Feickert, Allen -- 1949 - 2006

MEYER, FEICKERT, WHITEHEAD, HEMRY, NELSON, MOORE, KELLEY

Posted By: Volunteer
Date: 10/24/2006 at 20:09:43

Allen Feickert, 57

Allen Feickert of Marion, formerly of Frankville, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2006, at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. He was 57.

Services were held on Monday, Sept. 11, at Murdoch Funeral Home and Cremation Center in Marion. The Rev. Darran Whiting officiated. Interment was held at Oak Shade Cemetery in Marion.

Allen was born May 27, 1949, the son of Theodore and Irene (Meyer) Feickert in Decorah. He graduated from Postville High School in 1968 and from The Northwest Iowa Vocational School in Sheldon as a power lineman.

On Aug. 14, 1971, he married Susan J. Whitehead at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. He has been employed as a power lineman for Linn County R.E.C. in Marion, since 1971. He was a member of First United Presbyterian Church in Marion. Allen enjoyed hunting, fishing, and grooming his yard.

Survivors include his wife, Susan, of Marion; two sons, Wade (Tami) of Cedar Rapids and Brad of Marion; his mother, Irene Feickert of Frankville; three brothers, Lloyd (Marsha) of Marion, DuWayne (Judy) of Postville, and Jeff (Sharon) of Frankville; and five sisters, Norma Hemry (Wayne) of Ossian, Joyce Nelson (Wayne) of Decorah, Judy Moore (Mike) of Decorah, Vicki Kelley of Ankeny, and Rhonda (Doug) of Frankville.

He was preceded in death by his father, Theodore Feickert.

Postville Herald-Leader, September 13, 2006