Schrampfer, Cordie A. (Jacob) 1912-1998

SCHRAMPFER, JACOB, HILBERT, HESLA, SCHEER, GLOCK, KINCAID, HERMANN, HALVERSON, JACOBS, KILWORTH, SCHEER, COLE, STOHS, SCHRAMPFER-KINCAID

Posted By: Richard O'Brien (email)
Date: 4/29/2013 at 13:33:59

Cordie Anna Schrampfer
born: 1912 Dec 18
died:1998 Aug 22 in Waukon.
Buried Elkader City Cemetery.
Funeral handled by Martin Funeral Home.
Widowed.
F=Joseph Jacob
M=Emma Hilbert.
Source:Allamakee Death Record.

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Added by S. Ferrall, June 7, 2013:

Waukon - Cordie A. Schrampfer, 85, died Saturday, Aug. 22, 1998, in Good Samaritan Center, Waukon, following a lingering illness. Services: 11 a.m. Monday, Waterville Lutheran church, Waterville, by the Rev. Kim Thacker. Burial: Elkader City Cemetery, Elkader. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Martin Funeral Home, Waukon.

Survivors include two daughters, Marian and husband Rudolph Hesla of Waterville, and Eunice and husband Chaplain Harold Scheer of Iowa City; two sons, David and wife Joan of Exira, and Willis and wife Marilyn of Houston; a sister, Norma Glock of Twin Falls, Idaho; a daughter-in-law, Kerry Schrampfer-Kincaid of Eau Claire, Wis.; many nieces and nephews; 12 grandchildren: Michael and wife Laura Schrampfer; Amy and husband Lt. Gerald Hermann; Linda and husband Bill Halverson; Gary and wife Shelley Hesla; Lori and husband Trent Jacobs; Karen and husband Lonn Kilworth; Debra Schrampfer; Stephen and wife Seiko Scheer; Rebecca and husband Dwayne Cole; Paul and James Schrampfer-Kincaid; and 18 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Dan Paul Schrampfer, in 1983; two brothers, Andrew and Wilmer Jacob; and her sister, Lorina Stohs.

Cordie was born Dec. 18, 1912, in the German settlement of Altenburg, Mo., the daughter of Joseph and Emma Hilbert Jacob. She was baptised at the Lutheran church and attended school in Altenburg. Cordie moved to McGregor in 1932 to help her sister with the care of her children. Her sister and husband had started the Lutheran Church there.

On May 1, 1935, she married George Schrampfer at the McGregor Lutheran Church. They then moved back to Missouri in 1939 where they opened "Schrampfers Grocery Store" in DeSoto. There in DeSoto they participated in founding the Lutheran Parochial School. George and Cordie ran the store for 16 years through World War II when they returned to Iowa and bought a farm near Osborne in 1955, which is now the Osborne Nature Center. They worked the farm for 10 years until George died in 1965.

Cordie then worked as a cook at nursing homes in northeast Iowa and then for eight years at the Methodist Hospital in Minneapolis. In 1980, Cordie retired and moved back to Waterville.

She was a member of the Waterville Lutheran Church and was active in the Lutheran Church all of her life. The grandsons and grandsons-in-law will be pallbearers.

~Cedar Rapids Gazette, August 23, 1998

Note: Elkader City cemetery is also known as East Side Cemetery