Cleon CONRAD

CONRAD, HANSON, PLOEGSTRA, STEVENS, OLSON, JOHNSON, JACKSON, WATSON, WHITE

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 12/16/2009 at 11:07:50

July 30, 1997
Mason City (Iowa) Globe Gazette

KANAWHA, IA--Cleon "Charlie" Conrad, 76, of Kanawha, died Monday (July 28, 1997) at the North Iowa Mercy Health Center East, Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Wright Christian Reformed Church, with the Rev. William Brouwers officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery, with graveside military rites by the Kanawha American Legion. Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Ewing Dugger Funeral Home, Kanawha, and one hour prior to services at the church.

Charlie was born May 10, 1921, to Lowell and Luella (Hanson) Conrad at Corwith. He attended school in Corwith. He moved to Kanawha as a young man with his parents. He worked as a farm hand in the Kanawha area. He served in the United States Army for four years during World War II. He was at Normandy Beach and received a purple heart. Following his discharge, he returned to farming in Kanawha and later worked at the Farmers Co-op Elevator. He was united in marriage to Lois Ploegstra, on Feb. 26, 1953, at the Little Brown Church. The couple made their home on a farm near Kanawha then retired and moved into town. He was a member of the Wright Christian Reformed Church. He served as a school board member on the board for the Christian School in Kanawha. He was a member of the American Legion. He loved telling stories and was well liked by both young and old.

He is survived by his wife, Lois, of Kanawha; daughters, Debra Stevens and her husband, Mike; and her son, Jeremy Olsen; Diane Johnson and her husband, Marvin L., and their children, Jamison, Candice and Tasha, all of Kanawha; Dawn Jackson and her husband, Scott, of Carlisle, and their son Brady; and Donna Watson and her husband, Jeff, and their children, Michael and Shelby, all of Brighton, Ill.; and one sister, Charlotte White and her husband, Wayne, of Des Moines. He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and two brothers.