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[[Image:lenz-5.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Lenz Monument Company in 2010.]] | [[Image:lenz-5.jpg|left|thumb|350px|Lenz Monument Company in 2010.]] | ||
[[Image:imp005.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Advertising packet for Lenz Monument Company. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]] | [[Image:imp005.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Advertising packet for Lenz Monument Company. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]] | ||
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[[Image:imp006.jpg|right|thumb| | [[Image:imp006.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Inside the packet, in addition to more advertising, was a paper folder containing nineteen needles of different sizes. Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]] | ||
[[Image:lenzmonument6.jpg| | [[Image:lenzmonument6.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Photo courtesy: Bob Reding]] | ||
Revision as of 00:46, 28 May 2012
LENZ MONUMENT COMPANY.
In 1875 Frank Lenz emigrated from Germany and settled in Dubuque with his wife, Katherine. Lenz Monument began in 1876 on the same location that it held in 2010--1672 Central Avenue. The family lived upstairs and the business was downstairs. For nearly seventy-five years, headstone orders were done in ink by hand on a general ledger or stock cards.
Edward J. Lenz, the fourth-generation owner, passed away in December 2007. Richard and Kathy Neuses, employees of Lenz Monument, bought the company in May 2008.