Bessie J. Steffen 1922-1991

STEFFEN, BODDICKER, SIMPSON, BIGELOW, QUINN, CHRISTENSEN, NESSLER, ARP

Posted By: Dorothy Gosse (email)
Date: 4/11/2011 at 20:18:48

MAYNARD ~ Bessie J. Steffen, 68, of Maynard
died Wednesday, July 3 at Mercy Hospital in
Oelwein.
Funeral services will be held at St. Paul Lutheran
Church on Saturday, July 6. The Rev. Darwin
Reiter will officiate. Burial will be in Woodlawn
Cemetery in Oelwein.
Survivors include her husband Wallace of Maynard;
one son Leo Steffen of West Branch; two daughters,
Deanna (Mrs. Frank) Boddicker of Goose Creek, SC
and Delores (Mrs. Jerry) Simpson of Cedar Rapids;
eight grandchildren; one great-grandchild, four
sisters, Gladys Bigelow of West Union, Evelyn Quinn
of Oelwein, Berneice Lehniger of Hazleton, Betty
Jean Christensen of Waterloo.
She was preceded in death by her parents, four
brothers, (Bill, Eddie, Fritz, and Harry) and three
sisters (Katherine, Dora and Helen).
She was born to Edward and Bertha (Nessler) Arp on
December 19, 1922. She married Wallace on
December 14m 1940 in Princeton, MO.

Oelwein Daily Register - 5 July 1991