FOY, James D. (Dale Herbert NAUMAN)

FOY, NAUMAN, SHARP, BLANKENSHIP, PETERSON, HERSHEY, GLICK, WILCOX, CHAPMAN, SCHMOLKE, FANGMAN, HOFFMAN

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/6/2016 at 12:21:08

Obituary ~ James D. Foy
March 19, 1920 ~ March 28, 2016

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
April 09, 1996

James D. Foy, 56, of 2108 Pine Tree Court, Clear Lake, died Saturday (April 6, 1996) at home following a brief illness.

A Mass of the Resurrection will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Patrick's Catholic Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Jerry Kopacek officiating. Graveside services will be held at Elmwood-St. Joseph Cemetery, Mason City. Cremation will follow after the graveside service and inurnment will take place at a later date.

Visitation will begin at 4 p.m. Wednesday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St., Clear Lake, with a 7 p.m. Knights of Columbus rosary and a 7:30 p.m. Scriptural wake service.

The family requests that memorials be made to the James D. Foy Memorial Fund, care of Hancock County Bank and Trust Company, 175 E. Third St., Garner, Iowa 50438.

James D. Foy was born Dale Herbert Nauman in Dubuque, on Sept. 12, 1939, the son of Frank and Frances Nauman. After residing at the St. Mary's Orphan Home in Dubuque for several years, he and his brother, Denny, became foster sons of James L. and Ida (Sharp) Foy of Britt. They were adopted by the Foys on May 4, 1959.

He attended grade school in Dubuque and was a graduate of Britt High School and Hamilton Business College and later attended classes at the University of Northern Iowa.

At the time of his death, he was employed by the Hancock County Bank and Trust in Garner. He had previously been employed by the Community State Bank in Clear Lake.

He was a member of the American Society of Certified Public Accountants, Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants, Garner Rotary Club, Clear Lake Council 7898 of the Knights of Columbus, Monsignor Dougherty Assembly of the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus and the North Iowa Road Riders.

Survivors include his wife, Sue, of Clear Lake; two sons, Jamie and his wife, Debra, of Mason City, and Brent Foy of Hastings, Minn.; a daughter, Jonie Blankenship and her husband, Todd, of Leland; two stepdaughters, Lori Peterson of Mason City, and Tami Hershey and her husband, Todd, of Ames; six grandchildren, Crystal, Shawn and Travis Foy of Mason City, Matthew and Michael Foy of Manly, and Alyssa Blankenship of Leland; two stepgrandchildren, Katilynn and Logan Hershey of Ames; a brother, Denny Foy and his wife, Ruth, of Campbell, Calif.; two sisters, Rosemarie Glick and her husband, Clifford, and Virginia Wilcox, all of Galena, Ill.; a special aunt, Grace Chapman of Emmetsburg; his mother-in-law, Margaret Schmolke Fangman of Clear Lake; numerous nieces and nephews; and a foreign exchange student son, Patrick Hoffman of Dangast, Germany.

He was preceded in death by his biological parents; his adoptive parents; four sisters; one brother; and an uncle, LaVerne Chapman.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2016