Obituary of Rose Mary Steiner

Rose Mary Steiner, age 83, of Yankton, SD passed away Saturday, August 29, 2015 at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton, SD. Mass of Christian Burial will be 10:00 AM, Thursday, September 3, 2015 at St. Benedict Catholic Church, Yankton, SD with Rev. Ken Lulf officiating. Burial will be in the Garden of Memories, Yankton, SD. Visitations will begin at 5:00 PM, at the Opsahl-Kostel Funeral Home & Crematory, Yankton, SD with a rosary at 7:00 PM followed by a Scripture service at 7:30 PM. Visitations will resume one hour prior to the service at the church. Pallbearers are grandchildren: Curtiss Steiner, Caleb Steiner, Christopher Kreitzinger, Matthew Kreitzinger, Jacob Kreitzinger and Cody Steiner. Rose Mary was born on April 23, 1932 in Omaha, Nebraska to John and Pauline (Burke) Schweiger. She grew up in Omaha and graduated from South High School. While in school she completed drawing and secretarial classes that helped her professionally and personally the rest of her life. After graduating high school, Rose Mary was hired to work in the office at Cudahy Meat Packing. She was then hired by Mother's Best Flour to also work in the office. Mother's Best was acquired by ConAgra and it was while she was working there that she met and married Dan Steiner. She continued to work until she quit prior to having the first of their seven children. The couple lived in Omaha until 1975 when Dan acquired the Steiner's Locker and the family moved to Yankton. Rose Mary had a gift for the arts. She enjoyed dancing and met Dan while dancing at Sokol Hall in Omaha. The couple enjoyed polka and waltz dancing for the majority of their 55 years together. She drew pictures for their children and helped create visual displays for Dan's meat case at Hinky Dinky. She later took up oil painting and recreated outdoor, cabin and western themed pieces of art. She also played the piano. She always said that all she wanted from life was to have a large and loving family. She served as a model of unconditional love to her family, never spoke ill of anyone and possessed great faith. She always cared for her family before herself and often was routinely still up working long after the rest of the family called it a day. By example, she taught her family the virtue of humility, the power of prayer and to treat everyone with respect. She especially enjoyed holidays when the entire family was at home. Rose Mary is survived by her husband, Dan of Yankton, SD; children and spouses: Sandra Steiner of Denver, CO, Michael Steiner and John Burge of Palm Springs, CA, Joseph and Kim (Wuestewald) Steiner of Yankton, South Dakota, Timothy and Sheila (Jansen) Steiner of Yankton, SD, Brian and Sarah (Wright) Steiner of Waverly, IA, Theresa (Steiner) and Mark Burbach of Yankton, SD, and Julie (Steiner) and Eric Abele of Aurora, CO; brother, Don and sister-in-law, Jeri Schweiger of Scottsdale, AZ; sister-in-law, Bev Schweiger of Omaha, NE and 14 grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents Pauline (Burke) and John Schweiger and brother, John Schweiger.