Milburn Burials

Dale Milburn | Donita (Williams) Milburn | Twin Girls

Dale Milburn

Born: February 21, 1934 in Grinnell, Poweshiek Co., Iowa
Died: March 3, 1999 in Grinnell, Poweshiek, Iowa
Buried: Lot 91
Married: Donita Williams on April 15, 1955 in Jasper Co., Iowa
Children: Twin Girls, Chris and Kim
Parents: Omar and Bernice (Johnson) Milburn

O. Dale Milburn

Funeral Services for O. Dale Milburn, 65, of 204 E. 17th St. Pl., will be held Monday at 10:30 a.m. at the St. Luke United Methodist Church with the Rev. Daryl Pals, pastor, officiating. Burial will be at Sugar Grove Cemetery.

Friends may call after 8 a.m. Saturday at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home in Newton. Visitation with the family will be held Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials to St. Luke United Methodist Church will be accepted.

Mr. Milburn died of a heart attack, Wednesday, March 3, at the Grinnell Regional Medical Center in Grinnell.

The son of Omar and Vernice [sic-Bernice] Johnson Milburn, he was born Feb. 21, 1934, north of Grinnell. He graduated from Newton High School in 1952. He married Donita M. Williams April 15, 1955, in Newton.

A longtime resident of Jasper County, he resided in rural Newton most of his life after moving from Grinnell at the age of 13. Mr. Milburn worked as a service manager and mechanic for B&N Implement in Newton as a machinist since 1966. He was a member of the St. Luke United Methodist Church.

Survivors include his wife; a son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Susan of Oskaloosa; a daughter, Kim Milburn of Columbia, Mo.; three grandchildren; four brothers and sisters-in-law, Donald and Joan and Gary and Shirley, all of Grinnell, James and Peggy of Whittier, Calif. and Larry and Kathy of Newton; four sisters and brothers-in-law, Wanda Deutsch of Monroe, Joan and Stan Sievers of Newell and Joyce and Richard Capps of Knoxville; and a brother-in-law and his wife, Maurice and Anna Williams of Conyers, Ga.

He was preceded in death by his parents and twin daughters.

Donita (Williams) Milburn

Born: June 25, 1936 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Died: June 10, 2000 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Buried: Lot 91
Married: O. Dale Milburn on April 15, 1955 in Newton, Jasper Co., Iowa
Children: Twin Girls, Chris and Kim
Parents: Donald and Zelma (Emmack) Williams

Milburn monument

Donita M. Milburn

Donita M. Milburn, 63 of Newton died Saturday afternoon at Skiff Medical Center of Heart Failure. Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at St. Lukes United Methodist Church in Newton.

Graveside services will follow at the Sugar Grove Cemetery in rural Newton. Friends may call after 2 p.m. on Tuesday with family being present from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Wallace-Pence Funeral Home. Memorials may be made in her name.

Born June 25, 1936, in Newton, she was the daughter of Donald B. Williams and Zelma Emmack Williams. She was a 1954 graduate of Newton High School.

She married O. Dale Milburn April 15, 1955 in Newton. She was a member of St. Luke United Methodist Church and was a homemaker and employee of Jasper Country Savings Bank for 30 years. She retired in 1994.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Chris and Susan Milburn of Oskaloosa and one daughter, Kim Milburn of Columbia, MO., three grandchildren, and one brother, Maurice and Anna Williams of Houston, Texas. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and twin daughters. ~ Newton Daily News, June 12, 2000

Milburn, Twin Girls

Born: 1956
Died: 1956
Parents: Dale and Donita Williams Milburn

 

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