Samuel A. McMaster Jr 1922 - 1996

MCMASTER, REYNOLDS, DENNISON, JACOBSEN

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Sioux City Journal
12 December 1996

Samuel McMaster Jr.

Samuel A. McMaster Jr., 74, of Wahpeton, Iowa, formerly of South Sioux City, (Buried Sioux City) died Tuesday, Dec. 10, 1996, at his residence.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the First United Methodist Church in Sioux City. The Rev. Scott G. Holmes, pastor of Calvary United Methodist Church of Arnolds Park, Iowa, will officiate. Burial will be in Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City. Visitation with the family will be from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Meyer Brothers Colonial Chapel.

Mr. McMaster was born Feb. 18, 1922, in Ticonic, Iowa, the son of Samuel Alden and Ruth (Reynolds) McMaster Sr. He graduated from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, in 1946. He married Helen C. Dennison on March 19, 1946, in Denver, Colo. He married Patricia S. "Paddy" Jacobsen on Aug. 20, 1982, in Clear Lake, Iowa. He was raised in Hornick, Iowa and moved to South Sioux City in 1946. He started McMaster Grain Company with his father and brother-in-law, Dean Daniels. He presently still owned and operated McMaster Grain Co. He served with the U.S. Air Force during World War II.

He was a past president of the Nebraska Grain and Feed Association and the Sioux City Grain Exchange. He served on the board of directors for the National Grain and Feed Association. He served on the South Sioux City Board of Education for 13 years, from 1969 to 1982, 11 years as the president. He was awarded the Nebraska P.T.A. Honorary Life Membership.

He was a member of Calvary United Methodist Church in Arnolds Park. He was a former member of the First Presbyterian Church and the First United Methodist Church in Sioux City.

He served on the board of directors for the South Sioux City Chamber of Commerce, the United Way, the Great West Casualty, the O.A. Cooper Company, the Atokad Agricultural and Racing Association. He was co-founder and served on the board of directors for the Dakota County State Bank. He was the recipient of the Sertoma "Service to Mankind" award in 1968. He was a member of the South Sioux City Kiwanis Club, the Abu Bekr Shrine Temple, the Sioux City Scottish Rite Bodies, and the south 5ioux City Omadi Lodge 5 A.F. & A.M. He was past president of the South Sioux City Community Chest, he was currently serving on the Planning and Zoning Committee for the Wahpeton City Council.

Survivors include his wife; four daughters, Judith Cooey and Joan her husband Rick Robinette all of South Sioux City, Marjorie and her husband Robert Peterson of Omaha, Neb., and Cynthia and her husband Curt Engel of Salina, Kansas; three step-children, Holly and her husband Larry Sales of Sioux City, Alex and his wife Joan Jacobsen of Colorado and Andy Jacobsen of California; a sister, Marian Daniels of Sioux City; eight grandchildren, Bruce and Jana Cooey, Adam and Whitney Engel, Michael, Katie, Amy, and Ashley Robinette; four step-grandchildren, Chasity Barker, Heather Jacobsen, Kelly Sales, and Missy Heaton; and a step-great-grandchild.

A memorial has been established in his name.