Dean Gray Sayers, April 24, 1925 - May 9, 2013

SAYERS, ROGERS, HAYNIE, NUTT, BLACKBURN, PETERSON, ANDERSON

Posted By: Sandy Ficken (email)
Date: 5/23/2013 at 14:38:15

The Williamsburg Journal Tribune, Iowa County Obituaries, 16 May 2013

Dean Sayers, 88
Funeral service for Dean G. Sayers, 88, Malvern, formerly of Marengo, was held Monday, May 13, at the Loess Hills Funeral Home, Malvern. He died May 9, 2013, at Risen Son.

Burial was in the Malvern Cemetery.

Memorials may be made to Indian Creek Museum or Strahan United Methodist Church.

Dean Gray Sayers was born April 24, 1925, in Marengo, one of five children of Mabelle Merle (Rogers) and James William Sayers. He grew up in Marengo and graduated from Marengo High School. He then began his lifelong career in farming.

In 1946, he traveled to Montana, where he met his future bride, Katherine Lucille Haynie, daughter of Lena (Nutt) and George W. Haynie. The couple married two years later on Nov. 28, 1948, at the Little Brown Church in the Vale, Nashua. They lived for a time in Marengo but spent the early years of their marriage in McCone County, Montana, where three of their children were born, Scott Lee, Angela Lowell and John Gray.

The family moved to Mills County, Iowa, in 1955, where they they were blessed with two more children, Warren Dean and Leanna Fay. In 1963 they purchased a farm southwest of Malvern where they built a new home in 1969.

He was a member of the Strahan United Methodist Church, the Indian Creek Historical Society and other various community organizations throughout the years. He was very active at the museum and with the restoration of antique farm equipment. Any time an event was held, he was there to lend a hand, from threshing to demonstrating equipment. He loved to travel and camp. He especially enjoyed the many special summer vacations spent with his family. Most memorable of these trips was camping in the California redwoods, as well as riding mules to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. He was a wonderful husband and father, a loving grandfather and great-grandfather and a good friend to all who knew him.

Sayers is survived by his beloved wife of 64 years, Katherine Sayers, Malvern; children, Scott and Mary Sayers, DeSoto, Kan.; Angela and Mike Blackburn, Malvern; John and Cindy Sayers, Malvern; Warren Sayers, Imogene, and Leanna and Greg Peterson, Tulsa, Okla.; 15 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; one brother, Mac and Elsie Sayers, Marengo; one sister, Sally Anderson, Santa Barbara, Calif., and other relatives and friends.