OBITUARY: Glenn Lyle Dinger, 1930-2004, Mitchell Co., Iowa
 
[Adapted from: Mitchell County-Press-News online - March 31, 2004] 
 


                          Glenn Dinger
                             
A memorial service for Glenn Dinger, age 73, of Riceville, Iowa, was
held Saturday, March 27, 2004 at St. Peter's Lutheran Church in
Riceville. The Reverend Michael Parris officiated. Burial was in the
Riverside Cemetery in Riceville. Glenn passed away at the Mitchell
County Regional Health Center in Osage, Iowa, on March 23, 2004.

Glenn Lyle Dinger was born in Milaca, Minnesota, on Nov. 1, 1930
to Lyle and Hazel Brotten Aanerud Dinger. He attended schools in
Breckenridge, Minnesota, until the ninth grade, and moved to
Riceville with his family graduating from Riceville High School
in 1949.

He was united in marriage to Lois Klobassa on June 2, 1951 at
St. Peter's Lutheran Church in Riceville. To this union four
children were born.

Glenn joined the U.S. Air Force on Jan. 6, 1951, serving in England
until January of 1955. He worked as a rural mail carrier for 40 years
for the U.S. Postal Service.

On June 29, 1989 Glenn was united in marriage to Elizabeth Berge at
the Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa.

Glenn was preceded in death by his parents, his stepmother Lauraine
Dinger; a half brother, Douglas Aanerud; and a grandson Devan Lars Vulk.

His survivors include his wife Elizabeth of Riceville, his four
children Beth Dinger of LeRoy, Minnesota, Brenda and her husband
Kermit Singlestad of Lake Mills, Iowa, Paul and his wife Susan Dinger
of Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Susan and her husband Steven Swancutt
of Manly, Iowa, his first wife Lois Klobassa of Riceville, three
stepchildren Theone and her husband Steven Quattlebaum of Spencer,
Iowa, Jason and his wife Jody Vulk of Des Moines, Iowa, and Ryan
Vulk and Dana Freidrich of San Francisco, California, six
grandchildren, two half brothers Larry and his wife Paula Dinger
of Pohnpei, Micronesia and John and his wife Michie Dinger of
Washington DC and a half sister Jan and her husband Rev. Daniel
Duggan of La Crescent, Minnesota.

Lindstrom Funeral Home, Riceville had charge of arrangements.



     Copyright 2004, K. L. Kittleson