Elmer Carl Henry John MEINKE

MEINKE, MUNDT, BOHR, HEITER, RICK, JONES, WARMING, CROSSLEY, WILLIAMS, COLLISON, GREENBALGH, NOBBMAN

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Elmer Carl Henry John Meinke
December 13, 1918 --- March 8, 1997

Elmer Carl Henry John Meinke was born December 13, 1918, to Louis and Clara Mundt Meinke at the family home northeast of Crete, Neb. He was a member of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Crete where he was baptized and confirmed and was a member of the church choir and Walther League as a boy. He served many offices of the various churches that he was a member. He attended school in the Crete Public Schools and worked on farms for his father and various relatives and friends until October 26, 1937, when he became part of the C C C Corps. He left the Corps October 1, 1939. He drove a milk truck for Roberts Dairy Company from Lincoln, Neb., until he had an accident in July of 1940 that took his hand. He then moved to Missouri with his family and farmed and drove his own truck to haul various materials. On August 23, 1953, he was united in marriage to Lorene Bohr at Richmond, Iowa. The family moved to a farm east of Webster City in 1958 and then to the Renwick area in 1960. His wife died November 7, 1963 [1964], of cancer. He was united in marriage to Kay Heiter on May 29, 1971. They remained in the Goldfield area. He entered Rotary Ann Nursing Home in July, 1993, because of complications to emphysema. He was a member of Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Eagle Grove.

Elmer Carl Meinke died Saturday, March 8, 1997, at the Trinity Regional Hospital in Fort Dodge at the age of 78.

Survivors include his wife, Kay, Goldfield; daughters, Nikki Rick and husband, Dean, Donna Jones and husband, Elmer, and Cheryl Warming and husband, Matthew; sons, Carl Meinke and wife, Oi, David Meinke, and Curtis Meinke and wife, Karla; step-children, Michael Heiter, Cathy Crossley, and Thomas Heiter; seventeen grandchildren, sisters, Velma Williams, Chillicothe, Mo., Delores Collison, Kingman, Ariz., and Virginia Greenbalgh, Torrence, Calif.; brothers, Gerald Meinke, Macon, Mo., Clarence Meinke, Princeton, Mo., Kenneth Meinke, Princeton, Mo., and Louis Meinke, Fayette, Mo. He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife; one sister, Elvira Nobbman; one grandchild; and three nephews.

Funeral services were held at the Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church in Eagle Grove, Iowa, on Tuesday, March 11, 1997, at 10:30 a.m., with the Reverend Neil E. Hayen officiating. Burial will be in the Princeton Cemetery at Princeton, Mo. Willim Funeral Home, Eagle Grove, was in charge of arrangements.

The Eagle Grove Eagle --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
Wednesday, March 12, 1997

source --- Eileen Reed