Harold O. Ditsworth 1907-1994

DITSWORTH, HANIFAN, WINGART, HARRIS, MILLER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 10/13/2012 at 21:53:04

Services for Harold Ditsworth, 87, of Estherville, will be held Saturday at 10:30 a.m. at the Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Chapel with Pastor Brian Perry of the Union Baptist Church officiating. Interment will be in the East Side Cemetery. He died Wednesday, August 24, at Rosewood Manor Nursing Home in Estherville. He was born August 21, 1907 at Bancroft the son of George and Jenny (Wingart) Ditsworth and attended Bancroft schools. On July 21, 1928 he was united in marriage with Grace Hanifan at Mankato, Minn. The couple lived in Swea City and Armstrong before moving to Estherville in 1950. They owned and operated the Central Drive Inn in Estherville for 27 years. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Bancroft.

He is survived by one daughter Patricia Harris of Algona and one son, George Ditsworth of Wadena, Minn; six grandchildren, several great-grandchildren and one sister-in-law, Hilda Miller, Fairmont, Minn.

He was preceded in death by his wife in 1982, one grandson, parents and two brothers. (Estherville Daily News August 27, 1994)