Arlynn MENDELL

MENDELL, FINK, LONGNECKER, BARRETT, BURGE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 10/7/2006 at 16:58:52

Arlynn Mendell, 75, died June 3, 2005 at the Boone County Hospital in Boone. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at the First United Methodist Church in Boone. Burial will be in the Linwood Park Cemetery in Boone.

Arlynn was born on January 15, 1930 in Dows, Iowa. He married Sharon Fink. The couple later divorced. As a youth, he attended school in Jewell. He attended Grandview College in Des Moines and then graduated in the early 50's from Iowa State University with a degree in horticulture. Earlier, he lived in Osage, Iowa and worked for Lundberg's Greenhouse. In 1965, he moved to Boone and was employed at Boesen's Boone Greenhouses for over 25 years. He presently was employed at Boone Wal-Mart in the garden department. For over 40 years, he delivered the Des Moines Register in rural Boone and Pilot Mound. He taught Ballroom Dancing for the Adult Education Class at Iowa State University.

He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister Virginia Mendell, and a nephew David Longnecker. He is survived by two sons, Steve Mendell and wife Gwen of Eaton, Colorado and Kevin Mendell of Boone; two daughters, Kimberly Barrett and husband John and Julie Burge and husband Mike all of Boone; his twin sister, Arleta Longnecker and husband David of Palisade, Colorado; twelve grandchildren Jennifer Barrett Bass, Jason, Nathan, and Kylie Barrett, Ryan, Aaron, Rachel, Myles, and Mason Mendell, and Nicholas, Andrew, and Marisa Burge, four great- grandchildren.

Friends may call at the Schroeder Memorial Chapel at Sixth and Marshall in Boone on Monday from 2 until 9 p.m. where the family will be present from 7 to 9 p.m. Visitation continues Tuesday at the church from 9:30 a.m. until service time. Memorials may be given to the family to be used at their discretion.

Des Moines Register, The (IA)
June 6, 2005