Lichtenberg Memorial Park Gazebo - Marthasville, MO
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YoSam.
N 38° 37.674 W 091° 03.633
15S E 668823 N 4277269
One of 7 parks in this small town, and only one with a gazebo
Waymark Code: WMRV2W
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 08/05/2016
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County of gazebo: Warren County
Location of gazebo: Depot St & One St., Lichtenberg Memorial Park, Marthasville
The park is in honor of the first Lichtenberg who started and woodworking business, which became a wagon and casket business, then a funeral business, and is still a funeral home today run by descendants
The Lichtenberg Legacy
Henry August Lichtenberg established his furniture business in Marthasville at the turn of the 20th century. Little did he know he would begin a family tradition that would last for generations. Lichtenberg added undertaking to his tools of trade when he began to use his woodworking skills to furnish caskets and opened a funeral home.
Henry's son Fred followed in his father's footsteps, joining the family business after graduation from St. Louis College of Embalming in 1905. One of the few embalmers in the area. Fred frequently traveled on the MKT to provide his services. He obtained the funeral home's first motorized hearse in the late 1920s or early 1930s. These vehicles also served as ambulances to transport the sick and injured to the train depot. Patients rode the Katy Railroad to a St. Charles hospital for treatment.
- 1928: Fred's wife Adeline became one of the first licensed women embalmers in Missouri
- 1942: Fred and Adeline's son Delmont took the state embalming exams prior to serving in the Army during WWII
- 1988: Delmont and Pearl's daughter Kathryn became the fourth generation to operate the funerla home.