Delk, Sterling 1904-2004

DELK, HIPOCK, GIBSON

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Date: 10/16/2005 at 15:31:10

Sterling Delk, 98, of 213 W. 9th St. N. died of heart failure Wednesday, Feb. 26, at his home.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Wallace Family Funeral Home in Newton with Chaplain Merle Smith of Skiff Medical Center officiating. Burial will be at Newton Union Ceme tery in Newton.

Friends may call from 9 a.m. until the time of the service at the funeral home. Memorials will be accepted in his name and may be left at the funeral home.

The son of Joe and Mary (Hipock) Delk, he was born March 11, 1904, in Jamestown, Tenn. On
Aug. 3, 1935, he married Morning E. Gibson in New Sharon. He retired from the Maytag Company, where he worked in the sheet metal department of the factory. Prior to moving into Newton in 1963, he lived in the Kellogg and Sully areas. He was a member of UAW Local 997 Retirees Union.

Survivors include three sons, Homer Simpson of Colfax, Robert Delk and LeRoy Delk, both of Newton; three daughters and a son-in-law, Lela Young of Kellogg, Rose Anderson of Des Moines and Nancy and Vig Fuller of Baxter; 21 grandchildren; 36 great-grandchildren; many great great grandchildren and a sister, Monnie Dowell of Phoenix, Ariz.

He was preceded in death by his father, wife, three sons, four brothers and three sisters.

The Newton Daily News, Friday, February 28, 2003