STOKESBARY, Arvid, burdett

STOKESBURY, SEGLEM, WHITEHURST, FORD, LAMBERT, HATCHER, HANSMEIER

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/11/2013 at 12:20:43

Arvid Burdett Stokesbary, 84, of Clear Lake, died Saturday, March 2, 2002, at
the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.
Funeral and Masonic services will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday, March 7, at the United
Methodist Church in Clear Lake with the Rev. Fred Lewis officiating. The
Masonic services will be held by the Harding Lodge No. 649 AF&AM. Burial will be
in the Clear Lake Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 until 7 p.m. on Wednesday
at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial chapel, 101 North 4th St., Clear Lake, and one
hour prior to service time on Thursday at the church. The family of Arvid
Burdett Stokesbary has requested that memorial contributions be made to the
United Methodist Church in Clear Lake, in his memory.

Arvid Burdett Stokesbary was born on April 9, 1917, in Klemme, Iowa, the son of
Joe and Pauline (Seglem) Stokesbary. Arvid grew up in the Klemme area and
attended and received his education in the rural country school near Klemme. He
was united in marriage to Evelyn "Jane" Whitehurst on Jan. 9, 1936, in Klemme.
In 1942, they moved to Ames, Iowa where Arvid was a city bus driver for 12 years
before moving to Kansas City, Mo. in 1959, driving for Merchant Freight Company
until he retired in 1975. After his retirement Arvid worked part-time at the
Sheraton Inn in Mason City for 15 years, until the hotel was sold. Arvid also
did volunteer work; most recently for Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason
City.

Arvid became a Mason in 1957, and was also master of the Masonic Lodge in Clear
Lake. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake, Clear Lake
Evening Lions Club since 1975 where he was very active in fund raising, was a
member of Oak Hill Gold Course where he was an avid golfer, and was a regular
member of the Downtown Coffee group.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife, Evelyn "Jane" Stokesbary of Clear Lake;
children, Barbara J. Ford and her husband, Paul, of Springfield, Ill., Beverly
J. Lambert of Springfield, Ill., Darly B. Stokesbary and his wife, Sandy, of
Hampton, Minn., Bethene J. Hatcher and her husband, Gene, of Winchester, Ill.,
and Debra K. Hansmeier and her husband, Mick, of Eagan, Minn.; 15 grandchildren,
18 great-grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews; as well as other relatives
and many friends.
His parents, five brothers and four sisters preceded him in death.