David Abbott Strohm
Marriages
Amelia Sophia Elizabeth Andre Strohm
in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
Burial Details
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - April 29, 1932
DEATH OF DAVID STROHM.
Mr. David STROHM was born in Sharpsburg, a suburb of Pittsburg, Pa., on the fourth day of March, 1854. He grew up in the vicinity of Pittsburg, in which city he met and married Amelia ANDRE. The golden anniversary of this union occurred last year.
The young couple determined to try their fortune in the West and soon found themselves in the city of Denver where Mr. STROHM followed the business of landscape gardening. Three children were born during this residence in Denver.
The young husband and father longed for a freer life and so it happened that the STROHM family took the westbound stagecoach to Aspen. The Carbondale neighborhood proved attractive and it was there that they settled, Mr. STROHM going into the farming business. The life at Carbondale was touched by joys and sorrows; seven children were born there and five were laid away.
It was in 1908 that the STROHMs came to Gypsum valley. Here Mr. and Mrs. STROHM made their home and here, except for two years during the World War, when they lived in Kansas, they have remained. Since coming back to the valley they have lived with their son, George. This period of their lives has been shadowed by the passing away of two of their children.
Mr. STROHM was an industrious and hard-working man, and though advanced in years, he appeared to retain his health. However, he commenced to fail about the first of this year or around Christmas time. Since then he had not been well. He was a great lover of flowers and had looked forward to his garden and his flowers. When he learned that he would be unable this spring to indulge this life long fondness, his spirit was broken. He passed away on Monday night, April 25, 1932.
Mr. STROHM leaves behind him his faithful wife who has been a loyal helpmeet all through the years. There are also left three children, John, who resides at Garrison, Kan.; George and Mrs. Marie KUTZ, both of whom live near Gypsum and eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild; also numerous friends and acquaintances, many of whom are members of the Lutheran church at Gypsum of which Mr. STROHM had been a member since shortly after coming to Gypsum valley.
"Shall I wear mourning for my loved one dead,
I, a believer? give me red.
Or give me royal purple for the King
At whose high court my love is visiting.
Dress me in green for growth, for life made new;
For skies his dear feet march, dress me in blue;
In white for his white soul robe me in gold
For all the pride that his new rank shall hold.
In earth's dim gardens blooms no hue too bright
To dress me for my love who walks in white!"
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 - May 1, 1932
Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 3 GLENWOOD SPGS - April 28, 1932
