Frank Wilmer Martinson, March 25, 1905 - Nov. 21, 1998

MARTINSON, SCHWARTING, LARSON, SANDERSFELD, BURGY, SIMMONS, HEITSHUSEN, FEEMSTER, HUMMER, DRUMMOND, HUNZELMAN

Posted By: Ava Simmons (email)
Date: 2/27/2005 at 17:52:21

OBITUARY, Cedar Rapids Gazette (date unknown):

FRANK W. MARTINSON, 93, died Saturday, Nov. 21, 1998, in Crestview Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, West Branch, after an extended illness. Services: 11 a.m. Tuesday, First Lutheran Church, rural Conroy, with burial in the church cemetery. Friends may call from 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Koster Funeral Home, Marengo.

Survivors include a son, Edwin and wife Shirley of Center Point; two daughters, Mary Ellen Sandersfeld and husband Russell of Amana and Gloria Burgy of Williamsburg; 13 grandchildren; and 14 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wife; a son, Harold Sr.; two great-grandsons, Todd and Jeffry Simmons; his parents; four brothers, Martin, Edwin, C. Elmer and Leonard; and four sisters, Bertha Heitshusen Feemster, Annie Drummond and Edvena Hunzelman.

Frank Wilmer Martinson was born March 25, 1905, in Hilton Township, Iowa County, the son of Norwegian immigrants Knud and Ellen Larson Martinson. He received his education in the Center Star and High Prairie country schools in Iowa County and was among the first to attend Hilton Consolidated School in Conroy. He married Irene Schwarting Aug. 22, 1927, and the couple farmed east of Williamsburg and then purchased the farm where they lived the remainder of their lives. Irene preceded him in death Nov. 24, 1987. Besides farming the majority of his life, Mr. Martinson worked at Amana Refrigeration for many years, and later the couple worked at the Colony Village Restaurant in Little Amana for over 20 years. He was a member of First Lutheran Church and in earlier years was a member of the Ladora Saddle Club. He had a great love of horses and he halter and saddle broke many of them. He was deeply loved by his family and friends and will be greatly missed by all who knew him."