Robert Walter MOSIMAN

MOSIMAN, PATTERSON, HEUBERGER, FAABORG, DANIELS, STEENBLOCK

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/29/2006 at 22:36:26

Robert Walter Mosiman died on Thursday, January 6, 2005, at Mercy Medical Center in Mason City. Funeral services were held on Saturday, January 8, at the Salem United Methodist Church, Meservey, with Rev. Rose Calderon-Khan officiating. Burial will be in the Meservey Cemetery at a later time.

Robert was born to Simon and Cathryn (Patterson) Mosiman on February 23, l926 at Corwith. He attended Belmond schools and finished his education at the Toledo State Children's Home after his parents died when he was nine. He married Irene Heuberger on July 9, 1955 at Chapin, and they made their home in Clear Lake and later in Meservey. He graduated from the Des Moines Barber College and worked in Clear Lake and Meservey. Later he worked as a plumber and then drove a feed truck for the Klemme Co-op until he retired. In his youth he hunted ducks, geese and pheasants, ran a trap line in the fall, and fished all the streams and lakes surrounding Belmond and many in Minnesota. He lived for the weekends when he could be out with nature. He won many trap shoot prizes and was a dead eye with a shotgun. He was a member of the Salem United Methodist Church.

He is survived by his wife; daughter, Lynn Ann Mosiman of Omaha; brothers, Cecil (June) Mosiman of Belmond and Art Mosiman of Mason City; sisters, Beverly (Lloyd) Faaborg of Swaledale and Esther (Peter) Daniels of Garner. He was preceded in death by his parents; brother, Rollin and his wife, Janette; sister, Clara Mae Steenblock and husband, Paul; an 8-year old brother, Eugene; two special nephews, Gene Faaborg and Billy Heuberger; and sisters-in-law, Dorothy Mosiman and Elinor Mosiman.

January 13, 2005
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