Eugene John Henry Summers 1925 - 1995

GLISSMAN, SUMMERS, KING

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Date: 7/12/2018 at 09:29:30

Sioux City Journal
September 1995

Hornick, Iowa—Eugene John Henry Summers, 70, of Hornick died Sunday, September 10, 1995, at his home in Hornick.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the United Methodist Church in Hornick with the Rev. Karen Dearchs officiating. Burial will be in Little Sioux Township Cemetery in Smithland with military graveside rites by Hindman-Steele American Legion Post. Visitation, with the family present, will be 6:30 to 8 p.m. today, with a Masonic service at 7:30 p.m. at the Wood Funeral Home in Sloan.

Mr. Summers was born April 12, 1925 in Walthill, Nebraska, the son of Ira Everett and Vera Margaret (Glissman) Summers. He moved to Sioux City as a youth and attended Woodrow Wilson Junior School and graduated from Central High School. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy, June 7, 1942, serving in a special armed services in Europe, Africa and the Pacific. He served in the Naval Reserve Services from 1946 to 1950. After World War II, he attended Business College in Stockton, California and Morningside College in Sioux City. He married Janet V. King February 19, 1954 in Smithland. The couple made their home in Smithland until moving to Hornick in 1969. He spent most of his life as a salesman, truck driver and in private business. He established the General Truck Terminal in the late 1940s. He was active in the founding of Western Iowa Tech Community College in Sioux City and owned Gene’s Market in Hornick from 1968 to 1973. He retired in 1985 and enjoyed reading and golfing.

Mr. Summers was a member of the United Methodist Church and Hindman-Steel American Legion Post 492, both of Hornick. He was a member of Attica Masonic Lodge 502 AF & AM of Sloan and the Scottish Rite Bodies and Abu Bekr Shrine Temple where he was a member of the White Horse Mounted Patrol, of Sioux City. He was a 30-year member of the Sioux City Teamsters Union.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Eugene Jr. of Sioux City; three daughters and their husbands, JoLene and Dwayne Currie of Lincoln, Nebraska, Carmen and Tim Elliott of Chasworth, Georgia and Brenda Jean and Alan White of Dalton, Georgia; two brothers and their wives, Ira “Duke” and Ione Summers of Omaha and Duane and Joan Summers of Atlantic, Georgia; four sisters, Dorothy Potter of Omaha, Joan Gereau of Port Charlotte, Florida and her husband, Arnold Wendt of Denison, Karen and her husband, Don Moretz of Sioux City; nine grandchildren, Amanda Summers, Hannah White, Melissa Cote, Carol Elliott, Matthew, Emily, Andrew and Daniel Currie and Wade Summers; one great-grandson and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Rex Summers.