DYSLIN, Glenn A.

DYSLIN, PEARSON, WICKERSHEIM, PETERSON, ROUNTREE, NICOLI, HASTY

Posted By: Don Blake
Date: 10/25/2008 at 11:09:16

Glenn (Glenny) Dyslin 1929-2008
Funeral services for Glenn Dyslin, 78 of Aurelia were held Saturday, Oct. 25th, 2008 at 10:30 A.M. ,at the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia, with Rev. Missy Brown officiating. Burial was in Pleasant Hill Cemetery rural Aurelia, with military honors by the Grasshoff-McManus American Legion Post # 390 of Aurelia. Redig Funeral Home of Aurelia was in charge of arrangements.

Glenn Allen Dyslin was born Nov. 28, 1929, at Aurelia Ia , son of Glenn Lewis and Olga (Pearson) Dyslin. He attended grade school in Afton Township and Aurelia High School. He farmed north of Aurelia. Glenn served in the U.S. Air Force from Jan. 1951 to Jan. 1955.He served in Korea during the Korean War and after returning from Korea served in Dwight D.Eisenhowers Honor Guard at his summer home in Colorado. He then returned to farming. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Aurelia. Glenn loved fishing and hunting and riding his golf cart around the farm and growing tomatoes and sweet corn. He also enjoyed woodworking.
Glenn died Thursday Oct. 23, at the Cherokee Regional Medical Center in Cherokee.
Preceding him in death were his parents.
Survivors include 2 brothers, Dale and his wife Bobbye Dyslin and Royce and his wife Ida Dyslin all of Knoxville Tenn. 2 sisters, Janice and her husband Jack Wickersheim of Sac City Iowa and Judy and her husband Ronald Peterson of Bradenton FL. Also surviving are nieces and nephews; David and Katie Dyslin, John and Mae Charles Dyslin, Dirk and Kimberly Rountree, Kelly Dyslin, Alan and Sarah Nicoli, Michael Wickersheim, Vicki and Nathan Hasty, and Kirk and Vicki Wickersheim, several great-nieces and nephews.