Dannen, Glenn D. – 1923-2010

AVERHOFF, BALBIANI, DANNEN, HOFFERT, MEACHAM, SMEAD, WADSTROM

Posted By: JCGS Volunteer
Date: 7/9/2010 at 14:56:11

Glenn Dale Dannen was born Sept. 7, 1923, in his parents’ home in rural Melbourne, Iowa.
Glenn was a graduate of Newton Senior High School and proudly served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Glenn married the love of his life, Mary Ann Meacham, in 1960 in the Rising Sun Church of Christ. Glenn deeply loved his children and their families, and all of us call him our dad, Andy and Terry Dannen, Susan and Mark Hoffert and Judy and Eric Balbiani. Glenn was lovingly called “Grandpa D.” by Amy and Steve Wadstrom, Ryan Dannen, Sabrina and Scott Smead, Samantha Hoffert and Tyler, Brandon and Jordon Balbiani. Glenn was blessed to have Bennett, Taryn and Josie Wadstrom, as well as Karter and Gavin Smead as his great-grandchildren. Glenn also is survived by his sister, Maxine Averhoff, and her family and his brother, Leonard Dannen.
Glenn traveled a bit when he was younger, but he always believed that his home was the greatest place on earth. He was a lifelong farmer, and he was a good steward of their farmland. He worked hard every day providing for his family. When he began farming, he tilled the soil with a team of horses and progressed through the years. Glenn was also an amazing inventor, and he spent many hours out by his shop creating and repairing farm machinery for himself and his neighbors. He enjoyed talking politics with those who would listen, and a few who didn’t care to. Glenn was an outstanding woodworker, building most of the cabinetry in their rural Newton home. In the wintertime, he spent many hours reading books on American history, listening to public radio and planning his next year’s crops.
Glenn was greeted in Heaven July 1, 2010, by his mother and father, Henry and Augusta Dannen, his older brother who died as a toddler and his brother-in-law, Hans Averhoff.
A graveside service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at Newton Union Cemetery in Newton. The family will greet friends at the Wallace Family Funeral Home after the service, and the family invites everyone to lunch with them at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorials to Hospice of Jasper County may be left at the funeral home.
Source: Newton Daily News; Monday, July 5, 2010