JOHN H. AND LILLIE [REITER] FRISCH
[pg 253 PHOTO John and Lillie [Reiter] Frisch]
John H. Frisch, the oldest son of John B. Frisch and Annie T. Horn,
was born in Carroll, Iowa, on January 15, 1885. As a youngster of
three, he came to Nebraska in a covered wagon with his folks, a
brother, and sister. He attended the Ruth School through the third
grade and helped out at the farm twelve miles northwest of Verdigre.
He came to the farm with his family in 1888.
[pg 253 PHOTO Back from left: John Frisch, Herman Frisch, Carl
Frisch; front: Lillyann Coover, Clara Heggemeyer, and Tracie Ruzicka]
John H. had seven brothers, two sisters, and one half-sister. Before
he was married he worked in Omaha as a streetcar conductor and also
as a mason on the Woodman of the World building. It was there he
fell several floors and lost a kidney from the injury. The doctors
told him he had only two years to live if he remained in the city,
so less than a year before his father died, he and his bride, Lillie
Reiter, whom he had married May 7, 1912, in Omaha, came back to Knox
County and took over the farm that he had helped his father build
up.
John and Lillie, who was born June 19, 1894, were the parents of six
children: Tracie (Mrs. Ernest Ruzicka) lives on a farm 10 miles west
of Verdigre; John A., resides in Marysville, California; Clara (Mrs.
George Heggemeyer) lives on a farm north of Orchard; Herman, in
Bellevue, Nebraska, and Carl and Lillyann (Mrs. Arthur Coover), in
Verdigre.
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