Rene Adiel (Be lotters) Herman (1888 - 1969)

Born 13 Oct 1888 in Oostrozebeke, West-Vlaanderen, België

Ancestors

Husband of Irma M (Claerhout) Herman — married 24 May 1916 in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

Died 19 Jul 1969 at age 80 in Battle Creek, Calhoun, Michigan

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Rene (Be lotters) Herman migrated from Belgium to Michigan.

Biography

Rene was born in 1888. Rene is the child of Paulidar Herman and Clothilde Be lotters. He was born in Oostrozebeke, Belgium, a typical agricultural village with lots of farms. Oostrozebeke is a village in the Belgian province of West-Flanders. Also know as Rosebeke. Rene immigrated to the USA with his parents and siblings in 1897.

Battle Creek (MI) Enquirer: Wednesday, July 23, 1969, Page 27 Obituaries Long-time school trustee dies ---MARSHALL -- Rene A. Herman, 80, of 14257 Michigan Ave., in Marshall Township, a lifelong area farmer and a director of the Conly School for 27 years, died Tuesday in Leila Hospital, Battle Creek, where he was transferred March 31 from Oaklawn Hospital. ---He was born in Oostrozebeke, Belgium and came to the United States in 1897, settling in Marshall. ---He attended St. Mary Catholic School and was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church, the Calhoun County Farm Bureau and the Marshall Chamber of Commerce. ---Surviving are his wife, the former Mary Claerhout; daughters, Mrs. Fred (Pauline) Steel of Jackson, Mrs. Ladd (Marry Lou) Wolf of Grandville and Mrs. Kenneth (Irma) Woods of Marshall; sons, James Herman of Marshall Township, Robert of Lee Township, Rene C. and John, both of Battle Creek, and Paul and George, both of Jackson; sisters, Mrs. Fred (Mary) Scharping of Kalamazoo and Mrs. Edward (Virginia) Miller of Jackson; and brothers, Mark Herman of Marshall, Paul of Jackson and O. J. of Bay City.

Page 31 State Funerals HERMAN, RENE A. Rosary will be said at 8:30 p.m. Thursday evening from the Court Funeral Home, Marshall, with requiem mass Friday morning at 10:00 a.m. from St. Marys Church with Father Julius Hengesbach of the church officiating, assisted by Father Lawrence Woods of Kalamazoo. Interment St. Mary's Cemetery.

Sources

• Birth: René Adiel Herman, akte 193 (image 53/1022) https://search.arch.be/nl/zoeken-naar-archieven/zoekresultaat/inventaris/rabscan/eadid/BE-A0516_112308_110919_DUT/inventarisnr/IRS0000034131930/level/file/scan-index/53/foto/516_9999_999_2272988_000_0_0008
• "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MLPV-RPZ : accessed 3 February 2017), Rene Herman in household of Paul Herman, Marshall, Calhoun, Michigan, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 70, sheet 3A, family 50, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 639; FHL microfilm 1,374,652.