Wing, Raymond Gale – 1921-2010

ALLSUP, FERGUSON, GALLOWAY, HOERR, METCALF, NAVIS, PILCHER, VAN ZEE, WING, ZOOK

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 2/12/2010 at 19:34:00

Raymond Gale Wing, 88, of Prairie City died Monday, Feb. 8, 2010, at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines.
Funeral services will be on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010, at 10 a.m. at the Christian Reformed Church in Prairie City. Burial will follow at McKeever Cemetery north of Colfax. Visitation will take place on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010, at Coburn Funeral Home in Prairie City from 2 to 8 p.m. The family will greet friends from 6 to 8 p.m.
Online condolences may be left for the family at www.coburnfuneralhomes.com.
Source: Newton Daily News; Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Additional information from Coburn Funeral Home website:
The son of Walter Leroy and Anna Rebecca (Ferguson) Wing, Gale was born on September 23, 1921, in LaPlata, Missouri. He graduated from Knoxville High School in 1940. On June 22, 1944, he was united in marriage to Leona Van Zee in Pella, Iowa. Gale served in the United States Army. Gale farmed in the Runnells area for many years and moved to Pella in 1985. Gale and Leona managed Fair Haven West for several years while in Pella. They moved to Prairie City in 2002. Gale was a member of the Prairie Christian Reformed Church and while in Pella was a member of Covenant Reformed Church. He was a former member of the Runnells Lions Club, sat on the Board of Directors of both the Mitchellville COOP and the SE Polk Rural Water. Gale had a talent for woodworking making many things that his family still enjoy.
Those left to honor his memory, his wife of 65 years Leona in Prairie City; four children, Dennis (Marcia) Wing of Runnells, Sheila Navis of Des Moines, Joan (Max) Allsup of Mitchellville and Greg (Deb) Wing of Runnells; eight grandchildren, Jennifer (Michael) Galloway, Mandy (Steve) Zook, Anna (Matt) Pilcher, Jodi (Sam) Hoerr, Nathan Allsup, Darin (Kim) Wing, Rick (Ashley) Wing and Victoria Wing; six great grandchildren, Nathan and William Zook, Avery and Abigail Galloway, Jacob Pilcher and Kathryn Hoerr; a sister Betty (Stanton) Metcalf of Knoxville and Jack (Marge) Wing of Winter Park, Florida. Preceding Gale in death were his parents and two brothers, Loren and Walt.