DOMINIC, Jack J.

DOMINIC, JOHNSON, LUDEKE, SOENS, ZOLNAY, WHITNEY, PHILLIPS

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 6/22/2013 at 12:05:48

Jack J. DOMINIC – Mason City – Jack J. DOMINIC, 75, of 1000 N. Eisenhower, formerly of Clear Lake, died Friday (April 9, 1993) at North Iowa Medical Center. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Clear Lake United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bernard Olson and the Rev. Frederick Lewis officiating. Burial will be in Ell Township Cemetery at Klemme, with military honors conducted at the cemetery by Klemme Legion Post No. 625.
Visitation is after 5 p.m. Monday at Ward Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, with a prayer service beginning at 7 p.m. including Masonic and White Shrine services. All friends and relatives are welcome. There will be further visitation one hour prior to the service Tuesday at the church.
Jack DOMINIC was born Dec. 17, 1917, at Boxholm to Arthur and Mable (JOHNSON) DOMINIC. He attended the Boxholm school graduating in 1935, Iowa State University majoring in economics, and worked for Pepsi-Cola in Des Moines as an accountant.
In the fall of 1940, he volunteered for the first draft out of Fort Des Moines and entered the armed forces on Jan. 6, 1941, as a private at $21 per month. When war was declared 11 months later, he applied for Officers’ Candidate School and graduated as a 2nd Lieutenant in May, 1942.
He was married to Doris LUDEKE in the Klemme Methodist Church on May 28, 1942.
Jack served five years in the armed forces, the last two in Italy with the 4th Corps, serving as Quartermaster in charge of moving food and supplies up the mountains usually by mule train. He was promoted to Major in 1944 and arrived home for a two month furlough in the fall of 1945 preparatory to joining the South Pacific forces, which became unnecessary before his furlough expired. He retired from the Army Reserve in October, 1977 as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Jack was a member of Verity Lodge AF & AM, a member of the Clear Lake School Board for several terms in the 1950s and ‘60s, was a member of the building committee in1955 for the new Methodist Church. He was a member of the Rotary International, Eastern Star and White Shrine.
He was a realtor for 44 years in Clear Lake. He and his wife, Doris, had celebrated their 50th anniversary in May and moved to the Willows retirement home on Sept. 1, 1992.
Survivors include his wife, Doris DOMINIC, Mason City; four daughters, Mrs. Lew (Jill) SOENS, South Bend, Ind., Mrs. Pamela ZOLNEY, Chicago, Ill., Rebecca J. DOMINIC, Helena, Mont., and Mrs. Bryan (Darcie) WHITNEY, Mason City; one sister, Mrs. Paul (Mae) PHILLIPS, Fort Dodge; one brother , Frank DOMINIC, Ogden, Utah; four grandchildren, Lewis and Ingrid SOENS, both of South Bend, Ind. , Molly ZOLNEY, Chicago, Ill., and Hunter WHITNEY, Mason City; many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant brother.