Eleanor I. (Kainz) Becker 1914-2012

BECKER, KAINZ, BAUER, STEINDL, SCHOENING, WOLF, GOEDKEN, OSTERHAUS

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 10/3/2015 at 09:26:04

DYERSVILLE, Iowa - Eleanor I. Becker, 98, of Dyersville, died Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, at Mercy Medical Center-Dubuque.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, at St. Francis Xavier Basilica, Dyersville, with the Rev. Noah Diehm officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23, at Kramer Funeral Home, Dyersville, where there will be a vigil service at 4 p.m.

Eleanor was born on May 3, 1914, in Elkader, daughter of John and Emily (Bauer) Kainz. She graduated from Xavier High School in 1933 and earned a teaching certificate at the University of Dubuque.

She married Bernard (Ben) Becker on May 26, 1936, in Dyersville. Together, they farmed in Clayton County until 1945 and then moved to the Becker family farm near Dyersville. They retired in 1972 to the Clayton County farm. He preceded her in death in 1986.

Surviving are her children, Joyce (Frank) Steindl, of Stillwater, Okla., Gary Becker, of West Seneca, N.Y., Paul (Linda) Becker, of Dyersville, and Kathy (Joe) Schoening, of Rockford, Ill.; a daughter-in-law, Joyce Becker, of Dyersville; 15 grandchildren, David (Patti), Andrew (Cyndee), Peter and Matthew (Katie) Steindl, Jude and Abby Becker, Scott (Ellen), Jamie Becker, Joy (James) Kaminski, Gretchen Becker, Jessica (Wade) Allen, Zac and Andrea Becker, Krista and Michael Schoening; and 13 great-grandchildren.

She also was preceded in death by a son, John Becker, in 2003; daughter-in-law, Barbara Becker; siblings, Clara Wolf, Ernest Kainz, Rudy Kainz, Leo Kainz and Josephine Goedken; in-laws, Leona Osterhaus, Sister Rita Clare Becker, Rev. Msgr. Edmund Becker and Marie Becker.

Online condolences may be left for the family at www.kramerfuneral.com.

Telegraph Herald (Dubuque, IA) - Wednesday, November 21, 2012