Winfred Harvey SALISBURY

SALISBURY, OXENFORD, HOLLAND, FREDERICKS, MATHERS, JORDAN, KROPH

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/19/2010 at 19:35:18

Mason City Globe Gazette, Iowa
April 19, 2007

CLEAR LAKE, IA — Winfred “Winch” Harvey Salisbury, 84, of Clear Lake, died Tuesday (April 17, 2007) at the Muse Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, April 20, at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 N. Fourth St. in Clear Lake, with the Rev. Derik Yarian of Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake officiating. Visitation will be held one hour prior to service time on Friday at the chapel. Following the services on Friday, cremation will take place with private family inurnment to be held in the Clear Lake Cemetery at a later date.

Winfred “Winch” Harvey Salisbury was born on Nov. 18, 1922, in Auburn, Iowa, the son of Mose and Lucie (Oxenford) Salisbury. He received his education in the Auburn school system, graduating from Auburn High School in 1941. He was united in marriage to Elvera (Holland) on April 3, 1943, in Maryville, Mo. Winch was employed in the livestock industry, buying and selling cattle and horses. He was also Equine manager of the Fashion Farm Inc. at Meservey, Iowa.Winch held horse auctions in Blue Earth, Minn., Bismarck, N.D., and Clear Lake. In his career he developed many lifelong friendships throughout his several years of horse buying and trading trips across the country and Canada. His happiest years were spent in an auction barn listening to the “cry” of an auctioneer and purchasing just the exact horse to meet his customer’s equine needs. He enjoyed watching old western movies, listening to country western music, morning coffee with his group of friends, attending National Finals Rodeo event for the last 20-plus years in Las Vegas, Nev., and of course special times spent with his grandchildren and great-granddaughter. He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church in Clear Lake, the American Quarter Horse Association, and the North Iowa Horse Club.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife of 64 years, Elvera Salisbury of Clear Lake; his daughter, Monica Fredericks and her husband, Dr. Michael Fredericks, of Clear Lake; two grandchildren, Michell Fredericks and her partner, Barb Mathers of Tucson, Ariz., and Marty J. Fredericks and his wife, Ann, of West Des Moines; great-granddaughter, Ava Fredericks, of West Des Moines; two sisters-in-law, Miriam Jordan and her husband, Robert, of Indianapolis, Ind., Marlys Salisbury of Sac City;, a brother-in-law, Merle Kroph, of Las Vegas, Nev., as well as other relatives and many friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, and two brothers and two sisters. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.