Gene Bernhard Elmquist 1938-2005

ELMQUIST, CHRISTENSEN, ANDERSEN

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 5/1/2009 at 18:52:32

Gene Elmquist
June 25, 1938-April 15, 2005

Gene Elmquist, age 66 of Mapleton passed away Friday, April 15, 2005, at his home in Mapleton.

Services were held 10:30 a.m. Monday, April 18 at St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton with Pastor Scott Fiege officiating. Burial was in Mt. Hope Cemetery, Mapleton. Norma Jean Dose was the organist and music included "How Great Thou Art", "I'm But A Stranger Here" and "Amazing Grace". A prayer service was held at 7:00 p.m. Sunday at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Gene Bernhard Elmquist was born on June 25, 1938, in Kimballton, Iowa, the son of Bennie and Tena (Christensen) Elmquist. He graduated from Elk Horn High School in 1956. Following graduation he went to work for his father at the Elk Horn Elevator. On June 30, 1958, he married Kay Andersen in the Elk Horn Lutheran Church. In 1959 he purchased Mapleton Grain Company which he owned and operated through his passing.

Gene was a member of St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Mapleton and was very active in the Mapleton community throughout the years. He served as a Mapleton Trust and Savings Bank board member, St. Matthew Lutheran Church Treasurer, Mapleton City Council Member, and volunteered his time with the Boy Scouts. He was also a member of the Western Iowa Cycle Rider and Iowa Retreads motorcycle clubs. A few things Gene enjoyed doing were hunting, snow skiing, water skiing, boating, and spending time with the family at the Okoboji summer home.

Surviving family members include his wife, Kay; three children, Todd and his wife, Jeannine of Federal Way, Washington, Toni and his wife, Krista of Mapleton and Shari Erlemeier and her husband, Leo, also of Mapleton; eight grandchildren, Joshua, Travis, and Brianne of Federal Way, Washington, Adrienne, Erika, and Mitchell of Mapleton, and Alicia Burns of Marshall, Minnesota and Shane Erlemeier of Mapleton; a brother, Gerald and his wife, Evelyn of Elk Horn, Iowa and two sisters, Connie Benson and her husband, Edwin of Irwin, Iowa and Charlene Monson and her husband, Eugene, also of Irwin; along with many nieces and nephews.

Gene was preceded in death by his parents.

Honorary pallbearers were grandchildren, Joshua Elmquist, Travis Elmquist, Brianne Elmquist, Adrienne Elmquist, Erika Elmquist, Mitchell Elmquist, Alicia Burns and Shane Erlemeier.

Pallbearers were Gary Thies, Bill Hagerdon, Roger Ingram, Alan Andersen, Edwin Benson, Eugene Monson, Delbert Elmquist and Don Lauritsen.

Memorials may be directed to Hospice and/or the June E. Nylen Cancer Center, formerly the Siouxland Regional Cancer Center in Sioux City.

Arrangements were made under the direction of Armstrong Funeral Home of Mapleton

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