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Laura Edna Seegmiller

Female 1894 - 1972  (77 years)


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  1. 1.  Laura Edna Seegmiller was born 23 Oct 1894, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1972; was buried , Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Petersburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada.

    Other Events:

    • Name: Edna Seigmiller
    • Name: Laura Edna Bier
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-200104
    • Residence: 1911, Petersburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lutheran
    • Residence: 1944, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
    • Residence: 1970, 234 Waterloo St., New Hamburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada

    Laura — Elmer Henry Bier. Elmer (son of Peter Bier and Catherine Green) was born 20 Feb 1892, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; died 1 Jan 1970, New Hamburg, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Emanuel Evangelical Lutheran Cemetery, Petersburg, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

    Children:
    1. 2. Glenn Bier  Descendancy chart to this point
    2. 3. Jean Bier  Descendancy chart to this point
    3. 4. Leila Bier  Descendancy chart to this point
    4. 5. Captain Nile Harold Bier  Descendancy chart to this point was born 1918; died 28 Jun 1944; was buried , Assisi War Cemetery, Rivotoro, Assisi, , , Italy.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Glenn Bier Descendancy chart to this point (1.Laura1)

  2. 3.  Jean Bier Descendancy chart to this point (1.Laura1)

  3. 4.  Leila Bier Descendancy chart to this point (1.Laura1)

  4. 5.  Captain Nile Harold Bier Descendancy chart to this point (1.Laura1) was born 1918; died 28 Jun 1944; was buried , Assisi War Cemetery, Rivotoro, Assisi, , , Italy.

    Other Events:

    • Honoured: Nile Bier Crescent, New Hamburg, Ontario, Canada; Nile Bier Crescent, New Hamburg, Ontario named in his honor
    • Interesting: war, military, misfortune, life story
    • Military: WW2
    • Misfortune: killed in WW2
    • Eby ID Number: Waterloo-40350P

    Notes:

    Tank Ambushed in Italy, Capt. 'Maxie' Bier Killed

    By DOUG HOW With the Canadian Corps In Italy, July 20 (CP). The major asked: "'Could you write something about Maxie?"

    "I don't know just what you could write," he said. "If you could only have known the guy it. would be easy. He was the best, Maxie was.
    "He was short--about five five - and he had blond hair. He was a very quiet fellow and a very tough and able fellow when this squadron got into trouble. His name was Capt. Nils Bier and he came from :Hamburg, OM. Sure, German descent

    "We called him Maxie. Right through Sicily and on up he's been with us, always solid, always in there. We used to see him standing in the turret of his tank with a grenade in his hand, ready for anything.

    Got Away a Round

    "He was killed near Casamaggiore a couple of days ago The Germans commanded three-quarters of an arc of a circle and Maxie was ambushed by four Mark V Panthers. He saw them and got away a round before they got him. He died giving his gunner a fire 'order.

    "Two days before he had been wounded, but he came right back up. That was Maxie Bier."


    Globe and Mail 21 Jul 1944



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