ANTHONY VALENTINE STIMLER

Born: April 16, 1872   Laketown Township, Carver, Minnesota
Died: April 17, 1936   Foley, Benton, Minnesota
Buried: St. John's Parish Cemetery    Foley, Benton, Minnesota

Parents:

Vocation:

Marriage:

Franz Anton Stimmler
Crescentia Sohn

Blacksmith
Manager of automobile garage

Mary Theresa Kampa
May 13, 1898
St. Lawrence Catholic Church
Duelm, Benton, Minnesota
by Father Valentine Stimmler
Witnesses were Joseph L. Kampa and Mary Kampa

Children:	Rupert George	Sept. 2, 1899	† July 12, 1989
	Helen Irene Sophia	July 19, 1901	† Feb. 6, 1926
	Alma Theresa	May 3, 1904	† Aug. 28, 1973
	Florence Elizabeth	July 20, 1906	† Feb. 7, 1986
	Mary "Marie" Clara	Jan. 8, 1910	† June 27, 1979
	Leona Bertha	Mar. 24, 1912	† Oct. 15, 1965
	Joseph Anthony	Nov. 19, 1915	† May 9, 2004
	Ann Frances	Mar. 5, 1919	† July 29, 2010
	Delores Mary	Apr. 15, 1922	† Mar. 28, 1988

Notes:

At the time of the June 19, 1900 federal census, Anthony was 28 years old and living with his wife Mary and their

9-month-old son Rupert in St. George Township, Benton County, MN. Anthony and Mary had been married for two years, and he was working as a blacksmith and a farmer at the time. He stated both his parents were born in Germany.

Tony Stimler was on the school board in 1912 and 1916, and was town treasurer from 1914-1916.

At the time of the January 19, 1920 federal census, Anthony V. Stimler was 47 years old and living with his wife Mary T. and their eight children on in their own home in Foley Village, Benton county, MN. He was working as the manager of an auto garage [Source: 1920 U.S. Federal Census, E.D. 81, p. 20A].

In the April 22, 1930 federal census, Tony was 58 years old and living with wife Mary and their seven youngest children in Foley Village, Minnesota. They owned their home which was valued at $3,000 (or $30,000 in 2001 dollars) and the family had a radio. Tony stated that his father was born in Alsace Lorraine and his mother in Germany. He and Mary were married when he was 26 and she was 19 years old.

Marge Randall's memories of her grandfather: "He always wore a boy scout hat when he went out on the lake and every once in awhile the wind would blow it off especially when he was with my Dad who always had a speed boat."