George Donald Wight
WIGHT, DONALDSON, BEK, DE LA ROSA, KELLY, WENCK, GILLESPIE
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 6/19/2006 at 15:08:19
Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
Wedneday,November 22, 1978, page 2Ag Expert GEORGE WIGHT, 74, Died Monday
A skilled applicant of science and conservation in farming, George Donald Wight, 74, died Monday, Nov. 13, 1978, at Memorial Hospital in Winterset. He retired from farming nine years ago, after significant achievement in both the theory and application of sound agricultural management.
Mr. Wight was born January 3, 1904, in Madison County, the son of Frank and Blanche Donaldson Wight. He was married June 19, 1928, to Marguerite Bek in Winterset.
Mr. Wight spent most of his life in Madison County and was affiliated with the Methodist Church. He graduated from Winterset High School and Iowa State University and received a Master's Degree in Animal Husbandry from the University of Minnesota. He taught at both the University of Minnesota and Northwest School of Agriculture at Crookston, Minn.
Mr. Wight also served as a director of the Farm Bureau and worked for the government with the Soil Conservation Service throughout the Midwest for a number of years. He was a past commissioner of the Madison County Soil Conservation District; serving as commissioner from Oct. 1956, to Nov. 1962. In Winterset George Wight was among the organizers of the Multi-Purpose Center.
Survivors include his wife, Marguerite; three daughters, Mrs. Manuel (Gwen) de la Rosa of El Paso, Texas, Mrs. Richard (Jean) Kelly and Mrs. James (Lynne) Wenck, both of Redding, Calif.; two brothers, Gayle of Rock Island, Ill. and Claire of Murray, Iowa; a sister, Nellie Gillespie of Winterset; eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Mr. Wight was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Ward Wight.
Funeral services for George D. Wight were conducted Friday, Nov. 17, at 2 p.m. from the First United Methodist Church of Winterset with Rev. Byron Ayers officiating. Burial as made at the Winterset Cemetery.
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