OBITUARY: Richard Pelleymounter, Mitchell County, Iowa


                          Richard Pelleymounter

[ Mitchell County Press-News online -- Posted Aug. 7, 2002 ]

Funeral services were held Monday, August 5, 2002 for Richard Pelleymounter,
age 84, of Osage at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Osage. Father John
Purtell and Father Marvin Salz officiated. Interment was at the Sacred Heart
Cemetery in Osage with military rites by the Osage American Legion Post 278.
Sunday evening a scripture service and a Fourth Degree Knights of Columbus
service were held at Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home, Osage . Pelleymounter
died Thursday, August 1, 2002 at Mercy Medical Center - North Iowa in Mason
City.

Richard was born November 5, 1917 in Manly, IA, the son of Robin and Mary
(Popp) Pelleymounter. He moved with his family to Osage and graduated from
Osage High School. He served in the U.S. Army, with the 34th Infantry
Division as a medic in World War II. Richard married Dorothy Weber on
August 1, 1953 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church. They lived in Osage where
he was the manager of the state liquor store for many years. He was a
member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and a fourth degree member of the
Knights of Columbus and a former Grand Knight. He was also a member of the
American Legion.


Pelleymounter was preceded in death by his parents and two brothers, Kenneth
and Robert Pelleymounter.

Surivivors include his wife Dorothy of Osage, three daughters, Mary Ann
Pelleymounter of Lambertville, NJ; Jean Pelleymounter of Prairie du Chien,
WI and Linda Pelleymounter of Iowa City, IA, two sisters Austie Smith and
husband Robert of Osage and Kay Elliot of Osage, two brothers Roman
Pelleymounter and wife Marge of Osage and Bernard Pelleymounter and wife
Merna of Ackley, IA.

Champion-Bucheit  Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.




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