 | | Birth Date: April 10, 1916 | | Death Date: March 9, 2010 | | Grace E. Steiner, 93 of Newton and formerly of Fort Dodge died Tuesday March 9, 2010 at Park Center in Newton.
| | Graveside services will be 1:00 p.m. in the Clinton-Garfield Cemetery, Rolfe on Thursday, March 11th with Rev. John Hembry officiating. There will be no visitation. Laufersweiler-Sievers Funeral Home is serving the family. | | Garfield Cemetery, Rolfe | | There will be no visitation | Grace Estelle McEwen was born April 10, 1916 in Rolfe, Iowa to Joseph and Minne McEwen, the youngest of three daughters. She attended the Rolfe Public schools graduating from High School in 1933. After working in a grocery store for one year she taught in a country school east of Pocahontas for two years. Grace graduated from the University of Iowa School of Nursing in 1939 also being elected to Sigma Theta Tau the Honorary Nursing Sorority. She continued working at the University of Iowa Hospital until September 1940.
In October 1940, she was united in marriage to Delbert M. Steiner and resided in Fort Dodge for one year until the beginning of World War II. When her husband went overseas in 1942, Grace spent the next three and a half years between her parent’s home, caring for her ailing father and working as a nurse at the Lutheran Hospital in Fort Dodge. After the War, the Steiners moved to the Washington D.C area where they lived until 1987, with the exception of three years spent in Canada. At that time they returned to Fort Dodge. In 2001 the couple moved to Newton.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Delbert; and a sister, Jeanie Gehrt. She leaves behind her daughter, Mary Schnepf of Toledo, IA; a grandson, Michael of McEwen, TN; a sister, Mary Nelson of Rolfe; and nieces and nephews.
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