Robert William Sawyer (1994)

BURNS, KOWALSKI, LEKIN, SAWYER

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart
Date: 1/9/2006 at 17:35:15

Winterset Madisonian
Winterset, Iowa
Wednesday, May 25, 1994

ROBERT WILLIAM SAWYER, Winterset

Robert William Sawyer, 66, died May 21, 1994 at the Madison County Memorial Hospital in Winterset. A funeral mass was held May 24 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Winterset with Father Frank Palmer officiating. Burial was at the Winterset Cemetery.

Mr. Sawyer was born in Winterset on June 1, 1927 to John K. & Celia (Burns) Sawyer. He married Helen Lekin August 7, 1954 in Iowa City. He was the owner of Des Moines Transportation Company. He lived in Madison County until his late twenties and then returned eight years ago. He was a member of the St. Joseph Catholic Church and also belonged to the Winterset American Legion, the Iowa Motor Truck Association and the American Trucking Association. He was an Army veteran of the Korean conflict.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

Surviving relatives include his wife, Helen, of Winterset; three sons, Bill Sawyer of Daphne, Ala., Jack Sawyer of Winterset and Tom Sawyer of Washington, D. C.; one daughter, Mary Ellen Kowalski of Park Ridge, Ill.; two brothers, John Sawyer of Valparaiso, Ind. and Steve Sawyer of Milford, Conn.; and eight grandchildren.

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