This is a Message Board Post. Reply to the message or author by clicking on the link below. *************************************************************************** MESSAGE: (#140434) Erwin Gerhard August Rober 1904 - 1987 <http://iagenweb.org/boards/allamakee/obituaries/index.cgi?rev=140434> AUTHOR: Errin Wilker DATE: 1/9/2007 at 17:03:28 Surnames: ROBER,ROEBER,MEINERS,FRUECHTE Erwin A. Rober, 82, of rural Dorchester, died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 1987, in Veterans Memorial Hospital, Wau­kon. He was born Oct. 7, 1904, in Alla­makee County, Iowa, to Henry H. and Caroline (Meiners) Rober. He married Lulu Fruechte on Sept. 4, 1930. Rober was a lifelong resident of the Eitzen-Dorchester area and graduated from Waukon High School and Waukon Junior College. He farmed in the Eitzen-Dorches­ter area and operated a machine shop in the 1960s. He was a member of St. Luke's United Church of Christ, Eitzen, where he had been the organist and Sunday school teacher. Survivors are his wife; two sons, Norlin of Marshalltown, Iowa, and Ronald of Dorchester; six grand­children; and a great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by a sister and his stepmother, Minnie (Meiners) Rober. Services will be at 2 p.m. Satur­day in St. Luke's United Church of Christ. The Rev. Lloyd Fried will officiate. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Friends may call at the Haugen­-Roble Funeral Home, Caledonia, Friday from 2 to 9 p.m. and at the church Saturday from 1 to 2 p.m. Source: Newspaper Clipping