Lewis David Means (1991)

BURKHEIMER, COMER, DENTON, LOY, MEANS

Posted By: Judy Wight Branson
Date: 9/1/2012 at 15:31:59

Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Iowa
April 1991

LEWIS D. MEANS

Lewis D. Means, 87, Rt. 2, Box 66, Lorimor, died Friday at the Madison County Hospital in Winterset.

Services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the United Methodist Church, Lorimor. The Rev. Merrill Siler will officiate the service. Burial will be in the Lorimor Cemetery. There is open visitation after 9 a.m. today with a family night from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Watts-Lindsay Golden Rule Funeral Home, Lorimor.

Mr. Means was born Aug. 28, 1903, near Lorimor in Union County to Ivan Marr and Idella Rebecca [Comer] Means. He married Mildred Iva Loy on Aug. 4, 1926, in Creston. He was a resident of the Lorimor area in Union County all his life except for 10 years from 1946 to 1956 when he resided in Jasper County. He was a farmer and self-employed carpenter until retiring in 1987. He was a member of the United Methodist Church, Lorimor.

Survivors include his wife, Mildred Means of Lorimor, three sons, Richard D. [wife Bonnie] of Cofax, Mike L. [wife Donna] of Twin Lakes, Wis., and Robert E. [wife Jan] Means of Lorimor; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; two sisters, Fern Burkheimer of Greenfield and Ada [husband Carroll] Denton of Winterset; and a brother, Andrew [wife Edna] Means of Lorimor.

He was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers.

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