OBITUARY: Esma Minnie Ida Rosel Hartwig, Mitchell County, Iowa


[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted 12/19/2001]


                            Esma M. Hartwig

Funeral services  were held Wednesday, December 19, 2001, 1:30 p.m. at St.
John's Lutheran Church, Rock Township, for Esma M. Hartwig, age 90, of  St.
Ansgar.  Rev. Rose Marie Nack officiated and burial was in the St. John's
Cemetery, Rock Township. Esma died Dec. 15, 2001 at Good Samaritan Center,
St. Ansgar. Schroeder and Sites Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Esma Minnie Ida Rosel Hartwig was born Dec. 30, 1910 in Rock Township,
Mitchell County, to George and Anna (Runge) Rosel, Sr. She was baptized on
Feb. 12, 1911 at St. John's Lutheran Church in Rock Township. She was
confirmed on Mar. 28, 1926 at Immanuel Lutheran Church, St. Ansgar, IA by
Rev. Paul Brammer. She received her education through the 10th  grade at
the St. Ansgar Public schools.

Esma Rosel and Paul Hartwig were married on Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 26, 1931
at Immanuel Lutheran Church in St. Ansgar. They were blessed with a
daughter, Karen June. The couple lived on the Hartwig home farm in Newburg
Township until Nov. 1975, when they retired from farming and moved to St.
Ansgar.

Esma belonged to several community and church organizations and particularly
enjoyed her Federated Women’s Club, the St. Ansgar Garden Club, and WELCA
at St. John's Church. She loved her garden, with all it's roses and was an
avid stitcher. Esma's beautiful singing will be remembered by many. As a
couple, Paul and Esma rarely missed sports or music activities through their
grandson’s school years.

Preceding her in death was her husband, Paul on Jan. 3, 1997, her parents,
George and Anna Rosel, Sr. and two sisters, SaVera Rosenberg and Norma
Gerlach and a brother in infancy.

Those that survive her include her daughter Karen and her husband Frederick
Steinberg; her grandson Brian and wife Tori; and three great-grandchildren,
Gregory Paul, Kayley Sue and Riley Dean, and grandson Bruce all of
St. Ansgar; three sisters, Leola Ruehlew and Doris Erdman of St. Ansgar and
Wilma Kroneman and husband Lloyd of Grafton; and two brothers, Lawrence
Rosel and wife Norma of Osage and George Rosel Jr. and wife, Marla of
Bertram, IA; nieces and nephews; and a host of friends. Blessed be her
memory.



Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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