Van FLEET, Manford "Bill"

VAN FLEET, HOVLAND, HALVORSON, BLUNT, WERNER, SIMES

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 5/9/2016 at 21:28:32

Obituary ~ Manford "Bill" Van Fleet
August 25, 1928 ~ January 31, 1996

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
February 02, 1996

Manford "Bill" Van Fleet, 67, of 1011 N. Polk Ave., Mason City, died Wednesday (Jan. 31, 1996) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit.

Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at Trinity Lutheran Church with the Rev. John Gannett of Trinity Lutheran Church and the Rev. Herbert Shafer of Grace United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery with full military rites provided by the Mason City Memorial Association.

Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., and will continue one hour prior to service time at the church.

The family suggests memorials to Hospice of North Iowa in memory of Bill Van Fleet.

Manford "Bill" Van Fleet was born Aug. 25, 1928, the son of Ollie and Emma (Hovland) Van Fleet, in Mason City. Bill attended Mason City schools and then enlisted in the U.S. Navy and served during World War II.

After the war he returned to Mason City and married Dorothy Halvorson on April 13, 1950. Bill worked for Nehi Bottling Company, which later became Mid-Continent Bottlers, for almost 40 years, retiring as manager in 1986. Bill enjoyed square dancing, camping, golfing, woodworking and his winter trips to their home in Weslaco, Texas. His greatest love was his family and friends that he made everywhere he went.

He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church, VFW and the Military Order of the Cooties.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Van Fleet, of Mason City; two daughters, Kris Blunt and her husband, Mike, and Donna Wernet and her husband, Don, both of Mason City; four grandchildren, Logan Werner, Shane Blunt and his wife, Cindy, Jason Blunt, and Mindy Blunt, all of Mason City; one great-grandson, Jordan Blunt of Mason City; one sister, Bonnie Simes and her husband, Don, of Waterville, Minn.; one niece; and two nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, May of 2016