Moen, Dale E. 1927-1984

MOEN, WELTY

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/27/2008 at 18:15:18

DALE E. MOEN

LE MARS, Iowa—Dale E. Moen, 56, of LeMars died Friday at a LeMars hospital.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the Presbyterian United Church of Christ in LeMars. The Rev. Robert Grupp will officiate. A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home. Burial will be in Memorial Cemetery in LeMars.

Mr. Moen was born April 2, 1927, in rural Worth County, Iowa. He served in the United States Navy. He graduated from Iowa State Teachers College at Cedar Falls and then obtained a master’s degree in 1954 from Colorado State College of Education.

He married Patricia Welty Dec. 26, 1950, in the Little Brown Church at Nashua, Iowa. He taught school at Marcus, Waterville and Boyden in Iowa and came to LeMars in 1963. He was an elementary school principal in the LeMars Community School system. He retired in 1983 because of poor health.

He was a member of the LeMars Lions Club, the Elementary Principal’s Association and the Presbyterian United Church of Christ in LeMars. He also was an elder in the church.

Survivors include his mother, Mrs. Sylvia Brunsvold of Northwood, Iowa; his wife, Patricia of LeMars; three sons, Gregory of Independence, Jeffery of Iowa City and Lynn of Cedar Falls; two brothers, Richard of Dundee, Ill., and Kenneth of Belle Plaine, Minn.; two step-brothers; one step-sister and one grandchild.

~Source: The Sioux City Journal
~Note: Date of death penned on the scrapbook page next to this obituary is March 1984.