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PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK - JOHN MIEHE
by Brian Meyer, Register City Editor
Maynard - at 85 years old, John Miehe is sometimes so involved with different activities that sometimes the carrots cooking on the stove tend to end up burned.
That was the case recently as he held a phone conversation while the carrots bubbled over.
Currently Miehe is on the advisory council of the Area 1 Agency on Aging and is involved in the Fayette County Committee on Aging. He is headed to the capitol in Des Moines (along with Oelwein's Elva Mahoney) to the Older Iowans Legislature from Oct. 24-26. Miehe and Mahoney represent Fayette and Clayton counties - the southern counties in the Area 1 Agency on Aging. Winnishiek, Howard and Allamakee are the northern counties.
Miehe sits at the kitchen table in his brick split foyer home in Maynard and licks his finger after every other page, leafing through the bills that will be presented at the Older Iowans Legislature.
The land use bill he helped work on is the number one bill of the 14 that will be discussed. The gist of the bill is that an environmental statement should be filed with and approved by the county government when a change in the use of land is proposed.
Miehe and others in the Agency met older Iowans around the area at mealsites and at senior citizen group meetings and listened to what they thought should be brought up at the legislature in the way of bills.
As a result of his work in the area of senior citizens affairs, in June he was named the 1983 Outstanding Older Iowan in the five-county area of the Area 1 Agency on Aging.
"I have got a real good impression of the senior citizens in Fayette County," he says. "The number of people coming to the Committee on Aging meetings is growing all the time. But you know, half the people, they don't get out and don't know what it's about."
As for major concerns of the elderly in Fayette County, Miehe believes transportation is near the top of the list.
"Transportation is beginning to be a big thing. This Area 1 Agency has one of the best transportation systems in the state, too." He said the Agency has 27 vehicles running in the five-county area.
Another concern Miehe has heard is keeping older citizens out of the nursing home.
With winter coming up, a concern about heating is voiced by the elderly. Miehe says county nurses and other workers help to improve houses for the winter.
One of the major items Miehe hopes to see is a phone network for the elderly start in Fayette County.
"We advocate older people in towns or country to call one another once a day and see if they're okay. Then those who get the calls can call someone else. We do find people who need help and we try to find a way to help them."
Another important concern is insurance payments, which sometimes seem high to an elderly person.
"Older people are always getting it in the neck when it comes to bills. If you'd never been in a wreck, you shouldn't have to raise the price of insurance on them."
Miehe says its a very interesting job and he tries to get as many elderly persons involved as possible.
Miehe was born in Swea City, near Clear Lake in 1898 and he and his family moved to Maynard in 1902. His family worked a farm four miles northeast of Maynard. His father, Theo., was a county supervisor for six years, during which time John took over the running of the farm.
He went to Maynard High School and went two years to business college in Oelwein. He married Tressa Wilkinson of Maynard in 1919. They were married 50 years before her death in 1970.
John and Tressa raised two daughters, Mrs. Jean Schlegel of Maynard, and Mrs. Lorraine Minny of Hiawatha.
Miehe farmed until his retirement in 1964, but farming wasn't his only preoccupation. He was a Scott Township trustee for 30 years. He was a 4-H club leader. He was active on the Maynard Booster Club. He was a church trustee and chairman of the board of St. John Lutheran Church of Maynard for seven years. He was president of the Fayette County Telephone Company. He's been a member of the Farm Bureau for 57 years.
More? He was one of the founding members of the senior citizen's Fiesta in Maynard - a "real holiday" for senior citizens in the five-county area. He has been vice president and president of the Fayette County Committee on aging. He ran a laundromat and a car wash in Maynard. He's built and sold six houses in the area. He ran a body shop for a few years. He was on a creamery board in Oelwein for awhile. He was on an REA board in Independence. He has been on the Area 1 advisory board four years.
He and Tressa once played in a square dance band around the area. She played bass viol and he did the calling.
He sold hot cashews. He got hold of 50 hot cashew vending machines and placed them in Maynard, Oelwein, Independence, Fayette, Jesup, "wherever I thought it'd go good."
The nut business was done as a sidelight to farming. "You'd put in a nickel and it'd vend out a handful of hot cashews." He'd make the rounds to the machines once a week and also clean them one night a week, though the smell of cashews was enough to make a wife drive a husband out to the doghouse. "Tressa was quite agreeable, though, and we got along real good."
With so many different preoccupations and positions in his life, he doesn't know what he liked best.
"I'll tell you I couldn't pick out one thing better than the rest. At the age I was at the time I was doing, I enjoyed it."
He spends his time going to meetings now, taking care of his spacious yard, playing card, going to an occasion dance.
It's been a busy life.
"Maybe that's why I'm still here."
source: March 1984 Oelwein IA Register
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John married the 2nd time to Dorothy Rader Steinbronn in 1984.
PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK - JOHN MIEHE
by Brian Meyer, Register City Editor
Maynard - at 85 years old, John Miehe is sometimes so involved with different activities that sometimes the carrots cooking on the stove tend to end up burned.
That was the case recently as he held a phone conversation while the carrots bubbled over.
Currently Miehe is on the advisory council of the Area 1 Agency on Aging and is involved in the Fayette County Committee on Aging. He is headed to the capitol in Des Moines (along with Oelwein's Elva Mahoney) to the Older Iowans Legislature from Oct. 24-26. Miehe and Mahoney represent Fayette and Clayton counties - the southern counties in the Area 1 Agency on Aging. Winnishiek, Howard and Allamakee are the northern counties.
Miehe sits at the kitchen table in his brick split foyer home in Maynard and licks his finger after every other page, leafing through the bills that will be presented at the Older Iowans Legislature.
The land use bill he helped work on is the number one bill of the 14 that will be discussed. The gist of the bill is that an environmental statement should be filed with and approved by the county government when a change in the use of land is proposed.
Miehe and others in the Agency met older Iowans around the area at mealsites and at senior citizen group meetings and listened to what they thought should be brought up at the legislature in the way of bills.
As a result of his work in the area of senior citizens affairs, in June he was named the 1983 Outstanding Older Iowan in the five-county area of the Area 1 Agency on Aging.
"I have got a real good impression of the senior citizens in Fayette County," he says. "The number of people coming to the Committee on Aging meetings is growing all the time. But you know, half the people, they don't get out and don't know what it's about."
As for major concerns of the elderly in Fayette County, Miehe believes transportation is near the top of the list.
"Transportation is beginning to be a big thing. This Area 1 Agency has one of the best transportation systems in the state, too." He said the Agency has 27 vehicles running in the five-county area.
Another concern Miehe has heard is keeping older citizens out of the nursing home.
With winter coming up, a concern about heating is voiced by the elderly. Miehe says county nurses and other workers help to improve houses for the winter.
One of the major items Miehe hopes to see is a phone network for the elderly start in Fayette County.
"We advocate older people in towns or country to call one another once a day and see if they're okay. Then those who get the calls can call someone else. We do find people who need help and we try to find a way to help them."
Another important concern is insurance payments, which sometimes seem high to an elderly person.
"Older people are always getting it in the neck when it comes to bills. If you'd never been in a wreck, you shouldn't have to raise the price of insurance on them."
Miehe says its a very interesting job and he tries to get as many elderly persons involved as possible.
Miehe was born in Swea City, near Clear Lake in 1898 and he and his family moved to Maynard in 1902. His family worked a farm four miles northeast of Maynard. His father, Theo., was a county supervisor for six years, during which time John took over the running of the farm.
He went to Maynard High School and went two years to business college in Oelwein. He married Tressa Wilkinson of Maynard in 1919. They were married 50 years before her death in 1970.
John and Tressa raised two daughters, Mrs. Jean Schlegel of Maynard, and Mrs. Lorraine Minny of Hiawatha.
Miehe farmed until his retirement in 1964, but farming wasn't his only preoccupation. He was a Scott Township trustee for 30 years. He was a 4-H club leader. He was active on the Maynard Booster Club. He was a church trustee and chairman of the board of St. John Lutheran Church of Maynard for seven years. He was president of the Fayette County Telephone Company. He's been a member of the Farm Bureau for 57 years.
More? He was one of the founding members of the senior citizen's Fiesta in Maynard - a "real holiday" for senior citizens in the five-county area. He has been vice president and president of the Fayette County Committee on aging. He ran a laundromat and a car wash in Maynard. He's built and sold six houses in the area. He ran a body shop for a few years. He was on a creamery board in Oelwein for awhile. He was on an REA board in Independence. He has been on the Area 1 advisory board four years.
He and Tressa once played in a square dance band around the area. She played bass viol and he did the calling.
He sold hot cashews. He got hold of 50 hot cashew vending machines and placed them in Maynard, Oelwein, Independence, Fayette, Jesup, "wherever I thought it'd go good."
The nut business was done as a sidelight to farming. "You'd put in a nickel and it'd vend out a handful of hot cashews." He'd make the rounds to the machines once a week and also clean them one night a week, though the smell of cashews was enough to make a wife drive a husband out to the doghouse. "Tressa was quite agreeable, though, and we got along real good."
With so many different preoccupations and positions in his life, he doesn't know what he liked best.
"I'll tell you I couldn't pick out one thing better than the rest. At the age I was at the time I was doing, I enjoyed it."
He spends his time going to meetings now, taking care of his spacious yard, playing card, going to an occasion dance.
It's been a busy life.
"Maybe that's why I'm still here."
source: March 1984 Oelwein IA Register
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John married the 2nd time to Dorothy Rader Steinbronn in 1984.
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PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK - JOHN MIEHE
by Brian Meyer, Register City Editor
Maynard - at 85 years old, John Miehe is sometimes so involved with different activities that sometimes the carrots cooking on the stove tend to end up burned.
That was the case recently as he held a phone conversation while the carrots bubbled over.
Currently Miehe is on the advisory council of the Area 1 Agency on Aging and is involved in the Fayette County Committee on Aging. He is headed to the capitol in Des Moines (along with Oelwein's Elva Mahoney) to the Older Iowans Legislature from Oct. 24-26. Miehe and Mahoney represent Fayette and Clayton counties - the southern counties in the Area 1 Agency on Aging. Winnishiek, Howard and Allamakee are the northern counties.
Miehe sits at the kitchen table in his brick split foyer home in Maynard and licks his finger after every other page, leafing through the bills that will be presented at the Older Iowans Legislature.
The land use bill he helped work on is the number one bill of the 14 that will be discussed. The gist of the bill is that an environmental statement should be filed with and approved by the county government when a change in the use of land is proposed.
Miehe and others in the Agency met older Iowans around the area at mealsites and at senior citizen group meetings and listened to what they thought should be brought up at the legislature in the way of bills.
As a result of his work in the area of senior citizens affairs, in June he was named the 1983 Outstanding Older Iowan in the five-county area of the Area 1 Agency on Aging.
"I have got a real good impression of the senior citizens in Fayette County," he says. "The number of people coming to the Committee on Aging meetings is growing all the time. But you know, half the people, they don't get out and don't know what it's about."
As for major concerns of the elderly in Fayette County, Miehe believes transportation is near the top of the list.
"Transportation is beginning to be a big thing. This Area 1 Agency has one of the best transportation systems in the state, too." He said the Agency has 27 vehicles running in the five-county area.
Another concern Miehe has heard is keeping older citizens out of the nursing home.
With winter coming up, a concern about heating is voiced by the elderly. Miehe says county nurses and other workers help to improve houses for the winter.
One of the major items Miehe hopes to see is a phone network for the elderly start in Fayette County.
"We advocate older people in towns or country to call one another once a day and see if they're okay. Then those who get the calls can call someone else. We do find people who need help and we try to find a way to help them."
Another important concern is insurance payments, which sometimes seem high to an elderly person.
"Older people are always getting it in the neck when it comes to bills. If you'd never been in a wreck, you shouldn't have to raise the price of insurance on them."
Miehe says its a very interesting job and he tries to get as many elderly persons involved as possible.
Miehe was born in Swea City, near Clear Lake in 1898 and he and his family moved to Maynard in 1902. His family worked a farm four miles northeast of Maynard. His father, Theo., was a county supervisor for six years, during which time John took over the running of the farm.
He went to Maynard High School and went two years to business college in Oelwein. He married Tressa Wilkinson of Maynard in 1919. They were married 50 years before her death in 1970.
John and Tressa raised two daughters, Mrs. Jean Schlegel of Maynard, and Mrs. Lorraine Minny of Hiawatha.
Miehe farmed until his retirement in 1964, but farming wasn't his only preoccupation. He was a Scott Township trustee for 30 years. He was a 4-H club leader. He was active on the Maynard Booster Club. He was a church trustee and chairman of the board of St. John Lutheran Church of Maynard for seven years. He was president of the Fayette County Telephone Company. He's been a member of the Farm Bureau for 57 years.
More? He was one of the founding members of the senior citizen's Fiesta in Maynard - a "real holiday" for senior citizens in the five-county area. He has been vice president and president of the Fayette County Committee on aging. He ran a laundromat and a car wash in Maynard. He's built and sold six houses in the area. He ran a body shop for a few years. He was on a creamery board in Oelwein for awhile. He was on an REA board in Independence. He has been on the Area 1 advisory board four years.
He and Tressa once played in a square dance band around the area. She played bass viol and he did the calling.
He sold hot cashews. He got hold of 50 hot cashew vending machines and placed them in Maynard, Oelwein, Independence, Fayette, Jesup, "wherever I thought it'd go good."
The nut business was done as a sidelight to farming. "You'd put in a nickel and it'd vend out a handful of hot cashews." He'd make the rounds to the machines once a week and also clean them one night a week, though the smell of cashews was enough to make a wife drive a husband out to the doghouse. "Tressa was quite agreeable, though, and we got along real good."
With so many different preoccupations and positions in his life, he doesn't know what he liked best.
"I'll tell you I couldn't pick out one thing better than the rest. At the age I was at the time I was doing, I enjoyed it."
He spends his time going to meetings now, taking care of his spacious yard, playing card, going to an occasion dance.
It's been a busy life.
"Maybe that's why I'm still here."
source: March 1984 Oelwein IA Register
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John married the 2nd time to Dorothy Rader Steinbronn in 1984.
PERSONALITY OF THE WEEK - JOHN MIEHE
by Brian Meyer, Register City Editor
Maynard - at 85 years old, John Miehe is sometimes so involved with different activities that sometimes the carrots cooking on the stove tend to end up burned.
That was the case recently as he held a phone conversation while the carrots bubbled over.
Currently Miehe is on the advisory council of the Area 1 Agency on Aging and is involved in the Fayette County Committee on Aging. He is headed to the capitol in Des Moines (along with Oelwein's Elva Mahoney) to the Older Iowans Legislature from Oct. 24-26. Miehe and Mahoney represent Fayette and Clayton counties - the southern counties in the Area 1 Agency on Aging. Winnishiek, Howard and Allamakee are the northern counties.
Miehe sits at the kitchen table in his brick split foyer home in Maynard and licks his finger after every other page, leafing through the bills that will be presented at the Older Iowans Legislature.
The land use bill he helped work on is the number one bill of the 14 that will be discussed. The gist of the bill is that an environmental statement should be filed with and approved by the county government when a change in the use of land is proposed.
Miehe and others in the Agency met older Iowans around the area at mealsites and at senior citizen group meetings and listened to what they thought should be brought up at the legislature in the way of bills.
As a result of his work in the area of senior citizens affairs, in June he was named the 1983 Outstanding Older Iowan in the five-county area of the Area 1 Agency on Aging.
"I have got a real good impression of the senior citizens in Fayette County," he says. "The number of people coming to the Committee on Aging meetings is growing all the time. But you know, half the people, they don't get out and don't know what it's about."
As for major concerns of the elderly in Fayette County, Miehe believes transportation is near the top of the list.
"Transportation is beginning to be a big thing. This Area 1 Agency has one of the best transportation systems in the state, too." He said the Agency has 27 vehicles running in the five-county area.
Another concern Miehe has heard is keeping older citizens out of the nursing home.
With winter coming up, a concern about heating is voiced by the elderly. Miehe says county nurses and other workers help to improve houses for the winter.
One of the major items Miehe hopes to see is a phone network for the elderly start in Fayette County.
"We advocate older people in towns or country to call one another once a day and see if they're okay. Then those who get the calls can call someone else. We do find people who need help and we try to find a way to help them."
Another important concern is insurance payments, which sometimes seem high to an elderly person.
"Older people are always getting it in the neck when it comes to bills. If you'd never been in a wreck, you shouldn't have to raise the price of insurance on them."
Miehe says its a very interesting job and he tries to get as many elderly persons involved as possible.
Miehe was born in Swea City, near Clear Lake in 1898 and he and his family moved to Maynard in 1902. His family worked a farm four miles northeast of Maynard. His father, Theo., was a county supervisor for six years, during which time John took over the running of the farm.
He went to Maynard High School and went two years to business college in Oelwein. He married Tressa Wilkinson of Maynard in 1919. They were married 50 years before her death in 1970.
John and Tressa raised two daughters, Mrs. Jean Schlegel of Maynard, and Mrs. Lorraine Minny of Hiawatha.
Miehe farmed until his retirement in 1964, but farming wasn't his only preoccupation. He was a Scott Township trustee for 30 years. He was a 4-H club leader. He was active on the Maynard Booster Club. He was a church trustee and chairman of the board of St. John Lutheran Church of Maynard for seven years. He was president of the Fayette County Telephone Company. He's been a member of the Farm Bureau for 57 years.
More? He was one of the founding members of the senior citizen's Fiesta in Maynard - a "real holiday" for senior citizens in the five-county area. He has been vice president and president of the Fayette County Committee on aging. He ran a laundromat and a car wash in Maynard. He's built and sold six houses in the area. He ran a body shop for a few years. He was on a creamery board in Oelwein for awhile. He was on an REA board in Independence. He has been on the Area 1 advisory board four years.
He and Tressa once played in a square dance band around the area. She played bass viol and he did the calling.
He sold hot cashews. He got hold of 50 hot cashew vending machines and placed them in Maynard, Oelwein, Independence, Fayette, Jesup, "wherever I thought it'd go good."
The nut business was done as a sidelight to farming. "You'd put in a nickel and it'd vend out a handful of hot cashews." He'd make the rounds to the machines once a week and also clean them one night a week, though the smell of cashews was enough to make a wife drive a husband out to the doghouse. "Tressa was quite agreeable, though, and we got along real good."
With so many different preoccupations and positions in his life, he doesn't know what he liked best.
"I'll tell you I couldn't pick out one thing better than the rest. At the age I was at the time I was doing, I enjoyed it."
He spends his time going to meetings now, taking care of his spacious yard, playing card, going to an occasion dance.
It's been a busy life.
"Maybe that's why I'm still here."
source: March 1984 Oelwein IA Register
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John married the 2nd time to Dorothy Rader Steinbronn in 1984.
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