Willis D. Whitehorn 1918-2001
WHITEHORN, BUSBY, BERGSTROM
Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/28/2008 at 00:05:43
Sioux City Journal
9 May 2001
Willis D. WhitehornONAWA, Iowa - Willis D. Whitehorn, 82, of Onawa died suddenly Sunday, May 6, 2001, at Burgess Health Care Center in Onawa.
Services will be 2 p.m. Thursday at Faith Lutheran Church in Onawa, with the Rev. Alan Wicks officiating. Burial will be in Grant Township Cemetery, Rodney, Iowa. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. today at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa.
Mr. Whitehorn was born June 10, 1918, in Ticonic, Iowa, the son of Leslie and Nellie (Busby) Whitehorn. He was raised in the Kennebec, Iowa, and Ticonic area and graduated from Onawa High School in 1938.
He married Edith M. Bergstrom on June 6, 1942, in Lincoln, Neb. He served in the U.S. Army as an airplane mechanic from 1942 to 1945. Following his discharge, he was employed as a mechanic with Low Implement and then operated a hay baling business. In 1969, the couple moved to Des Moines, where he was employed with Iowa Conservation Department as a land acquisition agent. They lived in DeSoto, Iowa, where he served on the city council and was employed part time in the post office. His wife died Sept. 13, 1997, in DeSoto.
He returned to Onawa in 1998. He married Lillian Simpson on May 2, 1998, in Onawa.
He was a member of Lions Club and a former member of Toastmasters Club in Des Moines. He was active in the Democratic Party.
Survivors include his wife; three sons and their wives, Dean L. and Donna of Las Vegas, Nev., Ronald R. and Sharon of Wapello, Iowa, and DeWight S. and Jackie of Colorado Spring, Colo.; a daughter and her husband, Sally E. and Guy Dunan of Honolulu, Hawaii; five grandchildren, Michael, Nathan, Erik, Bethany and Paris Whitehorn; a great-granddaughter; three sisters and their husbands, Martha "Marian" and Harold Jacobson of Sioux City, Lucille and Cecil Rainwater of Paradise, Calif., and Edith and Albert Gregerson of South Sioux City; a sister-in-law, June Whitehorn of Onawa; five stepsons, Dennis, Mike, Roger, Doug and his wife, Tammy, and Jim and his wife, Sheri Simpson; two stepdaughters, Nancy Jenkins and Sandy Simpson and her friend, Norman Martindale; 11 stepgrandchildren; and a great-stepgranddaughter.
He also was preceded in death by two brothers, Howard and Ervin; and two sisters, Pearl Peterson and Ruth Brodine Hedum.
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