BUDOLFSON, Al

BUDOLFSON, TWIGG, IVES, EMERSON, HORNADAY

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/18/2013 at 23:32:07

Mr. Al Budolfson, 74, Clear Lake, died Sunday, Nov. 13, 1994, at the
East Campus, Mason City, Iowa.

Memorial services will be held today (Wednesday), Nov. 16, at 1 North Iowa
Mercy Health Center East Campus, Mason City, Iowa.

Memorial services will be held today (Wednesday), Nov. 16, at 11 a.m. at the
United Methodist Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Fred Lewis officiating.
Inurnment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City.

The family suggest memorials in his name.

Al was born Aug. 1, 1920, in Rolfe, Iowa, the son of Budolf Christian and
Martha Idella (nee) Twigg Budolfson. He graduated from Rolfe High School in
1938. He graduated from Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, with a degree in
Dairy Industry. While attending the university, Al was co-captain of the 1941
basketball team which won the Big 6 Basketball Conference.

Al was awarded the Iowa High School Basketball Hall of Fame Award in 1970 and
the Iowa State University Cyclone Legends Award in 1993.

He served in the Marine Corps during World War II in the South Pacific.

Al married his grade school sweetheart Mary Ives on Nov. 22, 1945, in Rolfe,
Iowa. They lived in Clear Lake their entire married life. He worked as Quality
Control Manager for State Brand Creamery (later called AMPI) in Mason City. He
retired in 1982. He was a member of United Methodist Church, Clear Lake and
Clear Lake V.F.W.

He is survived by his wife, Mary Budolfson, Clear Lake; three children, Linda
Emerson and her husband, Ray, Mason City, Bob Budolfson and his wife, Patti,
Bull Shoals, Ark., and Martha Hornaday and her husband, Bill, Phoenix, Ariz.;
two brothers, Ed Budolfson, Eau Claire, Wis., and Chris Budolfson and his
wife, Dorothy, Ames, Iowa; two sisters, Marie Budolfson, Ames, Iowa, and Doris
Sharp, Vincent, Iowa; eleven grandchildren, Erin Emerson, Kara Emerson, Ryan
Emerson, Brad Budolfson, Brett Budolfson, Brent Budolfson, Matthew Leclercq,
Manny Leclercq, Christian Leclercq, Bill Hornaday and Curtis Hornaday.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and one daughter-in-law, Bonnie
Budolfson.