Milo S. Lauffer (1916-2007)

LAUFFER, KINNAIRD, HUNTRODS, NEWCOMB

Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 5/24/2007 at 16:26:10

THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Thursday, May 24, 2007.

Feb. 24, 1916-May 21, 2007

Milo S. Lauffer, 91, of Nevada, died Monday, May 21, at Mary Greeley Medical Center in Ames. Services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, May 25, at Bacon Funeral Home in Nevada. Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.

Milo S. Lauffer was born Feb. 24, 1916, near Thayer, to Sam and Helen Kinnaird Lauffer. He graduated from Thayer High School. He married Myrl Eileen Huntrods May 10, 1941. He joined the army in January 1941, serving 27 months in the states and 30 months overseas as a ground aircraft observer 518 in the African, Mediterranean (Sicily and Corsica) and European Theaters of War (France, Germany and England) with Battery A 214th AAA Gun Battalion. After returning home, he attended York College in Nebraska and received a bachelor's degree from Simpson College in Indianola. He later received a master's degree in education from Drake University. He was a public school educator for 31 years, teaching in junior high at Belmond and as an elementary school principal at Wapello and Iowa City. In Iowa City, he was principal at Horace Mann, Grant Wood and Roosevelt elementary schools.

While serving as elementary principal in Louisa County, he was elected to president of the County Council, an education organization. After moving to Iowa City, he was elected president of the East Central Elementary Principal's Organization.

After retiring, he used his ham radio hobby by volunteering with civil defense while living in Arkansas.

He is survived by one daughter, Beth (Robert) Newcomb, of Denver, Colo.

He was preceded in death by his wife in April 2006. He also was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Pauline and Dorothy; and four brothers, James, Edgar, Raymond and Marion, his twin.

Memorial donations may be made to the Story County Medical Center Endowment Foundation, 630 Sixth St., Nevada, IA 50201.

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