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- [S198] Vital Records - Wisconsin, U.S. Marriage Records, 1820-2004 - Ancestry, viewed and downloaded; 7 February 2023; Johann Christian Ahrens and Augusta Runge marriage certificate.
Full name of Husband: Johann Christian Ahrens
Name of father of husband: August Ahrens
Name of mother of husband before marriage Friderice nee Protzmann
Occupation of husband: Farmer
Residence of husband: Town of Two Rivers, Manitowoc Co., Wis.
Birthplace of husband: Town of Kossuth, Manitowoc Co., Wis.
Full name of wife previous to marriage: Augusta Louise Huldyn Runge
Name of father of wife: Christian Runge
Name of mother of wife before marriage: Maria nee Hopp
Birthplace of wife: Town of Two Rivers, Manitowoc Co., Wis.
Time when the marriage wa contracted July 2nd 1896
The place, town or township, and county, where the marriage was contracted: Two Rivers, Manitowoc Co.
Color of the parties: white
By what ceremony contracted: according to the rites of the Ev. Luth church
Names of subscribing witnesses: Emma Eggerstedt and Ella Pries
Name of person pronouncing marriage Christ A. F. Doehler
Residence of last person named: Two Rivers, Wis.
Date of certificate or affidavit of marriage July 2, 1896
Date of registration: July 7, 1896
- [S8] Newspaper - Wisconsin - Manitowoc Herald Times - 2Manitowoc, John Ahrens, 1963; Accident News/Obituary; 28 September 1963; page 1, 2; viewed online; 15 February 2023.
JOHN AHRENS (d. 1963)
Retired Two Rivers Farmer, 95, Killed in Head-on Crash Injuries
Claim John Ahrens, Active Golfer
Other Driver Cut, Bruised; Used Seat Belt
TWO RIVERS-John C. Ahrens, 95, (photo) of Randolph Street, Mishicot, one of the nation's oldest active golfers, a retired Town of Two Rivers farmer and former owner of Fairview Golf Course, died shortly before 6:30 p.m. Friday at Two Rivers Municipal Hospital following a nearly head-on collision of cars at 45th Street and Mishicot Road earlier in the afternoon.
Treated for injuries at the local hospital was the other driver, Walter G. Ottensmann, 49, of 2111 Washington St., the new district plant superintendent of General Telephone Co. of Wisconsin, who had been wearing a seat belt when the crash occurred. He received cuts on the top of his head, bruises to his face, cuts and bruises on his left arm and to his left knee.
Ahrens had sustained a collapsed lung, broken right forearm, fractured right leg, several fractured ribs and lacerations to his scalp and head. Both of the injured were taken at one time to the local hospital in the City Emergency Vehicle.
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Born in 1867 According to the police report, the crash occurred about 1:08 p.m. Ottensmann reported from the hospital later Friday afternoon that he was driving the 1962 model company car north on Mishicot Road and observed the 1938 model car driven by Mr. Ahrens proceeding southeasterly on Mishicot Road. At the 45th Street intersection Mr. Ahrens swung his vehicle to the left to go to the Fairview Golf Course for a round of golf. The cars met almost head-on and were demolished. The front of the Ahrens machine and the left side and left front of the Ottensmann auto were damaged.
Mr. Ahrens was born Oct. 22, 1867, in the Town of Kossuth, son of the late August Fredericka Protzmann Ahrens. When he was nine the family brought him to a farm just east of Shoto where he attended the old Town Line School and later became engaged in carpentering, building many of the homes in the Town of Two Rivers, including the Tannery area.
In 1896, he married Augusta Runge and took up farming on the homestead farm of his father-in-law, the late Christ Runge. Besides his farming pursuits he became a butter maker, established a route at Two Rivers. In 1929, he gave up farming and he and his son-in-law, Edward Kastrosky, converted the dairy farm into a public golf course which
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Fatal Crash (continued from Page One)
was named Fairview, where the former served as greenskeeper and took an active part in developing the nine-hole course.
Retires in 1944
After Mrs. Ahrens died in 1944 he retired and the golf course was acquired by Russell Kirchner, the present owner. For the past 17 years he had lived in retirement at Mishicot after he married Mrs. Louis Zeddies in 1947. Through the years Mr. Ahrens remained an active golfer, playing the Fairview course several times weekly. He was one of the oldest active left-handed golfers in the nation. For years he formed a foursome with Frank Hess, the late Frank Becker and Fred Tegge. This foursome was referred to by the late Fred Lipowitz, LaCrosse sportsman, former national president of Bowling's National 700 Club, as the oldest in the country when Lipowitz paid visits to the course a number of years ago. Mr. Ahrens frequently until recently, played golf with his children, grandchildren and great grandchild.
Besides his wife he leaves four daughters, Mrs. Edward Kastrosky, of Two Rivers, Mrs. Milton Mueller, of Manitowoc, Mrs. Raymond Meineke, of Mishicot and Mrs. George Walters, of Spokane, Wash.; three sons, Harvey, of Bloomington, Ill., Jerry, of the Town of Two Rivers and Elmer, of Racine; a brother, Louis, of Manitowoc; 15 grand- children and 23 great grandchildren.
Funeral service will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Zion Evangelical United Brethren Church, Mishicot, the Rev. Warren W. Sutton officiating. Burial will be in Forest View Cemetery, Two Rivers. Friends may call at Specht Funeral Home, Mishicot, after 2 p.m. Sunday until 10 a.m. when the body will be taken to the church to lie in state from 11 a.m. until the time of service.
Manitowoc Herald Times, September 28, 1963 pp 1,2
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