Weiser, Don F. 1917-1993

WEISER, SPOHN, VAN DAM

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Date: 10/3/2007 at 21:47:23

Don F. Weiser

Don F. Weiser, 75, of 323 country Club Acres, a lifelong resident of Newton, died Sunday, Sept. 26, at the Veterans Administration Medical Center in Des Moines of cancer.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.

The Rev. Ray Barnett, pastor of the First Christian Church, will conduct services. Burial will be in Newton Union Cemetery.

Friends may call at the funeral after 9 a.m. Wednesday and visitation with the family will be held from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Survivors are his wife, Irene; a brother, Richard of San Bernardino, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews, including Scott Weiser of Des Moines.

He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Vernon, Robert and J. Keith.

Mr. Weiser was a self-employed auto mechanic and painter.

An Army veteran of World War II, he was a former member of the American Legion.

The son of John and Laverna R. Spohn Weiser, he was born Oct. 19, 1917 in Newton and attended Newton schools.

He was married to Irene Van Dam June 4, 1945 in Kansas City, Mo. ~ The Newton (IA) Daily News, September 1993