BIRDSELL, Donald E.
BIRDSELL, LOMEN, KLINGE, DIXON, JOHNSTON, BRAMSEN, WHIPPLE, REYNOLDS, WAITE, LIPP, BAHNSEN, SCHIEFELBEIN, HANSEN, KOFRON, PATTSCHULL, LONG, TRIMBLE
Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 9/5/2016 at 06:09:45
Obituary ~ Donald E. Birdsell
August 14, 1918 ~ February 10, 2008The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
February 12, 2008Donald E. Birdsell, 89, of 1300 Second Ave. N. in Clear Lake, died Sunday (Feb. 10, 2008) at his residence.
Funeral services will be held 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 15, at the United Methodist Church, 508 Second Ave. N. in Clear Lake, with the Rev. Dianna Hoover officiating. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery in Mason City.
Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday at Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake, and then one hour before the service on Friday at the church.
Memorials may be made to the Donald E. Birdsell Memorial Fund.
Donald was born Aug. 14, 1918, the son of Marx Edward and Edith (Lomen) Birdsell at Mason City. Donald attended Mason City High School. He worked for the Busy Bee Shoe Shop in Mason City.
Donald married June Klinge on April 5, 1941, at Hampton. They moved to Richmond, Calif., where he worked in the shipyards during the war. After the war, they returned to Mason City where he was employed at Peoples Gas & Electric.
In 1946, they moved to Manly where they owned and operated the Shop & Go Grocery Store. They moved back to Mason City in 1959 where he was employed with Mason City School System.
In 1969 they moved to Miramar, Fla., where he worked at Hollywood Memorial Hospital as an engineer before retiring in 1985. In 1987 they moved to Warsaw, Mo., where they lived until moving to their present home here in Clear Lake in 1994 to be closer to their children.
Donald loved playing golf, woodworking, fishing, and built one of his own fishing boats. He especially enjoyed spending time and being around his family and grandchildren.
He is survived by his wife, June, of Clear Lake; three daughters, Sharon (Larry) Dixon, Linda Johnston and Nancy Whipple, all of Mason City; seven grandchildren, Laura Bramsen and her partner, Darin Reynolds, Tracy (Michael) Waite, Jessica Johnston-Lipp, William T. Whipple, David (Lisa) Whipple, June (Michael) Bahnsen and Benjamin Whipple; eight great-grandchildren, Jeramy Schiefelbein, Jacob (Treena) Waite, Benjamin (Katie) Bramsen, Jillian Waite, William G. Whipple, Brenna Johnston, Amaya Bahnsen and Julia Whipple; and four great-great-grandchildren, Alexis Schiefelbein, MaKayla Waite, MaKenna Waite and Hailey Hansen; two brothers-in-law, Donald Kofron and David (Patricia) Klinge.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Mildred Pattschull, Lucille Long Trimble and Dorris Kofron.
Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 641-357-2193. www.colonialchapels.com
Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, September of 2016
Cerro Gordo Obituaries maintained by Lynn Diemer-Mathews.
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