George Orville Bryant 1921 - 1996

JOLLIFFE, BRYANT, THOMPSON

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Date: 2/17/2021 at 16:34:12

Sioux City Journal
20 December 1996

George O. Bryant

EMMETSBURG, Iowa - (Died Sioux City)

George Orville Bryant, 75, of Emmetsburg died Wednesday, Dec. 18, 1996, at a Sioux City hospital following complications from surgery.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Bethany Lutheran Church in Emmetsburg, with the Rev. Steve Ellerbush officiating. Burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery in Emmetsburg. Visitation will be from 2 to 9 p.m. today at the Martin-Mattice Funeral Home in Emmetsburg.

Mr. Bryant was born Nov. 11, 1921, in Plover, Iowa, the son of William Pyne and Clara Maude (Jolliffe) Bryant. He attended school in Plover and Emmetsburg, graduating from Emmetsburg High School in 1939, where he lettered in football, basketball, and track. He attended and graduated from Emmetsburg Community College. He married Virginia Thompson on Feb. 23, 1943, in Fairmont, Minn. He was a civilian flight instructor for the U.S. Army Reserves in Estherville, Iowa and Wayne, Neb. from 1941 to 1944. In 1945, the couple started the Emmetsburg Airport. He gave flight lessons, charter and ambulance flights and aerial application for 35 years, retiring in 1980.

He was a member of the Bethany Lutheran Church, a past member of the Lion's Club, and served six years on the Iowa Aeronautical Commission. He enjoyed golf and wintering in Florida.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Georgia and her husband Dennis Munderloh of Pender, Neb. and Barbara Framke of Hiawatha, Kansas; four grandchildren, Kris Levine and Stephen Munderloh of Omaha, Neb. and Andrea and Bradford Framke of Hiawatha; a great-grandson; two brothers, Jesse of Newton, Iowa and Byron of Emmetsburg; and many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents; two sisters, Laura Dammann and Olive Laughhead and two brothers, Howard and Everd.