SCHROEDER, Walter Carl Otto, Rev. 1898-1976

SCHROEDER, HARTWIG, BERHARDT, TOOMEY, LUBBERT, EICHELBURGER, NEUMAN

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 10/17/2011 at 18:07:59

SCHROEDER, Walter 1898-1976

Last rites for a well known retired Mitchell County pastor, the Rev. Walter Schroeder, 77, were held on Friday, April 2, 1976, at his former church, St. Peter's Lutheran in Riceville. In charge of the rites were the Rev. Norman Betke of St. Ansgar, the Rev. B. Hinrichs of St. Peter's and Rev. J. Kitzmann of Osage.

Arrangements were made by C. R. Champion and Sons, and burial was at the church cemetery, at Riceville.

Rec. Walter Schroeder died on March 30, 1976, of a respiratory disease and heart failure, at the Osage Nursing Home where he had resided for the past two weeks after having been hospitalized at Mitchell County Hospital for three weeks.

Walter Carl Otto Schroeder was born on May 13, 1898, the son of Rev. and Mrs. Carl Berhardt Schroeder of Bishop, Illinois. He was baptized in infancy and was confirmed in 1912. He received his schooling at St. Paul's College in Concordia, Missouri and at Concordia Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri, graduating in 1922.

As a theology student he served as vicar at Shell Lake and Cumberland, Wisconsin, Hubbard, Iowa, and Rollo, Missouri. Following his graduation he was ordained and installed at Sagerton, Texas. He also served churches in San Angelo, Billinger, and Longworth, Texas; and preached at the Texas State Tuberculosis Sanitarium at Carlsbad. He also served parishes at Mart, Texas, and served a church at Cole Camp, Missouri for 18 years.

He was installed as pastor of St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Riceville on April 29, 1945. During his ministry there, he served the church at large as circuit visitor and zone advisor for the Lutheran Women's Missionary League.

Meta Hartwig and Rev. Schroeder were united in marriage at Hubbard, Iowa, on April 29, 1923.

Surviving him are his wife, Meta; two sons, Eldor at home in Osage and Armin of Rochester, Minnesota; and four daughters, Mrs. William (Helen) Toomey of Rochester; Mrs. Donald (Ruth) Lubbert of Rochester; Mrs. Arthur (Mildred) Eichelburger of Carson, Calif.; and Mrs. Omar (Lois) Neuman of Plainview, Minnesota; 17 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; one brother, the Rev. Clemons Schroeder of Hubbard; and two sisters, Martha Schroeder of St. Louis and Alvina Schroeder of Hubbard, Iowa.

His parents and one brother preceded him in death.

Funeral services were held on Friday, April 2 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Also taking part in the service were Iowa District President, Pastor John Zimmerman of Marion, Iowa, and the former District President, Pastor Walter Oetting of Waterloo.

Interment was in St. Peter's Lutheran Cemetery, Riceville.

[ From a typed document at the Riceville Public Library ]