The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1916-03-17
CAPE RETAILERS
HONOR BERNARD
BREMERM MANN
To Attend Funeral and Com
lnittee Will Draft ResOlu-
tons of Respect.
PIONEER MERCHANT
WAS A SAILOR BOY
Died of Pneumonia At Home
To Be Buried Saturday
Morning.

The Retail Merchants Association
last night nameG committee to draft
resolutions out Of respect to Bernard
BremcrmaEn, tie veteran Broadway
merchant, who u;ed at . o'clock yes
terday morning at MS home AZ TIC
Broadway after shCrt illness with
pneumonia.
The funeral services for Mr.. Brei:l-
ermann will be held 1t 1G o'clock Sat
Grlay morning at the family resi-
dence and the funeral will be attend
ed by virtually all the Cape retail
merchants. Tie resolutions Will be
drafted by that time and made public.
The committee appointed is cCm-
posed Of the following men: Henry r..
Wiiler, president OF the organization;
w. c. Bergman, retired retailer, Da-
vid A. Glenn and Henry Nusskaurl,
ST., whc likewise is retired. The asSo-
citation also will send fl2Ial offerings
for the funeral.
Mr.. Bremermann, AZ the time nc en-
gagged in the retail business in the
CaDe in September 1870, was the only
merchant on Broadway and at the time
Of his death, none of his contemDor-
aries at the tInia OF his embarka.ion
in busine.s, wern 2livC.
He was known by virtually every
enc in the CAPE and CAPE County and
his store as on" Of Southeast Mis-
souri's oldest institutions, is known
throughout ibis section Of the state
Mr. 8remcrmann thicrgho": his life
was physically strong. His relatives
and friends Doasted that he never
knew a day wn2n he was in i'll health.
Sunday he first 5-gar to feel TIE
attack 0: pneuEvltia. He did 70. rise
till late Monday to 20 into III store,
and Monday afternoon he Lett his
York to lie down for rest in the J..
NJ. Allison home in the rear Of the
store building on Broadway.
He and his wife had li.cd upstairs
ever their store for man years, hut
Monday night he was unable 20 so
to his bcdchambcr upstairs. y physi-
clan was summoned and by Wedncs-
day evening, he vas pronounced to be
improving.
Although the nhysicians had advised
members of the family that there was
but slight hope Cor his recovery from
the attack by pneumonia, Wednesday
evening his condition warranted good
hope that nc would regain his
Yesterday morning, however, he
died 4 fow moments Ift2r he had held
= conversation with ore Of his daugh-
tcrs, MIS-. j. f. Gordon, OF New Mad
rid.
Tho funeral .;ermon will be prea he'd
tomorrow by Rev. A. Wilder, pastor
o. Trinity German LUthcran Church,
Of which Mr.. Br@merriann was n:am-
Der fer many years. Burial Will DC in
u family lot at FairmoGnt cemetery.
Mr. Brcmcrmam j. survived by his
wife, with whom, five years ago, he
celebrated his golden wedding ami
vcraary He Vas IS years old and
last fall received The congratulations
of friends in iii parts Of Southeast
Missouri on his cighty-tnird birthday.
Fi"c children, two son: and three
daughters also survive him. The sons
acc John F. Bromcrmann Of Ponlal
Bluff, ard Herman Brem@rraaGn CT the
First National Bank. The daughters
n" Mrs. Alvina Owens, of St. Louis;
Mrs. J. NJ. Allison of the Cape and
Mrs. Gordon cf New Madrid.
Mr.. Brcmermann was born on his
fathers farm 2ear Delvcrhorst, which
IS but Il few niles removed from Erc-
men, Germany. As soon as he vas
BID enough, or about fiiteen years old,
1e went down &c sea in 4 sailing YES
sci.
That vas in tilo days OF the clipper
md the ;hrec-m3sted schooner, when
he United States virtually held first
,lace in the commerce of the seas and
here were more American bottoms
han any other nationality.
All tie boys near Bremen vert to
;ea ~ soon as they could get away,
he pioneer told his grandchildren in
he Cape and i representative Of The
Tribune when b. celebrated his last |
birthday.
His trips from that tire forth we're !
ilrOst innumcrdl,lc. He became pi- /
OF on tro OF the o!d lines ard at one |
inc in his career, he made three w,lal- /
NO trips to Greenland.
On these voyages, he used to relate /
he circumstances of how his snip was
nigh. N pack ice ard the sailor used .