EMMERT, John Wesley

EMMERT, MCCOY, DOW, KARR, CARLSON, JOHNSON

Posted By: Sharon R. Becker (email)
Date: 11/23/2017 at 21:17:34

Obituary ~ John Wesley Emmert
February 01, 1915 ~ January 08, 2002

The Globe Gazette
Mason City, Cerro Gordo County, Iowa
Friday, January 11, 2002

MASON CITY - John Emmert, 86, of 5100 Fourth St. S.E., died Tuesday (Jan. 8, 2002) at the Heritage Care Center in Mason City.

His funeral will be at 10 a.m. on Saturday at Major Erickson Funeral Home, 111 N. Pennsylvania Ave., with the Rev. Richard Pippert of Shell Rock Valley United Methodist Churches officiating. Interment will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Major Erickson Funeral Home.

Memorials may be given to Hospice of North Iowa.

John Emmert was born Feb. 1, 1915, in Cerro Gordo County. He was the son of Ben and Maude Emmert. When John was one week old, he and his family moved one mile south to the current Emmert farm. He lived and worked there all of his life. He was a 1932 graduate of Mason City High School.

John met his wife, Lois, at a box social. She was the schoolteacher at Portland No. 2, across the road from the north end of the farm. John's rows were not as straight as usual that year.

They married on Jan. 1, 1939, and lived on the farm. John farmed with his father, Ben, and his uncle, Frank Emmert. They milked cows, raised grain and purebred Poland China pigs. In 1955 they had a Grand Champion boar at the Iowa State Fair.

John enjoyed farming and hunting. He especially liked coon hunting and coon dogs. After a long day in the fields, John could be found walking the woods at night listening to his hound trail a coon. His hunting partners and their families became dear friends.

John was also a strong supporter of 4-H and his children's projects in 4-H. He was active as a 4-H project leader and for a time was swine chairman at the North Iowa Fair. He was a member of NIVA, the antique car club. He drove his 1929 Model A Ford in parades and club trips. He greatly enjoyed the friends from that group. As an avid supporter of the Kinney Pioneer Museum, he donated his Model A and antique guns.

He also always looked forward to his monthly Class of 32 reunion breakfasts. John touched the lives of many people. He helped teach them to hunt, farm and work. He never met a person he could not talk to and had a genuine interest in them. He will be missed by many.

He is survived by his children, Donita McCoy and husband, Dick, of Ames, Deanna Dow and husband, Dave, of Loveland, Colo., and Doyce Emmert and wife, Trish, of Walhalla, S. C.; grandchildren, Peter McCoy of Norwood, N.Y., Shawn McCoy, of Sioux City, Meagan McCoy of Ft. Madison, Shannon McCoy and wife, Jenny, of Ft. Washington, Md., Dawn Karr and husband, Joe, of Loveland, Colo., Daniel Dow, of Denver, Colo., Katy Emmert, of Greensboro, N.C., Todd Emmert, of Chapel Hill, N.C.; one great-grandchild, Brendon McCoy; brother, George Emmert, of Mason City; two sisters, Evelyn Carlson, of Richland, Wash., and Frances Johnson and husband, Russell, of Oconomowoc, Wis.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and wife, Lois.

Major Erickson Funeral Home & Crematory, (641) 423-0924.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, November of 2017