Individual Notes

Note for: Angela Rose Harper, 17 JUN 1994 - 17 JUN 1994 Index

Individual Note:
Angela was born at the Wright Pat. Air Force Base Hospital, Dayton, and was buried at the Writght Pat. Calvary Cem., Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH.

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Note for: Joseph Mary Berger, 26 AUG 1900 - 27 AUG 1900 Index

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Joseph was buuried in Holy Family Cem., Frenchtown, Darke Co., OH.

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Note for: Herman Francis Berger, 19 NOV 1903 - 15 DEC 1975 Index

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Herman died in Kettering Hospital, Kettering, OH.

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Note for: Ralph Alfred Berger, 5 OCT 1905 - 25 NOV 1905 Index

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Ralph was buried in Holy Family Cem., Frenchtown, Darke Co., OH.

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Note for: Eugenie Elizabeth "Gene" Berger, 25 DEC 1906 - 4 FEB 1996 Index

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Gene died in Washington Manor Nursing Home, OH.

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Note for: Joseph Henry "Joe" Drerup, 1 JUL 1904 - 20 MAR 1988 Index

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Joe died at the Crestview Nursing Home in Dayton and was buried in Calvary Cem., Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH.

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Note for: Charles Edward Drerup, 25 JUN 1929 - 19 JUL 1991 Index

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Charles was born at St. Anne Hospital, Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH and died in Christel Man Hospital, Dayton, OH. Charles is buried in Calvary Cem., OH.

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Note for: Edward Robert Berger, 9 MAR 1915 - 11 JAN 1994 Index

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Edward died in Northside Hospital, Youngstown and was buried in Calvary Cem., Youngstown, OH.

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Note for: Alma Dorothy Anderson, 18 AUG 1912 - 19 DEC 1990 Index

Individual Note:
Alma was buried in Calvary Cem., OH.

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Note for: Martha Ann Maude Carpenter, 4 FEB 1925 - 7 NOV 1995 Index

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Martha was buried at Miami Memorial Park, Covington, OH.

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Note for: Linda Lou Farrant Hanson, 16 MAR 1948 - 28 MAR 1995 Index

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Linda was born at the Miami Valley Hospital, Dayton, Montgomery Co., OH. She was buried in Gravel Hill Cem., Cheshire, OH.

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Note for: Arden Brown, 18 AUG 1899 - JUN 1973 Index

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Death date for Ardin was obtained from Social Security Index by Tom Deeter.

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Note for: Emma V. Frantz, 1872 - 15 APR 1969 Index

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From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.

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Note for: Edward David Deeter, 10 SEP 1863 - 25 OCT 1948 Index

Individual Note:
He lived on the family farm, helping in the orchards and with the farm until he was almost 41 years old. Then, at an annual meeting of the Church of the Brethren he met Emma V. Frantz and married her soon after.

He purchased the north half of his father's farm and while he and Emma spent the first year of their marriage with his parents, he built their first home. He made the cement blocks and did all of the building himself. Their first child, William Robert was born in his grandparents' home. The other three children were born in the new block house (which was still standing and solid in 1981).

Ed's farm was hilly and rocky but seemed fine as a fruit farm; but as the automobile came into use, Ed realized that gravel for roads had great commercial value. About 1913 he incorporated "The Deeter Gravel Co.", had a rail line built in from the "B & O" and opened a gravel pit. Sometime in the summer of 1914 he sold the company at a good profit.

In June, 1915 the family moved west to Miami, New Mexico. Emma and the three younger children went by train and Ed and Robert drove a 1912 Model T Ford. Farming in NM was a failure. Promised irrigation water was never furnished, and after 8 years their "small fortune" was gone. Saddest of all, baby Frantz died at the end of the first summer to "summer complaint".

In the Fall of 1923 Robert and Bernice went to California, Emma and Emerson followed the next spring and Ed arrived in August, again in a Model T. Ford.

They settled in Burbank, CA where Ed, at 61, made their living as a cement contractor. He recouped his fortune and owned a lovely house when he died in 1948 at age 85.

By Bernice Deeter Eller about 1981
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Added by David Laurence Deeter, May 28, 1997

The house he owned in Burbank was on the corner of Verdugo and Lake Streets. It was on 3 large lots which were divided into three separate and distinct areas. The house and combination shop and garage were on the far western lot and the other two lots were divided by an east and west line. The northern half was the garden where most of the produce they ate was grown and the southern half was devoted to storing sand, gravel and septic tank blocks for his cement business.

Most of his cement business came in the form of cesspools and septic tanks. He built the vast majority of these units that were built in Burbank and Glendale from the mid-Twenties to mid-Forties. In the Forties the Burbank City wells were starting to become polluted with human waste and Charles R. "Pop" McMillin, who was Superintendent of Water and Power for the City of Burbank, swore he would "put Deeter out of business". Edward died the year after the first Sewage Plant Bonds were passed.

In 1928, when the Ford Model A came out Edward was one of the first in Burbank to buy one. When he found he didn’t like the new-fangled clutch and gear shift he promptly sold it and bought three new 1927 Model Ts. He put two of them on blocks and drove them, one at a time, until they wore out. The last one was inherited by Robert Keith Deeter who wrecked it in no time at all.
From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.