VAN GORDER, Milton G. 1919-1990

VAN GORDER, HOMAN, HENKLE, PILLARD, MILLER, MICHELS, SCHULTZ, ERICKSON

Posted By: S. Bell
Date: 12/4/2013 at 01:16:33

[Waterloo Courier, Sunday, December 30, 1990]

Milton G. Van Gorder, 71, of 625 Home Acres, died Friday afternoon, Dec.. 28, 1990, at Allen Memorial Hospital of complications during open heart surgery.

He was born Sept. 25, 1919, in Postville, son of Sankey and Minnie Homan Van Gorder. He married Frances Henkle on Dec. 26, 1947, in Waukon.

He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Army. He was a truck driver with Marquart Concrete Block Company for several years, and later managed Black Hawk Waste Disposal for 14 years. He farmed in Buchanan County for several years, was an independent truck driver and owned and operated the Rush Park Cafe and Tavern in Independence, retiring in 1983.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Tom of Vinton and Dennis of Cedar Rapids; four daughters, Rita Pillard of Rowley, Nancy Michels of Independence, Jeanette Miller of Turpin, Okla., and Betty Van Gorder of Cedar Rapids; 17 grandchildren; two brothers, Leslie of Waterloo and Robert of Evansdale; and two sisters, Ida Mae Schutz of Elkader and Grace Erickson of Farmersburg.

Services will be 11 a.m. Monday at St. Nicholas Catholic Church. Full military rites will be conducted following services by Amvet Post 31 of Evansdale and Amvet Post 19 of Waterloo.

Burial will be 2 p.m. at St. John's Cemetery in Independence. Friends may call at O'Keefe & Towne-Grarup & Waychoff Funeral Home in Waterloo, from 3 to 8 p.m. today, where there will be a parish vigil service at 7 p.m. and from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. Monday.

Memorials may be directed to the family.