{"id":12502,"date":"2022-01-15T09:55:40","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/?p=12502"},"modified":"2022-01-18T12:56:12","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T18:56:12","slug":"oliver-roy-thiese-jr-elkader-iowa-january-15-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/2022\/01\/oliver-roy-thiese-jr-elkader-iowa-january-15-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Oliver Roy Thiese, Jr., Elkader, Iowa, January 15, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-small_image wp-image-12505 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-250x178.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-250x178.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-300x213.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-1024x728.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-768x546.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-1536x1092.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-750x533.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-400x284.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-1150x817.jpeg 1150w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese-68x48.jpeg 68w, https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Oliver-Thiese.jpeg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Oliver Roy Thiese, Jr., age 84, of Elkader, Iowa, passed away January 15, 2022, at the Elkader Care Center due to natural causes.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver was born March 6, 1937, on a farm outside of Elkader, to Oliver and Edna (Zimpfer) Thiese.\u00a0 He was their only child.\u00a0 He grew up on the same farm, working with his parents.\u00a0 Oliver attended country school nearby their home, and later got his GED.<\/p>\n<p>On January 4, 1958, Oliver married Margaret Ann Sheaver. Together they had 5 children.\u00a0 In the 1960\u2019s the family moved to another dairy farm close by his parents. Oliver loved caring for the animals and the land and provided well for his family.\u00a0 He had a sense of humor and enjoyed all friends and neighbors, as well as telling a joke now and then.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver was baptized as a member of the Elkader congregation of Jehovah\u2019s Witnesses on July 12, 1953.<\/p>\n<p>He is survived by his wife, Margaret, children: Robin (Danny) Hurst of Cresco, IA., Michael (Melissa) Thiese of Mason City, IA., Pauline Leinen of Cedar Rapids, IA., Joel (Elizabeth) Thiese of Elkader, IA., Grandchildren:\u00a0 Samuel (Carissa) Hurst of Canton, IL., Jacob (Laura) Hurst of Van Nuys, CA., Laura (Whitney) Lindholm of Clackamas, OR., Matthew Hurst of Clackamas, OR., Sonya Hurst of Rochester, MN., Mariah (Lars) Rasmussen of Rochester, Mn., Brittney Leinen of Cedar Rapids, IA., Claire, Alexis, Joel Jr., Arthur, Ruby and Clarence Thiese of Elkader, IA.\u00a0 Great-grandchildren:\u00a0 Crystal Lindholm, Alexys and Calvin Hurst, Ella Rasmussen.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver is preceded in death by his father, Oliver John Thiese, Sr., mother, Edna Thiese, and infant daughter, Mary Ann Thiese.<\/p>\n<p>Leonard-Grau Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Elkader is assisting the family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oliver Roy Thiese, Jr., age 84, of Elkader, Iowa, passed away January 15, 2022, at the Elkader Care Center due to natural causes. Oliver was born March 6, 1937, on a farm outside of Elkader, to Oliver and Edna (Zimpfer) Thiese.\u00a0 He was their only child.\u00a0 He grew up on the same farm, working with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,1],"tags":[470],"class_list":["post-12502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","category-uncategorized","tag-thiese"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12502"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12507,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12502\/revisions\/12507"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/graufuneralhomes.com\/lab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}