Alfred William Winters

WINTERS, WALLER, JOHNSON, GARNETT, WILSON, BRUGIONI

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 5/30/2006 at 09:45:56

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
April 24, 1991

ALFRED WILLIAM WINTERS, East Peru

Alfred William Winters, 78, died Wednesday at Iowa Methodist Medical Center from injuries received March 12 from an accident at Madison County Auction in Winterset. Services were held Monday at the United Methodist Church in Peru, with burial at Chapel Hill Gardens Cemetery in Des Moines.

Mr. Winters was born March 25, 1913 in Des Moines, the son of Clyde William and Sarah A. Waller Winters, and had lived in East Peru for about 20 years. An Army veteran of World War II, he worked at Madison County Auction, and had been a coal miner, a school bus driver and worked for the State of Iowa at Camp Dodge.

According to Winters' daughter, Shirley Johnson of Johnston, Ia, the accident at Madison County Auction apparently happened when a cow charged into a gate. Winters was working near the gate and was tossed to the ground, suffering spinal injuries and paralysis from the neck down. Madison County Emergency services responded to the scene, and transported Winters to the Madison County Hospital, where he was treated and transferred later that day to Iowa Methodist Medical Center. Winters remained in Iowa Methodist until his death.

He was a member of the United Methodist Church and the United Coal Miners.

Besides his daughter, Shirley, Winters is survived by his wife, Rowena; a son, Clyde of Des Moines; three sisters, Gretchen Garnett of Truro, Katheryn Wilson of New Sharon and Billie Brugioni of Des Moines; five grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.