DUNCAN, Douglas 1950-1988

DUNCAN, JOHNSON, DIPALMA

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 12/1/2009 at 18:58:30

Douglas Duncan

Funeral services were held Thursday, January 21, 1988 at Our Savior’s Lutheran Church, Osage, for Douglas Duncan, 37, of 411 W. Ashland Ave., Indianola, Formerly of Osage. He died Monday, January 18, 1988 at a Des Moines hospital. The Reverend Joseph Nesheim and Reverend Dennis Hanson officiated and burial was in the Osage Cemetery.

Mr. Duncan was born August 2, 1950 in Osage to Wendell and Karen (Johnson) Duncan. He graduated from Osage High School in 1968 and from Simpson College in Indianola in 1972. He attended the Philadelphia Musical Academy. He then became an instructor in the music department at Simpson College.

In 1981, he became full-time manager of the Des Moines Metro Opera Co. He was a noted consummate fun-raiser and an accomplished tenor. During the past 14 years, Duncan helped the struggling opera company grow until its summer festival in Indianola became on of the largest such celebrations in the nation, running four weekends in the summer.

As a member of the faculty at the Philadelphia Music Academy, he sang the role of Ford in the American premiere of Salieri’s “Falstaff.” He also appeared with the Pennsylvania Opera Company, the Philadelphia Musical Theatre and the Opera Company of Philadelphia.

Survivors include his wife, Maria DiPalma of Indianola; his parents, Wendell and Karen Duncan of Osage; one sister, Janelle Duncan of Urbana, Illinois, and one brother, James of Portland, Oregon.

(Mitchell County Press)

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