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Franklin Herman Landauer

3 Jan 1910 – 26 May 1997

Birth3 Jan 1910
Death26 May 1997
CemeteryMount Olivet Catholic Cemetery
Wheat Ridge , Jefferson County , Colorado , USA
Added byVDR on 14 Aug 2016
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Franklin Herman Landauer was a dogged fighter on two rings: boxing and business. Both gave him money and fame in his lifetime. Mr. Landauer died in his sleep May 26 at his home in Denver. He was 87. He began boxing after he graduated from Regis College in 1932. He fought for six years with the name Cowboy Frankie Edgren. He ranked sixth in the world under Joe Louis in 1933. That earned him a place in the International Boxing Hall of Fame in 1989. Mr. Landauer delved into business in 1939 when he won the Brake Service Wholesale Co. in a crap game. He eventually sold the property for the Denver Public Library. During World War II, he worked with his father to manufacture baseball bats, clothespins and other woods products. After the war they built more than 600 houses in southwest Denver. In 1957, he ventured into independent oil production and drilled more than 250 wells in the West. He discovered the Orchard and Lucky Jackpot fields in eastern Colorado. He imported the first 7,000 Volkswagens sold in the U.S. after the war. This success spurred him to import Volvos and Mazdas. He had properties in Mexico, Brazil and the Caribbean and flew his own twin-engine plane. Mr. Landauer was born Jan. 3, 1910 in Yuma. For 43 years, he was an usher at Blessed Sacrament Church. He is survived by seven children: Thomas of Lakewood, Franklin of Nassau, Bahamas, J. Dianne Johnson and James of Denver, Paul of Cherry Hills Village, Frederic of Parker and Mary Anne Totten of Parker and Auburn, Calif., and 17 grandchildren. Rocky Mountain News Date: July 5, 1997 ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ His wife, Jeanne Dianne Montano, preceded him in death.

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