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- Burial services will be held in Plymouth Union Cemetery Monday for Dr. John P. Koehler, 81, onetime Plymouth resident who headed the Milwaukee Health Department from 1925 to 1940.
Dr. Koehler died at his home, R. 1. West Bend, Thursday after a heart attack.
Appointed director of the Milwaukee Health Department in 1925, Dr. Koehler helped Milwaukee break the grip of a smallpox epidemic by supervising the inoculation of 411,000 residents.
The mass project, greatest in the city's history, broke the epidemic with a loss of only 87 lives.
Born in Russia, Dr. Koehler came to Nebraska with his family in 1886. He played football and basketball while attending the University of Nebraska, studied at the Chicago Theological Seminary and was graduated from Marquette University medical school in 1911.
As a coach, he headed teams at Lawrence College, Appleton, and the University of Denver. He was deputy commissioner of public health in Milwaukee from 1918 to 1920, served as director of the county dispensary for five years before being named as health commissioner by the late Mayor Hoan in 1925.
Dr. Koehler retired at the age of 60, entered politics and ran unsuccessfully as a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1940 and 1944. In 1948 he was a delegate to the GOP convention, backing General Mac Arthur for president.
Survivors include his wife, Mabel, and a son, John P. Jr., Bayside.
The body will lie in state at the Weiss Funeral Chapel, 1901 N. Farwell, Milwaukee, from 2 p.m. Sunday. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Monday, with burial in the family lot at Plymouth Union Cemetery.
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1880 - 1961 (81 år)
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