Pritzl, Regina M. b. 13 Jun 1895 Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA d. 16 Dec 1979 New London, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA: 1FAMILYTREE Genealogy

1895 - 1979 (84 years) Has 8 ancestors and 15 descendants in this family tree.

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Name	Pritzl, Regina M. [1]
Born	13 Jun 1895	Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
Gender	Female
Letter	Nachrichten: On July 21st I boarded the Air Wisconsin plane at 1:30pm for Chicago. 45 minutes later I was in Chicago where I was to fly a Lufthansa 747 due to leave at 6:30pm , non-stop to Frankfort, by way of Montreal and London. A Notre Dame Sister from St. Paul, Minnesota was my seatmate. She was going home to Bayern, a little place near Munich. An interesting companion. The ride was smooth, no turbulence. We were soon served a good supper. After that, movies. It seemed to me like midnight when we saw the sun coming up in the east, a beautiful sight. Before long, a big breakfast. In slightly more than seven hours we landed in Frankfort. The country-side could be seen as we were coming down where we had only seen cloud banks before. A few hours later I boarded a smaller plane to Nurnberg. At Nurnberg, Alfred Seidl (Joe Kohlnhofer's nephew), met me. He picked me out right away! (I had sent his sister my passport picture). I stayed at their home that night. He and Mary, his lovely wife, made me feel right at home. The next morning Alfred took me to Passau by car, a 3 1/2 hour ride through the beautiful countryside. Germany is surely beautiful. I loved their flower-box windows. Everywhere you saw them. Got my first glimpse of the Donau as we neared Passau. I said, "I thought it would look more blue". (The Blue Danube). Alfred said, "Wait until you get to Passau, you'll see it is blue". The fields along the way looked beautiful, grain ready to harvest. What a thrill to see Marie, , her son Paul, his wife Ernie and their 16 year old son Peter, after writing to them since the 1940's. We had gotten to know them soon after they had been driven out of their homeland. What a welcome we got. Their home was built 11 years ago . Marie lives in the downstairs, Paul and Ernie on the 1st floor and Ernie's mother upstairs. A wonderful arrangement. The house is on a sloping lot, - unusual, but so convenient. Paul teaches and Marie taught 46 years, (I think she said). Marie's husband died two years ago. He had stayed in Czechoslovakia until a few years ago. They live a short distance from the Mariahilf Kirche Pilgrimage. What a privilege to be able to go there for Mass every day! The Capuchins are in charge of the Pilgrimage. Passau is an interesting city, - 2000 years old. Looks Italian, An Italian architect planned the city they told me. The fortresses built in the time of the Romans are still intact. It is unique in that the Danube, the Inn, and the Ilz rivers flow together right in the city. Oh yes, where the Danube and the Inn join, the Danube "is" blue and the Inn, green. St. Stephen's Cathedral, (known as the "Dom"), stand out. Centuries old and beautiful. It has the largest church organ in the world. I heard it play. The narrow cobblestone streets intrigued me. Of course the newer part of the city is modern, - to me, not as pretty. The 1st Sunday there we went to Sharding in Austria for dinner. "Liberknodl" - delicious! I soon learned to like their beer, - ours is nothing compared to it. On July 27th. we drove to the border. We saw the barbed wire entanglements and the towers. We drove through the Bayrisher Wald, - beautiful, - saw the Ober, - drank Pilsner beer, - the small Osser Mtns. At 11:00 am we got to the area where we could look, (with field glasses), over to Hirschau and Springenberg. Could see the roof of the "Friedl" house well and the church, (not too plain for me). Marie and Paul said they could see that the barn door was off yet since the day they were driven out. (beim Esinrei) What a feeling, - to be so near and yet so far. What those poor people suffered! They carried what they could to the border and there it was stolen, - they had absolutely nothing but what they had on. Next we went to Neukirchen Von Heiligen Blut. Wolfahts platz! Had dinner in Lamm. Barbara Kohlnhofer Seidl is buried in Lamm. We visited her grave. We passed the school building in Lambach were Marie taught for 7 years. It had living quarters in it, - lucky, - she could take in her homeless family, her sister Fannie and 3 children, her mother, and her four brothers one after another when they came home from the war. They had nothing, - but at least they could be together, - even though starving. They knew what hunger really was. On July 30th, we went to the Salz Kommergut. First glimpse of the beautiful Alps. Ate at dem "Weissen Rossl" at St. Wolfgang, - on to Bad Ischl and Salzburg. Mozart's birthplace was pointed out to me. August 4th, at 9:00 am, we were off to Auerbach to visit the Pritzl nuns, Reinholda and Felicia. ("Peppi", - she said she was). What a visit we had! Sr. Reinholda said to me, "Hona ma denkt, wos wead des fua a feine Dam sa, von Amerika, davall ees med ondest vie mia!" Homa'n Bohmerwald g'sunga. Marie's niece, Sr. Juliana was with us too. The Rev. Mother too. Sr. Augusta was there at the Convent the week before. Too bad we missed her. We visited the graves of Srs.Henriette and Johanna. Late in the day we left for Kimanath to spend the night with the Henry Seidl family. Nice visit with a pleasant family. The next day we visited Georg Seidl in a nursing home. He had lost a leg as a child and later lost the other one. 5th August, 10:00 am Mass at Mariahilf. Latin Mass sung by a mixed choir, - beautiful. Communion is given in the hand but a few still receive on their tongue, I did. Hosts are tan, - made of whole wheat. On August 9th, we went to Munich. On our way we stopped in Birkah where my father grew up. When my grandfather died a brother came a day or two late for the funeral. My father, who was 4 at the time, ran into the house to tell his mother, "Da Votta keamed hoam, is auf a weissen Ross". That touched the uncle so, he begged to take the boy home with him. He did, - and grandmother, (they told me), never forgave herself for letting him go. My father came to America in 1872. The Schweiger family knew of him. Had a nice visit. What a thrill to be where my father was, once upon a time at home. We went to Altotting, - great privilege. Also prayed at Bro. Konrads tomb. His remains are visible. Marie and I went into Donisl's in Munich and had their famous Weisswurst and Munchener beer. We often walked over into Austria. They were amazed that I could use their dialect, - hadn't used it since mother died in 1925. Marie knew no English, but her son Paul speaks English fluently, besides 6 or 7 other languages. Russian is one of them. He spent 6 weeks in Leningrad teaching Russian and English this summer. And twice before that. Their son Peter always used English, - said he wanted to practice it. Knowing the dialect certainly made it much more fun. Our family had a dialect of it's own. Pa, growing up where he did, spoke differently than mothers family. The Zipperers came from the Hirschau area, - so we used some from both sides. They told me over there how the Hirschau church came into being, - about Andreas Schmidtpetter. Any way the wonderful stay had to come to an end. Together, Maria and I took the train to Nurnberg the 1st of September. We spent the night at her niece's apartment and I started for home the 2nd. Her nephew (Fannie's boy Guenther) took her to Gipfenberg, where her niece Edeltraud was to be married on Saturday the 4th. It took 8 1/2 hours flying (non-stop again) to get to Chicago. Through Customs took a while, - thought I'd miss my little plane to Appleton, but made it. There were 32 of my family waiting at the airport! All but a brass band!
Died	16 Dec 1979	New London, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
Obituary	Aft 16 Dec 1979
Age 84, died Sunday in New London. She was born June 13, 1895 in Brillion and had been a resident of the Stephensville area for the past 60 years. She was a member of St. Patrick's Catholic Church, the Ladies Guild and the Third Order of St. Francis. She was also a member of the Never Idle Homemaker's Club. She is survived by three sons; Anthony, Edward and William, all of Rt 1, Hortonville; two daughters; Mrs. William (Mary) Cummings, Rt 1 Hortonville; Mrs. William (Therese) Corr, Riverside, California; 38 grand-children, 16 great-grandchildren; a sister; Sister M. De Lellis, New Berlin, Wisconsin. She was preceded in death by her husband, a son, a daughter, three brothers, four sisters, two grandchildren and a great-grandchild. The funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at St. Patrick Catholic Church, with the Rev. Florian Resheske officiating. Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Friends may call after 3 p.m. Tuesday until time of the service Wednesday. There will be a prayer service Tuesday at 8 p.m. Borchardt and Moder Funeral Home, Hortonville 779-4588 TOD: Obit" of Regina M Bohman - Rt 1, Hortonville, Wisconsin from Robert E. & Bernice Pritzl
Buried	19 Dec 1979	St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stephensville, Wisconsin, USA
	Bohman, Regina (Maiden Name: Pritzl) St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stephensville, Wisconsin, USA
Person ID	I116491	1FamilyTree
Last Modified	16 Feb 2017

Father	Pritzl, Francis S., b. 18 Oct 1852, Hirschau (Hyrsov), Hyrsov, , Czech Republic , d. 4 Jan 1911, Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA (Age 58 years)
Mother	Zipperer, Mary, b. 26 Jun 1860, Whitelaw, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, USA , d. 22 Feb 1925, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 64 years)
Family ID	F45658	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Bohman, Anthon A., b. 23 Dec 1893, Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA , d. 8 Feb 1963, Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA (Age 69 years)

Married 21 Oct 1919 Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA

Children

	1. Bohman, Francis, b. 14 Jan 1921, Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA , d. 21 Nov 1978, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 57 years)
	2. Bohman, Edward J., b. 11 Aug 1922, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. 31 May 2014, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 91 years)
	3. Bohman, Louise, b. Abt 1924, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. Abt 1934, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age ~ 10 years)
+	4. Bohman, Anthony
+	5. Bohman, Mary, b. 15 Aug 1928, Ellington, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. 3 Dec 2003 (Age 75 years)
+	6. Bohman, William, b. 6 Jul 1930, Stephensville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA , d. 19 Apr 2008, Hortonville, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA (Age 77 years)
	7. Bohman, Therese

Last Modified 1 May 2010

Family ID F45626 Group Sheet | Family Chart

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	Born - 13 Jun 1895 - Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
	Married - 21 Oct 1919 - Brillion, Calumet, Wisconsin, USA
	Died - 16 Dec 1979 - New London, Outagamie, Wisconsin, USA
	Buried - 19 Dec 1979 - St. Patrick Catholic Cemetery, Stephensville, Wisconsin, USA