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• Nickname: Fritz
• Occupation: Sold Tombstones

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Fritz and Katherine Bantrup lived at 109 Walnut St in Boonville. Fritz was a dreyman, which meant he operated a trucking and hauling business in Boonville, Missouri. He had his loading dock and office in downtown Boonville and then he would go to the Katy Train Depot and the Missouri Pacific Railroad to get the goods he was to transport. After he quit that business, he owned a service station. He was a bakery accountant. He sold tombstones for the last 23 years of his life with Heynen Mounument Company. He went to school through eight grade. He was a member fo the United Church of Chrsit where he was a member of the choir for more that 30 eyars. He was a member of the IOOF Lodge No. 64, past president of the Boonville Rod and Gun club, a member of the Boonville Chamber of Commerce, a member of the City Council for 10 years, a member of of the Knights of Pythias of Boonville and a member of the Boonville Industrial Group. James said that his father's compaign slogan for City Council was "I was never late to a council meeting." He died of heart disease and is buried at Pisgah Cemetery.

Boonville Daily News
May 22, 1973
Former Councilman, Civic leader Fritz Bantrup dies

Fritz J. Bantrup, a former city councilman and active civic leader, died this morning in Cooper County Hospital after a brief illness. He was 72. Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the B. W. Thacher Funeral Home.
The Rev. Mel Lichte and the Rev. Kenneth Carpenter will officiate.
Friends may call from Thursday morning until time of service at the funeral home. The family request memorials to the heart Fund.
Fritz John Bantrup was born in California, Mo. May 20, 1900, the son of Chris and Lena Bantrup. He married Katherine Carpenter Nov. 18, 1923 in Boonville.
Besides his wife, he leaves three sons" James Bantrup fo Manteca, Calif., Fred Bantrup of Dixon, Ill., and Roger Bantrup of Boonville. He also leaves eight grandchildren, two great grandchildren, a brother and three sisters: Walter Bantrup of Boonville, Laura Stegner of Boonville, Frieda Brandshaw of New Franklin and Alma Hansen of Silber Springs, Md.

Frederick married Carpenter, Katherine on 18 Nov 1923 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA. Katherine (daughter of Carpenter, James Franklin and Hayes, Gertrude) was born on 5 Mar 1900 in Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA; died on 16 Oct 1990 in Ashland, Boone, Missouri, USA; was buried after 16 Oct 1990 in Pisgah Baptist Church Cemetery, Pisgah, Cooper, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1930, Boonville, Cooper, Missouri, USA