Elmer H. Boeckenstedt 1906-1970

BOECKENSTEDT, KLOSTERMAN, LANSING, MOORMAN, TEGELER, MULLIN, WEGMANN, SCHMELZER

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Date: 12/18/2009 at 18:13:31

Manchester paper-24 Sept. 1970
Elmer H. Boeckenstedt
Greeley: Elmer H. Boeckenstedt, 64, of Greeley, passed away at his home Sunday.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at St Joseph's Catholic church in Greeley with the Rev. Louis White officiating. Burial was made in the church cemetery. The rosary was recited Monday and Tuesday evenings at the Kramer funeral home in Dyersville.
Elmer H. Boeckenstedt was born May 22, 1906, at New Vienna, the son of Henry and Alice Klosterman Boeckenstedt. On Oct. 7, 1930, he was married to Josephine Marie Lansing at New Vienna. He farmed in the Greeley area all of his life.
He was a member of St. Joseph's Catholic church and a member of the Holy Name Society.
Survivors include his wife, Josephine; four sons, Al, Elmer and Merle of Greely, and Leon of Ryan; five daughters, Mrs. Donald (Mary) Moorman of Manchester, Mrs. Reynold (Alice) Tegeler and Mrs. LeRoy (Elaine) Mullin, both of Earlville, Mrs. Robert (Agnes) Wegmann of Strawberry Point, and Jane, at home; twenty-six grandchildren; seven brothers, Leonard of New Vienna, Gilbert and Bernard of Elkader, Joe of Dyersville, Louis and Henry of Guttenburg, Paul of Strawberry Point; two sisters, Miss Marie Boechenstedt of Guttenburg,and Mrs. Lorrian (Esther) Schmelzer of Garnavillo.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Gladys, in infancy, and his parents.