Carl Junior Lohrmann

Carl Lohrmann, 80, of 23 Swanger Road, Asheville, died Friday, August 7, 2009. Mr. Lohrmann was born in Saginaw, MI and was a son of the late Karl and Florence Rummel Lohrmann. He served in the US Air Force from 1951 to 1955. He had lived in Kalamazoo, MI for most of his life before retiring to Asheville. Mr. Lohrmann worked as an organ repair man and a carpenter. He was a member of Emmanuel Lutheran Church. He is survived by his wife, Sadie Fowler Lohrmann; three sons, David Lohrmann and his wife, Laura, of Atlanta, GA, Robert Lohrmann and his wife, Kathy, of Hebron, KY, and Thomas Lohrmann and his wife, Amy, of Kalamazoo, MI; five grandchildren, Christopher, Elizabeth, Timothy, Jonathan and Christina; eight step-children, Glenna Gustafson, Sue Weaver, Faye Reece, Frances Mashburn, Kenneth Fowler, Jerry Fowler, Sueann Hill and Gwen Emery; and two sisters, Virginia Mill and Margaret Edler and her husband, Fred, of Pigeon, MI. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral home with the Rev. David Plemmons and the Rev. Drs. Michael McFarland and Fred Stiemke officiating. Interment with military honors by the NC National Guard will follow at the Western Carolina State Veterans Cemetery. Pallbearers will be David, Robert, Thomas, Timothy and Jonathan Lohrmann and Ken and Jerry Fowler. The family will receive friends from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. Monday at Groce Funeral Home on Patton Avenue. Memorials may be made to DAV, PO Box 14301, Cincinnati, OH 45250.