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Theodore C. Block

1906 - 1959

 

Watertown Memorial Co

112-118 N Fourth

12 14 1959

Obit includes image

T. C. Block, City Business Man, Is Dead

 

Monument Firm Official Victim of Heart Attack

 

Theodore C. Block 53, of 1108 Jones Street, secretary-treasure of the Watertown Memorial Co. of which his father was one of the founders, died last evening in St. Mary’s Hospital.  His death was due to a heart attack.  He had gone to the hospital yesterday morning for a cardiograph examination and tests for a heart condition.

 

Mr. Block was a lifelong resident of Watertown having been born here on March 7, 1906, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John F. Block.  He was married to Miss Vera Benninger on Aug. 31, 1935.

 

Family Survives

 

Surviving are his wife; a daughter, Edith, and two sons, Robert T. and David J. Block, all of Watertown.  There is one brother, E. C. Block, this city, and five sisters also survive.  They are Mrs. Herman Zurr, Lake Mills; Mrs. Fred Witt, Wilmette, Ill.; Mrs. Elmer Schoenicke, West Allis; Mrs. Victor Krueger and Miss Esther Block, Watertown.

 

Cross References:

          Watertown Memorial Co

1975, 112 N Fourth, monuments, WHS_005_272

 

          Watertown Memorial Co

1975, 118 N Fourth, monuments, WHS_005_271