Frank Wendell "Wink" Chastain 1917 - 2011

CHASTAIN, BRUNER, FLYNN, JORDAN, TUTTLE

Posted By: Mary Hart, Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/28/2011 at 20:25:07

Winterset Madisonian, Winterset, Iowa
July 27, 2011

FRANK WENDELL CHASTAIN Corydon, Iowa

Frank Wendell “Wink” Chastain, 94, of Corydon, Iowa, passed away at Wayne County Hospital on July 19, 2011.

He was born on June 13, 1917, on the family farm in Decatur County to Frank E. and Maude Bruner Chastain. He graduated from Leon High School in 1934. He married Dorothy Flynn Chastain on Oct. 11, 1941. To this union one daughter was born, Irma Kay.

Wink worked at the Triple A office in Leon, worked on the family farm with his father, and then managed the Decatur County Home for three years. In 1954 he was recruited to manage the Wayne County Home, which he and his wife Dorothy ran for the next 27 years. He and Dorothy retired in 1981 and moved to the city of Corydon.

Wink dedicated his life to public service. He was a member of the Wayne County Fair Board, Lions Club, Eastern Star, Fifty plus years to the Corydon Masonic Lodge 91, served on the Corydon City Council, and the Senior Housing Committee. Wink was also an avid sportsman playing lots of baseball in his younger years and golfing in his senior years. He was best known as “The Voice of the Wayne County Fair” for over 40 years. Wink and Dorothy were Corydon “Old Settlers of the Year” in 1985. In 2002 he was inducted into the Iowa 4H Hall of Fame at the Iowa State Fair for outstanding service in Wayne County.

He is survived in death by his wife, Dorothy; daughter, Irma (Lew) Jordan of Winterset; three grandchildren, Jill Tuttle of Highlands Ranch Colorado, Lewis Stuart (Candace) Jordan of Urbandale, Grant Wendell (Jessica) Jordan of Des Moines; four great-grandchildren, Jennifer, Cory, Austin and Zach; many nieces and nephews and other relatives and many friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank and Maude Chastain; brothers, Paul and Harold, and sister, Katherine.

Funeral services were held Friday, July 22, at Randolph Funeral Home in Corydon, with Pastor Leroy Perkins officiating. Interment is at Corydon Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Wayne County Fair.