WARRINGTON, Gerald L. 1922-2004
WARRINGTON, HOBLIT, BASFORD
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/15/2009 at 18:37:09
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GERALD L. WARRINGTON
CHARLES CITY — Gerald L. Warrington, 81, died Friday (Jan. 16, 2004) in Charles City.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at New Life Community Church, 1960 Gilbert St., Charles City with the Rev. Michael McAbee officiating. Burial will be in Sunnyside Memory Gardens, rural Charles City.
Friends may call at the Sunnyside Funeral Home from 5 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday and one hour prior to services at the church.
Memorials may be directed to the family.
Sunnyside Memory Gardens and Funeral Home, Charles City, (641) 228-2635.
Mason City GLobe Gazette, Jan. 18, 2004
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CHARLES CITY, IOWA — Gerald L. Warrington, 81, passed away late Friday evening (January 16, 2004) in Charles City.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at New Life Community Church, 1960 Gilbert St., Charles City, with the Rev. Michael McAbee officiating. Burial will be in Sunnyside Memory Gardens, rural Charles City.
Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Sunnyside Funeral Home and on Wednesday one hour prior to services at the church.
Memorials may be directed to the family.
Gerald was born September 13, 1922, at Lyle, Minn., the son of Clifford “Lavern” and Mabel (Basford) Warrington. Gerald moved to Kensett at the age of five and a half after his mother’s death. He was then raised by his aunt, attending and graduating from high school in Kensett.
When returning to Iowa after serving in the Navy during World War II, he was united in marriage to Irma Hoblit on May 24, 1944, in rural Little Cedar, Iowa. Irma passed away June 13, 1999.
Gerald was an auto parts manager for 42 years at Standard Battery Electric from 1950 to 1992. He belonged to The American Legion and lived in Charles City for 58 years.
On July 15, 2000, Gerald and Anna were united in marriage at the Little Brown Church in Nashua.
Survivors include his wife Anna; two sons, Jerry Lynn (Cheryl) Warrington, Osage, Donald Edward (Rebecca) Warrington,Waverly; one daughter, Susan Kaye (Lynn) Spurbeck, Forest City; four stepsons, Timothy (Debra) Warrington, Cincinnati,Ohio, Gerald Lee (Jennifer) Warrington, Lawrenceburg, Ind., Kendall R. (Sarah) Warrington,West Harrison, Ind., Len Warrington, Cincinnati, Ohio; one stepdaughter, Patricia (Perry) Vaught, Lawrenceburg, Ind.; one sister, Margaret Ebling, Mason City; three sisters-in-law, Francis Hundt, Charles City, Ona Maxwell, Charles City, Ida (Jack) Schloemer, Nashua; six grandchildren; eleven step-grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; one step-greatgrandchild.
Gerald was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife; two sisters, Marilyn Erbe and Jacquelyn, in infancy; three brothers, Cliff, Ken and Orville.
Sunnyside Memory Gardens and Funeral Home, Charles City, (641) 228-2635.
[Mason City Globe Gazette]
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#3:50TH ANNIVERSARY ARTICLE
A former Rockford woman and her husband, now of Charles City, will observe their 50th Wedding anniversary this week. Irma Hoblit, then of Little Cedar, and Gerald Warrington, were married on May 24, 1944 in the bride's home.
The couple have three children: Susan Spurbeck of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Jerry and Donald, both of Clarksville. They have six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
(NSA-RR -- May 25, 1994)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Photo of Gerald and Irma (Hoblit) Warrington, taken on their wedding day in 1944, and published in the Nora Springs paper in 1994. (See Anniversary article above).
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