Craig G. NIEMEYER

NIEMEYER, SLATTENOW, HARTIN, WILLIAMS, DAVIS, SHELL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/13/2009 at 10:31:36

Craig G. Niemeyer, 55, of La Porte City, Iowa, died Wednesday, Dec. 14, at the Covenant Medical Center, Waterloo, Iowa. Funeral services were held Sunday, Dec. 18, at the Matt Auditorium at La Porte City Union High School. The Rev. Wayne McCoy, pastor of St. Paul United Methodist Church, La Porte City, officiated the service. The body was cremated and burial will be at a later date. A memorial fund has been established through the family.

Craig Niemeyer was born July 16, 1939, in Britt, Iowa, the son Clarence Niemeyer and Opal (nee) Slattenow Niemeyer. He graduated from Garner High School in 1957. He graduated from Eagle Grove Community College in 1960 and from the Iowa State Teachers College (now known as UNI) in 1964. On Sept. 3, 1961 he married Joann M. Hartin, in Clear Lake. He taught school with the La Porte City School system for 31 years, from 1964-1994. He was the assistant boys football and basketball coach for 23 years and had a summer occupation of painting and carpentry for 32 years. Craig was voted by students as Teacher Of The Year at Union High School during the school year 1992-93.

He is survived by his wife Joann Hartin; one son, Christopher Emil Niemeyer, Titonka, Iowa; three daughters, Carla Cay Williams, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Cari Jo Davis and Cathy Sue Shell, both of Phoenix, Ariz. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Honorary pallbearers were Ron Crooks, Phil Winther, Ron Borton, Joel Bishop, Bob Burkgren, Neil Mullen, Craig Gingrich, Ken Benda, Dick Ingvall, Art Finke. [Pallbearers were] ... Crooks, Phil Winther, Ron Borton, Joel Bishop, Bob Burkgren, Neil Mullen.

The Clear Lake Mirror Reporter - Iowa
December 1994