BEEHNER, William Robert "Bill"

BEEHNER, SCHMIDT, CARTER, DANIELS, MARSTON, HEINES

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 10/30/2016 at 03:06:20

Obituary ~ William Robert "Bill" Beehner
August 20, 1916 ~ July 07, 2002

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
July 10, 2002

CLEAR LAKE- William "Bill" Robert Beehner, 85, of Clear Lake died Sunday (July 7, 2002) at the Oakwood Care Center in Clear Lake.

Graveside inurnment services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday at Memorial Park Cemetery, Highway 18, Mason City, with the Rev. Dennis Ganz officiating. Military honors will be by the Clear Lake Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Visitation will be held one hour prior to service time on Thursday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake.

William "Bill" Robert Beehner was born on Aug. 20, 1916, in Dunkerton, Iowa, the son of Otto and Ana (Schmidt) Beehner. He attended and received his education in the Dunkerton School system.

Bill was inducted into the U.S. Navy serving aboard the USS Kuhha Gulf in World War II.

He was united in marriage to Mary Carter on Dec. 12, 1944, in Telemuck, Ore. Bill worked for Borden's Ice Cream in Waterloo and Mason City for 42 years until his retirement.

He enjoyed golf, fishing, and woodworking, but his great love and enjoyment was his family and friends. He was loved by many, and will be sadly missed. His physical presence is gone, but his spirit lives on.

He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Clear Lake.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 57 years, Mary Beehner, of Clear Lake; a daughter, Terri Daniels and her husband, Ron, of Clear Lake, and a son, Doug Marston and his wife, Sandy, of Spring Lake, Minn.; five grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren; two brothers, Pete Beehner and his wife, Flora, of Montana, and Mike Beehner of Waterloo; one sister, Betty Heines and her husband, Bill, of Waterloo; as well as other relatives and friends.

His parents, four sisters, and two brothers preceded him in death.

Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, (641) 357-2193.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, October of 2016