Charles Henry "Harry" "Carlo" "Carl" Boehmer: Waterloo Region Generations

Generation: 1

Charles Henry "Harry" "Carlo" "Carl" Boehmer was born 25 Sep 1877, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 3 Jan 1963, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/218932583
Name: C. H. Boehmer
Name: Carl Harry Boehmer
Name: Carl Heinrich Boehmer
Name: Carlo Boehmer
Name: Harry Boehmer
Eby ID Number: Waterloo-130870
Residence: 1881, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
Residence: 1891, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Baptist
Occupation: 1905, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Traveller
Residence: 1920, 54 Church St., Kitchener Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Residence: 1927, 92 Queen St. N., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
Hall of Fame - Waterloo Region: Bef 2012, , Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

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C.H. "Carlo" Boehmer of Berlin achieved fame as an amateur hockey player, an opera singer and an industrialist.

He was a well-known hockey star and played football while attending the University of Toronto.

Possessing a splendid voice, in 1906 he began to study comic and grand opera in Milan, Italy. He was a close friend of Enrico Caruso and Edward Johnson, at one time head of the Metropolitan Opera Company. He lived with Johnson in New York in 1902 and 1903 when they were both studying voice. He gave concerts in Italy and the United States. His success in Italian opera was spectacular and he toured South America with an Italian opera company. He was engaged by the Chicago Opera Company in 1919.

In his later years he returned to Kitchener and joined the family business, A & C Boehmer Box Company, later becoming president.

He was active in many community organizations.
Waterloo Region Hall of Fame

Charles married Minnie Wahn Roos 24 Oct 1905, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. Minnie (daughter of Edward Roos and Mena Wahn) was born 19 Sep 1883, Galt (Cambridge), Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 15 Nov 1964, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Children:

2. Carla Boehmer was born 14 Jun 1918; died 1942; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
3. Angela Boehmer was born 1921; died 26 Nov 1999; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

Generation: 2

2.
Carla Boehmer (1.Charles¹) was born 14 Jun 1918; died 1942; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.
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Eby ID Number: Waterloo-131823

Angela Boehmer

(1.Charles¹) was born 1921; died 26 Nov 1999; was buried , Woodland Cem., Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

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Name: Angela Merner
Eby ID Number: Waterloo-85921

Angela married Roland Albert Merner 24 Oct 1944. Roland (son of Roland Solomon Merner and Annie Edna Carr) was born 29 Mar 1921, Trout Creek, Parry Sound District, Ontario, Canada; died 24 Aug 1950, Toronto, York Co., Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

Children:

4. Carla Merner

Generation: 3

4. Carla Merner (3.Angela², 1.Charles¹)
Carla — John McLennan. [Group Sheet]