Wilbur H. Balmos 1905-2000

BALMOS, SANNEY, HERATH, BEEDING, PALMER

Posted By: Daniel Davis, Volunteer (email)
Date: 3/8/2010 at 09:33:54

Source: The Morning Sun News-Herald undated.

Wilbur H. Balmos, 95, formerly of 1419 First Ave., Muscatine, died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000, at Lutheran Homes.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. The Rev. John P. Gallagher will officiate. Pallbearers will be Bill Herath, Pete Beeding, Jonathan Herath, Eric Whisler, Don Stange, John Oberhaus and Ray Stange. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery with a military service performed by the V.F.W.

Visitation will be from 4-7 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Crazy Horse Monument in South Dakota.

Mr. Balmos was born March 17, 1905, in Atalissa, the son of Jacob and Anna Marie Timm Balmos. He married Ada G. Palmer on April 26, 1945, in Neumea, New Caladonia in the South Pacific.

He was a veteran of World War II, having served as an Adjunct to General Douglas MacArthur. He achieved the rank of Colonel and served as an advisor to the National Security Council. He retired from the US Army in 1965.

He graduated from Iowa State University in 1929 and participated in the R.O.T.C. program. He also served in the Civil Conservation Corp and was a member of the V.F.W.

He taught school in Guttenberg, Iowa and West Des Moines Valley. He was one of Iowa's first scientific farmers and also did farm construction. He owned and operated Balmos Pallets.

He served on the Community Workshop Board. He was active in the Port City and Tri City Coin Club and also served as a Past District Governor of INA.

Survivors include three daughters, Anne Sanney of Wilton, Patty Herath and her husband, Bill, of East Moline, Ill., and Judy Beeding and her husband, Pete, of Oakville; two grandchildren, Anna Herath of East Moline and Jonathan Herath and his wife, Holly, of Champaign, Ill.; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, Ada in Jan. of 1999, a son-in-law, Fred Sanney; three sisters and one brother.