CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF Arlo Wirth

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HARTINGTON- Arlo E. Wirth, 80, Hartington, died March 4, 2000, at his 
home.

A memorial service was held March 11 at the Wintz Funeral Home, 
Hartington, with Rev. Robert Neu officiating.

Arlo was born July 25, 1919, in Dunbar.  He graduated from Dunbar Public 
Schools in 1936.  He then attended and graduated with high distinction 
in 1942 from the University of Nebraska-College of Agri-culture with a 
bachelor of science degree in agricultural economics.

Arlo enlisted as a private in the U.S. Air Force in 1942 and separated 
as a major in 1946. During his time in the service, he served in Italy 
with the 15th Air Force.  He married Anne Manchester Oct. 10, 1946.

After working one year for the American Hereford Journal, Kansas City, 
Kan., in 1946, Arlo returned to Dunbar to farm for the next nine years.  
During this time, he was active in Farm Bureau, and the Soil 
Conservation, including development of Little Brownell Watershed.  He 
moved to Hartington in 1956 and worked for Farmers National Company, 
then in seed and fertilizer sales.  In 1962, he purchased a general 
property and casualty insurance agency which merged to become the 
Rossiter and Wirth Insurance Agency later the Wirth-Tideman Insurance 
Agency.  Arlo retired from insurance in 1984.

Arlo was instrumental in the formation of Northeast Community College 
in 1973 and served on the Board of Governors until 1997.  During this 
time on the board, he served as chairman for the Board of Govemors, in 
addition to serving on college boards at the state and national levels.  
Arlo was awarded Honorary Membership to the Nebraska Community College 
Association and was the recipient of the first ever honorary associate 
of applied science degree from Northeast Community College in 1997.

Some of Wirth's past professional affiliations include the Nebraska Farm 
Bureau Federation; Nebraska City Junior Chamber of Commerce; Otoe County 
Soil Conservation Board of Supervisors; Nebraska Association of Mutual 
Insurance Agents, member and Treasurer/Secretary; Nebraska Association 
of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers; Hartington Chamber of Commerce; 
Masonic Lodges of Coleridge and Yankton, S.D.; and the Hartington Board 
of Adjustments.  Arlo was named the first Nebraska Outstanding Young 
Farmer by the Nebraska Junior Chamber of Commerce in 1953: Chairman of 
the Year by the Nebraska Association of Mutual Insurance Agents in 1970; 
received the Nebraska Association ofcommunity College Trustees - 
Governors Award in 1977; and received the Hartington Chamber of Commerce 
Community Service Award in 1987.

Arlo was a long-time active member of the Hartington Golf Club.  He and 
his wife, Anne, were friends of the First Congregational U.C.C. in 
Hartington, and the Unitarian Church in Sioux City, Iowa.

His hobbies included educational boards, family farm interests, reading 
and golf.

Survivors include a son, Carl Wirth, Sioux City, Iowa; two grandsons, 
Kenneth and Douglas Wirth; four great-grandchildren; and a sister and 
her husband, Lois and John Davia, Homewood, Ill.

 

Wednesday, Mar 15, 2000-CEDAR COUNTY NEWS