Eldon Harold VROMAN

VROMAN, BULLOCK, DRURY, COHEN, MOTT, GREENWOOD

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/19/2007 at 21:02:20

CLARION -- Eldon Harold Vroman, 88, of 1857 Cornelia Dr., Clarion, died Friday (Aug. 1, 1997) at St. Mary's Hospital, Mayo Medical Center, Rochester, Minn., after a brief illness. Memorial services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, 1997, at the First Presbyterian Church, Dows, with the Rev. Susan DeNio officiating.

Eldon H. Vroman was born Dec. 1, 1908, in Blanche, Neb., the son of Lucius Cicero Vroman and Grace Emogene Bullock. In early childhood, the family moved to Burlington, Wash., where he graduated from Burlington High School. He worked at Northern State Hospital, Sedro Woolley, Wash., where he met his wife, Mariam Marcella Drury. They were married May 11, 1935, on Whidbey Island, Wash. During World War II, he was a civilian flight instructor for the U.S. Army Air Corps at Kelly Field, San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Vroman moved to Melbourne, Iowa, where he was a flight instructor at the Melbourne Airport. In 1948, he relocated to Dows, where he established the Vroman-Janssen Insurance Agency. He continued in business until 1970, when he retired to St. Petersburg, Fla., and Lake Cornelia, Iowa. He was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church, served on the Dows City Council; was president of the Dows Commercial Club; and was a 32nd degree Mason. Mr. Vroman was known as an avid golfer throughout his life and designed the layout for the Dows Golf Course.

He is survived by his wife, Miriam Vroman, Lake Cornelia and St. Petersburg, Fla.; two daughters, Katherine Cohen and her husband, Jared, Virginia, Minn., and Marsha Mott and her husband, Russell, Clear Lake; and five grandchildren, Nathaniel Vroman Greenwood, Jedediah Drury Greenwood, Honora Haws Greenwood, Adam James Mott, and Andrew Vroman Mott. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and two sisters.

August 5, 1997
Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette