Obituary

  Halbur - Theodore (Ted) Eischeid Sr., 92, retired Halbur farmer, died at 4:45 p.m. Wednesday, August 26, at the Carroll Health Center Nursing Home.
  Mass of the Christian Burial will be celebrated at 2 p.m. Saturday, August 29, at St. Augustine Church in Halbur with the Rev. Leo Riesberg officiating. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.
A granddaughter Sister Nancy Schreck, will be lector; gift-bearers will be granddaughters Mary Jo Hugg, Karen Blass and Linda Zender and mass-servers grandsons Ted and Tim Eischeid and Jim Schreck.
  Serving as pallbearers will be grandsons Phil Sextro, Joe, Gary and Alan Eischeid; Jim Busenbark and Greg Schreck.
  Friends may call at the Sharp Funeral Home in Carroll after 2 p.m. Friday where rosaries will be recited at 3 p.m. and. 8 p.m. (parish) and a scriptural prayer service will be conducted at 8:45 p.m. Friday.
  Surviving are four sons: Leonard, Spencer; Hilbert, Manning; Theodore Jr. and Louis, both of Carroll; six daughters: Mrs. Frank (Lorine) Sextro, Manning; Mrs. Cato (Florence) Gephart, Carroll; Mrs. Cecil (Louise) Boeckman, Early; Mrs. Pete (Irma) Fast, Bingham Lake, Minn.; Mrs. A.J. (Tillie) Busenbark, Omaha, and Mrs. Elmer (Marie) Schreck, Templeton; 54 grandchildren; 98 great grandchildren; two brothers: Henry, Carroll, and Lawrence Eischeid, Omaha; two sisters: Mrs. R.J. (Minnie) Heinen, Halbur, and Mrs. Louis (Theresa) Drees Sr., Carroll; and a daughter-in-law Mrs. Darlene Riesberg, Halbur.
Mr. Eischeid was preceded in death by his parents, wife Anna on August 17, 1969; a son Alvin, a granddaughter Ann Eischeid; six grandchildren; three brothers; Joe, John and George, and a sister Whilemine.
  He was born April 21, 1889, at Halbur, a son of John and Theresa Schomagel Eischeid. He spent all his life in the Halbur community and attended Holy Angels School at Roselle. He was married February 21, 1911, to Anna Marie Wittrock at St. Augustine Church in Halbur by the late Rev. John B. Baumler.
  They farmed northeast of Halbur until 1954 when they retired and moved into Halbur. They celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1961. After his wife's death he continued to live in Halbur until November of 1979 when he entered the Carroll nursing home.
(Carroll Daily Times Herald, Iowa, Thursday, August 27, 1981, p. 2)