WHITCANACK, Rex A.

WHITCANACK, ROUSH, JOHNSTON, BULLOCK, WELLS, SHIPLEY, HENDRICKS, DODDS

Posted By: Joey Stark
Date: 10/14/2007 at 12:00:48

"The Fairfield Ledger", Monday, October 8, 2007, Page 8

WHITCANACK, Rex A. -- Rex A. WHITCANACK, 92, of Keosauqua, formerly of Nevada, Iowa, died at 11:10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, 2007, at Van Buren County Hospital in Keosauqua.

A service will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at Pedrick Funeral Home in Keosauqua, with the Rev. Bill Shewmaker officiating. Burial will be in Lebanon Cemetery.

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

Memorials may be left at the funeral home or mailed to the family at 306 Henry St., Keosauqua 52565.

Mr. WHITCANACK was born Jan. 16, 1915, in Van Buren County, the son of Benjamin H. and Dott ROUSH WHITCANACK. He married Clara JOHNSTON Aug. 18, 1943, in Fairfield.

Mr. WHITCANACK attended rural Van Buren County schools. He farmed in Van Buren and Story counties and was employed 21 years at Iowa State University in Ames as agronomy foreman. He and his wife lived in Nevada for many years and moved back to Keosauqua in 2006.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Lee WHITCANACK and wife Joyce of Sheldon and Lex WHITCANACK and wife Marie of Fort Madison; one daughter, Elisa BULLOCK and husband David of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; two grandsons; two stepgrandchildren; one great-grandson; six stepgreat-grandchildren; one brother, Earl WHITCANACK of Keosauqua; and four sisters, Mabel WELLS, Pauline SHIPLEY and Betty HENDRICKS of Keosauqua and Frances DODDS of Stockport.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Harold and Karl in infancy.

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