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Raymond W. Dabner

DABNER, WOLF, PALMER, KUNTZ, MARTENS, WATERMAN, SIMPSON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 3/20/2006 at 17:54:47

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
July 3, 1974

RAY DABNER Services Held

Funeral services were held at the First United Methodist Church here last Friday afternoon for Raymond W. Dabner, a well-known businessman in this area for many years. Mr. Dabner died at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines on Tuesday, June 25, 1974, at the age of 76.

Raymond W. Dabner was born at Horton, Kansas on February 5, 1898, the son of Thomas and Charlotte Wolf Dabner. He married Lora Jane Palmer at Fairbury, Nebraska on October 19, 1918.

Mr. Dabner had been a resident of Winterset for the past 31 years, coming here from Perry, Iowa to manage the Grahams Store.

A member of the First United Methodist Church of Winterset, Mr. Dabner was active in a wide variety of Civic organizations and activities. He was involved in Boy Scout work for a period of 20 years, was a past president of the Winterset Chamber of Commerce, past president of the Winterset Rotary Club, a member of the Masonic and Eastern Star Lodges, and was a Knight Templar of the Za-Ga-Zig Shrine. He had been chairman of the Madison County Cancer Society for the past two years.

He is survived by his wife, Lora Jane, and by three children: Jack Dabner of Tulsa, Oklahoma; Mrs. Fred Kuntz of Des Moines; and Mrs. Charles Martens of Winterset. Also surviving are six grandchildren; one brother, Roy Dabner of Denver, Colorado; and two sisters, Mrs. Wave Waterman of Salina, Kansas and Mrs. Dorthy Simpson of Hamburg, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by his parents and by one brother.

Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Friday, June 23, at the First United Methodist Church in Winterset, with the Rev. Dr. Paul Hann presiding. Burial, with Masonic graveside services, was in the Winterset Cemetery.


 

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