Carl Anton Arnbal (1925-2014)

ARNBAL, KJAR, BRAYTON, MADISON, GHOLSON, PALERMO, CHRISTOFFERSEN

Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 12/28/2014 at 15:01:33

Obituary From Adams Soderstrum Funeral Home, Story County, Iowa.

Carl Anton Arnbal, 89, an Ames resident and retired associate professor of freshman engineering at Iowa State University, died Monday, Nov. 24, 2014, at Greenhills Health Care Center in Ames, Iowa.

Carl Arnbal was born July 2, 1925, in Askov, Minnesota, one of four children to Olivia (Anna) Kjar Arnbal and Jens Arnbal (a carpenter and dairy farmer). His parents were born in Denmark and immigrated to the United States prior to World War I and married in 1906 in southern Minnesota. He spent most of his youth near Albert Lea, Minnesota, living with his close-knit family on their dairy farm.

Carl attended Albert Lea School, where he learned his love of wood and furniture making. He attended the University Minnesota through the U.S. Navy scholarship program and graduated in 1946 with a degree in mechanical engineering. He served briefly in the Navy and was a long-term naval reservist. During his college years Carl grew to love a neighbor girl in Albert Lea, Una Nielsen, and they married Aug. 31, 1946. Their love was lasting and devoted.

After living in Manhattan, Kan., where Carl completed his graduate work at Kansas State University in civil engineering, Una and Carl settled in Ames in 1952 when he became an Iowa State faculty member in the Department of Engineering Graphics. He co-authored a highly used workbook, Problems in Engineering Graphics. In 1965 he received a second MS in Civil Engineering from Iowa State. Una and he raised three daughters in Ames and remained community residents.

Carl’s passion for beautiful wood working was put to the test with Una and their Woodland Antiques business for three decades and when they built their last home with exquisite refinishing and building decorative cabinetry and furniture. He was an avid bowler on his university departmental team and often was recruited as a substitute by competing teams. Carl enjoyed rooting passionately for Iowa State women's basketball and had long-held season tickets in Hilton's Section 134. He was a member of the Memorial Lutheran Church. Over the years, Carl and Una kept close ties to their many Danish cousins who live on the Jutland peninsula as well as close Irish friends, Colm and Nuala O’Flaherty - Colm currently lives in Tasmania, Australia.

Carl is survived by three daughters, Judith Ann (Thomas) Brayton, Olivia Marie Arnbal Madison (Gregory Palermo), and Carla Jean Gholson. He also is survived by his grandchildren, Christopher (Kimberley) Palermo; and Mark Palermo (Kirsten Hartwig) and two great-grandchildren, Sebastian and Adelina Palermo.

Carl was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Una; son-in-law, Larry Gholson; his parents; two brothers, Hans and Anders; and sister, Kathrine Christoffersen.

Memorial contributions may be directed to the Ames Animal Shelter or Iowa State University’s Veterinary Companion Animal Fund in recognition of his love for his cat, Zoe, and many miniature schnauzers shared with Una over the years. A memorial service and burial is planned for early spring 2015.

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