Robert Wayne OLINGER

OLINGER, BLICKENDERFER, MCMURRAY, JOHNSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/31/2010 at 12:34:11

Robert Wayne Olinger, 54, of Mason City, Iowa, died Wednesday, June 21, 1995, at the North Iowa Mercy Health Center East Campus, Mason City, Iowa. Funeral services were held Tuesday, June 27, at the United Methodist Church, Clear Lake, with the Rev. Fred Lewis officiating. Following services he was cremated and inurnment will take place at a later time in Clear Lake Cemetery. The family suggests memorials to the Robert W. Olinger memorial fund.

Robert Wayne Olinger was born Jan. 19, 1941, in Mt. Vernon Township, Rural Route Clear Lake, the son of Kenneth Olinger and Ruth Blickenderfer Olinger. Robert attended Mt. Vernon #2 Country School, Swaledale High School and then graduated from Clear Lake High School in 1961. Robert attended Oklahoma State Tech. College, Okmulgee, Okla., where he obtained a degree in drafting. He worked for Wallace Holland Kastler Schmitz and Co. in Mason City, Iowa, for over 35 years.

On Nov. 14, 1970, he married Judy McMurray in Swaledale, Iowa. Robert enjoyed riding the tractor, being in the country, fishing, playing cards, taking his grandson and feeding the ducks. He really enjoyed watching his children play in sports. Robert was a member of the Clear Lake United Methodist Church, National Hemophilic Foundation Midwest Chapter.

He is survived by his wife, Judy Olinger, Mason City; two children, Carrie Olinger and Robert Olinger, both of Mason City; a grandson, Anthony Mathew Johnson, Mason City; his father Kenneth Olinger, Meservey, Iowa; a step-mother, Janice Olinger, Meservey; two brothers, Ellery Olinger and his wife, Carolyn, Clear Lake, and William Olinger and his wife, Sharren, Mason City; several aunts and uncles. He was preceded in death by his mother in 1989; and grandparents.