ISENSEE, Robert H.

ISENSEE, BUELL, HAND, MILLER, KAHN, LANNOM

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/7/2013 at 18:23:52

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

Obituary - Robert H. Isensee
April 19, 1912 ~ Dec. 01, 1995

Robert H. Isensee, 83, formerly of Clear Lake, died Friday (Dec. 1, 1995) at Iowa Methodist Medical Center, Des Moines, of leukemia.

Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday (Dec. 16, 1995) at the Congregational United Church of Christ in Newton.

Friends may call from 4 to 6 p.m. today at the Reese Funeral Home, Newton. Memorials may be given to the Robert H. Isensee Memorial Fund and given to the Reese Funeral Home, 302 N. Second Ave. East, Newton, Iowa 50208.

Mr. Isensee had made his home in Newton, Clear Lake and Naples, Fla. He was married to Mary Buell on Feb. 1, 1942 in Webster City.

Robert was born April 19, 1912 in Fargo, N.D., the son of George and Lillian Hand Isensee. He graduated from Fargo High School and from the University of Iowa School of Law. Following college he went immediately into the banking business where he remained until the time of his death. He had owned banks in Iowa and a number of other states. At the present time he was chairman of the board of the First Newton National Bank in Newton.

He was a founding member of the Ding Darling Foundation; member of the Iowa State Bankers Association; a 40-year member of the Mason City Rotary Club, of which he was a Paul Harris Fellow; and a member of the Mason City Congregational United Church of Christ. He had served on many charitable boards in Mason City.

Survivors include two daughters, Mary Elisabeth Miller of Clive, and Jane Kahn of Newton; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild; and also a special friend and companion, Dorothy Lannom of Grinnell and Naples, Fla.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife Mary in 1991; and one brother.

NOTE: Robert served during World War II in the U.S. Navy as a quartermaster, 1942 - 1946.

Transcription and note by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013