Dunn, Rev. George 1892-1973
DUNN, ALBERT
Posted By: Linda Ziemann (email)
Date: 3/15/2004 at 19:20:00
GEORGE DUNN DIES
Funeral services for Rev. George W. Dunn, 80, 620 First Ave. S.W., interim pastor of the Baptist church here and former superintendent of the Dubuque district of the Methodist church, will be Tuesday at 10:30 a.m. at the First United Methodist Church, Sioux City.
Officiating will be Rev. Charles E. Mason, development director of Sioux City St. Luke’s Medical Center; Rev. Robert Butler, pastor of the First United Methodist church at Sioux City and Rev. Milo Morris, pastor of the First United Methodist church in LeMars.
Active pallbearers will be Wallace Dunn and Richard, Kenneth, David, Harold and Earl Albert.
Honorary pallbearers will be Gaylord Smith, A. W. Buckingham, Charles C. Howard, George Mount, L.H. Jones and William Wolle.
Tyrian lodge 508, AF&AM, will have charge of Masonic rites at the gravesite.
Burial will be in Logan Park cemetery, Sioux City, under direction of the Heaton-Westcott funeral home, Sioux City.
Rev. Dunn died unexpectedly Saturday morning (Jan. 13, 1973) at the conclusion of a funeral at which he officiated.
He had concluded the funeral sermon for Edward Corbett at Heaton-Westcott funeral home and was seated when he apparently was stricken by a heart attack. He was pronounced dead on arrival at a Sioux City hospital.
Rev. Dunn was born Nov. 11, 1892, at South Ferriby, Lincolnshire, England. He came to the United States in 1911, settling at Alexander, where he worked on a farm for two years.
He then moved to Sioux City where he attended Morningside academy and Morningside College, graduating with a bachelor degree in 1921.
While attending college, he served as a student pastor at the Haddock Mission on Steuben St. and at the Struble Methodist church. He served as pastor at the Methodist churches of Whiting, Ida Grove and Mapleton for 18 years before returning to Sioux City in 1936 to become First Methodist pastor until 1952.
He married Mary Albert of Struble Aug. 12, 1919. She died in Cedar Rapids, Sept. 14, 1961.
Rev. Dunn again left Sioux City in 1952 where he was appointed superintendent of the Dubuque district of the Methodist church. He served as superintendent until 1957 when he retired and became pastor of St. Luke’s Methodist church of Dubuque and Martelle United Methodist church near Cedar Rapids, serving until 1962.
He then joined Morningside College as assistant to the president.
Active in civic as well as church and educational affairs during his years in Sioux City, Rev. Dunn was named the city’s outstanding foreign-born citizen by the Sertoma Club in 1963.
He married Grace Albert Jan. 25, 1964, in Sioux Falls. They had made their home in LeMars since that time.
Rev. Dunn served the Pierson United Methodist church and the Meadow Star United Methodist church from 1966 to 1969.
In the last three years he served as interim pastor of the Baptist church in LeMars and as assistant pastor of the Burlington United Methodist church.
He was a former chairman of the Plymouth County Cancer Society and was a member of the LeMars Lions Club.
Rev. Dunn was a former president of the Sioux City Ministerial Assn., the Professional Men’s club, the Knife and Fork club and the Kiwanis club and was chairman of the Sioux City library board for about 10 years.
He also was a member of the Iowa Conference of the United Methodist churches, Tyrian Lodge 508, AF&AM, the Sioux City Consistory, York Rite and Commandry Bodies, the High Twelve club, the Morningside board of trustees and the Sioux City hospital board.
Rev. Dunn served as grand chaplain for the Grand Lodge of Masons in Iowa for one year.
Survivors are his wife, a daughter, Mrs. Charles (Ferne) Obye of Sioux City; a son Donald of Des Moines; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Herman (Helen) Schulz of LeMars; two stepsons, Harold and Earl Albert, both of LeMars; two brothers, Walter and Frank, both of Austin, Minn.; three sisters, Marion Dunn, Mrs. Winifred Jolson , and Mrs. Annie Larson all of Austin; 15 grandchildren and a great-granddaughter.
A son, Homer, lost his life while serving as a fighter pilot in the Air Corps during World War 2. His plane disappeared while on a training flight in Hawaii and was never found.
A memorial has been established in Rev. Dunn’s name.
Plymouth Obituaries maintained by Linda Ziemann.
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