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Memorial services for Donald D. Dohlman will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, at the LeRoy Evangelical Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Elaine Siemsen officiating. Burial will take place in the Chester Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the church on Saturday from 11 a.m. until the time of service.
Donald Dean Dohlman was born March 15, 1932, to Henry and Kate (Buseman) Dohlman. He attended school through the eighth grade in Kesley, Iowa, and served in the United States Army from 1952-1954, spending eight months in Korea.
On May 7, 1955, he was united in marriage to Wanda Tebay...
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Memorial services for Donald D. Dohlman will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010, at the LeRoy Evangelical Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Elaine Siemsen officiating. Burial will take place in the Chester Hill Cemetery. Friends may call at the church on Saturday from 11 a.m. until the time of service.
Donald Dean Dohlman was born March 15, 1932, to Henry and Kate (Buseman) Dohlman. He attended school through the eighth grade in Kesley, Iowa, and served in the United States Army from 1952-1954, spending eight months in Korea.
On May 7, 1955, he was united in marriage to Wanda Tebay at the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa, and they had six children: Lynn, Debbie, Terry, Jay, a stillborn son, and Karen. After their marriage they lived in Floyd, Mason City, Hudson, and Dike, Iowa, before moving to their farm in Howard County, Iowa, in 1962.
Don enjoyed fishing, camping, tractor pulls, anything John Deere, and going for drives. He enjoyed spending time with his family and staying in touch with them whether they were in the field, on the road or on vacation. Watching his grandchildren play and grow was one of his favorite pastimes. He was a member of the American Legion and AA for 8 1/2 years.
Don died Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2010, at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester. He was 78 years of age.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his son, Lynn in 1998; a son-in-law, Brad Keller in 2008; six brothers: Albert, Eime, Henry, LeClair, Floyd and Wendell; an infant son, and an infant daughter.
He is survived by his wife, Wanda; son, Jay (Rebecca) Dohlman, and daughter, Debbie Keller, all of Riceville, Iowa; and daughter, Karen (Mark) Wettlaufer of Cushing, Minn.; a daughter-in-law, Elizabeth Dohlman of Riceville; 15 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; six siblings, George (Fern) Dohlman, Minnie Klingenborg, and Norma Kling, all of LeRoy, Rena Holzer of Charles City, Iowa, Faye Johnson of Osage, Iowa, and Judy (Joe) Langlie of Spring Valley; and two sisters-in-law, Sandy Dohlman of Chester, Iowa, and Annabelle Dohlman of Allison, Iowa.
Obituary and photo from Rochester Post Bulletin, Dec. 11, 2010. |