Walter Leo Fitzenreiter, Sr.

Born: November 18, 1885 in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Died: February 26, 1947 in Bel, Allen Parish, Louisiana
Buried: February 27, 1947 in Goos Cemetery, Lake Charles, Louisiana  (Map 10)
Father: Charles Fitzenreiter
Mother: Barbara Christina Goos
Wife: Ernestine Louisa Perkins
Married: May 1915 in Lake Charles, Louisiana
Children: Mildred Ruth Fitzenreiter
Walter Leo Fitzenreiter, Jr.

Lake Charles American Press, February 26, 1947:

Walter Fitzenreiter Expires in Bel, La.

        Catholic funeral services will be held for Walter Fitzenreiter, 60, Bel, La., merchant and cattleman, at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon at the home of a sister, Mrs. J. M. McCain, 512 Ford street. Burial will be in Goos cemetery.
        Mr. Fitzenreiter died suddenly early this morning at his home.
        A native of Goosport, where he was born in 1886 in the old Captain Dan Goos home, Mr. Fitzenreiter had lived in Bel for the past 25 years. He was a member of the Allen parish police jury.
        Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Ernestine Perkins Fitzenreiter; a daughter, Mrs. Dual Eubanks of Sulphur; a son, Leo, student at John McNeese junior college; three sisters, Mrs. H. A. Elliott of West Lake, Mrs. F. W. Gallaugher and Mrs. J. M. McCain, both of Lake Charles; and a brother, Charles F. Fitzenreiter.