From the Manitowoc Herald-Times, Thursday, April 14, 1960:
Harry W. Oestreich, 70, of 1705 Lincoln St., Two Rivers, retired
employe of Hamilton Mfg. Co., Two Rivers, died Wednesday night at the
home of a nephew and niece, Mr. and Mrs. William Otto, at Lark, Wis.,
with whom he and his wife resided for a year.
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Friday at Klein & Stangel Inc.,
Funeral Home, Two Rivers, the Rev. M. J. Roehrdant officiating. Burial will be in Forest View Cemetery, Two Rivers.
Mr. Oestreich was born at Two Rivers Oct. 17, 1889, son of the late
Frank and Martha Magee Oestreich. He attended Two Rivers public schools
and March 15, 1907, he entered the employe of the Hamilton firm and for
more than 40 years was in the billing department of the company office.
A musician since boyhood, he was a member of the cornet section of the
Hamilton Band for many years. Mr. Oestreich was a charter member of the
Hamilton Band and started the South Side Band, forerunner of the
Hamilton musical organization. A lifelong member of Emanuel Evangelical
United Brethren Church, he also was a member of the Robert E. Burns
Post No. 165, American Legion, having served in World War I. He was
also affiliated with the Hamilton 30-Year Club.
Besides his wife, the former Vera Heinrich, of Morrison, Wis., whom he
married in 1917, he leaves three sisters, Mrs. Helen Ahrens and Mrs.
Ervin Baker of Two Rivers and Mrs. Lynn Meyer of Appleton; four
brothers, Benjamin of Granada Hills, Calif., Kenneth of Deerfield, Il.,
Lester of Beaver Dam and Franklin of Two Rivers, and a number of nieces
and nephews.