Paternal lineage : MAY³ BARBARA STEIBER (Reinhard²,Frederick¹ Steiber).
Maternal side: MAY³ BARBARA STEIBER ( Caroline² Houge , Julia¹Guri Reierson)
MAY BARBARA (STEIBER) CHILDS (81) died at St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, MO on Mar. 1, 1969. Services were held at the Clearmont United Methodist Church on Mar. 5, 1969 at 2:00 p.m.by Rev. Ralph Rowe, May's son-in-law.
May Barbara, born on May 2, 1887 in Fedora, Miner County, SD, was the second of five children (Philip Reinhard, May Barbara, Grant Franklin, Dewey, Taft ) born to Reinhard Philip Steiber and Caroline Reierson Houge, who homesteaded in Miner County, South Dakota. She was raised in Miner County, and attended Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD where she received her 2 year standard teaching degree in education. She taught at Pearly Mound Country School, Parkston, SD and in Hermosa, SD. Education was very important to her. During the winters in Minnesota she would hook up the horse and buggy and drive her children to school. Her children all attended college, however the two boys, Delbert and Wilbur's, college education was disrupted by being drafted into WWII. Wilbur was in his second year of college at the time of his military duties.
Her maternal grandparents were Julie Reiersdatter Houge and Ole Olsen Houge originally from Norway. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick Steiber(Prussia) and Barbara Nold (Switzerland).
In Mitchell, SD on May 24, 1910 Barbara (23) eloped & married GUY TRUMAN CHILDS (23) b. Nov. 16, 1887 Logan, IA, son of Joseph L. Childs and Blanche "Tina" Clementina Peckenpaugh who also homesteaded in Beaver Township, Miner County, SD. The marriage record had their address at the time in Hermosa, Custer County, SD.
May Barbara and Guy Truman had five children, the first three (Esther, Delbert & Evelyn) were born in Fedora, Miner Co. SD. Wilbur was born in Clayton, WI and Florence was born in Crosby, MN.
Husband, Guy Childs, farmed in Fedora, SD later moving to a farm south of Woodworth, Stutsman Co., ND. After a year, they moved to Crosby, MN where he worked on the Cuyuna Iron Range in the SW part of the Mesabi Iron mining range. Guy worked at several mines in the Crosby, Ironton and Deerwood communities. The family usually lived in a mining company house.
Church was the center of her social life and May Barbara and children attended the Church of God. In 1922 Guy and May Barbara and family moved to Grand Rapids, MN where her husband, Guy Truman Childs worked at the Blandin Paper Company until his retirement in 1952. His specialty was adding the proper amount of dye to the vats of pulp before it was turned into paper. His grandchildren always had plenty of paper to draw or write on.
Husband, Guy T. Childs, died on May 16, 1963 in Grand Rapids, MN of a bowel obstruction. May lived on with her son, Wilbur, in Grand Rapids, MN. Wilbur suffered from severe diabetes and Post Stress Traumatic Disorder (PSTD) after serving in the Pacific & Germany during WWII. Then she moved to Elmo, Missouri to live with her daughter , Esther (Childs) Rowe where her son-in-law Ralph, was a Methodist pastor.
In Aug. 1965 she and her son Wilbur entered the Wallin Nursing Home at Clearmont, MO not far from her oldest daughter, Esther, who lived 5 miles away in Elmo, MO at the time. May Barbara died Mar. 1, 1969 following a hip fracture for 1 &1/2 years, then influenza for 3 weeks and finally pneumonia. Her son, Wilbur Truman Childs (53) lived at the same nursing home where he suffered as a severe diabetic and had to have a leg amputated. Wilber died 20 days later on March 20, 1969 in Clearmont, MO. They were so close, that they had share the same room.
Sources:
Esther May Childs, dau. of May Barbara Steiber
Miner County SD Birth records P-S
1900 US Census, Miner County, South Dakota, Beaver Township.
Newspaper records of death, obituary and Burial
Maternal side: MAY³ BARBARA STEIBER ( Caroline² Houge , Julia¹Guri Reierson)
MAY BARBARA (STEIBER) CHILDS (81) died at St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, MO on Mar. 1, 1969. Services were held at the Clearmont United Methodist Church on Mar. 5, 1969 at 2:00 p.m.by Rev. Ralph Rowe, May's son-in-law.
May Barbara, born on May 2, 1887 in Fedora, Miner County, SD, was the second of five children (Philip Reinhard, May Barbara, Grant Franklin, Dewey, Taft ) born to Reinhard Philip Steiber and Caroline Reierson Houge, who homesteaded in Miner County, South Dakota. She was raised in Miner County, and attended Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD where she received her 2 year standard teaching degree in education. She taught at Pearly Mound Country School, Parkston, SD and in Hermosa, SD. Education was very important to her. During the winters in Minnesota she would hook up the horse and buggy and drive her children to school. Her children all attended college, however the two boys, Delbert and Wilbur's, college education was disrupted by being drafted into WWII. Wilbur was in his second year of college at the time of his military duties.
Her maternal grandparents were Julie Reiersdatter Houge and Ole Olsen Houge originally from Norway. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick Steiber(Prussia) and Barbara Nold (Switzerland).
In Mitchell, SD on May 24, 1910 Barbara (23) eloped & married GUY TRUMAN CHILDS (23) b. Nov. 16, 1887 Logan, IA, son of Joseph L. Childs and Blanche "Tina" Clementina Peckenpaugh who also homesteaded in Beaver Township, Miner County, SD. The marriage record had their address at the time in Hermosa, Custer County, SD.
May Barbara and Guy Truman had five children, the first three (Esther, Delbert & Evelyn) were born in Fedora, Miner Co. SD. Wilbur was born in Clayton, WI and Florence was born in Crosby, MN.
Husband, Guy Childs, farmed in Fedora, SD later moving to a farm south of Woodworth, Stutsman Co., ND. After a year, they moved to Crosby, MN where he worked on the Cuyuna Iron Range in the SW part of the Mesabi Iron mining range. Guy worked at several mines in the Crosby, Ironton and Deerwood communities. The family usually lived in a mining company house.
Church was the center of her social life and May Barbara and children attended the Church of God. In 1922 Guy and May Barbara and family moved to Grand Rapids, MN where her husband, Guy Truman Childs worked at the Blandin Paper Company until his retirement in 1952. His specialty was adding the proper amount of dye to the vats of pulp before it was turned into paper. His grandchildren always had plenty of paper to draw or write on.
Husband, Guy T. Childs, died on May 16, 1963 in Grand Rapids, MN of a bowel obstruction. May lived on with her son, Wilbur, in Grand Rapids, MN. Wilbur suffered from severe diabetes and Post Stress Traumatic Disorder (PSTD) after serving in the Pacific & Germany during WWII. Then she moved to Elmo, Missouri to live with her daughter , Esther (Childs) Rowe where her son-in-law Ralph, was a Methodist pastor.
In Aug. 1965 she and her son Wilbur entered the Wallin Nursing Home at Clearmont, MO not far from her oldest daughter, Esther, who lived 5 miles away in Elmo, MO at the time. May Barbara died Mar. 1, 1969 following a hip fracture for 1 &1/2 years, then influenza for 3 weeks and finally pneumonia. Her son, Wilbur Truman Childs (53) lived at the same nursing home where he suffered as a severe diabetic and had to have a leg amputated. Wilber died 20 days later on March 20, 1969 in Clearmont, MO. They were so close, that they had share the same room.
Sources:
Esther May Childs, dau. of May Barbara Steiber
Miner County SD Birth records P-S
1900 US Census, Miner County, South Dakota, Beaver Township.
Newspaper records of death, obituary and Burial
Paternal lineage : MAY³ BARBARA STEIBER (Reinhard²,Frederick¹ Steiber).
Maternal side: MAY³ BARBARA STEIBER ( Caroline² Houge , Julia¹Guri Reierson)
MAY BARBARA (STEIBER) CHILDS (81) died at St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, MO on Mar. 1, 1969. Services were held at the Clearmont United Methodist Church on Mar. 5, 1969 at 2:00 p.m.by Rev. Ralph Rowe, May's son-in-law.
May Barbara, born on May 2, 1887 in Fedora, Miner County, SD, was the second of five children (Philip Reinhard, May Barbara, Grant Franklin, Dewey, Taft ) born to Reinhard Philip Steiber and Caroline Reierson Houge, who homesteaded in Miner County, South Dakota. She was raised in Miner County, and attended Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD where she received her 2 year standard teaching degree in education. She taught at Pearly Mound Country School, Parkston, SD and in Hermosa, SD. Education was very important to her. During the winters in Minnesota she would hook up the horse and buggy and drive her children to school. Her children all attended college, however the two boys, Delbert and Wilbur's, college education was disrupted by being drafted into WWII. Wilbur was in his second year of college at the time of his military duties.
Her maternal grandparents were Julie Reiersdatter Houge and Ole Olsen Houge originally from Norway. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick Steiber(Prussia) and Barbara Nold (Switzerland).
In Mitchell, SD on May 24, 1910 Barbara (23) eloped & married GUY TRUMAN CHILDS (23) b. Nov. 16, 1887 Logan, IA, son of Joseph L. Childs and Blanche "Tina" Clementina Peckenpaugh who also homesteaded in Beaver Township, Miner County, SD. The marriage record had their address at the time in Hermosa, Custer County, SD.
May Barbara and Guy Truman had five children, the first three (Esther, Delbert & Evelyn) were born in Fedora, Miner Co. SD. Wilbur was born in Clayton, WI and Florence was born in Crosby, MN.
Husband, Guy Childs, farmed in Fedora, SD later moving to a farm south of Woodworth, Stutsman Co., ND. After a year, they moved to Crosby, MN where he worked on the Cuyuna Iron Range in the SW part of the Mesabi Iron mining range. Guy worked at several mines in the Crosby, Ironton and Deerwood communities. The family usually lived in a mining company house.
Church was the center of her social life and May Barbara and children attended the Church of God. In 1922 Guy and May Barbara and family moved to Grand Rapids, MN where her husband, Guy Truman Childs worked at the Blandin Paper Company until his retirement in 1952. His specialty was adding the proper amount of dye to the vats of pulp before it was turned into paper. His grandchildren always had plenty of paper to draw or write on.
Husband, Guy T. Childs, died on May 16, 1963 in Grand Rapids, MN of a bowel obstruction. May lived on with her son, Wilbur, in Grand Rapids, MN. Wilbur suffered from severe diabetes and Post Stress Traumatic Disorder (PSTD) after serving in the Pacific & Germany during WWII. Then she moved to Elmo, Missouri to live with her daughter , Esther (Childs) Rowe where her son-in-law Ralph, was a Methodist pastor.
In Aug. 1965 she and her son Wilbur entered the Wallin Nursing Home at Clearmont, MO not far from her oldest daughter, Esther, who lived 5 miles away in Elmo, MO at the time. May Barbara died Mar. 1, 1969 following a hip fracture for 1 &1/2 years, then influenza for 3 weeks and finally pneumonia. Her son, Wilbur Truman Childs (53) lived at the same nursing home where he suffered as a severe diabetic and had to have a leg amputated. Wilber died 20 days later on March 20, 1969 in Clearmont, MO. They were so close, that they had share the same room.
Sources:
Esther May Childs, dau. of May Barbara Steiber
Miner County SD Birth records P-S
1900 US Census, Miner County, South Dakota, Beaver Township.
Newspaper records of death, obituary and Burial
Maternal side: MAY³ BARBARA STEIBER ( Caroline² Houge , Julia¹Guri Reierson)
MAY BARBARA (STEIBER) CHILDS (81) died at St. Francis Hospital in Maryville, MO on Mar. 1, 1969. Services were held at the Clearmont United Methodist Church on Mar. 5, 1969 at 2:00 p.m.by Rev. Ralph Rowe, May's son-in-law.
May Barbara, born on May 2, 1887 in Fedora, Miner County, SD, was the second of five children (Philip Reinhard, May Barbara, Grant Franklin, Dewey, Taft ) born to Reinhard Philip Steiber and Caroline Reierson Houge, who homesteaded in Miner County, South Dakota. She was raised in Miner County, and attended Dakota Wesleyan University in Mitchell, SD where she received her 2 year standard teaching degree in education. She taught at Pearly Mound Country School, Parkston, SD and in Hermosa, SD. Education was very important to her. During the winters in Minnesota she would hook up the horse and buggy and drive her children to school. Her children all attended college, however the two boys, Delbert and Wilbur's, college education was disrupted by being drafted into WWII. Wilbur was in his second year of college at the time of his military duties.
Her maternal grandparents were Julie Reiersdatter Houge and Ole Olsen Houge originally from Norway. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick Steiber(Prussia) and Barbara Nold (Switzerland).
In Mitchell, SD on May 24, 1910 Barbara (23) eloped & married GUY TRUMAN CHILDS (23) b. Nov. 16, 1887 Logan, IA, son of Joseph L. Childs and Blanche "Tina" Clementina Peckenpaugh who also homesteaded in Beaver Township, Miner County, SD. The marriage record had their address at the time in Hermosa, Custer County, SD.
May Barbara and Guy Truman had five children, the first three (Esther, Delbert & Evelyn) were born in Fedora, Miner Co. SD. Wilbur was born in Clayton, WI and Florence was born in Crosby, MN.
Husband, Guy Childs, farmed in Fedora, SD later moving to a farm south of Woodworth, Stutsman Co., ND. After a year, they moved to Crosby, MN where he worked on the Cuyuna Iron Range in the SW part of the Mesabi Iron mining range. Guy worked at several mines in the Crosby, Ironton and Deerwood communities. The family usually lived in a mining company house.
Church was the center of her social life and May Barbara and children attended the Church of God. In 1922 Guy and May Barbara and family moved to Grand Rapids, MN where her husband, Guy Truman Childs worked at the Blandin Paper Company until his retirement in 1952. His specialty was adding the proper amount of dye to the vats of pulp before it was turned into paper. His grandchildren always had plenty of paper to draw or write on.
Husband, Guy T. Childs, died on May 16, 1963 in Grand Rapids, MN of a bowel obstruction. May lived on with her son, Wilbur, in Grand Rapids, MN. Wilbur suffered from severe diabetes and Post Stress Traumatic Disorder (PSTD) after serving in the Pacific & Germany during WWII. Then she moved to Elmo, Missouri to live with her daughter , Esther (Childs) Rowe where her son-in-law Ralph, was a Methodist pastor.
In Aug. 1965 she and her son Wilbur entered the Wallin Nursing Home at Clearmont, MO not far from her oldest daughter, Esther, who lived 5 miles away in Elmo, MO at the time. May Barbara died Mar. 1, 1969 following a hip fracture for 1 &1/2 years, then influenza for 3 weeks and finally pneumonia. Her son, Wilbur Truman Childs (53) lived at the same nursing home where he suffered as a severe diabetic and had to have a leg amputated. Wilber died 20 days later on March 20, 1969 in Clearmont, MO. They were so close, that they had share the same room.
Sources:
Esther May Childs, dau. of May Barbara Steiber
Miner County SD Birth records P-S
1900 US Census, Miner County, South Dakota, Beaver Township.
Newspaper records of death, obituary and Burial
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