OBITUARY: Douglas A. Faas, 1960-1996, Mitchell County, Iowa

[From Mason City Globe Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Aug. 20, 1996 (edited)]




                          Douglas A. Faas

STACYVILLE, IOWA--Chief Warrant Officer Douglas A. Faas, 35, serving with
the U.S. Army in Wuerzburg, Germany, and formerly of Stacyville, died
Saturday, Aug. 10, 1996, due to a brain stem hemorrhage in Germany.

Funeral services will be held on Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996, at Visitation
Catholic Church in Stacyville, with the Rev. Joseph Schneider
officiating. Burial will be in the Visitation Cemetery.

Champion Funeral Home, Osage, is in charge of arrangements.

He was born Oct. 20, 1960, in Osage, the son of John and Monica (Rogers)
Faas.

Douglas attended Visitation Catholic School in Stacyville and graduated
from St. Ansgar High School in 1979.

He married Julie Smith on Oct. 30, 1982, in Salinas, Calif.

CW2 Douglas A. Faas entered the United States Army on July 31, 1979, and
attended basic training at Fort Dix, N.J.

He attended advance individual training at Fort Lee, Va., and trained as
a personal management specialist. His first duty assignement was at Fort
Ord, California.

In 1983, he attended the Counter Intelligence Agent course at Fort
Huachuca, Arizona.

From 1983 to 1986, he was assigned to the 205th and 165th MI BN in
Frankfurt, Germany. From 1986 to 1990, he served with the Los Angeles
Field Station with the 902nd MI BN.

In 1990, he attended the Warrant Officers course at Fort Rucker, Alabama.
Upon graduation of the Warrant Officers course, he attended the Defense
Language Institute, Presidio of Monterey, California, for German language
training.

Upon graduation from DLI, he served as a Counter Intelligence agent in
Mainz, Germany, and served with the Berlin Brigade in Macedonia.

Chief Faas served as the Special Agent in Charge for the Mainz MI Field
Office and upon its closure, he became the Detachment Commander for the
Wuerzburg Military Intelligence Detachment, 66th MI Group (Provisional).

Survivors include his wife, Julie; son, Nathan; and daughter,
Brianna, all of Wuerzburg, Germany; parents, John and Monica
Faas of Stacyville; four sisters, Diane Beckman and her husband,
Mark, of New Hampton; Denise Mayer and her husband, Bruce, of
Stacyville; Debra Schlicht of Fort Dodge; and Doreen Bries and
her husband, Rod, of Monona; four brothers, David Faas and his
wife, Cathy Sue, of Racine, Minn.; Daniel Faas and his wife,
Kathy Jo, of Osage; Donald Faas of Minneapolis, Minn., and Darrell
Faas of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; and 18 nieces and nephews.



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