Eva Wiedemeyer, age 101 of Carroll, died Tuesday, November 8, 2016 at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll.
Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, November 12, 2016 at St. Lawrence Catholic Church in Carroll. The Celebrant will be Fr. Craig Collison. Con-Celebrant will be Fr. Timothy Schott. Deacon Frank Hilt will assist with the mass. Music will be by Kate Cuddy and the St. Lawrence Choir. Lector for the funeral mass will be Lynn Stork. Eucharistic Minister will be Mike McCaffrey. Casket Bearers will be: Gary Borkowski, Hubert Hagemann, Mike McCaffrey, Lynn Stork, Lyle Stork, and Wayne Pudenz. Following the funeral mass a luncheon will be held in the St. Lawrence Parish Collison Hall. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Mt. Olivet Cemetery in Carroll.
Friends may call at the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll after 5 p.m. on Friday where there will be a Christian Wake Service at 7 p.m. The casket will be moved to St. Lawrence Church on Saturday morning where visitation will resume at 10 a.m. until time of the funeral mass.
Memorials may be left at the funeral home or the church for Fr. Kuemper Tuition Assistance Fund or the Carroll County Historical Society.
Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll and online condolences may be left for Eva’s family at www.sharpfuneral.com.
Eva was born July 26, 1915, the daughter of Garfield A. and Emma (Wenck) Steigerwalt on a farm north and east of Glidden. She attended rural Dickson School until March of 1925 when she entered Glidden Consolidated School. She graduated in 1930. After graduation she worked at various places and worked five summers at the Green Gable Tourist camp on the east edge of Glidden.
She married William I. Wiedemeyer in 1941 at St. Lawrence Church in Carroll with Fr. Arthur Poekes officiating. She lived the rest of her life at 1015 North Adams St. in Carroll.
After her husband’s death in 1962 she did a lot of traveling, including 9 World Fairs. She was an avid bird watcher and monitored an Eastern Bluebird nesting box trail in the eastern part of Carroll County for many years. She was a flower lover and entered flowers, food and vegetables many years at the Carroll County Fair in Coon Rapids, and also the Apple Pie contest where she received many first place prizes.
She was a member of St. Lawrence Church, Parish Ladies Guild, a Life Member of the Iowa Ornithologist Union, Life Member of the Friends of the Library, and a Life and Pioneer Member of the Carroll County Historical Society. She was also a member of the Carroll Area Serra Club, Carroll County Genealogical Society, Carroll Areas Iowans for Life, Lincoln Highway Association, and a member of the Carroll County Republican Women. In 1999, Eva was one of the honorees at the State Republican Women’s Conference in Des Moines when Laura Bush spoke prior to becoming First Lady. She enjoyed bird watching, gardening, baking cookies, and the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Team.
Survivors include two sons: William J. Wiedemeyer and his wife Susan of Carroll, and Robert Wiedemeyer of Lincoln, NE; two grandsons: William K. Wiedemeyer of Corpus Christi, TX and Jonathan Wiedemeyer of Seward, NE.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; two brothers: George and Wilbur Steigerwalt; and three sisters: Marian Dickson, Ruth Mullins, and Myrtle Lappe.
