Wilbert "Shorty" Cloud 1919 - 1997

CLOUD, SEVENING, WIMMER

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/12/2014 at 21:17:05

30 September 1997

MAPLETON, Iowa — Wilbert "Shorty" Cloud, 77, of Mapleton died unexpectedly Sunday, Sept. 28, 1997, in Denison, Iowa.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mapleton, with the Rev. Edmund Tiedeman officiating. Burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, with military rites conducted by the Little Sioux Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9124 of Oto, Iowa, and the American Legion Loren Hollister Post 496 of Mapleton.

Visitation will be after 3 p.m. today, with a vigil wake service at 7:30 p.m. followed by a Knights of Columbus rosary at the Armstrong Funeral Home in Mapleton.

Mr. Cloud was born Dec. 3, 1919, in Danbury, Iowa, the son of Loyal and Rose (Sevening) Cloud. He attended Danbury Catholic School.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps from 1941 to 1945.

He married Rose Wimmer on Jan. 22, 1946, in Mapleton.

Mr. Cloud was employed by Otto Good Vault Company, where he helped to make the first burial vaults in the area. He farmed from 1947 until retiring in 1984.

He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Mapleton, a former member of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Oto, where he served as director, and the St. Mary's Cemetery board as secretary. He was a member of the Third Degree Knights of Columbus, serving as grand knight from 1968 to 1970, the Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus, the American Legion Loren Hollister Post 496, and the Little Sioux Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 9124.
He was a former member of the Anthon-Oto School Board, the Oto Township and County A.S.C.S. Committee and served as a 4-H leader for 25 years. He received numerous awards for conservation on his farm.

Survivors include his wife; four sons and their wives, Robert and Diane of Danbury, Charles and Annette of Oto, Steve and Carol of Sioux City and Mark and Lori of Mapleton; four daughters and their husbands, Susan and Ron Hood of Omaha, Neb., Patty and Lyle Christensen of Elk River, Minn., and Trudy and Ron McGrain and Julie and Dan Drenkhahn, all of Mapleton; 29 grandchildren, Lisa, Shelly and Jim Hood, Tammy, David and Mark Christensen, Nicole, Angie, Jennifer and Kristina McGrain, Lee and Kay Drenkhahn, Paul, Derrick, Tricia, Machele, Brenda, Andy, Danny, Stephanie, Becky, Jeff, Megan, Amy, Katie and Dillon Cloud and Chris, Karley, and Luke Zeller; four great-grandchildren; a sister and her husband, Lola and Walter Rosauer of Danbury; and a sister-in-law, Clara Cloud of Rosseville, Ga.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a grandson, Chris and three brothers, Lawrence
and Wayne Cloud.