ROATH, Dewane G.

ROATH, TWEED, ROGNESS, AUS, WILCOX, HANSEN, MUELLER, POSENKANY, DEWALL

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 12/18/2013 at 18:59:47

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
October 01, 1997

Obituary - Dewane G. Roath
August 28, 1920 ~ September 28, 1997

MASON CITY — Dewane G. Roath, 77, of 1215 Sixth St. S.E., died Sunday (Sept. 28, 1997) at the North Iowa Mercy Health Center East.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday at the First Covenant Church, Highway 18 East at Ohio Avenue, with the Rev. Rich Murray officiating. Interment will be at the Bethel Lutheran Brethren Cemetery, Joice, with the Rev. Richard Rogness, officiating.

Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., and one hour prior to services at the church.

Memorials may be given to the Dewane G. Roath Memorial Fund.

Dewane Guy Roath was born Aug. 28, 1920, in Fertile, Iowa, the son of Ira and Theresa (Tweed) Roath.

Dewane married Mureen Rogness on Nov. 19, 1944, at Bethel Lutheran Brethren Church, in Joice, Iowa.

Dewane worked for International Harvester for 37 years retiring in 1982.

Dewane enjoyed working with guns and had a great love for fishing. He attended First Covenant Church in Mason City.

Those left to cherish his memory are his loving wife, Mureen Roath, of Mason City; two daughters, Marlys Aus and husband, Duane, of Detroit Lakes, Minn., and Connie Wilcox and her husband, Robert, of Mason City; one son, Verlyn Roath, of Mason City; five grandchildren, Donald Aus, Moorhead, Minn., Lonnie Hansen and his wife, Vonnie, of Detroit Lakes, Minn., Lori Mueller and husband, Rolie, of Detroit Lakes, Minn., Robbie Wilcox, of Mason City, Christine Posenkany and her husband, Greg, of Mason City; five great-grandchildren, Sara & Jessica Hansen, Ariel, Bethani and Taylor Mueller; two brothers, Gary Roath and his wife, Alice, of Mason City, Boyd Roath and his wife, Grace, of Mason City; one sister, Iris DeWall and her husband, Harris, of Mason City; six brothers-in-law, Lavern, Richard, Rollin, Glenn, Burdean and Kennis Rogness.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, December of 2013