Goehr marker dedication is scheduled
A formal blessing and dedication of a monument created to honor a local master carpenter will be Held Sunday, Oct. 25, at 2 p.m. at the St. Augustine Cemetery in Minster.
In 2019, at the urging of Rich Stein, former president of the Minster Historical Society, Bob Lammers approached the St. Augustine Cemetery Board to study ways to explore options to repair or convert the composition of the Anton Goehr Monument. The board appointed them to be part of a committee to do just that. Lisa Albers, the cemetery board’s financial consultant, along with historian Nancy Jay, rounded out the committee.
After considerable research with carpenters, meetings and consultation with the committee, St. Augustine Cemetery Board, the St. Augustine Parish Council, and Gary Condon of the monument manufacturer, Edwin F. Nickol, Inc., it was decided to create a permanent black granite monument that would be virtually maintenance free and tell the story of Master Carpenter Anton Goehr. That monument was installed in Sept., 2020.
Goehr was a simple, yet passionate and extremely talented master carpenter, architect and builder who spent most of his entire life working on Catholic churches, mostly in midwestern Ohio. Many of those churches are still in use as examples of his work. His is a story that is rather mysterious because there are not any of his actual words to recount. It is a story of a man who experienced many struggles and endured much grief throughout his life.
Goehr died at age 62 in Minster on August 3, 1885 at the age of 62. He was buried in St. Augustine Cemetery. His wife, Marie Elizabeth, a widow for 29 years, died in Minster at the age of 84.