Theo Ziock was born in 1879 & was the son of August Ziock,Sr. & Elise Schrobeck.   Theodore was first married to Birdie Doliva of Little Rock, Arkansas 15 June 1904.   They were later divorced.  On 30 March 1910 in St. Louis he married Meta Cramme & they had 2 children."Theo" owned two exclusive dress shops one of which was in the affluent St. Louis neighborhood of Clayton.  I, Esther Ziock Carroll, was there once with my father, Gus Ziock, when I was very small & I still have a vague recollection of what the inside of the shop looked like.  My father, being an electrician, sometimes did electrical work for his uncle Theodore.  Also, when I was born in 1948 my great uncle Theodore brought my parents & I home from the hospital in his limousine.  Theodore Ziock died in 1949 & is interred in the Oak Grove Mausoleum in St. Louis.  His two stores stayed in his family for several more years until his wife & daughter sold them. Even after Uncle Theodore died his wife, aunt Meta I always called her, would have us to her house every year for Christmas.

Theodore Ziock holding his grandson John Willette Brough in 1943 or 1944