Jackson County IA Archives Obituaries.....Tietjen, Harold December 21, 1932
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Bellevue Leader, Jan. 19, 1933
Bellevue Leader, January 19, 1933

Recover Body of Harold Tietjen
Bellevue man who disappeared Dec. 21, laid to rest Monday

The continuous searchin of a group of local men headed by Charles Bailey, 
brother-in-law of Harold Tietjen, who has been missing since December 21 
recovered the body of the unfortunate young man from the waters of the 
Mississippi last Friday shortly before noon. Bailey and Andrew Green found the 
body a short distance below the place where the ice had been cut for the 
Bellevue Ice & Coal Co. The open space had been  dragged many times. But 
Bailey and Green did not give up and holes were cut in the ice farther south 
of the opening and thus recovered the body by means of barbed wire, ending the 
suspense and anxiety of relatives and friends.

Sheriff Hoenicke and coroner Jordan of Maquoketa were called and an inquest 
held at the Kempter Undertaking rooms. As there were no marks of violence on 
the body, and $71 in cash and a check from the Milwaukee Road  together with 
his watch and railroad pass were found on the body, the coroner’s jury 
returned a verdict of accidental death.

Harold Tietjen was a son of Henry Tietjen and was born April 7, 1904, north of 
Bellevue. He was educated at the Bellevue public schools and later entered the 
employ of the C. M. St. P & P. railroad as a carpenter on the bridge 
construction crew. He was a likeable young man, industrious and upright and 
his tragic death cast a shadow of gloom over his relatives and friends. He was 
not only well-liked and spoken of here and at home, but also among the 
railroad men and in neighboring towns, where the crew was often stationed. His 
mother preceded him in death and he is survived by his father and his step-
mother, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tietjen, one sister, Mrs. Charles Bailey of 
Bellevue and one brother, Wilbur Tietjen of Alta Vista.

The funeral was held Monday afternoon and services were conducted at the home 
by Rev. Sig H. Sandrock, pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church. Burial was made 
in the Lutheran cemetery and the pallbearers were Ed Meier, Ed Eggers, Arnold 
Lauterborn, Max Meier, Albert Yeager and Ralph Leonard. The beautiful floral 
offerings were carried by Elsie Stuart, Avelda Boetcher, Marjorie Bell 
Guenther and Althea Tietjen.


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