Charles Francis Fitzenreiter


Born: July 25, 1870 in New Orleans, Louisiana
Died: June 30, 1947 in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Buried: July 1, 1947 in Goos Cemetery, Lake Charles, Louisiana  (Map 10)
Father: Charles Fitzenreiter
Mother: Barbara Christina Goos
First Wife: Bessie Gertrude Davis
Married: 1901 in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Ended: February 22, 1908 in Lake Charles, Louisiana (death of wife)
Children: Bessie Gertrude Fitzenreiter
Second Wife: Clara Feagin
Married: February 11, 1911 in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Children: Clara Fitzenreiter
Elizabeth Barbara Fitzenreiter

Lake Charles American Press, July 1, 1947:

Services To Be Held Today for Mr. Fitzenreiter

        Funeral services for Charles F. Fitzenreiter, English Bayou area, will be held at 5 o'clock this afternoon at the Hixson funeral home.
        The Rev. H. A. Gibbs, Lake Charles district Methodist superintendent, will officiate. Burial will be in Goos cemetery.
        Pallbearers will be Walter Goos, Andrew Swice, Arthur Hollins, Jr., Herman C. Krause, Edward H. Green, and Gus Stacy, Jr.
        Mr. Fitzenreiter, a retired real estate man, had been in ill health for the past few years.
        He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Clara Fitzenreiter, three daughters, Mrs. B. M. Woodard and Mrs. Harry Hiern, both of New Orleans, and Miss Clara Fitzenreiter of Lake Charles; three sisters, Mrs. Constance McCain and Mrs. Frank Gallaugher, both of Lake Charles, and Mrs. Hartwell Elliott of Gillis, and two grandchildren.


Beaumont Enterprise, July 1, 1947:

C. F. Fitzenreiter Dies in Lake Charles At Age of 77 Years

        LAKE CHARLES, La., June 30, (Spl) Charles Fitzenreiter, 77, retired business man, a resident of Lake Charles for 60 years, died at 10:45 a.m. Monday at his home at Riverside on the Calcasieu river. He had been in ill health for several years.
        Mr. Fitzenreiter was born in New Orleans and moved to Lake Charles with his parents as a young man. He was shipping clerk with the J. A. Bel lumber company for many years, and was a real estate dealer more recently. He had virtually retired from business because of ill health.
        The body will be at the Hixson funeral home until the funeral hour....