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Viola Staiert (Nieland) 1916-1940 The Carroll Times Herald Rites For Mrs. Walter Nieland Held at Arcadia Requiem Mass Offered By Rev. Mathias Stork, St. John's Funeral services for Mrs. Walter Nieland of Carroll, formerly Viola Staiert, who passed away Tuesday evening, were conducted at 9 o'clock Friday morning at St. John's Church, Arcadia. The requiem mass was offered by the Rev. Mathias Stork. Burial was in the parish cemetery at Arcadia, with sic cousins, Arthur and Norbert Nieland, Walter Steinkamp, Vernice Bueltel, Vincent Kohorst and Clem Mueggenberg acting as pallbearers. Attending the rites from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Braun of Alton, Iowa, and Mr. and Mrs. Albert Reiff of Fonda. Mrs. Nieland's death followed a two weeks illness. She passed away on the ever before her first wedding anniversary, leaving her husband and baby son, Kenneth William, fourteen days old at the time of her death. Also surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Staiert, a twin brother, Joseph, sister, Dorothy, and brother, Ervin, who reside on a farm six miles west of Carroll, two married sisters, Mrs. Andrew Nieland (Caroline) and Mrs. Lawrence Wernimont (Amelia), west of Carroll. Mrs. Nieland was born March 7, 1916, at Arcadia. After completing St. John's School at Arcadia, she remained at home with her parent until her marriage to Walter Nieland, which took place June 3, 1939, at St. John's Church, with the Rev. Father Stork reading the nuptial mass. The young couple made their home on a farm three and one-half miles north of Carroll.
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