Frieda Stoerker1
F, #56, b. 13 December 1877, d. 9 April 1978
- Relationship
- Grandaunt of Sheila Sue Altenbernd
| Father* | Conrad Friedrich Stoerker b. 17 February 1851, d. 13 June 1927 |
| Mother* | Wilhelmine Cuno b. 10 August 1857, d. 20 March 1940 |
Frieda was born in Drake, Gasconade County, Missouri, USA, on 13 December 1877.2,3 She was the daughter of Conrad Friedrich Stoerker and Wilhelmine Cuno.
Frieda Stoerker was listed as Conrad Friedrich Stoerker's daughter on the 1880 US Federal Census in Brighton Village, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA, enumerated 22 June 1880.4 Her age was listed as 2. She was shown as born in Missouri. Her father was born in Hannover. Her mother was born in Bayern.4
Photo in 1893 in Morrison, Osage County, Missouri, USA.
Photo of Ella, Paul, ?, Freida, ?, and Alma Stoerker. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Frieda Stoerker was listed as Fred Stoerker's daughter on the 1900 US Federal Census in Plum Hill Township, Washington County, Illinois, USA, enumerated 2 June 1900.3
Her birth date was listed as December 1877, age 22. She was born in Missouri. She was single. Her father was born in Germany. Her mother was born in Germany.3 She was able to read, able to write, and able to speak English.3
Christian Edward Mohr married Frieda Stoerker, daughter of Conrad Friedrich Stoerker and Wilhelmine Cuno, in Addieville, Washington County, Illinois, USA, on 27 June 1901.5,6,7
Photo of Frieda and Waldemar Mohr Wedding Picture on 27 June 1901. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)
Photo of Gottlob Stoerker and Waldemar and Frieda Mohr. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo in 1912. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130). Stoerker Family 1912 -- Back: Fred, Hilda, Theophil, Flora, Alma, Frieda Mohr, Julia, Christian Mohr -- Front: Waldemar Mohr, Conrad, Wilhelmine, Gottlob.
Photo of Standing: Flora and Hilda Stoerker and Frieda Mohr. Seated: Alma, C.Fred, and Julia Stoerker circa 1918. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)8
Photo of Christian and Frieda Mohr. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)
Photo of Stoerker Golden Wedding Anniversary -- Back - Theophil, Julia, Paul, Conrad, Ella, Fred, Adolph -- Front - Alma, Wilhelmine, Frieda, Flora, and Gottlob on 2 November 1926. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)8
They resided in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA, in 1927. They had moved to Denver for the benefit of their son's health.9
Photo of Frieda Mohr on 22 November 1931 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Frieda Mohr, Flora, John, and Will Altenbernd in 1933 in Colorado, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
( Colorado, USA, in 1933.)10
Photo of Christian and Frieda Mohr, Will, John, and Flora Altenbernd, Waldemar Mohr in 1933 in Colorado, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Christian, Frieda, and Waldemar Mohr. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Frieda Mohr on 12 February 1933. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
In 1934, Frieda went to the dentist to have an infected tooth extracted. The tooth came out, but the infection didn't. The infection went into her brain and caused her to lose her mind. She was institutionalized in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She would live out her days here to age 100 in 1978. in 1934.
Photo of Goerge and Alma Orlowsky -- Marian and Frieda Stoerker at left. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Julia, Theo, Frieda, Adolph, and Marie Stoerker on 21 August 1957 in St James, Missouri, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)11
Photo of Frieda Mohr on 15 June 1974. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
She resided in Colorado, USA, in April 1978.1
Frieda died on 9 April 1978 in Colorado Springs, Gasconade County, Colorado, USA, at age 100.12
Frieda Stoerker was listed as Conrad Friedrich Stoerker's daughter on the 1880 US Federal Census in Brighton Village, Macoupin County, Illinois, USA, enumerated 22 June 1880.4 Her age was listed as 2. She was shown as born in Missouri. Her father was born in Hannover. Her mother was born in Bayern.4
Photo in 1893 in Morrison, Osage County, Missouri, USA.
Photo of Ella, Paul, ?, Freida, ?, and Alma Stoerker. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Frieda Stoerker was listed as Fred Stoerker's daughter on the 1900 US Federal Census in Plum Hill Township, Washington County, Illinois, USA, enumerated 2 June 1900.3
Christian Edward Mohr married Frieda Stoerker, daughter of Conrad Friedrich Stoerker and Wilhelmine Cuno, in Addieville, Washington County, Illinois, USA, on 27 June 1901.5,6,7
Photo of Frieda and Waldemar Mohr Wedding Picture on 27 June 1901. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)
Photo of Gottlob Stoerker and Waldemar and Frieda Mohr. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo in 1912. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130). Stoerker Family 1912 -- Back: Fred, Hilda, Theophil, Flora, Alma, Frieda Mohr, Julia, Christian Mohr -- Front: Waldemar Mohr, Conrad, Wilhelmine, Gottlob.
Stoerker Family 1912 -- Back: Fred, Hilda, Theophil, Flora, Alma, Frieda Mohr, Julia, Christian Mohr -- Front: Waldemar Mohr, Conrad, Wilhelmine, Gottlob
Photo of Standing: Flora and Hilda Stoerker and Frieda Mohr. Seated: Alma, C.Fred, and Julia Stoerker circa 1918. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)8
Standing: Flora and Hilda Stoerker and Frieda Mohr.
Seated: Alma, C.Fred, and Julia Stoerker
Seated: Alma, C.Fred, and Julia Stoerker
Photo of Christian and Frieda Mohr. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)
Photo of Stoerker Golden Wedding Anniversary -- Back - Theophil, Julia, Paul, Conrad, Ella, Fred, Adolph -- Front - Alma, Wilhelmine, Frieda, Flora, and Gottlob on 2 November 1926. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)8
Stoerker Golden Wedding
November 2, 1926
Back - Theophil, Julia, Paul, Conrad, Ella, Fred, Adolph
Front - Alma, Wilhelmine, Frieda, Flora, and Gottlob
November 2, 1926
Back - Theophil, Julia, Paul, Conrad, Ella, Fred, Adolph
Front - Alma, Wilhelmine, Frieda, Flora, and Gottlob
They resided in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA, in 1927. They had moved to Denver for the benefit of their son's health.9
Photo of Frieda Mohr on 22 November 1931 in Denver, Denver County, Colorado, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Frieda Mohr, Flora, John, and Will Altenbernd in 1933 in Colorado, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
ME by John Altenbernd
Trip to Colorado
I was little, four years old maybe. I look about that age on a snapshot taken on that trip. So this would have been the summer of 1933.
My mother's oldest sister, Frieda, and her husband, Christian Mohr, and their grown son, Waldemar, lived in Denver, Colorado. Uncle Christ (rhymes with wrist) had been a parochial school teacher in his early years, the teacher at a school associated with one of my Grandfather Stoerker's churches. That was how he met Aunt Frieda. Mom at one time had been one of Uncle Christ's students. Mom remembered him from those years as a very hard taskmaster and disciplinarian. But my memory of Uncle Christ is much different. He had evidently mellowed with the years. They had moved to Denver for the benefit of their son's health. He had always been frail and was to die still a young man. Uncle Christ now worked in an office, as did Waldemar.
We drove to Denver by car, 600 miles, quite a trip in those days. I had a puzzle map of the United States with each state cut as a separate piece. I was playing with that in the back seat. My mother had a road map up in the front seat with her which she would look at periodically and tell something to Dad. I was smart enough to know she was reading the map somehow. So after I got all the states put in their proper places in my puzzle, I handed it to Mom and asked her to read it to me. I couldn't for the life of me understand when she said she couldn't do that.
As we drove across Kansas, Dad at one point said, "Let's go into Colorado and leave John in Kansas." I wasn't sure what that meant. I didn't want to be left anywhere. When we got to the Kansas-Colorado border, Dad stopped the car so that the state line ran right between the front seat and the back seat. "See," my mother said to me, "now we're in Colorado and you're still in Kansas."
Sometime before that we had gone through Russell, Kansas. Oscar Russell was my father's black hired hand. So when we got to Russell, I asked if that was where Russell came from.
A little ways into Colorado, the scenery changed drastically as we got into the Rocky Mountains. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
Uncle Christ's house was a small one. They had no room for us, so we stayed in a rooming house somewhere. (Motels had not really come into being yet, and hotels were too expensive.)
The next days were tours through the mountains with Dad driving, and Uncle Christ and Aunt Frieda pointing out this, that, and the other things. There were all sorts of especially set up tourist attractions, and I enjoyed those things most of all, especially a little miniature mining town.
My folks decided to drive up Pike's Peak. It was a rainy day. All at once they noticed I was lying down in the back seat. I couldn't sit up without being dizzy. The thin air was getting to me. They turned the car around and drove back down without getting to the top. I screamed and hollered. I wanted to go on, but they came back down anyway.
Also there was a visit to an amusement park, the like of which I had never seen before. Among the rides was a train that ran around the park. We rode on that. It had a whistle that really shrieked. My cousin Waldemar, who had hearing in only one ear, said, "I could even hear that in my bad ear."
Mom and Aunt Frieda went into downtown Denver one day for shopping. Dad and I went off alone and looked at some toys. He bought me a toy truck that transported cars, complete with the cars. In fact, he bought me two of them for some reason.
We finally got tired of messing around waiting for Mom and Aunt Frieda to get finished, so we sat down on the curb stone right there on main street and waited for them. Dad was never one to stand on ceremony. If he wanted to be comfortable, he was going to be comfortable, no matter what.
We drove on to Cheyenne, Wyoming, one day to watch the big Rodeo there. That was a highlight of the trip for me. While in Cheyenne, Dad bought himself a ten-gallon cowboy hat, which he wore on occasion for the rest of his life. I think one of the greatest joys in his life was that day in Cheyenne.
I don't know how long we stayed in Denver, maybe a week. Then we went back home.
A year later Aunt Frieda went to the dentist to have an infected tooth extracted. The tooth came out, but the infection didn't. The infection went into her brain and caused her to lose her mind. She was institutionalized in Colorado Springs.
We went back to Denver the following summer to visit Aunt Frieda. I didn't see her. Kids couldn't get into the Home. I had looked forward to this trip, but of course it wasn't the same as before. There was overhanging sadness about it all, and there were no trips in to the mountains.
We did go back to the park for my benefit. But that didn't seem the same either.
Aunt Frieda did not know my mother. She didn't even know Uncle Christ and Waldemar. Nor would she ever again. She would live out her days - until well into her 90's - in that Colorado Springs Institution.
Mom and Aunt Ella visited her in the early 1960's. Aunt Frieda was hale and hearty physically, but she knew nothing. She was like a little girl.
Uncle Christ died around 1940. My cousin Waldemar, never used to fending for himself, had a rough time of it. He wrote my mother a letter a few months after his father's death, saying he was worried about himself. He could feel his own mind slipping. A short time later we were notified he had died.
I was little, four years old maybe. I look about that age on a snapshot taken on that trip. So this would have been the summer of 1933.
My mother's oldest sister, Frieda, and her husband, Christian Mohr, and their grown son, Waldemar, lived in Denver, Colorado. Uncle Christ (rhymes with wrist) had been a parochial school teacher in his early years, the teacher at a school associated with one of my Grandfather Stoerker's churches. That was how he met Aunt Frieda. Mom at one time had been one of Uncle Christ's students. Mom remembered him from those years as a very hard taskmaster and disciplinarian. But my memory of Uncle Christ is much different. He had evidently mellowed with the years. They had moved to Denver for the benefit of their son's health. He had always been frail and was to die still a young man. Uncle Christ now worked in an office, as did Waldemar.
We drove to Denver by car, 600 miles, quite a trip in those days. I had a puzzle map of the United States with each state cut as a separate piece. I was playing with that in the back seat. My mother had a road map up in the front seat with her which she would look at periodically and tell something to Dad. I was smart enough to know she was reading the map somehow. So after I got all the states put in their proper places in my puzzle, I handed it to Mom and asked her to read it to me. I couldn't for the life of me understand when she said she couldn't do that.
As we drove across Kansas, Dad at one point said, "Let's go into Colorado and leave John in Kansas." I wasn't sure what that meant. I didn't want to be left anywhere. When we got to the Kansas-Colorado border, Dad stopped the car so that the state line ran right between the front seat and the back seat. "See," my mother said to me, "now we're in Colorado and you're still in Kansas."
Sometime before that we had gone through Russell, Kansas. Oscar Russell was my father's black hired hand. So when we got to Russell, I asked if that was where Russell came from.
A little ways into Colorado, the scenery changed drastically as we got into the Rocky Mountains. It was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen.
Uncle Christ's house was a small one. They had no room for us, so we stayed in a rooming house somewhere. (Motels had not really come into being yet, and hotels were too expensive.)
The next days were tours through the mountains with Dad driving, and Uncle Christ and Aunt Frieda pointing out this, that, and the other things. There were all sorts of especially set up tourist attractions, and I enjoyed those things most of all, especially a little miniature mining town.
My folks decided to drive up Pike's Peak. It was a rainy day. All at once they noticed I was lying down in the back seat. I couldn't sit up without being dizzy. The thin air was getting to me. They turned the car around and drove back down without getting to the top. I screamed and hollered. I wanted to go on, but they came back down anyway.
Also there was a visit to an amusement park, the like of which I had never seen before. Among the rides was a train that ran around the park. We rode on that. It had a whistle that really shrieked. My cousin Waldemar, who had hearing in only one ear, said, "I could even hear that in my bad ear."
Mom and Aunt Frieda went into downtown Denver one day for shopping. Dad and I went off alone and looked at some toys. He bought me a toy truck that transported cars, complete with the cars. In fact, he bought me two of them for some reason.
We finally got tired of messing around waiting for Mom and Aunt Frieda to get finished, so we sat down on the curb stone right there on main street and waited for them. Dad was never one to stand on ceremony. If he wanted to be comfortable, he was going to be comfortable, no matter what.
We drove on to Cheyenne, Wyoming, one day to watch the big Rodeo there. That was a highlight of the trip for me. While in Cheyenne, Dad bought himself a ten-gallon cowboy hat, which he wore on occasion for the rest of his life. I think one of the greatest joys in his life was that day in Cheyenne.
I don't know how long we stayed in Denver, maybe a week. Then we went back home.
A year later Aunt Frieda went to the dentist to have an infected tooth extracted. The tooth came out, but the infection didn't. The infection went into her brain and caused her to lose her mind. She was institutionalized in Colorado Springs.
We went back to Denver the following summer to visit Aunt Frieda. I didn't see her. Kids couldn't get into the Home. I had looked forward to this trip, but of course it wasn't the same as before. There was overhanging sadness about it all, and there were no trips in to the mountains.
We did go back to the park for my benefit. But that didn't seem the same either.
Aunt Frieda did not know my mother. She didn't even know Uncle Christ and Waldemar. Nor would she ever again. She would live out her days - until well into her 90's - in that Colorado Springs Institution.
Mom and Aunt Ella visited her in the early 1960's. Aunt Frieda was hale and hearty physically, but she knew nothing. She was like a little girl.
Uncle Christ died around 1940. My cousin Waldemar, never used to fending for himself, had a rough time of it. He wrote my mother a letter a few months after his father's death, saying he was worried about himself. He could feel his own mind slipping. A short time later we were notified he had died.
( Colorado, USA, in 1933.)10
Photo of Christian and Frieda Mohr, Will, John, and Flora Altenbernd, Waldemar Mohr in 1933 in Colorado, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Christian, Frieda, and Waldemar Mohr. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Frieda Mohr on 12 February 1933. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
In 1934, Frieda went to the dentist to have an infected tooth extracted. The tooth came out, but the infection didn't. The infection went into her brain and caused her to lose her mind. She was institutionalized in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She would live out her days here to age 100 in 1978. in 1934.
Photo of Goerge and Alma Orlowsky -- Marian and Frieda Stoerker at left. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
Photo of Julia, Theo, Frieda, Adolph, and Marie Stoerker on 21 August 1957 in St James, Missouri, USA. Original photo in the possession of Sheila Altenbernd (#172.)11
Julia, Theo, Frieda, Adolph, and Marie Stoerker -- August 21, 1957 -- St James, Missouri
Photo of Frieda Mohr on 15 June 1974. Original photo in the possession of Sue Myers (#130.)
She resided in Colorado, USA, in April 1978.1
Frieda died on 9 April 1978 in Colorado Springs, Gasconade County, Colorado, USA, at age 100.12
Last Edited=7 June 2022
Child of Frieda Stoerker and Christian Edward Mohr
- Waldemar F. Mohr b. 25 February 1904, d. 16 April 1952
Citations
- [S7] SSDI, unknown file number, Social Security Death Index (SSDI), unknown series (n.p.: Ancestry) . Hereinafter cited as SSDI.
- [S81] Theophil Stoerker unknown date.
- [S386] Fred Stoerker(#14) household, Census 1900, Washington County, Illinois, population schedule, Plum Hill, Enumeration District (ED) 144, sheet 1B, dwelling 10, family 11, National Archives micropublication T623 349, viewed at Ancestry.com.
- [S131] Conrad Friedrich Stoerker household, June 22, 1880 U.S. Federal Census, Macoupin County, Illinois, population schedule, town of Brighton Village, enumeration district (ED) 106, supervisor's district (SD) 6, sheet 41, dwelling 198, family 301, National Archives micropublication . Viewed at www.ancestry.com . (Document Source Number: 131). Hereinafter cited as Stoerker, Conrad (#14) - 1880 Census.
- [S166] Unknown name of person unknown article title, Stoerker (#56), Frieda - Obituary, unknown location.
- [S75] Marion Adolph Stoerker unknown date.
- [S1645] John Klueter (#193) May 23, 2022 (Document Source Number: 00193-2022-05-23-01).
- [S157] Sheila Sue Altenbernd unknown date.
- [S609] Conrad Stoerker (#14) Obituary, St Charles Newspaper, St Charles, Missouri, USA, June 13, 1927 . Hereinafter cited as St Charles Newspaper.
- [S1421] John Stoerker Altenbernd,"Trip to Colorado" in ME; Page(s) 61-63; Published:.
- [S88] Flora Stoerker unknown date.
- [S130] Ruth Arlene Stoerker unknown date.
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