Arnold Neil Cheever 1911-1991

CHEEVER, PARIS, HANSON, OGLE, KINNANDER

Posted By: Merllene Andre Bendixen (email)
Date: 9/14/2014 at 20:02:38

Arnold Cheever
Armstrong – Services for Arnold Neil Cheever, 79, will be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. at the Nazareth Lutheran Church in Armstrong with Pastor Donohue Sarff officiating. Interment will be in Armstrong Grove Cemetery. He died Sunday, August 25, 1991 at Holy Family Hospital, Estherville.

Henry-Olson-Fuhrman Funeral Home of Armstrong is in charge of arrangements.

He was born September 23, 1911 in Armstrong, the son of Fred and Martha (Hanson) Cheever and attended rural Cheever School and Armstrong High School. On Nov. 14, 1922 [1932] he married Elma Paris at Brookings, S.D. He lived all his life in the Armstrong area farming 49 years and retired in 1978 and moved into town.

Survivors include two sons: Robert (Bud) Cheever, Woodbridge, Va.; Clarence Cheever, Armstrong; two daughters: Mrs. Ray (Elma) “Jane” Ogle, Edgerton, Wis. and Mrs. Harland (Helen) Kinnander, Armstrong; 16 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Elma on Sept. 7, 1990; parents, one brother and one sister. (Estherville Daily News, Estherville, IA, August 28, 1991