Dean Harlan Naven

NAVEN, HAGGERTY, HARRISON, MAURER, RICHIE

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 5/22/2012 at 16:28:38

Dean Harlan Naven, 70, Fort Dodge, was born Jan. 31, 1925, near Brooks to Elizabeth Haggerty Harrison and William Cranston Naven. He died of cancer at his home May 28. 1995.
He graduated from Corning High School and entered Drake University before being drafted into military service. He made 35 missions over Europe as a ball-turret gunner. He returned to Drake University and received a degree in broadcasting in 1948.
On Nov. 6, 1948, he married Claudine Maurer of Des Moines. In 1950 he was recalled into the then new U.S. Air Force, as a public relations spokesman for the European Allied efforts, notably the Berlin air lift and served under General Dwight D. Eisenhower. He resigned as a full lieutenant in 1952 and returned to KRNT-Radio in Des Moines.
Mr. Naven was a 45-year veteran of Iowa and Nebraska broadcasting, having received the Jack Shelley Award for outstanding broadcasting service by the Iowa Broadcasters Association in 1991, an association he headed as president many years prior. He retired from broadcasting in 1993. Among his airwave affiliations were KRNT-Radio. Des Moines; KOIL and KMTV. Omaha; news and program director KMA, Shenandoah; KHUB, Fremont, Neb.; news director for KTW, Sioux City; and news director for KWMT and KVFD, Fort Dodge.
In addition to his broadcasting credentials, Naven also was a Sioux City assistant city manager. Until his illness, he was editor and publisher of the Webster County Legal Record, and was a longtime correspondent for the Des Moines Register. Other affiliations included 32nd degree Mason, Ashlar Lodge; past president of ZaGaZig Shrine. Hawkeye Theatre of Fort Dodge; Iowa Broadcasters Association; Fort Dodge Library Board; past board member of Dixie Jazz Society: Fort Dodge and Iowa Development Commission; former Webster County Democrat party chairman: former Senior Warden, St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Fort Dodge; best acting awards from Hawkeye Community Theatre, Fort Dodge and Southwest Iowa Theatre Group. Shenandoah; past president, Shenandoah Chamber of Commerce; and former columnist for
the Shenandoah Weekly Times, entitled "As Naven Sees It!".
He was preceded in death by his parents; stepbrothers Burdette "Sugar" Harrison and Glenn Harrison; and step-sister Bernice Richie.
He is survived by his wife; daughters Tamara (husband Todd} Murray. Sacramento, Calif., Jeri (husband Arthur) McGinnis. Shenandoah; and Kim Lyman of Shenandoah; son Lt. Jeffrey William Naven, La Jolla, Calif.; and eight grandchildren.
Services were held May 30 at St. Mark's Episcopal Church with Father Stephen M.. Hall, rector of St. Mark's officiating. Inurment was May 31 at Prairie Rose Cemetery, Corning.
Memorials may be left to the Shriner's Hospitals or to the discretion of the family. ,
Bruce's Funeral Home in Fort Dodge was in charge of arrangements.
Adams County Free Press, June 8, 1995, page 2