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WIERD PAUL "FREDDIE" DAHLMEYER "TEQUESTA FIRST POLICE CHIEF"
Born March 23,1906 in Bremehaven, Germany came to America
when he was 21 and settled in Connecticut and New York.
He served in the United States Army in World War II.
He married Ethel Boyd and resided in Norwalk,Connecticut
until they moved to Jupiter in 1953. Freddie came to
Jupiter to work for Bob McQueen owner of the Marina which
was located on the old AlA just south of the bridge overlooking
the inlet. He was then hired by Charlie Martyn who was just
starting to develop the Inlet Colony. Freddie was his right hand
and was sort of a private chauffer and transported the Martyn
children to Palm Beach for school and other business matters
"in town" West Palm Beach.
"Freddie" later became the first Police Chief of Tequesta and ran
the operation from his newly built home on Riverside Drive. The
town was growing and a deputy was hired, Lou Loliberti. The two
officers managed to keep law and order until Tequesta started to
grow beyond their means. Freddie left employment .in the late
moved to Hobe Sound and later was employed by the Tory Penna Golf
Corporation on Toney Penna Drive, Jupiter -.and was Security Guard at
Turtle Creek.
After his wife Ethel died he went back to Germany to live but
for only a year as his home was the United States and this is
where he wanted to be.
Freddie died at the.Bay Pines Veterans Hospital on the West Coast
while recuperating from surgery of the amputation of his left leg
on April 30, 1987. Internment was back in Norwalk, Connecticut_
with his wife Ethel at Riverside Cemetary.
He leaves many grand - children and great - granchildren in the Tequesta/
Jupiter area all of whom will remember their "Grandpa Freddie ".
In remembrance by:
His-Grandchildken