E. L. "Diz" DEAN 1917-2002

EVANS, DEAN, SMITH, OLSON

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 5/3/2008 at 20:57:30

E.L. "Diz" Dean

Funeral services for E. L. "Diz" Dean were Saturday, Oct. 12, at 1:30 p.m at West Clermont Lutheran Church. The Rev. Galen Kuhens officiated, assisted by the Rev. LeRoy Bell. Brenda Steffens was organist, and special music was provided by Arthur Amundson and June Swenson.
Schutte Funeral and Cremation Service of Clermont was in charge of arrangements. Burial was in God's Acres Cemetery at Clermont, where military honors were performed by the Sheehan-Olson Post No. 375 of Clermont. Casket Bearers were: Dan Dean, Howard Dean, Aaron Dean, John Rewerts, Mike Olson, John Shipton, Don Kuennen, Ronald Oakland.

E. L. ("Diz") Dean, the son of Glen Arba Dean and Florence Minor (nee Evans) Dean, was born October 31, 1917, at Sloan. He died Thursday, Oct. 10, in the Good Samaritan Center at Postville.

He was baptized in the Christian Church at Sloan. He was graduated from the Sloan High School in 1935 and Buena Vista College at Storm Lake, in 1939. He taught and coached at the Gruver and Coon Rapids High Schools.

July 7, 1941 Diz married May Dawn Smith of West Union, at Jackson, Minn. They had two children, Dorothea Dawn and Glen Elbert. He enlisted in the U. S. Navy in October of 1941, served in the Pacific theater and was honorably discharged on December 10, 1945, as a full lieutenant.

Diz farmed in the West Union and Postville areas and was actively engaged in the auction and real estate business. He was involved in the Iowa Cutting Horse Association and was the first member inducted into the Iowa Cutting Horse Association Hall of Fame. He was also a member of the Whistlin' Bit Saddle Club, the Iowa High School Rodeo Association, Fayette County Board of Review, Fayette County Fair Board, and served on the Clermont Council. Diz was a member of West Clermont Lutheran Church and Sheehan-Olson American Legion, Post No. 375.

He is preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Harold and Darrel.

He is survived by his wife, May Dawn, a daughter, Dody (Curt) Olson, of Cedar Falls, and a son, Glen (Judy) of Postville, six grandchildren, Miekka Olson (Jeff) Bell, of Cedar Falls, Shelli Olson (Mitch) Majeski of Fort Collins, Colo., Eric (Dani) Olson of Cedar Falls, Jennifer Dean (fiancé, Tom Acton), of Des Moines, Jody Dean (Jon) McKowen of Fairbank, Jed Dean of Postville, and three great grandchildren.

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