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Fiegenbaum, Ivan John

Male 1933 - 1964  (30 years)


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  • Name Fiegenbaum, Ivan John 
    Born 22 Nov 1933  Fairview, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 25 Dec 1933  Fairview, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Ivan was baptized in Immanuel Lutheran Church, Fairview, Kansas.
    Confirmation 15 Jun 1947  Fairview, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Ivan was confirm in St. Paul Lutheran Church, Fairview, Kansas.
    Education Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    at Clarks Business College 
    Graduation 1952  Fairview, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Ivan graduated from Fairview High School, Fairview, Kansas.
    Military Service Germany Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    • Ivan served in the U. S. Army.
    Employed by Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 5] 
    Santa Fe Railways 
    Residence 1964  Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2] 
    Died 26 Feb 1964  Lawrence, Douglas County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7] 
    • Ivan died in a car accident on the Kansas Turnpike near Lawrence, Kansas at about 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday, 26 February 1964. The obituary reports that he appears to have fallen asleep at the wheel of his car and struck a bridge abutment.
    Buried 28 Feb 1964  Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 4, 5] 
    • The funeral service was held at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fairview, Kansas, and Ivan is buried at Mt. Hope Cemetery at Hiawatha, Kansas. Ivan was survived by his sister, of Fairview, Kansas, and two brothers, both of Topeka, Kansas.
    Person ID I1080  Fiegenbaum
    Last Modified 16 Feb 2014 

    Father Fiegenbaum, Carl Frederich,   b. 15 Sep 1896, Carson, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Apr 1972, Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 75 years) 
    Mother Kruse, Anna Rennetta,   b. 3 Nov 1898, Hamlin, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Jul 1983, Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 84 years) 
    Married 3 Jun 1917  Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [8, 9, 10] 

    •      According to an unidentified newspaper article (photocopy provided by Dorothy and Edna Hilgemann), Carl and Anna celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on June 4, 1967 at the home of Mr. & Mrs. Jim Wilson of Fairview, Kansas. A 2007 obituary for their daughter, states that Mary M. Fiegenbaum graduated from a Greenburg, Indiana high school in 1941, and that a week later the family returned to Hiawatha, Kansas.
           The place where the marriage took place has been reported as both Hiawatha, Kansas and Morill, Kansas. The location needs to be confirmed.
    Residence (family) Sep 1918  Morrill, Brown County, Kansas, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11] 

    •      According to information on his World War I draft registration card, filed on 15 June 1918, Carl F. Fiegenbaum lived at Morrill, Kansas. Carl reported that he was self employed at Morrill; the registration card did not request his occupation. His nearest relative was Mrs. Emma Fiegenbaum, of Fairview, Kansas. The registration card did not request his marital status. The Registrar of the local draft board, C. W. Biddle, described Carl as a man of medium height and slender build; with brown eyes and brown hair. There were no physical characteristics that would disqualify Carl for military service.
    Family ID F353  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S29] Dorothy and Edna Hilgemann, Genealogical research.

    2. [S22] Obituary.
      Death of Ivan John Fiegenbaum. Unidentified newpaper; on or after February 28, 1964. Photocopy porvided by Dorothy and Edna Hilgemann.

    3. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 135.
      Ivan John Fiegenbaum was a child of Carl Frederick Fiegenbaum and Anna Renita Kruse. No date or place of birth given.

    4. [S176] Published cemetery records, Ivan John Fiegenbaum.
      Born on 22 November 1933; died on 26 February 1964; 7 [section of the cemetery?]. Published in: Brown County Genealogical Society, Mount Hope Cemetery (Hiawatha, Kansas: Brown County Genealogical Society, 2003), unnumbered pages.

    5. [S22] Obituary.
      Death of Ivan John Fiegenbaum. Unidentified newpaper, February, 26, 1964. Photocopy provided by Dorothy and Edna Hilgemann.

    6. [S22] Obituary, For Mary M. Wilson.
      Posted on the web site of Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, Hiawatha, Kansas at (http://www.webfh.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=122805&fh_id=10361&s_id=75CB300235C7307E66D2696C21162690). Accessed 20 April 2007. A nearly identical version of this obituary was published in the Sabetha (Kansas) Herald on Wednesday, 18 April 2007 (copy provided by Larry Gilbert).
      "Mary was also preceded in death [on 12 April 2007] by her parents, a son Steven in December 1993, two brothers Ivan and Harlan."

    7. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 135.
      Ivan John Fiegenbaum died on 26 February 1964 in a car accident.

    8. [S29] Dorothy and Edna Hilgemann, Genealogical research.
      Carl Frederich Fiegenbaum and Anna Rennetta Kruse were married 3 June 1917 at Hiawatha, Kansas.

    9. [S22] Obituary, For Mary M. Wilson.
      Posted on the web site of Chapel Oaks Funeral Home, Hiawatha, Kansas at (http://www.webfh.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=122805&fh_id=10361&s_id=75CB300235C7307E66D2696C21162690). Accessed 20 April 2007. A nearly identical version of this obituary was published in the Sabetha (Kansas) Herald on Wednesday, 18 April 2007 (copy provided by Larry Gilbert).
      "Mary was born near Morrill in Brown County, November 10, 1923, one of four children of Carl and Anna Kruse Fiegenbaum and had lived most of her life in the northeast Kansas area. She attended grade schools in Kansas, graduating from high school from Greensburg, IN in 1941. A week later, she moved back to Hiawatha, KS with her family."

    10. [S175] Frances Gretchen (Klein) Leenerts, Descendants of Father Fiegenbaum (Chinook, Washington: F. Leenerts, 2002), page 135.
      Carl Frederick Fiegenbaum and Anna Renita Kruse were married on 3 June 1917 at Morrill, Brown County, Kansas.

    11. [S179] Ancestry.com (library edition), World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 (http://search.ancestrylibrary.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=6482 in December 2017), Carl F. Fiegenbaum. Draft registration on June [sic] 5, 1918.
      Serial number [no entry]; Order No. 59; Registration number 98. Hiawatha, Brown County, Kansas. Online database accessed in March 2012. Registration Card B, designed for use in 5 July 1918, was used to regiter Carl F. Fiegenbaum, but the registrar dated the card June 5, 1918.


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