Edgar Louis "Tubby" Kleen 1912-1987

KLEEN, MICHAEL, GALVIN, DEPPE, HAUKOOS, EVANS

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 12/30/2012 at 22:37:57

Services for Edgar Louis Kleen, 75, of Estherville, will be held at 10:30 a.m., Friday, Oct. 2, at the Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Chapel in Estherville, with Rev. Tom Balm officiating. Mr. Kleen died Monday, Sept. 28 at Veterans Hospital in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Interment will be at East Side Cemetery, with Estherville Military Gravesite by V.F.W. Post 3388 and American Legion Post 91.

Friends may visit at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville, after 3 pm. on Thursday, Oct. 1.

Mr. Kleen was born March 29, 1912, in Springfield, Ill., to Henry G. Kleen and Amelia Deppe Kleen.

He moved to a farm near Dolliver with his family as a boy. He attended Dolliver School. On Oct 12, 1940, he married Iva Michael Galvin in Spencer.

Kleen did custom work for Albert Hardecopf for 13 years before enlisting in the U.S. Army during World War II. He served in Europe. After the war he worked as a mechanic for four years. He then managed the V.F.W. for 14 years. Later, he owned and operated his own business for three years and then retired due to ill health.

He had been a lifetime member of the V.F.W. Military Order of the Cooties. He was a veteran of World War II in the U.S. Army when he served as a tank crewman.

He is survived by his wife, Iva of Estherville; one step-daughter, Mrs. Wayne (Loretta) Haukoos of Estherville; one sister, Mrs. Mae Evans of Dolliver; six grandchildren and ten great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, September 30, 1987)