DAUSCHMIDT, Alice (1905-1999)

DAUSCHMIDT

Posted By: Von Stachon (email)
Date: 3/6/2007 at 14:12:03

OBITUARY

ALICE DAUSCHMIDT

Funeral services for Alice DauSchmidt, 93, of Reinbeck, IA will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, March 6, at the Amity United Presbyterian, Church with the Rev. Mary Wilbur officiating. Burial will be in the Reinbeck Cemetery, Reinbeck. Friends may call after 2 p. m. on Friday at Hand's Funeral Home, Reinbeck, where the family will be present to greet friends from 6 p. m. until 8 pm Friday evening.

Mrs. Dau Schmidt died of natural causes Tuesday morning March 2, 1999, at Parkview Manor, in Reinbeck where she had been a resident since March 1991. Alice Agnes Dau Schmidt was born Aug. 23, 1905 at Traer, the daughter of Robert P. Sr. and Esther (Stoakes) Young. She graduated with the Class of 1923 from Traer High School. She attended Iowa State College and graduated in 1927 with a degree in Home Economics Education.

While attending Iowa State College, she met Vem Dau Schmidt. The couple was united in marriage Aug. 22, 1928 and farmed near Dinsdale, IA until 1944, when they purchased a farm south of Voorhies, IA. In 1969 Vern and Alice retired to their home in Reinbeck. Vern died May 1,1986.

Alice had been a very active member of Amity United Presbyterian Church. She sang in the church choir, taught Sunday School and was a Youth Fellowship leader. She was a member of the Order of Eastern Star, Coinette Chapter, Reinbeck and was a member of the Tama County Home-makers. She had been a 4-H committee woman for 16 years and was many times a 4H judge at many fairs. Even though she entered Parkview Manor six years ago, her hands were never idle. Alice kept busy mending things for the care center, knitting infant caps and quilts for hospitals and friends. She also enjoyed reading, traveling and nature.

In addition to her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by two sisters, Pauline Pfeffer and Doris Robinson, and a brother, Robert P. Young Jr.

Survivors include two daughters, Esther deLashmutt and her husband William of Hollywood, MD and Phyllis Dunlap of Dysart; two sons, Glenn Dau Schmidt and his wife, Rebecca of Marshalltown; and Ross Dau Schmidt of Traer; 15 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.