Charles "Pat" Furst 1925-1960

FURST, GUSTAFSON, JOHNSON

Posted By: Sharon Elijah (email)
Date: 3/16/2020 at 08:44:50

4 August 1960 - The Anamosa Eureka

OLIN--Services were held for Charles "Pat" Furst at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 1, at Beckman's Funeral home, Iowa City, with Rev. James Fouke officiating. Burial was in Olin cemetery.

Masonic service was presented by Ancient Landmark lodge No. 200 of Olin, with Dean Henderson, acting W.M. and Arno Lawson, W.M.

"Pat" Furst was killed Friday afternoon when his rented airplane crashed in a bean field about two miles southeast of Iowa City.

Charles "Pat" Thomas Furst was born March 17, 1925, in Iowa City, the only son of Myrtle S. Furst, Largo, Fla., and the late Oliver T. Furst, who died in 1952. He moved to an Olin farm with his family at five years of age and graduated from Olin consolidated high school in 1944.

In 1952, he graduated with a B.S. degree in Animal Husbandry from Iowa State university at Ames and was commissioned a 2nd Lt. He served with the Fifth Army Signal corps stationed at headquarters in Chicago and was promoted to 1st Lt. in 1955.

While in college he was a salesman and district manager for the Fuller Brush Co. He was active in the Jaycees in Ames and Cedar Rapids, and was chairman of the Freedom Flame program in which President Eisenhower appeared at Ames on his 1952 campaign tour. He was a member of the Iowa City Junior Chamber of Commerce.

He had been associated with Central Life Assurance Co. since 1951, and was a life underwriter with the Cedar Rapids agency from 1955 to February of 1959 when he became the district agent in Iowa City. He has been a member of all the honor clubs of Central Life for five years, and at the time of his death was a member of the Senators Leaders club. He was a member of the Life Underwriters association and has received the National Quality award for the last four years.

He was a member of the Olin Ancient Landmark Masonic lodge No. 200 A.F. and A.M.; the Iowa City lodge No. 590 B.P.O. Elks; Reserve Officers' association and officers' clubs in Cedar Rapids; and a charter member of the university Athletic club in Iowa City. He was a member of the Olin Methodist church and transferred his membership to First Methodist church in Iowa City.

In addition to his mother, he is survived by two sisters, Shirley Furst, Des Moines; and Mrs. Elizabeth R. Gustafson, Springfield, Ohio; also two nieces, Carol Johnson and JoAnne Gustafson, and a nephew Jon Gustafson, all of Springfield, Ohio.