will be conducted 2 p.m., Wednesday from the First English Lutheran Church, Rev. Arnold Obermeier officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset
Memorial Gardens. Mr. Roeder died Saturday in Sterling.
He was born May 17, 1905, in Smithfield, Neb., the son of Louis and Sophie Felzien Roeder. He spent his early childhood in Nebraska, then came to the Kelley Community where he attended school at the Eagle Point School and later farmed in the area.
He married Elsie Kanzler in 1932 in Sterling and the family farmed in the Willard-Merino area for a short time, then in the Stoneham area and in 1956 moved to Sterling where Mr. Roeder worked for the late Con Luft Sr., retiring in 1974.
Mr. Roeder was a member of the First English Lutheran Church.
He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Doris New of Sun Valley, Calif., Mrs. Alvena Stieb of Iliff, Mrs. Shirley Christner and Mrs. Ella Mae Ertle, both of Sterling; two brothers, Duane Roeder of Sterling and Vale Roeder of Denver; 21 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Chaney-Walters Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
will be conducted 2 p.m., Wednesday from the First English Lutheran Church, Rev. Arnold Obermeier officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset
Memorial Gardens. Mr. Roeder died Saturday in Sterling.
He was born May 17, 1905, in Smithfield, Neb., the son of Louis and Sophie Felzien Roeder. He spent his early childhood in Nebraska, then came to the Kelley Community where he attended school at the Eagle Point School and later farmed in the area.
He married Elsie Kanzler in 1932 in Sterling and the family farmed in the Willard-Merino area for a short time, then in the Stoneham area and in 1956 moved to Sterling where Mr. Roeder worked for the late Con Luft Sr., retiring in 1974.
Mr. Roeder was a member of the First English Lutheran Church.
He is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Doris New of Sun Valley, Calif., Mrs. Alvena Stieb of Iliff, Mrs. Shirley Christner and Mrs. Ella Mae Ertle, both of Sterling; two brothers, Duane Roeder of Sterling and Vale Roeder of Denver; 21 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Chaney-Walters Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
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