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• familyserch.org ID: LCD7-BZW
• Confirmation: 16 Apr 1916, Trinity Lutheran Church, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
-Southeast Missourian Newspaper

Postmaster - Cape Girardeau, Missouri:
Theodore R. Regenhardt Acting Postmaster 05/03/1957
Theodore R. Regenhardt Postmaster 05/28/1957
Russell J. Fowler Officer-In-Charge 04/03/1970
Russell J. Fowler Postmaster 03/20/1971

THEODORE R. REGENHARDT
Biographical Research

DATE: 29 Dec 1900
NEWSPAPER: DAILY DEMOCRAT
PG. 5 COL. 1
LOCATED: 1983
A thirteen pound boy. That was the Ed Regenhardt's Christmas
present this morning (12/26/00), and Ed is as happy as a boy with
his first pair of pants.


FROM: Record of Births - City of Cape Girardeau

454. NAME: Regenhardt, Theodore Rossevelt
LOCALITY: Sprigg St.
DATE: Dec. 26, 1900 Wednesday
RESIDENCE OF PARENTS: Sprigg St. - Cape
ATTENDING PHYSICIAN: J.D. Porterfield

Southeast Missourian - Out of the Past

Jan. 11, 1954
Figures released by County Collector Ted Regenhardt show county residents and corporations poured $1,097,488.11 into their school systems, county government and miscellaneous adjuncts in taxes they paid during final three months of 1953.
Dec. 5, 1955
Regenhardt Construction Co. of Cape Girardeau was the award winner for a $1,027,518 highway paving project in three parts of Madison County, Illinois.
July 6, 1956
Ted R. Regenhardt, former Cape Girardeau County collector of revenue, has been advanced to the eligible list for the Cape Girardeau postmastership; Regenhardt joins Kenneth Cruse and U.G. Pettigrew on the list of candidates.
March 4, 1957
WASHINGTON -- President Eisenhower nominates 172 postmasters; among the nominations sent to the Senate is that of Theodore R. Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau.
April 10, 1957
Acquisition of a site for the new St. Andrew Lutheran Church is announced by Luther Hahs, temporary chairman of the congregation; the four-acre tract secured fronts 416 feet on Kingsway and is just north of the Alvarado; the lot was acquired from Freeman Lewis and T.R. Regenhardt.
May 4, 1957
Cape Girardeau's new postmaster, Ted R. Regenhardt, was officially sworn in and assumed his duties yesterday afternoon; he succeeds A.S. Reed, acting postmaster.
Aug. 15, 1957
The General Services Administration has notified Postmaster Ted Regenhardt that bids will be received in Kansas City on Aug. 29 for an old-fashioned, hand-fired coal furnace to be installed in the Cape Girardeau post office.
Sept. 25, 1957
Cape Girardeau County and postal officials say they will join efforts for an overpass for Hopper Road at the point where it now is proposed to sever the road into two sections without a connecting link by the planned interstate highway; Postmaster Ted Regenhardt says mail service into the area will be substantially hampered if there is no overpass.
Dec. 11, 1957
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces that bids for remodeling and repairing the Cape Girardeau post office from roof to basement, at a cost expected to be well in excess of $100,000, will be opened Dec. 27 in Kansas City.
March 29, 1958
A large highway contract and a smaller one, both in Illinois, will be started shortly by the combined Potashnick and Regenhardt firms of Cape Girardeau; the main job is to be in Jefferson County at Mount Vernon, and will be on highways 37 and 15; the project calls for 10 miles of right of way grading, bridges and concrete pavement.
Oct. 23, 1958
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt announces two highway post offices and two tractor-trailer trucks will expedite mail service in to and out of Cape Girardeau upon cessation of service by Frisco night passenger trains; the rolling post offices will operate out ofSt. Louis and Memphis, Tenn, meeting at Sikeston, Mo.; the tractor-trailer trucks will move between the two large cities, receiving pouches at the various stops on the way.

April 21, 1959
Postmaster Ted Regenhardt has been notified by the General Services Administration that budgetary limitations will delay installation of air conditioning in the post office at Cape Girardeau.

April 2, 1970
Retired as Postmaster (date from Alice Regenhardt Lewis 27 July 2011)

Theodore Roosevelt Regenhardt 101 S. West End Blvd. Cape Girardeau, Mo.
Date of Birth Dec. 26, 1900. Application for Postmaster
No. 5

Recommend purchase of all supplies

I believe an explanation is necessary here as to why I an listing work in the canal zone and in the States under item no 5. 1 spent a part of both years in the canal zone and apart in the states. The work I performed both years in the canal zone as of a similar nature, as was the work I did in the states which was as follows:


Was superintendent of all materials which went into the construction of prisoner of war camps. Supervised at the peak employment load approximately 300 men. Was responsible for the securing of materials, unloading saw yard, loading and hauling to job sites. Worked with Army Engineers in securing materials.

No. 6

Jan 1938 to Nov. 1941 Superintendent of Construction

Wm. McK. Regenhardt, Vice Pres.

Lexington, Ky.

Regenhardt Construction Co. Construction Co.
H & H Building, Cape Girardeau

4 Foremen, 4 mechanics, timekeeper, bookkeeper. Offered better job.

Supervised the construction of concrete highways and earth levees. Purchased materials and supplies. Assisted in making up bids on jobs.


ACTIVITIES

Red Cross County Chairman 1 year
Official Church Board 15 years
Old McKendree Church board of Trustees 5 years
Southeast Missouri Hospital Board of Trustees 1 year
Civil Defense Welfare Director 3 years
Masonic Lodge 32 years
Scottish Rite 6 years
Shrine 6 years



March 1947 to March 7, 1955 County Collector

Collection of taxes for the State of Missouri, County of Cape Girardeau and The Little River Drainage District. Directly responsible for the collecting and disbursement of monies in the average amount per year of $ 1,100,000.00 to the various political subdivisions.


1946 Campaigned for the office of County Collector


1945, Jan. 11, Discharged from Navy and re-employed by McCarthy Bros. Constructions Co. as a superintendent of Levee Construction.

1943 Nov, to Jan 11, 1955 Naval Reserve in engineer corps, Boot camp, Camp Peary Virginia. To New York 30 days Stevedore school, ordered after completion of school to Hawaii, attached to 20th stevedore regiment,



1941 Dec. 9 to Nov. 1943 Employed by McCarthy Bros. Construction Co. in Panama Canal Zone as Superintendent of Construction, France Field Airport, roads, powder magazines. Employed in the states as foreman of materials in the construction of prisoner of war camps.


1938 1941 Employed by Regenhardt Const. Co. as Superintendent in the construction of roads and levees.


1935 1938 Bought newspaper distributing agency Cairo, Ill. and worked for the city of Cairo, building streets.


1921 1935 Started with father in the paving construction business at Poplar Bluff, MO


1920 Sept to 1921 May School State College Cape Girardeau, Mo.


1919 June to 1920 Aug. Worked in Detroit, Michigan making tires U.S. Tires Co. and on Bldg. Construction


1914 to 1919 Worked after school and on Saturday at the Cape
Girardeau Republican which was changed to the Southeast Missourian Newspaper. Had charge of carrier boys and mailing room



Sponsors: August Weiss, Wilhelm Oberheide, Lizzie Vasterling, Emma Ackenhausen

Buried:
Find A Grave Memorial #

Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 5

Theodore married Lois Alline McNeely on 31 Mar 1923 in Bride's Home, Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Lois (daughter of John Thomas McNeely and Jemima Jane Stevenson) was born on 05 Oct 1897 in Parent's Home, Leemon, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States; died on 05 Feb 1990 in Chateau Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried in New Lorimier Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: GQB3-R56
• Residence: 1925, Cabery, Ford County, Illinois, United States; 1925-1926
• Residence: 1926, Saint James, Phelps County, Missouri, United States; 1926-1927
• Residence: 1927, Rolla, Phelps County, Missouri, United States; 1927-1928
• Residence: 1928, Compton, Lee County, Illinois, United States; 1928-1929
• Residence: 1929, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, United States; 1929-1930
• Residence: 1930, Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois, United States; 1930-1931; : 1st Grade; Address:
  214 Metropolis Street
• Residence: 1932, Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois, United States; 1932-1934; : 2nd & 3rd Grade; Address:
  2021 College Street
• Residence: 1934, Marion, Williamson County, Illinois, United States; 1934-1935; : 4th Grade
• Residence: 1935, Cairo, Alexander County, Illinois, USA; 1935-1937; : Grades 5, 6, 7
• Residence: 1937, Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky, United States; 1937-1938; : 8th Grade; Address:
  1528 Versailles Pike
• Residence: 1939, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; 1939-1946; : High School
• Residence: 1946, Lawrenceville, Lawrence County, Illinois, United States; 1946-1947; : Taught School
• Residence: 1947, , St. Louis County, Missouri, USA; 1947-1948; : STL County Assistant Home Agent - Home Economics
• Residence: 1948, Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; 1948-2017
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Alice Alline Lewis (nee Regenhardt) passed away May 2, 2017.

Alice was born March 24, 1925 to Lois Alline (nee McNeely) and Ted R. Regenhardt in Cape Girardeau.

Her father was associated with his father and brothers in the Regenhardt Construction Company. The family moved every year or every other year following their highway construction jobs throughout Illinois and eastern Missouri.

Her grandfather, Edward Regenhardt, was the general contractor for the construction of Academic Hall, the main administration building of what is now Southeast Missouri State University and a Cape Girardeau landmark.

By the time she was high school age, her parents moved the family back to Cape permanently.

She attended Franklin School for the 9th grade, and Cape Central high school the next 3 years, and next attended Southeast Missouri State Teachers College, where she graduated with a B.S. degree in Secondary Education, specializing in Home Economics. Her first job was as a teacher in Lawrence, IL. The next year she worked in St. Louis County as an assistant home extension agent.

She married Freeman Lewis, owner of Wimpy's Drive In and Grocery on September 25, 1948. They joined Centenary Methodist Church later that year.

In 1969, Alice began work as an elementary Guidance Counselor for the Sikeston Public Schools.

In 1970, she went back to SEMO and worked on her master’s degree in elementary guidance counseling, accomplishing her goal in 1973, the same year her son Rob graduated from SEMO. She retired from her work in Sikeston after 20 years, in 1989.

She belonged to the Missouri State Teacher’s Association and was a charter member of the Professional Home Economists organization.

Active in the life of Centenary Methodist Church for 68 years, she served in several capacities: church secretary, nursery coordinator, church board of trustees, and various United Methodist Women offices.

She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and P.E.O.

Alice loved to read, play bridge and assemble jigsaw puzzles. She embroidered quilts for her grandchildren as well as creating needlepoint pictures and chair covers. A love of travel took her across the U.S. and one trip to Europe.

She is survived by her husband of 68 years, Freeman.

They have two sons, Rob (Diane) Lewis of San Antonio, Texas and Jon (Susan) Lewis of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Grandchildren Sarah (Thomas) Satterwhite, Angela (Justin) Morgan, and Stephen Lewis. Great-grandchildren Blake and Emily Satterwhite.

She is also survived by her brother Don (Linda) Regenhardt of Chevy Chase, MD; one cousin, Joe (Mary Alice) Regenhardt of Cape Girardeau; six nephews and eight nieces.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother Teddy and a sister Dee Ann, both when young children.


A visitation will be held Sunday, May 7th from 2 pm – 3 pm at Centenary United Methodist Church. The memorial service follows at 3 pm. Interment private.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be given to Centenary United Methodist Church, 300 N. Ellis St., Cape Girardeau, MO 63701.





Buried:
Section 8, Lot 170, Grave 5

Alice married Freeman Dale Lewis on 25 Sep 1948 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA. Freeman (son of Fred Lewis and Ethel Mayme Miller) was born on 20 Jan 1923 in Des Arc, Iron County, Missouri, USA; died on 08 Dec 2017 in Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA; was buried on 14 Dec 2017 in Cape County Memorial Park Cemetery, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• familyserch.org ID: 9X94-KB9
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

Christened:
Grace Methodist Church

Buried:
Find a Grave Memorial # 8005644

Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 3

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• familyserch.org ID: 9X94-KBK
• Created: 09 Aug 2018

Notes:

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=regenhardt&GSfn=dee&GSiman=1&GScid=640927&GRid=8008190&

Died:
Whooping cough

Buried:
Section 3, Lot 58, Grave 4

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Family/Spouse: Living. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]