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Eleanora Rose Boes (Steinkamp) 1909-1992 The Breda News, September 1992 Eleanora Steinkamp, 83, of Carroll died Saturday, Sept.26, 1992, at St. Anthony Regional Hospital in Carroll. Mass of the Christian burial will be offered at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, at Holy Spirit Church in Carroll with Father Clair Boes as celebrant. Burial will be at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Carroll. A daughter of John and Anna (Geier) Boes, she was born June 1, 1909, in Sac County, Iowa. She attended St. Bernard School in Breda. On Jan. 8, 1935, she was married to Henry G. Steinkamp at St. Bernard Church in Breda by Father E.L. Schleyer. They farmed seven miles northwest of Breda until 1957 then farmed 3-1/2miles southwest of Carroll until retiring and moving to Carroll in 1975. She was a member of St. Rose of Lima Catholic Daughters of the Americas, Legion of Mary, Holy Spirit Women's Guild and St. Anthony Regional Hospital Auxiliary. Mrs. Steinkamp is survived by a daughter, Verla. A. Venteicher and her husband, Paul, of Carroll; three sons, Daryl Steinkamp and his wife, Jean, of LeMars, Wayne Steinkamp and his wife, Pate, of Ankeny and Glenn Steinkamp and his wife, Connie, of Carroll; 12 grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; three step-great-grandchildren; and two brothers, William Boes of Breda and Romain Boes of Carroll. She was preceded in death by her husband, Henry, in 1989; her parents; and six brothers, Herbert, twin brother Aloysius, Father Norbert Boes, Leonard, Julius and Cletus.
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