Albert Stuhler 1891-1941

STUHLER, MCINTYRE, EMMONS

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Date: 5/12/2020 at 07:12:44

4 September 1941 - The Anamosa Journal

MONTICELLO--Funeral service for Albert J. Stuhler, 50, prominent Monticello businessman, will be Friday, Sept. 5, at 2 p.m. at the Goettsch Funeral home. Rev. William Grossheim, pastor of the Presbyterian church, will officiate and burial will be in Oakwood cemetery. Mr. Stuhler died at his home Wednesday morning following a six weeks' illness.

Surviving are a daughter, Mary Elizabeth, Moline, Ill., whose mother, the former Wilma McIntyre, died in 1918; his wife, the former Gladys Emmons, Walnut, to whom he was married July 21, 1927; three brothers, Reiss, Monticello, Carl, Washington, D.C., and Dr. Louis Stuhler, Rochester, Minn.

Mr. Stuhler was the grandson of George Stuhler, sr., Monticello pioneer who founded the business which bears the family name. Albert was born in Monticello July 27, 1891, the son of George and Mary Stuhler, and he attended public school there and the Northwestern military academy, Highland Park, Ill.

He was a member of the Congregational church, Burns lodge, A.F. and A.M., El Kahir Shrine, the DeMolay Consistory, Clinton; the Monticello Rotary club, Knights of Pythias and the American Legion.

Mr. Stuhler was a director of the Jones County Fair association and John McDonald hospital, a former member of the city council and a former treasurer of the board of education.

Since 1927 he had operated the Stuhler's Grocery store, one of the Monticello stores operated by the Stuhler family.