William A. Malone (1917-2015)
MALONE, GILLASPIE, CARTER, MEAD, DEBAECKE, LEFEBVRE, DAVID
Posted By: Mark Christian
Date: 3/13/2015 at 19:07:17
Obituary From Adams Soderstrum Funeral Home, Story County, Iowa.
William A. Malone was born January 19, 1917 to A. Leland and Carror (Gillaspie) Malone in Carthage, Texas. He graduated from high school in Carthage and attended junior college in Marshall, Texas. In 1940, he started studies in Landscape Architecture at Iowa State College. College was interrupted by WWII. Bill was inducted into the United States Army April, 1942 in Tyler, Texas and served in France. He had the rank of 2nd Lieutenant at the end of the war. After discharge in October, 1945 he served in the Army Reserves until November, 1961 and separated from there with the rank of Captain. After the war Bill returned to Iowa State and received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1947 and an MS in Community and Regional Planning in 1950. He was the first city planner for Ames. He was a professor for seven years at Michigan State University (1950 to 1956). From 1957 to 1959, he was a city planner in Kansas City, MO, and then from 1959 to 1965, he was the city planning director of Kettering, Ohio. He returned to Ames in 1965, and was an associate professor of city and regional planning at Iowa State University until retirement in 1984.
Bill and Pollie Mae Carter met at the First Baptist Church in Ames and were married November 20, 1943 in Kalamazoo, Michigan; their union lasted 71 years. He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Ames, the American Institute of Certified Planners and the American Planning Association. Once retired, Bill volunteered at the information desk at Ames city hall and with Pollie at the Mary Greeley Hospital hospitality shop and the Ames School System. Together they enjoyed gardening, early morning water aerobics and traveling. They made several trips to France and attended many Elder Hostels across America. He loved trees and plants and sharing this knowledge with others.
Bill passed away at 98 years of age on February, 23, 2015 at Bethany Manor in Story City.
Bill is survived by his wife, Pollie C. Malone, of Story City; his children, Jerry Malone (and special friend Ann), of Kokomo, Indiana, Jo (Steve) Mead, of Storm Lake, Iowa and Beverly (Albert) Debaecke, of Cassel, France; his grandchildren, Joshua Mead, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Dr. Marla Mead, of Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, David (Adeola) Mead, of Seattle, Washington, Adele (Laurent) Lefebvre, of France, Alice (Sylvain) David, of France and Angela Debaecke, of France; and his great-grandsons, Victor Lefebvre and Liam David, both of France and Isaiah Mead, of Seattle, Washington.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his sisters, Caroline, in 1947 and Mary Beth, in 1973; and his brother, James Leland, of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, in 2011.
Funeral Service MAR 2. 01:30 PM
First Baptist Church
200 Lynn Avenue
Ames, IA, US
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