OBITUARY: Robert Raymond Kienast, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted Nov. 27, 2001]



                     Robert Raymond Kienast

Memorial services will be at 1 pm, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001 at the Ward-Van
Slyke Colonial Chapel, 101 North 4th Street, Clear Lake, for Robert Raymond
Kienast, 74 of Clear Lake.   Msgr. Robert Hogan of St. Patrick's Catholic
Church in Clear Lake will officiate  and inurnment will be in the Memorial
Park Cemetery, Mason City, with military graveside honors by the Veterans of
Foreign Post in Clear Lake. Friends may call from 12:00 noon until service
time on Thursday at the chapel.  According to his wishes his body was
cremated. Robert died Saturday, November 24, 2001, at the Veterans
Administration Hospital in Minneapolis, Minn.  

Robert Raymond Kienast was born on January 23, 1927, in Mitchell County,
Iowa, Osage, the son of Henry Howard and Herbertena (Michels) Kienast.  He
attended and received his education in the Osage School system, graduating
from Osage High School.  He was inducted into the U.S. Army during World War
II, serving overseas in the Philippines with Co. A 42nd Engineer Bn. in which
he received the Army Occupational Medal, Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon, and
the World War II victory medal, until his honorable discharge on November 7,
1946, at Ft. George Meade, MD. After honorable discharge he came back to the
Osage area and worked as a mason for the Kienast Construction Company, where
he worked for several years.  He was united in marriage to Rosalyn Petersen
on December 30, 1950, at the St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Clear Lake.

After his marriage he moved to Clear Lake where he worked for A.M.F. Inc.
building and refinishing bowling alleys until his retirement. After his
retirement he worked part time doing construction work for others. Robert
also worked part time after his retirement for the VFW and The Town Pump in
Clear Lake. 

He enjoyed bowling, playing pool, and golfing, but his great love and
enjoyment was spending time with his grandchildren. 

He was a member of VFW in Clear Lake. 

Left to cherish his memory is his daughter, Roxanne Bergo and her husband
Bryan of Mankato, MN; two grandchildren, Jeremy Bergo of Minneapolis, MN,
and Justin Bergo of Mankato, MN; a daughter-in-law Deborah Frampton and her
husband Kenneth of Clear Lake and their family Brandon Frampton of Iowa City,
and David Frampton of Clear Lake; brothers and sister, Joseph Kienast of
Mason City, Val Kienast of Wayne, NE, Ann Baslee of New Smyrna Beach, FL,
and James Kienast of Orlando, FL; as well as other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his only son, Reginald Kienast, his parents,
Sister Majella and Sister Stephania, and three brothers, Arnold, Bernard,
and Paul Kienast. 






Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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