James Arnold SHAW

SHAW, HEFTE, CHRISTENSEN, REGAN, GARDNER, WADE, SCHNEPPER, GORTON, WELLER, REITER, LINDSAY, ENGELMAN, NEVE, STREITILMEIR

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 4/29/2010 at 13:19:01

Cresco Times Plain Dealer, Cresco, Iowa
January 25, 2010

Funeral services for James "Jim" A. Shaw of Riceville, Iowa will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Friday, Jan. 29, 2010 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Riceville with Pastor Michael Parris officiating. Interment will be in St. Peter's Lutheran Church Cemetery in Riceville with military honors conducted by the Roy Gue Post 244. Friends may call on Thursday, Jan. 28 from 4-7 p.m. at the Lindstrom Funeral Home in Riceville and also one hour prior to services at the church. Lindstrom Funeral Home in Riceville is handling the arrangements.

James, 84, died Friday, Jan. 22, 2010 at the University of Wisconsin Hospital in Madison, Wis. James Arnold Shaw was born on Sept. 22, 1925 at home in rural Wright County, Iowa, the son of Joseph and Sadie (Hefte) Shaw. He was the fifth of 10 children. He attended country school until the eighth grade at which time he started working as a hired hand for various farmers. On January 20, 1946, he married Cora E. Christensen at the Little Brown Church in Nashua. Shortly after they married, he enlisted in the Army. In 1951, Jim and Cora started farming in the Hubbard and Union areas but settled on a place of their own in 1971 just north of Riceville. James retired from farming in 1996 and moved to town. Jim enjoyed reading, fishing, visiting friends and family, and traveling.

He is survived by his friend, Janice Regan of Cresco; five children: Beverly Gardner of Strawberry Point, Dean (Marti Wade) Shaw of Alexandria, Va., Dan (Roxanne) Shaw of Altoona, Wis., Barbara (Randy) Schnepper of Rosemount, Minn. and Beth (William) Gorton of Urbana; 13 grandchildren: Annie (Hollis) Weller, Jesse Gardner, Nicholas (Jessica) Shaw, Christopher Shaw, Nathan (Stacy) Shaw, Justin Reiter, Erin Schnepper, Richard Schnepper, Jared Gorton, Hannah Gorton, Jacob Gorton, Emma Gorton and Tyler Gorton; two great-grandchildren: Matthew Shaw and William Shaw; four sisters: Bernice Lindsay, Caroline Neve, Evelyn Engelman and Eldoris Lindsay; and three brothers: Donald Shaw, Robert (Pam) Shaw and Orlan (Carol) Shaw. He was preceded in death by his wife Cora Shaw; his parents; sister: Hazel Streitilmeir; brother: Wayne Shaw; and son-in-law: Thomas Gardner.