STEUERWALD, Charles Albert 1868-1933

STEUERWALD, LUBIENS, BOOTZ

Posted By: Karen L. Robertson (email)
Date: 9/23/2012 at 17:31:37

RITES HELD FOR DR. STEUERWALD
WAS PROMINENT CITIZEN OF ST. ANSGAR FOR ABOUT THIRTY NINE YEARS

Funeral services for Dr. Charles A. Steuerwald, 68, who died March 23, 1933 at the Lutheran Hospital in Hampton, were conducted at First Lutheran Church here at two o'clock Monday afternoon, the Rev. Olaf A. Langehough officiating. Interment was made in the St. Ansgar cemetery.

OBITUARY
Charles Albert Steuerwald, second son of Frederick and Anna Steuerwald, was born September 27, 1868, at Newburgh, Wisconsin. His earliest boyhood days were spent on a farm near Newburgh, until the family moved to Port Washington. It was here that the father, a Civil War veteran, died, leaving the mother with five young children. The family returned to the farm and later moved to South Dakota, where they took up a homestead near Huron.

Shortly after this Charles was employed in the machine shop in Huron, where he worked as a machinist for about two years. In 1890, he entered the Iowa State Dental College at Iowa City, where he studied for two years, finishing in 1894 at the Western Dental College in Kansas City, Mo. Immediately on finishing school he came to St. Ansgar, taking over the practice of his older brother, Louis Steuerwald, who had gone to Colorado on account of poor health.

On July 11, 1894, Dr. Steuerwald was married to Miss Minnie Lubiens. He continued to practice here until last October, when illness which had troubled him for some time became serious, and he was forced to give up all activity. He gradually became worse and on January 7th was taken to the Lutheran Hospital at Hampton. For a time he seemed to improve, but on January 20th he suffered a stroke of paralysis involving the entire right side. Though apparently rallying from this stroke and showing indications of at least a partial recovery, he became suddenly worse last Wednesday, and on Thursday night, March 23, at seven minutes after eleven, he passed away.

Dr. Steuerwald was a member of the local, state and also the national organizations of dentists, the American Dental Association. In his younger days he took a leading part in the activities of the Association, frequently holding clinics. He was noted for his painstaking work, his intense enthusiasm in that work and he became an acknowledged leader in his profession, having loyal patients throughout Iowa and the adjoining states. His family, friends, and humanity in general were the recipients of his warm, generous nature and one of his colleagues recently stated that the doctor was the most generous man who ever lived.

Although not a member of any church, he frequently attended the First Lutheran church. About the last effort he made to speak was an acknowledgement of his faith in God.

Dr. Steuerwald leaved to mourn his two daughters, Mrs. Ernestine Bootz of St. Ansgar and Miss Ione Steuerwald, who is employed in Beverly Hills, California. The latter was unable to be present at the funeral. Also surviving are three brothers, Dr. Louis Steuerwald of Longmont, Col., who on account of poor health was not present; Wm. F. Steuerwald of Wolsey, S.D., and Fred C. Steuerwald of Huron, S.D., and a grandson, Robert Bootz of St. Ansgar.

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