BORN MARCH 20, 1890 NEAR BOTNA, IOWA
DIED MAY 25, 1983 MANNING GENERAL HOSPITAL, MANNING
AGE 93 YEARS, 2 MONTHS, AND 5 DAYS
SERVICES SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1983, 11 AM OHDE FUNERAL HOME, MANNING
OFFICIATING REVEREND DENNIS JOHNSON MANNING FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
MUSIC LARRY GENZEN, VOCALIST
CONNIE SIEPKER, ORGANIST
INTERMENT MANNING CITY CEMETERY
CASKETBEARERS: FRANK HANDLOS, RON VOGL, GEORGE SCHROEDER, DELTON GRUHN, JEROME KASPERBAUER, TOM IRLBECK
HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: DALE HINZ, ROBERT
HINZ, ALBERT KLOCKE, VIRGIL GENZEN, ELDON WEEMS, HARRY K. GRUHN, BERNARD LENGEMANN, RUSSELL MOHR
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 28, at the Ohde Funeral Home in Manning with the Rev. Dennis Johnson, minister of First United Presbyterian Church, officiating. Connie Siepker will be organist and Larry Genzen will sing. Burial will be in the Manning Cemetery. Serving as active casket-bearers will be Frank Handlos, Jerome Kasperbauer, George Schroeder, Ron Vogl, Delton Gruhn, and Tom Irlbeck. Honorary bearers will be Dale Hinz, Virgil Genzen, Eldon Weems, Robert Hinz, Bernard Lengemann, Russell Mohr, Albert Klocke, and Harry K. Gruhn.
Mr. Stuhr is survived by three daughters: Mrs. Eileen Hinz, Lakewood, Colorado; Mrs. Esther Anthony, Woodward; and Jean and her husband Earl Singsank, Manning; seven grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren; and two sisters-in-law, Mrs. Emma Bartels, Manning, and Mrs. Ardena Stuhr, Austin, Minnesota.
He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Gertrude, three brothers: Albert, Emil, and John; a great-grandchild; and three sons-in-law: Emund Hinners, Edward Hinz, and Lyle Anthony.
Mr. Stuhr was born March 20, 1890, near Botna, a son of Theodore W. and Emma (Rothgaard) Stuhr. He attended rural schools near his home.
On February 5, 1913, he was married to Gertrude Bartels. They farmed south of Manning until 1918 when they moved to a farm northeast of Manning where he farmed until retiring in 1971.
The Stuhrs made their home in Manning where she died in 1974. He maintained his own home until suffering a broken hip on April 15, 1982. For the past year he was a resident of the Manning Plaza Nursing Home. He was a member of the Manning Presbyterian Church.