Russell Paul DOW, Sr.

DOW, BANGS, WATERHOUSE, WEISMANN, MILLER, LEONARD, SKALLA, CORDERY, PEARSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/7/2016 at 01:35:55

April 8, 1925 --- January 3, 2010

IOWA FALLS — Russell P. Dow Sr., 84, of Iowa Falls, passed away on Sunday, January 3, 2010, at his home, under the care of the North Iowa Hospice. Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m., on Wednesday, January 6, at the Linn’s Funeral Chapel, Iowa Falls. Inurnment will be at a later date in the Northlawn Memory Gardens Cemetery, Iowa Falls.

Russell Paul Dow, was born on April 8, 1925 at Xenia, Illinois, the son of Murray B. and Vida [Bangs] Dow. He graduated from the Xenia High School and entered the U.S. Marines on March 22, 1943. He was an anti-aircraft gun crewman fighting in the battle for Okinawa and Ryukyu Island in the Asiatic Pacific area. He was united in marriage to Catherine Waterhouse and after her death he was married to Dorothy Arlene Weismann on July 17, 1975 at Vermillion, South Dakota. Russell was a truck driver for Shugar Trucking, Ackley and previously for Ellsworth Trucking and Ackley Foods. Russell was a member of the American Missionary Fellowship, Iowa Falls; the American Legion Post No. 188, Iowa Falls; and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Russell Dow Sr. is survived by his wife, Dorothy Dow of Iowa Falls; his children, Cathy (Larry) Miller of Garden City, Darlene Leonard of Clinton, Mark (Debbie) Dow of Clarion, Russell Dow Jr. of Iowa Falls, Terry Weismann of Marshalltown, Jerry (Charlene) Weismann of Iowa Falls, Karla Weismann of Iowa Falls and Tracy Weismann of Iowa Falls; 21 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; and one sister, Dorothy Skalla of Illinois. He was preceded in death by his parents, Vida and Murray Dow; his first wife, Kay Waterhouse; a son, Theodore Cordery; a granddaughter, Katelyn Dow; a great-granddaughter, Emma Leonard; one sister, Helen Pearson; and four brothers, Duncan Dow, Harold Dow, Eddie Dow and Earl Dow.

January 6, 2010
Iowa Falls Times Citizen -- Iowa Falls, Iowa

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[actually buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Clarion,
Wright County, Iowa]