Arvid Burdett STOKESBARY

STOKESBARY, SEGLEM, WHITEHURST, FORD, LAMBERT, HATCHER, HANSMEIER

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 7/18/2010 at 13:18:51

MASON CITY - Arvid Burdett Stokesbary, 84, of Clear Lake, died Saturday (March 2, 2002) at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City. Funeral and Masonic services will be at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake with the Rev. Fred Lewis officiating. Burial will be in the Clear Lake Cemetery. Friends may call from 5 until 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 North Fourth Street, Clear Lake, and one hour prior to service time on Thursday at the church. The family of Arvid Burdett Stokesbary has requested that memorial contributions be made to the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake, in his memory.

Arvid Burdett Stokesbary was born on April 9, 1917, in Klemme, the son of Joe and Pauline (Seglem) Stokesbary. Arvid grew up in the Klemme area and attended and received his education in the rural country school near Klemme. He was united in marriage to Evelyn Whitehurst on January 9, 1936, in Klemme. In 1942, they moved to Ames where Arvid was a city bus driver for 12 years before moving to Kansas City, Mo., in 1959, driving for Merchant Freight Company until he retired in 1975. After his retirement, Arvid and Evelyn moved back to Clear Lake. Arvid worked part-time at the Sheraton Inn in Mason City for 15 years, until the hotel was sold. Arvid also did volunteer work, most recently for Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City. Arvid became a Mason in 1957, and was also Master of the Masonic Lodge in Clear Lake. He was a member of the United Methodist Church in Clear Lake, and the Clear Lake Evening Lions Club since 1975. He was very active in fund-raising for the Lions Club, was a volunteer at the Mercy Medical Center-North Iowa in Mason City, Oak Hill Country Club member, and was an avid golfer, and a regular member of the Downtown Coffee group.

Left to cherish his memory are his wife, Evelyn Stokesbary, of Clear Lake; children, Barbara J. Ford and her husband, Paul, of Springfield, Ill., Beverly J. Lambert of Springfield, Ill., Daryl B. Stokesbary and his wife, Sandy, of Hampton, Minn., Bethene J. Hatcher and her husband, Gene, of Winchester, Ill., and Debra K. Hansmeier and her husband, Mick, of Eagan, Minn.; 15 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews; as well as other relatives and many friends. His parents, five brothers and four sisters preceded him in death. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
March 4, 2002