DINGER, Glenn Lyle 1930-2004

DINGER, BROTTEN, AANERUD, BERGE

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 2/16/2009 at 19:02:10

RICEVILLE, IOWA — Glenn Dinger, 73, of Riceville, died Tuesday (March 23, 2004) at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage.

Memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Riceville, with the Rev. Michael Parris officiating. Burial will be in the Riverside Cemetery in Riceville.

Glenn Lyle Dinger was born in Milaca, Minn., on Nov. 1, 1930, to Lyle and Hazel Brotten Aanerud Dinger. Glenn attended schools in Breckenridge, Minn., until the ninth grade and moved to Riceville with his family, graduating from Riceville High School in 1949.

He was united in marriage to Lois Klobassa on June 2, 1951, at St. Peter’s Lutheran Church in Riceville. To this union four children were born.

Glenn joined the U.S. Air Force on Jan. 6, 1951, serving in England until January 1955.

He worked as a rural mail carrier for 40 years with the U.S. Postal Service.

On June 29, 1989, Glenn was united in marriage to Elizabeth Berge at the Little Brown Church in Nashua.

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth of Riceville; his four children, Beth Dinger, of LeRoy, Minn., Brenda and her husband, Kermit Singlestad, of Lake Mills, Paul and his wife, Susan Dinger, of Minneapolis, Minn., and Susan and her husband, Steven Swancutt, of Manly; his first wife, Lois Klobassa, of Rice-ville; three step-children, Theone and her husband, Steven Quattlebaum, of Spencer, Jason and his wife, Jody Vulk, of Des Moines, and Ryan Vulk and Dana Freidrich, of San Francisco, Calif.; six grandchildren; two half brothers, Larry and his wife, Paul Dinger, of Pohnpei, Micronesia, and John and his wife, Michie Dinger, of Washington D.C.; and a half sister, Jan and her husband, the Rev. Daniel Duggan, of La Crescent, Minn.

Glenn was preceded in death by his parents; his stepmother, Lauraine Dinger; and a half brother, Douglas Aanerud; and a grandson, Devan Lars Vulk.

Lindstrom Funeral Home, 401 E. Main St. in Riceville. (641) 985-2242.

[Mason City Globe Gazette]