Dwight G. Ganoe (1974)

GANOE, POFFINBARGER, ANKER, SANKEY, SANDWICK, WALTON, MAPES, HAZEN

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Date: 4/9/2010 at 16:47:35

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
June 05, 1974

DWIGHT GANOE Dies At 63

Dwight G. Ganoe, a well known Winterset resident, died Sunday June 2, 1974, at Memorial Hospital here. He was 63 years of age.

Mr. Ganoe had retired after 42 years as an employee of the Northwestern Bell Telephone company. For the last 29 years, he served as a construction foreman.

He was a former member of the Winterset City council. He had served as both elder and deacon of the First Christian church here, and was a member of the Masonic and Eastern Star orders.

Mr. Ganoe was a native of DeSoto, where he was born July 9. 1910, a son of J. Earl and Florence Poffinbarger Ganoe. He was married at Central Christian Church in Des Moines in 1934 to Opal E. Anker, who survives him.

In addition to his wife, he leaves a daughter, Mrs. Sharon Sankey of Earlham; two sons, James and Bill Ganoe of Winterset; six grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. Agnes Sandwick of Adel, Mrs. Gladys Walton of Stuart, Mrs. Inez Mapes of Redfield, and Mrs. Maxine Hazen of Mercer Island, Wash.; and three brothers, Willard Ganoe of Des Moines, Donovan Ganoe of Adel, and Loren Ganoe of Redfield.

Funeral services were held this Tuesday from the First Christian Church in Winterset, conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Eldon E. Jandebeur. Burial was made, with Masonic ritual, at Oakdale Cemetery in Adel. The family asked that any memorial contributions be made to the First Christian Church of Winterset.