Josephine B. Spielman

Josephine B. Spielman, 90, of Seneca, Kansas, died Friday, October 25, 2002, at the Nemaha Valley Community Hospital at Seneca. She was transferred there from Country View Estates Care Home in Seneca where she had been a resident since January of 2001.
     She was born August 17, 1912, on a farm in the Coal Creek Community south of Centralia, Kansas, the daughter of Bernard and Elizabeth Von Schmede Stegeman. She attended the Sunflower School near her home. Later she lived with her brother Frank at St. Benedict, KS, and attended school there for two years.
     On January 5, 1935, she married Anthony F. "Tony" Spielman at Redemptorist Church in Kansas City, MO. Her husband, "Tony" preceded her in death on September 13, 2001. They lived and farmed in the Centralia community until they moved to a farm south of Oneida, KS, in 1949. In 1958 they moved to a farm west of Seneca. "Josie" started working in the kitchen and as a waitress at the Gilford Hotel in 1953. In the late 1960's she began work as a cook at Crestview Manor care home in Seneca and retired in 1982.
     She was a member of Sts. Peter & Paul Church and St. Ann's Altar society at the church in Seneca. She belonged to several social and card clubs in the Oneida area.
Survivors are a son, Donald Spielman of Prairie Village, KS; two daughters, Nancy Severin of Topeka and Shirley Beets of Kansas City, MO; thirteen grandchildren, five step-grandchildren, seventeen great-grandchildren, fourteen step-great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren.
     Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a daughter, Betty Fisher on August 2, 1995, a granddaughter, Kimberly Brown in 1958, four brothers, Frank, Henry, Louis, and Ben Stegeman, and seven sisters, Katie Becker, Clara Burns, Rose Olberding, Elizabeth Denison, Ann Gunn, Mary Holthaus, and Johanna Stegeman.
     The Mass of Christian burial will be 10:30 A.M. Monday at Sts. Peter & Paul Church in Seneca. The burial will be in the church cemetery. The rosary will be prayed at the Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca on Sunday at 2 P.M. and at 7 P.M.
     Memorials may be given for Sts. Peter & Paul School and sent in care of the family.