DINGUS, Dwight:1910-1918

DINGUS

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Date: 10/7/2013 at 05:34:52

Obituary Dwight Dingus
**Handwritten: 1928

DWIGHT DINGUS, YOUNG TEACHER FOUND DEAD IN CAR
**Handwritten: 1928

Dwight A. Dingus, son of Charles and Effie Dingus, was born at McNabb, Illinois, July 21, 1910, and died at Birmingham, December 10, 1928, at the early age of 18 years, 4 months and 19 days.

His whole life has been spent in this community, the family removing here shortly after his birth, the last eleven years at the present residence on their farm near Winchester.

He graduated with honor in the last class of our local high school, spent last summer in the summer session of Parsons college, and has been teaching this year at the Raney school north of town.

He made his confession of the Christian faith in the local Presbyterian church, of which he was a member, and also a member of the True Blue class in the Sunday School.

His life with us has been like an open book, of which all those who knew and loved him have reason to be proud. He was popular in the schools, both with the teachers and his classmates, standing high in scholarship and active in the other interests of the school. He bore a fine character in the community, and was beloved by his associates. All who knew him will join with his dear ones in mourning his untimely end, and in feeling the sad accident that caused his death has removed from us a life that was giving the promise of great future usefulness.

He leaves a vacant place not only in the home circle, but in the regards of others where he will be sadly missed. Besides his father and mother, one brother Malcolm of Winfield, and one sister, Ava, at home remain in the family circle, one sister, Edna May, dying in infancy.

The funeral service was held at the Presbyterian church on Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock, in charge of the pastor, Rev. H.C. Irvine, assisted by Rev. Doughty of the Methodist church. Interment in the Maple Hill Cemetery.

Source: Van Buren Co. Genealogical Society Obituary Book C, Page 276, Keosauqua Public Library, Keosauqua, IA