Laura E. Steffen - 1900-1990

STEFFEN, HELMING, ERICSON, GARDNER, FENWICK

Posted By: Connie Ellis (email)
Date: 6/26/2011 at 12:01:49

SOURCE: Waukon, Iowa, WAUKON STANDARD, July 19, 1990
Contributor: Connie Ellis (Not related)

Memorial services were held Friday, July 13 for Laura E. Steffen, age 90, who died July 10, 1990 at Wesley Willows Retirement Home in Rockford, Illinois. The Rev. Dean Dalrymple conducted the 2 p.m. services. Burial was in the Oakland Cemetery in Waukon, Iowa with Burpee-Wood Funeral Home of Rockford in charge of arrangements.

Laura was born March 26, 1900 in Waukon, Iowa to Albert I. and Martha (Helming) Steffen. She attended Carollton College in Northfield, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Iowa with a bachelor of arts degree. She received a master of arts degree from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She taught high school English in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She was a member of Second Congregational Church in Rockford.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her sister Frances Steffen who died in November of 1989.

Surviving are 3 sisters, Althea (Eric E.) Ericson of Rockford, Illinois, Amy (Floyd) Gardner of Seal Beach, California, and Marion (D.J.) Fenwick of Portland, Oregon; a nephew and 2 nieces.