Edward Estabrook

ESTABROOK, DUSENBERRY

Posted By: June Brewer Welsch (email)
Date: 2/13/2008 at 10:11:47

Taken from the Muscatine Iowa Journal Jan. 15, 2004 page 5A;

Edward Estabrook
MUSCATINE, Iowa Edward Lee Estabrook, 67, of Muscatine died Tuesday, January 13, 2004, at his home.

Service will be at the Ralph J. Wittich-Riley-Freers Funeral Home. Reverend Linda Foor will officiate. Casket bearers will be his grandsons, Michael Garrison, Steven Garrison, Matthew Estabrook, Adam Estabrook, Scott Estabrook, and his nephews, Dick Estabrook and Ronnie Estabrook. Honorary Bearers will be William Morgan, Lyle Estabrook Jr., Harold Freese, Wally Snyder, Cliff Neipert and Ralph Pace Jr. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. A luncheon will follow the committal service at Musserville United Methodist Church.

Memorials may be made to the Ronald McDonald House and the Unity Hospice Program.

Mr. Estabrook was born on January 10, 1937, in Muscatine, the son of William Wallace and Mary Dussenberry Estabrook. He married Denise Snavely on February 25, 1967, at the Musserville United Methodist Church in Muscatine.

He served in the Army National Guard from 1954 to 1961.

He farmed all of his life and he retired from the Muscatine County Court House as a maintenance supervisor and still continued to farm.

He was a member of the Muscatine Search and Rescue Board of Directors.

He enjoyed fishing, traveling, playing cards and NYEP parties.

Survivors include his wife, Denise Estabrook of Muscatine; three sons, Steven Estabrook and his special friend, Susan, of Muscatine, Vernon Estabrook and his wife, Lisa, of Wilton, and Michael Estabrook of Muscatine; two daughters, Patty Garrison and her husband, Danny, of Muscatine and Caroline Estabrook of Walcott; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; one brother, Lewis Estabrook and his wife, Carmen, of Rogers, Arkansas; four sisters, Pearl Phillips, Mary Reed, and Delores Phillips, all of Muscatine, and Evelyn Axtel and her husband, Leo, of Letts; one brother-in-law, K, Donald Snavely and his wife, Donna, of Muscatine; and two sister’s-in-law, Dorene Schmelzer and her husband, David and Diane Watson and her husband, Don, all of Muscatine.

He was preceded in death by his parents, two brothers, Albert and William Estabrook; and two sisters, Edith Smalley and Helen Herlein.