DESCENDANCY of JOHANN CARL GOTTLIEB KEIL (b 1812 ... - Edler

“All-People”- Section 9b
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RICHARD JOHN CLARENCE TECHTMANN (b 1905)
and FRIEDA JOHANNA ANNA HAGNER (b 1903) and their descendants
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Richard's parents were Johann Franz Adam Techtmann and Bertha Mathilda Keil
Frieda's parents were Charles Hagner and Katherine Petri
4. Richard John Clarence 3 Techtmann was born 27 Oct 1905 Washington Co WI. He married
Frieda Johanna Anna Hagner 2 Sep 1931 Fillmore, Washington Co; 14 six children born West Bend,
Washington Co. Her parents were Charles Hagner (1869-1955) and Katherine Petri (1870-1949). Richard
died 31 May 1976, age 70, 9 St Joseph's Community Hospital, buried Union Cemetery, West Bend, near
Frieda's parents. Born 29 Jan 1903, Frieda died 31 Aug 2005, age 102, buried Union Cemetery.
Richard bought his parents' farm from his father, and he and Frieda raised their children there. They
farmed until 1974 when they moved to 525 No 18th Ave, West Bend.
Meeting Frieda was a special delight at the family gathering her children held for us when we visited
in May 1999. She was 96 and the last of her generation of the Techtmann/Keil families. She was frail
and couldn't take part very much, but said she was enjoying "watching" and didn't want to leave too early.
Later we saw the nursing home, in an attractive old house in West Bend, where she had a first floor front
corner room.
Based on naming patterns we've seen, we've wondered if her name might originally have been
Johanna Elfriede Anna.
a. a son, 4 born 1932, married 1974 West Bend; no children. 9
He was stationed at Ft Belvoir VA about 1951. He visited KFE's parents at least once while he was
there, and we remember meeting him. It was great to see him again and meet his wife.
They live on his parents' farm, which is a blessing, enabling it to be kept in the family. Recently
they've put a fine new roof on the large barn, such a contrast to the many collapsed barns we saw in the
region. They rent out the actual farm and stay busy with their other activities.
He is retired, but keeps a commercial driver's license and is on the road a lot, delivering huge tractortrailers
all over the country. She is employed full-time in the Washington County Personnel Department.
She comes from a family of five children, three girls and two boys, whose great-grandparents
immigrated from Poland. She enjoys the company of her nieces and nephews, some of whom live next
door. At the 1999 family gathering, we were impressed with how sweet she was to her mother-in-law.
b. a daughter, 4 born 1934, married 1956 West Bend; three children. 9
She has provided much of the information we have on the descendants of the Techtmann family. We
had been corresponding with her for about ten years, and were so pleased to meet her and her family on
our trip to Wisconsin in May 1999. And we enjoyed visiting with them again in 2003.
They have a condominium duplex in an attractive suburban area of West Bend, the very nicest we've
seen for enjoying retirement living. We were impressed with how beautifully the house and yard are kept,
and especially enjoyed seeing his woodworking shop in the basement.
She worked at Schloemer Law Office for 30 years before working at the Register of Deeds Office in
the Washington Co courthouse on So 5th Ave, a wonderful old building which some of the children think
looks like a castle. In the yard of the courthouse is a large statue "Spirit of the American Doughboy".
(BFE's dad liked the original of the statue so much that he bought a small reproduction of it, made into a
table lamp which we still have.) Before she retired, she worked at the new Washington Co courthouse on
E Washington St.
Her husband worked with data systems at the West Bend Company, which produces a wide variety of
home appliances and other things. He retired after more than 40 years of service.
i. a daughter, 5 born 1957, married 1981; two daughters. In 2003 she was General Manager at the
West Bend Co, and her husband was with computers at M&I Data Services.
ii. a son, 5 born 1960, married 1982; one son.
iii. a son, 5 born 1964, was a set designer in 1999, unmarried, living in Portland OR. He has a
master's degree in theatre, and has worked at the Shakespeare Festival in Ashland OR, at Portland
Center Stage, and at Will Vinton animation studio on Fox TV commercials and programming.
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