Donald Rummells 1921-1979

RUMMELLS, SHEBETKA, LOOMIS, MAJORS, GORTH, MCCORMICK, SHEBETKA, HUNZINGER, GLASPEY, HURT, SLACK, MATHES

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Date: 4/29/2020 at 06:24:58

4 October 1979 - The Midland Times

Donald Rummells, 58, was pronounced dead on arrival at the Anamosa hospital Friday following a farm accident at his home northwest of Olin.

Rummell's wife returned home from work about 4 p.m. and was worried because he did not come to the house. Upon search, she found him pinned beneath his overturned tractor about a half-mile from the house where he had been hauling broken cement from a building construction project with the tractor loader.

She called the Olin Ambulance and the Olin Fire Department who assisted in lifting the tractor. Hospital attendants said that death apparently was instantaneous due to a spinal injury, and probably occurred between 9 a.m. and noon.

Funeral service for Rummells were held Monday at the Olin United Methodist church, with burial in the Olin cemetery. Rev. Edward Peterson officiated. Mrs. Mervin Chamberlin was organist. Pallbearers were Bryon Darrow, Paul Ketchum, James Gray, Harlan Tallman, Orville Meyer and John Husmann.

He was born in Scott township, Johnson County, Iowa, May 12, 1921, the son of William and Mabel Endsley Rummells.

On April 15, 1953, he married Kathryn Wolrab Shebetka at Iowa City. The couple spent all of their married life farming northwest of Olin.

He is survived by his wife Kathryn; four stepdaughters, Shirley Loomis and Mrs. Robert (Jan) Majors, Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Alan (Karlene) Gorth, Anamosa, Mrs. Gary (Sharon) McCormick, Anamosa; one stepson, Ronald Shebetka, Clarence; 11 step-grandchildren; four brothers, Mervin, Boonville, MO, Harold, Iowa City, Philip, Cedar Rapids, Gene, Vicksburg, MI; five sisters, Fern Hunzinger, Gladys Glaspey and Faye Hurt, Iowa City, Ruth Slack, Cedar Rapids and Shirley Mathes, Bellingham, WA.

His parents and one step-granddaughter preceded him in death.