ARNESON, Marcus "Marc"

ARNESON, RUNNING, BARNES, HEWITT, STAUFFACHER, NICHOLS, FORNETTI, SCHMITT, DAVIS

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/1/2016 at 03:53:46

Obituary ~ Marcus "Marc" Arneson
June 11, 1905 ~ January 27, 2005

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Saturday, January 29 2005

CLEAR LAKE — Marcus "Marc" Arneson, 99, of Clear Lake died Thursday (Jan. 27, 2005) at Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City.

Funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday at First Congregational Church, 205 W. 10th Ave. N., Clear Lake, with the Rev. Thom Christian officiating.

Visitation will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake.

Memorials may be made to Opportunity Village, Hospice of North Iowa or the Clear Lake Congregational Church.

Marc was born June 11, 1905, the son of Halver and Anna (Running) Arneson at Ellsworth, Minn.

Marc married Winifred B. Barnes on June 9, 1931, at Ellsworth, Minn. They lived in Lyton and Fairmont, Minn., and moved to Clear Lake in 1941, when Marc bought controlling interest of the Clear Lake Bank.

Marc was responsible for the successful Group 3 — Iowa Bankers Association held in Clear Lake.

He was member of the Clear Lake Chamber and Economic Development, grand marshall of the Fourth of July parade, was owner of the Surf Ballroom, instrumental in the founding of Opportunity Village, was a past president of Rotary and a member of First Congregational Church.

Marc is survived by his daughter, Amy Hewitt and her husband, Ray, of Clear Lake; a son, Robert C. Arneson and his wife, Penelope, of Shorewood, Minn.; five grandchildren, Julie Stauffacher and her husband, Scott, of Clear Lake, Carrie Nichols and her husband, Paul, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa, Mark Hewitt and his wife, LeAnn, of Clear Lake, Joshua Arneson and his wife, Jennifer, of St. Louis Park, Minn., and Eva Fornetti and her husband, Pat, of Eden Prairie, Minn.; great-grandchildren, Ben and Andy Schmitt, Emily Stauffacher, Charlie and Billy Nichols, Rachel, Libby and Lauren Hewitt and Cyrus Arneson; one brother, Ray Arneson, of California; sister-in-law, Jean Davis and her husband, Alfred, of Albert Lea, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Winifred, on Feb. 28, 1990; one brother, Babe, and two sisters, Ethel and Viola.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, (641) 357-2193. http://www.colonialchapels.com">www.colonialchapels.com

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, August of 2016