The Oregonian  1967                                 <click here>

Pfaender Family                                         <click here>

Werner Eugene Pfaender - Portland, Oregon

Army Rank: Private (1918).

Assigned Unit: 6^th Bn., 20^th Engineers, Co. D

  6^th Battalion, 20^th Engineers Co D: 1917 – Oct. 17, 1918

  20^th Engineers, 16^th Company: Oct. 18, 1918 – June 11, 1919

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Army Discharge: June 11, 1919 Fort Lewis, WA

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – 1919

Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association (1938)

Address: 509 E. Caruthers St., Portland, Oregon (1910)

Address: 171 N.E. 29^th Ave., Portland, Oregon (1917) (1920)

Address: 1489 Delaware Ave, Portland, Oregon (1930)

Address: 302 Selling Bldg., Portland, Oregon (1938)

Features: Tall, Medium Build, Brown Eyes, Brown Hair

Wife’s Name: Violet Juanita Johnston

   (b.  April 28, 1899 Clark Co., WA)

   (d. April 1973 Portland, Multnomah Co., OR)

   Married: June 8, 1920 Portland, Multnomah Co., OR

Fathers Name: Carl Gottlieb Pfaender

  (b. Oct. 18, 1884 Bad Liebenzell, Wuerttemberg, Germany)

   (d. April 17, 1926 in Portland, Multnomah Co., OR)

Mothers Name: Elizabeth Loehrer

   (b. June 28, 1850 Bischoff-zell, Switzerland)

    (d. OCT 7, 1923 in Troutdale, Multnomah, OR)

     Married: Nov. 1, 1876 Portland, Multnomah Co., Oregon

Brothers: Amadeus, Karl, Walter, and Henry Pfaender

Sisters: Anna, Elsie, Louise, Bertha, Fredricka, Augusta, and Ruth

Civilian Occupation: Ship Builder

     Columbia River Ship Yard, Portland, OR (1917)

Born: Nov. 2, 1893 Portland, Oregon

Died: Aug. 23, 1981 Portland, Multnomah Co., OR (age 87)

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