Ola Helen Kling Dunn

DUNN, KLING, HERMANN, DREXLER

Posted By: Bruce Dunn (email)
Date: 10/22/2004 at 15:53:18

Ola Kling Dunn, Former Resident, Dies in California

Ola Kling Dunn, 69, former resident of Manchester, passed away Tuesday at the Besler home in Santa Ana, Calif., where she and her husband had resided for one and a half years.
Mrs. Dunn was born March 16, 1895 at Manchester, the daughter of James M. and Mary Kling. She was graduated from Manchester high school and attended the former Iowa State Teachers college for a short time.
She taught in the Dundee and Oneida schools in Delaware county and was a bookkeeper for a time at the bank in Greeley.
Mr. and Mrs. Dunn were residents of Manchester where Mr. Dunn was a pharmacist in the former Philipp's drug store. Later they moved to Earlville where they owned and operated a drug store.
In 1937 they moved to Waterloo where she worked for the J. C. Penney company until they moved to Santa Ana in 1952. She was also employed by the Penney company there until her health failed in 1957.
Mrs. Dunn was a Past Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star and a past officer in White Shrine and a member of the Royal Neighbors of America.
Mrs. Dunn is survived by her husband, Glenn of Santa Ana; one son, Bruce, and a grandson, of Los Angeles; one brother, Floyd Kling of Cedar Rapids; two sisters, Mrs. Joseph (Verna) Hermann of Manchester and Mrs. Ralph (Dorothy) Drexler of Coggon and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by an infant son, her parents and one brother.
Funeral services and burial were to be held in Santa Ana.
-- from the Manchester Press newspaper of October, 1964.