Uncle Paul

Paul Koenig was born in Buer, Germany. He immigrated in 1923 and joined his uncle Fred Hebert in Detroit. He had worked as a confectioner in Germany, and he found work as a baker in Detroit. Later he was employed at Packard Automotive Company.

He was the second husband of Marceline Corneilson Lindsay. They lived on Townsend Avenue in the same house in which Marceline had grown up.

On Jefferson, about a block away, was the Coast Guard armory where my father was stationed after World War II. Paul and my father met at a local Biergarten, as Paul called it (yes, that translates as "beer garden"). Paul and Marceline invited the young war veteran to Thanksgiving dinner in 1945. My mother, Marceline's niece, was among the other dinner guests. She and my father met there, and were married six weeks later.

Paul and Marceline maintained close family ties but had no children of their own. Both died young, Marceline at 57 and Paul four years later at the age of 62.