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• Name: OBL Frances Roethler O.S.B.

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Frances married Maxmilian J. ROETHLER on 22 Jun 1915 in Black Hawk Co., IA. Maxmilian was born on 9 Jan 1888 in Alta Vista, Chickasaw, IA; died in 1961; was buried in Saint Gregory's Abbey Cemetery, Shawnee, Pottawatomie, OK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Joseph Dreckman was the biological son of Henry and Carrie Dreckman, he was adopted by the Roethler's after the death of his mother, from the flu, on Oct. 23, 1918. It is said that Max and Frances also took in another brother. The 1920 census shows Joseph with the Roethler's. In the same census is Henry J. Dreckman, widower, age 47 with 7 other children, ages 3 - 16.
In the 1930 census Joseph is with Max and Florence and Henry Dreckman is enumerated in Iowa City with 5 children, ages 12-24.

Joseph married Florence Irene ANDERSON on 5 Jun 1941 in Otter Tail Co., MN. Florence was born on 1 Jan 1917 in Otter Tail Co., MN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Donald Max Roethler
• Obituary: 27 Jun 1995

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The Rev. Michael Roethler , who served 20 years as president of St. Gregory's College and later was named to the state Ethics Commission, died Monday. He was 65.

Roethler died at Shawnee Regional Hospital at 1:30 a.m. due to complications from diabetes

Ethics Commission Director Marilyn Hughes said Roethler , who was appointed to the commission in 1991 and resigned in November, wrote the state's new gift-reporting law for lawmakers and lobbyists.

Roethler started at St. Gregory's College in 1952. He served as instructor, dean of men and athletic director before being named president in 1970.

Roethler was born April 3, 1930, in Aberdeen, S. D . He graduated from St. Gregory's College in 1949, entered St. Gregory's Abbey and professed his vows as a Benedictine monk on July 11, 1950.

He received his bachelor's degree from St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kan., and was ordained to the priesthood on Dec. 17, 1955.

He received his master's degree from Catholic University of America in Washington, D .C., and his doctorate from Fordham University.

A funeral Mass will be held at 4 p.m. Thursday at W.P. Wood Fieldhouse on the campus of St. Gregory's College. Burial will follow at the St. Gregory's Abbey cemetery.

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