OBITUARY Iron River Reporter March 16 1961 "A. H. Proksch Funeral Set Friday At 2"
Six veteran employees will be pallbearers Friday afternoon at funeral services for A. H. Proksch, 75, widely known Iron River contractor, who died Tuesday [March 14] morning at his home, 127 Seventh avenue.
The active pallbearers will be Floyd Windy, Oliver Andreasen, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Carr.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson, pastor, will officiate at the 2 p.m. services in First Lutheran church where the remains will be in state from 12:30 p.m. Interment will follow in Resthaven mausoleum, pending burial in the family lot in Iron River Cemetery.
The remains are at the Johns-Fell chapel.
HERE 50 YEARS Mr. Proksch had been in failing health for several years but he had been active in his business until January. Ill health had kept him from spending the past two seasons at his winter home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
He was born May 14, 1885 at Stoddard, Wis. near LaCrosse. He was in the contracting business as a young man of 25 in Houghton when he was engaged to build a mine location, a row of homes adjacent to a mine in the Iron River district. He came here in 1910 to launch the project and moved his family here the next year.
Liking the Iron River district and seeing a promising future here, he decided to establish his business here, and he operated from an office in his home on the site of the present Delft theater for several years.
He then purchased the lumber yard of Jacobus & Kohl at Boyington and Third avenue near the site of the old Sheridan mine on the south side of town. That became the base of operations for a Proksch contracting enterprise that was to reach out many miles in all directions.
TWIN FIRMS Proksch headed the lumber and building materials firm and the twin operation, the contracting branch. He traveled widely to keep tab on his distant jobs of buildings, road and bridge construction projects.
In 1943, the twin operations were separated and each became a distant firm. Charles Proksch later followed his father into the management of the contracting company, and a son-in-law, Arthur J. Pavlish, became manager of the lumber company.
Proksch wasted no time in tackling sizeable building projects. He built the Lincoln school in Iron River in 1914, the Munro Mining Co. office (now the M.A. Hanna Co. office), Assumption church, Stambaugh General hospital, plus armories, schools, stores, commercial structures, institutions, churches, college dormitories, field houses, and halls down through the years, most of them located in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin region.
MANY MONUMENTS He built the Penney, Newberry and other newer structures downtown and his men helped keep many of the others maintained and modern. His firm erected the imposing surface structures of the Sherwood mine and Homer-Wauseca mines in Mineral Hills, and the Iron county armory.
Mr. Proksch was a member of First Lutheran church, the Iron River Country club, the Iron River Service club, and the Chippewa Club of Iron Mountain.
He leaves his wife, Marie; the son, Charles; a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Pavlish; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. There are two brothers, William of LaCrosse, Wis. and Harold of Detroit, and three sisters, Mrs. Leda Beitlich, Mrs. Freda Kapanke and Mrs. Mary Schlicht of LaCrosse, Wis.
Another daughter, Mrs. Gust (Evelyn) Groth, died unexpectedly in September, 1959.
FUNERAL NOTICE Iron River Reporter March 20 1961 "Funeral Rites Are Held For A. H. Proksch"
Funeral services were held Friday [March 17] afternoon at First Lutheran church for A. H. Proksch, 75, well known Iron River contractor who died Tuesday [March 14] morning.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson officiated. The body was placed in the Resthaven cemetery vault for spring burial in Iron River cemetery. The Johns-Fell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Honorary pallbearers for the funeral were: Dr. L. E. Irvine, Dr. E. N. Oberdorfer, Ira Odgers sr., Henry Frailing, W. B. Thompson, Everette Pasino, Joe Skiorski, Francis Beauchamp, Charles Johnson, George Shouldice, Gust Jackson, Fritz Bechler, George Stiffe, Peter Oss and George Webber.
Active pallbearers were Floyd Windy, Oliver Anderson, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Car.
Mrs. Linnea Bagley was organist for the services and Mrs. Myrna Wickstrom Zamout sang "Abide With Me" and "My Faith Looks Up To Thee".
Friends and relatives attended from LaCrosse, Wis., Aberdeen, S.D., Detroit, Marquette, Iron Mountain and Petosky.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 12 1950 “Harry Thornberg Appointed Road Commissioner” (excerpt)
Harry Thornberg of Stambaugh, head mining captain of the M.A. Hanna company’s Hiawatha mines, was appointed to a six-year term on the Iron county road commission Monday by a divided vote of the county board of supervisros.
Thornberg succeeds Lou A. Henry, Crystal Falls furniture merchant and funeral director, whose term on the three-man commission is expiring. He becomes the third west side member of the commission, joining Chairman Matt E. Kosky of Beechwood and Commissioner A.H. Proksch of Iron River.
OBITUARY of second wife Marie Steinke Proksch 1986 says they were married in 1920.
Six veteran employees will be pallbearers Friday afternoon at funeral services for A. H. Proksch, 75, widely known Iron River contractor, who died Tuesday [March 14] morning at his home, 127 Seventh avenue.
The active pallbearers will be Floyd Windy, Oliver Andreasen, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Carr.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson, pastor, will officiate at the 2 p.m. services in First Lutheran church where the remains will be in state from 12:30 p.m. Interment will follow in Resthaven mausoleum, pending burial in the family lot in Iron River Cemetery.
The remains are at the Johns-Fell chapel.
HERE 50 YEARS Mr. Proksch had been in failing health for several years but he had been active in his business until January. Ill health had kept him from spending the past two seasons at his winter home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
He was born May 14, 1885 at Stoddard, Wis. near LaCrosse. He was in the contracting business as a young man of 25 in Houghton when he was engaged to build a mine location, a row of homes adjacent to a mine in the Iron River district. He came here in 1910 to launch the project and moved his family here the next year.
Liking the Iron River district and seeing a promising future here, he decided to establish his business here, and he operated from an office in his home on the site of the present Delft theater for several years.
He then purchased the lumber yard of Jacobus & Kohl at Boyington and Third avenue near the site of the old Sheridan mine on the south side of town. That became the base of operations for a Proksch contracting enterprise that was to reach out many miles in all directions.
TWIN FIRMS Proksch headed the lumber and building materials firm and the twin operation, the contracting branch. He traveled widely to keep tab on his distant jobs of buildings, road and bridge construction projects.
In 1943, the twin operations were separated and each became a distant firm. Charles Proksch later followed his father into the management of the contracting company, and a son-in-law, Arthur J. Pavlish, became manager of the lumber company.
Proksch wasted no time in tackling sizeable building projects. He built the Lincoln school in Iron River in 1914, the Munro Mining Co. office (now the M.A. Hanna Co. office), Assumption church, Stambaugh General hospital, plus armories, schools, stores, commercial structures, institutions, churches, college dormitories, field houses, and halls down through the years, most of them located in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin region.
MANY MONUMENTS He built the Penney, Newberry and other newer structures downtown and his men helped keep many of the others maintained and modern. His firm erected the imposing surface structures of the Sherwood mine and Homer-Wauseca mines in Mineral Hills, and the Iron county armory.
Mr. Proksch was a member of First Lutheran church, the Iron River Country club, the Iron River Service club, and the Chippewa Club of Iron Mountain.
He leaves his wife, Marie; the son, Charles; a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Pavlish; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. There are two brothers, William of LaCrosse, Wis. and Harold of Detroit, and three sisters, Mrs. Leda Beitlich, Mrs. Freda Kapanke and Mrs. Mary Schlicht of LaCrosse, Wis.
Another daughter, Mrs. Gust (Evelyn) Groth, died unexpectedly in September, 1959.
FUNERAL NOTICE Iron River Reporter March 20 1961 "Funeral Rites Are Held For A. H. Proksch"
Funeral services were held Friday [March 17] afternoon at First Lutheran church for A. H. Proksch, 75, well known Iron River contractor who died Tuesday [March 14] morning.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson officiated. The body was placed in the Resthaven cemetery vault for spring burial in Iron River cemetery. The Johns-Fell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Honorary pallbearers for the funeral were: Dr. L. E. Irvine, Dr. E. N. Oberdorfer, Ira Odgers sr., Henry Frailing, W. B. Thompson, Everette Pasino, Joe Skiorski, Francis Beauchamp, Charles Johnson, George Shouldice, Gust Jackson, Fritz Bechler, George Stiffe, Peter Oss and George Webber.
Active pallbearers were Floyd Windy, Oliver Anderson, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Car.
Mrs. Linnea Bagley was organist for the services and Mrs. Myrna Wickstrom Zamout sang "Abide With Me" and "My Faith Looks Up To Thee".
Friends and relatives attended from LaCrosse, Wis., Aberdeen, S.D., Detroit, Marquette, Iron Mountain and Petosky.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 12 1950 “Harry Thornberg Appointed Road Commissioner” (excerpt)
Harry Thornberg of Stambaugh, head mining captain of the M.A. Hanna company’s Hiawatha mines, was appointed to a six-year term on the Iron county road commission Monday by a divided vote of the county board of supervisros.
Thornberg succeeds Lou A. Henry, Crystal Falls furniture merchant and funeral director, whose term on the three-man commission is expiring. He becomes the third west side member of the commission, joining Chairman Matt E. Kosky of Beechwood and Commissioner A.H. Proksch of Iron River.
OBITUARY of second wife Marie Steinke Proksch 1986 says they were married in 1920.
OBITUARY Iron River Reporter March 16 1961 "A. H. Proksch Funeral Set Friday At 2"
Six veteran employees will be pallbearers Friday afternoon at funeral services for A. H. Proksch, 75, widely known Iron River contractor, who died Tuesday [March 14] morning at his home, 127 Seventh avenue.
The active pallbearers will be Floyd Windy, Oliver Andreasen, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Carr.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson, pastor, will officiate at the 2 p.m. services in First Lutheran church where the remains will be in state from 12:30 p.m. Interment will follow in Resthaven mausoleum, pending burial in the family lot in Iron River Cemetery.
The remains are at the Johns-Fell chapel.
HERE 50 YEARS Mr. Proksch had been in failing health for several years but he had been active in his business until January. Ill health had kept him from spending the past two seasons at his winter home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
He was born May 14, 1885 at Stoddard, Wis. near LaCrosse. He was in the contracting business as a young man of 25 in Houghton when he was engaged to build a mine location, a row of homes adjacent to a mine in the Iron River district. He came here in 1910 to launch the project and moved his family here the next year.
Liking the Iron River district and seeing a promising future here, he decided to establish his business here, and he operated from an office in his home on the site of the present Delft theater for several years.
He then purchased the lumber yard of Jacobus & Kohl at Boyington and Third avenue near the site of the old Sheridan mine on the south side of town. That became the base of operations for a Proksch contracting enterprise that was to reach out many miles in all directions.
TWIN FIRMS Proksch headed the lumber and building materials firm and the twin operation, the contracting branch. He traveled widely to keep tab on his distant jobs of buildings, road and bridge construction projects.
In 1943, the twin operations were separated and each became a distant firm. Charles Proksch later followed his father into the management of the contracting company, and a son-in-law, Arthur J. Pavlish, became manager of the lumber company.
Proksch wasted no time in tackling sizeable building projects. He built the Lincoln school in Iron River in 1914, the Munro Mining Co. office (now the M.A. Hanna Co. office), Assumption church, Stambaugh General hospital, plus armories, schools, stores, commercial structures, institutions, churches, college dormitories, field houses, and halls down through the years, most of them located in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin region.
MANY MONUMENTS He built the Penney, Newberry and other newer structures downtown and his men helped keep many of the others maintained and modern. His firm erected the imposing surface structures of the Sherwood mine and Homer-Wauseca mines in Mineral Hills, and the Iron county armory.
Mr. Proksch was a member of First Lutheran church, the Iron River Country club, the Iron River Service club, and the Chippewa Club of Iron Mountain.
He leaves his wife, Marie; the son, Charles; a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Pavlish; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. There are two brothers, William of LaCrosse, Wis. and Harold of Detroit, and three sisters, Mrs. Leda Beitlich, Mrs. Freda Kapanke and Mrs. Mary Schlicht of LaCrosse, Wis.
Another daughter, Mrs. Gust (Evelyn) Groth, died unexpectedly in September, 1959.
FUNERAL NOTICE Iron River Reporter March 20 1961 "Funeral Rites Are Held For A. H. Proksch"
Funeral services were held Friday [March 17] afternoon at First Lutheran church for A. H. Proksch, 75, well known Iron River contractor who died Tuesday [March 14] morning.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson officiated. The body was placed in the Resthaven cemetery vault for spring burial in Iron River cemetery. The Johns-Fell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Honorary pallbearers for the funeral were: Dr. L. E. Irvine, Dr. E. N. Oberdorfer, Ira Odgers sr., Henry Frailing, W. B. Thompson, Everette Pasino, Joe Skiorski, Francis Beauchamp, Charles Johnson, George Shouldice, Gust Jackson, Fritz Bechler, George Stiffe, Peter Oss and George Webber.
Active pallbearers were Floyd Windy, Oliver Anderson, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Car.
Mrs. Linnea Bagley was organist for the services and Mrs. Myrna Wickstrom Zamout sang "Abide With Me" and "My Faith Looks Up To Thee".
Friends and relatives attended from LaCrosse, Wis., Aberdeen, S.D., Detroit, Marquette, Iron Mountain and Petosky.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 12 1950 “Harry Thornberg Appointed Road Commissioner” (excerpt)
Harry Thornberg of Stambaugh, head mining captain of the M.A. Hanna company’s Hiawatha mines, was appointed to a six-year term on the Iron county road commission Monday by a divided vote of the county board of supervisros.
Thornberg succeeds Lou A. Henry, Crystal Falls furniture merchant and funeral director, whose term on the three-man commission is expiring. He becomes the third west side member of the commission, joining Chairman Matt E. Kosky of Beechwood and Commissioner A.H. Proksch of Iron River.
OBITUARY of second wife Marie Steinke Proksch 1986 says they were married in 1920.
Six veteran employees will be pallbearers Friday afternoon at funeral services for A. H. Proksch, 75, widely known Iron River contractor, who died Tuesday [March 14] morning at his home, 127 Seventh avenue.
The active pallbearers will be Floyd Windy, Oliver Andreasen, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Carr.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson, pastor, will officiate at the 2 p.m. services in First Lutheran church where the remains will be in state from 12:30 p.m. Interment will follow in Resthaven mausoleum, pending burial in the family lot in Iron River Cemetery.
The remains are at the Johns-Fell chapel.
HERE 50 YEARS Mr. Proksch had been in failing health for several years but he had been active in his business until January. Ill health had kept him from spending the past two seasons at his winter home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
He was born May 14, 1885 at Stoddard, Wis. near LaCrosse. He was in the contracting business as a young man of 25 in Houghton when he was engaged to build a mine location, a row of homes adjacent to a mine in the Iron River district. He came here in 1910 to launch the project and moved his family here the next year.
Liking the Iron River district and seeing a promising future here, he decided to establish his business here, and he operated from an office in his home on the site of the present Delft theater for several years.
He then purchased the lumber yard of Jacobus & Kohl at Boyington and Third avenue near the site of the old Sheridan mine on the south side of town. That became the base of operations for a Proksch contracting enterprise that was to reach out many miles in all directions.
TWIN FIRMS Proksch headed the lumber and building materials firm and the twin operation, the contracting branch. He traveled widely to keep tab on his distant jobs of buildings, road and bridge construction projects.
In 1943, the twin operations were separated and each became a distant firm. Charles Proksch later followed his father into the management of the contracting company, and a son-in-law, Arthur J. Pavlish, became manager of the lumber company.
Proksch wasted no time in tackling sizeable building projects. He built the Lincoln school in Iron River in 1914, the Munro Mining Co. office (now the M.A. Hanna Co. office), Assumption church, Stambaugh General hospital, plus armories, schools, stores, commercial structures, institutions, churches, college dormitories, field houses, and halls down through the years, most of them located in the Upper Peninsula and northern Wisconsin region.
MANY MONUMENTS He built the Penney, Newberry and other newer structures downtown and his men helped keep many of the others maintained and modern. His firm erected the imposing surface structures of the Sherwood mine and Homer-Wauseca mines in Mineral Hills, and the Iron county armory.
Mr. Proksch was a member of First Lutheran church, the Iron River Country club, the Iron River Service club, and the Chippewa Club of Iron Mountain.
He leaves his wife, Marie; the son, Charles; a daughter, Mrs. Agnes Pavlish; six grandchildren and two great grandchildren. There are two brothers, William of LaCrosse, Wis. and Harold of Detroit, and three sisters, Mrs. Leda Beitlich, Mrs. Freda Kapanke and Mrs. Mary Schlicht of LaCrosse, Wis.
Another daughter, Mrs. Gust (Evelyn) Groth, died unexpectedly in September, 1959.
FUNERAL NOTICE Iron River Reporter March 20 1961 "Funeral Rites Are Held For A. H. Proksch"
Funeral services were held Friday [March 17] afternoon at First Lutheran church for A. H. Proksch, 75, well known Iron River contractor who died Tuesday [March 14] morning.
The Rev. Earl H. Berndtson officiated. The body was placed in the Resthaven cemetery vault for spring burial in Iron River cemetery. The Johns-Fell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Honorary pallbearers for the funeral were: Dr. L. E. Irvine, Dr. E. N. Oberdorfer, Ira Odgers sr., Henry Frailing, W. B. Thompson, Everette Pasino, Joe Skiorski, Francis Beauchamp, Charles Johnson, George Shouldice, Gust Jackson, Fritz Bechler, George Stiffe, Peter Oss and George Webber.
Active pallbearers were Floyd Windy, Oliver Anderson, Clarence Carlson, Joel Budzak, Edward Moakler and Lon Car.
Mrs. Linnea Bagley was organist for the services and Mrs. Myrna Wickstrom Zamout sang "Abide With Me" and "My Faith Looks Up To Thee".
Friends and relatives attended from LaCrosse, Wis., Aberdeen, S.D., Detroit, Marquette, Iron Mountain and Petosky.
NEWS ARTICLE Iron River Reporter Oct 12 1950 “Harry Thornberg Appointed Road Commissioner” (excerpt)
Harry Thornberg of Stambaugh, head mining captain of the M.A. Hanna company’s Hiawatha mines, was appointed to a six-year term on the Iron county road commission Monday by a divided vote of the county board of supervisros.
Thornberg succeeds Lou A. Henry, Crystal Falls furniture merchant and funeral director, whose term on the three-man commission is expiring. He becomes the third west side member of the commission, joining Chairman Matt E. Kosky of Beechwood and Commissioner A.H. Proksch of Iron River.
OBITUARY of second wife Marie Steinke Proksch 1986 says they were married in 1920.
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