Brinton, Wayne Edward (1919-1999)

BRINTON, LINDEBAK, UNGER, ROSKE, VOGA

Posted By: Debbie Greenfield (email)
Date: 12/12/2020 at 10:52:00

Daily Freeman Journal, Webster City, Iowa, Friday, December 3, 1999

Wayne Edward "Jack" Brinton, 80, Ellsworth, died of congestive heart failure Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1999 at Iowa Methodist Medical Center in Des Moines. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Monday at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Ellsworth with Rev. Sandy Anenson and Rev. Scott Libbey to officiate. Burial will follow in the Homewood Cemetery in Ellsworth with military honors by the Ellsworth American Legion Post. Friends may call Sunday afternoon from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Becker Funeral Home in Jewell.

Wayne Edward "Jack" Brinton, son of Scott and Maybelle Lindebak Brinton, was born August 3, 1919 in Scott Township, Hamilton County. He served in the U.S. Army prior to and during World War II in the Red Bull Division. He served in the African and Italian Campaigns being awarded the Bronze Star. He was also a military escort for President Franklin D. Roosevelt's funeral. He was selected out of 500 soldiers to pose for the statue by Jo Davidson called "The Fighting Man", which was displayed in New York and is now on display in Paris. He married Irene Catherine Unger in Newark, NJ on August 4, 1945. He farmed in the Ellsworth area and was the Ellsworth postmaster from 1963 to 1985. He was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church in Ellsworth, the American Legion and Veteran's of Foreign Wars, the Ellsworth Cooperative Telephone Board, Jewell Country Club and the Alzheimer's Support Group in Story City. He served on the Ellsworth city council from 1965-1974 and served as mayor of Ellsworth from 1974 to 1986 and as president of the Iowa Chapter of the National League of Postmasters.

Survivors are his son and daughter-in-law, Robert W. and Pamela Brinton of Clarion, daughter Marcia M. Brinton, Rogers, AR., three granddaughters, Andrea Brinton, Amanda Roske and Amber Brinton; three brothers, Gene Brinton of New London, MN., Claire Brinton of Apache Junction, AZ., and Homer Brinton, also of Apache Junction, AZ., and a sister, Mary Elizabeth Voga, Apache Junction, AZ.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife in 1995 and his twin brother William in 1997.