Kitchener "Babe" Radke

1915 - 1970  (54 years)

• Name	Kitchener "Babe" Radke
  Born	4 Aug 1915	Kossuth, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Gender	Male
  Interesting	story
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-256807
  Died	21 Feb 1970	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Buried	Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I256807	Generations
  Last Modified	12 May 2025

  
  

  Father	Ernest Radke,   b. Nov 1874, , Prussia, Germany ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Bertha Ehrhardt,   b. Aug 1880, , Ontario, Canada ,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Married	21 Sep 1904	Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Family ID	F189006	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Myria Bosomworth
  Last Modified	13 May 2025
  Family ID	F57281	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  "City Named for Him" Kitchener Radke Dies Kitchener (Babe) Radke of RR 1, New Hamburg, who used to tell people a city had been named after him, died Saturday at K-W Hospital after a brief illness. He was 54. "I was born a year before Berlin's name was changed to Kitchener in 1916," he used to say. But it was the nicknames that were too much at times. "The kids called me London or Waterloo," he said in an interview with The Record last year. "When I was born on year after the Great War started, A scribe for the Hespeler paper, who knew my father well, bet him that I'd be named after Lord Kitchener rather than Kaiser Wilhelm." He was born Aug 4, 1915, in Kossuth, Ont., a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Radke, and had lived in the Kitchener area all his life. Mr. Radke was a truck driver and has worked four years for Kraus Carpet Mills Ltd. He was a member of First Baptist Church, New Dundee. Surviving are his wife, the former Myria Bosomworth whom he married Oct. 11, 1956, in Elmira; two sons, Radford and Kitchener, Jr., and one daughter, Christine, all at home; three brothers, Emery Radke, New Dundee, and Ivan and Robert, both of RR 1, New Dundee; one sister, Mrs. Lorraine Smith, Toronto. He was predeceased by one brother, Alfred. The body will be at the Ratz-Bechtel Funeral Home until 11 am Thursday when removal will be made to the First Baptist Church, New Dundee, for service at 2:30 pm. Rev. G. W. Medley will officiate. Burial will be in Union Cemetery, New Dundee. Donations to the building fund of the church will be accepted as expressions of sympathy. Kitchener-Waterloo Record 23 Feb 1970 pg 23

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 4 Aug 1915 - Kossuth, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 21 Feb 1970 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Buried - - Elmira Union Cemetery, Elmira, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth