WILDER, Doyle 1930-1999

WILDER, SMITH, HANSON

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 1/5/2011 at 14:43:12

DOYLE WILDER

ST. ANSGAR, IOWA - Doyle Wilder, 69, died Friday (Oct. 15, 1999) at Riverside Chautauqua, Charles City.

Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, October 18, at Faith Lutheran Church in London, Minn., with the Rev. Einer Unseth officiating. Interment will be in Woodbury Cemetery, rural Lyle, Minnesota.

Visitation will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at Champion Funeral Home, Osage, and will resume one hour before services at the church Monday.

Doyle was born on October 10, 1930, in Osage, the son of Andrew J. and Elmira (Smith) Wilder. Doyle attended school in Otranto.

He worked in the area as a carpenter. He entered into the U.S. Army and served two years during the Korean Conflict.

He married Marilyn Hanson on June 20, 1954, at First Lutheran Church in St. Ansgar. They lived in the Otranto and St. Ansgar area where he owned Wilder Construction. Due to health concerns, he retired.

Doyle was a member of the Lyle American Legion.

He is survived by his mother, Elmira Wilder, St. Ansgar; his wife, Marilyn, St. Ansgar; two daughters, Cheryl Cherney and her husband, Mike, Adams, Minn., and Diane Jahr and her husband, John, St. Ansgar; two sons, Steven Wilder and his wife, Mary, St. Ansgar, and Gary Wilder, St. Ansgar; two sisters, Jeanie Neuman and her husband, Butch, St. Ansgar, and Joan Braun and her husband, Steve, St. Ansgar; two brothers, Roger Wilder and his wife, Barb, St. Ansgar, and Donald Wilder and his wife, Mary, St. Ansgar; seven grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Doyle was preceded in death by his father, Andrew Jackson Wilder; two brothers, Laurel Wilder and Marlin Wilder; and three grandchildren, Aaron Bradstreet, Matthew Bradstreet, Melissa Jahr.

[Globe Gazette, Oct. 17, 1999]