Per Steve Goettel, Dan's grandson:
Per Steve Goettel, Dan's grandson:
DANIEL GOTTLIEB GOETTELborn March 16, 1878 at the log farm home of his parents, Gottlieb and Anna Merrie Schmidt Goettel, located at Thompson Corner, Lafayette Township, Allamakee County, Iowa. Now 1383 Lansing-Harpers Rd., Harpers Ferry, Iowa.
His given name at birth was Gottlieb Daniel but as was often the case in German families he was always called by the secular, or second name Daniel.He always, as an adult, signed as Daniel Gottlieb.Dan was the fourth of their eight children. Laura (Hacklander); Clara (Sydow); Aaron; Amanda (Gust); Anetta (Roggensack); Minna (Franklin); and Esther (Doescher).Gottlieb died in Dec. 1897, at the age of 47, in a Chicago hospital while seeking help for a heart valve problem.
After brother Aaron left for Minnesota in 1900, Dan became the primary caretaker of farming operations.Sometime in his late teens or early twenties, Dan severely injured his right hand and fingers while working on the farm windmill.
In late 1905 Anna, then 51 years old, moved to a home in Blue Earth, MN where Laura, Aaron, Amanda, and Esther were living and not far from Redwood where Clara was living.Nettie and Minna continued to help Dan at the farm until Nettie married Lansing area farmer, Lutie Roggensack in April, 1906 and Dan marries Esther Hacklander in Blue Earth December 05, 1906. They became sole proprietors of the farm until their retirement in 1945.They then moved to a home in Lansing.
Following Esther’s death in 1946 he moved into an addition to the home of his daughter Lois Munz in rural Lansing. He died peacefully at home in his bed on September 07, 1961.His funeral was held at the Evangelical United Brethren Church in Lansing with fellow Masons as pall bearers.He was buried along side his wife in Oak Hill Cemetery on the west edge of Lansing.
Dan was a life long, active member of the Evangelical church.First, at the Zion German Evangelical Church which stood across from the farm in Lafayette Township.In 1928 Zion consolidated with G.E. churches of Lansing Ridge and Mays Prairie into a new church in Lansing where materials from the demolished churches were used in its construction.Dan’s parents are buried at Riverside Cemetery in Blue Earth.His paternal grandparents, Johan G. (aka: Gottlieb, Sr) and Johane L. (aka: Louisa) are buried in Thompson Corner Cemetery just south of the farm.His maternal grandparents, Carl F. G. and Wilhelmina Schwartz Schmidt are buried in Evergreen Cemetery just north of Dover, Minnesota.His great-grandfather, Gottlieb Schwartz is buried in Lomira, Wisconsin.