Virgil E. Sellers 1918-2006

SELLERS, SIMS, TAYLOR, HUNT, HOVICK, SINGER, MOSIER, NOLTE

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Date: 10/2/2017 at 19:05:36

WATERLOO - Virgil E. Sellers, 88, of Earlville, formerly of Marion and Waterloo, died Monday, April 10, at Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, after a brief illness.

He was born Feb. 27, 1918, in Melrose, son of Everette and Cora Sims Sellers. On Nov. 7, 1942, he married Bernice Ida Taylor in Charlotte, S.C. She died Jan. 31, 1988. He later married Verda Belle Hunt on June 11, 1995, in Earlville.

Mr. Sellers graduated from Goodell High School in 1937, then worked as a farm hand and performed local flying services. He joined the Army Air Corps in 1940 and flew 65 bombing missions during World War II. He also was a flight instructor and served during the Korean War. He retired as a major from the U.S. Air Force in 1962 after 22 years of service. In 1963, he returned to Iowa and attended the College of Automation in Des Moines. He worked for Collins Radio Co., Cedar Rapids, until 1970. He then delivered mobile homes for Morgan Drive-Away. In 1974, he became a partner in Creataform, Ltd., Cedar Falls, retiring from there in 1981.

Survivors include: his wife, who died April 11, 2006; two daughters, Virginia (Ron) Hovick of Waterloo and Linda (Jim) Singer of Lindstrom, Minn.; a stepdaughter, Carol (Don) Mosier of Cedar Rapids; a stepson, Calvin (Sharon) Hunt of Kimberling City, Mo.; eight grandchildren and three great-granddaughters; three brothers, Donald of Hanlontown, Robert of Mason City and Carl (Joan) Sellers of Bemus Point, N.Y.; and a sister, Mary Nolte of Russell.

Preceded in death by: a brother, Burdette.

Services: 1:30 p.m. Friday at Earlville United Parish, with committal services and military honors at 4 p.m. in Garden of Memories, Waterloo. Public visitation 4 to 8 p.m. today at Clifton-Murdoch Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Earlville, with a 7 p.m. Order of Eastern Star service and an 8 p.m. Masonic service. Visitation also for an hour before services Friday at the church.

Memorials: may be directed to Knights Templar Eye Foundation or the Earlville United Parish.

Condolences may be left at www.murdochfuneralhome.com.

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier (IA) - Thursday, April 13, 2006