Dr. Harold L Ganzhorn 1906-1990

GANZHORN ROBINSON STEINHOFF

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 9/27/2010 at 18:41:46

Sioux City Journal—28 July 1990

Mapleton, Iowa—Dr. Harold L. Ganzhorn, 84, a Mapleton family doctor for 61 years, died Thursday, July 26, 1990, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at St. John’s United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Richard Henpenius officiating. Burial will be in Mapleton’s Mt. Hope Cemetery, with military rites by the Loren Hollister American Legion Post 496 of Mapleton. Visitation will begin at 2 p.m. today and a prayer service at 7 p.m. at Walter Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Mr. Ganzhorn was born July 4, 1906 in Woodbine, Iowa, son of Arthur and Edna Ganzhorn. He was graduated as a doctor of osteopathy in 1929 in Kirksville, Mo. and as a doctor of medicine in 1939 from the University of Iowa. He began his practice in 1939, and retired in May 1990 having been in practice with his son Dr. Jack Ganzhorn since July 1962. He married Surilda Robinson in Kirksville Feb. 22, 1929. He was a World War II veteran, an Army lieutenant colonel, having served in the South Pacific. On October 9, 1949, he married Marlyn Steinhoff in Pender, Nebr.

He was a member of St. John’s United Methodist Church, the American Medical Association, the Iowa Medical Society, the Monona County Medical Society and was a former longtime member of the Monona County Board of Health. He was the Monona County Coroner for many years. He was a member of the Loren Hollister American Legion Post 496, where he had been a past commander, the Quarry Masonic Lodge 404, A.F & A.M. and the Abu Bekr Shrine of Sioux City. He was a charter member of the Maple Heights Nursing Home Board of Directors, and was the Maple Valley school athletic doctor. He was on the staff at Marian Health Center, St Luke’s Regional Medical Center, Burgess Memorial Hospital, Horn Memorial Hospital, Crawford County Hospital in Denison and the former Hartley Memorial Hospital.

Survivors include his wife Marlyn of Mapleton; a son, Dr. Jack L Ganzhorn, and his wife Donna of Mapleton; two stepsons, William and his wife Charlene Steinhoff of Pelican Rapids, Minn. and Jack Steinhoff of Hornick, a brother Paul of Woodbine, a sister, Mrs. Stella Obanion of Woodbine; a granddaughter, Suzanne Ganzhorn; and four step-grandchildren, Scott, Robin, Nicholas and Amanda Steinhoff.

He was preceded in death by a sister.

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