Andrew Eberle

Andrew Eberle

STRASBURG-Andrew Eberle, 94, Strasburg, formerly of Hague, died May 14, 2006, at Strasburg Care Center. Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, May 18, at St. Mary's Catholic Church, Hague, with the Revs. Leonard Eckroth and Paul Eberle officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery.

Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday at Myers Funeral Home, Linton, where a prayer service will be held at 8 p.m. Visitation will continue one hour before service time on Thursday. Andrew Eberle was born May 6, 1912, on a farm near Hague, the son of Joseph and Magdalena (Wolf) Eberle. He attended country school. Andrew moved to San Francisco in 1937. While in San Francisco, Andrew drove taxi cab and later worked in the shipyards. He married Elizabeth Fischer on May 6, 1941, in San Francisco.

In 1946, they returned to Hague, where they owned and operated Eberle Motors.

They retired in 1980, but Andrew continued to help out in the shop. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church, a lifetime member of the Knights of Columbus, served on the Hague City Council, St. Mary's Church Council and Hague School Board. Andrew enjoyed bowling, coin collecting, playing cards, square dancing, playing practical jokes, and he also enjoyed doing the laundry. Andrew will always be remembered by family as a kind, gentle, loving father, who loved his children very much. Grateful to have shared his life are his wife: Elizabeth, Strasburg; four sons and three daughters-in-law: Earl and Bernadette Eberle, Newark, Calif., Ernest Eberle, Phoenix, Andy Lee and Natalie Eberle, Strasburg, and Dion and Sharon Eberle, Hague; two daughters and one son-in-law: Lorraine and Stephen Zucker, El Sobrante, Calif., and Melinda Robbins, Pinole, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; two great grandchildren; two brothers and seven sisters-in-law, Adam and Katie Eberle, Hague, Dr. John and Frances Eberle, Bloomer, Wis., Rose Eberle, Hague, Marietta Eberle, Hague, Phyllis Eberle, Lodi, Calif., Joanne Eberle, Concord, Calif., and Marianne Eberle, Spokane, Wash. He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters and eight brothers.