Dennis Dean MOSHER

MOSHER, ANDERSON, GREIMANN, KRACHT, ELLISON, BYRD, HASSEBROCK

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/5/2011 at 19:08:31

Obituary - Dennis Dean Mosher

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Tuesday, May 24, 2005

CLEAR LAKE — Dennis MOSHER, 66, of 1200 10th Ave N., passed away Sunday (May 22, 2005) at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the First Congregational Church, 205 W. 10th Ave. N., Clear Lake with Pastor Tom HEALEY officiating. Burial will be in the Clear Lake Cemetery following the service.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. today at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake, and one hour prior to the service on Wednesday at the church.

The family suggests that memorials be directed to the Dennis MOSHER Memorial Fund.

Dennis Dean MOSHER was born Dec. 2, 1938, at Sac City, Iowa, son of Clare and Frida (ANDERSEN) MOSHER. Dennis attended school in Clear Lake and graduated with the Class of 1956. His classmates were very special to him because of the reunions and get-togethers they have had since graduation.

Dennis was baptized and confirmed in the First Congregational Church in Clear Lake. He was active in the Congo Club and the Choir.

On June 19, 1962, he married Delores GREIMANN at the Seventh Avenue Congregational Church in Denver, Colo.

After graduation from high school Dennis worked for Sedars Auto Co. in Mason City, and then worked for a short time at Younkers before joining Montgomery Ward.

In January, 1963 he was transferred to Duluth, Minn. with Montgomery Ward and remained there until 1967 when he was transferred to La Crosse, Wis. In 1968 he was transferred to Rochester, Minn. where he helped open the new Montgomery Ward store in Apache Mall.

In 1973, he and his family moved back to Clear Lake and he and his brother, Ron, owned the Gamble Store. In 1986 Dennis and Delores started their own national sales company, Dendee International. Dennis became disabled in 1997 and encountered many health problems in the following years. He became a resident of the Manly Care Center in April, 2005.

Dennis enjoyed fishing, golfing, bowling, sports on TV (he was an avid Iowa Hawkeye and Minnesota Viking fan), watching movies (which he enjoyed after spending many years helping his father in the theater business), and being with family and friends.

He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Delores; daughter Rochelle and her husband, Jeff KRACHT, of Clear Lake and their children, Heather and Logan and granddaughter, Ashlyn; son, Monte MOSHER and his wife, Dorcey, of Bowling Green, Ky. and their children, Jennifer, Amanda, Samantha, and Dillon; son, Dean MOSHER and his wife, Hollie, of Clear Lake and their son, Tyler; and Dennis' daughter, Mona, and her husband, Don ELLISON, of Bothell, Wash.; brother, Ron MOSHER and his wife, Donna, of Hager City, Wis.; mother-in-law, Ruth GREIMANN, of Garner; two brothers-in-law, Vernon GREIMANN and his wife, Shirley, of Eldora and Calvin GREIMANN and his wife, Nadia, of Lititz, Pa.; two sisters-in-law, Phyllis and her husband, Bill BYRD, of Newcastle, Wash. and Barbara and her husband, Wayne HASSEBROCK, of Kamrar; and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Clare MOSHER (June 2, 1964) and Frida MOSHER (Oct. 16, 1996); father-in-law, Curtis GREIMANN (March 26, 2005); several aunts and uncles; and four special MOSHER cousins and their spouses.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, (641) 357-2193. www.colonialchapels.com.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2011