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Dunne, William P. Sr. 1916-1999

DUNNE, MADDEN, GROEPPER

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 6/29/2008 at 21:28:37

WILLIAM P. DUNNE, SR.

KINGSLEY, Iowa—William “Bill” P. Dunne Sr., 83, of Kingsley died Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1999, at Kingsley Nursing and Rehab Center.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at First Lutheran Church in Kingsley, with the Rev. Michael Gruhn officiating. Burial will be in Kingsley Cemetery. Visitation will be after 2 p.m. today, with the family present after 6 p.m. and a prayer service at 7 p.m. at Earnest-Michaelson Funeral Home in Kingsley.

Mr. Dunne was born March 5, 1916, in rural Kingsley, the son of Patrick and Mary (Madden) Dunne. He graduated from Kingsley High School. He farmed in the Kingsley and Remsen, Iowa, area.

He married Edna Groepper on March 27, 1938, in Remsen. The couple continued to live and work on the farm until retiring and moving into Kingsley.

He was a member of First Lutheran Church.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter and her husband, Phyllis and Jerry Meister of LeMars, Iowa; three sons, Jerry and his wife, Caryl of Sioux City, Ron of Westminister, Colo., and Bill jr. and his wife, Ann of Kingsley; eight grandchildren, Randy and Scott Meister, Cindy Digman, Kim Jansen, Cory, Nicole, Jennie and Gina Dunne; six great-grandchildren; a sister, Mary Cook of LeMars; seven sisters-in-law, Mrs. Jack Dunne, of Wilmar, Minn, Mrs. Ernest Groepper of Remsen, Mrs. Walter Groepper, of Aurora, S.D., Mrs. Clarence Berding of LeMars, Mrs. Martin Dorr, of Remsen, Mrs. Kenneth Groepper of Remsen and Mrs. Alice Shanahan of Dakota City; three brothers-in-law, Donald Nestor of Marcus, Iowa, Alvin Groepper of Remsen and Mr. and Mrs. Loren Groepper of Kingsley; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a sister, Dorothy Flynn; and three brothers, Philip, Jack, and Donald Dunne.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal—part of the D. Easton Obituary Collection


 

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