Enabnit, Elgin G. 1901 - 1995

ENABNIT, TANK, LANG

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 5/23/2013 at 14:05:47

Elgin G. Enabnit, 93, of Clear Lake, died Sunday, July 23, 1995, at Good
Shepherd Care Center in Mason City. Funeral services will be held Thursday,
July 27, at 1 p.m., at the United Church of Christ in Osage. Burial will be in
Elmwood Cemetery in Mason City. Visitation will be from 4-8 p.m. today
(Wednesday), July 26, at Major-Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave.,
Mason City, with Masonic Rites by the Osage Lodge at 7 p.m. Visitation will also
be at 11 a.m. on Thursday at the church at Osage.

Elgin G. Enabnit was born Sept. 16, 1901, at Mingo, Iowa, the son of Fred
and Katherine Enabnit. He was married to Clarice Rose Tank of Mason City in
December, 1922, and lived in Mason City, Marble Rock, Osage and Clear Lake in
Iowa and Lewiston and Milville in Minnesota. Clarice died in June, 1967. Elgin
married Vera J. Lang of Clear Lake in November of 1968. Vera died in January,
1994.

He was Mayor of Osage for 26 years beginning in
1956. He was instrumental in making many city improvements during this tenure.
Most noteworthy are the four-lane tree-lined mainstreet and obtaining the
municipal franchise to go along with the municipal electric utility giving the
city the lowest utility rates in the state.

He was instrumental in forming the North Iowa Council of Governments and
served as its first president. He helped organize the North Iowa Crime
Commission and served on its board and also as its president. Elgin served as
president of the Osage Chamber of Commerce, Chairman of the Mitchell County
Cancer Society
for five years and was first president of the Mitchell County Historical
Society. He was also president of the Osage Development Corporation and was
Mitchell County's Civil Defense Director for 10 years. He is a charter member of
the Osage Rotary Club and its past president and was also named a Rotary Paul
Harris Fellow.

Mr. Enabnit farmed and was in business in Minnesota, moving to Osage in 1944
where he operated an oil company and automobile dealership.

Teacher and Superintendent and was a member of the Board of Trustees and
served as moderator for 17 years of the Osage United Church of Christ. He also
served three years as President of the Congregational Laymen of Iowa and three
years on the Board of Directors of the United Church of Christ of Iowa and was
State Moderator.

He served as Master of the Osage Masonic Lodge and was Commander of the
Commandery and was past president of the North Iowa Shrine Club
and the North Iowa Consistery. He also was a past Noble Grand of the Osage Odd
Fellows Lodge. He was a member of the Boy Scouts for over 50 years and was
president for three years of the Winnebago Council. He won the highest award for
volunteer workers in the Boy Scouts, the Silver Beaver.

Survivors include five children, Elgin (Jr.) Enabnit, and his wife,
Phyllis of Weston, Conn., Ted Enabnit, Mason City, Jerry Enabnit, San
Antonio, Texas, Betty Burling, Minneapolis, Minn., and Shirley McGhan
and her husband, Donald, Las Vegas, Nev.; one step-son, Ron W. Lang
and his wife, Carolyn, Lincoln, Neb.; 17 grandchildren; two step-
grandchildren; and 31 great-grandchildren; and one step-great-
grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents; five brothers; a daughter;
a son; a son-in-law; and a daughter-in-law. and his wife, Carolyn,
Lincoln, Neb.; 17 grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; and 31
great-grandchildren; and one step-great-grandchild.

He was preceded in death by his parents; five brothers; a son; a son-in-law;
and a daughter-in-law