Gustave STEINKE

STEINKE, REINICKER, DRAGER, CARPENTER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:54

1861 ---- 18 March 1913

Gustave Steinke Dead

Gustave Steinke died yesterday at his home on one of the Reinicker farms, at the age of fifty-two years. He was born in Germany and came to this country about twenty-eight years ago. He leaves a wife and eight children - two boys and six girls - also an only sister, Mrs. Fred Drager, who recently moved from Hamilton county to a farm near Britt. The funeral will occur on Friday, March 21st. Brief services will be held at the house at 10:30 a.m. and services and the French church near Woolstock at 2:30 p.m., with interment in the French cemetery. Rev. M.L. Mellick of the English Lutheran church will officiate.

The Daily Freeman Tribune -- Webster City, Iowa
March 19, 1913

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Gustave Steinke died Tuesday, at his home on ,one of the Reinicker farms, at the age of fifty-two years. He was born in Germany and came to
this country about twenty-eight years ago. He leaves a wife and eight children—two boys and six girls — also an only sister. Mrs. Fred Drager, who
recently moved from Hamilton county to a farm near Britt. For a number of years he was a resident of Wall Lake township and a prominent farmer there. The family will continue the management of the farm they are now occupying and Ed Carpenter, who has been with them so long, will manage the farm for the Steinke family. The funeral occurred on Friday, March 21st. Brief services were held at the house at 10:30 a.m. and service at the French church near Woolstock at 2:30 p. m., with interment in the French cemetery. The sermon was by Rev. M. L. Mellick of the English Lutheran church.

Times Gazette --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
March 27, 1913