KISNER, Duane G. 1935-2004

KISNER, BAUMGARTNER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/19/2009 at 12:12:31

NORA SPRINGS, IOWA — Duane G. Kisner, 69, of 1515 Dancer Ave., Nora Springs, died Tuesday (Sept. 28, 2004) at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City

Funeral service will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Hanford Community Church, 12411 Spruce Ave., Mason City, with Pastor Daniel Cline officiating. Burial will be in Park Cemetery, Nora Springs, with military honors by the Nora Springs American Legion H.D.S. Post No 449.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. today at Sheckler Colonial Chapel, 114 N. Hawkeye in Nora Springs, and one hour prior to the service on Friday at the church.

The family of Duane G. Kisner has requested that memorials be made to the Duane G. Kisner Memorial Fund in his memory.

The family would like to say a special thank you to Hospice of North Iowa, nurses and nurses aides on all shifts on the second floor at the Floyd County Memorial Hospital in Charles City, and to Dr. Paul Royer and Dr. Lynn Schuster of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., for their kind and loving care shown to Duane and his family.

Duane was born March 15, 1935, in Wheelerwood, Iowa, the son of George H. and Anna (Baumgartner) Kisner.

He started school in Lincoln No. 6 and in 1942 moved to a farm southeast of Dumont. The family moved back to Mason City in 1948. He graduated from Mason City High School in 1953.

Duane carried the Des Moines Register newspaper weekly and Sunday from 1948-1951 on South Adams to South Jefferson.

He worked for Lapner Motor Co., Pritchard Motor Co., Breeze Service Station on South Federal, Bill Hawley Studebaker Garage, IH Motor Trucks and Floyd and Leonard’s Auto. He specialized as a parts man and mechanic.

Duane served in the United States Army from December 1957 to 1959 at Ft. Carson, Colo., and was a maintenance instructor on small helicopters and light (fixed-wing) aircraft.

He really enjoyed the flying part of the job. In 1960, he transferred to an army reserve unit in Mason City and was discharged Nov. 30, 1963.

Duane married Suzanne (Suzy) Stevens on June 26, 1954, at Grace Evangelical United Brethren Church in Mason City.

He was in the international farm machinery business in Rudd, Iowa, from 1960 to 1981. He worked as manager of the Bolon Store and Case Implement in Mason City as a salesman.

In 1983, he owned and operated a business on his acreage, Kisner Sales and Service, a power equipment and farm agriculture business, which he ran until 2004.

He was a substitute rural mail carrier for eight years on Mason City RR No. 3 and Nora Springs RR No. 2, then became a full time rural mail carrier on Dec. 10, 1994, till 1999.

Duane was a Cub Master for eight years in Nora Springs. He loved and enjoyed his family and working with the public.

He was a member of the Hanford Community Church and Rural Mail Carrier’s Association, and Am Vets. He served on the Board of Trustees of Kinney Pioneer Museum from 1993, and was elected president in 1996, till the present. His interest and labors with the museum ran deep.

Duane enjoyed family genealogy. He wrote and published “Wheelerwood, Iowa — Gone But Not Forgotten” in 2003. Over 200 were sold and 20 were donated to public libraries. He also enjoyed garage sales and numerous hobbies.

He enjoyed collecting and trading toy tractors, and many antiques, snowmobile and grass snowmobile racing.

After retirement, he enjoyed reading, especially western paperbacks, old gun related stories, magazines, mysteries and newspapers.

In recent years, he looked forward to the Fourth of July with a gathering of family.

He took pride in his lawn and acreage and worked hard to keep it looking attractive. He would feed the birds on his land, and shared his pride of gardening to supply tomatoes and more for all his family and friends.

He also created a tree belt area for the conservation of his land. His pride of nature continued even while on his rural mail routes, as he spoke of the birds and wildlife he observed.

Duane is survived by his wife of 50 years, Suzanne “Suzy” Kisner; three sons, Bruce D. Kisner, of Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., Gregory L. Kisner, of Cedar Falls, and Brian L. Kisner and his wife, Tanya, of Cary, N.C.; two grandchildren, Kailey and Mallory Kisner; one sister, Lois Rickman and her husband, Jerry, of Drasco, Ark.; and a favorite niece, Cindy Jorgenrud and her husband, Jerry, of Anoka, Minn.; brothers-in-law, Darryl Stevens and his wife, Sharon, of Tucson, Ariz., Jerry Stevens and his wife, Angie, of Omaha, Neb., and Bill Stevens and his wife, Elaine, of Carson City, Nev.; as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins, and many friends.

Duane was preceded in death by his parents, and a niece, Wendy Havnen.

Sheckler Colonial Chapel, (641) 749-2210 -- www.colonialchapels.com

[Mason City Globe Gazette]