Grace Adeline (Hartsook) Schoenenberger (1952)

HARTSOOK, NEWELL, PETERS, SCHOENENBERGER

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler
Date: 2/18/2007 at 08:34:21

The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 2, 1952

FORMER RESIDENT DIES IN CALIFORNIA

Mrs. Ralph Schoenenberger to Be Buried This Saturday at Winterset

Mrs. Ralph Schoenenberger, a well known resident of the Ord and Winterset communities for many years, died Sunday, June 29 at her home in Long Beach, Calif. She was 70 years of age.

Mrs. Schoenenberger was the former Grace A. Hartsook, daughter of William and Katherine Hartsook. She was born near Ord and spent most of her life in or near Winterset.

Her husband died about 20 years ago, and she moved to California a few years later.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Kathryn Peters of Long Beach; two sons, John Schoenenberger of Long Beach, and Paul Schoenenberger of Omaha; two brothers, Fred and Ben Hartsook of Winterset; and a sister, Mrs. Sarah A. Newell of Howard, Kan.

Funeral services will be held this Saturday from the Winterset Methodist church, at 2 p.m. Burial will be made in the Winterset cemetery.
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The Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, July 16, 1952
Page 1

MRS. SCHOENENBERGER RITES HELD JULY 5

Member of Widely-Known Family Here Died in California

Grace Adeline Hartsook was born Feb. 2, 1882, at the home of her parents William and Catherine (Smoot) Hartsook at their home in Lincoln township, Madison County, Iowa. She was the next to the youngest of nine children, three of whom survive her. They are Fred P. Hartsook of Winterset, Mrs. Sarah A. Newell of Howard, Kansas, and Ben B. Hartsook of Lincoln township.

She grew to womanhood in the farm home of the family, attending district school at Grant school.

On Nov. 28, 1900 she was married to Ralph Travis Schoenenberger, of Walnut Township and they maintained a farm home for a number of years. They were the parents of three children, Kathryn, now Mrs. Carleton Peters of Long Beach, California, John also of Long Beach, and Paul of Omaha, Nebraska.

The husband died in April 1939. She then became associated with her daughter in her beauty salon, and when the daughter moved to Long Beach, she followed in 1946, and remained active until illness forced her retirement. She died at Long Beach, June 30, 1952. She was a member of the Ord community church in her early life, later transferring her member ship to the Methodist church. She was also a member of the Winterset Chapter Order of the Eastern Star, the White Shrine, of the Clover Leaf club of Lincoln Township, and was very active in Farm Bureau work.

Services were held July 5, at 2:00 p.m. at the Methodist church in Winterset. Burial was made in the Winterset Cemetery.

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