Dwain L. NICOLET

NICOLET, FLOY, PETERSEN, SWENSON, HEIDEN, HENRICKSEN, HARTHAN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/26/2008 at 09:38:48

BELMOND - Dwain Nicolet, 82, of Belmond, died Thursday (May 22, 2008) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 27, at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church, Thornton, with Pastor Milton D. Johnson presiding. Interment with veteran's honors will be at Pleasant View Cemetery, Thornton. Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. today, Monday, May 26, at Retz-Grarup Funeral Home, 107 N. Second St., Thornton. Memorials may be directed to St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in his memory.

Dwain L. Nicolet was born on December 13, 1925, at Thornton. He was the son of Armand and Katherine (Henricksen) Nicolet. He was confirmed in the Lutheran faith in March 1940 at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church. He attended school in Thornton and graduated with the Class of 1944. He enlisted in the Reserve Corps of the Army Air Force on December 29, 1943, and entered the service on June 3, 1944, serving as a tail gunner at various air bases in the U.S. and Japan. He received his Honorable Discharge on May 18, 1946.

He was united in marriage to Thelma Floy at St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thornton on June 13, 1948. They moved to a farm west of Thornton where they lived for 49 years, moving to their home in Belmond in September 1997. They enjoyed many winters in Texas and summers at Leech Lake in Minnesota. Dwain's hobbies were woodworking, wood carving, and fishing.

He is survived by his wife Thelma; three children, Cindy (Jim) Petersen of Des Moines, Jo Ellen (Larry) Swenson of Belmond, and Scott (Christine) of Round Rock, Texas. Dwain is also survived by seven grandchildren, Jennifer (Max) Peterson, Angie Heiden, Heather Swenson, Michael Petersen, Amy Petersen, Brian Nicolet, Sarah Nicolet, and six great-grandchildren; brothers, Larry (Dorothy) Nicolet of Des Moines, Jules (Judy) Nicolet of Madison, Wis., along with his many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Lorene Harthan, brother Victor, and nephew Timothy Harthan.

Memorials may be given to the St. Paul Lutheran Church of Thornton in his name. Retz-Grarup Funeral Home.

Mason City Globe Gazette
5/26/2008