 Paul Wesley Steinhauser, 72, 8 Strasbourg Road, died Thursday, Jan. 2, 1997, at his residence.
The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Sykes Funeral Home with a military chaplain and the Rev. Ronald Nash officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery with full military honors.
Visitation will be at the funeral home from 3 to 9 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. Saturday until the hour of the service.
He was born Aug. 27, 1924, in St. Paul, Minn., son of Frank Steinhauser and Lillian Steinhauser. Mr. Steinhauser was a retired U.S. Army first sergeant and a retired salesman for Jenkins & Wynne. He was a graduate of Austin Peay State University, a Mason and a member of First Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Hisae Imai Steinhauser, Clarksville; two sons, Domonic Steinhauser, Clarksville, and John Steinhauser, Little Silver, N.J.; a daughter, Arnez
Steinhauser, California; two brothers, Frank Steinhauser Jr., St. Paul, and the Rev. John Steinhauser, Jamestown, N.Y.; a sister, Lil Wesley, Vista, Calif.; and six grandchildren.
Soldiers will be pallbearers.
Memorials may be made to Hospice of Clarksville Memorial Hospital.[The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville, TN, 03 Jan 1997, Fri, Page 8] |
[courtesy of "Jessica"]
Grave markers of Paul W Steinhauser and
spouse in Greenwood Cemetery, Clarksville ( Montgomery county), Tennessee.
Paul enlisted in the Army at age 18 at
Fort Snelling, MN on 30 September 1942 and may have never registered for the
draft.
The registration record has been updated
to reflect his registration on 14 December 1945, perhaps following his
discharge.
However, he did re-enlist and on 12
November 1948, he married Irene Pronin, a Polish immigrant, who had arrived in
the U.S. aboard the SS Ernie Pyle* on 27 October 1947. The fact that
she was naturalized as a U.S. citizen in Columbus, GA on 16 May 1962 implies
that Paul was then stationed at Fort Benning, GA.
Paul and Irene were stationed in Japan in
the early 50's and adopted two girls while there. On 11 October 1956
Irene arrived at Travis Air Force Base, CA from Tokyo via Wake Island and
Hawaii with daughters Tania (9) and Anna (2) aboard Capital Airlines Flt
832/12. But, Paul and Irene were were later
divorced and Irene won custody of the two children..
Om a second tour to Japan, during Operation Gyroscope,
Paul married Hisae Imai in Yokohama on 2 April 1958. They adopted
three children, Tania, John Wesley, Jr. and Dominic Paul. The family
arrived in Honolulu on 24 July 1958.
1st Sgt Steinhauser was discharged on 31
March 1975.
* The SS Ernie Pyle, built by Kaiser Shipyards in
Vancouver, Washington, was a C-4 military-type cargo ship, of the U, S,
Merchant Marine fleet, not a U.S. troop ship, The Pyle was a 522-foot ship of 14,863 deadweight tons, cruising radius of 14,000 miles and 9,000 horsepower, one of the
Merchant Marine's largest ships. Chartered by the American Scantic Line,
the Pyle made two voyages between New York and Europe in the Autumn of 1947 |
