Louis Frank SCHLEUGER

SCHLEUGER, WEITZEL, CHARBONNEAUX, DAUGARD, ANDERSON, TEACHOUT, NIELSEN, DAVIES, SMITH, MARKWORTH, BUNS, LAU

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/1/2007 at 22:10:52

BRITT — Louis F. Schleuger, 88, of Britt, died Sunday (May 17, 1998) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the First Lutheran Church in Britt, with the Rev. James A. Mattson, officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Cataldo Funeral Home, 178 First Ave. S.W., Britt.

Louis Frank Schleuger, the son of Russian-German immigrants, Louis Martin and Katherine Elizabeth (Weitzel) Schleuger, was born March 14, 1910 at Herrington, Kan. He was baptized on April 17, 1910 by Pastor Wilhelm von Hennings at the Herrington Lutheran Church. At an early age, he moved with this family to a farm near Goldfield, Iowa. In 1919, they moved to a farm near Woden and in 1927, to a farm near Britt. Louis attended country schools at Goldfield and Woden. In 1929, he began working for the Rock Island Railroad at Herrington, Kan. On Nov. 21, 1934, he was married to Eva Helen Charbonneaux, of Britt, by the Rev. William Spence at the Methodist Parsonage n Mason City. They made their home in Britt. Louis was a machinery operator in construction work at defense jobs, during world War II, at Burlington, Iowa; Baraboo, Wis.; Hastings, Neb.; Montgomery, Minn.; and the Algona, Iowa prison camp. He was a night mechanic at the Hemp Plant in Britt and was a heavy equipment operator for Hancock County for 28 years, retiring in 1973. Louis also delivered motor homes for Winnebago Industries from the plant to dealers for three years. His hobbies included fishing, hunting, woodworking, gardening and reading. He was a member of the First Lutheran Church, was the founder of the Hobo Day Flea Market in Britt and was its organizer and manager the first year. He was a life member of the Hancock County Historical Society and was also a charter and honorary member of the Iowa State Sheriffs and Deputies Association Institute.

He is survived by his wife, Eva, of Britt; four children, Katherine L. Schleuger, of Britt; Louis Schleuger Jr. and his wife, Sanae, of Yokosuka, Japan; Lucy Ann Anderson and her husband, Gary, of Forest City; and Shirley Daugard, of Madison, Wis.; seven grandchildren, Dennis Teachout Jr. and his wife, Kari, of Mankato, Minn.; Lucy Schleuger, of West Palm Beach, Fla.; Lous Schleuger III, of Charlotte, N.C., Ginger Nielsen and her husband, Dean, of Britt, and Neil Daugard, of Britt; several stepgrandchildren; four great-grandchildren, Aaron Davies, of Mankato, Minn., and Brandon, Melissa and Amber Smith, all of Washington; several stepgreat-grandchildren; two sisters-in-law, Marie Schleuger of Britt and Marie Schleuger, of Bemidji, Minn.; and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; five brothers, John (died in Russia), Jake, John Henry and Conrad Schleuger; and five sisters, Alice Schleuger (died in Russia) , Katherine Schleuger (died in Kansas), Mary Markworth, Anna Buns and Margaret Lau.

May 19, 1998
Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette