ANDERSON, Dale Lee 1935-2003
ANDERSON, LEE
Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/13/2009 at 20:26:34
AMES, IOWA - Dale Lee Anderson, formerly of Osage, Iowa, passed away on Thursday (Dec. 4, 2003), at Israel Family Hospice Family House in Ames.
Memorial services will be Monday at 4 p.m. at St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 209 Colorado Court, Ames. There will be no visitation.
Dale was born in Osage, Mitchell county, Iowa, on March 29, 1935, to Ren and Myrtle (Lee) Anderson. He graduated from Osage High School in 1953 and Luther College, Decorah, Iowa, in 1957. He taught in the Cedar Rapids school system from 1957 to 1967 and completed a graduate degree at the University of Iowa. While in Cedar Rapids he coached a high school boys gymnastics team to two state championships. He began coaching and teaching at Iowa State University in 1967. He was assistant gymnastics coach from 1967 to 1969 and men's golf coach from 1968 to 1998. Dale was NCAA District 5 Coach of the Year in 1997 and Big 12 Coach of the Year in 1997-98.
He was a member of St. Andrew's Church where he sang in the choir and taught Sunday school. He supported the Curt Lindholm Event, a fund raiser for spinal research, and the ISU Foundation. He also did volunteer work with the Ames Boys & Girls Club, Saturday Morning Kiwanis, and the University of Iowa Holden Cancer Research Foundation. He enjoyed golf, sailing, singing, playing guitar and storytelling.
He is survived by his wife, Sharon, and his four children and seven grandchildren; Marla and Troy Eagen and children, Megan, Molly, Brian and Laura of Rochester, Minnesota; Paul Anderson of Ames; Jim and Ivy Hanson-Anderson and children, John, Grace and Kate of Minneapolis; Holly Monicken of Duluth, Minnesota, and his brother and sister-in-law, Audrey and Milt Monicken of Duluth, Minnesota; and his brother and sister-in-law, Paul and Carol Anderson of St. Ansgar, Iowa.
The family has requested that memorials be directed to the Mayo Clinic, Robert A. Kyle, Hematologic Malignancy Fund, 200 1st St., S.W., Rochester, Minn., 55902, or the University of Iowa Colon Cancer Research Foundation, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, Iowa, 52242, or St. Andrew's Lutheran Church, 209 Colorado Court, Ames, Iowa, 50010.
[Mason City Globe Gazette, Dec. 6, 2003]
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Photo is his Osage High School graduation photo from 1953.
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