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Albert Hoersch Sr.
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RCHorsch
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Philadelphia grandfather of the pornographer R.C. Horsch, whose house on West Chew Street in Olney became the house searched in the 2026 Olney House Investigation. 1972-07-01 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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spouse_of Helen E. Hoersch 1968 1
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relative_of Raymond C. Hoersch father 2
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relative_of R.C. Horsch grandfather 2
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relative_of Albert Hoersch Jr. father 2
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Albert Hoersch (died July 1, 1972, aged 81) lived on West Chew Street in the Olney, Philadelphia section of Philadelphia, the house later owned by his grandson, the pornographer and fugitive R.C. Horsch, and from 2007 by his great-grandson Eugene Horsch, and searched by the Philadelphia Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the Olney House Investigation of 2026.123

Family

He was married to Helen E. Hoersch, who died at the Chew Street house on August 27, 1968; the family belonged to Grace United Methodist Church (Philadelphia), which was invited to her funeral. Their children were Albert Hoersch Jr., a lieutenant in the United States Navy in the Second World War who died in 1976, Raymond C. Hoersch, and Helen M. Hoersch, who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, lived in Philadelphia all her life, and died in 2004.1245 In January 1955 Mr. and Mrs. Albert Hoersch of Philadelphia were reported as recent guests of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hoersch in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.6

Death

He died on July 1, 1972. His funeral service was held at the Schneider Funeral Home, 617-619 West Olney Avenue, and he was buried in Hillside Cemetery, as his wife had been. The city's deed index records a deed of October 1, 2007, naming his daughter Helen M. Hoersch, who had died in 2004, as grantor ("Hoersch Helen M") and Eugene A. Horsch as grantee.1237 His grandson said in 2013 that he had suffered from depression all his life and added, "I think my grandfather, my paternal grandfather, died of it."8

Footnotes

  1. "Hoersch, Helen E. Wissman," death notice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 29, 1968, p. 32 ("wife of Albert Hoersch, of W. Chew st., Aug. 27, 1968. Relatives, friends and Grace United Methodist Church, are invited ... SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME, 617-19 W. Olney ave. Int. Hillside Cem."). https://www.newspapers.com/image/182120759/ ↩︎

  2. "Hoersch, Albert," death notice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, July 3, 1972, p. 10 ("aged 81 years, beloved husband of the late Helen Wissmer Horesch [sic] and father of Albert Jr., Raymond C., Helen M Hoersch, W. Chew st., July 1, 1972 ... SCHNEIDER FUNERAL HOME, 617-19 W. Olney ave. Int. Hillside Cem."). https://www.newspapers.com/image/180006503/ ↩︎

  3. "How a pornographer's violent fantasies blurred fact and fiction as cops searched Olney house for missing women," The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 2, 2026. https://www.inquirer.com/news/a/raymond-eugene-horsch-olney-philadelphia-missing-women-history-20260802.html ↩︎

  4. "Hoersch, Helen M.," death notice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 7, 2004, p. B12. https://www.newspapers.com/image/201102740/ ↩︎

  5. Find a Grave memorial 25275352, "Albert Hoersch Jr.," headstone inscription "LT US Navy WWII," St. Mark's Episcopal Church Cemetery, West Nantmeal Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/25275352/albert-hoersch ↩︎

  6. [Social column], The Daily Intelligencer (Doylestown), January 10, 1955, p. 2. https://www.newspapers.com/image/40163522/ ↩︎

  7. City of Philadelphia, Department of Records, real estate transfer index, W. Chew Ave., deed document 51798675, executed October 1, 2007, recorded October 26, 2007, grantor "Hoersch Helen M," grantee "Horsch Eugene A"; later mortgages of 2007 and 2009 and satisfaction of 2025, via the city's open data (rtt_summary). https://phl.carto.com/ (rtt_summary table) ↩︎

  8. West, Ashley. "Ray Horsch: Sociopathic Villain," The Rialto Report, Podcast 27, 2013, audio at 1:29:47 to 1:29:57 (depression; audio preserved in a Wayback Machine capture of March 31, 2019). https://web.archive.org/web/20190331064614/http://traffic.libsyn.com/therialtoreport/27_Rialto_Report_027_-_Ray_Horsch__Sociopathic_Villain.mp3 ↩︎