taken from her experiences as a music teacher. Her second book, "Seventeen Story Birch" was published in 1986 by Haefling Publishing Co. of Tiffin. This book was about her family history and background.
—She also was the author of many poems and received numerous Golden and Silver Poet awards for her poetry from World of Poetry, Inc., Sacramento, CA. She wrote the "Book of Poems" and it was published in 1991 by Dell Printing Co. of Tiffin and "Once Upon a Farm" in 1996 by Hubbard Printing Co.
—Miss Buerkle was a former member of St. Michael Catholic Church, Findlay, and a member of the Ohio Teacher's Association, National Guild of Piano Teachers, and the Catholic Ladies of Columbia.
—A Mass of Christian Burial was held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, October 23, 1997, in St. Francis Home Chapel with the Rev. Kent Kaufman officiating. Interment was in St. Francis Convent Cemetery.
—Arrangements were under the direction of the Kirkpatrick-Behnke Funeral Home of Findlay.