ARNDT, Carl Frederic 1916-2000

ARNDT, FLUGGE, MILHAN, KUENNEN, HUGHES, MILLER, ROSS, OWEN, SCHRIEBER

Posted By: Joy Moore (email)
Date: 6/29/2016 at 17:48:20

CHARLES CITY, IOWA - Carl F. Arndt, 84, died Sunday morning, Feb. 27 at his home.

Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, March 1 at the St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church in Charles City. The Revs. Dennis Niezwaag and Mark Anderson, pastors, will officiate.

Burial will be in Sunnyside Memorial Gardens, south of Charles City.

Visitation was held from 3 to 9 .m. on Tuesday, Feb. 29 at Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City where the family greeted friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Visitation will continue Wednesday morning at the church an hour prior to the service.

Carl Frederic Arndt was born Jan. 9, 1916 at Alta Vista, the son of Frank and Minnie (Flugge) Arndt. He received his education in the Alta Vista schools.

On May 1, 1940 he and Leona Milhan were married at Alta Vista. They farmed in the area before moving to Charles City in 1942 to work at the Oliver Corporation. He worked in the foundry for 13 years and then worked on the assembly line, retiring from White Farm Equipment Corporation in 1976.

He was a member of St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church and United Auto Workers Union Local 1315. He was a past president of the Pension Club, was a member of the Senior Center for 14 years, was a coach of both men and women's softball, was a sanctioned umpire of men's fastpitch softball, and was one of the founders of the horseshoe court which he played for many years. He loved the Chicago Cubs and Bears and the Iowa Hawkeyes. He was an avid hunter and fisherman.

Survivors include his wife, Leona, Charles City; two sons, Paul, Charles City and Duane (Mary Anne) Hutchinson, MN; two daughters, Pauline (Robert) Kuennen, Lawler and Dixie Hughes, Charles City; five grandchildren; and four sisters, Hattie Miller, New Hampton, Rose Ross, Nora Springs, Esther Owen, Waterloo and Dorothy Schrieber, Maple Grove, MN.

Preceding him in death were his parents, a brother, Leo, and two sisters, Mamie and Verna and an infant brother.

Source: New Hampton Tribune February 29, 2000
from Elma library collection assembled by Marian (Marr) McGee

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