Moses Whitmer
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Moses Whitmer
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Posted: 30 May 2009 5:16PM GMT |
Classification: Obituary
WILTON, Iowa - Moses M. Whitmer , 85, of Wilton, died Saturday, July 8, 2000, at Wilton Care Center in Wilton.
Services will be at Bentley Funeral Home in Wilton. The Rev. Marlin Whitmer will officiate. Organist will be Kathy Luethye and vocalist will be Henry Bentley. Pallbearers will be Ken Larson, Jason Larson, Justin Meeks, Philip Whitmer, Jon Whitmer, Jason Simmons, and Jeff Kaufman. Honorary pallbearers will be Gilbert Meinert, Joe Kaufman, Bob Frey, Ronald Fellner, Merlin Rosfjord, Alan Smith and Jim Lincoln. Burial will be at the Oakdale Cemetery in Wilton with military rites by the American Legion Post 430 of Durant.
Mr. Whitmer was born on April 25, 1915, in Cedar County, the son of Howard and Lillian Shadle
Whitmer. He married Loretta I. Osborn on Nov. 14, 1940, in Cedar Rapids.
He graduated from Wilton High School in 1933. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corp for 6 months.
He served in the Army during World War II in North Africa and Italy.
He retired from Pioneer Hybrids in Durant after 34 years.
He was a member of the Durant American Legion Post No. 430 for 45 years and the Muscatine VFW Post No. 1565.
Survivors include his wife, Loretta Whitmer of Wilton; two daughters, Shirley Larson and her husband, Kenneth, of Orion, Ill. and Judith Meeks and her husband, James, of Solon; a son, Delbert Whitmer and his wife, Sherry, of LeClaire; a sister, Ruby Kaufman and her husband, Freeman, of Wilton; four brothers, Harold and Herbert Whitmer, both of Tipton, James Whitmer of Lakeland, Fla., and Donald Whitmer of Kimberling City, Mo.; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Howard and Lillian Whitmer; a brother, Hilbert Whitmer; a sister, Dorothy Beaver.
Services will be at Bentley Funeral Home in Wilton. The Rev. Marlin Whitmer will officiate. Organist will be Kathy Luethye and vocalist will be Henry Bentley. Pallbearers will be Ken Larson, Jason Larson, Justin Meeks, Philip Whitmer, Jon Whitmer, Jason Simmons, and Jeff Kaufman. Honorary pallbearers will be Gilbert Meinert, Joe Kaufman, Bob Frey, Ronald Fellner, Merlin Rosfjord, Alan Smith and Jim Lincoln. Burial will be at the Oakdale Cemetery in Wilton with military rites by the American Legion Post 430 of Durant.
Mr. Whitmer was born on April 25, 1915, in Cedar County, the son of Howard and Lillian Shadle
Whitmer. He married Loretta I. Osborn on Nov. 14, 1940, in Cedar Rapids.
He graduated from Wilton High School in 1933. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corp for 6 months.
He served in the Army during World War II in North Africa and Italy.
He retired from Pioneer Hybrids in Durant after 34 years.
He was a member of the Durant American Legion Post No. 430 for 45 years and the Muscatine VFW Post No. 1565.
Survivors include his wife, Loretta Whitmer of Wilton; two daughters, Shirley Larson and her husband, Kenneth, of Orion, Ill. and Judith Meeks and her husband, James, of Solon; a son, Delbert Whitmer and his wife, Sherry, of LeClaire; a sister, Ruby Kaufman and her husband, Freeman, of Wilton; four brothers, Harold and Herbert Whitmer, both of Tipton, James Whitmer of Lakeland, Fla., and Donald Whitmer of Kimberling City, Mo.; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his mother and father, Howard and Lillian Whitmer; a brother, Hilbert Whitmer; a sister, Dorothy Beaver.