H and H Coffee

Dedicated to the history of the Hoffmann-Hayman Coffee Co. founded 1899 in San Antonio, Texas.

San Antonio, Texas cemetery. Full name: Mission Burial Park South. The interment site of at least six H&H Coffee Company principals — effectively the Menger family plot for the H&H generation. Relevant as a genealogical research location: cemetery burial records and the findagrave.com entries cited in the KB may supply dates of birth not captured in press obituaries.

H&H principals interred here

Name Died Section KB source
W. E. Hayman Aug 9, 1924 Mission Burial Park (section unspecified) HH-CLIP-1924-0019
Minnie Menger Schlosser Apr 23, 1956 Section 4, Restland HH-CLIP-1956-0002
Dr. William J. Schlosser Feb 21, 1963 Mission Burial Park South findagrave 55409282
Louis B. Menger Oct 29, 1971 Mission Burial Park (section unspecified) HH-CLIP-1971-0002
Gustav P. Menger Aug 5, 1974 Section 4, Restland findagrave-32326684
Rudolph W. Menger 1985 Mission Burial Park South HH-CLIP-1985-0001
Theodore J. Menger Mar 30, 1987 Mission Burial Park South HH-CLIP-1987-0001

G. P. Menger and Minnie Menger Schlosser share Section 4, Restland — consistent with a family plot. Louis B. Menger and Rudolph W. Menger are almost certainly in the same section or adjacent. The log notes “the family plot at Mission Burial Park” as a research angle for resolving the precise Menger sibling birth order (a question only partially answered by obituary dates).

Also interred: Mrs. S. P. Stevens’s maternal grandfather Paul Poppe (d. Aug 1955, Anton Wenzel Lodge 174) — tangentially connecting the Stevens Outdoor Advertising family to the same cemetery, though not in an H&H section.

Research value

  • Burial records at the cemetery office may contain birth dates, next-of-kin, and plot purchase history not published in the obituaries
  • Find-a-Grave entries already sourced for G. P. Menger (memorial 32326684) and R. W. Menger (memorial 32329829) — complete plot search for other principals (Louis B., T. J., August, Edward W., Margaret Menger) would close multiple open biographical questions
  • The Section 4 / Restland designation for G. P. and Minnie suggests a single family plot purchase; purchasing records would establish when the plot was acquired and by whom (possibly Dr. Rudolph Menger)

Open questions

  • Precise section and lot numbers for Louis B., Rudolph W., Theodore J., and W. E. Hayman
  • Whether Dr. Rudolph Menger (the patriarch, d. ~1920s) is also interred at Mission Burial Park South
  • Whether other Menger siblings (August, Edward W., Margaret) share the family plot

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