OBITUARY: Albert Gibbs Dunkelberg, 1922-2003, Mitchell Co., Iowa [ Adapted from: Mitchell County-Press-News online - Posted Dec. 17, 2003 ] A.G. Dunkelberg Funeral services for Albert Gibbs Dunkelberg, 81, of Osage, Iowa, will be held at 1:00 pm, Monday, Dec. 22, 2003 at Our Savior's Lutheran Church with Rev. Dennis Hanson and Rev. Roy Ott officiating. Interment will be in the Osage Cemetery with Military Rites by Osage American Legion Post 278. Albert died Tuesday, December 9, 2003, at the Mitchell County Regional Health Center in Osage. Albert was born at Hull, Iowa, on June 29, 1922, the son of Elmer Cornelius and Mildred (Gibbs) Dunkelberg. As a child, he lived in Hull, Storm Lake, Iowa, Creighton, Fremont and Omaha, Nebraska. He attended junior high and high school while living at Alton, Iowa, and graduated from Alton High School in 1940. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1941 as an Apprentice Seaman, and served in the Atlantic, American, and Pacific theaters in World War II as an aviation machinist's mate in an escort fighter squadron at sea and on shore stations. He was honorably discharged in 1946 as a Chief Petty Officer. Dunkelberg contracted poliomyelitis shortly after discharge from the Navy and was hospitalized in Chicago for many months. Upon leaving Chicago, he attended Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and graduated from Drake Law School in June, 1952. He was married September 7, 1950 at Millersburg, Iowa, to Leone Kathryn Schultz, a nurse at Veteran's Hospital in Des Moines. They moved to Osage, Iowa, February 14, 1953, where he entered the private practice of law and she was employed as a nurse at Mitchell County Memorial Hospital. Later in 1953, he joined Joseph H. Sams in the law partnership of Sams & Dunkelberg which he continued until the death of Mr. Sams in 1966. He then formed a partnership with Keith A. McKinley which was joined by Jerry H. Folkers in 1968, Bryan H. McKinley in 1977 and Mark Walk in 1992. He retired from the practice in September 1994. Active in community affairs, Dunkelberg served as city treasurer for 34 years, was a member and past president of the Osage Chamber of Commerce, a charter member and the first president of the Kiwanis Club of Osage, which he also served 7 years as secretary, served a number of terms on the Mitchell County Soldier's Relief Commission, was a member of the board of directors of Osage Farmers National Bank for 30 years and a life member of Osage Post 278 of the American Legion where he served 40 years as Finance Officer. Al was baptized as an adult at Osage Lutheran Church, now Our Savior's Lutheran Church, in 1954, and was an active member there, having served as president of the congregation, twice as secretary of the congregation, seven years as a Sunday school teacher and on various boards and committees. He was preceded in death by his parents, a sister-in-law Marilyn Piepenbrink and her husband Ray Piepenbrink; and a brother-in-law Francis Mulvihill. He is survived by his wife Leone Dunkelberg of Osage; daughter Kathryn Lucero and her husband Rudy of Albuquerque, New Mexico; two sons, Kermit G. Dunkelberg and Kim Mancuso of Ashfield, Massachusetts, Kendall A. Dunkelberg and Kim Whitehead of Columbus, Mississippi; four granchildren, Elizabeth Lucero, Michael Lucero, Zoe M. Dunkelberg and Aidan W. Dunkelberg; two foreign exchange student "sons", George Ulrich, wife Judith and son Joshua of Venice, Italy and Jon Mangersnes, wife Sissel and children Maria, Birgit and Lars of Stavanger, Norway; one sister Marion Mulvihill of Seattle, Washington; and one brother Peter Dunkelberg of Orlando, Florida; brothers-in-law Arthur Schultz and wife Norma of Centerville, Ohio, and David Schultz and wife Darlene of Humbolt, Iowa; and many nieces and nephews. Champion-Bucheit Funeral Home (641) 732-3706, Osage, was in charge of arrangements. Copyright 2003, K. L. Kittleson