Seventh Generation

3081. Laura Pauline CLINE was born on 28 July 1912. She died on 26 July 1985 at the age of 72 in Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina. She was buried in Conover City Cemetery, Conover, Catawba, North Carolina.

Laura Pauline CLINE and Frederick William "Beck" MOEHLMANN were married in 1930. Frederick William "Beck" MOEHLMANN²⁷³⁴, son of Gustav Edward MOEHLMANN and Wilhelmine KAUFMANN, was born on 7 December 1908 in Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina. He died on 15 August 1990 at the age of 81 in Conover, Catawba County, North Carolina. His obituary appeared as follows: Conover native and noted organist Frederick William "Beck" Moehlmann, 81, died August 15th following a period <of declining health. He died at the residence of his daughter, Shirley (Mrs. Clarence) Canrobert, in Conover. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Drum Funeral Home of Conover. The funeral will be conducted later this week at Concordia Church and interment will be in the Conover City Cemetery. The life-long resident of Conover was widely known for his musical career, having served as organist for Concordia Lutheran Church in Conover for half a century. He was also a builder and salesman for pipe organs and was a nationally-respected specialist in that field. Mr. Moehlmann, who had been a teacher and a master builder of pipe organs, had also represented an organ sales company. His interest outside music included show horses, and he had a wide circle of friends on the horse show circuit. A member of a pioneer Conover family whose roots go back to Germany, Mr. Moehlmann played the major role in designing the pipe organ in the sanctuary of the present Concordia Church building when it was constructed in the 1950s on the site of the former Concordia Lutheran college. He was married to the former Pauline Cline, who died in 1988, and is survived by Mrs. Canrobert, wife of a Conover dentist, and a son, Dr. John Moehlmann, a member of the faculty of Highpoint College. Also surviving are two sisters, Mrs. R.F. (Ruth) Lineberger of Conover, whose late husband was a long-time pastor at Concordia Church, and Mrs. Margaret Houston of Richmond; a brother, Mr. Gerhardt "Jim" Moehlmann of Newton; seven grandchildren; and two great grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to Hospice of Catawba Valley in Hickory. [The Hickory (N.C.) News, Thursday, August 16,1990, pg 10A] He was educated at Concordia Parochial School, Bronxville Preparatory School in New York, Lenoir-Rhyne College, and also had training in printing at Nashville, Tennessee. In the late 1940s and 1950s, he was a professional horse trainer. For 45 years, ''Beck" was the organist at Concordia Lutheran Church. Because of his love of music, he became a sales, service and installer of Wicks Pipe Organs in the Southeastern United States. In 1930, he married Laura Pauline Cline from Hickory. (She was the granddaughter of Dallas Yount, a well-known Catawba County pioneer.) Beck and Polly had a daughter, Shirley, who married Newton dentist C.W. Canrobert and they resided in Conover. A son, John F. Moehlmann, a professor at High Point College in High Point.

Laura Pauline CLINE and Frederick William "Beck" MOEHLMANN had the following children: