George Frederick DERSCHEID

DERSCHEID, EMERICK, FLOHR, ODENHEIMER, MCVICKER, ABBOTT, LEHMAN, ROSE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/30/2009 at 19:11:17

8 March 1866 --- 15 November 1937

George Frederick Derscheid was born March 18, 1866, on the farm three miles west of Eagle Grove, Ia which his father, Phillip Derscheid, homesteaded in 1865. His mother [Elizabetha Flohr] died while he was quite young and his early years were spent in the Odenheimer home, with the exception his life has been lived on the old home farm from which he passed on to his final home on Nov 15th, 1937, after a brief illness, at the age of 71 years, 7 months and 28 days. On Feb 12, 1893, he was united in marriage to Lois Emerick and to this union six children born. Two sons, John Frederick and George Harold preceded him in death in the fall of 1927. Those surviving to mourn his passing are his wife, one son, Maurice, of Kenyon, Minn, and three daughters, Grace of Dallas, TX, Bessie McVicker of Kenyon, MN and Lucille Abbott of Eagle Grove; one brother, Henry Derscheid of Eagle Grove, whose serious illness prevented him form attending the services, and 15 grandchildren, besides other relatives. Two sisters, Mrs Katherine Lehman and Mrs Mary Rose and one brother, John, have already passed on to their eternal home.