Wesley Albert Park 1914- 2006

PARK, WHITTEN, MALONEY

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 1/24/2017 at 21:46:03

Sioux City Journal
25 February 2006

SLOAN, Iowa -- Wesley A. Park, 91, of Sloan passed away Thursday, Feb. 23, 2006, at Pleasant View Care Center in Whiting, Iowa.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at Community Church of Christ in Sloan, with Dr. Emery Killian officiating. Burial will be in Sloan Cemetery. Visitation will be 4 to 8 p.m. Sunday, with a prayer service at 7 p.m. followed by a Masonic service, all at the church. Arrangements are under the direction of Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, Iowa.

Wesley Albert Park was born Nov. 17, 1914, in Maryfield, Saskatchewan, Canada, the son of Albert Galliton and Olive Julia (Whitten) Park. In 1915, the family relocated to Sloan, where he was raised. He attended Sloan School and graduated with the class of 1932.

He married Ethel Lucille Maloney on April 17, 1938, on Easter Sunday morning in Elk Point, S.D. He had various jobs before joining the U.S. Army in May 1945. He served in the infantry during World War II until his honorable discharge.

He studied the plumbing trade and owned and operated a plumbing and well business in Sloan. In 1956, the family moved to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where he joined the Plumber's and Pipefitters Union, working out of Cedar Rapids until his retirement. The couple then returned to Sloan and made their home at the Park Apartments, which he had built along with his brother-in-law. Lucille passed away April 1, 2003, in Waco, Texas. He later moved to the assisted living at Pleasant View Care Center.

They enjoyed traveling and he was an avid photographer. They spent 24 winter seasons in Texas and traveled extensively in the United States and around the world. They were members of the Holiday Rambler RV Club and attended local, regional and international events.

He enjoyed volunteering in the community where he was the first male president of the PTA at Sloan Consolidated School. He was a Scout Master and an assistant fire chief for the volunteer fire department. He was a member of the Community Church of Christ, where he served as chairman of the general board and a Sunday School superintendent and teacher. He was a member of the American Legion Smith-Rhodes Post 295, where he was a former commander, Attica Lodge 502 A.F. & A.M. in Sloan, and the Sioux City Abu Bekr Shrine and Shrine Clown International Association.

Survivors include three sons, Kenneth of New Smyrna Beach, Fla., James and his wife, Ruth of Appleton, Wis., and John of Mukilteo, Wash.; a daughter and her husband, Arlene and Alan McFarland of Sloan; nine grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren.

In addition to his wife, he was also preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, A. Elizabeth Christensen and L. Helen Chatterton; and two brothers, Robert A. and Frank A. Park.