This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Welzel, Staadt Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tk.2ADE/2338 Message Board Post: Funeral services for Catherine Staadt, 76, were held Friday, Nov. 23, 1984 at 1:30 p.m. at the Schutte Funeral Home in Postville. The Rev. Dick F. Harberts and the Rev. Dennis E. Morey officiated. Burial was in the Postville Cemetery. Catherine A. Staadt, daughter of Godfrey and Anna (Welzel) Staadt, was born July 2, 1908 at Postville. She died Nov. 20 after being hit by a vehicle on a street in Postville. Catherine graduated from the Postville High School, Kansas State Teachers College at Emporia and attended the University of Minnesota. She was employed for several years as a secretary in the Iowa State Highway Maintenance office in Postville. When her mother became ill, she retired to care for her at home. She was a member of the Community Presbyterian Church, Chapter FT of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, Club of the Hour, the Postville Historical Society and the Postville Public Library board. She was preceded in death by her parents, two brothers, Anthony in 1918, Edward in 1931 and a sister, Pauline in 1961. Surviving are several cousins. Postville Herald newspaper clipping from my mother's obituary collection.