Fred Lee Fitzgerald (1971)
ANDERSON, BROOKS, FITZGERALD, MCCARTHY, SAVAGE
Posted By: Pat Hochstetler (email)
Date: 9/12/2011 at 08:46:13
Winterset Madisonian
Wednesday, July 21, 1971
Page 5, Column 4FRED FITZGERALD DIED AT 67 YEARS
Fred L. Fitzgerald of Winterset died in Madison County Memorial Hospital last Saturday, July 17, at the age of 67.
Mr. Fitzgerald was born on November 17, 1903 in Clarke County, Iowa. He was the son of James M. and Zilpha Savage Fitzgerald. He was married to Elna Anderson on November 30, 1927 in Osceola, Iowa.
Mr. Fitzgerald moved to Winterset from Truro in 1936. His life was spent as a farmer, a service station attendant, and a school custodian from July 1948 to May 1958.
He was affiliated with the St. Paul Lutheran Church of Winterset. He also belonged to many poetry groups and had numerous pen pals. He was an honorary Citizen of Boy’s Town of Omaha, Nebraska.
Mr. Fitzgerald was also a member of the Central Iowa Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, serving as chairman of the Membership Recruitment Committee. He wrote to hundreds of people, telling them of his own battle with Multiple Sclerosis and sending them a poem to which he had written and many of his poems were read on WHO radio programs.
Mr. Fitzgerald is survived by a son, Fred, Jr. of Booneville, and a daughter, Bonnie McCarthy of Des Moines. Six grandchildren, two brothers, John Fitzgerald of Winterset and James Fitzgerald of Tucson, Arizona, and a sister, Mrs. Velma Brooks of Springfield, Missouri. His parents, five sisters and a brother preceded him in death.
Funeral services were held at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 20, 1971 at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Winterset, with Pastor Karl Hansen officiating. Burial was in Hartman Cemetery at Truro.
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