Minesinger, Samuel A. (1928-2006)

MINESINGER, LOUKOTA

Posted By: Jane Adams (email)
Date: 2/2/2007 at 22:03:49

Fairfield Ledger
Tues., Aug. 22, 2006, p. 10.

Samuel A. MINESINGER, 77, of rural Keosauqua, died at 11:15 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 20, 2006, at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City following a stroke at home.

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Douds, with the Rev. Phil Campbell officiating. Burial will be in Mount Moriah Cemetery north of Douds.

Open visitation will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home, where family will be present from 7-8 p.m.

Memorials to a charity of the donor’s choice may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at 604 S. McKenzie, Apt. 2, Mount Vernon, OH 43050.

Mr. MINESINGER was born Oct. 1, 1928, in Hancock County, W. Va., the son of Chester E. and Sarah K. Rudolph MINESINGER.

Mr. MINESINGER grew up in West Virginia where he graduated from Chester High School in 1946. He attended Southern Missionary College in Tennessee.

Mr. MINESINGER served as an airplane mechanic in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean conflict. After his military service, he started the New Cumberland Sanitation Company in West Virginia and bred purebred Red Angus cattle. He moved to Douds in 1996 and continued his Red Angus operation in Van Buren County.

Mr. MINESINGER was a member of Seventh Day Adventist Church. He also was a member of Chester Veterans of Foreign Wars and Douds Community Club.

Survivors include two sisters, Georgene MINESINGER of Mount Vernon, Ohio, and Maude LOUKOTA of Laurel, Md.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Kathryn MINESINGER.
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