Anna (PAGE) STEINKAMP

PAGE, STEINKAMP, WATERS, JOHNSON, BAUMAN, TERRY, MOHR

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 4/1/2011 at 06:53:19

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
February 11, 1944

Mrs. William F. Steinkamp Dies;
Rites Not Arranged

CLEAR LAKE -- Mrs. William F. STEINKAMP, 82, died at a Mason City hospital about 8 o'clock Tuesday morning [February 10, 1944] following an illness of a few weeks. She had been at the hospital since the middle of January. Funeral arrangements are imcomplete pending the arrival of relatives. The body is at Ward's funeral home.

Mrs. STEINKAMP was born Anna PAGE at Pontiac, Ill. Sept. 14, 1861, and came to Taylor county with her parents when about 6-years-old. She was married to Mr. STEINKAMP at Lenox Feb. 26, 1882, and they had celebrated the 57th wedding anniversary before his death which occurred Oct. 7, 1939.

Mr. and Mrs. STEINKAMP lived on a farm in Taylor county 41 years before retiring and coming to Clear Lake in 1923. After her husband's death, Mrs. STEINKAMP lived with her children in Omaha, Neb. and Albuquerque, N. Mex. several months but had been in Clear Lake the past few years. Besides her husband, Mrs. STEINKAMP was preceded in death by 2 sons [George and Raymond].

She is survived by 7 children, Mrs. Elmer WATERS, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mrs. William JOHNSON, Denver, Colo.; Mrs. Jack BAUMAN, Kansas City, Kans.; Mrs. William TERRY, Albuquerque, N. Mex.; and Mrs. Forest MOHR and Charles and Frank STEINKAMP, Omaha; and 6 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2011