Keller, Marie Steckelberg Crouse (1911-2003)

KELLER, STECKELBERG, CROUSE, GOMMELS, UTLEY, SHERMAN, SHAFAR, CROUSE, BUFFINGTON, MOSEBACH, CARLSON, POHL, PICKAR

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 11/12/2022 at 09:04:50

Daily Freeman Journal
Webster City, Iowa
Friday, January 3, 2003

Marie Steckelberg Keller, 91, Webster City, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2003 at Trinity Regional Medical Center in Fort Dodge. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at the Prince of Peace Lutheran Church with Rev. G.L. Milbrath, officiating. Burial will be in the St. Paul's American Lutheran Cemetery in Manson. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. Friday at the Gunderson Funeral Home and Cremation Services in Fort Dodge.

She is survived by four daughters and one son, Doris Gommels and her husband Darrel, Jeanette Utley and her husband Ron, Richard Steckelberg and wife Louellen, all of Fort Dodge, Charlotte Sherman and her husband Joe of Webster City; and Georgia Shafar of Camanche, 15 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by husbands Louis Steckelberg and Carl Keller, one son, Marion, in infancy; her parents, John and Edith Crouse; brothers Fred Crouse, Ralph Crouse, Raymond Crouse, Alvin Crouse and Charles Crouse; sisters Grace Buffington, Vera Mosebach, Inez Carlson, Hazel Pohl and Bernice Pickar.

Marie Crouse was born on Feb. 9, 1911 in Pocahontas, where she attended school. On Jan. 7, 1934 she married Louis Steckelberg. The couple established their home in Clare and later moved to Fort Dodge. She along with her husband Louis, owned and operated the White Way Grocery Store. Later, she worked at Sunbeam Bakery and the Hy-Vee Bakery. Louis died in 1984. In 1988, she married Carl Keller. He died in 1995. Since that time, she has resided at Crestview Retirement Apartments in Webster City. She was a member of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church in Fort Dodge.