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Dave Pfuetze, 1980's.

This memorial website was created in memory of Dave Pfuetze born on November 22, 1935 and passed away on November 6, 2013. We will remember him forever.

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Cheryl Collins
November 22, 2017
November 22, 2017
On November 22, 2017, Dave Pfuetze would have celebrated his 82nd birthday.

In commemoration, we have posted a photograph of the Pfuetze family bedroom set currently on exhibit at the Wolf House Museum 630 Fremont, Manhattan, Kansas. 

The family of Herman Pfuetze (Dave’s great grandfather) came to Manhattan around 1870 and lived close to what is today the Wolf House Museum. The Wolf House was built in 1868 and served as a boarding house. It is our understanding that the Pfuetze family lived in this boarding house when they first arrived in Manhattan. 

The Pfuetze bedroom set probably dates from the 1880’s. We have a number of objects donated by Dave Pfuetze on exhibit at the Wolf House and at the Riley County Historical Museum. 

We hope you will visit. The Wolf House is open Saturday and Sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the Riley County Historical Museum, 2309 Claflin Road Manhattan, is open 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and Saturday and Sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Closed national holidays) Admission is free. 

For more information about the Wolf House Museum and the Riley County Historical Museum, go to www.rileychs.com or www.rileycountyks.gov/museum.
Cheryl Collins
November 22, 2016
November 22, 2016
Today Dave Pfuetze would have celebrated his 81st birthday. In the gallery section is a photograph of a plaster handprint with the inscription "David 1937" that is now part of the Pfuetze collection at the Riley County Historical Museum. Dave was around two years old in 1937.
Cheryl Collins
November 22, 2015
November 22, 2015
November 22, 2015 would have been Dave Pfuetze's 80th birthday.
We have posted in the gallery section a photograph of Dave and his father, Scott Pfuetze, taken in 1937 and photographs of some of the baby clothes that are part of the Pfuetze collection at the Riley County Historical Society and Museum. 
We remember Dave on this day with love and gratitude.
jim sharp
April 14, 2014
April 14, 2014
Dave, you have left a legacy at the Riley County Historical Society that will last for generations. Thanks for all you have done. Jim Sharp
Sally Short
April 14, 2014
April 14, 2014
Dave was a first cousin to my brother,sister and me. His only cousins on his mom's side. She was an Edelblute from Topeka.Her brother was my father,James Richard Edelblute,Sr.
Dave was a highly intelligent,mannerly and fun person. he was in our home a few yrs. ago for a visit and sent Christmas cards sporadically. We had lost touch in the past couple of yrs. and my husband and I were sorry to hear of his passing.
I pray that he came to know Jesus and is with Him now.  Sally Edelblute Short

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Cheryl Collins
November 22, 2017
November 22, 2017
On November 22, 2017, Dave Pfuetze would have celebrated his 82nd birthday.

In commemoration, we have posted a photograph of the Pfuetze family bedroom set currently on exhibit at the Wolf House Museum 630 Fremont, Manhattan, Kansas. 

The family of Herman Pfuetze (Dave’s great grandfather) came to Manhattan around 1870 and lived close to what is today the Wolf House Museum. The Wolf House was built in 1868 and served as a boarding house. It is our understanding that the Pfuetze family lived in this boarding house when they first arrived in Manhattan. 

The Pfuetze bedroom set probably dates from the 1880’s. We have a number of objects donated by Dave Pfuetze on exhibit at the Wolf House and at the Riley County Historical Museum. 

We hope you will visit. The Wolf House is open Saturday and Sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. and the Riley County Historical Museum, 2309 Claflin Road Manhattan, is open 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and Saturday and Sunday 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Closed national holidays) Admission is free. 

For more information about the Wolf House Museum and the Riley County Historical Museum, go to www.rileychs.com or www.rileycountyks.gov/museum.
Cheryl Collins
November 22, 2016
November 22, 2016
Today Dave Pfuetze would have celebrated his 81st birthday. In the gallery section is a photograph of a plaster handprint with the inscription "David 1937" that is now part of the Pfuetze collection at the Riley County Historical Museum. Dave was around two years old in 1937.
Cheryl Collins
November 22, 2015
November 22, 2015
November 22, 2015 would have been Dave Pfuetze's 80th birthday.
We have posted in the gallery section a photograph of Dave and his father, Scott Pfuetze, taken in 1937 and photographs of some of the baby clothes that are part of the Pfuetze collection at the Riley County Historical Society and Museum. 
We remember Dave on this day with love and gratitude.
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Wolf East Bedroom 2017
Dave Pfuetze Handprint, 1937
Dave Pfuetze's baby clothes(ca. 1937). This is the outfit he wears in the photograph of Dave and his father, Scott, taken in 1937. The baby clothes are part of the Riley County Historical Society's Pfuetze collection at the Riley County Historical Museu
Dave Pfuetze and his father Scott Pfuetze, taken in 1937 in front of their home at 1810 Leavenworth. The clothing worn by Dave are now part of the Riley County Historical Society's Pfuetze collection at the Riley County Historical Museum
Riley County Historical Society Board of Directors place a memorial wreath at Dave Pfuetze's grave May 2014.
Dave Pfuetze's grave in Sunset Cemetery Manhattan, Kansas. He is buried with his parents, Scott and Janet Pfuetze in Section 13-C-14.
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Dave Pfuetze, 1980's.
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The Pfuetze Family

June 25, 2014
by Cheryl Collins

Pfuetze Family 

(Contact the Riley County Historical Society, 2309 Claflin Manhattan, Kansas 66502 for more information, additions, or corrections.)

 

Friedrich Herman Pfuetze (Herman, H.)

Grandson of Johann and Rosina Pfuetze, son of Johann and Johanna (Pfuetze) Pfuetze

            b. 11 April 1842, near Cannewitz, Saxony, Germany

            d. 6 January 1936  at  Manhattan, Kansas

            m. 1 June 1867 Maria Thersa Bammes

Grandaughter of Balthaser and Christiana Freche Bammes, daughter of Friedrich and Laura Amalia (Muller) Bammes

                                    b. 30 November 1841, in Oshatz, Saxony, Germany

                                    d. 1 March 1934 at Manhattan, Kansas

            Children:

 

                        1.  Herman Emil Pfuetze

                                    b. 5 December 1868 at Cincinnati, Ohio

                                    d. 11 November 1961 Manhattan, KS Sunset Cemetery

                                    m. Meta Dettmer 3 June 1896

                                    b. 21 May 1874 Bramen, Germany

                                    d. 31 March 1960

                                    Children:

                                     K.  Neil

                                                b. 5 April 1897

                                                d. 10 March 1964

                                                m. Helen A., 1928

                                                            b. 9 September 1899

                                                            d. 20 March 1997, Concordia, Kansas

                                                Child:  Robert B.

                                      Herman Dettmer (Hub)  

                                                 b. 11 July 1898

                                                d. March 1973

                                                m. Hazel Taylor 9 June 1928

                                                     b. 15 January 1900

                                                    d. 6 August 1991

                                      Friedrich Walter (Fred)

                                      b. 1 Sept. 1902

                                      d. 21 June 1997

                                      m. 1. Clara LaBertha Klocke (Clara) 25 December 1927      
                                           b. 4 December 1904

                                           d. 28 November 1958 Leonardville, KS

                                       Child:

                                        Anita Jean Pfuetze

                                      m. 2 Juanita Mitchell

                                            b. 17 December 1911 d.12 January 2002

                                            d. 12 January 2002, North Carolina

 

                        2. Friedrich  Otto Pfuetze

                                    b. 13 August 1870

                                    d. 14 August 1871

 

                        3.  Emil Carl Pfuetze

                                    b. 18 Sept. 1872

                                    d. 28 Sept. 1971

                                    m. Rogene Scott 16 October 1901

                                                b. 8 Sept.1872

                                                d. 10 October 1924

                                    Children:

                                    Don Scott (Scott)

                                                b. 15 November 1902

                                                d. 8 March 1973

                                                m. Janet Edelblute

                                                            b. 18 October 1905

                                                            d. 5 April 1963

                                                Child:

                                                 David (Dave) Pfuetze

                                                            b. 22 November 1935

                                                            d. 6 November 2013

                                    Paul E.

                                                b. 29 November 1904

                                                d. 21 November 1985 Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

                                                m. Louise G.

                                                            b. 1905

                                                            d. 1971

                                                Children:

                                                Paul Scott

                                                b. 1946

                                               d. 12 August 1982

                                    Karl Hamilton

                                                b. 14 September 1908

                                                d. 12 January 1990

                                                m. Dorothy A.

                                                            b. 25 November 1915

                                                            d. 23 March 1996

                                                Children:

                                                Scott H.

                                                Mary

                                                Douglas

                                                            b. 1 June 1943

                                                           d. March 1974

                                    Max Ensign (Fritz)

                                                b. 1913

                                                d. 28 July 1991

                                                Children:

                                                Nancy

                                                Rachel

                                    Edwin L. (Hans)

                                                b. 1913

                                                d. late 1972 or early 1973

                                                m. Miriam

                                                Children:

                                                Karl D.

                                                Bruce L.

                                               Rogene

 

                        4.  Carl Friedrich Pfueze

                                    b. 1 August 1874

                                    d. 10 December 1956

                                    m. Alice Henley 24 December 1908

                                                b. 21 January 1880

                                                d. 18 October 1969

                                    Children:

                                    Robert Emil

                                                b. 30 December 1909

                                                d. 22 January 1988

                                                m. 1Mildred Ingraham 1935

                                                            d. 24 January 1984

                                                Children:

                                                Gretchen

                                                Pamela

                                                Donald

                                                John

                                                 m. 2 Pauline Cox Brown 21 September 1985

                                                            b. 25 March 1912

                                                            d. 15 December 2011

                                    Elizabeth

                                                m. Gilbert W. Patzold

                                                            b. 17 March 1914

                                                            d. 28 May 1994

                                                Children:

                                                Fred W. Patzold

 

                        5.  Emil Otto Pfuetze

                                    b. ca. 1875

                                    d. 15 June 1876

 

                        6. Maria Amalia Pfuetze

                                    b. 23 August 1876

                                    d. 7 July 1920

                                    m. Dr. James Fritts Copeland 23 May 1907

                                                b. 1873

                                                d. 10 November 1951.

                                    Children:

                                    Katharine Copeland

                                                b. 12 October 1909

                                                d. 11 February 2001

                                    Josephine Copeland

                                                b. 15 February 1911

                                                d. 20 December 1993

                                                m. Dr. Lyle Cook D.O.

                                                Child:

                                                Thomas Cook

                                    Helen Copeland

                                                b. 16 August 1914

                                                d. 4 November 2010

                                                m. Walter A. Wohler 15 June 1937

                                                Children:

                                                Jim Wohler

                                                Lynn Wohler

                                               Craig Wohler

 

                        7.  Emilie M. Pfuetze (Emily)

                                    b. 14 October 1878

                                    d. 2 October 1967

                                    m. Charles William Samuel 20 June 1906

                                                b. 7 July 1881

                                               d. 31 March 1952

                                    Children:

                                                Maria Samuel

                                                            m. Kenneth Rector

                                                Pauline Samuel

                                                            b. 18 October 1909

                                                            d. 7 April 2014

                                                            m. William Higdon 28 Sept. 1935

                                                            Children:

                                                            Polly S. Higdon

                                                            Sam Higdon

                                                Janet Samuel Tyson

                                                William Ned Samuel

                                                            d. January 1993

 
                        8.  Anna C. Pfuetze

                                    b. 8 June 1881

                                    d. July 1980

                                    m. Herbert E. Julien 28 February 1907

                                                b. 6 April 1884

                                                d. 1954

                                    Children:

                                    1.  Annabelle Thresa Julien

                                                b. 1911 d. five days old

                                    2.  Isabel M. Julien

                                                b. ca. 1913

                                                d. February 2000

                                               m. Ralph K. McElwain

                                                         b. 1914

                                                         d. 1985

 

                        9.  (Niece) Mary Paula Hamann (Mary, Aunt Polly)

                                    b. August 1861

                                    d. January 1936

                            (Niece of Maria Bammes Pfuetze.  Came to America and lived  with the Pfuetze family from a young age.)

Memorial Day 2014

May 22, 2014
by Cheryl Collins

The Board of Directors of the Riley County Historical Society place a wreath in grateful memory of Dave Pfuetze at Memorial Day 2014.

Left to right:  Rosalie Thompson, Robin Edmunds, Jim Sharp, Joan Strickler, Margaret Pendelton, Gloria Freeland (President), Clyde Ferguson, Mary Stamey, Martin Dornberger, Erma Verhage and John White.

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