Leslie Joyce "Swede" Cronwall

CRONWALL, GASSON, JARMAN, SCHULZ

Posted By: Marlene Skalberg (email)
Date: 11/11/2014 at 16:43:52

Leslie Joyce "Swede" Cronwall, 93, Cedar Rapids, was born to Nels P. and Drucilla Gasson Cronwall on September 4, 1903 on the family farm southwest of Nodaway. He died March 12, 1997, at St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
He attended rural grade school at Lyons No. 9 and graduated from Nodaway High School in 1922. He attended Parson's College from Nodaway High School in 1922. He attended Parson's College in Fairfield and received his teaching certificate in 1929.
He was married to Florence Jarman January 11, 1930 in Fremont Nebraska.
After graduation he was an instructor at Nodaway Public Schools. He moved to Cincinnati where he was an instructor, principal, and superintendent. Later he was superintendent at Emrson and Ruthven schools.
Mr. Cronwall returned to the Cronwall family farm in 1948 where he farmed for 31 years. He sold insurance for Bankers Life of Nebraska from 1949-1951 and also instructed Gls in farm management in 1949-1950. He was an Adams County Supervisor from 1965-1969 and was a member of the Nodaway and Villisca Presbyterian Churches. His hobbies were woodworking, fishing, hunting, his flower garden and garden. He was known at Great-Papa to his great-grandchildren.
He is survived by his daughter, Marilyn J. (husband Allie) Schulz, Davenport, Iowa; sisters Glennola Stanton, Des Moines, and Allie Crussel, Pine River, California; three grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
Services were held March 15, at the Villisca Presbyterian Church with the Rev. Sandra Wainwright officiating. Burial was in the Nodaway Cemetery.
Casket bearers were Kurt Schulz, Mitchel Schulz, David Kernen, Jeffrey Schulz, Charles Stanton, and Andrew Crussell.
Honoray bearers were Joe Northup, Dolores Haley, Garland Lewis, Gerald Maxwell, Mike Shipley, Bill Smith, Dave Agnew, Bill Shipley, and Annette Kladde.
Coen-Beaty Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
Adams County Free Press, March 20, 1997, page 2