HERMAN E. SPAHN

FAULHABER, SPAHN, PITZER, BILLMEYER, MATTINA, VIERTEL, HEINZ, LUBER, HENKEL

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 2/16/2003 at 11:18:52

HERMAN E. SPAHN

Telegraph Herald - Sunday, February 9, 2003

Herman E. Spahn, 74, of 505 Kaufmann Ave., died Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003, at Ennoble Manor Care Center.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. today at Hoffmann-Schneider Funeral Home, 1640 Main St., where there will be a wake service at 5 p.m.

Mr. Spahn worked at Conlon Construction until 1966, and then worked at the former Dubuque Packing Co., until his retirement in 1990.

He was born on May 16, 1928, in Dubuque, son of Herman P. and Louise (Faulhaber) Spahn. He married Beverly Pitzer on Jan. 5, 1950, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Dubuque.

He was a Korean War Army veteran, serving as a master sergeant in the Corps of Engineers.

He loved gardening and the outdoors and was an avid hunter and fisherman. He was a member of Sacred Heart Parish.

Surviving are his wife, Beverly; two sons, Michael E. (Mary Kay) Spahn, of Dubuque, and Jeffrey J. (Amy) Spahn, of Sherrill, Iowa; a daughter, Tracey (Scott) Billmeyer, of Dubuque; seven grandchildren, Jessica (Kevin) Mattina, of Biloxi, Miss., Christopher (Jennifer) Spahn, Angela Spahn, Jason Spahn, Nichole Billmeyer and Brandon Billmeyer, all of Dubuque, and Rachel Spahn, of Sherrill; two great-grandchildren, Peyton and Anna; and three sisters, Mrs. Lucille (Merle) Viertel, Mrs. Vivian Heinz and Mrs. Marilyn (Lloyd) Luber, all of Dubuque.

He was preceded in death by two sons, Steven and Mark; a brother, Wallace; and a sister, Lorraine Henkel.

A Herman Spahn Memorial Fund has been established by his family.