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Funeral services were held at 1:00 p.m. Monday, April 27 at St. John’s United Church of Christ at German City for Miss Minnie Lavina Steinhoff, who passed away Friday, April 24, 1964 at a South Sioux City, Neb. nursing home. Rev. Henry Held of St. John’s United Church of Christ at German City and Rev. Carl Jensen of the Rodney United Church of Christ officiated. Mrs. Sylvan Luse and Mrs. Donald Cosgrove sang, “What a Friend we Have in Jesus” and “Ivory Palaces” accompanied by Miss Lydia Egger at the organ.
Miss Steinhoff was born September 19, 1879 in Monroe county Ohio, the daughter of the late Charles and Elizabeth Kochart Steinhoff, who were early Germany City pioneers. She was baptized as an infant and confirmed in 1893 at the German City church. She joined the United Church of Christ at Rodney on April 6, 1958. In 1905 she moved with her parents to Ohio, to return to Iowa again in 1919 to settle in Rodney where she lived until ill health forced her to take up residence at the nursing home. She was 84 years, seven months and five days old.
She is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Pauline Hummel of Sioux City, and Mrs. Emma Morton of Akron, Ohio; four nieces, five nephews, and a host of relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by one brother, Theodore Steinhoff and one sister, Mrs. Mary Kilzer.
Interment was in the church cemetery.
Pallbearers were Franz Cleveland, Wilfred Eichhorn, Keith Johnson, Max Smith and Leonard Vaught all of Rodney.
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