William C. WOLLE

WOLLE, DOWN, COX, NIELSEN

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:59

April 13, 1893 --- September 23, 1987

William C. Wolle, 94, #4 Cottenwood Drive, Sunrise Manor, died Wednesday at his residence of an apparent Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday at the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Charles T. Rinkel, Jr., and the Rev. Charles E. Mason officiating. Burial will be in Logan Park Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4 to 9 p.m. today with the present from 7 to 9 p.m. at Chapel. Wolle was born April 13, 1893, Galt, Iowa, and graduated from Belmond, Iowa High School.

He came to Sioux City in 1914, where he attended Morningside College. He served with the U.S. Navy during World War I. He graduated from Morningside College in 1920, and served as Alumni secretary for several years after graduation. He married Vivian Down on June 26, 1923, in Odebolt. He was employed in real estate and insurance with the Buckwalter Co. from 1923 until his retirement in 1963. He was a member of the First United Methodist Church and served on the Iowa Methodist Conference Board of Hospitals and Homes. He was a former member of the Sioux City Board of Tax Review and the board of directors of Morningside College and St. Luke's Medical Center. He was a longtime active member of the Sioux City Downtown Rotary Club and was active in the Sioux City Foreign Visitors Reception Committee for many years. Mr. Wolle had served on the Fire Prevention Committee of the Sioux City Chamber of Commerce, and was a member of the United Nations Association and a 50-year member of Monahan Post 64 American Legion.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, William of Bethesda, Md. and Charles of Des Moines; two daughters, Carolyn Cox of Akron, Ohio and Janice Nielsen of Algona; 13 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. Memorials have been established in his name with Morningside College and the First United Methodist Church.

Sioux City Journal -- Sioux City, Iowa
27 September 1987