Kenneth A. Stalheim (2005)
MORRISON, OLESON, OLSON, VLANTES, STALHEIM
Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 7/8/2006 at 12:50:17
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, September 14, 2005KENNETH STALHEIM, Nora Springs
Kenneth A. Stalheim, 85, died Sept. 10, 2005, at Nora Springs Care Center.
Funeral services were held today (Wednesday, Sept. 14) at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church in Osage with the Revs. Dennis Hanson and Roy Ott officiating. Burial was at Sunnyside Memory Gardens Cemetery, Charles City, with full military honors.
Ken Stalheim was born March 1, 1920, to Ed and Minnie (Olson) Stalheim of rural Scarville. He attended Scarville Country School and the Lutheran School (Scarville). He also was confirmed in the Lutheran Church in Scarville. He was a veteran of the United States Navy, serving from 1944–46 as an aviation machinist mate 3rd class aboard the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Kwajalein in the Hawaiian Islands, Guam and the Philippines during World War II. On Dec. 13, 1947, he married Freda L. Oleson of Nashua at the Trinity Lutheran Church in Mason City. Ken worked as a hired farm hand during much of his early life prior to going to war. He later worked at Jacob E. Decker & Sons (Armour) for 33 years until they closed. He took early retirement and then worked at Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa for five years. Ken and his wife volunteered for many years for the state of Iowa, receiving the Governor’s Award in 1996 for their service. His memberships included Our Saviors Lutheran Church in Osage, Loyal Order of Moose, Eagles, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Wigwam & Wagon and Good Sams camping clubs.
He was preceded in death by his wife, eldest son Terry, a brother, and four sisters.
He is survived by three sons, Marlen Stalheim of Ames, Lyle Stalheim of Muscatine and Roger Stalheim of Winterset; two daughters, Darlys Vlantes of Mason City and Connie Morrison of Nora Springs; and 12 grandchildren, two stepgrandchildren, two great-grandchildren and one stepgreat-granddaughter.
Funeral arrangements were handled by Hogan-Bremer-Moore Colonial Chapel in Mason City.
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