Kenneth Elmo Wagner 1930-2012
MORTENSEN WAGNER VALENTINE
Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 8/9/2012 at 11:35:35
Sioux City Journal
July 28, 2012Kenneth Elmo Wagner, 81, formerly of Turin, Iowa, passed away Sunday, July 22, 2012, at the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown, Iowa.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Monday at the United Pentecostal Church in Onawa, Iowa, officiated by Pastor Roger Wagner. Burial and interment will follow in the Belvidere Cemetery in rural Turin. Visitation will be noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday at the church. Rush Family Care Service is in charge of arrangements.
Kenneth was born July 30, 1930, in Wood’s Hollow southeast of Turin, Iowa, the son of John Henry and Louise Mildred Mortensen Wagner. His early life was spent in the Turin area, where he received his elementary education, graduating from Onawa High School in 1948. He then enrolled in Commercial Extension in Omaha, Neb., majoring in business and accounting, graduating in 1951.
He served in the Army during the Korean conflict, receiving an honorable discharge with marksmanship recognition.
In 1957 he left for Houston, Texas, with other cousins to seek his fortune. It was at this time he joined the United Pentecostal Church of Houston.
On July 18, 1959, he married Carmen Valentine, of Hainesville, La., the daughter of O.R. and Ova Valentine of Cotton Valley, La.
Kenneth retired from Armco Steel, now known as AK Steel, in 1978. The same year he returned to Iowa and shortly thereafter to Omaha. He lived there until entering the Nebraska Veterans Home at Norfolk, Neb. In 2006 he removed to the Veterans Home in Marshalltown, Iowa, where he resided until his death.
He was a lifetime member of the D.A.V.
Kenneth’s life was spent living for the Lord each day, his life had been filled with strife, yet he never faltered in his faith and gathered strength to go on in the face of adversity without complaint, an example to all.
Kenneth is survived by his siblings; Kermit and Catherine of Vermont; Esther Kenyon of California; and Emma Lou and Leonard Stanislav of Onawa. He cherished his nieces and a nephew, Claire and Greg Ashley, John E. and Bridgette Wagner, Karen McCants, Christy Peterson, Dr. Leon Stanislav, Eileen Galbraith, and Eva Powell. Grand-nieces are Alia and Jay Nunn, Kristy Stanislav, Laura Berlinger, and EveAnne Lippold.
Preceding Kenneth in death were his parents; a brother John Andrew; a grand-niece Amy Jean Stanislav; and wife Carmen.
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