Francis Sprehe refers to his 2 step sons?
a reporter for Post Dispatch in St Louis. James may actually be son of James, and grandson of Edward Henry Sprehe.
grandson has died of cancer in St L in 1988
He was a retired crime beat writer for the Post Dispatch and before that the Globe Democrat in StLan Elmer Sprehe shows in Washington, Clinton Il with father Henry and mother Bertha...one census has b 1920, and one 1922.
James job of reporting crime for St L and the east at the Post Dispatch was actually a cover for working for the CIA.
fr grandson
He was a crime beat reporter that covered the StL and Metro East for many years-during the time (50's) Ike and Tina were playing the Blue Note in east St Louis (when it was the "most up and coming city in America), there were other famous musicians playing there as well. The gig as a crime beat reporter was actually the cover for his real job-working for the CIA. I don't know much about what he did for them but in hearing it on my grandma's death bed, it immediately made sense-he knew several languages, went on 2 "trips around the world" with Dorothy, had slot machines, machine guns, other contraband in his house (that my dad subsequently got rid of after he died), he knew everyone and he knew a lot about them-politicians, actors, dr'
St. Louis Post-Dispatch 08-13-1997 Dorothy D. Sprehe, a retired Internal Revenue Service auditor, died Monday (Aug. 11, 1997) of cancer at St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood. She was 75 and lived in Ballwin. Mrs. Sprehe retired from the IRS office in St. Louis about 1970 after more than 20 years as an auditor. Later, she worked part time at the West County Famous-Barr. Mrs. Sprehe was born in Gerald and attended schools in Washington, Mo. Her husband, James Sprehe, was a Post-Dispatch reporter for many years. He died in 1987. Visitation will be from 3 to 9 p.m. today at Miller Funeral Home, 301 Cedar Street, Washington, Mo. A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at St. Peter's United Church of Christ, 100 East Fifth Street in Washington. Burial will be private. Among the survivors are her son, Michael McKenzie of St. Charles; a brother, Roy Duerr of Washington; two sisters, Ruby Temme and Lucille Stratmann, both of Washington; and eight...
apparently married before to a McKenzie from sons name in obit.
parents b in Ireland, she also possibly
also Hulskamp
Sisselle Ringbeck in 1870 census in Il.
parents
Patrick M Keating b 3/9//1875 Pa d 8/13/1957 father =Austin Keating
Julia b 1877 Moch Catherine b 5/1899 Mo
Frances b 1902 Mo
Genevieve b 1906 Mo
Anna b 1908 MoPatrick worked for US Steel
called Frances
probable druggist around Belleville Il
(Klaus) Nicolaus Henricus Sprehe(Spree)
Also klaus nick name and Heinrich or Henricus
has name spelled as SPREE in marriage at LDS
Engel