NEWTON, Gordon Wayne 1920-2013
NEWTON, MEHMEN
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 5/23/2013 at 00:16:58
Gordon Newton
Date Of Birth: June 16, 1920
Date Of Death: May 21, 2013Gordon Newton, 92, of Little Cedar, died Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at Faith Lutheran Home in Osage.
Funeral services for Gordon Newton will be held 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 29, 2013, at Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City. Associate Pastor Roy Otto of Our Savior's Lutheran Church of Osage will officiate. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery at Charles City.
Friends may call at the Hauser Funeral Home in Charles City from 5 to 8 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday an hour prior to the service.
Gordon Wayne Newton was born June 16, 1920, in Mitchell County, the son of Harold and Margaret (Newton) Newton. He graduated from Colwell High School. Gordon proudly served in the United States Navy during World War II. On January 12, 1947, he was united in marriage to Evelyn Mehmen at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. They farmed all their lives in the Floyd and Mitchell County area. He also worked for a number of years at Oliver/White Farm Equipment Company.
Gordon was a member of Our Savior's Lutheran Church and the American Legion. He enjoyed fishing in all kinds of weather, hunting including pheasant hunting with his Labrador, trapping, gardening, cooking, traveling, and meeting people and striking up conversations with them. Gordon was a country music fan with Johnny Cash being his favorite artist as he sang "A Boy Named Sue".
He loved his wife, his country, cows that remembered how to get to the other pasture, dogs that earned their keep, making 8 no-trump bids out of nothing and children who caused just enough trouble to be interesting. He will live for many generations through the lives of those lucky enough to have known him.
Living family members include six children, Allen Newton of Little Cedar, Lyle (Veronica) Newton and Dale (Theresa) Newton both of Stacyville, Denny Newton of Clear Lake, Linda Newton Young and husband Bill Young of San Angelo, Tex. and Ray (Catherine) Newton of New Freedom, Pa.; 17 grandchildren; eight great grandchildren; two half brothers, Harold "Tuffy" (Willa) Newton of Whitehall, Ill. and Kenneth (Sally) Newton of Hillview, Ill.; and a half sister, Alice "Oopie" Kraushaar of Hillview, Illinois.
He was preceded in death by his parents; wife, on May 26, 1988; a great granddaughter, Mallory Newton; a half brother, Tom Mike Newton; and a sister, Dr. Gwendolyn Newton.
Source: Hauser Funeral Home website, May 22, 2013
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