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John Peter Koch

Birth	:	3 Dec 1877 Russia
Death	:	1968
Burial	:	Evergreen Cemetery, Painesville, Lake County, USA
Coordinate	:	41.7289009, -81.2335968
Description	:	Parents John Frederick Koch & Anna Groz (Russia) ------------- Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, May 2, 1968 J. P. Koch Dies Here at 90, Funeral Rites Will Be Today John Peter Koch died Monday at Ritzville Memorial hospital at the age of 90. Funeral rites are scheduled today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. from the chapel of the Danekas Funeral home with the Rev. Ernest Sprenger officiating. Koch had a long and multi-faceted career which began in Kolb, Russia, with his birth on December 3, 1877. He came to the United States with his parents in 1878 when only about six months old. The family settled... Read More	Parents John Frederick Koch & Anna Groz (Russia) ------------- Ritzville Journal-Times, Thursday, May 2, 1968 J. P. Koch Dies Here at 90, Funeral Rites Will Be Today John Peter Koch died Monday at Ritzville Memorial hospital at the age of 90. Funeral rites are scheduled today (Thursday) at 2 p.m. from the chapel of the Danekas Funeral home with the Rev. Ernest Sprenger officiating. Koch had a long and multi-faceted career which began in Kolb, Russia, with his birth on December 3, 1877. He came to the United States with his parents in 1878 when only about six months old. The family settled on a homestead in Nebraska where they raised cattle feed and food crops and flax. By the time he was 11 he had lost both his parents and was placed in the care of a guardian. When he was 12 he came to Portland, Ore., with an uncle, Henry Koch. There he worked in rope, cracker and cigar factories. It was an exciting time for a teenage boy as he recalled a couple of years ago in an interview with his daughter Henrietta. One of the most exciting incidents was crossing the Columbia by ferry - the train was loaded on the ferry by sections. Koch arrived by train in Ritzville in July of 1883. For the next few years he worked as a farm hand at various ranches in the Ritzville area and at 19 he first rented a farm of his own. In those days, he recalled in the interview, wheat harvests averaged about 8 bushels per acre. Paha was, he said, then the hub of Adams county. He recalled the first automobile in Ritzville - a red Maxwell - which he first saw in 1908. The first airplane he said he saw was in 1915. Koch was married to Lydia Kanzler on June 27, 1900. He recalled selling the prettiest horse he then had, a mare, for $50 in gold to get married on. The family owned and lived on various farms in the Ritzville area. Koch also worked selling hardware for the Ritzville Trading company, selling autos for the Big Bend Motors company, as a Texaco distributor, and as a machinery and later insurance salesman. In 1928 he was appointed as justice of the peace to fill out an unexpired term. The next election he ran on his own and was elected. He continued as a justice of the peace and as a police judge for the next 35 years. While still serving as a justice he did a little farming, raising chickens and milk cows until shortly after WWII. But he discontinued dairying then because he and his wife were advancing in age. He retired as justice of the peace in January of 1963 and spent the last few years prior to his death gardening and fishing. He is survived by his wife Lydia at the home and by two daughters, Henrietta Koch of Ritzville and Mrs. Harland Eastwood of Seattle. There are three grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Koch was a 55 year member of the IOOF lodge, the only one who had been a member in this area for that length of time. He was also a member of the Philadelphia Congregational church. Pallbearers at the funeral are to be Pete Koch, Frank Marshall, Ralph Kisler, Harry Wolsborn, Ted Ott and Bert Oestreich.

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Family Members:

Spouse

Lydia Kanzler Koch

(1879 - 1978)

Children

Henrietta Koch

(1901 - 1980)

Infant Koch

(1908 - 1908)

Catherine Lydia Koch Eastwood

(1914 - 1976)

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