Wilbur Dale Rankin (1982)
BANKS, BUSH, COURTNEY, DUNLAP, EWOLDT, MALONE, OWENS, RANKIN, TOUGH
Posted By: Treva Patterson (email)
Date: 12/19/2006 at 13:50:50
Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, December 1, 1982Wilbur Dale Rankin, Winterset
Services for Wilbur Dale Rankin, 80, a Madison county native who died at his rural Winterset home Nov. 21, were held at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 24 at Collins Funeral Home with the Rev. Ray Richardson officiating. Burial was at the Winterset Cemetery.
Mr. Rankin was born in Madison County Dec. 26, 1901, the son of Orville Laverne and Mary Bush Rankin. He married Minnie Courtney Malone Feb. 3, 1924 at Moberly, Mo., and spent most of his life farming and raising Hereford cattle. He was a member of the Christian Church at Jacksonville, Mo. He retired in 1968.
Survivors include his wife; daughters, Wilma Banks and Joyce Owens, both of Council Bluffs; Betty Ewoldt of Des Moines and Peggy Dunlap of Richardson, Tex.; a sister, Maude Tough of Winterset; 13 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Clair and Frank.
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