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San Antonio Express-News, 30 October 1971, page 31 — newspaper obituary headlined 'MENGER' for Louis B. Menger, 85, of 222 Primrose, died in a local hospital Oct. 29, 1971; a native of San Antonio, grandson of the founder of the Menger Hotel and Menger Soap Factory; retired after 40 years of association with the H&H Coffee Co.; survivors include sister Miss Margaret Menger, brothers August, Gus, Rudolph, Theodore Menger; pallbearers Albert G. Menger, Stephen G. Menger, Frederick J. Holliday, Chris M. Jasso, Alfred Koufmann, Pedro Farias; interment Mission Burial Park; arrangements by Zizik-Kearns-Downing McClaugherty
San Antonio Express-News, 30 October 1971, page 31 — newspaper obituary headlined 'MENGER' for Louis B. Menger, 85, of 222 Primrose, died in a local hospital Oct. 29, 1971; a native of San Antonio, grandson of the founder of the Menger Hotel and Menger Soap Factory; retired after 40 years of association with the H&H Coffee Co.; survivors include sister Miss Margaret Menger, brothers August, Gus, Rudolph, Theodore Menger; pallbearers Albert G. Menger, Stephen G. Menger, Frederick J. Holliday, Chris M. Jasso, Alfred Koufmann, Pedro Farias; interment Mission Burial Park; arrangements by Zizik-Kearns-Downing McClaugherty
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HH-CLIP-1971-0002
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Louis B. Menger obituary — SA Express-News, 30 October 1971

Newspaper obituary in the San Antonio Express-News of Saturday, 30 October 1971 (p. 31) for Louis B. Menger, 85, of 222 Primrose, who died in a local hospital October 29, 1971. Anchors several Menger-family and H&H Coffee Co. genealogy facts that recur and corroborate across the family’s obituaries:

  • Address (222 Primrose): Same address as the Edward William Menger obituary of 11 November 1960 (HH-CLIP-1960-0004). Confirms 222 Primrose as the long-term residence of the unmarried Menger siblings (Louis B., Edward W., and Margaret Menger appear to have shared the household).
  • “Grandson of the founder of the Menger Hotel and Menger Soap Factory”: Same family origin as Theodore J. Menger’s 1987 feature (HH-CLIP-1987-0002). The shared founder was William A. Menger (Menger Hotel) — though the obituary blurs Menger Hotel founder William A. and Menger Soap Works founder Simon Menger (Theodore’s 1987 feature distinguishes them as paternal grandfather Simon, with William A. as a separate Menger Hotel founder). Useful as a primary-source family-tree datapoint to cross-check the 1987 feature’s clarifications.
  • “Retired after 40 years of association with the H&H Coffee Co.”: Anchors Louis B. Menger’s H&H career to roughly 1929–1969 (i.e., Louis joined H&H about 1929 and retired about 1969). Together with Theodore J. Menger’s 1921–1962 H&H career (treasurer), this confirms multiple Menger brothers had decades-long H&H operational roles.
  • Surviving siblings: Sister Miss Margaret Menger; brothers August, Gus, Rudolph, Theodore Menger. Edward William Menger had pre-deceased him in 1960 — five surviving Menger siblings still in San Antonio at the end of October 1971.
  • Pallbearers: Albert G. Menger (nephew, former H&H president), Stephen G. Menger (nephew), Frederick J. Holliday, Chris M. Jasso, Alfred Koufmann, Pedro Farias. Chris M. Jasso also appears as a pallbearer in Gus P. Menger’s 1974 obituary — likely the long-tenured H&H packing-department staff Chris Jasso featured in the 1923 SA Light “New Home of a Great Institution” coverage.
  • Funeral arrangements by Zizik-Kearns-Downing McClaugherty — same funeral home family used by all Menger family deaths in the period.

This is the second of the late-life Menger-sibling obituaries cataloged in the project corpus (after Edward W. Menger, 1960; before Gus P. Menger, 1974; and Theodore J. Menger, 1987).