STAADT, Anthony G. "Tony" 1894-1918

STAADT

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Date: 8/12/2012 at 04:55:17

Anthony G. Staadt was born in Postville, Iowa, January 24, 1894, and died at Berkley, Cal., Saturday, November 2, 1918, aged 24 years, 10 months and nine days.

Tony Staadt was the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. Godfrey Staadt of this city. He was baptised in St. Paul's Lutheran church March 25, 1894, and graduated from the Postville High School with the Class of 1911. In September 1912 he entered Grinnell College, but was compelled to give up his college work in January 1913 owing to poor health.

Returning to his home he took up work in his father's drug store, where he continued to work until the United States entered the great World War in 1917. On September 7th, 1917, he went to Chicago and enlisted in the aviation service. From there he was sent to jefferson Barracks, Mo., transferred from there to Kelly Field, Texas, and on October 18th of this year he was again transferred to the school of military aeronautics at Berkley, California, and while enroute to this school he wrote a line to his parents stating he was feeling fine, and two days later they were surprised to receive a telegram stating that Tony was seriously ill.

This was followed a week later by a message that he seemed to have passed the crisis, and just as hope for his recovery seemed at hand came another message stating he was very low and sinking, and on Sunday evening last came the sad news that he had passed away at nine o'clock on Saturday evening, bringing to the parents the deepest pangs of sorrow their home had ever known.

Tony Staadt was an unusually bright young man mentally, never failing to make his grades easily and well in all his school work and in his military training camps as well. He was a young man of clean thoughts and habits, who numbered his friends by his acquaintances and always had a pleasant word and a smile for all who passed his way.

Tony is the sixth Postville young man to make the Supreme Sacrifice for his country, and he did it as nobly, as grandly as though he had fallen on the field of battle amid the din and roar of battle. No better tribute to the kind of a young man he was willing to sacrifice his life for humanity.

He was a true patriot and an honorable man and citizen and we sorrow with those that mourn his untimely passing with a grief that is almost more than human hearts can bear.

The immediate cause of his death was influenza with the complication pneumonia.

Tony was also an honored member of Brotherly Love Lodge No. 204, A.F. & A.M. of this city.

A message this (Thursday) morning states that the body will arrive in Postville Sunday. The burial will be private owing to the influenza quarantine here.

He is survived by his father, mother, two sisters and one brother.

~Postville Herald, November 8, 1918

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Funeral of Anthony G. Staadt
The remains of Tony Staadt arrived in Postville last Saturday night and were taken to the undertaking rooms of Harris & Schuette, where on the following day the family were permitted to view the remains, and at two o'clock on Sunday afternoon, after a brief service at the home, the body was conveyed to Postville cemetery and buried with Masonic and military honors.

The many beautiful and costly floral offerings testified as nothing else could have done the high esteem in which Tony Staadt was held in the town that had always been his home.

Card of Thanks
We hereby tender our heartfelt thanks to the many neighbors and friends for their kindly acts, sympathizing words and many beautiful floral offerings during our receent sore bereavement, the loss of our beloved son and brother.
Mr. and Mrs. G. Staadt & family.

~Postville Herald, November 15, 1918

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Related news articles, both from the Postville Herald, November 12, 1931

On Tuesday of this week Undertaker Louis Schutte supervised the exhuming of the bodies of Godfrey Staadt and Anthony Staadt in postville cemetery for reinterment in a new family lot in the same cemetery.

E.H. Prior of Waterloo was here several days the fore part of the week superintending the erection of a beautiful new family monument and markers on the Staadt lot in Postville cemetery.