Raymond R. STEINHOFF

STEINHOFF, EMM, SANNER, LIVERMORE, BLEILE, ZIMMER, SPANGLER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 9/7/2010 at 23:25:56

Telegraph Herald --Dubuque, Iowa
January 14, 1997

August 15, 1906 --- January 11, 1997

Services for Raymond R. "Rosie" Steinhoff, 90, 315 N. Booth St., will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Columbkille's Catholic Church. Burial will be in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Key West, Iowa. Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. today at Ed Siegert-Al Didesch Colonial Funeral Home, 390 N. Grandview Ave., where there will be a parish wake service at 4 p.m. and a Knights of Columbus rosary at 5 p.m.

Mr. Steinhoff was employed at Bird Chevrolet for 50 years, retiring on Jan. 1, 1977. He was born Aug. 15, 1906, in Corwith, Iowa, son of Peter and Sophia (Emm) Steinhoff. He died Saturday, Jan. 11, 1997, at home. He married Loretta Sanner Oct. 21, 1930, at Nativity Catholic Church; she died Sept. 28, 1993. Rosie was a member of the Knights of Columbus Council 510, Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus Dubourg Assembly, St. Columbkille's Holy Name Society, St. Columbkille's Parish and its senior citizens. He also was a member of the Knights of Columbus Bowling League since 1947 and was still active in it. He was scout master of St. Columbkille's Boy Scout Troop 13 during the 1940s, which produced five Eagle Scouts in one year. He served as a volunteer at Albrecht Acres on its fund-raising committee. Rosie enjoyed woodworking, pie and cookie baking and gardening.

Surviving are a son, John Steinhoff, of Sugar Grove, Ill.; three daughters, Kathryn Livermore, of Northglenn, Colo., Margaret (Ken) Bleile, of Belvidere, Ill., and Jane (John) Zimmer, of Dubuque; and 24 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren. He also was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Elaine Spangler, on Sept. 30, 1982. A Rosie Steinhoff Memorial Fund has been established.