Preserving Our Past, Ensuring Our Future 1872-1997
Westphalia, Iowa

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		PAGE(S)
	Full Page Vintage Photo of Church	I
	Foreward	II
	Acknowledgment	III
	Letter-Diocese of DSM To the Parishioners St. Boniface Parish, Westphalia	IV
	Letter-Fr. Tom Crowley To Friends of St. Boniface	V
	Letter-Fr. School Sisters of St. Francis To the Parishioners of St. Boniface Parish	VI
	Table of Contents	VII
	Notes & Memories (Lined blank page)	VIII
1.	The Early History of Westphalia	1-20
2.	The Early History of St. Boniface Church	21-40
3.	The Early Town of Westphalia	43-58
4.	Education	59-90
5.	Religious Service	91-120
6.	The Golden Jubilee of 1922	121-128
7.	The Era of Rev. Hubert E. Duren	129-138
8.	Woodcutting	139-146
9.	Community Businesses Over the Years	147-156
10.	Sports	157-170
11.	Music and Entertainment	171-180
12.	Community and Church Organizations	181-192
13.	The Changing Faces of St. Boniface Church	193-202
14.	St. Boniface Cemetery	203-232
15.	Other Buildings and Edifaces	233-236
16.	Celebrations Over the Years	237-248
17.	Agriculture	249-256
18.	Family Histories	257-350
19.	Potpourri	351-360
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Index of Family Histories
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SURNAME	GIVEN NAME(S)	PAGE	ADDT'L NOTATIONS**
Anastasi,	Earl and Lily Willemyns	259
Anastasi,	Louis and Elizabeth Rueschenberg	259
Arkfeld,	Brian and Mary Schechinger	259
Block,	Sister Brendan, SSSF	259-260
Blum,	Albert and Mildred Kloewer	260
(Blum) Wingert,	Alfred and Antilia	260
(Blum) Clemen,	Peter and Barbara	260
(Blum) Malik,	Barbara	260
Blum,	Benedict & Family	261
Blum,	Bernard and Katrina Kaufman	261
Blum,	Bernard and Regina Menz	261
Blum,	Bernard and Thresia Schechinger	262
(Blum) Reding,	Michael and Catherine	262
Blum,	Eugene and Jacqueline Ring	262
Blum,	Herbert and Marie	262
Blum,	John and Gertrude	262
Blum,	Joseph and Gertrude Puettgen	262-263
Blum,	Joseph and Katrina Kaufman	263
Blum,	Joseph and Magdelina Leenan	263
Blum,	Les and Janet Funk	263
(Blum) Halferty,	Robert and Margaret	263
Blum,	Marie	263
Blum,	Martin and Henrietta Grass	263
(Blum) Newland,	Lanny and Monica	263
Blum,	Peter and Dora Blum	264
Blum,	Peter and Margarita Wick	264
Blum,	Robert and Velma Grabner	264
(Blum) May,	Nicholas and Shiela	264
Blum,	Vincent and Mary Ann Springman	265
Blum,	William and Laurina Britten	265
Bock,	Florenz and Olga Kronfuse	265
Bock,	John Peter and Helena Stracke	265
Brayman,	Larry and Betty McCann	265
Brinker,	Clarence and Karen Schwarte	265-266
Brinker,	Ed and Cleta Hodapp	266
Brinker,	Ed and Mary Bock	266
Brinker,	Ken and Linda Huebner	266
Bruck,	Delbert and Yvonne Book	266
Bruck,	William and Clara Windeshausen	266
Buch,	Peter Paul and Mary Leuck	267
Cairney,	Tony and Bonnie Schechinger	267
Coenen,	Clarence and Rose Marie Beran	267
Coenen,	Clement and Angela Maiwald	267
Coenen,	Dean and Nancy Lapke	267-268
Coenen,	Godfrey and Agnes Michalski	268
Coenen,	Henry and Agnes Stoll	268
Coenen,	John and Clara Treiweiler	268
Coenen,	Kenneth and Verena Wilwerding	268
Coenen,	Martin and Regina Zimmerman	269
Coenen,	Michael and Laura Calufetti	269
Coenen,	Norman and Dee Lagenfeld	269
Coenen,	Ray and Irene Musich	269-270
Coenen,	Raymond and Patricia Renze	270
(Coenen) Corrigan,	Timothy and Theresa	270
Coenen,	Virgil and Mary Ann Schmitz	270
Coenen,	Wilfred and Margaret Schwery	270
Engel,	Albert and Mary Schmitz	271
(Engel) Domino,	Mathew and Barbara	271
Engel,	John and Kunigunda Duesel	271
(Engel) Mathis,	Michael and Karen	271
Engel,	Keith and Ann Southwick	272
Engel,	Lawrence and Zita Schwery	272
Finken,	Mathias and Anna Gans	272
Finken,	Michael and Susan Koll	273
Gau,	Jerome and Vera Geldis	273
(Gau) Clark,	Monica	273
Gessert,	Ralph and Mickie Kimball	273
Goeser,	Bruce and Julie Heese	273
Goeser,	Catherine (Katie)	273-274
(Goeser) McLaughlin,	Richard and Colleen	274
(Goeser) Kenkel,	Clarence and Della	274
Goeser,	Edmund and Sylvia Gubbels	274-275
(Goeser) Schmidt,	Gene and Elizabeth (Betty)	275
Goeser,	Godfrey and Loretta Herrig	275
Goeser,	Jacob and Magdalena Kenkel	275
Goeser,	John and Cecilia Kenkel	276
(Goeser) O'Tool,	Joseph and Jolene	276
Goeser,	Joseph and Olga Zimmerman	276-277
(Goeser) Keitel,	Steven and Mary Lou	277
Goeser,	Stephan and Catherine Kurt	277
Goetz,	Anthony Sr. and Norma Weis	277
Goetz,	Anthony, Jr.	277
(Goetz) Graeve,	Craig and Lori	278
Goetz,	Mark	278
Goetz,	Mike and Elaine Weihs	278
(Goetz) Doran,	Richard and Rita	278
Goetzinger,	Charles and Jane Goeser	278-279
Goetzinger,	Edward and Agnes Wageman	279
Goetzinger,	Larry and Julie Weihs	279
Goetzinger,	William	279
Gross,	Alban and Lavina Kaufman	279
Gross,	Andreas, Sr., Lineage	279-280	Note pg. 260 re: Adam Gross & sons
Gross,	Dale and Anna Mae Goetzinger	280
Gross,	Emil and Aquinata Kaufman	280-281
Gross,	Jerry and Sue Gaul	281
Gross,	Joseph and Mary Engel	281-282
Gross,	Leonard and Marie Kaufman	282
Gross,	Marcus and Naomi Schmitz	282
Grote,	William and Jane Leuschen	283
Gubbels,	Alvin and Mabel Weihs	283
Gubbels,	Ambrose and Rita Goeser	283
Gubbels,	Brian and Pam Heese	283
Gubbels,	Gary and Carmen Heese	283
Gubbels,	Harry and Lorena Mickels	284
(Gubbels) Schafer,	William and Kathleen	284
(Gubbels) Koesters,	Francis and Mary Ann	284
Gubbels,	Nicholas Sr. and Anna Weihs	284-285
Gubbels,	Nicholas Jr. and Marjorie Fahn	285
Gubbels,	Peter and Catherine Stinn	285
Gubbels,	Peter Hubert and Clara Bock	285-286
(Gubbels) Brincks,	John and Theresa	286
Hastert,	Jacob and Agnes Freund	286
Hastert,	Richard and Deborah Musich	286-287
Hastert,	William and June Schafer	287
(Henscheid) Smith,	William and Iona	287
Henscheid,	Jeron	287
Henscheid,	Joseph and Marie Mueller	287	Note pg. 286, re: Marie's uncle Frank Hesse; pg. 289 re: Joseph's parents; pg. 293 re: wedding
Henscheid,	Joseph	289
(Henscheid) Anderson,	Tom and Mary	287
Henscheid,	Urban and Therese Lickteig	287-288
Henscheid,	Virgil and Theresa Wageman	288
Hermeling,	Anton and Margaret Murray	288
Hermeling,	James and Mary Heller	288
Hodapp,	Alice Marie	289
Hodapp,	David and Ann Schwery	289
Hodapp,	Sr. Lee Agnes, SSSF	289
Hodapp,	Leo and Agnes Leinen	289
Hodapp,	Sr. Marie, SSSF	289-290
(Hodapp) Crushshon,	Joseph and Mary	290
Hodapp,	Phil and Nancy Bye	290
Hodapp,	Ralph and Geraldine Potteiger	290
Hodapp,	Richard	290
(Hodapp) Mueller,	William and Rita	290-291
Hodapp,	Robert and Arlene Schmitz	291
(Hodapp) Binnebose,	Marlin and Ruth	291
Kaufman,	August and Mary Schneider	291-292
Kaufmann,	August II	292
Kaufman,	Frederick & Family	292
Kaufman,	Gwendolyn A.	292-293
Kaufman,	Henry and Cecilia Mueller	293
Kaufman,	Jerome and Dolores Blum	293
Kaufman,	Marcus and Linda Majerus	293
Kaufman,	Robert and Mary Beth Vittetoe	294
Kaufman,	Tony and Rosalia Fuhs	294
Kaufmann,	George and Marie Stein	294
(Kaufmann) Hahn,	David and Irene	294
Kaufmann,	Lawrence and Leona Schomer	295
Kaufmann,	Leland and Lorene Wolverton	295
Kaufmann,	Martin and Anna Greiner	295
Kaufmann,	Peter and Frances Schechinger	295-296
Kepford,	Donovan and Stella Anastasi	296
Klein,	Delbert and Leona Kloewer	296
Kloewer,	Anton and Maria Catharina Teipel	296
Kloewer,	Duane and Linda Ellis	296
Kloewer,	Pfc. Eugene John	296-297
Kloewer,	Sr. Frances (Fran), SSSF	297
Kloewer,	Frank and Anna Rau	297
Kloewer,	John and Veronica Guderjahn	297-298
(Kloewer) Grote,	Raphael and Margaret	298
(Kloewer) Eggerling,	Marlene	298
Kloewer,	Norbert and Patricia Cunningham	298
Kloewer,	Richard and Alice Sonderman	298
Kloewer,	Tony and Elizabeth Bock	298-299
Kuhl,	Joseph and Anna Marie Finken	299
Kuhl,	Nicholas and Amelia Schoenen	299-300
(Langenfeld) Pitts,	Carl and Cleta	300
Langenfeld,	George and Anna Schmitz	300
Langenfeld,	Gregory and Theresa Gilles	300
(Langenfeld)(Feser) Siemer,	Ben and Helen	301
Langenfeld,	Leo and Helen Wordekemper	301
Langenfeld,	Linus and Josephine Domino	301
Langenfeld,	Ray and Marie Musich	302
(Leuschen) Nielsen,	Ken and Amy	302
Leuschen,	Joseph and Irene Schneider	302
(Leuschen) Friedrichsen,	Don and Ruth	302
Leuschen,	William and Mildred Schwery	302
Lickteig,	Cletus and Virginia Gubbels	302
Lickteig,	Edward and Catherine Hoffmann	303
Lickteig,	Michael and Kathy Namanny	303
Lickteig,	Ralph and Nancy Scott	303
Lickteig,	Raymond and Mary Schechinger	303
(Lickteig) Pauley,	Ervin and Thelma	303
Loehr,	Frederick and Anna Marie Langenfeld	303-304
Loehr,	Jacob and Josephine Petsche	304
Mueller,	Alfons	304
Mueller,	Anton and Anna Anastasi	304
Mueller,	Frank and Katrina Kloewer	304
Mueller,	Hilda	305
(Mueller) Koesters,	Louis and Josephine Mueller	305
Musich,	Dennis and Cheryl Goetzinger	305
Musich,	Lavern and Helen Weihs	305
(Mueller) Miller,	Gene and Gladys	306
Musich,	Marvin and Phyllis Sorensen	306	Note bottom of pg. 294
Musich,	Phillip and Lora Cercavski	306
Musich,	Raymond and Viola Weihs	306
Musich,	Thomas and Kathleen	306
Paollazzi,	Ferdinand and Catherine Alex	306
Paollazzi,	Mary	307
(Patten) Michalski,	Gladys	307
(Patten) Michalski,	Alvin and Rosemary	307
Petsche,	John Sr. and Elizabeth Jacoby	307	Note bottom of pg. 340
Petsche,	Josef and Josephine Fiefold	307
Petsche,	Lawrence and Helen Musich	308
Petsche,	Michael Sr. and Mary Appel	308
Posch,	Leopold and Anna Tepich	308
(Rau) Kramer,	Jerry and Alma	308
Rau,	Anton and Maria Eberhard	308
Rau,	Frand and Elizabeth Zimmerman	309
Rau,	Michael and Mary Lackman	309
Rauterkus,	Leonard and Bernice Blum	309
Rauterkus,	Walter and Marilyn Coenen	310
(Reid) Whannell,	Donald and Yvonne	310
Rosmann,	(Family) Lineage	310
Rosmann,	George Sr. and Anna Ertmer	310
Rosmann,	John Sr. Lineage	310
Rosmann,	John Jr. and Elizabeth Miller	311
Rosmann,	Joseph and Rose Hodapp	311
Rosmann,	Leonard and Agnes Wingert	311
(Rosmann) Brown,	Roger and Mary Agnes	311
Rosmann,	Michael and Marilyn Sanada	311-312
Rosmann,	Raymond and Ellen Mertens	312
Rosmann,	Ronald and Maria Vakulskas	312
Rueschenberg,	Delbert and Anna Hastert	313
Rueschenberg,	Frank and Tami Musich	313
Rueschenberg,	Harold and Bernice Kloewer	313
Rueschenberg,	Joseph and Josephine Sasse	313
Rueschenberg,	Robert	314
(Rueschenberg) Stessmann,	Charles and Viola	314
Sasse,	Antonia	314
Schaben,	Jeffrey and Joy Schafer	314
Schaben,	Ray and Frances Haran	314=315
Schechinger,	Elmer and Margaret Stessman	315
(Schechinger) Ragsdale,	Michael and Jane	315
Schechinger,	Jim and Kay Stangl	315-316	Note bottom of pg. 339
(Schechinger) Ulmer,	Stanley and Joyce	316
Schechinger,	Martin Sr. and Katherine	316
Schechinger,	Martin Jr. and Anna Buch	316
Schechinger,	Melvin and Rita Langenfeld	317
Schechinger,	Mike and Karen Riesenberg	317
Schechinger,	Ray and Ann Reischl	317
Schechinger,	Ronald and Konnie Foutch	317
Schechinger,	Valentine Jr. and Korothy Matthiessen	318
Schechinger,	William and Kathryn Henderson	318
Schiltz,	John and Mary Mert	318
Schiltz,	Michael and Caroline Schechinger	318
Schmieding,	Peter and Anna Wirtz	319
Schmitz,	Adam and Mariana Zimmerman	319
Schmitz,	Adolph and Theresa Muschitz	319
(Schmitz) Kwapiszeski,	Edward and Alice	319-320
Schmitz,	Alvin and Mathilda (Til) Mumm	320
Schmitz,	Anthony and Alice Nix	320
Schmitz,	Anthony and Katie Loehr	320
(Schmitz) Conkel,	Paul and Bernadette	320-321
Schmitz,	Sr. Bernice, SSSF	321
(Schmitz) Obrecht,	Jerald and Delores	321
(Schmitz) Schrader,	John and Eileen	321
Schmitz,	Eldred	321-322
Schmitz,	Emil and Mary Von Tersch	322
Schmitz,	Gary and Jeanie Schaben	322
Schmitz,	James	322
Schmitz,	John Jacob and Millie Tow	323
Schmitz,	Joseph and Anna Reinig	323
(Schmitz) Nichols,	Kenneth and Josephine	323
Schmitz,	LaVern and Mary Ellen Henkelman	323
Schmitz,	Leland and Mary Weihs	323-324
Schmitz,	Lenny and Doris Schmitz	324
Schmitz,	Leonard and Eileen Coenen	324
Schmitz,	Lester and Rita Smith	324
Schmitz,	Sr. Lorraine, SSSF	324
(Schmitz) Hull,	Luella	324
Schmitz,	Lynn and Mary Jo Hoffman	324-325	Note bottom of pg.313
(Schmitz) Bissen,	Francis and Marceline	325
(Schmitz) Loebig,	Winifred Jr. and Margaret	325
Schmitz,	Mark and Nancy Christiansen	325
(Schmitz) Shaver,	Neil and Maxine	325
Schmitz,	Nicholas and Marcella Pauley	325-326
Schmitz,	Norman and Gloria Coenen	326
Schmitz,	Roger and Julia(Judy) Sallaz	326
Schmitz,	Romand and Ella Mae Schomers	326
Schmitz,	Ronald and Pamela Hupp	336
(Schmitz) Book,	Ray and Sidonia	327
Schmitz,	Steve and Paula Stephany	327
(Schmitz) Goetz,	Gerald and Theresa	327
Schmitz,	Valerian and Victoria Coenen	327
(Schmitz) Arkfeld,	Bruce and Velma	327
Schmitz,	The Family of Verner	328
Schmitz,	Virgil and Mary Miick	328
Schmitz,	William and Josepha Kirckhoff	328
Schmitz,	Zeno	328
Schneider,	Allen and Susan Schachterle	328
Schneider,	Dean and Shari Goetz	328-329
Schneider,	Elmer and Edith Finken	329
Schneider,	George II and Frances Stolz	329
(Schneider) Foxhoven,	Kenneth and Jane	329
Schneider,	Michael and Catherine Blum	329
(Schneider) Bruck,	Mildred	329
Schneider,	Urban and Joan Loehr	329-330
Schneider,	Walter Doris Finken	330
Schomer,	Jacob and Mary Petsche	330
Schomer,	J. Peter and Helena Willems	330
Schomer,	Joseph and Bernice Buman	331
Schomer,	Nicholas and Ellen Graf	331
Schomers,	Alfouse and Alice Schechinger	331
Schomers,	Cyril and Verena Henscheid	331-332
Schomers,	David and Rose Graeve	332
Schomers,	Matta and Margaret Heese	332
Schomers,	Michael and Mary Finken	332
(Schulte) Chamberlain,	John and Connie	332
Schulte,	Gary and Joann Muell	333
Schulte,	Harold and Pearl Sonderman	333	Note bottom of pg. 314
(Schulte) Evans,	Dennis and Maria (Mary Agnes)	333
Schulte,	Michael and Laura Shestak	333
Schulte,	Terry and LaVonne Heller	333-334
Schulte,	William and Josephine Rosenthal	334
(Schwarte) Esser,	Ivo and Caroline	334
Schwarte,	Herman and Magdalena Nolles	334
(Schwarte) Eipperle,	Gerald and Margaret	334
Schwarte,	Martin and Catherine Kaufman	335
(Schwarte) Booth,	Randall and Mary Lea	335
Schwarte,	Randall and Mona Koester	335
Schwarte,	William and Mary Ann Schiltz	335
Schwery,	Allen and Shirley Scott	336
(Schwery) Pauley,	Michael and Arlene	336
Schwery,	Arthur and Hilda Brinker	336
Schwery,	Daniel and Beverly Miller	336
Schwery,	Elmer and Arlene Schechinger	336-337
Schwery,	Harold and Alice Koesters	337
Schwery,	Harold Dean and Joni Obrecht	337
Schwery,	Kelly and Sandi Stephany	337
Schwery,	LeRoy and Barbara Halliday	337
(Schwery) Blum,	Paul and Marietta	337-338
(Schwery) Inskeep,	Verdella	338
Stephany,	Ed and Mary Musich	338
Stephany,	Laura	338
Stolz,	Family	338
Stracke,	Bernard and Barbara Shields	339
(Stracke) Ausman,	Lee and Bernadine	339
Stracke,	Henry and Mary Coenen	339
Stracke,	Leonard and Bernice Coenen	340
(Stracke) Nufrio,	Rocco and Marie	340
Stracke,	Roger and Mary Killeen	340
Thraen,	Anton and Mary McCabe	340
Wachendorf,	Godfred and Mary Kenkel	341
Wageman,	Anthony and Rita Gubbels	341
Wageman,	Charles and Barbara Schechinger	341
Wageman,	Francis and Esther Blum	342
(Wageman)(Broberg) Hansen,	Janelle	342
Wageman,	John and Margaret Schomers	342
(Wageman) Trueman,	Harold and Shirley	342
Wageman,	Tim and Jennie Kitchens	342
Wehr,	Joe and Agnes Schechinger	342-343
Wehr,	Joe E. and Geannie Johnson	343
Weihs,	Clarence and Cecilia Wageman	343
Weihs,	Francis	343
(Weihs) Wolken,	Nicolas and Hildaan	343
Weihs,	Kenneth and Barbara Pirtle	343
Weis,	S. H. "Bud" and Mary Ann Pauley	343-344
Windeshausen,	John and Theresia Wark	344
(Wendt) Jensen,	Neil and Bette	344
Wendt,	Charles and Lucille Pauley	344
Wendt,	Charles Jr., and Sheryl Hancock	345
Wilwerding,	Ivo and Darlene Coenen	345
Wilwerding,	Jerold and Margaret Domino	345
Wilwerding,	Peter and Clara Wirtz	345
(Zimmerman) Gaul,	John and Anna	346
Zimmerman,	Rev. Anthony, S. V. D.	346
Zimmerman,	Ben & Family	346
Zimmerman,	Bernard and Valerie Gaul	346-347
Zimmerman,	Cletus and Anita Hodapp	347
Zimmerman,	Emil Sr. and Bertha Heese	347
Zimmerman,	Emil Jr. and Josephine Posch	347
Zimmerman,	Frank and Theresa Schiltz	347
Zimmerman,	Sister Irene, SSSF	348
Zimmerman,	Sr. Jodelle, O.S.B.	348
Zimmerman,	Johann and Mariana Schnuettgen	348
Zimmerman,	John and Bonnie Hollander	348
Zimmerman,	Leander and Mary Jean Schechinger	348
Zimmerman,	Maribeth	348-349
Zimmerman,	Martin and Rose Schmitz	349
Zimmerman,	Paul and Arlene Stava	349
Zimmerman,	Philip and Sharyn Hobus	349
Zimmerman,	Rae	349
(Zimmerman) Macauley,	Wilfred and Rita	349
Zimmerman,	Ronald and Marilyn Goetzinger	349
**A few pages within the Family Biographies section have small "filler" items inserted at the bottom of pages which contain additional info about individuals whose bio is included elsewhere within the Family Biographies section.

Indexed by Cheryl Siebrass, September, 2022.