Arthur Louis Bieterman

IN MEMORY OF
ARTHUR LOUIS BIETERMAN

BORN
June 14, 1921
Mannington, West Virginia
PASSED AWAY
November 1, 2006
Sheldon, Iowa

FUNERAL SERVICE
10:30 A.M. Tuesday
November 7, 2006
St. Patrick’s Catholic Church
Sheldon, Iowa
CELEBRANT
Father Robert J. Schimmer
Lector: Paula Schwebach

MUSIC
“Be Not Afraid”
Responsorial: “Psalm 23”
“Amazing Grace”
“Song of Farewell”
“How Great Thou Art”
Cantor: Mary Donohue
Organist: Laura Wagner

CASKET BEARERS
Steven A. Bieterman Michael B. Bieterman
Jeffrey J. Bieterman Tyler J. Bieterman
Keane Bonath John Meyer

FINAL RESTING PLACE
Greenwood Cemetery
Matlock, Iowa
Military Graveside Service by the:
Sheldon American Legion
and Veterans of Foreign Wars

Arrangements are under the care of the
Vander Ploeg Funeral Home Sheldon, Iowa

After the graveside service, relatives and friends
are invited to join the family in the
fellowship hall of the church.


ARTHUR LOUIS BIETERMAN
Arthur Louis Bieterman, the son of Peter T. and Mary E. (Giegerich) Bieterman was born June 14, 1921 in Mannington, West Virginia. He attended school in Mannington and graduated from the Mannington High School. Art served during World War II as a sergeant in the United States Army. After the war, he left the service and moved to Omaha, Nebraska. Art was united in marriage in 1950 to Florence C. Pietryga of Omaha, Nebraska and had three sons. While in Omaha, he worked as a bricklayer and as a business agent for the union. Later, Arthur worked in the Davenport, Iowa area; where he was join in marriage to Doris J. Ellerbroek Bonath in 1975. They spent many years dividing their time between their homes in Sheldon, Iowa and Brooksville, Florida. Doris preceded him in death on July 13, 2003 in Brooksville. Art continued living in both residences until he passed away on Wednesday, November 1, 2006 at the Northwest Iowa Health Center in Sheldon, Iowa, reaching the age of 85 years.
Arthur was a member of the Catholic faith. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post # 7354 and of the American Legion Post # 145, both of Sheldon, Iowa. Art spent much of his life as an avid sportsman. He was a high school varsity athlete in many sports, a Golden-Glove boxing champion, a hunter and a fisherman, a dedicated Nebraska Husker football fan since the early 1950s, and a regular golfer in the last three decades of his life.
Art leaves to cherish his memory three sons, Steven A. Bieterman of Mesa, Arizona; Michael Bieterman of Redmond, Washington; Jeffrey and his wife, Karen Bieterman, of Omaha, Nebraska; five grandchildren, a sister, Patricia Bieterman of Columbus, Ohio; three step-children, Keane Bonath of Minneapolis, Minnesota; Gail J. Bonath and her husband, Michael Stewart, of Grinnell, Iowa; Shawn Bonath Carlson and her husband, David, of College Station, Texas; seven step-grandchildren and other relatives and friends.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Doris; his parents, four brothers, and a sister.