Frank Dolmage

BARNES, DOLMAGE, SHAY, SULLIVAN

Posted By: Cheryl (email)
Date: 5/1/2012 at 19:45:47

OXFORD - Frank B. Dolmage, 91, formerly of the Oxford area, died Wednesday evening, Feb. 25, 1981, at the North Grand Care Center in Ames after a short illness.

Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Oxford, Burial will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery.

Friends may call at the George Gay Oxford Chapel at 9 a.m. Friday. A parish Rosary will be recited at 7:30 p.m. Friday at St. Mary's, where Mr. Dolmage was a member.

Mr. Dolmage was born Nov. 18, 1889 in Johnson County, a son of John and Mary Shay Dolmage.

He married Helen E. Barnes on June 4, 1914 in Oxford. He was a farm laborer and for 24 years worked for the Rock Island Railroad. He moved to Ames in 1975.

Survivors include a daughter Joyce (Mrs. Robert E.) Sullivan of Ames; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his wife, an infant daughter, four brothers and four sisters.