Gronemeyer, Glenn D. 1928-1998

GRONEMEYER, SMITH, PLUEGER, KLEMME, MARIENAU

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Date: 8/12/2010 at 08:56:16

Glenn D. Gronemeyer, 70, of
Hawarden, Iowa, died Tuesday,
July 28, 1998, at the Royal C.
Johnson Veteran's Medical Center
in Sioux Falls, S.D., following
a brief illness.

Services were held Friday,
July 31, at Trinity Lutheran
Church in Akron, with the Reverend
Allen Bidne officiating.

Burial was in St. Peter's Lutheran
Church, Brunsville, Iowa,
with military rites conducted by
the American Legion Wilken-
McHale Post 724 of Brunsville.
There was a F-16 flyover by the
185th Air National Guard at the
cemetery. Schroeder Funeral
Home in Akron was in charge
of arrangements.

Pallbearers were Korey and
Kyle Behr, Mike Winterfeld,
Troy Lang, Sam Skogman and
Austin Walrod.

Honorary pallbearers were
Brittni Behr, Brandi Schuler,
Ben Schuler, Luke Gronemeyer,
Jennifer Vaske, and Chris
Walrod.

Marietta Nielsen was the organist
with congregational singing.

Mr. Gronemeyer was born
June 9, 1928, in rural Akron,
the son of William and Evelyn
(Smith) Gronemeyer. He was
baptized and confirmed in the
Lutheran faith. He attended
country school in the Craig,
Iowa, area. He served in the
U.S. Army during the Korean
War as a medic. Following his
discharge, he moved to the
Le Mars, Iowa area.

He married Darlene Plueger
in 1951, in rural Le Mars. He ran.
a feed grindery mill and also
managed gas stations in
Le Mars. He returned to Akron
in 1989. He married Evelyn
(Marienau) Klemme on Jan. 7,
1992, in Akron.

He was a member of Trinity
Lutheran Church and American
Legion Wilken-McHale Post 724,
where he served as vice commander.

Survivors include his wife; his
mother of Le Mars; two daughters
and their husbands, Sheryl
and Winston Belfrage of Sergeant
Bluff and Barbara and
Nolan Schuler of Colorado
Springs, Colo.; two sons and
their wives, Greg and LeeAnn of
Le Mars and Richard and
Leanne of Fort Hood, Texas; 10
grandchildren; three great-grandchildren;
three stepdaughters
and their husbands, Gloria
and Mark Kowalke of Sioux City,
Gail and Bob Walrod of Akron
and Ellen and Chuck Renken of
Chatsworth, Iowa; four sisters,
Jean Hartmann of Le Mars,
Mildred and her husband,
Wayne Winterfeld, of Ord, Neb.,
Edith and her husband, Ron
Sechler of Meriden, Iowa, and
Norma and her husband, Tom
Flint, of Wilmer, Ala.; and a sister-
in-law, Verlee Gronemeyer of
Meriden.

He was preceded in death by
his father; a sister, Dorothy; a
brother, Russell; and a brother-in-
law, Ray Hartmann.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, August 6, 1998
Akron, Iowa