MATHAIS STEIDINGER 1797 - 1880

(WIFE) SUSANNE WEISSER 1797 - 1862

(SON) BARTHOLOMUS STEIDINGER 1820

(SON) JOHN GEORG STEIDINGER 1825 - 1926 *

(SON) MATHIAS STEIDINGER 1829 - 1898

(SON) ANDREAS STEIDINGER 1831 - 1919 *

(SON) ALEXANDER STEIDINGER 1833

(SON) GOTTLEIB STEIDINGER 1835

(DAUGHTER) CHRISTINE STEIDINGER 1835

THE JOHN G. STEIDINGER FAMILY

JOHN G. STEIDINGER

JOHN GEORG STEIDINGER WAS BORN AT BADEN GERMANY, APRIL 3 1825 AND DIED AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY, MONDAY MORNING AT THREE O'CLOCK, AGED 81 YEARS, SIX DAYS. HE GREW TO MANHOOD IN HIS NATIVE HOME, COMING TO AMERICA IN 1875, COMING DIRECT TO THIS CITY. ABOUT A MONTH AFTER ARRIVING HERE MR. STEIDINGER PURCHASED THE HOME FARM IN AVOCA TOWNSHIP, WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE.

HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS ANNA MARY YACKLEY IN 1844, AT BADEN GERMANY, AND TRAVELED LIFE'S PATHWAY TOGETHER UNTIL APRIL 27 1902, WHEN MRS. STEIDINGER PASSED TO HER REST. SIXTEEN CHILDREN WERE BORN TO THEM, EIGHT OF WHOM ARE LIVING, JOHN, JOHN G., MRS. SALLIE BITTNER, ANDREW, MRS. MARY RAMSEYER, MARTIN, ALEX, ANNA L., AND BARTEL. ALL THE CHILDREN RESIDE IN THIS VICINITY.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS A MINISTER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN GERMANY AND WAS ONE OF THE FIRST MINISTERS OF THAT CHURCH IN THIS CITY. HE WAS A TRUE CHRISTIAN AND A CITIZEN, WHO HELD THE RESPECT AND ESTEEM OF ALL WHO KNEW HIM.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH TUESDAY AFTERNOON, REVS. GOTTLIEB HOHULING, OF MACANAW, AND M. MONGOLD, OF ROANOKE, OFFICIATING. A LARGE NUMBER OF FRIENDS FROM NEIGHBORING TOWNS, AS WELL AS NEIGHBORS AND FRIENDS IN THIS CITY WERE PRESENT. THE REMAINS WERE LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

JOHN G. STEIDINGER 1825 - 1926

(WIFE) ANNA MARY (YACKLEY) STEIDINGER 1827 - 1902

(DAUGHTER) URSULA (STEIDINGER) KIEFER 1850 - 1896

(SON) JOHN G. STEIDINGER JR. 1853 - 1912

(DAUGHTER) SALOME "SALLIE" (STEIDINGER) BITTNER 1855 - 1938

(SON) ANDREW W. STEIDINGER 1857 - 1943

(DAUGHTER) MARY (STEIDINGER) RAMSEYER 1858 - 1914

(SON) MATTHEW STEIDINGER 1861 - ????

(SON) MARTIN STEIDINGER 1863 - 1957

(SON) JOHN M. STEIDINGER 1864 - ????

(SON) ALEXANDER STEIDINGER 1865 - 1950

(DAUGHTER) ANNA L. STEIDINGER 1867 - 1928

(SON) BARTHOLOMAUS S. STEIDINGER 1870 - 1948

(HUSBAND) GEORGE KIEFER 1857 - 1938

(DAUGHTER) ANNA (KIEFER) RINKENBERGER 1880 - 1937

(SON) SAMUEL KIEFER 1881 - 1897

(SON) GEORGE KIEFER, JR. 1883 - 1932

(DAUGHTER) KATHERINE (KIEFER) FARNEY 1885 - ????

(SON) BENJAMIN KIEFER 1886 - 1897

(SON) JOSEPH KIEFER 1888 - 1897

(DAUGHTER) PRISCILLA KIEFER 1890 - 1908

(DAUGHTER) MATILDA KIEFER 1892 - 1897

(DAUGHTER) SALOME ‘MAE" (KIEFER) FARNEY 1894 - 1955

JOHN G. STEIDINGER

JOHN GEORG STEIDINGER DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS BROTHER, BARTEL STEIDINGER, TUESDAY, SEPT. 24, AGED 59 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 9 DAYS. THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, FEB. 15, 1853. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTY WHEN HE WAS 13 YEARS OLD AND HAS RESIDED HERE SINCE THAT TIME. SINCE COMING HERE HE HAS MADE TWO TRIPS TO THE LAND OF HIS NATIVITY. MR. STEIDINGER HAD BEEN ILL FOR SOME TIME PAST AND RECENTLY UNDERWENT AN OPERATION. HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEATH FOUR BROTHERS THREE SISTERS AND NUMEROUS FRIENDS. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH THURSDAY AFTERNOON, REV. JOHN KAISNER OFFICIATING, AND THE REMAINS WERE HELD LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

MRS. SALOME BITTNER

MRS. SALOME BITTNER, WHO FOR MANY YEARS HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF THIS VICINITY, PASSED AWAY WEDNESDAY EVENING ABOUT SEVEN O'CLOCK AT THE HOME OF HER SON, LOUIS BITTNER, SOUTH OF FAIRBURY. MRS. BITTNER, WHOSE ILLNESS WAS OF LONG DURATION, WAS AGED 82 YEARS, 11 MONTHS AND 8 DAYS. SHE HAD MADE HER HOME WITH HER SON FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS PAST.

SALOME, DAUGHTER OF JOHN AND ANNA (YEAGLI) STEIDINGER, WAS BORN AT SCHWALTZWALD, GERMANY, JUNE 10, 1855. SHE GREW TO YOUNG WOMANHOOD IN HER NATIVE COUNTRY AND IN JULY, 1875, WHEN 20 YEARS OF AGE, CAME TO AMERICA. SHE CAME TO THIS VICINITY AND FOR THE PAST 57 YEARS HAD BEEN A RESIDENT OF INDIAN GROVE TOWNSHIP. IN DECEMBER, 1881, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO VALENTINE BITTNER, WHO PASSED AWAY MAY 22, 1898.

SURVIVING MRS. BITTNER ARE FIVE CHILDREN - MRS. J. W. PATERNOSTER, MISS LOUISE AND SALOME BITTNER AND SAM AND LOUIS BITTNER. ALSO SURVIVING ARE EIGHT GRANDCHILDREN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE HOME OF MR. AND MRS. LOUIS BITTNER TOMORROW MORNING AT 10 O'CLOCK. INTERMENT WILL BE IN SOUTH CEMETERY.

SALOME "SALLIE" (STEIDINGER) BITTNER 1855 - 1938

(HUSBAND) VALENTINE W. BITTNER 1846 - 1899

(DAUGHTER) EMMA BITTNER 1882 - 1896

(DAUGHTER) LILLIE BITTNER 1884 - 1888

(DAUGHTER) MINNIE (BITTNER) PATERNOSTER 1886 - 1860

(SON) WALTER BITTNER 1888 - 1901

(DAUGHTER) LOUISE BITTNER 1890 - 1992

(DAUGHTER) SALOME "SALLIE" BITTNER 1892 - ????

(SON) SAMUEL BITTNER 1895 - 1939

(SON) LOUIS BITTNER 1898 - 1970

ANDREW W. STEIDINGER PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY

ANDREW W. STEIDINGER, AGED 86, PASSED AWAY YESTERDAY MORNING AT 7:30 O’CLOCK AT ST. JAMES HOSPITAL AT PONTIAC SIXTY-EIGHT OF THOSE 86 YEARS HAD BEEN SPENT IN FAIRBURY AND VICINITY.

LAST APRIL MR. STEIDINGER WENT TO MAKE HIS HOME AT THE COUNTY FARM, WHERE HE WAS A PATIENT UNTIL DECEMBER 4. ON DECEMBER 4, PAUL BOLEN, SUPERINTENDENT OF THE COUNTY FARM, WAS RIDING IN HIS CAR ON ROUTE 66, WHEN HE CAME UPON MR. STEIDINGER WALKING ALONG THE PAVEMENT NEAR OCOYA. RECOGNIZING HIM, MR. BOLEN STOPPED AND TOOK MR. STEIDINGER IN HIS CAR.

MR. BOLEN NOTICED MR. STEIDINGER WAS INJURED AND AN EXAMINATION SHOWED THAT HE HAD AN INJURED HAND AND THAT HIS ARM WAS BROKEN AT THE WRIST JOINT, ONE OF THE BONES PROTRUDING THROUGH THE FLESH. MR. STEIDINGER WAS NOT ABLE TO GIVE A COHERENT ACCOUNT OF HIS INJURY, BUT THE SUPPOSITION IS THAT HE WAS TRYING TO CATCH A RIDE AND THAT WHILE HOLDING HIS HAND OUT IT WAS HIT BY A TRUCK OR CAR, THE DRIVER OF WHICH DID NOT STOP.

MR. BOLEN TOOK THE INJURED MAN TO ST. JAMES HOSPITAL, PONTIAC, WHERE HE GREW STEADILY WORSE. THE PHYSICIAN IN CHARGE GAVE THE CAUSE OF HIS DEATH AS A CHRONIC AILMENT OF THE HEART MUSCLES, WITH SHOCK AS A CONTRIBUTING CAUSE. CORONER ESSINGTON, OF ODELL, CONDUCTED AN INQUIRY.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS BORN IN GERMANY, MAY 2, 1857. HE RESIDED THERE UNTIL HE WAS 18 YEARS OF AGE, WHEN HE CAME TO AMERICA, AND COMING TO THIS COMMUNITY, HAD SINCE RESIDED HERE, FOLLOWING THE OCCUPATION OF FARMING NEAR FAIRBURY AND FORREST.

SIXTY-TWO YEARS AGO HE WAS MARRIED TO KATE ABERSOL, WHO SURVIVES TOGETHER WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. LENA BLUME, OF LAYAYETTE, IND.; JESS STEIDINGER, OF DECATUR; MRS. PERCY HERBERICH, OF WESTON; ANDREW P. STEIDINGER, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. KATHRYN FAHEY, OF FORREST. THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS ALSO SURVIVE: MARTIN, ALEX AND BARTEL, ALL OF FAIRBURY.

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD TOMORROW MORNING AT TEN O’CLOCK FROM THE MOWRY FUNERAL HOME. INTERMENT WILL BE IN GRACELAND.

ANDREW W. STEIDINGER 1857 - 1943

(WIFE) KATHERINE "KATE" (ABERSOL) STEIDINGER 1863 - 1947

(DAUGHTER) LENA (STEIDINGER) BLUME 1883 - 1973

(DAUGHTER) PERCEDA "PERCY" (STEIDINGER) HERBRICH 1885 - 1977

(DAUGHTER) ELLA (STEIDINGER) HILSABECK 1886 - 1926

(SON) LEVI STEIDINGER 1888 - 1917

(SON) WALTER STEIDINGER 1890 - 1942

(SON) JESSE STEIDINGER 1892 - 1985

(SON) ANDREW P. STEIDINGER 1894 - 1954

(DAUGHTER) KATHRYN (STEIDINGER) FAHEY 1896 - ????

MRS. ANNA M. RAMSEYER

MRS. ANNA M. RAMSEYER WAS BORN JUNE 24, 1858, IN BADEN, GERMANY, AND DIED WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 4, 1914, AGED 56 YEARS, 4 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS.

MRS. RAMSEYER UNDERWENT AN OPERATION TUESDAY MORNING. SHE PASSED THROUGH THE OPERATION VERY WELL AND WAS MAKING A GOOD RECOVERY WHEN SHE WAS SUDDENLY TAKEN WITH AN ATTACK OF HEART TROUBLE AND PASSED AWAY.

HER EARLY LIFE WAS SPENT IN GERMANY, COMING TO THIS COUNTRY WITH HER PARENTS, JOHN AND ANNA STEIDINGER. SHE WAS ONE OF A FAMILY OF SIXTEEN CHILDREN.

ON DECEMBER 6, 1881, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO JACOB RAMSEYER. TO THIS UNION EIGHT CHILDREN WERE BORN. THEY ARE MINNIE, ANNA, NETTIE, EMMA, NAOMA, CLYDE, WALACE AND ALPHA. THEY ARE ALL LEFT TO MOURN THEIR MOTHER’S DEATH, EXCEPT EMMA, WHO PASSED AWAY JUNE 12, 1902. MR. RAMSEYER DIED ON DECEMBER 10, 1900.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF SEVERAL YEARS FOLLOWING HER MARRIAGE SHE HAD SPENT HER ENTIRE LIFE SINCE COMING TO THIS COUNTRY, NEAR FAIRBURY. DURING THAT TIME SHE MADE MANY FRIENDS WHO JOIN WITH THE FAMILY IN MOURNING HER LOSS. SHE WAS A GOOD WIFE AND A DEVOTED MOTHER, AND WILL BE MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH THIS FRIDAY AFTERNOON AT 1:30 O’CLOCK. INTERMENT IN FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

MARY (STEIDINGER) RAMSEYER 1858 - 1914

(HUSBAND) JACOB RAMSEYER 1855 - 1900

(DAUGHTER) EMMA RAMSEYER 1882 - 1902

(DAUGHTER) ANNA MAE RAMSEYER 1886 - 1946

(DAUGHTER) NATHALIA "NETTIE" (RAMSEYER) ZIEGENHORN 1888 - 1979

(DAUGHTER) MINNIE (RAMSEYER) PERDELWITZ 1884 - 1966

(SON) CLYDE RAMSEYER 1893 - ????

(SON) WALLACE RAMSEYER 1896 - ????

(SON) ALFRED RAMSEYER 1899 - ????

HOLD SERVICES FOR MARTIN STEIDINGER, 93

MARTIN STEIDINGER, 93, DIED SATURDAY AT 1:10 P. M. AT HIS HOME ON EAST ELM STREET, FOLLOWING A LONG ILLNESS. HE WAS PASTOR OF THE FAIRBURY CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH 60 YEARS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT 1 P. M. MONDAY AT THE HOME AND AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AT 1:30 P. M. BURIAL WAS IN EAST GRACELAND CEMETERY.

HE WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, AUG. 17, 1863, A SON OF JOHN G. AND MARY YACKLEY STEIDINGER. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AT THE AGE OF 12. HE FARMED NEAR FAIRBURY AND MOVED INTO TOWN 28 YEARS AGO. HE MARRIED EUNICE WEYENETH AT ROANOKE, JULY 1, 1888.

SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS, ELIAS, JOSEPH, BENJAMIN AND URBAN, FAIRBURY; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. HERMAN BAHLER, FAIRBURY; MISS SALOME AND MISS EUNICE STEIDINGER, AT HOME; MRS. WILL EDELMAN, BERN, KANSAS; 39 GRANDCHILDREN AND 10 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE.

MARTIN STEIDINGER 1863 - 1957

(WIFE) EUNICE (WEYENETH) STEIDINGER 1864 - 1945
(DAUGHTER) EVODIA (STEIDINGER) BAHLER 1889 - 1977

(DAUGHTER) NATHALIA "NETTIE" (STEIDINGER) EDELMAN 1890 - 1973

(SON) ELIAS STEIDINGER 1893 - 1972

(SON) JOSEPH STEIDINGER 1894 - 1988

(DAUGHTER) SALOME STEIDINGER 1895 - 1981

(SON) BENJAMIN STEIDINGER 1901 - 1978

(DAUGHTER) EUNICE STEIDINGER 1903 - 1996

(SON) URBAN STEIDINGER 1905 - 1986

ALEX STEIDINGER SERVICES YESTERDAY

FUNERAL SERVICES FOR ALEXANDER STEIDINGER, WHO PASSED AWAY AT THE FAIRBURY HOSPITAL MONDAY EVENING AT NINE O’CLOCK, WERE HELD YESTERDAY MORNING AT 10 O’CLOCK FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. INTERMENT WAS IN THE SOUTH CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CEMETERY. HE WAS AGED 85 YEARS, FOUR MONTHS AND 2 DAYS.

BORN ON FEBRUARY 18, 1856, AT BADEN, GERMANY. MR. STEIDINGER WAS A SON OF JOHN G. AND ANNA MARY (YACKLEY) STEIDINGER. AT THE AGE OF TEN MR. STEIDINGER, WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY CAME TO FAIRBURY AND FOR MANY YEARS WAS A FARMER IN THIS VICINITY, RETIRING A FEW YEARS AGO.

ON FEBRUARY 18, 1891, HE MARRIED SARAH ZIMMERMAN AT FAIRBURY. HIS WIFE AND TWO BROTHERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

SURVIVING ARE FIVE SONS, EZRA, DETROIT, MICH., AND ELMER, HARVEY, ROY AND HERBERT, ALL OF FAIRBURY, AND A DAUGHTER, MRS. CLARA YODER, FORREST.

ALEXANDER STEIDINGER 1865 - 1950

(WIFE) SARAH (ZIMMERMAN) STEIDINGER 1870 - 1912

(SON) EZRA STEIDINGER 1892 - ????

(DAUGHTER) CLARA (STEIDINGER) YODER 1894 - 1991

(SON) ELMER STEIDINGER 1897 - 1993

(SON) HARVEY STEIDINGER 1902 - 1994

(SON) ROY STEIDINGER 1904 -????

(SON) HERBERT STEIDINGER ???? - ????

(SON) CLARENCE STEIDINGER 1907 - 1907

(DAUGHTER) RUTH STEIDINGER 1907 - 1907

8. ANNA L. STEIDINGER 1867 - 1928

MISS ANNA STEIDINGER

MISS ANNA STEIDINGER, A LADY HIGHLY ESTEEMED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME ON EAST ASH STREET MONDAY EVENING AT THE AGE 62 YEARS.

MISS STEIDINGER WAS BORN IN GERMANY, COMING TO THIS COUNTRY WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY WHEN A YOUNG GIRL. SHE CAME DIRECTLY TO THIS VICINITY AND HAD ALWAYS RESIDED HERE. SURVIVING HER ARE FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, NAMELY: MARTIN, ALEX, ANDREW AND BARTHEL STEIDINGER, AND MRS. SALOME BITTNER, ALL OF FAIRBURY.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH YESTERDAY MORNING. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY

RESIDENT HERE 73 YEARS, B. S. STEIDINGER DIES

B. S. STEIDINGER, A RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY FOR ALMOST THREE-QUARTERS OF A CENTURY, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME JUST NORTH OF FAIRBURY LAST SATURDAY MORNING AT 11:45 O’CLOCK. HE WAS AGED 78 YEARS, FIVE MONTHS AND 19 DAYS.

BARTHOLOMAUS S., A SON OF JOHN G. AND MARY (YACKLEY) STEIDINGER, WAS BORN AT SCHWATZWALD, GERMANY, JANUARY 21, 1870. WHEN A BOY FIVE YEARS OF AGE HE CAME WITH OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY TO THE UNITED STATES, AND TO FAIRBURY, LOCATING NORTH OF THIS CITY, AND SINCE RESIDED HERE.

ON MARCH 22, 1896, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO LEAH STOLLER. SHE SURVIVES TOGETHER WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: ALVIN, AT HOME; MRS. RACHEAL SAATHOFF, AARON, SILAS, HIRAM, NATHAN, ALL OF FAIRBURY; MRS. HILDA SCHILTZ, OF MINNEAPOLIS, MINN.; MRS. CYNTHIA BUTLER AND MRS. EDNA MITCHELL, BOTH OF PEORIA; 16 GRANDCHILDREN, ONE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, TWO BROTHERS, ALEX AND MARTIN, BOTH OF FAIRBURY.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH TUESDAY MORNING AT 10:30 O’CLOCK. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

BARTHOLOMAUS S. STEIDINGER 1870 - 1948

(WIFE) LEAH STOLLER 1872 - 1966

(DAUGHTER) RACHEAL (STEIDINGER) SAATHOFF 1897 - 1992

(SON) AARON STEIDINGER 1898 - 1991

(SON) ALVIN STEIDINGER 1899 - 1949

(SON) SILAS STEIDINGER 1901 - 1966

(SON) HIRAM STEIDINGER 1903 - 1973

(SON) NATHAN STEIDINGER 1907 - 2001

(DAUGHTER) HILDA (STEIDINGER) SCHILTZ 1905 - 1986

(DAUGHTER) CYNTHIA (STEIDINGER) BUTLER 1909 -

(DAUGHTER) EDNA (STEIDINGER) MITCHELL 1913 -

ANDREW STEIDINGER

ANDREW STEIDINGER, KNOWN AS "FATHER STEIDINGER," AN AGED AND HIGHLY RESPECTED RESIDENT OF THIS CITY, DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS SON, JOHN, IN THIS CITY WEDNESDAY AT NOON, AGED 87 YEARS, 10 MONTHS AND 19 DAYS.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN IN GERMANY, APRIL 1, 1831. HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARGURITE HINSELMAN IN THAT COUNTRY AND TO THIS UNION THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN WERE BORN: GOTTLIEB, ANDREW AND JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. JOHN HUENI, OF BREMAN, IND.; BARTEL, OF STRAWN; CHRIST, OF FORREST AND "JOHNNY," ON THE FARM NORTH OF TOWN.

MR. STEIDINGER CAME TO THE UNITED STATES WITH HIS FAMILY IN 1885, COMING DIRECT TO FAIRBURY. HE PURCHASED A FARM NORTH OF TOWN AND RESIDED THERE UNTIL THREE YEARS AGO, WHEN HE CAME TO TOWN TO LIVE WITH HIS SON, JOHN, HIS WIFE DIED SIX YEARS AGO.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS AN EXCELLENT CITIZEN AND DURING HIS LONG RESIDENCE HERE MADE MANY FRIENDS BY WHOM HE WAS HELD IN THE HIGHEST ESTEEM.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH IN THIS CITY AND THE REMAINS LAID TO REST IN THE FAIRBURY CEMETERY.

MRS. ANDREW STEIDINGER

MARA AGATHA HEINSMAN WAS BORN IN GERMANY SEPTEMBER 14, 1831, AND DIED AT HER HOME NORTH OF THIS CITY, MONDAY, MAY 12, 1913, AT 11 O’CLOCK A.M., AGED 81 YEARS, 8 MONTHS AND 28 DAYS. SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO ANDREW STEIDINGER IN 1853. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN EIGHT CHILDREN, GOTTLEIB, ANDREW, MAT AND JOHN, OF FAIRBURY; MRS. JOHN HUENI, OF RISK; BARTLE. OF STRAWN; CHRIST AND J. A., OF FORREST.

THEY CAME TO THIS COUNTY IN 1883, SETTLING VERY SOON AFTER ARRIVING ON THE FARM NORTH OF FAIRBURY WHICH HAS BEEN HER HOME UP TO THE TIME OF HER DEATH.

SHE WAS A KIND AND LOVING MOTHER AND A FAITHFUL WIFE, AND A TRUE FRIEND. SHE WILL BE MISSED BY ALL WHO KNEW HER.

THE FUNERAL WAS HELD FROM THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN THIS CITY ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 14, AT 2 O’CLOCK, AND WAS LARGELY ATTENDED.

ANDREAS "ANDREW" STEIDINGER SR. 1831 - 1919

(WIFE) MARA AGATHA (HEINSMAN) STEIDINGER 1831 - 1913

(SON) GOTTLEIB STEIDINGER 1852 - 1933

(SON) ANDREAS "ANDREW" STEIDINGER JR. 1854 - 1928

(SON) MATHAIS "MATTHEW" STEIDINGER 1855 - 1926

(SON) JOHN G. STEIDINGER 1857 - 1929

(SON) CHRISTIAN STEIDINGER 1873 - 1925

(SON) BARTHOL E. STEIDINGER 1870 - 1950

(SON) JONS A. STEIDINGER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) MARY (STEIDINGER) HUENI ???? - 1938

GOTTLIEB STEIDINGER DIED EARLY YESTERDAY MORNING

HAD BEEN IN BUSINESS HERE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS - FUNERAL TO BE HELD SUNDAY

GOTTLIEB STEIDINGER, ONE OF THIS CITY’S HIGHLY ESTEEMED CITIZENS, AND WHO HAD BEEN IN BUSINESS HERE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS, PASSED AWAY AT HIS HOME IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY MORNING AT 12:30 O’CLOCK.

GOTTLIEB STEIDINGER, SON OF ANDREW AND MARIA AGATHA STEIDINGER, WAS BORN AT PETERZELL, GERMANY, NOVEMBER 21, 1852. HE RECEIVED HID EDUCATION IN THE SCHOOLS OF HIS NATIVE COUNTRY, WHERE HE ALSO LEARNED THE BLACKSMITHING TRADE. WHEN 32 YEARS OF AGE HE CAME TO AMERICA AND LOCATED IN FAIRBURY, WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED.

LATER HE ENGAGED IN THE BLACKSMITHING BUSINESS, CONDUCTING A SHOP HERE FOR OVER FORTY YEARS. HE WAS ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN THIS BUSINESS UNTIL HE WAS TAKEN SICK A WEEK AGO. FOR 21 OF THESE YEARS A. H. BIRCH WAS ASSOCIATED WITH HIM IN BUSINESS.

ON MARCH 4, 1894, IN THIS CITY, MR. STEIDINGER WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS BERTHA FEHR, WHO SURVIVES, TOGETHER WITH THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MISSES MINNIE AND LEONA, AT HOME; ERWIN AND REUBEN, OF BIRMINGHAM, ALA.; MISS RUTH, OF COLUMBUS, OHIO; MRS. ELI MOSER, OF FAIRBURY. TWO GRANDCHILDREN, ROBERT AND SHIRLEY ANN MOSER; TWO BROTHERS, BARTEL AND JOHN, OF PEORIA, AND SISTER, MRS. JOHN HUENI, OF BREMEN, IND., ALSO SURVIVE. ONE SON, AMOS, PASSED AWAY NOVEMBER 17, 1905.

HONEST, CONSCIENTIOUS AND UPRIGHT, MR. STEIDINGER HELD THE RESPECT AND CONFIDENCE OF ALL THOSE WITH WHOM HE CAME IN CONTACT. A KIND AND LOVING HUSBAND AND FATHER, HE WILL BE MISSED IN THE HOME.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT 12:30 O’CLOCK FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, OF WHICH HE WAS A MEMBER. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

GOTTLEIB STEIDINGER 1852 - 1933

(WIFE) BERTHA (FEHR) STEIDINGER 1866 - 1958

(DAUGHTER) MINNIE STEIDINGER 1894 - ????

(SON) ERWIN STEIDINGER 1896 - ????

(SON) AMOS STEIDINGER 1898 - 1905

(DAUGHTER) LEONA STEIDINGER 1901 - ????

(DAUGHTER) BERTHA (STEIDINGER) MOSER 1903 - 1989

(SON) REUBEN STEIDINGER 1908 - ????

(DAUGHTER) RUTH STEIDINGER 1906 - ????

ANDREW STEIDINGER

ANDREW STEIDINGER, A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY AND VICINITY FOR MANY YEARS, PASSED AWAY AT 8:30 O’CLOCK WEDNESDAY EVENING AT THE HOME OF MARY STEIDINGER, CORNER OF FOURTH AND CONCORD STREETS.

THE DECEASED WAS BORN JANUARY 21, 1854, IN PATERZELL, BADEN, GERMANY, AND AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH WAS AGED 74 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 14 DAYS. HE GREW TO YOUNG MANHOOD IN HIS NATIVE COUNTY, COMING TO AMERICA 50 YEARS AGO. TWO OF THESE FIFTY YEARS WERE SPENT IN WOODFORD COUNTY THE REMAINING FORTY-EIGHT YEARS BEING SPENT IN THIS VICINITY.

SURVIVING MR. STEIDINGER ARE FOUR BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER - GOTTLIEB, JOHN, BARTEL AND GEORGE, OF FAIRBURY, AND MRS. JOHN HUENNI, OF BREMEN, IND.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD THIS AFTERNOON AT 2:30 O’CLOCK FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH. INTERMENT WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MATTHEW STEIDINGER

MATTHEW STEIDINGER DIED AT THE HOME OF HIS COUSIN, LOUIS TROESCH, NEAR FORREST, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, AT 2 A.M. THE REMAINS WERE BROUGHT TO THE HOME OF HIS BROTHER, GOTTLIEB STEIDINGER, THAT EVENING AND THURSDAY THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AT 1 O’CLOCK.

MATTHEW STEIDINGER WAS BORN IN PITERZELL, GERMANY, MARCH 8, 1855. IN 1883 HE CAME TO THE UNITED STATES, LOCATING ON A FARM NEAR FAIRBURY, WHERE HE RESIDED UNTIL ABOUT FIVE YEARS AGO, WHEN HE WENT TO HIS COUSIN’S NEAR FORREST.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS NEVER MARRIED. HE LEAVES TO MOURN HIS DEATH FIVE BROTHERS AND ONE SISTER, GOTTLIEB, JOHN AND ANDREW, OF FAIRBURY; BARTEL, OF STRAWN; JONS, OF PEORIA, AND MRS. MARY HUENI, OF PEORIA, ALL OF WHOM WERE PRESENT AT THE FUNERAL. MR. STEIDINGER WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AND A RESPECTED CITIZEN.

BASEMENT STEPS FALL FATAL TO FAIRBRIAN

JOHN G. STEIDINGER, AGED 72 YEARS MEETS ACCIDENTAL DEATH SUNDAY BODY FOUND BY DAUGHTER.

JOHN G. STEIDINGER, AGED 72 YEARS, FOR MANY YEARS A RESIDENT OF THE VICINITY, WAS FOUND DEAD AT HIS HOME SUNDAY AFTERNOON A LITTLE BEFORE TWO O’CLOCK BY HIS DAUGHTER, MISS EMMA, WHO FOUND THE BODY OF HER FATHER AT THE FOOT OF THE BASEMENT STAIRS WHEN SHE RETURNED HOME FROM CHURCH.

CORONER ELMO KNICK CAME OVER FROM PONTIAC ON SUNDAY EVENING AND CONDUCTED THE INQUEST, MISS STEIDINGER WAS THE ONLY WITNESS CALLED. SHE STATED THAT WHEN SHE WENT TO CHURCH IN THE MORNING ABOUT 9:15 O’CLOCK HER FATHER WAS AT HOME AND IN HIS USUAL HEALTH. WHEN SHE CAME BACK HOME ABOUT TWO O’CLOCK SHE DID NOT SEE HER FATHER ABOUT THE HOUSE. NOTICING THAT THE DOOR LEADING TO THE BASEMENT WAS OPEN SHE LOOKED DOWN THE STAIRWAY AND SAW HER FATHER LYING AT THE FOOT OF THE STEPS, ED PATTON, A NEIGHBOR, WAS CALLED, AND DR. THATCHER WAS ALSO SUMMONED, WHO STATED THAT MR. STEIDINGER WAS DEAD. THERE IS A SPACE OF ABOUT 18 INCHES BETWEEN THE BOTTOM STEP AND THE DOOR OPENING INTO ONE PART OF THE BASEMENT AND IT WAS IN THIS NARROW SPACE THAT THE BODY WAS FOUND. THERE WAS A BAD CUT OVER THE RIGHT EYE, WHERE HIS HEAD HAD STUCK THE SHARP EDGE OF A STEP AS MR. STEIDINGER FELL.

THE JURY AFTER VIEWING THE BODY AND HEARING THE TESTIMONY GIVEN BY MISS STEIDINGER, RETURNED A VERDICT THAT THE DECEASED CAME TO HIS DEATH "FROM INJURIES RECEIVED FROM A FALL FROM THE TOP OF THE CELLAR STEPS TO THE BASEMENT FLOOR.

"W. H. BARTLETT, F’MAN; W. C. MORRIS, HARRY W. MORRIS, DON C. MERIT, GRANT TEESDALE, WALTER ZIMMERMAN."

OBITUARY

JOHN G. STEIDINGER WAS BORN AT PETERZELL, GERMANY, APRIL 23, 1857, BEING AT THE TIME OF HIS DEATH AGED 71 YEARS, 6 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS.

MR. STEIDINGER SPENT HIS BOYHOOD DAYS IN HIS NATIVE COUNTY, COMING TO AMERICA AND THIS IMMEDIATE VICINITY OVER 50 YEARS AGO. ON DECEMBER 31, 1885, IN THE HOME IN WHICH HE MET HIS DEATH MR. STEIDINGER WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS CATHERINE YOST. TO THIS UNION WERE BORN SIX CHILDREN, ONE OF WHOM, TOGETHER WITH MRS. STEIDINGER HAD PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH, MRS. STEIDINGER PASSING AWAY THREE YEARS AGO AND THE CHILD DYING IN INFANCY. THE SURVIVING CHILDREN ARE: JOHN, FRED AND MRS. MARY TROESCH, OF FORREST; MRS. BERTHA KYBURZ, OF SAUNEMIN, AND MISS EMMA, AT HOME. THERE ALSO SURVIVE THREE BROTHERS, BARTLE, AND GOTTLIEB, OF THIS CITY, AND JOHN, OF PEORIA; ONE SISTER, MRS. MARY HUENI, OF BREMEN, IND., AND THIRTEEN GRANDCHILDREN.

BEFORE MOVING TO THIS CITY ELEVEN YEARS AGO MR. STEIDINGER HAD FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS RESIDED ON HIS FARM NEAR FORREST. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE HOME OF THE DECEASED ON TUESDAY MORNING AT 9:30 O’CLOCK. INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

JOHN G. STEIDINGER 1857 - 1929

(WIFE) CATHERINE YOST 1856 - 1926

(SON) JOHN G. STEIDINGER 1888 - ????

(DAUGHTER) MARY (STEIDINGER) TROESCH 1890 - ????

(SON) FREDERICK STEIDINGER 1894 - ????

(DAUGHTER) EMMA (STEIDINGER) KING 1895 - ????

(DAUGHTER) BERTHA (STEIDINGER) KYBURZ 1897 - ????

CHRIS STEIDINGER

CHRIS STEIDINGER, WHO HAD SPENT THE GREATER PART OF HIS LIFE HERE, BUT WHO FOR SEVERAL MONTHS PAST HAD RESIDED AT PEORIA, PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HIS BROTHER, GOTTLIEB STEIDINGER, IN THIS CITY ON WEDNESDAY MORNING. HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT HERE FROM PEORIA, SUNDAY. HE WAS AGED 52 YEARS, 7 MONTHS AND 6 DAYS.

CHRIS STEIDINGER WAS BORN IN GERMANY, OCTOBER 7, 1872, BUT WHEN 11 YEARS OF AGE CAME TO AMERICA AND SETTLED IN THIS VICINITY, WHERE HE HAD SINCE RESIDED. ON MARCH 27, 1902, HE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MISS MARY ARMBRUSTER, WHO TOGETHER WITH THREE DAUGHTERS, CHRISTINA, ANNA AND CARRIE, SURVIVES. ONE SISTER, MRS. JOHN HENNIE, OF BREMEN, IND., AND THE FOLLOWING BROTHERS SURVIVE: BARTAL, GOTTLIEB, ANDREW AND JONS, OF FAIRBURY; JOHN, OF PEORIA, AND MAT OF FORREST.

THE FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD TODAY FROM THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, AND BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

CHRISTIAN STEIDINGER 1873 - 1925

(WIFE) MARY (ARMBRUSTER) STEIDINGER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) CHRISTINA STEIDINGER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) ANNA STEIDINGER ???? - ????

(DAUGHTER) CARRIE STEIDINGER ???? - ????

B. E. STEIDINGER, AGED 80, DIES SUDDENLY

B. E. STEIDINGER, A WELL-KNOWN CITIZEN OF FAIRBURY, PASSED AWAY SUDDENLY AT HIS HOME AT 403 E. ASH STREET, SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT 4:30 O’CLOCK. HE WAS AGED 80 YEARS, ONE MONTH AND TWO DAYS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD TUESDAY MORNING AT TEN O’CLOCK FROM THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH, AND INTERMENT WAS IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

BARTHOL E. WAS A SON OF ANDREW AND MARIE AGATHA (HEINZMANN) STEIDINGER, AND WAS BORN AT PETERZELL GERMANY, AUG. 7, 1870.

HE CAME TO THE VICINITY OF FAIRBURY WITH HIS PARENTS AND FAMILY AT AN EARLY AGE. ON NOVEMBER 23, 1895, HE MARRIED MARY L. TROESCH. FOR SEVERAL YEARS THEY AND THEIR CHILDREN LIVED ON THEIR FARM HOME NEAR STRAWN. FROM THERE MOVED TO PEORIA IN 1929, AND RETURNED TO SPEND THEIR LATER DAYS IN FAIRBURY, WHERE THEY HAD LIVED SINCE 1945.

SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, ON SON, ALBERT, OF STRAWN; FIVE DAUGHTERS, MRS. MARTHA WILEY, PALOS VERDES ESTATES, CALIF.; MRS. IDA MATUZEK, OF PEORIA; MRS. SARAH HAAB, OF DECATUR; MRS. LAURA LINDENBAUM, OF FORREST; MRS. LOUISE WARSAW, OF FORT WAYNE, IND. ONE SON, CARL D., PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH IN FEBRUARY, 1926.

PALLBEARERS WERE HAROLD STEIDINGER, KENNETH STEIDINGER, DONALD STEIDINGER, BURTON RANNEY, ROBERT MOSER, ARTHUR WARSAW. MRS. A. P. STEIDINGER, MRS. HIRAM STEIDINGER AND MRS. CLYDE SUTTER WERE IN CHARGE OF THE FLOWERS.

RELATIVES AND FRIENDS AT THE FUNERAL CAME FROM SOUTH BEND, BREMEN, LIGONIER, FORT WAYNE AND RAUB, IND.; LANSING, MICH.; CHICAGO, MORTON, PEORIA AND OHIO.

BARTHOL E. STEIDINGER 1870 - 1950

(WIFE) MARY (TROESCH) STEIDINGER 1873 - 1956

(SON) ALBERT STEIDINGER 1896 - ????

(SON) CARL D. STEIDINGER 1898 - 1926

(DAUGHTER) MARTHA (STEIDINGER) WILEY 1901 - ????

(DAUGHTER) SARAH (STEIDINGER) HAAB 1903 - ????

(DAUGHTER) IDA (STEIDINGER) MATUZEK 1905 - ????

(DAUGHTER) LAURA (STEIDINGER) LINDENBAUM 1908 - ????

(DAUGHTER) LOUISE (STEIDINGER) WARSAW 1913 - ????

MRS. JOHN HUENI

MRS. JOHN HUENI, A FORMER RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY, PASSED AWAY AT THE HOME OF HER SON HERMAN IN BREMEN, IND., SUNDAY, FOLLOWING A FEW WEEKS ILLNESS.

SHE LEAVES TWO SONS, JOHN, OF LANSING, MICH., AND HERMAN, OF BREMAN; TWO DAUGHTERS, MRS. BERTHA ANNIS, MRS. MARIE EWING, OF SOUTH BEND, IND.; TWO BROTHERS, JOHN AND BARTLE STEIDINGER, OF PEORIA; AND SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD WEDNESDAY AT BREMAN. ATTENDING FROM FAIRBURY WERE MRS. MRS. GOTTLIEB STEIDINGER AND MISS LEONA; MR. AND MRS. ELI MOSER, MR. AND MRS. SAM HAAB; FORREST, MR. AND MRS. ROGER LINDENBAUM; MISS RUTH STEIDINGER, FROM DETROIT, MICH.

HOLD SERVICES FOR MARTIN STEIDINGER, 93

MARTIN STEIDINGER, 93, DIED SATURDAY AT 1:10 P. M. AT HIS HOME ON EAST ELM STREET, FOLLOWING A LONG ILLNESS. HE WAS PASTOR OF THE FAIRBURY CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH 60 YEARS.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT 1 P. M. MONDAY AT THE HOME AND AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH AT 1:30 P. M. BURIAL WAS IN EAST GRACELAND CEMETERY.

HE WAS BORN IN BADEN, GERMANY, AUG. 17, 1863, A SON OF JOHN G. AND MARY YACKLEY STEIDINGER. HE CAME TO THIS COUNTRY AT THE AGE OF 12. HE FARMED NEAR FAIRBURY AND MOVED INTO TOWN 28 YEARS AGO. HE MARRIED EUNICE WEYENETH AT ROANOKE, JULY 1, 1888.

SURVIVING ARE FOUR SONS, ELIAS, JOSEPH, BENJAMIN AND URBAN, FAIRBURY; FOUR DAUGHTERS, MRS. HERMAN BAHLER, FAIRBURY; MISS SALOME AND MISS EUNICE STEIDINGER, AT HOME; MRS. WILL EDELMAN, BERN, KANSAS; 39 GRANDCHILDREN AND 10 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE.

MRS. MARTIN STEIDINGER DIED MONDAY NIGHT

MRS. MARTIN STEIDINGER, FOR MANY YEARS A RESIDENT OF THIS CITY AND VICINITY, PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME ON EAST ELM STREET ON MONDAY NIGHT AT 11:55 O’CLOCK. SHE WAS AGED 82 YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND FOUR DAYS.

EUNICE (WEYENETH) STEIDINGER WAS BORN IN WOODFORD COUNTY, DECEMBER 2, 1864, A DAUGHTER OF THE REV. BENEDICT AND ELIZABETH (BLUNIER) WEYENETH.

ON JULY 1, 1888, AT ROANOKE, SHE WAS UNITED IN MARRIAGE TO MARTIN STEIDINGER, FOR MANY YEARS THEY RESIDED ON A FARM SOUTHEAST OF FAIRBURY, MOVING INTO THIS CITY 15 YEARS AGO.

SURVIVING BESIDES HER HUSBAND ARE THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN: MRS. EVADIA BAHLER, FAIRBURY; MRS. NETTIE EDELMAN, OF BERN, KAN.; ELIAS, JOSEPH SALOME, BENJAMIN, EUNICE AND URBAN, OF FAIRBURY. THIRTY-NINE GRANDCHILDREN AND THREE GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN ALSO SURVIVE.

FUNERAL SERVICES WERE HELD AT THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, OF WHICH SHE WAS A MEMBER, YESTERDAY AFTERNOON AT ONE O’CLOCK. INTERMENT WAS IN THE EAST GRACELAND CEMETERY.

MARTIN STEIDINGER 1863 - 1957

(WIFE) EUNICE (WEYENETH) STEIDINGER 1864 - 1945
(DAUGHTER) EVODIA (STEIDINGER) BAHLER 1889 - 1977

(DAUGHTER) NATHALIA "NETTIE" (STEIDINGER) EDELMAN 1890 - 1973

(SON) ELIAS STEIDINGER 1893 - 1972

(SON) JOSEPH STEIDINGER 1894 - 1988

(DAUGHTER) SALOME STEIDINGER 1895 - 1981

(SON) BENJAMIN STEIDINGER 1901 - 1978

(DAUGHTER) EUNICE STEIDINGER 1903 - 1996

(SON) URBAN STEIDINGER 1905 - 1986

FAIRBURY NATIVE EVODIA BAHLER DIES.

EVODIA BAHLER, 88, OF PEORIA AND A NATIVE OF FAIRBURY, DIED AT 2:30 P.M. FRIDAY, NOV. 25, 1977, AT HER HOME.

A PRIVATE FUNERAL SERVICES WAS HELD WITH BURIAL IN SPRINGDALE CEMETERY, PEORIA, WITH MINISTERS OF THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OFFICIATING.

LUDWIG MORTUARY, MORTON, WAS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS.

SHE WAS BORN MAY 14, 1889, AT FAIRBURY, A DAUGHTER OF MARTIN AND EUNICE WEYENETH STEIDINGER. SHE MARRIED HERMAN BAHLER FEB. 21, 1915, AT FAIRBURY. HE DIED DEC. 2, 1972.

SURVIVING ARE TWO SONS, URBAN AND HARVEY, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; FIVE DAUGHTERS, ALMA, VERNA AND WILMA BAHLER AND ELLA MEYER, ALL OF PEORIA, AND LAVINA GROSSHANS, FAIRBURY; THREE BROTHERS, JOE STEIDINGER, FORREST, AND BEN AND URBAN, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; TWO SISTERS, SALOME AND EUNICE STEIDINGER, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; 16 GRANDCHILDREN, AND 10 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

A SON, A DAUGHTER, A BROTHER AND A SISTER PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE GERMAN APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF PEORIA.

2. NATHALIA "NETTIE" (STEIDINGER) EDELMAN 1890 - 1973

MRS. EDELMAN, 83, OF BERN, KA., KILLED IN CHRISTMAS EVE CRASH.

MRS. NETTIE EDELMAN, 83, WAS KILLED IN A CAR ACCIDENT ON CHRISTMAS EVE NEAR HER HOME IN BERN, KA.

THE FORMER NETTIE STEIDINGER, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MARTIN STEIDINGER OF FAIRBURY, IS SURVIVED BY ONE DAUGHTER, ALBERTA, WITH WHOM SHE MADE HER HOME.

ALSO SURVIVING ARE THREE SISTERS, EVODIA BAHLER OF PEORIA AND SALLY AND EUNICE OF FAIRBURY; THREE BROTHERS, JOE, BEN AND URBAN, ALL OF THIS AREA.

HER HUSBAND AND ONE BROTHER PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF SABETHA, KA.

ELDON STEIDINGER TOOK HIS PARENTS, THE URBAN STEIDINGER, AND AUNTS EUNICE AND SALLY, TO THE FUNERAL SERVICES, WHICH WERE HELD AT THE POPKISS MORTUARY IN SEBETHA ON THURSDAY MORNING, DEC. 27, 1973.

ELI STEIDINGER

ELI STEIDINGER, 79, A RETIRED FARMER, WAS DEAD ON ARRIVAL AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL AT 9:30 P.M. SATURDAY.

A PRIVATE FUNERAL WILL BE TODAY. BURIAL WILL BE IN EAST GRACELAND CEMETERY.

THERE WILL BE NO VISITATION. STIVER HOME FOR FUNERALS IS IN CHARGE.

HE WAS BORN NEAR FAIRBURY AUG. 23, 1892, A SON OF MARTIN AND EUNICE WEYENETH STEIDINGER. HE MARRIED MINNIE IFFT JUNE 13, 1926. SHE DIED OCT. 6, 1964.

SURVIVING ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. ARLENE NEUKOMM AND MRS. HELEN FEHR, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; AND MRS. ERMA HARI, SALEM, ORE.; THREE BROTHERS, JOSEPH, FORREST; BEN AND URBAN, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; FOUR SISTERS, MRS. NATHALIA EDELMAN, BERN, KAS.; MRS. EVODIA BAHLER, PEORIA; MISS EUNICE AND MISS SALLIE, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; AND 13 GRANDCHILDREN.

JOSEPH STEIDINGER

THERE WILL BE A PRIVATE FUNERAL SERVICES AT 10 A.M. TODAY FOR JOSEPH STEIDINGER, 94, OF FAIRBURY, A RETIRED FARMER, WHO DIED AT 4:05 A.M. WEDNESDAY DEC. 28, 1988 AT HIS HOME.

THE SERVICES WILL BE AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF FAIRBURY MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY, FAIRBURY.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS BORN MAY 21, 1894, AT FAIRBURY, A SON OF MARTIN AND EUNICE WEYENETH STEIDINGER. HE MARRIED BERTHA IFFT ON JAN. 22, 1928, AT FAIRBURY.

SURVIVNG ARE FORU SONS, IVAN AND JOSEPH W., BOTH OF FORREST; GEORGE, STRAWN; AND RICHARD, CHATSWORTH; SIX DAUGHTER, ALTA, VERA, NORMA, DORIS, EDNA AND ALICE STEIDINGER, ALL OF FAIRBURY; A SISTER, EUNICE STEIDINGER, A RESIDENT OF MEADOWS MENNONITE NURSING HOME, MEADOWS; 18 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 13 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

THREE BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS A LIFETIME RESIDENT OF THE FORREST AND FAIRBURY AREA.

HE WAS A MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF FAIRBURY.

FORREST FUNERAL THURSDAY FOR FAIRBURY NATIVE, SALOME STEIDINGER

SALOME STEIDINGER, 85, A FAIRBURY NATIVE, DIED AT 2:45 A.M. TUESDAY, APRIL 21 AT MEADOWS MENNONITE HOME, MEADOWS, WHERE SHE HAD LIVED FOR TWO YEARS.

HER FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A.M. TODAY (THURSDAY) AT CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, FORREST, WITH CHURCH MINISTERS OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY, FAIRBURY.

VISITATION WAS FROM 5 TO 8 P.M. WEDNESDAY AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, AND AN HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICES THURSDAY AT THE CHURCH.

SHE WAS BORN DEC. 16, 1895, IN FAIRBURY, A DAUGHTER OF MARTIN AND EUNICE WEYENETH STEIDINGER.

SURVIVING ARE TWO BROTHERS, URBAN AND JOSEPH, BOTH OF FAIRBURY, AND A SISTER, EUNICE STEIDINGER, MEADOWS MENNONITE HOME.

TWO BROTHERS AND TWO SISTERS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH, FORREST, AND A LIFE-LONG FAIRBURY AREA RESIDENT.

6. BENJAMIN STEIDINGER 1901 - 1978

BEN STEIDINGER DIED IN HOSPITAL

BENJAMIN STEIDINGER, 77, OF FAIRBURY DIED AT 10:20 A.M. TUESDAY, OCT. 10, 1978 AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL.

HIS FUNERAL WILL BE AT 10 A.M. THURSDAY, OCT. 12 AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF FAIRBURY OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

VISITATION WAS 7 TO 9 P.M. WEDNESDAY.

HE WAS BORN AUG. 7, 1901, AT FAIRBURY, A SON OF MARTIN AND EUNICE WEYENETH STEIDINGER. HE MARRIED NAOMI L. ALT FEB. 4, 1931, AT PONTIAC. SHE DIED DEC. 19, 1975.

SURVIVING ARE THREE DAUGHTERS, LOIS, AT HOME; RUTH EDELMAN, STRAWN; LOUISE MENOLD, SABETHA, KAN.; THREE SONS, ARTHUR, AT HOME; RONALD AND WILLIAM, BOTH OF FAIRBURY, BOTH OF FAIRBURY; TWO BROTHERS, JOE, FORREST AND URBAN, FAIRBURY; TWO SISTERS, SALOME AND EUNICE, BOTH OF FAIRBURY, AND 13 GRANDCHILDREN.

A BROTHER, TWO SISTERS AND A SON PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

HE ATTENDED THE CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF FAIRBURY AND WAS A RETIRED FARMER.

THE FAMILY REQUESTS THAT NO TANGIBLE EXPRESSIONS OF SYMPATHY MADE.

EUNICE STEIDINGER

EUNICE STEIDINGER, 93, OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN NURSING HOME, FAIRBURY, DIED AT 6:09 A.M. MONDAY SEPT. 16, 1996 AT HER RESIDENCE. HER FUNERAL WILL BE AT 2 P.M. WEDNESDAY AT CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH FORREST PARK, FORREST. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY, FAIRBURY. VISITATION WILL FROM 6 TO 8 P.M. TODAY AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, AND ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICE WEDNESDAY AT THE CHURCH IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH FORREST PARK OF FAIRVIEW HAVEN.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE ONE SISTER-IN-LAW, OLLIE STEIDINGER, FAIRBURY, AND 36 NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

HER PARENTS, FOUR BROTHERS, THREE SISTERS AND FIVE NIECES AND NEPHEWS PRECEDED HER IN DEATH.

SHE WAS BORN JAN. 31, 1903, IN FAIRBURY, A DAUGHTER OF MARTIN AND EUNICE WEYENETH STEIDINGER.

MS. STEIDINGER, HOMEMAKER, WAS A LIFETIME RESIDENT OF FAIRBURY AND A 13-YEAR RESIDENT OF MEADOWS MENNONITE HOME.

SHE WAS A MEMBER OF CHRISTIAN APOSTOLIC CHURCH FORREST PARK, FORREST. SHE WAS EDUCATED IN FAIRBURY SCHOOLS.

URBAN STEIDINGER

URBAN STEIDINGER, 80, 207 S. 10TH ST., DIED AT 10:50 A.M. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 5, 1986, AT FAIRBURY HOSPITAL. HIS FUNERAL WILL BE HELD SATURDAY AT 10 A.M. AT THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH WITH MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OFFICIATING. BURIAL WILL BE IN GRACELAND CEMETERY.

FRIENDS MAY CALL FROM 4 TO 8 P.M. FRIDAY AT DUFFY-PILS MEMORIAL HOME, FAIRBURY, AND AFTER 9 A.M. SATURDAY AT THE CHURCH.

MR. STEIDINGER WAS BORN DEC. 24, 1905, AT FAIRBURY, A SON OF MARTIN AND EUNICE WEYENETH STEIDINGER. HE MARRIED OLLIE I. MOSER AT FAIRBURY ON AUG. 3, 1930.

HE FARMED SOUTH OF FAIRBURY UNTIL RETIRING IN 1970, WHEN HE MOVED TO FAIRBURY. MR. STEIDINGER WAS AFFILIATED WITH THE APOSTOLIC CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN FAIRBURY.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE; SEVEN SONS, MAURICE, DONALD, CHARLES, DAVID, ELDON AND DENNIS, ALL OF FAIRBURY, AND THOMAS OF ODELL; FIVE DAUGHTERS, MARY LOU KAEB OF CISSNA PARK, MARJORIE EDELMAN OF SABETHA, KAN., VELDA GLUECK OF TREMONT, BARBARA MCDONALD OF FAIRBURY AND JUDITH BACHTOLD OF STRAWN; ONE BROTHER, JOE OF FAIRBURY; ONE SISTER, EUNICE STEIDINGER OF MEADOWS MENNONITE HOME; 81 GRANDCHILDREN; AND 31 GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN.

ONE DAUGHTER, TWO BROTHERS AND THREE SISTERS PRECEDED HIM IN DEATH.

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