Edwin Alfred Winter 1931-2000

LIVINGOOD, WINTER, FLAGE, HALVERSON, SHINDOLL

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 12/20/2009 at 12:49:50

Edwin A. Winter, 69, of Waukon, died Tuesday, December 12, 2000 at Lutheran Hospital in LaCrosse, WI, following a sudden illness. Funeral services will be held Friday, December 15, at 1:30 p.m. at Zion United Church of Christ in Waukon with Rev. Richard Eick officiating. Burial with military graveside rites will be in Oakland Cemetery, Waukon. Friends may call from 3 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon.

Edwin Alfred Winter was born October 22, 1931 on the Ludlow township, rural Waukon, IA farm of his parents, Alfred Lewis and Nellie Esther (Livingood) Winter. He was baptized and confirmed at Zion United Church of Christ and attended rural Allamakee County elementary schools and Postville High School. From 1950 to 1954 he was in the US Navy seeing duty on the USS Hanna and USS Agerholm. On May 22, 1955 he married Marilyn Flage at Zion United Church of Christ. Edwin farmed in Allamakee County for many years. He also worked as a parts manager for Waukon Implement and Dee Implement in Waukon and at the Northern Engraving plant in Lansing before retiring in 1997.

Ed was a member of Zion United Church of Christ. He enjoyed doing mechanical things, working with crafts, fishing, gardening, and planting trees, snowmobiling, and watching birds and making them feeders. He was very fond of family times.

Preceding him in death are his parents and two brothers, Calvin and Gilbert. Survivors include his wife Marilyn, two sisters, Virginia Halverson and Margaret (Calvin) Shindoll, a brother, Cletus (Janice) Winter, all of Waukon, and a sister-in-law Marjorie Winter of Postville.

Honorary casketbearers were Bob Hagen and Reuben Hager. Casketbearers were Jim Christensen, Dale Hartong, Neil Barth, Gary Hove, Gordon Steffenson and Don Angel.

Postville Herald-Leader newspaper clipping.