Elsie E. Stevenson 1897 - 1997

STEVENSON HUBER UNTIEDT

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Date: 4/20/2014 at 22:45:36

Sioux City Journal
5 May 1997

QUIMBY, Iowa — Elsie E. Stevenson, 99, of Quimby died Saturday, May 3, 1997, at the Cherokee Villa Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Cherokee, Iowa.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, with a family prayer service at 1:45 p.m., at Quimby United Methodist Church, with the Rev. John Scherb officiating. Burial will be in Quimby Cemetery. Visitation will be today, with the family present from 7 to 8 p.m., at the Boothby Funeral Home in Cherokee.

Mrs. Stevenson was born Dec. 18, 1897, in Holstein, Iowa, the daughter of Julius and Katharine (Huber) Untiedt. She graduated from Holstein High School in 1915 and attended Cedar Falls Teacher's College. She taught country school near Holstein. During World War I, She was a typist for the U.S. Treasury Department in Washington, D.C.

She married Clarence M. Stevenson on June 14, 1919, in Holstein. The couple farmed near Quimby for 25 years before moving to Long Prairie, Minn. for three years. They returned to Quimby in 1947. He died Sept. 12, 1983. She lived with her daughter in Huron, S.D. before moving to the Cherokee Villa Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

She was a member of Quimby United Methodist Church and the Methodist Women. She is a former member of the Order of the Eastern Star in Holstein, the Quimby Women's Club and the Quimby School Band Mother's Club. She also belonged to the Quimby Garden Club and the Quimby Senior Citizens Club. She enjoyed gardening, sewing and reading.

Survivors include four daughters, Eloise and her husband Hubert Huyink of Long Prairie, Minn., LaVanche Huset of Huron, S.D., Betty and her husband Paul Fassler of Cleghorn, Iowa, and Joanne and her husband Richard Kirwan of Santa Ana, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; and 22 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son-in-law, Glenn Huset; and eight brothers and sisters.