Dale Duane Lauer (2014)

LAUER, CARPENTER, CLARK, WENDELL, GWINNER, CARLTON, BOWEN

Posted By: Shirley Keating (email)
Date: 4/7/2014 at 21:49:45

Powers Funeral Home, Creston, Iowa

Dale "Duane" Lauer, 75, of Macksburg, died Sunday, April 6, 2014 at the Creston Nursing and Rehab Center of Creston. Funeral services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, April 9, 2014 at Powers Funeral Home in Creston, jct. hwy 34 &25. Pastor Orville Terry will officiate. Burial will be at the Hill of Zion Cemetery, with military honors provided by the Theodore J. Martens V.F.W. Post 1797. Open visitation will be 2-8:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 8th at Powers Funeral Home in Creston, with family receiving 5-8:00 p.m. Tuesday. Memorials may be made to Alcoholics Anonymous (through the White House in Des Moines). Online condolences may be given at www.powersfh.com

Dale Duane Lauer was born April 15, 1938 in Madison County. Duane graduated from Zion High School in 1957. He served his country as a veteran of the Korean War and later as part of the National Guard. Duane had also served on the Macksburg City Council.

Duane was a lifetime resident of Macksburg and considered himself a farmer for most of his life. Duane worked at Purolator and as a truck driver. Later, he worked as a motorcycle safety instructor and as a driver for Southern Iowa Trolley. Over the years, Duane also served as a Treatment Counselor for Alcoholics Anonymous. This year he would have celebrated his 39th sobriety birthday. Duane embraced the values of AA and served as a counselor, helped establish the former treatment center in Zion, and helped many people through the program.

On May 29, 2009, Duane was united in marriage to Joyce Carpenter. They resided near Macksburg.

Duane loved to talk on the phone to his many friends and family all over the country. Hunting, fishing, and motorcycle riding were a few of his favorite hobbies. At times he lived his life playing faster than his guardian angel could fly, with having broken just about every bone in his body at some point or another in his life, through all the adversity given to him, he persevered.

Duane is survived by his wife Joyce (Carpenter) Lauer of Macksburg and her family; his children Paul Lauer of Macksburg; Kim ( husband Phil) Clark of Laveen, Ariz.; Guy Lauer of Shakopee, Minn.; Melanie (husband Seth) Wendell of Earlham, Ia.; Erin (husband Troy) Gwinner of Winterset, Ia.; six grandchildren; his sister Jill (husband Rick) Carlton of Vero Beach, Fla.; his brothers Jack (wife Olivia) Lauer of Millersport, Ohio; and Jay (Carolyn) Lauer of Colorado Springs, Colo.; a niece, and three nephews; an aunt and several cousins. He is preceded in death by his parents Dale and Eleanor (Bowen) Lauer and a son, Mark Lauer.