Harold Tietjen (1904-1932)

TIETJEN, BAILEY

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 1/27/2011 at 20:22:33

Bellevue Leader, January 19, 1933

Recover Body of Harold Tietjen
Bellevue man who disappeared Dec. 21, laid to rest Monday

The continuous searchin of a group of local men headed by Charles Bailey, brother-in-law of Harold Tietjen, who has been missing since December 21 recovered the body of the unfortunate young man from the waters of the Mississippi last Friday shortly before noon. Bailey and Andrew Green found the body a short distance below the place where the ice had been cut for the Bellevue Ice & Coal Co. The open space had been dragged many times. But Bailey and Green did not give up and holes were cut in the ice farther south of the opening and thus recovered the body by means of barbed wire, ending the suspense and anxiety of relatives and friends.

Sheriff Hoenicke and coroner Jordan of Maquoketa were called and an inquest held at the Kempter Undertaking rooms. As there were no marks of violence on the body, and $71 in cash and a check from the Milwaukee Road together with his watch and railroad pass were found on the body, the coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental death.

Harold Tietjen was a son of Henry Tietjen and was born April 7, 1904, north of Bellevue. He was educated at the Bellevue public schools and later entered the employ of the C. M. St. P & P. railroad as a carpenter on the bridge construction crew. He was a likeable young man, industrious and upright and his tragic death cast a shadow of gloom over his relatives and friends. He was not only well-liked and spoken of here and at home, but also among the railroad men and in neighboring towns, where the crew was often stationed. His mother preceded him in death and he is survived by his father and his step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tietjen, one sister, Mrs. Charles Bailey of Bellevue and one brother, Wilbur Tietjen of Alta Vista.

The funeral was held Monday afternoon and services were conducted at the home by Rev. Sig H. Sandrock, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church. Burial was made in the Lutheran cemetery and the pallbearers were Ed Meier, Ed Eggers, Arnold Lauterborn, Max Meier, Albert Yeager and Ralph Leonard. The beautiful floral offerings were carried by Elsie Stuart, Avelda Boetcher, Marjorie Bell Guenther and Althea Tietjen.

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