Wayne H. Newton

NEWTON, HARRELL, FREY, BREEDING, LORTON

Posted By: Mary Welty Hart (email)
Date: 2/13/2006 at 19:51:54

WAYNE NEWTON, Civic Leader, Dies AT 69

Winterset Madisonian
January 28, 1981

Funeral services for Wayne H. Newton, a leader in business, civic and social life of the community for many years were held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 24, at the First United Presbyterian Church in Winterset.

Mr. Newton died Wednesday, Jan. 21, at the Madison County Memorial Hospital, following an extended illness with cancer. He was 69 years of age.

A son of Glen and Myra Harrell Newton, he was born in Madison County on May 19, 1911. He attended local school, then engaged in farming and livestock buying with his father.

On May 25, 1941, he married Pauline Frey at Maryville, Mo.

Newton joined the Winterset Volunteer Fire Department in 1935, serving for a total of 25 years. For six of those he was Fire Chief.

He was an active member of the Department when local firemen annually staged one of the largest Fourth of July celebrations held in Iowa.

He was a member of the Winterset city coucil from 1952 to 1960. In November of 1960 he was elected mayor of Winterset, serving in that position for the next 12 years. He later was appointed to the board of trustees of municipal utilities.

He was a charter member and past president of Lakeview Country Club, also a long-time member and past president of the Winterset Rotary Club. At the time of death he was serving as a director of the Union State Bank here.

Last Thursday night, at the annual meeting of the Winterset Chamber of Commerce, he was posthumously named "Outstanding Citizen of the Year"

Surviving are his wife, Pauline; his mother, Myra Newton of Winterset; three sons, Dr. Robert Newton of Winterset, Richard of Boulder, Colo., and Keith of Lakewood community near Norwalk; four grandchildre; and two sisters, Lois Breeding of Winterset and Phyllis Lorton of Houston, Texas.

Officiating at the funeral Saturday afternoon was the Rev. Alan Parker, pastor of First United Presbyterian Church. Burial was in the Winterset Cemetery.