OBITUARY: Arlo I. Wyborny, 1939-2004, Worth County, Iowa

[From Northwood Anchor online, April 28, 2004 (Edited)]


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                             Arlo I. Wyborny

Arlo I. Wyborny, 64, of rural St. Ansgar, Iowa, died Friday, April 23,
2004, at the Muse-Norris Hospice Inpatient Unit in Mason City, Iowa.

Funeral services were Monday at the Bethel United Methodist Church in
Manly, Iowa, with Rev. Robert Cumings officiating.  Burial was in the
Rock Falls Cemetery Monday.

Conner Colonial Chapel, Northwood, Iowa, was in charge of arrangements.

Arlo I. Wyborny was born on May 31, 1939, in Mason City, Iowa, the
son of Herbert and Luella (Christiansen) Wyborny.  He attended school
at Rock Falls and graduated in 1957.  Arlo worked on road construction
for five years.  He married Sharon Swanson on Jan. 6, 1961, at the
Little Brown Church in Nashua, and to this union two sons were born.

Arlo started farming in 1961, and farmed in the Plymouth and Carpenter
area for 30 years before being forced into retirement in 1991, due to
injuries sustained in an automobile accident.

Arlo enjoyed gardening and sharing his produce with everyone.
He loved training his dogs for pheasant hunting and was very
successful in so doing.  Arlo was also a great entrepreneur.

Arlo acquired many friends in his life time and one of his favorite
pastimes was playing cards with them. He also had a great sense of
humor.  He had a great love for his wife, children, grandchildren,
family and friends.

Left to cherish his memory is his wife; Sharon Wyborny of rural
St. Ansgar; daughter Debora Risius and her husband Don of Garner;
two sons, Jeff and Gregg Wyborny both of Phoenix, Arizona; six
grandchildren; Stacy, Brandy, Cherrice, Blake, Cody and Quentin;
his mother; Luella Kaldenberg of Mason City; two sisters; Novella
White and her husband Don of Rock Falls, and Marjorie Moore and
her husband Duaine of Scottsdale, Arizona; three brothers;
Roger Wyborny and his wife Shirley of Rock Falls, Randy Wyborny
of Longmont, Colorado, and Jim Wyborny and his wife Christi of
Nora Springs; as well as other relatives and a host of friends.

He was preceded in death by his father, Herbert Wyborny; step-father
George Kaldenberg; and his grandparents.



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