Dr. Edward Crain Winter 1935-2003

CRAIN, WINTER, HIRD

Posted By: Lori Clark (email)
Date: 1/22/2003 at 08:50:28

EDWARD CRAIN WINTER, D.V.M.

Dr. Edward Winter, age 67, of Iowa, City, Iowa, formerly of Clarinda, Iowa died Monday, January 20, 2003, at University Hospital, Iowa City, Iowa. Memorial services will be held 10:30 a.m., Saturday, January 25, 2003, at Trinity Presbyterian Church, Clarinda, Iowa with Rev. Mark Wright and Rev. Joel Miller officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, rural Clarinda, Iowa. Memorials may be directed to the Trinity Presbyterian Church, Clarinda, Iowa or St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, Iowa. Walker-Merrick Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Edward Crain Winter was born July 10, 1935, at Hepburn, Iowa, to Charles Edward Winter and Martha Margaret (Crain) Winter. Ed was a 1953 graduate of Clarinda High School and a 1960 graduate of Iowa State University as a Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. On December 27, 1960, he was united in marriage at Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Mary Carole Hird, who survives. Ed had a private veterinary practice in Clarinda, Iowa for 25 years. He had worked for as a circuit supervisor for Food Safety Inspector Service of U. S. D. A. since 1985. Ed was a member of St. Andrew Presbyterian Church, Iowa City, Iowa.

Preceding Ed in death were his parents, brother; Kenneth Winter and sister-in-law; Glenna Winter. Survivors include his wife Carole of Iowa City, Iowa, children: Susan Winter of Sioux City, Iowa, Christopher Winter of Kansas City, Missouri, Nancy Randall and her husband David of Houston, Texas, Catherine Dakkuri and her husband Rami of Seattle, Washington, grandchildren: Edward Van Cura, Douglas Van Cura, Anamarie Van Cura, Katharine Randall, Stuart Randall, Grace Randall and Bailey Randall, brother-in-law; Fred Hird of Arlington, Virginia, brother; Douglas Winter and his wife Frances of Clarinda, Iowa, sister; Esther Hart of Coin, Iowa, brother; Byron Winter of Seward, Nebraska, sister; Carolyn Guigli and her husband Bill of Madrid, Iowa, sister; Martha Thompson of Lamar, Colorado, sister-in-law; Betty Winter of Clarinda, Iowa.