Walt & Terri Sterneman's Family Pages

Person Chart

Parents

Father	Date of Birth	Mother	Date of Birth
Emil Friedrich Loew	06 Nov 1859	Bertha Glarner	10 Jul 1862

Partners

Partner	Date of Birth	Children
Hans Cäsar (John) Stirnimann	20 Nov 1889	Margret Sterneman Robert Sterneman John Edward Sterneman Della Jeanette Sterneman Joseph Phillip Sterneman Walter Phillip Sterneman Edward Sterneman Elizabeth Jane Sterneman

Person Events

Event Type	Date	Place	Description
Birth	31 Dec 1886	Binningen, Basel-Land, Switzerland
Marriage	15 Feb 1912	Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
Immigration	08 Jul 1912	New York
Letter	25 Oct 1922	St. Louis, MO	to her sister Martha
Letter	09 Mar 1923	Evansville, IN	to her sister Martha
Death	10 Mar 1963	Evansville, IN
Burial		St. Joseph Cemetery, Evansville, In.

Notes


NOTE FROM ADELE (STERNEMAN) MOORE: Adèle Loew was the third daughter of four that survived. Her mother died shortly after child birth when Adèle was around four years of age, and the girls were sent to different relatives. Adèle lived with two unmarried aunts in a remote area of the Alpsnear Basel. At fourteen she was sent as a governess to a French family. In exchange they subsidized her education. Returning to her aunt's home, she worked in Basel as a store manager. Evenings were spent making lace and embroidery to sell at the store. There was little to do in the winter, and they hand carved wooden blades in order to ice skate. She met her husband during her employment at the store. A few months after her husband left Switzerland for America, she followed, on the SS Lapland, Antwerp to NY July 8, 1912. She didn't know English except "milk for baby" and "which way St. Louis?" She later said that each time her ticket got smaller, she knew she was getting closer to her destination. John and Adèle (Della) called each other Chassy (for Caesar) and Delli. Adele converted to Catholicism in 1927. Prior to this she had attended a church next to the jail. Adèle's hobbies were gardening, ceramics and painting with oils on canvas.

NOTE FROM ADELE (STERNEMAN) MOORE:

Adèle Loew was the third daughter of four that survived. Her mother died shortly after child birth when Adèle was around four years of age, and the girls were sent to different relatives. Adèle lived with two unmarried aunts in a remote area of the Alpsnear Basel. At fourteen she was sent as a governess to a French family. In exchange they subsidized her education. Returning to her aunt's home, she worked in Basel as a store manager. Evenings were spent making lace and embroidery to sell at the store. There was little to do in the winter, and they hand carved wooden blades in order to ice skate. She met her husband during her employment at the store. A few months after her husband left Switzerland for America, she followed, on the SS Lapland, Antwerp to NY July 8, 1912. She didn't know English except "milk for baby" and "which way St. Louis?" She later said that each time her ticket got smaller, she knew she was getting closer to her destination.

John and Adèle (Della) called each other Chassy (for Caesar) and Delli. Adele converted to Catholicism in 1927. Prior to this she had attended a church next to the jail. Adèle's hobbies were gardening, ceramics and painting with oils on canvas.

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