OBITUARY: Leonard Milton Starbuck, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted May 29, 2002]


                        Leonard Milton Starbuck

Memorial services will be held for Leonard Milton Starbuck at 1 pm Friday,
May 31, 2002 at the Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home in Osage with Rev. Robert
Melhorn officiating. Inurnment will be at the Oakwood Cemetery in Floyd
with military rites by the Osage American Legion Post 278 and the Osage
V.F.W. Post 7920. Gathering of friends will be before Memorial Services
from 11 am to 1 pm on Friday, at the Champion-Bucheit  Funeral Home (641)
732-3706. Starbuck died Friday, May 24, 2002 at the VA Hospital in Iowa
City, IA.

Leonard was born Oct. 21, 1923 near Bassett, IA, the son of Vernon and
Myrtle (Michael) Starbuck. He attended country schools and while in third
grade moved to Floyd, IA where he grew up on a farm six miles northwest of
Floyd. He enlisted in the Navy in World War II and joined the "Armed Guard"
and spent most of the war in the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean transporting
supplies and goods to the front, which resulted in him stopping at many
ports throughout the Pacific Islands, Australia, India and other countries.
He was discharged in 1946, and was a member of the Osage V.F.W. Post 7920,
the Osage American Legion Post 278 and a former member of the Orchard
American Legion Post 641.

In March of 1948 he married Faith Ann Kay, daugher of Chauncey and Mercedes
Kay. They had seven children.

Leonard worked as a machinist and a number of years was Journeyman
Machinist from Minneapolis making Navy hardware and parts for the Navy
5-inch guns. He spent several years in the space craft industry in "Research
and Development" for Aero Jet General in Sacramento, CA working on rocket
engines for our first man into space. In 1963 he moved back to Iowa and
worked for White Farm in Charles City as a machinist, and retired in 1979
due to health reasons. He was a member of International Association of
Machinists Lodge No. 946 for several years, and many years as a U.A.W.
member in Local 1315 when at White Farm. Starbuck was preceded in death
by his parents, wife Faith,  one son Raymond and one brother Bernard.

Survivors include five daughters; Darlene Herman and her husband George of
Nora Springs, Barbara Starbuck of Iowa City, Carolyn Neis and husband Mike
of Osage, Kathy Frazier of Mason City, Karen Urell and her husband Gary of
North Liberty; one son Dennis Starbuck of Orchard; two sisters; Evelyn
Rade-macher and her husband Eldon of Floyd, Faye Sargent and her husband
Steve of Floyd; 11 grandchildren: Brittany, Dylon, Rachel, Angela, David,
Christopher, Raymond, Tracie, Bethany, Brandee and Brett and eight
great-grandchildren.




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