Daubendiek, Frederick W. 1903-1991

DAUBENDIEK, WESTRUP

Posted By: Linda Mohning, volunteer (email)
Date: 7/10/2012 at 19:28:15

Rites Sept. 12 for F. W. Daubendiek.
Frederick W. Daubendiek, 87, retired Remsen business man, died Saturday, Sept 7, 1991 at Floyd Valley Hospital, Le Mars.
Funeral services were at 10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 12 at Christ Lutheran Church here. Rev. James D. Wilson officiated. Burial was in the Remsen City Cemetery.
Mr. Daubendiek was born Oct. 18, 1903, in Fieestel, Germany, where he attended elementary school in Borninghausen and high school in Lubbecke. He then attended business college in Herford, Germany. After coming to the United States, he attended school of engineering in Milwaukee in the 1930’s in the electrical engineering field.
Mr. Daubendiek immigrated to the United States after World War I, with two of his brothers. His brothers stayed in Michigan and he moved to Iowa to work with his uncle, W. H. Daubendiek in West Bend. After engineering school in Milwaukee, he returned to West Bend to work for the West Iowa Telephone Company.
He then returned to Germany to marry Lina S. Westrup there in 1933.
They returned to the United States in 1934 and settled in O’Brien County in the town of Calumet where he was employed again by West Iowa Telephone Company, as local manager of Sutherland, Calumet and Quimby.
In 1942, he was promoted to secretary-treasurer of West Iowa Telephone Company, and they moved to their headquarters in Remsen.
He will be remembered as a great promoter of Remsen and the Octoberfest.
In 1947, he was elected general manager of the West Iowa Telephone Company and Hooper Telephone Co. and since 1934, he held the position of director of the Iowa State Bank in West Bend. In 1989, he became chairman of that bank.
In 1973, he resigned as general manager of West Iowa Telephone Co, but was re-elected as vice president of the company. He had been associated with the communications business for over 55 years.
He was affiliated with the Remsen Chamber of Commerce since 1948 and was president of Iowa Ind. Pioneer Telephone Association from 1965-1966.
He is survived by his wife, Lina, of Remsen; many cousins, nieces and nephews in the United States and in Germany.
Only one week prior to his death the family learned of the death of his brother, Gustav, who died Saturday, Aug. 31, 1991, in Germany.
He was also preceded in death by his parents, two other brothers and a sister. – Remsen Bell-Enterprise, Sept. 19, 1991.