OBITUARY: Keith Irwin Funk, 1923-2003, Mitchell County, Iowa



                           Keith Irwin Funk

[Mitchell County Press-News online - Posted Mar. 19, 2003]

Funeral services for Keith Irwin Funk, age 79, of Osage were held Tuesday,
March 18, 2003, at the United Church of Christ in Osage. Rev. Robert Melhorn
officiated. Interment was in the Osage Cemetery. Keith died Saturday, March
15, 2003 at his home from renal cell cancer.

Keith was born December 12, 1923 in Mitchell County, Iowa, the son of
Roy and Mabel (Olson) Funk. He attended rural Burr Oak #3 School and
graduated from Osage High School in 1942. He served in the U.S. Army
in 1945 and 1946.

On August 13, 1947 he married Helen Marie Perkins of Lyle, MN at Deer
Creek Lutheran Church. Keith worked at the St. Ansgar R.E.A. and he was
an Austin, MN City Firefighter for 21 years.

Upon retirement in 1977 he built their home on a small farm in the Osage
area where Keith enjoyed planting trees and gardening.

Preceding him in death were his parents.

Keith's survivors include his wife Helen Funk of Osage; two daughters
Marlene (Norman) Hopkins of Rochester, MN, Margaret (Loren) Brumm of
Iowa City; three granddaughters, one grandson, three great-grandchildren;
one brother Lavern "Bud" (Shirley) Funk of Osage; one sister Lavonne (Keith)
Morse of Mason City; mother-in-law Selma Perkins of St. Ansgar; one
brother-in-law John (Ludmilla) Perkins of Cresco and many nieces and
nephews.





Copyright (c) 2003 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: Not necessarily related to the subject(s) of this document)

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