Dorothy (Gano) STEENBLOCK

GANO, STEENBLOCK, KASTER, ADAMS, MONGAN, RAMIREZ, MCFARLAND, LALLAK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 11/28/2009 at 20:31:09

November 10, 2009
Belmond Independent - Iowa

Dorothy Gano Steenblock, 83, Kanawha, died Monday, November 9, 2009 at Belmond Medical Center. Visitation will be at the Kanawha United Methodist Church, Friday, November 13 from 6-8 p.m. with the funeral on Saturday, November 14 at 10:30 a.m. A private graveside service will follow at Amsterdam Cemetery near Goodell. Dorothy was born February, 26, 1926 in Washta, Iowa. In the early 1940's she moved to California where she worked at Maris Island, running a switchboard and doing payroll for the military. While in California she met Clark Gable, Gary Cooper and Curly of the Three Stooges. In the 1940's she moved back to Iowa and graduated from high school in Cherokee. Dorothy married Harvey Steenblock on December 15, 1952 in Fort Dodge. They farmed the Steenblock family farm near Goodell for awhile, and then bought a farm near Kanawha in 1957. Dorothy was preceded in death by her husband; daughter Colleen Kaster; her parents Hes and Sophie Gano; her Aunt Eva and Uncle Gus who helped raise her when her mother died when Dorothy was six; and brother Junior "Jack" Gano. Dorothy is survived by two daughters Susan (Jim ) Adams of Webster City and Brenda Steenblock of Belmond; sons Michael (Pat) Mongan of St. Charles and Ralph Steenblock of Kanawha; sister Bonnie Ramirez and family of California; special cousin Jeanine McFarland of Rochester; granddaughter Kelsie (Jerid) Lallak of Garner; grandsons Bruce (Julie) Adams of Ames, Clint (Kelley) Mongan of West Des Moines, and Joshua (Sarah) Mongan of St. Charles; great granddaughters Katelyn Adams and Sadie and Ella Mongan; sister-in-law Dori Gano; a brother-in-law Richard (Chea) Steenblock; and son-in-law Bobby Kaster.