Birkenholz, Carroll M. 1923-2005

BIRKENHOLZ, MONTGOMERY, KEATING

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Date: 6/25/2005 at 22:57:35

Carroll M. Birkenholz, 81, of Newton died Friday, March 4, 2005, at Skiff Medical Center in Newton.

Funeral services will be held today at 2 p.m. at First United Methodist Church in Newton with the Rev. Gary Marzolf officiating. A private family burial will be at Newton Memorial Park Cemetery at a later date. Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton is handling arrangements.

Memorials to the First United Methodist Church or to the American Lung Association may be left at the funeral home.

The son of Henry C. and Mima (Montgomery) Birkenholz, he was born Oct. 22, 1923, in Monroe. He was a graduate of Newton Senior High School in 1941 and attended two years at the University of Iowa. He graduated from Moorhead State Teachers College in Moorhead, Minn., and from the U.S. Air Force Pilot School in La Junta, Colo. On July 24, 1948, he married Agnes Keating in Kansas City, Mo.
He served as a command pilot B-29 314th Bomb Wing during World War II in Guam. He was a command pilot B-29 307th Bomb Wing during the Korean War in Okinawa.

He was vice president of United Federal Savings and Loan Association in Des Moines for six years and then was a partner and co-owner of Birkenholz Realty from the early 1950s until 1980, when he retired.

Mr. Birkenholz was a member of the First United Methodist Church for more than 60 years, Newton Board of Realtors for 25 years and served as president for two years. He was chairman of the Jasper County Republican Central Committee for seven years and City of Newton Board of Review for 16 years and served as chairman for two years.

Survivors include his wife; a son and daughter-in-law, David and Shirley Birkenholz of Newton; a daughter and son-in-law, Janet Miller and her husband, George White of Depoe Bay, Ore.; two grandchildren; a brother, Henry C. Birkenholz Jr. of Newton; and three nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Newton Daily News, Monday, March 07, 2005