Dean Warner 11 Aug. 1939 - 05 Feb 2005

WARNER, ANDERSON, BEYER

Posted By: Netha M Meyer (email)
Date: 2/18/2005 at 17:26:04

Dean Louis Warner, 65, of Belle Plaine, formerly of Marengo and Iowa Falls, died Saturday, Feb. 5, 2005, in the Belle Plaine Nursing and Rehab Center following a long illness. Graveside services and inurnment will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 9, at Union Cemetery, Iowa Falls. There will be no visitation. Kloster Funeral Home, Marengo, is in charge of arrangements.
Survivors include his sisters, Nancy (Larry) Beyer of Marengo and Vicki Fagerstrom of Des Plaines, Ill.; a brother, Michael (Cindy) Warner of Marion; two nephews, John Beyer of Hartland, Wis., and Michael Beyer of Koszta; and a niece, Amelia Warner of Marion.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother-in-law, John Fagerstrom.
Dean Louis Warner was born Aug. 11, 1939, in Iowa Falls, the son of Perle Hillis Warner and Eva Isabel (Anderson) Warner. He started his education at Maple Grove Country School near Bradford and graduated from Iowa Falls High School in 1957. A brilliant 4.0 mechanical engineering student, he completed all but one quarter at Iowa State University, in Ames, before schizophrenia struck in 1961. It changed his life and the lives of his immediate family forever.
Dean farmed south of Iowa Falls for 23 years. He lived in the Hardin County Home in Eldora for about two years before moving to Marengo where he assisted in the care of his mother. He lived at Hillside Estates for about two years before he moved to the Belle Plaine Care Center, where he found contentment, understanding and peace in the remaining five years of his life thanks to their care and the psychiatric help of Dr. Judith Crossett, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He made frequent visits to the Marengo Memorial Hospital where he was treated with skill, dignity and compassion. He was under the care of Amenity Hospice, Cedar Rapids, during his last four months.
A memorial fund has been established in Dean's memory.
Memorial donations may be given to Marengo Memorial Hospital or the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.

Kloster Funeral Home
Cedar Rapids Gazette
7 February 2005