Family:Newman Larsen and Dorothea Falls (1)

Newman and Dorothea were married in Trinity English Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana, by Paul W. Manns, Pastor. Their witnesses were Letha Falls and Edna M. Wise. Frank and Nellie were also there.

Newman and Dorothea "Dot" lived on Delaware Avenue in Lakewood, Ohio. They had no children.

Dorothea owned a farm near Fort Wayne. The Coventry Shopping Center is now located there. Falls Drive was the entrance to the farm.

When visiting them in Cleveland, you had to sign their tablecloth, which Dorothea then embroidered your name on it.

Newman's obituary read, "Newman Larsen, Fitzgerald skipper - In "Gales of November," a book about the Edmund Fitzgerald, Newman C. Larsen was described as a ship captain with an impeccable record. He was captain of the Fitzgerald from the spring of 1959 until he retired in 1966. He was the Fitzgerald's second captain. He was also a photographer and made a movie featuring the Fitzgerald, a freighter that sank in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. He showed that film and another film he made of shipping on the Great Lakes to area organizations. Mr. Larsen, 84, of Lakewood, died Tuesday in Lakewood Hospital of congestive heart failure. He was born in Cleveland, where his father was a baker. After dropping out of the 10th grade at Glenville High School, he was a deliveryman for Standard Oil Co. (Ohio), then worked for East Ohio Gas Co. reading meters in rural areas before getting his first job on a lake boat belonging to Valley Camp Coal Co. here. Mr. Larsen began working on ore boats on the lakes as a deckhand when he was 20. When he became a captain in 1941, he was 37 and the youngest captain on a lake boat at that time, his family said. One of her early commands was the steamer Reserve, one of the big ships of the Columbia Transportation Division of Oglebay Norton Co. lake fleet. Mr. Larsen captained the Reserve for eight years. The role came naturally. His grandfather, Rasmas Clausen, was the captain of a Danish windjammer that sailed around the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. Larsen was a president of the Shipmasters Association, a 50-year member of Rocky River Lodge 709 of the Masons and a member of the Cleveland Hiking Club. He is survived by his wife, Dorothea, and five sisters. Services will be at 11 a.m. tomorrow at Saxton-Parker-Daniels funeral home, 15800 Detroit Ave., Lakewood." [Cleveland Plain Dealer, Thursday, 1 December 1988]

Dorothea's obituary reads, "DOROTHEA F. LARSEN (nee Falls), wife of the late Capt. Newman C.; aunt and great-aunt of many. Sister of the late Letha Falls. Member of Lincoln Chapter #309 E.E.S. and the D.A.R. Passed away March 12, 2003. Memorials may be forwarded to the Great Lakes Shipwreck Society, 111 Ashmun St., Sault St. Marie. MI or the Inland Seas Museum, Vermillion, OH. Memorial Service will be held in the West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church, 20401 Hilliard Blvd., Saturday, March 15 at 5:00 p.m. The Busch-Saxton-Parker-Daniels Family Chapter. 216-221-2300." [Cleveland Plain Dealer, Friday 14 March 2003, pg. B6]