Paul Allen RISTAU

RISTAU, GEILENFELDT, LACEY, LEE, RISTAU-LEE, LUBBERT, EGGLESTON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 5/19/2010 at 18:41:31

Mason City Globe Gazette - Iowa
August 1, 2000

GARNER, IA - Paul Allen Ristau, 52, of 640 Golf View Dr., died Sunday (July 30, 2000) at the Kossuth Regional Health Center in Algona, from a heart attack while playing golf, his favorite pastime. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the St. Paul Lutheran Church in Garner, with the Rev. Robert Bronson officiating. Interment will be in Concord Cemetery in Garner. Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. today at the Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel and then one hour before the services on Wednesday at the church. The family suggests memorials to the Paul Allen Ristau Memorial Fund.

Paul was born March 11, 1948, in Mason City, the son of Vernon Conrad Ristau and Ruth Augusta (Geilenfeldt) Ristau. Paul graduated from Meservey-Thornton High School in 1966. He enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and served from 1966 to 1970. In July 1966, Paul married Elaine Carolyn Lacey of Meservey. They had three children Kent Allen, Kristine Alane, and Kimberly Ann. After the service, Paul worked in Northwood for the DOT, and Carroll George Inc. until 1975, when he started his own company, PAR Products in Klemme. Paul loved to golf, play cards, go to horse races and watch The Three Stooges movies with his grandchildren.

Paul is survived by his wife, Elaine Ristau, of Garner; son, Kent and his wife, Christine, of Nevada, with their three children, Lance, Leisha and Logan; daughter, Kristine Ristau-Lee and her husband, Mark, of Cedar Falls, and their three sons, Matthew , Jacob and Jerad; and daughter, Kimberly Lubbert and her husband, Jeremy, of Grundy Center; two brothers and one sister, Donald Ristau, of Garner, Robert Ristau and his wife Delores, of Thornton, and Linda Eggleston and her friend, Gary Iverson, both of Albert Lea, Minn.; and several nieces and nephews. Paul was preceded in death by his parents; an infant brother, Gerald Ristau; his grandparents; and several aunts, uncles, and cousins. Ward-Van Slyke Colonial Chapel.