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Edward
A. Mathiesen COLFAX — Edward A. Mathiesen,
75, of Colfax died Tuesday, Jan. 15, at Kavanagh House in Des Moines. Funeral
services will be Saturday at the Howard Street Christian Church with the Rev.
Paul Elliott officiating. Burial will be at Newton Memorial Park Cemetery.
Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Colfax is handling arrangements. Friends may call after noon Friday at
the funeral home where family will be available from 6 to 8 p.m. The son of Axel and Helena Kalmikoff
Mathiesen, he was born Sept. 14, 1926, in Sand Point, Alaska. He served in the
United States Army during World War II. He moved to Newton in 1945 and on Sept
29, 1945, he married Juanita D. Cooper. He later married Betty Jane Scott on
Nov. 16, 1996, and moved to Colfax at that time. Mr. Mathiesen worked as a
machinist at Maytag for 37 years, retiring in 1983. He was a member of Howard
Street Christian Church in Colfax and enjoyed fishing and music.
Survivors include his wife,
Betty of Colfax, a son and daughter-in-law, Nelson Eddy and Alison of Woodstock,
four daughters and three sons-in-law, Deanna Jo and Robert Stump of Glendale,
Ariz., Diedra Jean and John Longdin and Denise Joy and Frank Pellet, all of
Newton, and Debra, Jill Slings of Baxter, five grandchildren, five great
grandchildren, and two sisters, Alma Bolton of Anchorage, Alaska, and Pauline
Cole of Rockport, Wash. He was preceded
in death by his parents, first wife, three brothers and two sisters.
Newton Daily News, Newton, IA, January 17, 2002. |
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