Submitted by Emily O"Neal

Rome News Tribune Dec. 4, 1961

Funeral for Dr. Fiedler Set Tuesday

Dr. Albert Fiedler, retired chemist in the fields of celluloid and plastic, died in a Rome hospital at 10:47 p.m. Saturday following a three-week illness. Dr. Fiedler, who was 75, resided at 39 Glenwood Apartments.
For over 35 years, Dr. Fiedler and his brother owned and operated the Empire Film Industries, doing productions and film laboratory work in New Jersey, New York and Hollywood. After retiring from the motion picture industry, he acted as a consultant in several capacities, later developing a process for plastic coated gloves which he sold to the Advance Glove Co. In 1952 he moved to Rome to manage the Bee Safe Glove Co., for the Advance Company, and he retired from this activity in 1958.
Dr. Fiedler was a graduate of Columbia University and did post graduate work at Berlin University, where he studed under Dr. Emil Fisher, receiving a PhD in chemistry. After receiving his doctorate, he began his career with the Celiod (Celluoid?)Company of New Jersey, as a chemist.
Born in Brooklyn, N.Y. Nov. 20, 1886, he was the son of the late Mamia Sherer Fielder and Dr. Max Fiedler. Dr. Fiedler was married to the former Miss Winnie Frances Kolb, Sept. 7, 1937. He was a member of the American Chemical Society, Georgia Section, the Rome Lodge of Elks, served on the Cerebral Palsy Board, and was a communicant of St. Mary's Catholic Church. Funeral services will be held at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Jennings Funeral Home with father John F. McDonough, pastor of St. Mary's Catholic Church officiating. Interment will be in East View. The body will remain at the funeral home where the Rosary will be recited at 7:30 tonight.
Pallbearers include Jerry Barton, W. J. Neathery, Harry Lovoenberg, Cllaude Bradley, Gordon Dison and Guy McJunkin.

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