Howard M. VORLAND

VORLAND, THOMPSON, DWELLE, GRUNDMEIER, SANDBERG, MCCLAMROCH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/22/2007 at 23:20:50

Mason City Globe Gazette
July 20, 2000

NORTHWOOD - Howard M. Vorland, 79, died Tuesday (July 18, 2000) at Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Memorial services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at United Methodist Church in Northwood, with the Rev. Jensen officiating. Inurnment will be in Sunset Rest Cemetery in Northwood, with military graveside honors by "Our Buddies" VFW Memorial Post No. 6779 of Northwood. Friends may call from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday at the church, where a public Order of the Eastern Star service and Masonic service by the Northern Light Masonic Lodge No. 262 of Northwood will take place at 7 p.m. Visitation will continue one hour prior to the service time at the church Saturday. According to his wishes his body was cremated. Conner Colonial Chapel in Northwood is in charge of the arrangements.

Howard M. Vorland was born on Oct. 14, 1920, in rural Eagle Grove, the son of Helge and Louise (Thompson) Vorland. He attended rural country schools near Eagle Grove and graduated from Manson High School in 1941. After high school he moved to San Diego, Calif., and worked at Consolidated Aircraft Corp. until entering the U. S. Marine Corps on Feb. 16, 1943, in Des Moines. He saw action in the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre during World War II until his honorable discharge on Nov. 3, 1945, at Great Lakes, Ill. After his honorable discharge, he entered Buena Vista College in Storm Lake, receiving his bachelor's degree. After completing his schooling, he taught school and was also the high school principal in the Burnside Iowa School system. He was united in marriage to Shirley Dwelle on Dec. 28, 1947, in Northwood. In 1953 they moved to Northwood, where Howard was the elementary principal for 30 years for the Northwood - and later for Northwood-Kensett - Community school until his retirement in 1983. He coached the girls and boys junior high basketball teams and also coached football and high school wrestling. He enjoyed woodworking, especially building wood-strip canoes, fishing, hunting, camping golfing, bowling, reading, gardening and cooking. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Northwood and was the Sunday school superintendent for many years. He was a life member of "Our Buddies" VFW Memorial Post No. 6779 of Northwood, life member of the 4th Marine Division, 50-year member of the Northern Light Order of the Eastern Star and the Northern Light Masonic Lodge No. 262 of Northwood, Northwood Lions Club, where he held various offices in the organizations, as well as other community and civic organization.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Shirley Vorland, of Northwood; two sons and their families, Jim Vorland and his wife, Mary, and their children, Michael and David, of Preston, and Tom Vorland and his wife, Joan, of Northwood and her son, Ryan Grundmeier and his wife, Irene; two daughters, Jeanine Vorland of Blooming Prairie, Minn., and Marianne Sandberg and her husband, Tom, of Manchester and their children, Daniel and Steven Sandberg; six brothers, Herman Vorland and his wife, Marge, of Hardy, Eugene Vorland and his wife, Florence, of Yuma, Ariz., Glen Vorland and his wife, Mavis, of Chokio, Minn., Edmund Vorland of Clear Lake, Richard Vorland and his wife, Virginia, of Clear Lake, and Kenneth Vorland and his wife, Marlene, of Hardy; several nieces and nephews; and other relatives and friends. His parents; sister, Pearl McClamroch; and a brother, Nels Vorland; preceded him in death. Conner Colonial Chapel, (641) 324-1543