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In Loving Memory of Our Beloved Superintendent Teacher
     
One Hundred Years from now
(excerpt from "Within My Power" by Forest Witcraft)
One Hundred Years from now
It will not matter
what kind of car I drove,
What kind of house I lived in,
how much money was in my bank account
nor what my clothes looked like.
But the world may be a better place because
I was important in the life of a child.

Harold Emil Ehlers
1928 - 2014
Our  Teacher

Harold Emil Ehlers
Age: 86
Passed away Sunday
November 30, 2014
at his home
Regency Park in Carroll, Iowa

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M. on Friday, December 5, 2014 at Zion Lutheran Church in Arcadia with Pastor Ben Dose of Zion Lutheran Church and Pastor Brian Licht of St. Paul Lutheran Church officiating.

Friends may call at the Dahn and Woodhouse Funeral Home in Carroll after 5:00 P.M. on Thursday where there will be a prayer service held at 6:30 P.M.

The casket will be moved to the church at 8:30 A.M. on Friday where visitation will resume until the time of service. Organist for the service will be Carla Robertson. Casket bearers will be nephews: Larry Ehlers, Paul Ehlers, Mark Ehlers, Douglas Ehlers, Dwight Ehlers, and Carl Bernstrauch.
Burial will be in the Arcadia Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Gentiva Hospice or All Strings Attached and may be left at funeral home or the church.

Born on October 2, 1928 in Washington Township, Carroll County, Iowa, he was the son of Julius and Mina (nee Wilfang) Ehlers. On October 21, 1928, he was baptized at Zion Lutheran Church in Arcadia by Rev. T.A. Tews. His godparents were Mrs. Henry Herrmann and Mr. Emil Ehlers. On March 29, 1942, he was confirmed in the Lutheran faith at Zion Lutheran Church by Rev. T.A. Tews.

On May 30, 1946, he graduated as salutatorian from Arcadia High School. He attended Commercial Extension Business School in Omaha, Nebraska. He then worked for a year as a clerk for the Des Moines Trucking Company in Des Moines.

In the fall of 1948 he enrolled at Valparaiso University and graduated on June 1, 1952. For the next 34 years he taught school in Iowa, Colorado, Wisconsin, California, and Illinois. He received his Master’s Degree in August of 1956 from Northern Colorado University in Greeley, Colorado and pursued pre-doctoral work in California. During his teaching career was elected teacher of the year in Illinois, served on the State of Illinois’s North Central Evaluation Committee, served as Department chairman of Humanities at Woodland-Streator High School for 15 years, was a member of the Rotary Club, served on various other civic committees, and was an active member of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Streator, Illinois.

On June 30, 1987, he retired and moved to Carroll, Iowa. Here he was a charter member of the Carroll County Genealogical Society, holding various offices while a member. He was also a member of St. Paul Lutheran Church.

Harold is survived by two brothers: Rev. Harvey Ehlers and his wife Adeline of Sauk Rapids, MN and Wilbert Ehlers and his wife Carolyn of Carroll; a sister-in-law Mrs. Vernon Ehlers of Arcadia; and sixteen nieces and nephews and their families.

Harold was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Lt. Elmer Ehlers USAF killed in Luzon Philippines, a brother Albert Ehlers at age 10, a sister Dorothy Bernstrauch, a brother Vernon Ehlers and a sister Ruth Novack.

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