Leafstedt, Don A. 1919 - 1992

LEAFSTEDT, SCOTT, ERICSON

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 8/27/2010 at 10:21:03

Don A. Leafstedt, 73 of Hawarden died Friday, Dec. 18, 1992, at McKennan Hosptial in Sioux Falls, S.D.

Services were Tuesday, at the Associated church in Hawarden with Rev. Fredrich Mellberg officiating, Burial was in Grace Hill cemetery, under direction of Porter-Dow Funeral Home.

Mr. Leafstedt was born March 16, 1919, in Hawarden, the son of Helmer and Mabel (Ericson) Leafstedt. He graduated from the Hawarden High School in 1937 and attended Sioux Falls (S.D.) college. In 1942, he entered the armed forces and served in the army medical department as a medical lab technician, clerical positions and postal services, until his discharge in 1944.

He married Margaret J. Scott Sept. 22, 1945, in while he was a contract representative for the U.S. Veterans Administration, returning to Hawarden in 1947. He and his father formed the Leafstedt Insurance Agency in September 1948. In November 1960, he was elected to the Hawarden city council and was appointed Hawarden city clerk in Oct. 1963. He retired Dec. 31, 1981. Mr. Leafstedt served as a trustee on the Northwest Iowa regional library board. He was a member of the Associated church, the Royal Arch Masons, Sioux City consistory, Scottish Rite Bodies and Dale Masonic Lodge since 1948,

Survivors include his wife; a son, Don Kirk and his wife, Rita of Mason City; a brother, Kay and his wife. Marilvn of Oelwein; two grandchildren, Emily and Katie; ana two nepnews, Mark and Jon.

He was preceded in death by his parents; and a daughter, Wendee Jean Leafstedt.

Akron Register Tribune
Thursday, December 24, 1992
Akron, Iowa