Traer Star Clipper, Friday, May 8th, 1952 – page 1
Emil Strohbehn, 76, native of the Traer community who spent nearly all of his life here, died in St. Francis hospital in Waterloo at 9 o'clock Wednesday night. He was taken to the hospital only two or three days before but had been failing several months and bedfast eight weeks by a heart ailment complicated by diabetes. The funeral services are to be held at 1 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the States Funeral Home in Traer, conducted by the Rev. Oliver Stevenson of Cedar Falls, pastor of Tranquillity church. Nephews of Emil will serve as casket bearers. Members of Hesperia lodge will conduct the Masonic rites at the grave in Buckingham cemetery. Mr. Strohbehn, a son of Henry and Doris Stehr Strohbehn, was born on a farm near Traer on January 22, 1876, and was reared in this community. As a young man he started farming in and was engaged in buying and selling livestock. He continued until 1911 when he moved to Hawarden, Saskatchewan, Canada. That region was just opening up for settlement and attracting many Iowa investors. Mr. Strohbehn carried on an extensive farming and livestock business for more than 30 years. He owned and operated a section and bought and shipped cattle. Emil became a master Mason in Traer, 50 years ago next fall, and continued his membership here during all the years since. He was a member of an Eastern Star chapter in Canada and a past patron.
Emil Strohbehn never married. He moved to Iowa about five years ago and since that time had made his home in Waterloo with a sister, Mrs. Emma Hinz. leaves five other sisters— Mrs. (Doris) Ehlers, Mrs. Arnold Pyle, Mrs. Alvina Curran and Mrs. Irene Ehlers, all of Waterloo, Mrs. Lloyd Chandler, of Indianola, Iowa; and four brothers— Alfon and Roy, of Reinbeck, Henry and Herman of Waterloo. A sister, Mrs. Rosa Siemens, of Dysart, died in 1929 and a brother, Elmer, in 1944. A brother and a sister very young while the Strohbehn family was living in Wright county. The father, Henry, died in 1916 the mother, Dora, in 1943.