Winston Cannon

CANNON, JAMES, HERRON, BAKER, WEETER, TITUS, SPONSLER, BRUMBELOW, PETRUSO, DUTTER

Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 5/2/2006 at 14:38:17

Winterset Madisonian
June 16, 2004

Winston Cannon, St. Charles

Winston Homer Cannon, 70, of St. Charles, died June 7, 2004, at Mercy Hospice in Johnston.

Funeral services were held Friday June 11, at Kale Funeral Home in Osceola with Pastor Don Frank officiating. Burial of the cremains was at St. Charles Cemetery.

Winston Cannon was born June 12, 1933, to Gail Arthur and Clara (James) Cannon of rural LeRoy. He received his education in the LeRoy School District. He was first united in marriage to M. Virginia Herron in 1951 in Weldon. He later married Laura M. Baker in 1959 in Omaha, Neb. In 1991, he and Judy Ann Weeter were united in marriage in St. Charles. Winston had resided in the Des Moines area for many years before he and his family moved to St. Charles in 1971. For nearly 30 years, he worked as a sheet metal journeyman for Schlater Sheet Metal in Des Moines. In 1975, he acquired Schlater Sheet Metal and moved the company to St. Charles under the name Cannon Sheet Metal Works. He also donated his time and services for various community projects and helped erect the structure that houses the Chinese (ornamental) Bell located in the Iowa State Capitol Building in Des Moines. He was a member of the St. Charles Lions Club, Isaac Walton League of Des Moines and Sheet Metal Worker's Union Local No. 45. He also served with the National Guard located in Chariton.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Judy; one grandson, Jerry Titus; two sisters, Della Louise Cannon and Roberta Sponsler; and two brothers, Harold and Merlyn Cannon.

He is survived by five sons, John Cannon and Tom Daniels, both of Nashville, Tenn., Chris Cannon of Johnston, Gary Cannon of Des Moines and Tim Daniels of Norwalk; three daughters, Nancy Titus and Mishell Cannon, both of Winterset, and Cindy Brumbelow of Des Moines; three stepchildren, Samantha Petruso of Wexford, Pa., Dacia Dutter of Grimes and Chad Dutter of Harrisonville, Mo.; two brothers, Roland Cannon of Des Moines and Carl Cannon of Windom, Minn.; and 27 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

Memorial contributions may be directed to Middle River Hospice in Winterset.