Warren Byron "Shorty" Mortimore Jr. 1927-1993

MORTIMORE, BRIX, THORSLAND, MESSINGER, HOUSEMAN, ROBERTS, HERUM, SMITH, MATTHES, MOLACEK, VIGDAL

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 1/15/2013 at 23:24:31

Warren Mortimore
Estherville – Services for Warren B. [Byron] (Shorty) Mortimore, 66, of Estherville will be held Monday at 10:30 a.m. at First Christian Church with the Rev. Dr. Mike Thiel officiating. Interment will be in East Side Cemetery with full military graveside service by V.F.W. Post 3388 and American Legion Post 91. He died Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1993 at Veterans Hospital, Sioux Falls, S.D.

Friends may call at Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home in Estherville from 4-8 p.m. Sunday.

He was born Dec. 15, 1927 at Linden, the son of Warren Mortimore Sr. and Lillian (Messinger) Mortimore and moved to Estherville as a young boy. He received his education in the Estherville schools, graduating from high school in 1945. He served with the U.S. Army during World War II and the Korean Conflict. After returning to Estherville he assisted his father with the Mortimore Grocery Store which he later owned and operated many years. On Dec. 20, 1946 he married Donna Brix at Jackson, Minn. He married Joan Thorsland July 5, 1980 at Tacoma, Wash. He retired in 1989. He was a member of First Christian Church and VFW Post 3388.

Survivors include his wife, Joan, of Estherville; daughters, Mrs. Dennis (Julie) Houseman of Spirit Lake, Mrs. Michael (Joleen) Roberts of Hiawatha and Mrs. Doug (Lillian) Herum, Estherville; sons: Garth (Butch) of Armstrong, Steven Smith, Payallup, Wash. and Mark Mortimore of Germany; 18 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; sisters: Mrs. Fritz (Wilma) Matthes, Superior, Mrs. Steve (Barbara) Molacek of Glendale, Ariz. and Mrs. Dave (Nadine) Vigdal of Monticello, Minn.; one brothers, Lester Mortimore of Estherville.

He was preceded in death by his parents and an infant sister. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, December 23, 1993)