George Ivan Compton (1998)

COMPTON, ANDERSON, HESTER, HARMAN, BRANAM

Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 12/20/2006 at 00:57:28

Des Moines Register - June 5, 1998

George Ivan Compton, 88, of Adel died of a heart ailment Tuesday at Adel Acres Car Center. Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at McLaren's Funeral Chapel in West Des Moines. Entombment will be at Resthaven Mausoleum.

Mr. Compton was born in Dexter and had lived in Earlham from 1960 to 1982. He moved to Colorado for two years before he moved to West Des Moines, where he had lived until entering the care center 2 1/2 years ago. He was a retired farmer, a bus driver and maintenance worker for Earlham public schools and a member of Bear Creek Friends Church.

He is survived by his wife, Kathleen; four daughters, Donna Anderson of Greeley, Colo., Virginia Hester of Durango, Colo., Norma Harman of Indianola and Sandra Branam of West Des Moines; 12 grandchildren; 23 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.