MYKLESTAD, Allen 1920 - 2005

MYKLESTAD, MCDOWELL, QUAM, ECKERT, BROCKETT, BAKER, ROTHAMEL

Posted By: Pat Ludeke (email)
Date: 12/16/2017 at 12:50:20

Allen Myklestad, 85, Mason City, Iowa died Saturday, Aug. 6, 2005, at the Good Shepherd Care Center in Mason City.

Memorial services will be held at 11 a.m., Thursday, Aug. 11, at the Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel, 126-3rd Street NE, Mason City, with the Rev. Sam Hamilton-Poore of Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City officiating. Inurnment will be in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Visitation will be held from 4 until 7 p.m.. on Wednesday and one hour prior to service time on Thursday at the chapel.

The family of Allen Myklestad has requested that memorial contributions be made to Hospice of North Iowa, Mason City Fire Department Honor Guard, or to KCMR Radio in his memory.

Allen Myklestad was born on May 14, 1920, on a farm near Emmons, Minn., the son of Lars Meyer and Velma (McDowell) Myklestad. He attended rural grade school in the area and graduated from Forest City High School in 1937. Allen was inducted into the Army-Air Corps on Feb. 6, 1943, at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan., and served in the Burma Theater area with the 51st Flight Control Squadron until his honorable discharge on Dec. 14, 1946, at Ft. Leavenworth as a Staff Sargent.

He was united in marriage to Frances A. Quam Eckert on Feb. 6, 1947, in the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa.

Throughout his life Allen was employed as a carpenter and cement finisher in the Mason City and North Iowa area. He loved his work and helped build hundreds of homes until his retirement in the spring of 1980.

Allen loved to be outdoors, but his great love and enjoyment was his wife, children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and spending time with them.

Allen was baptized and reaffirmed the faith of his baptism through confirmation at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City. He had been a lifelong member of the church.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Frances Myklestad of Mason City; his children, Roger Myklestad and his wife, Elizabeth, of Ottertail, Minn., Karen Brockett and her husband, John, of Plano, Texas, Jim Myklestad and his wife, Mary, of Mason City, and Linda Myklestad of Ft. Collins, Colo.; eight grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; a brother, Melvin Myklestad of Garner, Iowa; a sister, Gladys Baker of Clear Lake, as well as other relatives and many friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, and a sister, Beulah Rothamel.