Newberg, Virgil A. 1915-2004

NEWBERG, LAW, WEINRICH, BROWN

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 4/18/2009 at 17:57:29

HINTON, Iowa -- Virgil A. Newberg, 89, of Hinton died Monday, Oct. 4, 2004, at Indian Hills Nursing and Rehab Center in Sioux City following a lengthy illness with Parkinson's Disease. He was under Hospice care while at the nursing home.

Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Hinton United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Jason Gutzmer officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Visitation will be 2 to 8:30 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8:30 p.m., a Masonic service conducted by the Triangle Lodge at 7 p.m. and a prayer service at 7:30 p.m., at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mr. Newberg was born May 30, 1915, in Lawton, Iowa, the son of Gustave and Edith (Law) Newberg. He was raised in Lawton and graduated from Lawton High School in 1933. He moved to Hinton after graduation to join his parents, who had purchased a farm west of Hinton.

He married Lillian Weinrich in 1935, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. They began farming in Hinton and this was the beginning of his dairy business. They lived in Oyens, Iowa from 1944 to 1948, before he purchased the present Newberg farm west of Hinton and enlarged the dairy. Lillian died at the age of 54 in 1970, in Sioux City.

He was married to Dorothy E. Brown in 1972 in Humboldt, Iowa, by the Rev. Ralph Kitterman, a former pastor in Hinton. The couple made their home in Hinton.

He served on the Federal Land Bank board for many years and the National Dairy Council board. He was on the board of directors of Central States Division of Mid-America Dairyman Inc., now called Dairy Farmers of America, for 42 years. He also was a member of the Farm Bureau.

He was a faithful member of Hinton United Methodist Church for more than 50 years and served on several committees and the church board. He was a member of Triangle Masonic Lodge A.F. & A.M. 643, the Sioux City Consistory and Abu Bekr Shrine Temple for more than 50 years. He served as a Worthy Patron of the Azure Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star.

He enjoyed fishing, traveling, music, playing cards and his Suburban. He liked family gatherings and especially spending time with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Survivors include his wife, Dorothy of Hinton; two sons, Norman Newberg and his wife, Johneen and Virgil Newberg Jr., all of Hinton; a daughter and her husband, Beverly and Dale Albers of Hinton; four grandchildren, Eric Newberg and his wife, Lori, Melissa Newberg, Shelly (Albers) and her husband, Mark Mohl and Mike Albers and his wife, Amy; four great-grandchildren, Jennifer and John Newberg and Cassidy and McKenzie Mohl; a brother and his wife, Bedford and Lois Newberg; a sister-in-law, Karen Reinhart; and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister, Lorretta Epling.

Pallbearers will be Eric Newberg, Don Newberg, Mike Albers, Duane Spies, Larry Hansen and Hank Campbell.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal, part of the Darrell E. Obituary Collection