Henry Pinkham Albrecht ^{9369,9405,9406}

   Cause of his death was congestive heart failure.

   Another name for Henry was Heine.

Also known as Henry Peter Albrecht.

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Naples Daily News
(FL)
Thursday, June 12, 2008

Henry "Heine" Albrecht

Henry "Heine" Albrecht died June 9, 2008.

Heine was born on September 26, 1912 in Glencoe, MN to Estelle Pinkham and Louis Albrecht. He moved to Minneapolis in 1926 where he later attended University of Minnesota, Class of 1934 and met the love of his life, Betty Gale. They were married in 1938. Later that year, he started his own construction company in Minneapolis.

During the war years, 1942 to 1945, he was employed by E.I. Dupont Construction Division and Cargil Shipyards. He founded Waco Scaffolding Company in 1945 with manufacturing plants in Minneapolis, Chicago and Cleveland. He sold this company in 1965 and settled in Naples, FL for eight months a year, spending his summers in Minneapolis. Soon after moving to Naples, he built the Colonial Club on Gulf Shore Blvd.

During the last 40 years, he has been active in various charitable organizations having served on the Board of Naples Community Hospital, the YMCA, David Lawrence Foundation, Hospice, Philharmonic Center for the Arts, the Conservancy and the Community Foundation of Collier County. He was a member of Port Royal, Hole in the Wall, Royal Poinciana and the Naples Yacht Club in Naples. In Minneapolis, he belonged to the Minneapolis Club and the Minikahda Club. He was active in the early days of the Young Presidents Organization and served as National Secretary from 1956 to 1967. In 1996, he and Betty jointly received the Community Foundation's "Cosgrove Award." In 2002, Heine was named the "Naples Daily News" Outstanding Citizen of the Year.

He is survived by his four children, Gale Sharpe, Martha Lewis, Peter Albrecht (Bridgit) and Ann Cosgrove (Dodd); 11 grandchildren; and seven greatgrandchildren. Also survived by numerous loving nieces and nephews and dear friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, Louis; sister, Gretchen Peterson; and his wife of 68 years, Betty Gale Albrecht.

Special thanks to Marci Spencer, Maureen Bouley, Dr. Joseph Stafford and Dr. James Buonavolonta for their outstanding care. Memorial service is Friday, June 13th at 11:00 a.m. at Naples United Church of Christ, 5200 Crayton Road, Naples. In lieu of flowers, memorials preferred to the Glenview Scholarship of Community Foundation of Collier County (CFCC) at 2400 Tamiami Trail North, Suite 300, Naples, FL 34103 or donor's choice. Fuller Funeral Home Pine Ridge Road 592-1611

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Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities
(Minneapolis, MN)
Friday, June 20, 2008
p. 6B
by Ben Cohen

Henry Albrecht built success on opportunity The industrialist, 95, who co-founded Waco-Porter, always gave back to the communities where he lived.

In 1965, Henry (Heine) Albrecht sold his very successful scaffold-making business, Waco-Porter Corp., believing he had little time left after surgery to remove a cancerous kidney.

So he and his wife, Betty, moved to Naples, Fla., to enjoy life.

But as things turned out, the former Edina man had a few good years left. He died June 9 in Naples at the age of 95.

Of congestive heart failure.

When Albrecht began building homes on speculation 70 years ago, he used wooden scaffolding to reach the upper stories. He figured there had to be a better, safer way.

After graduating from the old Central High School in Minneapolis about 1930, he attended the University of Minnesota as a pre-law student.

He was a homebuilder in the late 1930s and worked construction for the war effort in Minneapolis during World War II, said his son, Peter Albrecht, a Hennepin County District Court judge.

He scratched for business opportunities and decided to make snow sleds, because their manufacture had been put on hold during the war. But there were pitfalls in such a seasonal business, so he and then-partner Kermit Wilson parlayed the venture into scaffold-making.

By the mid-1950s, the firm branched into steel bleacher production and had expanded its plant in St. Louis Park five times.

Eventually, Wilson left the partnership, and Albrecht established plants in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio, and Chicago. He had worldwide distributorships.

He gave much credit for his success to the post-World War II building boom.

"How humble he was," said his son. "He recognized how much luck had to do with success."

He expanded into recreational equipment and spectator seating, as well as industrial shoring and ladder jacks.

"He had a good eye for opportunity, to build a new business, and finance it into a healthy condition," said Dean Chenoweth of Golden Valley, a former executive of what became Waco-Porter.

"He was a genuine human being, who had a lot of imagination, and it was a pleasure working for him," Chenoweth said.

By the 1960s, Albrecht moved the headquarters of the company he had co-founded to Chicago, commuting every week from his Edina home. But then came that cancerous kidney and the move to Naples.

In Naples, he led many civic groups, as he had done in the Twin Cities.

He had helped lead the Midwest section of the Young Presidents' Organization, a young business leaders' group, was the president of the St. Louis Park's Chamber of Commerce and its Rotary Club. He played leadership roles in Red Cross campaigns and was active in the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce.

In Naples, he served on the boards of numerous charitable organizations. In 1996, the Naples Foundation honored him and his wife with its Cosgrove Award, and in 2002 he was named by the Naples Daily News as its Outstanding Citizen of the Year.

His son said his father strongly believed that with success, "you have to give back to the community."

Until recent years, he spent summers in Minneapolis. In retirement, he built a couple of condominium projects in Minneapolis and Naples, living in both at one time or another.

His wife of 68 years, Betty, died in 2006.

In addition to his son, he is survived by his daughters, Gale Sharpe of Minneapolis, Martha Lewis of Deephaven, and Ann Cosgrove of Orono; 11 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Services were held in Naples. There will be a private family burial in Minneapolis.

  Events

• He worked as a golf club house salesman.

• He appeared on the census in 1910 in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota. He lived in the household of his parents.

• He appeared on the census in 1920 in Glencoe, McLeod County, Minnesota. He lived in the household of his parents.

• He appeared on the census in 1930 at 3835 Blaisdell Avenue in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota. He lived in the household of his widowed mother.

• He appeared on the census in 1940 at 2701 Toledo Avenue in St. Louis Park, Hennepin County, Minnesota. He was head of household and owned property valued at $6,600.

• He had a residence in Naples, Collier County, Florida.

Henry married Elizabeth Gloria Gale, daughter of Albert Arthur Gale and Martha H. Frost, in 1938.⁹⁴⁰⁴ (Elizabeth Gloria Gale was born 29 May 1913 in Iowa,⁹⁴⁰⁹ died 2 December 2006 ^{9404,9409,9410} and was buried after 2 December 2006 in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota at Lakewood Cemetery ⁹⁴¹¹.)