Dagit, Dorian Dwight (1925-1969)

DAGIT, ARNOLD, MART, NERLAND, NORTON, SCHORER, KEANE, OLSON, MILLER, LAPP

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Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, January 17, 1969

Dagit rites to be held at Williams

WILLIAMS - Funeral services for Dorian D. Dagit, 43, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at St. Mary's Catholic church in Williams with Father F.J. McEnany officiating and with burial in the St. Mary's cemetery at Williams.

Mr. Dagit died suddenly about 11 a.m. Thursday, apparently of a heart attack suffered while driving a truck on Highway 20 northeast of Williams. The truck went off the highway and overturned in a snowbank. A brother, Arnold Dagit, who was riding in the truck was not injured.

A prayer service is planned on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock at the Scott-Surls Funeral chapel in Williams.

Mr. Dagit is survived by his wife, Eileen; three children, Marie, 10, Theresa, 8, and Allen, 4; his mother, three brothers and seven sisters.

A complete obituary will be published later.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church and the American Legion at Williams.

He had farmed for many years two and one-half miles north of Williams.

Daily Freeman Journal, Wednesday, January 22, 1969

Dorian Dwight Dagit, son of Raymond E. and Alma V. Arnold Dagit, was born Oct. 15, 1925, at Churdan, Iowa, and died Jan. 26, 1969, at Williams following a heart attack.

The Dagit family resided at Churdan until he was 10, then moved to the Williams community. He was graduated from the Williams high school and later attended Ellsworth college at Iowa Falls. During World War II he saw duty with the U.S. Navy.

He was married June 2, 1956, to Eileen Mart at Pocahontas, Iowa, and the couple had since engaged in farming near Williams.

Surviving are his wife; two daughters, Marie Ann, 10; and Theresa Ann, 8, and one son, Alan Ray, 4; by his mother; three brothers, William of New Hampton; Arnold and Lowell of Williams, and seven sisters, Mrs. Harold (Edith) Nerland of Williams, Mrs. Don (Leona) Norton of Seattle; Mrs. Avis Schorer of Minneapolis, Mrs. Daniel (Alice) Keane of Williams, Mrs. Elmer (Phyllis) Olson of Ellsworth, Mrs. Russell (Elsie) Miller of Seattle, and Mrs. Burton (Mary) Lapp of Pittsburgh.

He was preceded in death by his father and an infant daughter, Rita Ann.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic church at Williams.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 20, at St. Mary's Catholic church with Rev. Father F.J. McEnany officiating and with burial in St. Mary's cemetery. A prayer service was held Sunday evening at 8 o'clock at the Scott-Surls chapel in Williams.