Renken, Donald D. 1935-1996
RENKEN, LUDWIGS, HUGHES
Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 7/27/2007 at 20:40:01
DONALD D. RENKEN
BRUNSVILLE, Iowa --- Donald Dean Renken, 60, of Brunsville, died Monday, July 29, 1996, at a Sioux City hospital.
Services will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday at St. Peter Lutheran Church in Brunsville with Rev. Harrison Kline officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memory Gardens Cemetery, with military rites by Heeren-McHale-Wilken Post 724, American Legion of Brunsville. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. at Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home in LeMars.
Mr. Renken was born Aug. 3, 1935, in rural LeMars in Plymouth County, the son of John and Sena (Ludwigs) Renken. He attended country school and later graduated from LeMars Community High School in 1951.
He served in the U.S. Army from 1958 until his discharge in 1960.
He married Kathy Hughes April 16, 1966, in Akron. The couple made their home in Craig where he worked for the Craig Farmers Co-op and later a packinghouse in Hawarden. In 1979, they purchased the Corner Café in Brunsville. He was active in the family business until his death.
Mr. Renken was a member of St. Peter Lutheran Church, Brunsville American Legion, LeMars Eagles Club and the Akron Sportsman Club. He enjoyed baseball and fishing.
Survivors include his wife; a son and his wife, Tom and Beth Hughes of Sealy, Texas; two daughters, Kim Taylor and her husband, Doug, of LeMars and Tina Renken of Sioux City; two sisters and their husbands, Arlene and Cliff Peters and Verda and Jim Marienau, all of LeMars; three brothers and their wives, Erwin and Joan and Wilbur and Jerlois, all of LeMars; and Victor and Lee of Sioux City; five grandchildren, Nikki, Dusty and Hunter Hughes, and Mitch and Dylan Taylor, and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister, Bernice, in infancy.
Pallbearers will be Steve Dickman, Craig Oetken, Lyle Krienert, Kelly Plueger, Denny Port, Gene Kadinger and John Willer.
~source: LeMars Daily Sentinel
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