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Note for: Evelyn Luettich, -
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Individual Note: Evelyn Horne, a daughter of Charles Luettich and Doris Fernandez, was born on Mound Key, and although her family moved to the mainland so their children could go to school, the family spent much of their summers and weekends on the island. Evelyn remembers scampering up and down mounds of shells left behind by the Calusa Indians.
Their family was poor, but rich in good times. Christmas 1932 was special and they went to Fort Myers during the holidays. She saw Thomas Edison and Henry Ford. Edison gave her a doll and Ford gave her a shiny dime. But she said that her best Christmas surprise was seeing her first tree all lit up. Lights on the tree were amazing to the children who grew up without electricity. "We got electricity in 1946, and we gave the biggest party to FP&L. It was a fish fry you can't believe." Horne said.
In Estero Horne attended school in a one-room schoolhouse on a road that is now Broadway. They had few neighbors out there among the palmettos and scrub brush. During her high school days, she peeled hundreds of mangos for a woman named Edith Trebell, who owned a jelly plant After the mangos were peeled and packed, they were shipped off to the Waldorf Astoria.
Evelyn remembers Thomas Edison and Henry Ford visiting her home. She remembers her first job at age 17 at the Koreshan Unity, where she still works today. She began working for the Koreshans in 1940. She remembers a powerful hurricane in 1926 when her parents packed their new Model T Ford and their five children and set out to outrun it. When the family returned home they found their house blown off its foundation.---Information from article by Andrea Stetson, News Press Writer: FERNANDEZ CLAN SPREADS FROM ISLAND.
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Note for: Henrietta Luettich, -
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Individual Note: ESTERO POST OFFICE; Established March 26, 1895: Antonio Fernandez brought the mail from the train to the Seaboard Coastline depot, located at the railroad crossing on East Broadway, by car to the Post Office.....Antonio Fernandez was the maternal grandfather of Henrietta Davenport who later became "Officer-In-Charge of the Post Office and was a clerk until her retirement in the mid 1970's. He was also the great-great maternal grandfather of present day clerk Kay McCullers. Carl Luettich was the paternal grandfather of Mrs. Davenport.
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Note for: Charles Luettich, ABT 1925 - 6 SEP 1996
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Occupation: Printer, Founder of Press Printing in 1964
Event: Type: Military
Date: BET 1941 AND 1945
Place: WWII
Event: Tice Lions Club
Type: Organizations
Religion: United Methodist Church; Estero, FL
Individual Note: THE AMERICAN EAGLE; Vol. 86; October 1996: CHARLIE LUETTICH, PIONEER, IS DEAD: Charles J. Luettich, 71, founder of Press Printing in Fort Myers, died September 6 after a battle with cancer. Born in Estero, he learned printing at the Guiding Star Publishing House under the direction of longtime president and editor of The American Eagle Allen Andrews. After a stint with the Fort Myers News-Press printing division, he and the late Sherrill Yeomans founded Press Printing in 1964. His sons, Larry, Carl and Keith, have carried on since his retirement in 1987. He was a member of the Estero United Methodist Church, the Tice Lions Club, and served in World War II. He is survived by his wife, Lillian Luettich; three sons and their wives, Larry and Cindy, Carl and Charlotte, and Keith Luettich, all of Fort Myers; three sisters, Henrietta Davenport of Estero, Mary Carter of Alva, and Evelyn Horne of Estero; and six grandchildren. Charlie will be sadly missed in his community.
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Note for: Elizabeth Shearer, - MAR 1993
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Individual Note: AMERICAN EAGLE/Death/Apr 1993: Widow of Early Koreshan Dies
Mrs. Claude Rahn, whose husband joined the Koreshans in Estero when he was 16 years old, died at her home in Vero Beach. Word reached the Koreshan Unity
Foundation over the weekend on March 27. Claude Rahn and Lawrence Bubbett,
president of the Unity just preceding Hedwig Michel, were lifelong friends, and
the four traveled and visited together for many years. The Rahns were frequent
visitors in Estero and at the Rising Tide cottage at Fort Myers Beach until
their health deteriorated. Following Mr. Rahn's death in 1973, Mrs. Rahn
returned his records, his writings and his memorabilia on Koreshan to the
Estero headquarters. In later years she donated his collection of books on
Florida to the Library/Museum. (in Estero)
Notes from Evelyn Horn: "........Claude remarried in 1941 to Elizabeth Shearer of Pennsylvania, a very beautiful person who made a lovely home for Claude. Claude and Elizabeth retired in 1950 to make their home in Vero Beach. Claude died August 18, 1973, and was buried in Crestlawn Cemetery, Vero Beach, Florida. His brother Paul died June 10, 1945. His mother died June 15, 1945. Claude's sister, Edna, married Harvey Bond of Baltimore, Maryland. They had 2 sons. They retired in Nobodies, Florida, to make their home......."