Mildred Marie (Maddocks) Schiermeier (1900-1969)

Source: Joyce (Hansen) George

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MILDRED M. SCHIERMEIER

Mildred Marie Schiermeier was the only daughter of Harry and Kate Tyson Maddocks. She was born Oct. 11, 1900, at Silver City and lived in that vicinity all the days of her early life. She attended as a girl the Pleasant Hill rural school and later went to Tabor College.

She was married June 18, 1924, at the home of the Rev. Van Dyke, who was the Silver City minister at the time, to William Schiermeier. The couple lived the earlier part of their married lives on a farm northeast of Glenwood.

Most of their married lives has been on the farm, or in farm related occupations until they together came to manage the Glenwood golf course several years ago.

She was the victim of a heart attack some four years ago, and had difficulty with it since that time. She died Jan. 2 at her home in Glenwood at the age of 68 years.

She is survived by her husband, William, and by four brothers, Ray of Patola?, Calif., W. H. Maddocks of Syracuse, Neb., Earl Maddocks of Glenwood, and Clarence of Mason City, Iowa.

Services were held at 2 p. m. Saturday from Peterson Mortuary, with the Rev. C. F. Waterman officiating. Mrs. Rex Coaney was soloist and Mrs. Francis Dashner was organist. Flower ladies were Mrs. Glen Howery, Mrs. David Aistrope, Mrs. Carl Buch and Lois Gillard?

Pallbearers were Glen Howery, David Aistrope, Dean Jackson, Carl Buch, Art Thieschafer and Ben Jackson. Burial was in Plumer Settlement cemetery.