OBITUARY: Charles Fossey [1889-1966], Mitchell County, Iowa


                          Charles Fossey

Died in Austin

A former Lyle area and business man, Charley Fossey, 77, died Tuesday,
April 26 [1966], following a year and one half illness in St. Mark Retirement
Home, Austin. 

Funeral services were held on Friday, April 29, at Our Savior's Lutheran
church, Austin, with the Rev. G. C. Knutson officiating.   Interment was
in Oakwood cemetery at Austin.

Charley Fossey, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Fossey, was born in Mitchell
County east of Otranto January 30, 1889.  He attended the rural Pleasant
Prairie school in Otranto township and also the Cedar Valley Seminary,
Osage.

He served in World War I in France, and later worked in a store in
Rhame, N. D.

He was married to Edna Johnson of Lyle June 30, 1919.  The couple lived
in Lyle where Charley operated a department store with his brother-in-law,
later was Lyle Postmaster and also operated a Gamble store in Lyle.

Later they moved to St. Paul where Charley served a term in the Legislature
as clerk under Senator Nolan.  They moved back to Austin where Charley was
the founder of the Fossey Implement Co. which he operated until his health
failed.

He is survived by his wife, Edna, three sons, Dean and Robert of Austin and
Dr. Darol Fossey, Minneapolis; 11 grandchildren; also one sister, Mrs.
Gilbert Martin of Austin; four brothers, Otto of St. Ansgar, Mense, George
and Eddie, all of Lyle.



Copyright (c) 2002 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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