Funeral services for E. K. Vietor, 72, who died early yesterday at his home at Granite in Chesterfield County after an illness of a year, will be held today at noon from the residence with burial in Hollywood Cemetery. The Rev. Oscar Guthe, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Mr. Vietor was widely known in Richmond business circles, where he engaged in the export leaf tobacco trade. Born in Bremen, Germany, Mr. Vietor at one time represented the former German imperial government as consul here. Honorary pallbearers today will be D. W. Brashear, Wirt Hatcher, Louis G. Larus, Sherlock Bronson, R. L. Gordon, R. H. Gerber, W. C. Schmidt, John Hayes, Oscar Noble, Cameron Dunlop, Don Cameron, D. B. Beattie, August Dietz, C. F. Grimmell, F. A. P. Thornton, J. T. Ellis, R. Walker, R. E. Thomas, John M. Taylor, Waller Morton. Mr. Vietor came to this country as a young man, and moved to Richmond after a short stay in New York. The E. K. Vietor Company was founded nearly fifty years ago as a tobacco export firm, with a reputation all through the South. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maria Luise Graeber Vietor; one son, Fritz M. Vietor of Bremen, Germany, and three daughters, Mrs. Hanna Bleibtreu of Darmstadt, Germany, Miss Laura M. and Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Vietor of Richmond.
Funeral services for E. K. Vietor, 72, who died early yesterday at his home at Granite in Chesterfield County after an illness of a year, will be held today at noon from the residence with burial in Hollywood Cemetery. The Rev. Oscar Guthe, pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church, will officiate.
Mr. Vietor was widely known in Richmond business circles, where he engaged in the export leaf tobacco trade. Born in Bremen, Germany, Mr. Vietor at one time represented the former German imperial government as consul here. Honorary pallbearers today will be D. W. Brashear, Wirt Hatcher, Louis G. Larus, Sherlock Bronson, R. L. Gordon, R. H. Gerber, W. C. Schmidt, John Hayes, Oscar Noble, Cameron Dunlop, Don Cameron, D. B. Beattie, August Dietz, C. F. Grimmell, F. A. P. Thornton, J. T. Ellis, R. Walker, R. E. Thomas, John M. Taylor, Waller Morton. Mr. Vietor came to this country as a young man, and moved to Richmond after a short stay in New York. The E. K. Vietor Company was founded nearly fifty years ago as a tobacco export firm, with a reputation all through the South. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Maria Luise Graeber Vietor; one son, Fritz M. Vietor of Bremen, Germany, and three daughters, Mrs. Hanna Bleibtreu of Darmstadt, Germany, Miss Laura M. and Miss Gertrude Elizabeth Vietor of Richmond.
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Date Of Burial : 11/18/1933, Ref: Cemetery Records
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