BARTELL, Lyle C. Sr.

BARTELL, FOSTER, HOLMEN, COWELL, CLARKE, ALBRECHT

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/23/2014 at 12:31:14

Obituary - Lyle C. Bartell
November 27, 1921 ~ June 06, 1999

Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa

MASON CITY - Lyle C. Bartell Sr., 77, of 728 S. Polk, died Sunday (June 6, 1999) at the North Iowa Mercy Health Center.

Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 213 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. John Gannett officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, with military rites by the Mason City Veterans Memorial Association (flag and 'Taps").

Visitation will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., and one hour prior to services on Wednesday at the church.

Memorials may be given to the Lyle C. Bartell Sr. Memorial Fund.

Lyle C. Bartell Sr. was born Nov. 27, 1921, in Mason City, Iowa, to Oscar D. and Alice (Foster) Bartell. Lyle attended Mason City Schools.

Lyle served in the U.S. Army during World War II in New Guinea from December of 1942 to December of 1945.

Lyle married Clara Holmen at the Trinity Lutheran Church on May 1, 1948. Lyle was employed at Mason City Brick & Tile for 28 years, retiring in 1977 due to ill health.

Lyle loved doing yard work and tinkering with his car and for many years, he enjoyed his fishing trips with his family to northern Minnesota. Lyle also was an avid reader.

He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church.

He is survived by his wife, Clara Bartell, of Mason City; one son, Lyle Bartell Jr., and his wife, Beth, of Mason City; two daughters, Laurie Cowell and her husband, Buzz, of Mason City, and Linda Clarke and her husband, Dan, of Mason City; two grandchildren, Tracy Albrecht and her husband, Scott, of Mason City and Matt Bartell, of Mason City.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Gale, Bob and DeLos; and two sisters, Virginia and Beulah.

Major Erickson Funeral Home, (515) 423-0924.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2014