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Unidentified newspaper clipping from brown, string-bound scrapbook. C.A. Weis Dies at Local Hospital Headed Company of Weis-Fricker Carl A. Weis, retired president of Weis-Fricker Mahogany Co. and civic worker of Pensacola, died Wednesday night at a local hospital. Mr. Weis, who resided at 105 W. Gonzalez Street, was 87. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he had resided in Pensacola the last 42 years. He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Pensacola. Mr. Weis was a past director of the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce and served 25 years as trustee of Escambia County schools, 17 of which he served as chairman of the group. He is survived by a son, H. Mahlon Weis of Pensacola; a brother, A.W. Weis of Quincy, Ill., and four grandchildren. Funeral announcements will be announced by Fisher-Pou Funeral Service. (Picture) CARL A. WEIS ....local industrialist dies Source:
From unidentified newspaper clipping, from brown, string-bound scrapbook.
The body will be moved from Fisher-Pou chapel to the church at 2 p.m. Burial will be in St. Johns Cemetery with Fisher-Pou Funeral Service directing. Mr. Weis, of 105 W. Gonzalez St., died Wednesday night at a local hospital. He was 87. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, he had resided in Pensacola for the past 42 years and was a past director of the Greater Pensacola Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Rotary Club, and for many years a member of the operating board of the Crippled Children's Home. He was for 25 years a member of the Board of School Trustees and chairman of that board for 17 of those years. He was an original member of the board of directors of the Pensacola Public Library and an elder in the First Presbyterian Church. Survivors include a son, H. Mahlon Weis of Pensacola; brother, A.W. Weis of Quincy, IL; four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Honorary pallbearers will be elders of the church and Robert G. Martin, Frank Fricker, Dr. W.C. Payne Sr., and the Rev. John D. Thomas. Active
pallbearers will be C. Edwin Abbott Jr., W.D. Bach, J.H. Spann, George
Newman, Ernest Leidner and S. W. Hollingsworth. |