Adam Louis PINKELE

PINKELE, NELSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 6/1/2007 at 23:15:23

CLEAR LAKE - Adam Louis Pinkele, 26, 1308 Seventh Place N. Clear Lake, died Thursday (May 10, 2007) at his home. A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Clear Lake United Methodist Church, 508 Second Ave. N., with the Rev. Diana Hoover officiating. Visitation will be held from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake. Interment will be at Memorial Park Cemetery, Mason City. Memorials may be given to the Adam L. Pinkele Memorial Fund.

Adam was born July 7, 1980, in Fort Dodge, the son of Donald and Louise (Nelson) Pinkele. At the age of 6, he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. He attended school in Fort Dodge until second grade; they moved to Osceola in 1989 and attended school through his junior year. They moved to Clear Lake, where he graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1999. Adam graduated from NIAAC in 2003 with an AA degree in business. He was a regional ambassador for MDA for three years. He enjoyed attending MDA camps at 4-H campgrounds, Luther, and Camp Courageous at Monticello. He enjoyed being on the computer, attending classes at NIAAC, history, reading, following the Hawkeyes and the Vikings, watching Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. He was very close with his family and especially his two nieces, whom he called "the Munchkins." Adam had a great sense of humor and understood human nature as good as anybody.

Adam is survived by his parents, Donald and Louise Pinkele, of Clear Lake; one brother, Andrew Pinkele and his wife, Nancy, of Eagle Grove; two nieces, Samantha and Jolet, of Eagle Grove; and his paternal grandparents, Louis and Geneva Pinkele, of Eagle Grove. Adam was preceded in death by his maternal grandparents, Mark and Phyllis Nelson. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.

Mason City Globe Gazette
5/12/2007