Peter DERSCHEID

DERSCHEID, STEFFEN, PAULSON, MASSEY

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/30/2009 at 19:41:48

10 December 1872 -- 15 Oct 1949

The funeral for Peter Derscheid was held Friday afternoon, at the Methodist church at two o'clock, with Rev W.J. Stevenson, the pastor in charge. The last sad rites of this good man were largely attended by many of his old friends and neighbors here and from the community where he formerly lived. Mrs. Ralph Joseph presided at the piano and Mrs. Howard Hoevet sang the following numbers, The Old Rugged Cross, Beautiful Isle, and Crossing the Bar. The pall bearers were Will Kornder, Dick Neiling, Gene Perryman, Gilvert Schlueter, Edward Schlueter, and Harry Meyer of Huron. Interment was made in the Iroquois [South Dakota] cemetery by Hoevet Funeral Home.

Peter Derscheid was born near Eagle Grove, Iowa, December 10, 1872, and had reached the age of 76 years, 11 months and 5 days. He came to South Dakota with his parents [Christian and Katherine (Blosser) Derscheid] at the age of eleven years, in 1883, and settled on a farm north of Iroquois. In 1898, he was married to Anna Henrietta Steffen. To them, four children were born, two having died in infancy. The two surviving are Arthur Derscheid, who lives north of Huron, and Louise Marie Paulson of Newark, Missouri. Mr Derscheid lived on the farm he had homesteaded from 1897 until 1944, when he and his companion moved to Iroquois. When a young man, he joined the Evangelical church. After moving to Iroquois, he and his wife became members of the Methodist church, and were regular in their attendance. Mr Derscheid was a good friend to many, one who was always helping his neighbors and friends. He was unassuming in his nature, kind and had been in failing health for some time and the last several weeks his illness was of a serious nature and he had been confined in the hospital.

He is survived by his wife, son and daughter, and four brothers, Charles, George, Fred and August Derscheid, one sister, Mrs Katie Massey and four grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.