Dwayne Steven Huebner 1952-2010
SADLER, HUEBNER, GROSS, ANDERSON, MEYER, VULGRAF
Posted By: N. Wagner (email)
Date: 7/5/2010 at 13:31:17
A Celebration of Life for Dwayne S. Huebner, 58, of Clermont, Iowa, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 5, at St. Paul Lutheran Church, Postville. The Rev. Steven Brackett will officiate.
Visitation will be held from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, June 4, at the family's home, located at 27436 Harding Road, Clermont, and for one hour before the service Saturday at the church.
Inurnment will be in the Postville Cemetery, next to Dwayne's daughter Elizabeth Ann, immediately following the service.
Dwayne died Sunday, May 23, 2010, after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer on April 16, 2010.
Dwayne Steven Huebner was born on April 3, 1952, in Postville to Eugene and Eileen (Sadler) Huebner.
He attended Postville Community Schools, graduating in 1970.
On May 28, 1983, Dwayne was united in marriage with Janet (Gross) Anderson at the Little Brown Church, Nashua.
To this family, Dwayne brought two dogs, Tootsie and Dusty, and Janet brought two sons, Christopher (age 6) and Aaron (age 4) Anderson.
On June 20, 1984, they were blessed with an additional family member, daughter Elizabeth Ann Huebner. Elizabeth was a member of this special family until her death on April 11, 1986, at the age of 22 months.
On May 21, 1988, the Huebner family celebrated the birth of their second daughter, Aleesa Ann Huebner.
In May 1990, they moved from their residence south of Postville to their new home located at 27436 Harding Road, Clermont.
As a family, they enjoyed camping, fishing, boating, knee skiing, canoeing, kayaking, and attending rendezvous.
Dwayne spent his life as a painter, decorator, wood finisher, and craftsman, starting at the age of 16 with his grandfather, Henry Huebner, and his father, Eugene Huebner.
On April 13, 1981, Dwayne was sworn in as a reserve police officer for the City of Postville. He served the Postville community as PD 5 for 29 years until his retirement on April 26, 2010.
Dwayne was a member of St Paul Lutheran Church of Postville, the Postville Gun Club, was a life member of the National Rifle Association, and was licensed as a General Class Amateur Radio Operator KC0POR.
Dwayne was very talented and enjoyed bowhunting and muzzleloader hunting; processing his own venison; wood craftsmanship; creating and playing musical instruments, especially Native American flutes; ballroom dancing; building black-powder rifles and pistols; genealogy; and creating accouterments necessary to participate in the historical rendezvous reenactments depicting the 1840s era, especially the Fort Atkinson, Iowa, Rendezvous.
Dwayne was preceded in death by his daughter, Elizabeth Ann Huebner; his parents, Eugene and Eileen (Sadler) Huebner; his maternal grandparents, Urban and Leona (Meyer) Sadler; and his paternal grandparents, Henry and Senta (Vulgraf) Huebner.
He is survived by his wife, Janet, of Clermont, two sons, Christopher (Sonya) Anderson of Luana and Aaron Anderson of Postville; a daughter, Aleesa Huebner of Marion and her fiancé, Blake Kittrell of Marion; two grandsons, Cayl and Dayne Anderson of Luana; and the family dog, Mater.
Dwayne is also survived by Janet's family, her parents, Alvin and Lilli (Rauter) Gross; her sisters and their spouses, Carolyn and Robert Metcalf of Sumner, Christine and Larry Moritz of West Union, Joyce and Eugene Halverson of Ossian, Sara and Randi Vagts of West Union, Nancy and David Lyons of West Union; 13 very special nieces and nephews; numerous aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.
Dwayne touched many lives in a very special way and will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
Fayette County Union - 1 June 2010
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